Fossil / #44/62

Tentacruel

Printed language: English · Pokémon

Set (printed edition): Fossil
Rarity (source): Uncommon
Illustrator: Kagemaru Himeno
Source reference: base3-44

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The Pokémon’s story

Tentacruel hunts with eighty tentacles that extend and retract like a net. It weakens prey with toxins and uses the red orbs on its head to emit ultrasound. Those same orbs flash when it wants to warn its kind. The Pokédex describes a sea hunter whose lights are not decorative: they play a part in capture and group communication.

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

A detail worth noticing

Pokémon Ultra Moon describes Tentacruel's red orbs as a signaling system between its kind. Pokémon Sword warns that an intense glow announces ultrasound. Watching these orbs can therefore reveal a social alert or the start of an attack.

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Card details

HP: 60
Type (source): Water
Stage (source): Stage1
Evolves from (printed name): Tentacool
Pokédex number: 73
Weakness (source): Lightning ×2

Printed card text — English

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Description from the source

The tentacles are normally kept short. On hunts, they are extended to ensnare and immobilize prey.

Attacks

Supersonic

Cost: Water

Flip a coin. If heads, the Defending Pokémon is now Confused.

Jellyfish Sting

Cost: Water · Water

Damage: 10

The Defending Pokémon is now Poisoned.

Documented variants

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Normal
First Edition
normal · galaxy · standard
normal · galaxy · standard · 1st-edition

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