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Lileep

Sandstorm / #42/100

Lileep

Printed language: English · Pokémon

Set (printed edition)
Sandstorm
Rarity (source)
Uncommon
Illustrator
Midori Harada
Source reference
ex2-42

CARDEX BACKGROUND

The Pokémon’s story

Lileep lived in warm seas long before present-day Pokémon. Restored from a fossil, it remains attached to rocks on the seabed. Its powerful suckers hold it in place despite the surge. Long ago, its body blended with seaweed: it waited for prey to approach, then surrounded it with petal-like tentacles. Its stillness is therefore no weakness. It is part of patient hunting from a position that waves cannot wrench it away from.

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

A detail worth noticing

Pokémon Sword places Lileep's seas about a hundred million years in the past. Pokémon Ultra Moon explains that its suckers attach it so firmly to rocks that even rough seas cannot carry it away. Pokémon Shield describes its hunting tentacles.

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Card details

HP
80
Type (source)
Grass
Stage (source)
Stage1
Evolves from (printed name)
Root Fossil
Pokédex number
345
Retreat cost
2 Energy
Weakness (source)
Fire ×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.

Attacks

Influence

Cost: Colorless

Search your deck for Omanyte, Kabuto, Aerodactyl, Lileep, or Anorith and put up to 2 of them onto your Bench. Shuffle your deck afterward. Treat the new Benched Pokémon as Basic Pokémon.

Time Spiral

Cost: Colorless · Colorless

If your opponent has any Evolved Pokémon in play, choose 1 of them and flip a coin. If heads, remove the highest Stage Evolution card on that Pokémon and have your opponent shuffle it into his or her deck.

Documented variants

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

  • Normal
  • Reverse
  • normal · standard
  • reverse · standard

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