Pokémon · Base
Zubat
Fossil Set · #57 · Common · 1999
Listings
No active listings
From
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Market reference
$0.47
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Current listings on The Game Traders
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Card facts
Quick reference for collectors and graders.
- Set position
- 57 / 62
- Release year
- 1999
- Rarity
- Common
- HP
- 40
- Subtype
- Basic
- Evolves to
- Golbat
- Illustrator
- Kagemaru Himeno
- Pokédex #
- 41
- Series
- Base
Card analysis
Computed from this card's stats and text — not a reposted price.
- Primary role
- Status Conditions
- Damage efficiency
- 10 damage
- 5 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 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 Confusion — they must flip to attack (tails fails and deals 30 to themselves). Soft, coin-flip disruption.
- Its main attack (Leech Life) needs 2 Energy — a turn-2 swing on manual attachment.
- Needs Grass Energy to attack — your line must supply that color.
- Grass type, weak to Psychic ×2 — a Psychic attacker doing ≥20 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 Zubat
- Exploit its Psychic weakness — ≥20 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
- 3.11 copies on average · 9 decks
More by Kagemaru Himeno
This card was illustrated by Kagemaru Himeno.
Building around Zubat?
Drop it into the deck builder for a live consistency score, synergy suggestions, and Standard legality checks.
About this card
"Forms colonies in perpetually dark places. Uses ultrasonic waves to identify and approach targets."
CCSupersonic
Flip a coin. If heads, the Defending Pokémon is now Confused.
GCLeech Life — 10
Remove a number of damage counters from Zubat equal to the damage done to the Defending Pokémon (after applying Weakness and Resistance). If Zubat has fewer damage counters than that, remove all of them.
Weakness:P×2
Resistance:F-30
Tournament legality
Current legal status across competitive formats.
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 2026/07/07| Variant | Low | Mid | High | Market | Direct Low |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unlimited | $0.10 | $0.48 | $9,999.00 | $0.47 | — |
| 1st Edition | $0.82 | $2.90 | $66.53 | $2.68 | — |
Cardmarket (EUR)
Updated 2026/06/21| Variant | Price |
|---|---|
| 1-day average | €0.53 |
| 7-day average | €0.54 |
| 30-day average | €0.54 |
| Low | €0.02 |
| Trend price | €0.69 |
| Low (excellent+) | €0.02 |
| reverseHoloAvg1 | €0.30 |
| Reverse holo 7-day | €0.17 |
| averageSellPrice | €0.52 |
| Reverse holo 30-day | €0.17 |
| Reverse holo trend | €0.12 |
Frequently asked
How can I tell if my Zubat is real?
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 Zubat worth?
As of the latest data, the current market reference price for Zubat is $0.47; 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 Zubat from?
Zubat is from the Pokémon set "Fossil Set" in the Base series, released in 1999.
What rarity is Zubat?
Zubat is a Common card in the Fossil Set set.
Other Zubat printings
Same Pokémon card across other sets and rarities.
