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Basculin

Fusion Strike / #70/264

Basculin

Printed language: English · Pokémon

Set (printed edition)
Fusion Strike
Rarity (source)
Common
Illustrator
Souichirou Gunjima
Source reference
swsh8-70

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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
Regulation mark
E
Retreat cost
1 Energy
Weakness (source)
Lightning ×2

Printed card text — English

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Description from the source

Known for their violence, these Pokémon have the most fights with schools of red-striped Basculin.

Attacks

Swarm the Wound

Cost: Water · Colorless

Damage: 30+

This attack does 10 more damage for each damage counter on your opponent's Active Pokémon.

Documented variants

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

  • Normal
  • Reverse
  • normal · standard
  • reverse · standard

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