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Team Rocket's Nidorina card from the Destined Rivals set
Illustration by Taiga Kasai. Card image via the Pokémon TCG API.
Stage 1 Pokémon

Team Rocket's Nidorina

Evolves your Darkness Pokémon with ease.

Darkness90 HPStage 1Intermediate to play

What this card does

Choose up to 2 of your Darkness Pokémon and evolve them by finding their evolved forms in your deck.

Costs two Darkness Energy for the Scratch attack.

Signature attack

Scratch

No game text. (50 damage)

Dark Awakening allows you to quickly evolve multiple Darkness Pokémon, giving your team more options in battle. It's especially useful when you need to change strategies mid-game.

Attacks

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Dark Awakening

Choose up to 2 of your Darkness Pokémon. For each of those Pokémon, search your deck for a card that evolves from that Pokémon and put it onto that Pokémon to evolve it. Then, shuffle your deck.

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Scratch50

Which deck it belongs in

Works well in decks focused on evolving Darkness Pokémon and adapting your strategy during play.

Strengths
  • Flexible evolution
  • Common rarity makes it easy to find
Watch out for
  • Scratch attack is weak
  • Needs Darkness Energy
Pro tip

Keep an eye on your deck for evolving cards when using Dark Awakening.

From the Pokédex

Nidorina's long, sharp horns are used to defend itself against predators.

Note for the parent

This card is great for teaching kids about evolving their Pokémon and building flexible strategies.

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