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Lickitung

Southern Islands / #16/18

Lickitung

Printed language: English · Pokémon

Set (printed edition)
Southern Islands
Rarity (source)
Common
Illustrator
Naoyo Kimura
Source reference
si1-16

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The Pokémon’s story

Lickitung explores unfamiliar things with its tongue. Objects’ tastes and textures feed its memory, though it dislikes sour flavours. Its two-metre tongue is more agile than its feet and also helps paralyse prey, particularly Bug-type Pokémon. This contact is not harmless to humans: its saliva can cause irritation if left on the skin. A seemingly curious gesture is therefore exploration, hunting and defence at once.

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

A detail worth noticing

Pokémon Omega Ruby explains that Lickitung’s memory depends on taste and texture. Pokémon Sword warns that saliva left on skin causes severe itching. The tongue that lets it recognise its environment therefore also calls for caution when it approaches someone.

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Card details

HP
70
Type (source)
Colorless
Stage (source)
Basic
Pokédex number
108
Retreat cost
2 Energy
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

This Pokémon uses its six-foot tongue as if it were a hand. The origin of its anaesthetic properties is still a mystery.

Attacks

Lick Wounds

Cost: Colorless

Flip a coin. If heads, choose 1 Pokémon (yours or your opponent's) with damage counters on it and remove 2 damage counters from it (1 if it only has 1).

Tongue Stretch

Cost: Colorless · Colorless

Flip a coin. If heads, choose 1 of your opponent's Pokémon. This attack does 20 damage to that Pokémon. Don't apply Weakness and Resistance.

Documented variants

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

  • Normal
  • normal · standard

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