Lt. Surge's Electabuzz (Gym Heroes 27)

Lt. Surge's Electabuzz LV.22 マチスのエレブー Matis's Eleboo Team Plasma

Promotional print Illus. Atsuko Nishida

Evolution stage Basic Pokémon Card name Lt. Surge's Electabuzz Type Lightning Hit Points 60 weakness ×2 resistance None retreat cost Japanese expansion Unnumbered Promotional cards Expansion Gym Heroes Rarity English card no. 27/132 Japanese Theme Deck Kuchiba City Gym For more information on this Pokémon's species, see Electabuzz.

Lt. Surge's Electabuzz (Japanese: マチスのエレブー Matis's Eleboo) is a Lightning-type Basic Pokémon card. It is part of the Gym Heroes expansion.

Card text

Charge たいでん

Take up to 2 Energy cards from your discard pile and attach them to Lt. Surge's Electabuzz.

Electric Current デンキとばし 20

Take 1 Energy card attached to Lt. Surge's Electabuzz and attach it to 1 of your Benched Pokémon. If you have no Benched Pokémon, discard that Energy card.

Pokédex data

Electabuzz - Electric Pokémon
No.	Height	Weight
125	3'7" (1.1 m)	66 lbs. (30 kg)

Release information

This card was released in the Gym Heroes expansion with artwork by Ken Sugimori. In Japan, it was released two months before the Kuchiba City Gym release as a promotional card with alternate artwork by Atsuko Nishida distributed alongside Erika's Dratini in the August 1998 issue of CoroCoro comic.

Gallery

Gym Heroes print Illus. Ken Sugimori	Promotional print Illus. Atsuko Nishida	Diamond & Pearl print Illus. Ken Sugimori
Diamond & Pearl print Illus. Ken Sugimori	Diamond & Pearl print Illus. Ken Sugimori	Diamond & Pearl print Illus. Ken Sugimori
Diamond & Pearl print Illus. Ken Sugimori	Diamond & Pearl print Illus. Ken Sugimori	Diamond & Pearl print Illus. Ken Sugimori
Diamond & Pearl print Illus. Ken Sugimori	Diamond & Pearl print Illus. Ken Sugimori	Diamond & Pearl print Illus. Ken Sugimori
Diamond & Pearl print Illus. Ken Sugimori	Diamond & Pearl print Illus. Ken Sugimori	Diamond & Pearl print Illus. Ken Sugimori

Trivia

Origin

• Gym Leader Lt. Surge owns an Electabuzz in the Pokémon Adventures manga.
• Charge is a move later introduced in the Generation III Pokémon games that Electabuzz cannot learn; however, the Japanese names are not the same, making this attack and the move unrelated.

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