No. 46 · Kanto · Grass/Bug
Parascards
Paras is a Grass/Bug-type Pokémon introduced in Kanto, number 46 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
- 19
- Sets
- 19
- Printed
- 1999–2025
- Illustrators
- 16
- Sightings
- 1
Start here
The strongest Paras art
01/06Paras
Rare
02/06Paras
Common
03/06Paras
Common
04/06Paras
Common
05/06Paras
Common
06/06Paras
Common
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Which is the better picture?
Two Paras cards, side by side.
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Paras by scene
Where its cards are set. Each opens a search of just those Paras cards, the artwork that shows it most first.
How Paras gets drawn
Paras is usually drawn playful and funny, usually crawling, in autumn, often painted.
Across 18 Paras artworks, each picture counted once, next to how every other Pokémon is drawn.
1999–2025
Paras through the years
Its strongest card of each year it was printed.
1999 Jungle- 2000 Gym Challenge
2001 Neo Revelation
2003 Aquapolis
2004 FireRed & LeafGreen
2007 Mysterious Treasures
2009 Supreme Victors
2010 HeartGold SoulSilver- 2015 BREAKthrough
- 2016 Generations
2017 Sun & Moon- 2019 Hidden Fates
- 2020 Darkness Ablaze
- 2022 Lost Origin
- 2023 Crown Zenith Galarian Gallery
- 2025 Journey Together
Evolves into
- Parasthis page · 19 cards
Parasect17 cards
Paras sightingsspotted in 1 other card
Cards where Paras turns up in someone else's picture: behind them, beside them, or hiding.
Every Paras card
19 cards, strongest artwork first.
Paras in numbers
- Cards
- 19
- Sets
- 19since Jungle
- Illustrators
- 16most by Ken Sugimori
- Printed
- 1999–2025
- Printed as
- Basic
- Sightings
- 1in other cards' art
- HP on card
- 40–70
They span 19 sets, from Jungle to Journey Together. 16 illustrators have drawn it, most often Ken Sugimori, Atsuko Nishida and Aya Kusube.
Who draws Paras
16 illustrators, by how many they have drawn.
Where it has been printed
19 sets, by how many Paras cards each holds.
- 1511
Aquapolis1- BREAKthrough1
Base Set 21- Crown Zenith Galarian Gallery1
Darkness Ablaze1
FireRed & LeafGreen1- Generations1
Gym Challenge1
HeartGold SoulSilver1- Hidden Fates1
- Journey Together1
7 more sets
Rarity
Questions
- How many Paras cards are there?
- There are 19 Paras cards, printed between 1999 and 2025 across 19 sets, alternate arts and reprints included.
- Which Paras card has the best artwork?
- That's how this page is ordered: the strongest Paras art first, however common or rare the card.
- Who illustrates Paras cards?
- 16 illustrators have drawn Paras. Ken Sugimori has done the most at 4, followed by Atsuko Nishida and Aya Kusube.
- What was the first Paras card?
- Its earliest printing in the catalog comes from Jungle, released in 1999. 18 of its 19 cards are Common.
