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Basculin

Emerging Powers / #24/98

Basculin

Printed language: English · Pokémon

Set (printed edition)
Emerging Powers
Rarity (source)
Common
Illustrator
match
Source reference
bw2-24

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The Pokémon’s story

Red-Striped and Blue-Striped Basculin fight fiercely over territory. Their schools can drive almost every other Pokémon from a lake; only certain crustaceans remain, according to the Pokédex. Yet the two colors sometimes mix in a single group despite their rivalry. Fishers enjoy the challenge of catching them so much that illegal releases have encouraged their spread. Their presence thus changes relationships among the inhabitants of a body of water.

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

A detail worth noticing

Pokémon White notes that one or two Basculin of one color sometimes live among a school of the other color despite their hostility. Pokémon Sword recounts that Fishers illegally release them into lakes, encouraging their proliferation.

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Card details

HP
80
Type (source)
Water
Stage (source)
Basic
Pokédex number
550
Retreat cost
1 Energy
Weakness (source)
Lightning ×2

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

Red and blue Basculin get along so poorly, they'll start fighting instantly. These Pokémon are very hostile.

Attacks

Flail

Cost: Colorless

Damage: 10

Does 10 damage times the number of damage counters on this Pokémon.

Final Gambit

Cost: Water · Colorless · Colorless

Damage: 80

Flip 2 coins. If both of them are tails, this Pokémon does 80 damage to itself.

Documented variants

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

  • Normal
  • normal · standard

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