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Ability ⇢ Toppling Wind
When you play this Pokémon from your hand to evolve 1 of your Pokémon during your turn, you may discard the top 3 cards of your opponent’s deck.
{F}{F}{C}{C} → Rock Wrecker : 170
This attack’s damage isn’t affected by Weakness or Resistance. This Pokémon can’t attack during your next turn.
illus. Mitsuhiro Arita
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From holes in its palms, it fires out Geodude. Its carapace can withstand volcanic eruptions.
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Same fun factoid I posted on Porygon BUS: Fun factoid: in the Indonesian & Thai version of this set (First Impact, set B), the Pokemon are ordered in the set not by evolution chain, but strictly by Nat’l Pokedex number. So, the Rhyhorn chain isn’t sequential but is split up across Gens 1 and 4!
https://asia.pokemon-card.com/id/card-search/list/?pageNo=4&expansionCodes=AS1bhttps://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/First_Impact_(ATCG)#Set_lists
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c.f. DRX Aggron for the first instance of the Toppling Wind ability and some thoughts on whether it’s a great translation of the ability or not.
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Arita’s new illustration of Rhyperior is forthcoming in SV7 “Stellar Crown”