Dark Blastoise (Team Rocket 3)

Dark Blastoise LV.28 わるいカメックス Bad Kamex

Illus. Mitsuhiro Arita

Evolution stage Stage 2 Pokémon Evolves from Dark Wartortle Card name Dark Blastoise Type Water Hit Points 70 weakness ×2 resistance None retreat cost English expansion Team Rocket Rarity English card no. 3/82 Japanese expansion Rocket Gang Japanese rarity Expansion Team Rocket Rarity English card no. 20/82 Card GB 2 set We Are Team Rocket Card GB 2 ID G15 Japanese expansion Pokémon Web Japanese rarity Japanese card no. 044/048 Expansion Legendary Collection Rarity English card no. 4/110 For more information on this Pokémon's species, see Blastoise.

Dark Blastoise (Japanese: わるいカメックス Bad Kamex) is a Water-type Stage 2 Pokémon card. It is part of the Team Rocket expansion.

Card text

Hydrocannon ハイドロキャノン 30+

Does 30 damage plus 20 more damage for each Energy attached to Dark Blastoise but not used to pay for this attack. You can't add more than 40 damage in this way.

Rocket Tackle ロケットタックル 40

Dark Blastoise does 10 damage to itself. Flip a coin. If heads, prevent all damage done to Dark Blastoise during your opponent's next turn. (Any other effects of attacks still happen.)

Pokédex data

Blastoise - Shellfish Pokémon
No.	Height	Weight
009	5'3" (1.6 m)	189 lbs. (86.0 kg)
Pokédex entry
An aggressive Pokémon that tackles anything it sees.
好戦的な性格で、相手がなんであれ、タックルしてくる。

Release information

The holographic version of this card was reprinted in the Legendary Collection reprint set, which was only released outside of Japan. A non-holographic version of this card appears in that set's Turmoil theme deck. In Japan, this card was reprinted in Pokémon Web.

Trivia

Origin

"Hydrocannon" is a slight corruption of Hydro Cannon, but the attack effect is the same as Hydro Pump in the TCG. Hydro Cannon became an actual move in Generation III. Blastoise can learn both of these moves in the Pokémon games.

This article is part of Project TCG, a Bulbapedia project that aims to report on every aspect of the Pokémon Trading Card Game.