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Arbok

Expedition Base Set / #35/165

Arbok

Printed language: English · Pokémon

Set (printed edition)
Expedition Base Set
Rarity (source)
Rare
Illustrator
Kyoko Umemoto
Source reference
ecard1-35

CARDEX BACKGROUND

The Pokémon’s story

Arbok raises the front of its body to display the threatening pattern on its hood. It inflates its chest, makes strange sounds and takes advantage of a prey's hesitation to coil around it. Its grip is powerful enough to deform metal, according to the Pokédex. The intimidating markings are not identical in every individual: several patterns have been recorded. Arbok thus combines a visual warning, an audible signal and very real constricting strength.

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

A detail worth noticing

Pokémon Ultra Sun mentions a study recording over twenty designs on Arbok's hoods. Pokémon Let's Go Pikachu refers to six frightening marking patterns. These different counts remind us that the entries do not necessarily describe the same collection of patterns.

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Card details

HP
70
Type (source)
Grass
Stage (source)
Stage1
Pokédex number
24
Retreat cost
1 Energy
Weakness (source)
Psychic x2
Resistance (source)
Grass -30

Printed card text — English

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Attacks

Poison Spray

Cost: Grass

The Defending Pokémon is now Poisoned.

Poison Reaction

Cost: Colorless · Colorless

Damage: 20+

If the Defending Pokémon is Poisoned, this attack does 20 damage plus 20 more damage.

Documented variants

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

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

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