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Pokémon Power ⇢ Step In
Once during your turn (before your attack), if Dragonite is on your Bench, you may switch it with your Active Pokémon.
{C}{C}{C}{C} → Slam : 40×
Flip 2 coins. This attack does 40 damage times the number of heads.
illus. Kagemaru Himeno · LV.45
Formats: Other: 1999–2001
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An extremely rarely seen marine Pokémon. Its intelligence is said to match that of humans.
Curtis
I remember once whene I played a 1-0-1 line of him in the Pokemon TCG Game Boy game, but I don’t remember why. Anti-confusion tech maybe?
HEZ
The original Rush In!
jelze
Trouble is it’s a stage 2 with no reliable way at the time to get around the 1 retreat cost. I never used to see the point of it back on the GB game. Then again I thought Lass · Base Set (BS) #75 was useless.
HEZ
Yeah, it’s not very good but it does give Dragonite decks a Rush In option, combined with Float Stone · Plasma Freeze (PLF) #99 / Fluffy Berry · Unseen Forces (UF) #85 it’s ok.
I got destroyed by a Lass this Saturday… he KO’d my Claydol and Lass’d me in the same turn U___U
MarxForever
Well, 1 retreat really isn’t that bad, and you could always run a second Dragonite or Dodrio. Japan also had the option of Recycle Energy, which I think was in the Bulbasuar half deck that came out shortly after fossil. And it wasn’t exactly a slouch strength wise, sure it’s flippy but this thing hit just about as hard as a colorless could hit. Some poor tosses aside, it could get KOs.
Ambassador
The Japanese print of this card says it evolves from ハクリュウ. There is no such Pokémon, but it’s the same typographical error of Dragonair’s name as was made on their First Expansion Set (i.e. Base Set) Dragonair – ハクリュウ [𝐇𝐚𝐤𝐮𝐫𝐲𝐮𝐮] instead of ハクリュー [𝐇𝐚𝐤𝐮𝐫𝐲𝐮𝐮], the latter matching its spelling in the video games. (Yes, they are pronounced identically. You can see how the mistake¹ was made..)
The next Dragonite card printed was the one we got as WBSP5 Dragonite, and on that card they put Dragonair’s name down as the correct ハクリュー, but there was no card printed with the name ハクリュー yet, meaning that Dragonite was technically an orphaned card until Expedition Dragonair (though I’m sure they issued an errata). In the Game Boy video games, Dragonair stuck with the incorrect ハクリュウ and this Dragonite evolved from ハクリュウ in GB1, but for GB2 both were amended to ハクリュー.