Litten · Silver Tempest (SIT) #030

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   · Gnaw debuted as an attack on Base Set Pikachu. It has appeared dozens of times since then – ポケモンWiki’s article on the attack has a not-quite-up-to-date but nonetheless very long list https://archive.ph/X3JZu
   · Reprisal is actually the “Retaliate” attack [しかえし 𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐤𝐚𝐞𝐬𝐡𝐢] that debuted on Blaine’s Doduo. However, that attack had a different name from the Retaliate attack [かたきうち 𝐤𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐮𝐜𝐡𝐢] that later appeared in the video games. The 𝐤𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐮𝐜𝐡𝐢 Retaliate first appeared on EX Team Rocket Returns Heracross as “Get Even”, and then kind of vanished until the BW era, where the attack returned, with a completely different effect, on NVI Terrakion¹. The 𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐤𝐚𝐞𝐬𝐡𝐢 Retaliate took a longer leave of absence, as after its appearance on EX Power Keepers Bagon, it did not show up again until TEU Charmander (#11).

   ¹ This is something of a recurring thing in comments I and others have made on this site. BW was weird for the TCG in that it ‘reboots’ the effects of a lot of recurring attacks, and the EN edition of the game uses it as an opportunity to go ahead and ‘resynchronize’ some of the attack name translations they’d been using to match their translations in the video games. (In terms of tracing the recurrences of attacks across the various eras of the TCG, BW is a tripping point for a great number of them.)

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