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Electrode

Stormfront / #36/100

Electrode

Printed language: English · Pokémon

Set (printed edition)
Stormfront
Rarity (source)
Uncommon
Illustrator
Kent Kanetsuna
Source reference
dp7-36

CARDEX BACKGROUND

The Pokémon’s story

Electrode feeds on electricity around it. It sometimes gathers with others near power plants to take advantage of newly generated power. On stormy days, this appetite can leave it so charged that it explodes repeatedly. Its round body then conceals a very fragile balance: sometimes a jolt is enough to release the accumulated energy violently. Its presence near an electrical source therefore deserves more attention than its resemblance to a Poké Ball might suggest.

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

A detail worth noticing

When its body is swollen with electricity almost to bursting point, Electrode can let the wind carry it away. Pokémon Black thus adds a surprising consequence of its charge: it even changes how it moves. The explosive Pokémon temporarily becomes something carried through the air.

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Card details

HP
90
Type (source)
Lightning
Stage (source)
Stage1
Evolves from (printed name)
Voltorb
Pokédex number
101
Weakness (source)
Fighting +20
Resistance (source)
Metal -20

Printed card text — English

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Abilities

Radiance

Poke-BODY

If Electrode is your Active Pokémon and is damaged by an opponent's attack (even if Electrode is Knocked Out), put 1 damage counter on each of your opponent's Pokémon.

Attacks

Low Current

Cost: Lightning

Damage: 30

If Electrode was damaged by an attack during your opponent's last turn, the Defending Pokémon is now Paralyzed.

Swift

Cost: Colorless · Colorless · Colorless

Damage: 60

This attack's damage isn't affected by Weakness, Resistance, Poké-Powers, Poké-Bodies, or any other effects on the Defending Pokémon.

Documented variants

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

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