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Porygon

Team Rocket / #48/82

Porygon

Printed language: English · Pokémon

Set (printed edition)
Team Rocket
Rarity (source)
Uncommon
Illustrator
Keiji Kinebuchi
Source reference
base5-48

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The Pokémon’s story

Porygon was created from computer programs. It can convert its body into data to enter cyberspace, where it is sometimes used to detect suspicious information. Its designers also dreamed of seeing it travel into space, but the Pokédex explains that this aim has never been achieved. Its story therefore follows two directions: success in digital worlds and a physical travel project that remains beyond its reach.

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

A detail worth noticing

Pokémon Omega Ruby states that Porygon can return to program form and resists illegal copying. Pokémon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! adds that no Porygon has yet completed the space journey its creators hoped for.

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Card details

HP
40
Type (source)
Colorless
Stage (source)
Basic
Pokédex number
137
Weakness (source)
Fighting ×2
Resistance (source)
Psychic -30

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

More and more people play the slots every day, trying to win a Porygon.

Attacks

Conversion 1

Cost: Colorless

If Defending Pokémon has a Weakness, you may change it to a type of your choice other than Colorless.

Psybeam

Cost: Colorless · Colorless · Colorless

Damage: 20

Flip a coin. If heads, the Defending Pokémon is now Confused.

Documented variants

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

  • Normal
  • First Edition
  • normal · standard
  • normal · standard · 1st-edition

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