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Hitmontop

Neo Discovery / #3/75

Hitmontop

Printed language: English · Pokémon

Set (printed edition)
Neo Discovery
Rarity (source)
Rare
Illustrator
Sumiyoshi Kizuki
Source reference
neo2-3

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

If you become enchanted by its smooth, elegant, dancelike kicks, you may get drilled hard.

Attacks

Detect

Cost: Fighting

Flip a coin. If heads, during your opponent's next turn, prevent all effects of attacks, including damage, done to Hitmontop.

Triple Kick

Cost: Fighting · Fighting · Fighting

Damage: 30x

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

Documented variants

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

  • Holographic
  • First Edition
  • holo · standard
  • holo · standard · 1st-edition

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