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Lampent

Plasma Freeze / #15/116

Lampent

Printed language: English · Pokémon

Set (printed edition)
Plasma Freeze
Rarity (source)
Uncommon
Illustrator
Kagemaru Himeno
Source reference
bw9-15

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The Pokémon’s story

Lampent can pass for a streetlamp in a town, remaining motionless until it spots a dying person. It then follows them silently. Pokédex accounts say it draws in souls to sustain its flame, explaining its reputation as a bad omen. Its presence near hospitals has strengthened this fear. Behind the familiar object it imitates thus hides a Pokémon associated with final moments, long before passers-by notice it.

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

A detail worth noticing

Pokémon Shield explains that Lampent disguises itself as an urban streetlamp to follow its target discreetly. Pokémon Sword explains its reputation as a messenger of death through its appearances at the moment someone dies. Its camouflage makes this belief still more unsettling.

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Card details

HP
80
Type (source)
Fire
Stage (source)
Stage1
Evolves from (printed name)
Litwick
Pokédex number
608
Retreat cost
1 Energy
Weakness (source)
Water ×2

Printed card text — English

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Description from the source

The spirits it absorbs fuel its baleful fire. It hangs around hospitals waiting for people to pass on.

Attacks

Live Coal

Cost: Colorless · Colorless

Damage: 20

Searing Flame

Cost: Fire · Colorless · Colorless

Damage: 40

The Defending Pokémon is now Burned.

Documented variants

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

  • Normal
  • normal · standard

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