Pokémon · HeartGold & SoulSilver
Ho-Oh
HGSS Black Star Promos · #HGSS01 · Promo · 2010
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Market reference
$47.03
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Card facts
Quick reference for collectors and graders.
- Set position
- HGSS01 / 25
- Release year
- 2010
- Rarity
- Promo
- HP
- 80
- Subtype
- Basic
- Retreat cost
- 3 energy
- Illustrator
- Takashi Yamaguchi
- Pokédex #
- 250
- Series
- HeartGold & SoulSilver
Card analysis
Computed from this card's stats and text — not a reposted price.
- Primary role
- Attacker
- Damage efficiency
- 20 damage
- 20 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 Ho-Oh 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.
- Needs Fire Energy to attack — your line must supply that color.
- Fire type, weak to Water ×2 — a Water attacker doing ≥40 effectively one-shots it.
- A single-prize attacker — prize-trade-positive against ex / V decks that give up two at a time.
- Retreat cost 3 — gets stranded Active if gusted; run Switch / Escape Rope or a Float Stone-style Tool.
- Seen in 0% of recent tournament decks that can run it, usually 1 copy.
How to beat Ho-Oh
- Exploit its Water weakness — ≥40 damage one-shots it.
- Trap it Active — 3 retreat means it can’t escape without help.
Competitive performance
From real Standard tournament decks over the last 180 days.
- Meta inclusion
- 0% of decks
- 1 copies on average · 30 decks
- Match win rate
- 45.1%
- -2.1 pts vs the 47.2% 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.
Brock's Scouting
in 50% of decks · 15 seen
Combusken
in 37% of decks · 11 seen
Torchic
in 37% of decks · 11 seen
Blaziken ex
in 37% of decks · 11 seen
Area Zero Underdepths
in 47% of decks · 14 seen
Lillie's Clefairy ex
in 80% of decks · 24 seen
Dragapult ex
in 67% of decks · 20 seen
Team Rocket's Watchtower
in 50% of decks · 15 seen
Budget alternatives
Cheaper cards that fill a similar role in Standard decks. Reference prices — most-played option first.
Building around Ho-Oh?
Drop it into the deck builder for a live consistency score, synergy suggestions, and Standard legality checks.
About this card
"A legend says that its body glows in seven colors. A rainbow is said to form behind when it flies."
RCombustion — 20
RRCCSacred Fire
Flip a coin. If heads, choose 1 of your opponent's Pokémon. This attack does 80 damage to that Pokémon. This attack's damage isn't affected by Weakness or Resistance.
Weakness:W×2
Resistance:F-20
Retreat cost:CCC
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 2026/07/01| Variant | Low | Mid | High | Market | Direct Low |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Holofoil | $259.50 | $384.60 | $509.70 | $47.03 | — |
Frequently asked
How can I tell if my Ho-Oh is real?
Ho-Oh 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 Ho-Oh worth?
As of the latest data, the current market reference price for Ho-Oh is $47.03; 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 Ho-Oh from?
Ho-Oh is from the Pokémon set "HGSS Black Star Promos" in the HeartGold & SoulSilver series, released in 2010.
What rarity is Ho-Oh?
Ho-Oh is a Promo card in the HGSS Black Star Promos set.
Other Ho-Oh printings
Same Pokémon card across other sets and rarities.
