Hyper Beam
Cost: Lightning · Colorless · Colorless
Damage: 50
Flip a coin. If heads, discard an Energy attached to the Defending Pokémon.
Dragon Vault / #5/20
Dragonite
Printed language: English · Pokémon
- Set (printed edition)
- Dragon Vault
- Rarity (source)
- Rare
- Illustrator
- Mitsuhiro Arita
- Source reference
- dv1-5
CARDEX BACKGROUND
The Pokémon’s story
In seafaring accounts, Dragonite appears when someone is in danger of drowning. The Pokédex describes its tendency to rescue humans and Pokémon, and even tells of it guiding a shipwrecked person to an island inhabited by its kind. Its flights over raging seas inspired a nickname given to it by a captain. Behind the dragon's power is a benevolent presence associated with rescue at sea.
Background on the species in the video games; its forms and card versions may have appeared later.A detail worth noticing
In Pokémon Shield, Dragonite's maritime reputation extends to ships themselves: many carry a figurehead in its likeness. The dragon is therefore present on a voyage even when it is not flying above the waves. This detail reflects the place sailors give it in their imagery.
Sources for this background
Card details
- HP
- 150
- Type (source)
- Dragon
- Stage (source)
- Stage2
- Evolves from (printed name)
- Dragonair
- Pokédex number
- 149
- Retreat cost
- 3 Energy
- Weakness (source)
- Dragon ×2
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.
Description from the source
It is said to make its home somewhere in the sea. It guides crews of shipwrecks to shore.Attacks
Hurricane Tail
Cost: Grass · Colorless · Colorless · Colorless
Damage: 60
Flip 4 coins. This attack does 60 damage times the number of heads.Documented variants
Versions reported by the source; identification for sales still needs verification.
- Normal
- normal · standard
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