Hard Press
Cost: Darkness · Colorless · Colorless
Damage: 80
Flip a coin. If heads, your opponent's Active Pokémon is now Paralyzed.
Sword & Shield / #122/202
Drapion
Printed language: English · Pokémon
- Set (printed edition)
- Sword & Shield
- Rarity (source)
- Rare
- Illustrator
- Masakazu Fukuda
- Source reference
- swsh1-122
CARDEX BACKGROUND
The Pokémon’s story
Drapion asserts its presence in desert expanses through the power of its pincers and armoured body. Its extremities carry a potent poison, but Pokédex entries emphasise that it can defeat an opponent without even using it. Its ferocity has earned it a fearsome nickname. Yet it has a limit: faced with Hippowdon, Drapion avoids confrontation. The portrait is of a feared predator also capable of recognising a greater danger.
Background on the species in the video games; its forms and card versions may have appeared later.A detail worth noticing
Pokémon Shield nicknames Drapion the “Sand Demon”, but describes it as docile before Hippowdon. Pokémon Sword explains that it rarely uses its poison despite its violence. The species’ reputation therefore rests as much on physical strength as on a weapon it often keeps in reserve.
Sources for this background
Card details
- HP
- 140
- Type (source)
- Darkness
- Stage (source)
- Stage1
- Evolves from (printed name)
- Skorupi
- Pokédex number
- 452
- Regulation mark
- D
- Retreat cost
- 3 Energy
- Weakness (source)
- Fighting ×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
It's so vicious that it's called the Sand Demon. Yet when confronted by Hippowdon, Drapion keeps a low profile and will never pick a fight.Attacks
Toxic Strike
Cost: Darkness · Darkness · Colorless · Colorless
Damage: 130
Your opponent's Active Pokémon is now Poisoned.Documented variants
Versions reported by the source; identification for sales still needs verification.
- Normal
- Reverse
- normal · standard
- reverse · standard
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