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Hitmontop

Wizards Black Star Promos / #37/53

Hitmontop

Printed language: English · Pokémon

Set (printed edition)
Wizards Black Star Promos
Rarity (source)
Common
Illustrator
Atsuko Nishida
Source reference
basep-37

CARDEX BACKGROUND

The Pokémon’s story

Hitmontop balances on its head and spins like a top to deliver successive kicks. Rotation lets it attack while defending itself, and it moves faster this way than by walking. Against an opponent, it sometimes begins with a headstand that disorients them before it strikes. The Pokédex says it can spin so fast that it gradually burrows into the ground.

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

A detail worth noticing

Pokémon Omega Ruby states that Hitmontop travels faster on its head than on foot. Pokémon Sword adds that its rotation can make it sink into the earth. This spectacular movement is therefore also a means of travel, not only a fighting technique.

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Card details

HP
60
Type (source)
Fighting
Stage (source)
Basic
Pokédex number
237
Retreat cost
1 Energy
Weakness (source)
Psychic ×2

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.

Description from the source

It launches kicks while spinning. If it spins at high speed, it may bore its way into the ground.

Attacks

Repeating Kick

Cost: Fighting · Fighting

Damage: 20×

Flip a coin until you get tails. This attack does 20 damage times the number of heads.

Rapid Spin

Cost: Fighting · Fighting · Colorless

Damage: 30

If your opponent has any Benched Pokémon, he or she chooses 1 of them and switches it with his or her Active Pokémon, then, if you have any Benched Pokémon, you switch 1 of them with your Active Pokémon. (Do the damage before switching the Pokémon.)

Documented variants

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

  • Normal
  • normal · standard

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