Pokémon · HeartGold & SoulSilver
Absol
HS—Triumphant · #91 · Rare Prime · 2010
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From
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Market reference
$117.72
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Current listings on The Game Traders
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Card facts
Quick reference for collectors and graders.
- Set position
- 91 / 103
- Release year
- 2010
- Rarity
- Rare Prime
- HP
- 80
- Subtype
- Basic · Prime
- Retreat cost
- 1 energy
- Illustrator
- Hideaki Hakozaki
- Pokédex #
- 359
- Series
- HeartGold & SoulSilver
Card analysis
Computed from this card's stats and text — not a reposted price.
- Primary role
- Attacker
- Damage efficiency
- 70 damage
- 35 per Energy
- Prize liability
- 1 Prize given up
- Single-prize attacker — favourable prize trades
- Setup
- Basic
- Plays straight down — no evolution needed
Strategy & play
How Absol 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.
- Its main attack (Vicious Claw) 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 Fighting ×2 — a Fighting 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.
How to beat Absol
- Exploit its Fighting weakness — ≥40 damage one-shots it.
Competitive performance
From real Standard tournament decks over the last 180 days.
- Meta inclusion
- 0% of decks
- 1.67 copies on average · 9 decks
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.
Budget alternatives
Cheaper cards that fill a similar role in Standard decks. Reference prices — most-played option first.
Building around Absol?
Drop it into the deck builder for a live consistency score, synergy suggestions, and Standard legality checks.
About this card
Poké-Body: Eye of Disaster
As long as Absol is your Active Pokémon, whenever your opponent puts a Basic Pokémon from his or her hand onto his or her Bench, put 2 damage counters on that Pokémon.
DCVicious Claw — 70
Choose 1 Pokémon from your hand and put it in the Lost Zone. (If you can't put a Pokémon in the Lost Zone, this attack does nothing.)
Weakness:F×2
Resistance:P-20
Retreat cost:C
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 | $159.95 | $189.50 | $917.43 | $117.72 | $189.00 |
Cardmarket (EUR)
Updated 2026/01/16| Variant | Price |
|---|---|
| 1-day average | €14.94 |
| 7-day average | €27.05 |
| 30-day average | €23.65 |
| Low | €4.00 |
| Trend price | €24.44 |
| Low (excellent+) | €14.99 |
| reverseHoloAvg1 | €10.00 |
| Reverse holo 7-day | €10.87 |
| averageSellPrice | €24.60 |
| Reverse holo 30-day | €10.12 |
| Reverse holo trend | €8.73 |
Frequently asked
How can I tell if my Absol is real?
Absol 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 Absol worth?
As of the latest data, the current market reference price for Absol is $117.72; 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 Absol from?
Absol is from the Pokémon set "HS—Triumphant" in the HeartGold & SoulSilver series, released in 2010.
What rarity is Absol?
Absol is a Rare Prime card in the HS—Triumphant set.
Other Absol printings
Same Pokémon card across other sets and rarities.
