Rocket's Tyranitar (VS 142)

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

Rocket's Tyranitar   R団のバンギラス Rocket's Bangiras

Illus. Hiromichi Sugiyama

Evolution stage Basic Pokémon Card name Rocket's Tyranitar Type Darkness Hit Points 80 weakness ×2 resistance -30 retreat cost Japanese expansion Pokémon VS Japanese rarity Japanese card no. 142/141 For more information on this Pokémon's species, see Tyranitar.

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

	Destroy Beam デストロイビーム
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

• Slam is a move in the Pokémon games; however, Tyranitar cannot learn it.
• Vicious captured a Tyranitar in a Dark Ball during Celebi: Voice of the Forest.

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