Pokémon · HeartGold & SoulSilver
Skorupi
HS—Triumphant · #76 · Common · 2010
Listings
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From
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Market reference
$0.30
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Current listings on The Game Traders
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Card facts
Quick reference for collectors and graders.
- Set position
- 76 / 103
- Release year
- 2010
- Rarity
- Common
- HP
- 60
- Subtype
- Basic
- Evolves to
- Drapion
- Retreat cost
- 1 energy
- Illustrator
- Sumiyoshi Kizuki
- Pokédex #
- 451
- Series
- HeartGold & SoulSilver
Card analysis
Computed from this card's stats and text — not a reposted price.
- Primary role
- Status Conditions
- Damage efficiency
- 30 damage
- 15 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 Skorupi 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 (Paralyzing Clamp) needs 2 Energy — a turn-2 swing on manual attachment.
- Attacks on any Energy (Colorless cost) — splashable into any deck regardless of type.
- Psychic type, weak to Psychic ×2 — a Psychic attacker doing ≥30 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 Skorupi
- Exploit its Psychic weakness — ≥30 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
- 1 copies on average · 120 decks
- Match win rate
- 41.6%
- -5.6 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.
Drapion
in 100% of decks · 120 seen
Purrloin
in 85% of decks · 102 seen
Mega Absol ex
in 84% of decks · 101 seen
Transformation Tome
in 95% of decks · 114 seen
Janine's Secret Art
in 90% of decks · 108 seen
N's Reshiram
in 84% of decks · 101 seen
N's PP Up
in 93% of decks · 112 seen
N's Castle
in 93% of decks · 112 seen
More by Sumiyoshi Kizuki
This card was illustrated by Sumiyoshi Kizuki.
Building around Skorupi?
Drop it into the deck builder for a live consistency score, synergy suggestions, and Standard legality checks.
About this card
"It burrows under the sand to lie in wait for prey. Its tail claws can inject its prey with a savage poison."
CCParalyzing Clamp — 30
Flip a coin. If tails, this attack does nothing. If heads, the Defending Pokémon is now Paralyzed.
Weakness:P×2
Retreat cost:C
Tournament legality
Current legal status across competitive formats.
Tournament play
This printing of Skorupi has no recent tournament appearances, but a different printing is currently a meta staple.
Skorupi — Perfect Order
Played in 42 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 2026/07/01| Variant | Low | Mid | High | Market | Direct Low |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Normal | $0.10 | $0.28 | $2.00 | $0.30 | $0.23 |
| Reverse Holofoil | $0.90 | $1.37 | $19.98 | $1.28 | $19.94 |
Cardmarket (EUR)
Updated 2026/01/21| Variant | Price |
|---|---|
| 1-day average | €0.09 |
| 7-day average | €0.19 |
| 30-day average | €0.15 |
| Low | €0.02 |
| Trend price | €0.13 |
| Low (excellent+) | €0.02 |
| Reverse holo low | €0.19 |
| reverseHoloAvg1 | €0.98 |
| Reverse holo 7-day | €0.55 |
| reverseHoloSell | €0.48 |
| averageSellPrice | €0.17 |
| Reverse holo 30-day | €0.72 |
| Reverse holo trend | €0.54 |
Frequently asked
How can I tell if my Skorupi is real?
Skorupi 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 Skorupi worth?
As of the latest data, the current market reference price for Skorupi is $0.30; 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 Skorupi from?
Skorupi is from the Pokémon set "HS—Triumphant" in the HeartGold & SoulSilver series, released in 2010.
What rarity is Skorupi?
Skorupi is a Common card in the HS—Triumphant set.
Other Skorupi printings
Same Pokémon card across other sets and rarities.
