Bug Transmission
Ability
Whenever you attach an Energy card from your hand to this Pokémon during your turn, you may make your opponent's Active Pokémon Confused.
Chilling Reign / #118/198
Porygon-Z
Printed language: English · Pokémon
- Set (printed edition)
- Chilling Reign
- Rarity (source)
- Holo Rare
- Illustrator
- Tomokazu Komiya
- Source reference
- swsh6-118
CARDEX BACKGROUND
The Pokémon’s story
Porygon-Z results from a software update applied to Porygon2. The program was meant to let it travel between dimensions, but its behavior became unstable and the objective was not achieved. Entries mention design errors and even debate the status of this transformation. Behind its digital appearance is therefore an experiment whose results elude its creators. The Pokédex describes an intelligence changed in unexpected ways rather than a technical success.
Background on the species in the video games; its forms and card versions may have appeared later.A detail worth noticing
Pokémon Shield says scientists disagree over whether Porygon-Z truly counts as an evolution. Pokémon Moon links its strange behavior to software intended for dimensional travel. Even its biological status remains under discussion after this update.
Sources for this background
Card details
- HP
- 140
- Type (source)
- Colorless
- Stage (source)
- Stage2
- Evolves from (printed name)
- Porygon2
- Pokédex number
- 474
- Regulation mark
- E
- Retreat cost
- 2 Energy
- Weakness (source)
- Fighting ×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
A faulty update was added to its programming. Its behavior is noticeably strange, so the experiment may have been a failure.Abilities
Attacks
Superbeam
Cost: Colorless · Colorless · Colorless
Damage: 170
Discard 2 Energy from this Pokémon.Documented variants
Versions reported by the source; identification for sales still needs verification.
- Reverse
- Holographic
- holo · standard
- reverse · standard
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