Alliance Infaillible / #41/214

Tentacruel

Printed language: French · Pokémon

Set (printed edition): Alliance Infaillible
Rarity (source): Peu Commune
Illustrator: Shigenori Negishi
Source reference: sm10-41

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The Pokémon’s story

Tentacruel hunts with eighty tentacles that extend and retract like a net. It weakens prey with toxins and uses the red orbs on its head to emit ultrasound. Those same orbs flash when it wants to warn its kind. The Pokédex describes a sea hunter whose lights are not decorative: they play a part in capture and group communication.

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

A detail worth noticing

Pokémon Ultra Moon describes Tentacruel's red orbs as a signaling system between its kind. Pokémon Sword warns that an intense glow announces ultrasound. Watching these orbs can therefore reveal a social alert or the start of an attack.

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Card details

HP: 100
Type (source): Eau
Stage (source): Niveau 1
Evolves from (printed name): Tentacool
Pokédex number: 73
Retreat cost: 1 Energy
Weakness (source): Plante ×2

Printed card text — French

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

Tentacules Malins

Cost: Incolore

Déplacez une Énergie de l’un des Pokémon de votre adversaire vers un autre de ses Pokémon. Dans ce cas, placez 3 marqueurs de dégâts sur le Pokémon auquel vous avez attaché l’Énergie.

Ligotage

Cost: Incolore · Incolore · Incolore

Damage: 60

Lancez une pièce. Si c’est face, le Pokémon Actif de votre adversaire est maintenant Paralysé.

Documented variants

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Normal
normal · Standard

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