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Carnivine

Battle Styles / #9/163

Carnivine

Printed language: English · Pokémon

Set (printed edition)
Battle Styles
Rarity (source)
Uncommon
Illustrator
AKIRA EGAWA
Source reference
swsh5-9

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The Pokémon’s story

Carnivine clings to trees in marshes and waits for prey to pass below. Its saliva gives off an appealing scent that brings the prey close enough to grab and bite. The meal can last a long time: the Pokédex estimates that swallowing its catch completely takes a day. Its apparent stillness thus hides a hunt based on patience, fragrance and a trap suspended above damp ground.

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

A detail worth noticing

Pokémon Black places Carnivine hanging from trees in marshes. Pokémon X explains that its scented saliva attracts prey and that swallowing can take a whole day. The wait before capture therefore continues into a very slow meal.

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Card details

HP
110
Type (source)
Grass
Stage (source)
Basic
Pokédex number
455
Regulation mark
E
Retreat cost
2 Energy
Weakness (source)
Fire ×2

Printed card text — English

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Description from the source

It binds itself to trees in marshes. It attracts prey with its sweet-smelling drool and gulps them down.

Attacks

Big Bite

Cost: Colorless · Colorless

Damage: 30

During your opponent's next turn, the Defending Pokémon can't retreat.

Triple Whip

Cost: Grass · Colorless · Colorless

Damage: 60×

Flip 3 coins. This attack does 60 damage for each heads.

Documented variants

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

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