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Heliolisk

Team Up / #50/181

Heliolisk

Printed language: English · Pokémon

Set (printed edition)
Team Up
Rarity (source)
Uncommon
Illustrator
Sumiyoshi Kizuki
Source reference
sm9-50

CARDEX BACKGROUND

The Pokémon’s story

Heliolisk opens its frill to capture sunlight and generate electricity. This energy does more than power discharges: it stimulates its leg muscles so it can run very fast. The traditions of an ancient desert kingdom even gave it a respected place. Later, Heliolisk are said to have reached Galar in a shipment of precious stones. The Pokédex thus connects its solar power with a history of human travel and desert lands.

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

A detail worth noticing

Pokémon Y credits Heliolisk with running a hundred metres in five seconds through electrical stimulation of its legs. Pokémon Shield states that a single individual, with its frill spread in sunlight, can produce enough electricity to power a large city.

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Card details

HP
100
Type (source)
Lightning
Stage (source)
Stage1
Evolves from (printed name)
Helioptile
Pokédex number
695
Retreat cost
1 Energy
Weakness (source)
Fighting ×2
Resistance (source)
Metal -20

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 stimulates its muscles with electricity, boosting the strength in its legs and enabling it to run 100 yards in five seconds.

Attacks

Random Spark

Cost: Lightning

This attack does 30 damage to 1 of your opponent’s Pokémon. (Don’t apply Weakness and Resistance for Benched Pokémon.)

Volt Switch

Cost: Lightning · Colorless · Colorless

Damage: 90

Switch this Pokémon with 1 of your Benched Lightning Pokémon.

Documented variants

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

  • Normal
  • normal · standard

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