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{F} → Mountain Smasher : 20×
Flip a number of coins equal to the number of {F} Energy cards attached to Dark Tyranitar. This attack does 20 damage times the number of heads. Then, for each heads, discard the top card from your opponent’s deck.
{F}{F}{F}{C} → Fling Away : 50
If your opponent has any Benched Pokémon, this attack does 30 damage instead of 50 and choose 1 of those Benched Pokémon. This attack does 30 damage to that Pokémon. (Don’t apply Weakness and Resistance for Benched Pokémon.)
illus. Shin-ichi Yoshida · LV.47
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Its power is such that not even mountains can stand in its way.
feyblade
That’s right, Giovanni’s Pinsir! You should toss your enemies at your FOES and not your FRIENDS. Good boy! Here’s a Protein!
Krisi92
Isn’t it ironic that the first Tyranitar card ever printed that wasn’t a Dark-type is a Dark Tyranitar?
Blob Takeshi
Because there are no Dark Types in this set.
Krisi92
Well, the Shining Tyranitar in this same exact set was a Dark type.
Blob Takeshi
I meant no Pokémon with Dark Typing are Dark Pokémon in this set.
Mantidactyle
What ? It resists to electricity ???
Ambassador
This is a good catch! Tyranitar should not resist {L}, as it has lost the Ground type of its prior stages. My guess is they didn’t want to make a card that *lost* a resistance as a consequence of evolving (or maybe they just missed it). The solution is going to come very soon anyways, as e-Card does an overhaul of the W/R s ystem for almost every single type and Pokémon. For Tyranitar’s line, the solution seems to have been;
· If Larvitar and Pupitar are going to evolve into a Tyranitar with no Resistance, they can’t have a Resistance either. (e.g. their POP1 line, their Delta Species line, their Pokémon GO line)
· If Larvitar and Pupitar are going to evolve into a {D} Tyranitar with {P} Resistance, there’s no problem giving them {L} Resistance. (e.g. their Stormfront line, their Unleashed line)
· However, even though there’s no problem giving them an {L} Resistance, there’s no guarantee they’ll get an {L} Resistance just because they’re evolving into a Tyranitar with a {P} Resistance. (e.g. their Unseen Forces line, their Fates Collide line)
(10 points to anyone who can come up with a Pokémon with a Resistance that evolves into a Pokémon without one)
Twylis
Galarian Slowpoke loses its Fighting resistance upon evolution to Galarian Slowbro and Slowking in Battle Styles and Chilling Reign c:
Which is odd, since they still resist Fighting canonically.
Ambassador
Between Team Rocket and Neo Destiny, this is the Dark Pokémon with the highest HP, which suits, as it’s also the Dark Pokémon with the highest level (Lv.47). On the opposite end of the spectrum – levelwise, Dark Ivysaur takes it for level (Lv.16), and Dark Omanyte takes it for HP (40 HP).
Dark Pokémon lean into the whole idea of “premature evolution” that Pokémon GS capitalized on with the Radio Tower evolution scheme even in the Team Rocket set – i.e., before we saw it in the games – and that is the apparent explanation for their depressed HP. For example, Lv. 47 Tyranitar’s 90 HP fits in reasonably between Shining Tyranitar’s 80 HP for Lv.41, and N2 Tyranitar’s 100 HP for Lv.54. They do all have more powerful attacks than we’d expect for their level, which I think can only be explained by the gimmick of being trained by Team Rocket for that purpose (this doesn’t *seem* to extend to Owner’s Pokémon in general, but I’ve found some incidental examples that are suggestive of it – Lt. Surge’s Raticate [Lv.32] seems about as strong as Raticate [Lv.41], despite the 9 level difference).