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Sabrina's Gengar

Gym Challenge / #29/132

Sabrina's Gengar

Printed language: English · Pokémon

Set (printed edition)
Gym Challenge
Rarity (source)
Rare
Illustrator
Ken Sugimori
Source reference
gym2-29

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About the species

On nights with a full moon, Gengar may borrow a passer-by's shadow and laugh at their fright. Other entries describe it as less playful: it slips into a victim's shadow to steal their life force, or emerges to attack travellers lost in the mountains. The same talent for disappearing therefore takes on different tones depending on the account: an unsettling prank or a genuine threat.

This account describes the species in the video games. It does not describe its Trainer’s history or that of this copy, and does not identify the depicted form or sex.

A detail worth noticing

The Ultra Sun Pokédex presents Gengar as a threat invoked to frighten misbehaving children. This reputation extends beyond its nocturnal encounters, making it a figure in scary stories too. The text reports a belief within the Pokémon world without turning it into an observed event.

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Card details

HP
90
Type (source)
Psychic
Stage (source)
Stage2
Evolves from (printed name)
Haunter
Pokédex number
94
Retreat cost
2 Energy
Resistance (source)
Fighting -30

Printed card text — English

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Attacks

Dark Wave

Cost: Psychic · Psychic

Damage: 20

All Pokémon Powers stop working until the end of your opponent's next turn.

Shadow Bind

Cost: Psychic · Psychic · Psychic

Damage: 40

The Defending Pokémon can't retreat during your opponent's next turn.

Documented variants

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  • Normal
  • First Edition
  • normal · standard
  • normal · standard · 1st-edition

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