Strange Powder
Cost: Grass · Colorless
Damage: 20
Flip a coin. If heads, the Defending Pokémon is now Confused; if tails, the Defending Pokémon is now Asleep.
Neo Genesis / #36/111
Gloom
Printed language: English · Pokémon
- Set (printed edition)
- Neo Genesis
- Rarity (source)
- Uncommon
- Illustrator
- Mitsuhiro Arita
- Source reference
- neo1-36
CARDEX BACKGROUND
The Pokémon’s story
Gloom carries a flower whose pistil can release a very strong smell. This stench intensifies when it feels threatened, but disappears when it is comfortable and safe. The sticky nectar dripping from its mouth can also be mistaken for drool. In the Pokédex, these secretions therefore do more than give it a strange appearance: they accompany its reactions to danger and make approaching it difficult.
Background on the species in the video games; its forms and card versions may have appeared later.A detail worth noticing
Pokémon X states that roughly one person in a thousand enjoys Gloom’s smell, despite its reputation. Pokémon Omega Ruby adds a nuance: when it feels perfectly safe, it stops releasing its stench. Its bad smell is therefore not permanent.
Card details
- HP
- 60
- Type (source)
- Grass
- Stage (source)
- Stage1
- Evolves from (printed name)
- Oddish
- Pokédex number
- 44
- Retreat cost
- 1 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
What appears to be drool is actually sweet honey. It is very sticky and clings stubbornly if touched.Attacks
Sticky Nectar
Cost: Grass · Grass · Colorless
Damage: 20+
Flip a coin. If heads, this attack does 20 damage plus 10 more damage and, until the end of your opponent's next turn, as long as Gloom is your Active Pokémon, the Defending Pokémon can't retreat, and if the effect of an attack, Pokémon Power, or Trainer card would change that player's Active Pokémon, that part of the effect does nothing. If tails, this attack does 20 damage.Documented variants
Versions reported by the source; identification for sales still needs verification.
- Normal
- First Edition
- normal · standard
- normal · standard · 1st-edition
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