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- ↓ 5.50
- ꩜ 5.67
- ↑ 19.99
{R}{C} → Rally Back : 30+
If any of your Pokémon were Knocked Out by damage from an opponent’s attack during their last turn, this attack does 90 more damage.
{R}{R}{C} → Fire Mane : 100
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A Pokémon that races across the land. It is said that one is born every time a new volcano appears.
Whitmer 4 POTUS
Freaking cool card!! I love Entei and I’m happy she got a prerelease :) :) :)
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bro really said he loves entei and despite it spending an entire movie playing the role of a surrogate father calls it a “she”
Aisle
This dude is so annoying
nago
Children, I will turn this car around.
Twylis
I mean, it’s unlikely Entei cares about pronouns either way, whether that specific Entei or Entei in general.
But it does remind me of how strange and arbitrary the Legendary gender situation is — them being genderless seemed originally intended to prevent breeding, but then we got a bunch of genderlocked Legendaries anyway, along with the variable-gender Heatran. The one Legendary/Mythical who *can* breed, Manaphy, is still genderless anyway. Then there’s cases like Solgaleo and Lunala, where the dex clearly communicates a “thematic” gender, even though they’re still genderless (which may be indicative of baseless conjecture of the in-universe dex writer and not have anything to do with the Cosmog line’s biology).
And that’s all before beginning to navigate the real-world factors at play that influence how Game Freak and TPC make decisions on pokemon gender, or if “gender” is even a term that should be applied here in the first place. My take at this point is any pokemon species can be referred to with any pronoun because at the end of the day, they’re funny little creatures and the creators of them are neither biologists nor sociologists.
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Like a number of other alt art prerelease promos, this artwork is exclusive to the international edition of the game, but it’s interesting because Japan had an opportunity to use this artwork and passed – at the start of the SWSH block, SM11a Entei got reprinted in Japan’s V Starter Decks, but that card re-uses the Shin Nagasawa artwork [as on CEC Entei]. (For those wondering, despite being reprinted during the SWSH block, the reprinted card still used the SM-era card template, as did all other SM-era cards that got reprints in the SWSH era.)