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Dark Magneton (Team Rocket RO 28)
Dark Magneton — 60 HP — [L]
Stage 1 — Evolves from Magnemite
[C][C] Sonicboom: 20
Don’t apply Weakness and Resistance for this attack. (Any other effects that would happen after applying Weakness and Resistance still happen.)
[L][L] Magnetic Lines: 30
If the Defending Pokémon has any basic Energy cards attached to it, choose 1 of them. If your opponent has any Benched Pokémon, choose 1 of them and attach that Energy card to it.
weakness: [F]×2
resistance:
retreat: 2
Illus. Miki Tanaka
Team Rocket — 28/82 — Rare
The number of incidents of hackers using Magnetons to damage computer systems is steadily increasing.
coolestman22
The flavor text suits this card well.
feyblade
It’s a real shame that original flavor text quotes like this are so very rare. I mean, the card should kind of be making a statement about the pokemon on its own. Pulling the card only to be told something you already knew from the game just seems disheartening
Blob Takeshi
Actually, games usually just recycles dex entries from Gen 1-4 games nowadays. Hell, SM couldn’t even be bothered to use C/P dex entries for Pokémon outside of the regional dex!