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Team Rocket's Zubat

Pokémon · Scarlet & Violet

Team Rocket's Zubat

Scarlet & Violet

Destined Rivals · #120 · Common · 2025

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Market reference

$0.07

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Card facts

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Set position
120 / 244
Release year
2025
Rarity
Common
HP
50
Subtype
Basic
Evolves to
Golbat
Retreat cost
1 energy
Regulation mark
I
Illustrator
toi8
Pokédex #
41
Series
Scarlet & Violet

Card analysis

Computed from this card's stats and text — not a reposted price.

Primary role
Status Conditions
Prize liability
1 Prize given up
Single-prize attacker — favourable prize trades
Setup
Basic
Plays straight down — no evolution needed

Strategy & play

How Team Rocket's Zubat 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 Poison — guaranteed chip damage every turn between turns (no coin flip). It stacks with your attack math to cross KO thresholds the attack alone misses.
  • Needs Darkness Energy to attack — your line must supply that color.
  • Darkness type, weak to Lightning ×2 — a Lightning attacker doing ≥25 effectively one-shots it.
  • Seen in 0% of recent tournament decks that can run it, usually 3 copies.
  • Currently Standard-legal — usable in the main rotating format.

How to beat Team Rocket's Zubat

  • Exploit its Lightning weakness — ≥25 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
0% of decks
2.78 copies on average · 224 decks
Match win rate
36.6%
-10.7 pts vs the 47.2% field average

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About this card

HP: 50Type:DDarknessSubtype: BasicEvolves to: Golbat

"Zubat live in caves, down where the sun's light won't reach. In the morning, they gather together to keep each other warm as they sleep."

DPoison Spray

Your opponent's Active Pokémon is now Poisoned.

Weakness:L×2

Resistance:F-30

Retreat cost:C

Tournament legality

Current legal status across competitive formats.

expandedLegal
standardLegal
unlimitedLegal

Tournament play

Decklist data from the past 30 days of competitive Pokémon TCG tournaments (sourced from Limitless TCG).

Recent decks

66

ran Team Rocket's Zubat

Tournaments scanned

290

past 30 days

Competitive note

Seeing competitive play.

2 top-cut decks · best finish 7th

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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 2026/07/10
VariantLowMidHighMarketDirect Low
Normal$0.01$0.15$19.98$0.07$0.03
Reverse Holofoil$0.01$0.26$20.00$0.24$0.19

Cardmarket (EUR)

Updated 2025/11/21
VariantPrice
1-day average€0.02
7-day average€0.03
30-day average€0.03
Low€0.02
Trend price€0.03
Low (excellent+)€0.02
Reverse holo low€0.02
reverseHoloAvg1€0.04
Reverse holo 7-day€0.06
reverseHoloSell€0.09
averageSellPrice€0.03
Reverse holo 30-day€0.08
Reverse holo trend€0.08

Frequently asked

How can I tell if my Team Rocket's Zubat is real?

Team Rocket's Zubat 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 Team Rocket's Zubat worth?

As of the latest data, the current market reference price for Team Rocket's Zubat is $0.07; 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 Team Rocket's Zubat from?

Team Rocket's Zubat is from the Pokémon set "Destined Rivals" in the Scarlet & Violet series, released in 2025.

What rarity is Team Rocket's Zubat?

Team Rocket's Zubat is a Common card in the Destined Rivals set.