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Kabutops

Skyridge / #150/144

Kabutops

Printed language: English · Pokémon

Set (printed edition)
Skyridge
Rarity (source)
Rare
Illustrator
Atsuko Nishida
Source reference
ecard3-150

CARDEX BACKGROUND

The Pokémon’s story

Kabutops swam very fast in warm seas before its species disappeared. It rushed prey and slashed them with long blades, then absorbed their fluids. Some fossils suggest its body was beginning to adapt to land, without explaining why it became extinct. The Pokédex presents a formidable prehistoric predator whose evolution may have opened a new path too late to ensure survival.

Background on the species in the video games; its forms and card versions may have appeared later.

A detail worth noticing

Pokémon Ultra Sun describes Kabutops's body beginning to evolve for life on land. Pokémon Shield admits that the cause of its extinction remains unknown. The observed anatomical change therefore does not suffice to explain the species' end.

Sources for this background

Card details

HP
90
Type (source)
Colorless
Stage (source)
Stage2
Evolves from (printed name)
Kabuto
Pokédex number
141
Retreat cost
3 Energy
Weakness (source)
Grass x2

Printed card text — English

Quoted source text is retained in the card’s printed language so this exact printing can be identified. The CarDex background above is translated into English.

Abilities

Crystal Type

Poke-BODY

Whenever you attach a Water, Lightning, or Fighting basic Energy card from your hand to Kabutops, Kabutops's type (color) becomes the same as that type of Energy until the end of the turn.

Attacks

Draining Cut

Cost: Water · Colorless · Fighting

Damage: 20

Remove a damage counter from Kabutops.

Triple Cutter

Cost: Lightning · Lightning · Fighting · Colorless

Damage: 30×

Flip 3 coins. This attack does 30 damage times the number of heads.

Documented variants

Versions reported by the source; identification for sales still needs verification.

  • Reverse
  • Holographic
  • holo · standard
  • reverse · standard
  • holo · cracked-ice · jumbo

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