Blastoise ex (EX FireRed & LeafGreen 104)

Blastoise ex カメックス ex Kamex ex

File:Blastoiseexfirered&leafgreen104.jpg Illus. Hikaru Koike

Evolution stage Stage 2 Pokémon Evolves from Wartortle Card name Blastoise ex Type Water HP 150 weakness ×2 resistance None retreat cost Expansion EX FireRed & LeafGreen Rarity English card no. 104/112 Japanese Half Deck Venusaur/Charizard/Blastoise Half Deck Japanese card no. 020/052 For more information on this Pokémon's species, see Blastoise.

Blastoise ex (Japanese: カメックス ex Kamex ex) is a Water-type Stage 2 Pokémon card. It is part of the EX FireRed & LeafGreen set.

Card text

When Pokémon-ex has been Knocked Out, your opponent takes 2 Prize cards.

Trivia

• The effect of Hyper Whirlpool was later errata'd so that the player using the attack was the one who chose the Energy card to be discarded, not the player's opponent.
• Energy Rain is essentially a more balanced, watered-down version of the Rain Dance Pokémon Power possessed by Base Set Blastoise, a power so strong that it spawned one of the most popular deck archetypes of the Base Set era. The requirement of placing damage counters upon its use effectively prevents Energy Rain from being as dominating a force as its predecessor.
• Incidentally, of the three final evolutions of Kanto starters made into Pokémon-ex in EX FireRed & LeafGreen, this is the only one without an attack roughly analogous to its Base Set counterpart, as well as the only one not to have two attacks.

Origin

Hyper Whirlpool is a variant of Whirlpool, a move in the Pokémon games, though Blastoise could only learn it via HM in Generation II.