アーケン

Printed language: Japanese · Pokémon

Set (printed edition): スタートデッキ100 バトルコレクション
Rarity (source): None
Illustrator: Haru Akasaka
Source reference: MC-392

CARDEX BACKGROUND

The Pokémon’s story

Archen is an ancient bird brought back from a fossil. It has wings but cannot yet fly: it moves through trees by hopping and can glide toward prey from a high branch. It eats Berries and Bug-type Pokémon. Long presented as the ancestor of all bird Pokémon, it is now the subject of more cautious research; a recent entry indicates that this ancestry may be false. Its place in the history of species therefore remains open.

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

A detail worth noticing

Pokémon Sun presents Archen as an ancestor of birds, but Pokémon Ultra Sun specifies that recent research disputes this idea. Pokémon Ultra Moon recalls another detail: despite its wings, the restored fossil cannot fly.

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Card details

HP: 80
Type (source): Fighting
Stage (source): Stage1
Pokédex number: 566
Regulation mark: I
Retreat cost: 1 Energy
Weakness (source): Grass x2

Printed card text — Japanese

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.

Description from the source

とりポケモンの祖先と言われる。飛ぶことはできず枝から枝へ飛び移り生活していたらしい。

Attacks

アクロバット

Cost: Fighting · Colorless

Damage: 30+

コインを2回投げ、オモテの数×30ダメージ追加。

Documented variants

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Normal
normal · standard

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