Rock Smash
Cost: Fighting
Damage: 20+
Flip a coin. If heads, this attack does 20 damage plus 20 more damage.
Platinum / #46/127
Cranidos
Printed language: English · Pokémon
- Set (printed edition)
- Platinum
- Rarity (source)
- Uncommon
- Illustrator
- Kouki Saitou
- Source reference
- pl1-46
CARDEX BACKGROUND
The Pokémon’s story
Cranidos roamed jungles about a hundred million years ago. Its iron-hard skull helped it knock down opponents or break trees blocking its path. It could then eat their ripe Berries. Individuals also clashed heads with one another; in Hisui, the impact of these duels rang like a bell. The Pokédex portrays a prehistoric animal whose forehead was a weapon, a feeding tool, and a means of confrontation among its own kind.
Background on the species in the video games; its forms and card versions may have appeared later.A detail worth noticing
Pokémon Moon notes that fossilized trunks broken in two appear in the same layers as Cranidos fossils. Pokémon Sun describes its headbutts against Aerodactyl. Pokémon Legends: Arceus compares the sound of its duels with a bell.
Card details
- HP
- 80
- Type (source)
- Fighting
- Stage (source)
- Stage1
- Evolves from (printed name)
- Skull Fossil
- Pokédex number
- 408
- Retreat cost
- 1 Energy
- Weakness (source)
- Grass +20
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 lifelong jungle dweller from 100 million years ago, it would snap obstructing trees with head butts.Attacks
Knock Over
Cost: Fighting · Colorless
Damage: 40
You may discard any Stadium card in play.Documented variants
Versions reported by the source; identification for sales still needs verification.
- Normal
- Reverse
- normal · standard
- reverse · standard
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