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Electrode

Skyridge / #36/144

Electrode

Printed language: English · Pokémon

Set (printed edition)
Skyridge
Rarity (source)
Uncommon
Illustrator
Sumiyoshi Kizuki
Source reference
ecard3-36

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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
70
Type (source)
Lightning
Stage (source)
Stage1
Evolves from (printed name)
Voltorb
Pokédex number
101
Retreat cost
1 Energy
Weakness (source)
Fighting x2

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.

Attacks

Plasma

Cost: Colorless · Colorless

Damage: 20

If there are any Lightning Energy card in your discard pile, flip a coin. If heads, attach 1 of them to Electrode.

Selfdestruct

Cost: Lightning · Lightning · Colorless · Colorless

Damage: 100

This attack does 20 damage to each Pokémon on each player's Bench. (Don't apply Weakness and Resistance for Benched Pokémon.) Electrode does 100 damage to itself.

Documented variants

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

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

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