


The fake Tapu Lele-GX (credit: Redditor /u/ZevTaub) has no texture whatsoever-but a real copy of Tapu Lele-GX would have a detailed texture pattern all throughout its holo.Īs many producers of fake cards do not speak English as their first language-or at all-it is common to see misspellings, including transpositions of neighboring letters and using similar letters in place of one another. It’s not affecting the holo’s reflection like it should because the pattern has been printed onto the card instead of being actually added to it.

On the Solgaleo-GX (credit: Redditor /u/SmileyJetson), you can see the holo is there, but the texture in the card’s background is clearly not actually present on the card. Sometimes, these fake chase cards will also have a brownish, yellowish, or orangish hue to them. In short, they just don’t shine correctly. And although it sounds odd to hear, fake Pokémon cards-especially chase cards from relatively recent sets-XY onward-tend to have a very simple almost flat holo to them. The worst fakes will print the texture that the card should have instead of reproducing it in the card-making process. In addition to poor color reproduction and otherwise bad print jobs, fake cards also tend to do a very poor job of mimicking the special holo and texture of the chase cards from the various sets in the Pokémon Trading Card Game.
