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Purugly

Great Encounters / #50/106

Purugly

Printed language: English · Pokémon

Set (printed edition)
Great Encounters
Rarity (source)
Uncommon
Illustrator
Ken Sugimori
Source reference
dp4-50

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The Pokémon’s story

Purugly likes making itself comfortable, even seizing another Pokémon's nest if it finds it cozy. To look more imposing, it wraps its forked tail around its waist. This changes the silhouette it presents to others without actually making it larger. The Pokédex thus describes opportunistic behavior and a way of manipulating appearance. The nest it occupies and the posture it adopts both assert its place.

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

A detail worth noticing

A comfortable nest can be enough to attract Purugly even if it already belongs to another species, according to Pokémon X. Pokémon Y explains its bulkier look: it girdles its waist with its forked tail to impress others.

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Card details

HP
90
Type (source)
Colorless
Stage (source)
Stage1
Evolves from (printed name)
Glameow
Pokédex number
432
Retreat cost
2 Energy
Weakness (source)
Fighting +20

Printed card text — English

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Description from the source

It is a brazen brute that barges its way into another Pokémon's nest and claims it as its own.

Attacks

Swagger

Cost: Colorless · Colorless

Damage: 20

Flip a coin. If heads, discard an Energy attached to the Defending Pokémon.

Fury Swipes

Cost: Colorless · Colorless · Colorless

Damage: 40x

Flip 3 coins. This attack does 40 damage times the number of heads.

Documented variants

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

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

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