Zapdos G (Arceus 12)

Zapdos LV.60 サンダーG[ギンガ] Thunder G [Galactic]

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Evolution stage Basic Pokémon Card name Zapdos Type Lightning HP 90 weakness ×2 resistance -20 retreat cost English expansion Arceus Rarity English card no. 12/99 Japanese expansion Advent of Arceus Japanese rarity Japanese card no. 033/090 For more information on this Pokémon's species, see Zapdos.

Zapdos (Japanese: サンダーG[ギンガ] Thunder G [Galactic]) is a Lightning-type Pokémon G card. It is part of the Arceus expansion.

Card text

Charge Beam チャージビーム 10

Flip a coin. If heads, search your discard pile for an Energy card and attach it to Zapdos .

Lightning Strike らいげき 40

You may discard all Energy attached to Zapdos . If you do, this attack's base damage is 80 instead of 40.

Trivia

Origin

Charge Beam is a move in the Pokémon games that Zapdos can learn via TM57. Lightning Strike's Japanese name is that of Bolt Strike, a move later introduced in the Generation V Pokémon games that Zapdos cannot learn.

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