Rocket's Sneasel (Best of Game 5)

Rocket's Sneasel   R団のニューラ Rocket's Nyula

Illus. Katsura Tabata

Evolution stage Basic Pokémon Card name Rocket's Sneasel Type Darkness HP 60 weakness ×2 resistance -30 retreat cost English expansion Best of Game English card no. 5 Japanese expansion P Promotional cards Japanese card no. 003/P For more information on this Pokémon's species, see Sneasel.

Rocket's Sneasel (Japanese: R団のニューラ Rocket's Nyula) is a Darkness-type Basic Pokémon card. It was released as a Best of Game promotional card.

Card text

Entrap おいつめる

The Defending Pokémon can't retreat during your opponent's next turn.

Continuous Scratch れんぞくひっかき 10×

Flip 4 coins. This attack does 10 damage times the number of heads.

Pokédex data

Sneasel - Sharp Claw Pokémon
No.	Height	Weight
215	2'11" (0.9 m)	62 lbs. (28.0 kg)

Release information

This card was released as a promotional card. The Japanese version of this card was released in CoroCoro magazine in August 2001. The English version of this card was released at BattleZone events in January 2003. A jumbo versions of the card was also released, with the winner logo, which lack the reverse-holographic treatment.

Trivia

This card was the first of only two VS-style cards to see release outside Japan, the other being Rocket's Scizor.

Origin

Continuous Scratch may be based on Fury Swipes, a move in the Pokémon games that Sneasel can learn.

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