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{C}{C}{C} → Swoop Across
This attack does 30 damage to each of your opponent’s Pokémon. (Don’t apply Weakness and Resistance for Benched Pokémon.)
{C}{C}{C}{C} → Heavy Storm : 160
· V rule: When your Pokémon V is Knocked Out, your opponent takes 2 Prize cards.
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Louis Strasbourg
First non-Dragon type Salamence since the dragon type was introduced in 2012!
https://pkmncards.com/card/salamence-dragon-vault-drv-8/
Ambassador
It’s up for debate as to whether this would be the first non-Dragon type Salamence “since” anything, or simply the first non-Dragon type Salamence ever*. There’s no definite way to be sure if any of the Colorless Salamence in Gen 3 and 4 were Colorless to represent the Flying type, or Colorless to represent the Dragon type.
*It’s also up for debate as to whether SWSH sets up until Evolving Skies temporarily reclassified the Dragon type as Colorless again, but it seems obvious to me they were teasing the audience. Any Dragon Pokémon printed in pre-EVS SWSH sets was a dual-type in the video games, and for each of the cards in question they chose to assign the card’s type based on the Pokémon’s other type in the games. A cute way to skirt the question until finally bringing the type back in full.
Dusk Mage Necrozma
Since all the gen 3 and 4 colorless Salamences had attack costs of multiple energy types, it seems safe to assume they were colorless to represent the Dragon type.
anon-san
Yeah, for the longest colorless represented dragon types along with flying and normal.
Rich
I think that the post is saying that a Pokémon is both Dragon and Flying type but has a Colorless card, it’s harder to tell if the card means it’s Dragon or Flying. (Are Lapras’s Water cards representing the Water type or Ice type? Sometimes it’s more obviously just one or the other instead of representing both.)
Twylis
You can usually tell what type a card represents based on the weakness, particularly in more recent gens that got more standardised. In the Lapras example, any Lapras weak to Lightning or Grass represents Water, whereas any Lapras weak to Metal represents Ice.
Flying-types are a bit harder, since Flying often confers a Lightning weakness regardless of other factors, but this (and the VMAX) being the only Salamence weak to Lightning makes it fairly safe to say it’s the only Salamence intended to represent its Flying-type.