Tail Rap
Cost: Lightning · Colorless
Damage: 10+
Flip 2 coins. This attack does 20 more damage for each heads.
Phantom Forces / #28/119
Helioptile
Printed language: English · Pokémon
- Set (printed edition)
- Phantom Forces
- Rarity (source)
- Common
- Illustrator
- HiRON
- Source reference
- xy4-28
CARDEX BACKGROUND
The Pokémon’s story
Helioptile lives in desert regions and draws an essential part of its energy from the sun. The skin folds on either side of its head contain cells that generate electricity in the light. It spreads them to power its electrical abilities, to the point that some entries say it does not need to eat. Yet this production requires quiet: if interrupted, the Pokémon becomes stressed and weakens. Its sunny habitat is therefore as much a shelter as an energy source.
Background on the species in the video games; its forms and card versions may have appeared later.A detail worth noticing
Pokémon Shield explains that disturbing Helioptile while it produces electricity stresses it and makes it weaker. Pokémon Y locates the generating cells in the skin folds of its head. Its living “solar panel” therefore also entails a moment of vulnerability.
Sources for this background
Card details
- HP
- 60
- Type (source)
- Lightning
- Stage (source)
- Basic
- Pokédex number
- 694
- Retreat cost
- 1 Energy
- Weakness (source)
- Fighting ×2
- Resistance (source)
- Metal -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
They make their home in deserts. They can generate their energy from basking in the sun, so eating food is not a requirement.Attacks
Documented variants
Versions reported by the source; identification for sales still needs verification.
- Normal
- normal · standard
Price history
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