Plasma Storm / #9/135

Swadloon

Printed language: English · Pokémon

Set (printed edition): Plasma Storm
Rarity (source): Uncommon
Illustrator: Kyoko Umemoto
Source reference: bw8-9

CARDEX BACKGROUND

The Pokémon’s story

Swadloon covers itself with a leaf to keep out cold. In the forest, it eats leaves fallen on the ground. Yet it does more than consume them: the Pokédex explains that it turns dead leaves into fertilizer. Vegetation can therefore thrive where it lives. Its protection, food and environmental effect come from the same material. The leaf litter it depends on also contributes, through Swadloon, to the forest's renewal.

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

A detail worth noticing

Alpha Sapphire describes Swadloon wrapped in a leaf and eating fallen leaves in the forest. Omega Ruby gives it another role: it turns dead leaves into fertilizer, supporting the growth of surrounding plants.

Sources for this background

Card details

HP: 80
Type (source): Grass
Stage (source): Stage1
Evolves from (printed name): Sewaddle
Pokédex number: 541
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.

Description from the source

Preferring dark, damp places, it spends the entire day eating fallen leaves that lie around it.

Attacks

Swaddle Guard

Cost: Grass

During your opponent's next turn, any damage done to this Pokémon by attacks is reduced by 40 (after applying Weakness and Resistance).

Surprise Attack

Cost: Colorless · Colorless

Damage: 40

Flip a coin. If tails, this attack does nothing.

Documented variants

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

Normal
normal · standard

View the TCGdex source ↗

Price history

No verified price observations are available for this printing. History will begin once reference matching has been validated; no past prices have been reconstructed.

No copies currently for sale

Sales, auctions and payments remain closed for this part of the catalogue.