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Emolga

Emerging Powers / #32/98

Emolga

Printed language: English · Pokémon

Set (printed edition)
Emerging Powers
Rarity (source)
Common
Illustrator
Kouki Saitou
Source reference
bw2-32

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The Pokémon’s story

Emolga glides between trees while releasing sparks that keep bird Pokémon away. It also uses electricity to grill fruit and Bug-type Pokémon before eating them. On stormy nights, many Emolga may gather in the sky. Its taste for sweet Berries sometimes works against it: if it stores too many in its cheek pouches, it glides less well. Its agility therefore depends on a balance between food reserves and lightness.

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

A detail worth noticing

Pokémon Shield relates that Emolga may fill its cheek pouches with too many Berries to glide properly. Pokémon Ultra Sun describes hundreds of individuals gathering during storms. The same sky therefore hosts its most spectacular flight and a very everyday risk of overloading.

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Card details

HP
70
Type (source)
Lightning
Stage (source)
Basic
Pokédex number
587
Retreat cost
0 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

The energy made in its cheeks' electric pouches is stored inside its membranes and released while it is gliding.

Attacks

Thundershock

Cost: Lightning

Damage: 10

Flip a coin. If heads, the Defending Pokémon is now Paralyzed.

Acrobatics

Cost: Colorless · Colorless

Damage: 10

Flip 2 coins. This attack does 20 more damage for each heads.

Documented variants

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

  • Normal
  • normal · standard

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