Weather is one of the easiest ways for a card to change its whole mood, and rain does the most work of any of it. A Pokémon standing in the rain reads completely differently from the same Pokémon standing in the sun.
We’ve gathered the best rainy and stormy Pokémon cards in the hobby, split between the quiet ones and the stormy ones!
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Rainy Pokémon Cards
Rain with less drama. Wet pavement, grey light, Pokémon standing around waiting it out. We love the Parasol Lady full arts. She’s also the one Trainer whose entire concept is having the right gear for it.
Our Picks:
- Poliwhirl · 151 #176 on eBay
- Hydreigon ex · White Flare #169 on eBay
- Crustle · Paradox Rift #183 on eBay
- Turtonator · Stellar Crown #146 on eBay
- Sliggoo · Chaos Rising #095 on eBay
- Palpitoad · Black Bolt #104 on eBay
- Parasol Lady · Paradox Rift #255 on eBay
- Armarouge · Scarlet & Violet #203 on eBay
- Parasol Lady · Paradox Rift #238 on eBay
Stormy & Lightning Pokémon Cards
Same weather, but now something is happening in it. Electric types dominate this section for obvious reasons, though the best ones here aren’t always the Pokémon making the lightning. Sometimes it’s whatever’s flying through it.
Our Picks:
- Jolteon VMAX · SWSH Black Star Promos #SWSH184 on eBay
- Lugia V · Silver Tempest #186 on eBay
- Zekrom ex · Black Bolt #166 on eBay
- Lugia · 30th Celebration #149 on eBay
- Zebstrika · White Flare #115 on eBay
- Electrode GX · Celestial Storm #48 on eBay
- Thundurus · Scarlet & Violet Promos #SVP209 on eBay
- Raging Bolt ex · Temporal Forces #208 on eBay
- Thundurus GX · Sun & Moon Promos #SM133 on eBay
- Tornadus EX · Plasma Freeze #114 on eBay
- Jolteon · Brilliant Stars Trainer Gallery #TG04 on eBay
Vintage Rainy & Stormy Cards
There are so many great vintage picks, and they go all the way back to Fossil and Jungle. Weather was one of the few things the old tiny art windows could do well, because a sheet of rain fills a small box better than a landscape does. Castform turns up twice in its Rain Form, which is the only Pokémon in the game with weather built into its species.
Our Picks:
- Onix · Japanese Vending Series II #95 on eBay
- Dark Slowking · Neo Destiny #20 on eBay
- Totodile · Neo Destiny #85 on eBay
- Rain Castform · EX Hidden Legends #23 on eBay
- Chikorita · Expedition #99 on eBay
- Electrode · Skyridge #36 on eBay
- Light Machoke · Neo Destiny #49 on eBay
- Dark Jolteon · Team Rocket #38 on eBay
- Zapdos · Aquapolis #44 on eBay
- Pichu · EX Sandstorm #20 on eBay
- Jolteon · Rising Rivals #26 on eBay
- Jolteon · Jungle #20 on eBay
- Rain Castform · EX Delta Species #26 on eBay
- Manectric · EX Ruby & Sapphire #9 on eBay
- Luxio · Legends Awakened #62 on eBay
- Rayquaza · EX Delta Species #13 on eBay
- Zapdos · Fossil #15 on eBay
- Lotad · EX Deoxys #63 on eBay
- Gengar · Arceus #17 on eBay
- Shining Gyarados · Neo Revelation #65 on eBay
- Tyranitar · Aquapolis #40 on eBay
- Gyarados · HeartGold & SoulSilver #123 on eBay
Commons & Affordable Rainy Cards
Weather has never been tied to rarity, so this is a cheap theme to build. Rain shows up on commons constantly because it’s a quick way to give an ordinary card a mood.
Our Picks:
- Charmander · Burning Shadows #18 on eBay
- Drowzee · EX Delta Species #67 on eBay
- Castform Rainy Form · Chilling Reign #033 on eBay
- Hoothoot · Unified Minds #165 on eBay
- Chikorita · Mysterious Treasures #77 on eBay
- Parasol Lady · Paradox Rift #169 on eBay
- Paldean Wooper · Scarlet & Violet Promos #SVP041 on eBay
- Gulpin · Arceus #66 on eBay
- Braviary · Plasma Storm #116 on eBay
- Jolteon · Cosmic Eclipse #70 on eBay
- Jolteon · Scarlet & Violet Promos #SVP169 on eBay
- Jolteon EX · Generations #28 on eBay
- Electabuzz · Brilliant Stars #046 on eBay
- Electrode · Rebel Clash #057 on eBay
- Thundurus · Black Bolt #033 on eBay
- Rayquaza · Guardians Rising #106 on eBay
- Dialga G · Platinum #7 on eBay
- Mudkip · Primal Clash #33 on eBay
That’s our roundup of the best rainy and stormy Pokémon cards in the TCG! Quiet drizzle page or full lightning page? Let us know in the comments!
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