Skip to card catalogue

← English card catalogue

Gloom

Expedition Base Set / #78/165

Gloom

Printed language: English · Pokémon

Set (printed edition)
Expedition Base Set
Rarity (source)
Uncommon
Illustrator
Yuichi Sawayama
Source reference
ecard1-78

CARDEX BACKGROUND

The Pokémon’s story

Gloom carries a flower whose pistil can release a very strong smell. This stench intensifies when it feels threatened, but disappears when it is comfortable and safe. The sticky nectar dripping from its mouth can also be mistaken for drool. In the Pokédex, these secretions therefore do more than give it a strange appearance: they accompany its reactions to danger and make approaching it difficult.

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

A detail worth noticing

Pokémon X states that roughly one person in a thousand enjoys Gloom’s smell, despite its reputation. Pokémon Omega Ruby adds a nuance: when it feels perfectly safe, it stops releasing its stench. Its bad smell is therefore not permanent.

Sources for this background

Card details

HP
70
Type (source)
Grass
Stage (source)
Stage1
Evolves from (printed name)
Oddish
Pokédex number
44
Retreat cost
1 Energy
Weakness (source)
Psychic 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

Razor Leaf

Cost: Grass · Colorless

Damage: 20

Foul Odor

Cost: Grass · Colorless · Colorless

Damage: 30

Both the Defending Pokémon and Gloom are now Confused (after doing damage).

Documented variants

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

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

View the TCGdex source ↗

Price history

No verified price observations are available for this printing. History will begin once reference matching has been validated; no past prices have been reconstructed.

No copies currently for sale

Sales, auctions and payments remain closed for this part of the catalogue.