Golurk

Printed language: English · Pokémon

Set (printed edition): Shining Legends
Rarity (source): Uncommon
Illustrator: Kagemaru Himeno
Source reference: sm3.5-44

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The Pokémon’s story

Golurk is said to have been built in a distant age to serve humans and Pokémon. Ancient castles even had openings through which it could fire energy beams. It moves with surprising speed for such a massive body, but the seal on its chest remains essential to keeping it under control. Stories warn that breaking this seal would make it uncontrollable. The precise origin of the force animating it also remains uncertain.

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

A detail worth noticing

Pokémon Shield mentions a possible internal perpetual-motion mechanism in Golurk, while explaining that nobody has proved it. This qualification matters: here the Pokédex distinguishes a hypothesis about its energy from an established fact about how it functions.

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Card details

HP: 140
Type (source): Psychic
Stage (source): Stage1
Evolves from (printed name): Golett
Pokédex number: 623
Retreat cost: 4 Energy
Weakness (source): Darkness ×2
Resistance (source): Fighting -20

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

It is said that Golurk were ordered to protect people and Pokémon by the ancient people who made them.

Attacks

Triple Smash

Cost: Psychic · Colorless · Colorless

Damage: 10+

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

Golurk Hammer

Cost: Psychic · Colorless · Colorless · Colorless

Damage: 120

Documented variants

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

Normal
normal · standard

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