Rocket's Tyranitar (VS 142)

This article is about a Japanese Pokémon Trading Card Game card which has not been officially released in English and is unlikely to be released as such. As such, this article may contain translated Japanese terms instead of English terms.

Rocket's Tyranitar R団のバンギラス
Illus. Hiromichi Sugiyama
Classification	Pokémon card
Name	Rocket's Tyranitar
Evolution Stage	Basic Pokémon
Type
HP	80
Weakness
Resistance	-30
Retreat Cost
	For information on this Pokémon's species, see Tyranitar.
Set	Pokémon VS
Rarity	H
Card No.	142/141

Rocket's Tyranitar (Japanese: R団のバンギラス Rocket's Bangiras) is a Darkness-type basic Pokémon card. It is part of the Pokémon VS set. It was released in Japan only. This page uses the English equivalents of Japanese names.

Card text

Attacks

	Hyper Beam
Flip a coin. If heads, discard 1 Energy card attached to the Defending Pokémon, if any.

	Slam たたきつける	30×
Flip 2 coins. This attack does 30 damage times the number of heads.

Trivia

• The trainer's face displayed in the leader's box on this card is that of Vicious. This is the only Team Rocket card in the VS set that does this; other Team Rocket cards in the set picture a male Team Rocket Grunt in the leader's box.
• Ironically, this is the only card where Vicious's face is displayed in the leader's box on a Japanese card that wasn't released in English. The other two released cards with Vicious's face in the leader's box, Rocket's Scizor and Rocket's Sneasel from the "P" Promotional cards series, appeared in English as part of the Best of Game promotional series, though not with the leader's box on it.

Origin

• Hyper Beam is a move that Tyranitar can learn in the Pokémon games. Slam is also a move in the Pokémon games, but Tyranitar can not learn it.
• Vicious captured a Tyranitar in a Dark Ball during Pokémon 4Ever.

This Pokémon Trading Card article is part of Project TCGDex, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on all cards in the Pokémon Trading Card Game.