How many Nidorino cards are there?

There are 16 Nidorino cards, printed between 1999 and 2025 across 16 sets, alternate arts and reprints included.

Which Nidorino card has the best artwork?

That's how this page is ordered: the strongest Nidorino art first, however common or rare the card.

Who illustrates Nidorino cards?

13 illustrators have drawn Nidorino. Mitsuhiro Arita has done the most at 4, followed by Atsuko Nishida and Hisao Nakamura.

What was the first Nidorino card?

Its earliest printing in the catalog comes from Base Set, released in 1999. 14 of its 16 cards are Uncommon.

No. 33 · Kanto · Poison

Nidorinocards

Nidorino is a Poison-type Pokémon introduced in Kanto, number 33 in the National Pokédex. Its cards run from 1999 to 2025. Its cards are ordered by the art, the best first, rather than by set.

Cards: 16
Sets: 16
Printed: 1999–2025
Illustrators: 13
Sightings: 1

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The strongest Nidorino art

01/06
Nidorino
Steam Siege · 2016
Drawn by TOKIYA
Uncommon
02/06
Nidorino
Plasma Freeze · 2013
Drawn by Shigenori Negishi
Uncommon
03/06
Nidorino
Triumphant · 2010
Drawn by match
Uncommon
04/06
Nidorino
151 · 2023
Drawn by Shiburingaru
Uncommon
05/06
Team Rocket's Nidorino
Destined Rivals · 2025
Drawn by KEIICHIRO ITO
Common
06/06
Nidorino
Base Set · 1999
Drawn by Mitsuhiro Arita
Uncommon

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Which is the better picture?

Two Nidorino cards, side by side.

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Nidorino by scene

Where its cards are set. Each opens a search of just those Nidorino cards, the artwork that shows it most first.

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How Nidorino gets drawn

Nidorino is usually drawn fierce and tense, often crouching.

Across 13 Nidorino artworks, each picture counted once, next to how every other Pokémon is drawn.

Moods

fierce100%3× more than most Pokémon
tense92%2.2× more than most Pokémon
nostalgic31%

Fierce13 of 13 artworks Crouching5 of 13 artworks Tense12 of 13 artworks Running4 of 13 artworks

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1999–2025

Nidorino through the years

Its strongest card of each year it was printed.

1999 Base Set
2000 Gym Challenge
2002 Legendary Collection
2003 Aquapolis
2004 FireRed & LeafGreen
2006 Dragon Frontiers
2007 Secret Wonders
2009 Rising Rivals
2010 Triumphant
2013 Plasma Freeze
2016 Evolutions
2019 Team Up
2023 151
2025 Destined Rivals

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Evolution line

Nidoran♂16 cards
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Nidoking23 cards

Nidorino sightingsspotted in 1 other card

Cards where Nidorino turns up in someone else's picture: behind them, beside them, or hiding.

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Souichirou Gunjima

Every Nidorino card

16 cards, strongest artwork first.

16 of 16 cards

Nidorino in numbers

Cards: 16
Sets: 16since Base Set
Illustrators: 13most by Mitsuhiro Arita
Printed: 1999–2025
Printed as: Stage 1
Sightings: 1in other cards' art
HP on card: 60–100

They span 16 sets, from Base Set to Destined Rivals. 13 illustrators have drawn it, most often Mitsuhiro Arita, Atsuko Nishida and Hisao Nakamura.

Who draws Nidorino

13 illustrators, by how many they have drawn.

Where it has been printed

16 sets, by how many Nidorino cards each holds.

4 more sets

Rarity

Uncommon14Common2

Questions

How many Nidorino cards are there?: There are 16 Nidorino cards, printed between 1999 and 2025 across 16 sets, alternate arts and reprints included.
Which Nidorino card has the best artwork?: That's how this page is ordered: the strongest Nidorino art first, however common or rare the card.
Who illustrates Nidorino cards?: 13 illustrators have drawn Nidorino. Mitsuhiro Arita has done the most at 4, followed by Atsuko Nishida and Hisao Nakamura.
What was the first Nidorino card?: Its earliest printing in the catalog comes from Base Set, released in 1999. 14 of its 16 cards are Uncommon.