Pokémon · Sword & Shield
Purrloin
Champion's Path · #39 · Common · 2020
Listings
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From
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Market reference
$0.16
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Current listings on The Game Traders
No active listings for this card right now.
Card facts
Quick reference for collectors and graders.
- Set position
- 39 / 80
- Release year
- 2020
- Rarity
- Common
- HP
- 70
- Subtype
- Basic
- Evolves to
- Liepard
- Retreat cost
- 1 energy
- Regulation mark
- D
- Illustrator
- sowsow
- Pokédex #
- 509
- Series
- Sword & Shield
Card analysis
Computed from this card's stats and text — not a reposted price.
- Primary role
- Status Conditions
- Damage efficiency
- 20 damage
- 10 per Energy
- Prize liability
- 1 Prize given up
- Single-prize attacker — favourable prize trades
- Setup
- Basic
- Plays straight down — no evolution needed
Also does
Strategy & play
How Purrloin plays — derived from its stats and the rules of the game, not an opinion.
- A Basic — hits the board turn 1 with no evolution tax.
- Inflicts Paralysis — the Defending Pokémon can’t attack or retreat for a turn. A reliable one-turn lock; chain it to stall the opponent out.
- Its main attack (Fake Out) needs 2 Energy — a turn-2 swing on manual attachment.
- Needs Darkness Energy to attack — your line must supply that color.
- Darkness type, weak to Grass ×2 — a Grass attacker doing ≥35 effectively one-shots it.
- A single-prize attacker — prize-trade-positive against ex / V decks that give up two at a time.
How to beat Purrloin
- Exploit its Grass weakness — ≥35 damage one-shots it.
- On the receiving end of a condition? Retreat, switch, or evolve to wipe it — conditions only stick to the Active.
Competitive performance
From real Standard tournament decks over the last 180 days.
- Meta inclusion
- 1% of decks
- 1.02 copies on average · 321 decks
- Match win rate
- 47.6%
- +0.4 pts vs the 47.3% field average
Plays well with
Cards most often run alongside this one in tournament decks over the last 180 days — ranked by how distinctive the pairing is.
More by sowsow
This card was illustrated by sowsow.
Building around Purrloin?
Drop it into the deck builder for a live consistency score, synergy suggestions, and Standard legality checks.
About this card
"It steals things from people just to amuse itself with their frustration. A rivalry exists between this Pokémon and Nickit."
DDig Claws — 10
CCFake Out — 20
Flip a coin. If heads, your opponent's Active Pokémon is now Paralyzed.
Weakness:G×2
Retreat cost:C
Tournament legality
Current legal status across competitive formats.
Recent tournament results
View calendar →Tournaments from the past 30 days where Purrloin was legal.
Tournament play
This printing of Purrloin has no recent tournament appearances, but a different printing is currently a meta staple.
Purrloin — White Flare
Played in 209 recent decks
Pricing reference
Latest snapshot from the upstream catalog. Actual marketplace prices fluctuate by condition, edition, and grade — use this as a reference, not a quote.
TCGPlayer (USD)
Updated 2026/07/16| Variant | Low | Mid | High | Market | Direct Low |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Normal | $0.02 | $0.18 | $19.98 | $0.16 | — |
| Reverse Holofoil | $0.09 | $0.30 | $2.00 | $0.30 | $0.25 |
Cardmarket (EUR)
Updated 2026/03/11| Variant | Price |
|---|---|
| 1-day average | €0.15 |
| 7-day average | €0.08 |
| 30-day average | €0.09 |
| Low | €0.02 |
| Trend price | €0.09 |
| Low (excellent+) | €0.02 |
| Reverse holo low | €0.02 |
| reverseHoloAvg1 | €0.15 |
| Reverse holo 7-day | €0.21 |
| reverseHoloSell | €0.20 |
| averageSellPrice | €0.11 |
| Reverse holo 30-day | €0.20 |
| Reverse holo trend | €0.25 |
Frequently asked
How can I tell if my Purrloin is real?
Purrloin is not on our list of commonly-counterfeited cards, but counterfeits exist across every set. Check the back-light test (real cards have a black inner layer that blocks light; counterfeits glow through), the rosette dot pattern on the back under magnification, font weight and kerning on the card name, and the holofoil pattern if applicable. For high-value copies we recommend submitting to a professional grader (PSA, BGS, CGC) for tamper-evident authentication.
What is Purrloin worth?
As of the latest data, the current market reference price for Purrloin is $0.16; there are no active listings on The Game Traders right now. Actual value depends on condition, grading, edition and printing variant — graded high-condition copies (PSA 9–10) trade at a substantial premium over raw copies.
What set is Purrloin from?
Purrloin is from the Pokémon set "Champion's Path" in the Sword & Shield series, released in 2020.
What rarity is Purrloin?
Purrloin is a Common card in the Champion's Path set.
Other Purrloin printings
Same Pokémon card across other sets and rarities.
