Dottler

Printed language: English · Pokémon

Set (printed edition): Shining Fates Shiny Vault
Rarity (source): Shiny rare
Illustrator: tetsuya koizumi
Source reference: swsh4.5sv-SV008

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The Pokémon’s story

Dottler barely moves inside its shell, but it is very much alive. It develops there while examining its surroundings with psychic powers, as though already preparing for evolution. One entry reports that it supposedly discovered these powers after a long fast; the Pokédex presents this origin as a hypothesis. Its stillness therefore hides invisible activity: sensing the outside and continuing to grow before its change of form.

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

A detail worth noticing

Pokémon Sword emphasizes the contrast between Dottler's stillness and its being alive. Fasting as the origin of its psychic powers is a supposition there. Pokémon Shield describes the present use of those powers to examine its surroundings.

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Card details

HP: 70
Type (source): Grass
Stage (source): Stage1
Evolves from (printed name): Blipbug
Pokédex number: 825
Regulation mark: D
Retreat cost: 2 Energy
Weakness (source): Fire ×2

Printed card text — English

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Description from the source

As it grows inside its shell, it uses its psychic abilities to monitor the outside world and prepare for evolution.

Attacks

Reflect

Cost: Colorless

During your opponent's next turn, this Pokémon takes 40 less damage from attacks (after applying Weakness and Resistance).

Ram

Cost: Grass · Colorless

Damage: 30

Documented variants

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Holographic
holo · standard

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