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Team Aqua's Chinchou

Team Magma vs Team Aqua / #49/95

Team Aqua's Chinchou

Printed language: English · Pokémon

Set (printed edition)
Team Magma vs Team Aqua
Rarity (source)
Common
Illustrator
Kazuo Yazawa
Source reference
ex4-49

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About the species

In the darkness of the ocean depths, Chinchou turns its antennae into a language of light. Their flashes let it communicate where visibility is poor. The same glow can attract prey, giving the signal a second function. Around this small Pokémon, light is never merely a backdrop: it serves to establish contact with its surroundings.

This account describes the species in the video games. It does not describe its Trainer’s history or that of this copy, and does not identify the depicted form or sex.

A detail worth noticing

Pokémon Sword states that Chinchou’s antennae originated from a transformed fin. Positive and negative charges flow through them. Their unusual shape thus combines an anatomical origin with the electrical capability described for this Pokémon.

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Card details

HP
50
Type (source)
Lightning
Stage (source)
Basic
Pokédex number
170
Retreat cost
1 Energy
Weakness (source)
Fighting ×2
Resistance (source)
Metal -30

Printed card text — English

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Attacks

Confuse Ray

Cost: Colorless

Flip a coin. If heads, the Defending Pokémon is now Confused.

Wave Splash

Cost: Lightning · Colorless

Damage: 20

Documented variants

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  • Normal
  • Reverse
  • normal · standard
  • reverse · standard

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