Weezing

Weezing in the games: Koffing's evolution and Galarian Weezing

Weezing evolves from Koffing at level 35 and stays a pure Poison type, with Levitate or Neutralizing Gas as its ability and Stench as its hidden ability. In Red and Blue it is the last Pokémon Koga, the Fuchsia City Gym Leader, sends out.

Sword and Shield introduced Galarian Weezing, a Poison and Fairy type whose chimney-like heads and smog whiskers recall a Victorian gentleman in a top hat, and which feeds on polluted air and releases clean air. There is no Galarian Koffing: an ordinary Koffing that evolves in Galar becomes Galarian Weezing. It shares Levitate and Neutralizing Gas but has Misty Surge as its hidden ability.

Weezing in the anime: James's partner from Kanto to Hoenn

James's Koffing, the first Pokémon he is known to have owned, evolved into Weezing in Dig Those Diglett!, at the same moment Jessie's Ekans became Arbok. Weezing stayed with James through the Kanto, Orange Islands and Johto series. In A Poached Ego!, early in the Hoenn series, James and Jessie left Weezing and Arbok in Petalburg Woods to protect a group of wild Koffing and Ekans from a poacher.

Weezing on cards: Fossil, Dark Weezing and Team Rocket's Weezing

Weezing's first English card is Fossil #45 from October 1999, an uncommon illustrated by Mitsuhiro Arita. Team Rocket (2000) printed Dark Weezing as a holo (#14) and a non-holo (#31), both with Shin-ichi Yoshida's art, and Gym Challenge added Koga's Weezing by Ken Sugimori. Expedition (2002) gave it a holo and a non-holo Rare by Hajime Kusajima, and Team Rocket Returns (2004) printed a new Dark Weezing, again by Arita.

Galarian Weezing's first card was a Rebel Clash (2020) Holo Rare by Mitsuhiro Arita, and a shiny Galarian Weezing followed in the Shining Fates Shiny Vault. Destined Rivals (2025) printed Team Rocket's Weezing twice, as an uncommon by matazo and an illustration rare by Yukihiro Tada.

Cards to know

• Weezing (Fossil #45)

  Weezing's first English card, a 1999 uncommon illustrated by Mitsuhiro Arita.

• Dark Weezing (Team Rocket #14)

  The holo Dark Weezing from the 2000 Team Rocket set, illustrated by Shin-ichi Yoshida.

• Koga's Weezing (Gym Challenge #50)

  Koga's Weezing from the 2000 Gym Challenge set, illustrated by Ken Sugimori.

• Weezing (Expedition Base Set #32)

  The holo Weezing from the 2002 Expedition Base Set, illustrated by Hajime Kusajima.

• Galarian Weezing (Shining Fates Shiny Vault #SV077)

  A shiny rare Galarian Weezing by Kouki Saitou from the 2021 Shining Fates Shiny Vault subset.

• Team Rocket's Weezing (Destined Rivals #199)

  An illustration rare Team Rocket's Weezing by Yukihiro Tada, from the 2025 Destined Rivals set.