Tentacruel (Southern Islands 10)

Tentacruel LV.30 ドククラゲ Dokukurage

Illus. Naoyo Kimura

Evolution stage Stage 1 Pokémon Evolves from Tentacool Card name Tentacruel Type Water HP 60 weakness ×2 resistance None retreat cost English expansion Southern Islands English card no. 10/18 Japanese expansion Southern Islands For more information on this Pokémon's species, see Tentacruel.

Tentacruel (Japanese: ドククラゲ Dokukurage) is a Water-type Stage 1 Pokémon card. It is part of the Southern Islands collection.

Card text

English release

Tentacle Grip

しょくしゅをつかう

Flip a number of coins equal to the number of Energy cards attached to Tentacruel. For each heads, draw 2 cards.

Poison Sting

どくばり

20

Flip a coin. If heads, the Defending Pokémon is now Paralyzed.

Japanese release

Tentacle Grip

しょくしゅをつかう

Flip a number of coins equal to the number of Energy cards attached to Tentacruel. For each heads, draw 2 cards.

Poison Sting

どくばり

20

Flip a coin. If heads, the Defending Pokémon is now Poisoned.

Pokédex data

Tentacruel - Jellyfish Pokémon

No.

073

Height

5'3" (1.6 m)

Weight

121 lbs. (55 kg)

Pokédex entry

This Pokémon attacks its prey with its eighty toxin-producing tentacles.

８０本の触手を自由にのびちぢみさせ、獲物に巻きつき、毒をあたえて弱らせる。

Release information

When released in the Japanese version of the Southern Islands collection, Poison Sting inflicted the Poisoned status. This was changed to inflicting the Paralyzed status in the English release.

Trivia

This was an orphaned card for a time when it came to the Modified format due to the only Tentacool card at the time being in the first rotation. It would not be fully playable in the format until Tentacool was reprinted in Legendary Collection.

Origin

Poison Sting is a move in the Pokémon games that Tentacruel can learn. This card's Pokédex entry comes from Pokémon Yellow, though it is heavily reworded.

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