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Printed language: Japanese · Pokémon

Set (printed edition): 超爆インパクト
Rarity (source): Uncommon
Illustrator: Ken Sugimori
Source reference: SM8-032

CARDEX BACKGROUND

The Pokémon’s story

Lanturn illuminates the ocean depths with the antenna on its head. Bacteria there react with its bodily fluids and produce light visible even from the surface. It uses this to dazzle prey before delivering an electric shock. Sailors looking at the sea at night may mistake these lights for underwater stars. Its nickname, the “Deep-Sea Star”, thus comes from a hunting tool becoming a distant spectacle.

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

A detail worth noticing

Pokémon Sword states that Lanturn’s light remains visible at the surface while it swims 5,000 metres deep. Pokémon Ultra Sun attributes this brightness to bacteria in its antenna. In the Pokédex, the phenomenon relies on a relationship with other living beings.

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Card details

HP: 110
Type (source): Lightning
Stage (source): Stage1
Evolves from (printed name): チョンチー
Pokédex number: 171
Retreat cost: 2 Energy
Weakness (source): Fighting x2
Resistance (source): Metal -20

Printed card text — Japanese

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Description from the source

強い光を放ち獲物の目をくらませる。隙ができたら電撃をお見舞いする。

Attacks

サルベージ

Cost: Colorless

自分のトラッシュにあるグッズを4枚、相手に見せてから、山札にもどして切る。

シグナルビーム

Cost: Lightning · Colorless

Damage: 50

相手のバトルポケモンをこんらんにする。

Documented variants

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normal · standard

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