Raikou (Vivid Voltage 50)

Raikou ; ライコウ Raikou
Evolution stage	Basic Pokémon
Card name	Raikou
Type	Lightning
HP	110
English expansion	Vivid Voltage
Rarity
English card no.	050/185
Japanese expansion	Legendary Heartbeat
Japanese rarity
Japanese card no.	015/076
	For more information on this Pokémon's species, see Raikou.

Raikou (Japanese: ライコウ Raikou) is a Lightning-type Basic Pokémon card. It is part of the Vivid Voltage expansion.

Card text

Amazing Shot

アメイジングシュート

120

This attack also does 120 damage to 1 of your opponent's Benched Pokémon. (Don't apply Weakness and Resistance for Benched Pokémon.)

243

6'3" (1.9 m)

392.4 lbs. (178.0 kg)

This rough Pokémon stores energy inside its body, then sweeps across the land, shooting off electricity.

体内で渦巻く力を電撃として出しながら大地を駆け巡る荒々しいポケモン。

This card was banned from the Gym Leader Challenge format starting September 1, 2024, in the wake of three cards introduced in the Scarlet & Violet Series — Joltik, Crispin, and Magneton — which can very easily power up Raikou's Amazing Shot attack in a single turn. The Amazing Shot attack allows the player to target the opponent's Active Pokémon and one of their Benched Pokémon at once, and not all types in the Gym Leader Challenge format have adequate Bench protection against it.^[1]

This card's Pokédex entry comes from Pokémon Y.

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