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- ↓ 35.13
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- ↑ 995.22
{L} → Random Spark
This attack does 30 damage to 1 of your opponent’s Pokémon. (Don’t apply Weakness and Resistance for Benched Pokémon.)
{L}{L}{C} → Electricannon : 60+
You may discard all {L} Energy attached to this Pokémon. If you do, this attack does 60 more damage.
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SheepinSpace
Do you think you’ll update the promos? With Cobalion, we’re at BW72 already (and there may be more I might not be aware of). Thanks
Adam Capriola
Thanks for the prod, I just added them. I don’t always keep up with the promos so a reminder is helpful!
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Per my comment on HL Lanturn, there used to be an attack in the Japanese TCG called らいげき present in Gen 1–4, which the English TCG translated as Lightning Strike. The attack always offered to do more damage in exchange for discarding all {L} Energy attached to the Pokémon.
Starting in Generation 5, the attack らいげき remained in the TCG, but its effect had changed completely, as らいげき had become a move in the games which we know as “Bolt Strike”. As in the games, the card effect was changed to cause recoil, and so らいげき and Bolt Strike became one in the same in the games, JP TCG, and the EN TCG now also began to translate らいげき as Bolt Strike.
But what happened to the effect of the old version of らいげき? It was retained but rechristened エレキほう [Electric Gun], which the English TCG has chosen to translate as Electricannon. This Ampharos is the first (of currently only 4) cards with the attack by this game. BRS Pikachu V’s Lightning Blast and Pikachu VMAX with G-MAX Volt Tackle offer the same effect, but both are different names from Electricannon in both languages. G-MAX Volt Tackle’s obviously a special case, but ライトニングボム [Lightning Bomb] (translated as Lightning Blast) could on to be the third regular iteration of what we knew as ‘Lightning Strike’.