Evolving Skies / #27/203

Tentacruel

Printed language: English · Pokémon

Set (printed edition): Evolving Skies
Rarity (source): Uncommon
Illustrator: Mina Nakai
Source reference: swsh7-27

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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: 120
Type (source): Water
Stage (source): Stage1
Evolves from (printed name): Tentacool
Pokédex number: 73
Regulation mark: E
Retreat cost: 2 Energy
Weakness (source): Lightning ×2

Printed card text — English

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Description from the source

It communicates with others of its kind by lighting up the red orbs on its head. When the orbs are blinking, it's a warning sign.

Attacks

Wave Splash

Cost: Water · Colorless

Damage: 50

Poisonous Prison

Cost: Water · Water · Colorless

Damage: 100

Your opponent's Active Pokémon is now Poisoned. During your opponent's next turn, that Pokémon can't retreat.

Documented variants

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Normal
Reverse
normal · standard
reverse · standard

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