Blocking Punch
Cost: Metal · Colorless
Damage: 40
During your opponent’s next turn, any damage done to Lucario by attacks is reduced by 20 (after applying Weakness and Resistance).
POP Series 8 / #2/17
Lucario
Printed language: English · Pokémon
- Set (printed edition)
- POP Series 8
- Rarity (source)
- Rare
- Illustrator
- Kent Kanetsuna
- Source reference
- pop8-2
CARDEX BACKGROUND
The Pokémon’s story
Lucario reads the auras surrounding living beings. These allow it to sense the movements and emotions of others, even from a great distance. Some entries describe it hunting with other Lucario using this shared perception. Its battle therefore begins well before the first blow: by reading auras, it perceives what its opponent feels and can anticipate its movements. This sensitivity can, however, expose it to emotions it would rather ignore.
Background on the species in the video games; its forms and card versions may have appeared later.A detail worth noticing
Pokémon Shield gives Lucario the ability to read human thoughts. The Pokédex adds that it only becomes attached to Trainers with pure hearts. This detail shifts attention from its strength to its choice of companions: its closeness to a human also depends on what it perceives within them.
Sources for this background
Card details
- HP
- 90
- Type (source)
- Fighting
- Stage (source)
- Stage1
- Evolves from (printed name)
- Riolu
- Pokédex number
- 448
- Retreat cost
- 1 Energy
- Weakness (source)
- Psychic +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
By catching the aura emanating from others, it can read their thoughts and movements.Attacks
Striking Kick
Cost: Fighting · Colorless · Colorless
Damage: 60
This attack’s damage isn’t affected by Resistance, Poké-Powers, Poké-Bodies, or any other effects on the Defending Pokémon.Documented variants
Versions reported by the source; identification for sales still needs verification.
- Normal
- Holographic
- normal · standard
- holo · cosmos · standard
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