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Rocket's Scyther LV.23 R団のストライク Rocket's Strike
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For more information on this Pokémon's species, see Scyther.
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Rocket's Scyther (Japanese: R団のストライク Rocket's Strike) is a Grass-type Basic Pokémon card. It is part of the Gym Heroes expansion.
Card text
Whenever Rocket's Scyther is attacked, your opponent flips a coin. If tails, that attack does no damage to Rocket's Scyther. (Any other effects of the attack still happen.) This effect lasts until Rocket's Scyther takes damage (or is Benched or is evolved).
Pokédex data
Trivia
Scyther did not have an evolution at the time of this card's release, making the text "or is evolved" on the Shadow Images attack an error. Additionally, despite its evolution Scizor later appearing on two Rocket's Scizor cards, Rocket's Scizor as a Best of Game promo and Rocket's Scizor ex from EX Team Rocket Returns, Rocket's Scyther has no legal evolution card. This is because the Best of Game promo Rocket's Scizor is done in the VS style and is a Basic Pokémon, while Rocket's Scizor ex is permitted to evolve only from Rocket's Scyther ex in EX Team Rocket Returns.
Origin
Shadow Images's Japanese name is that of Double Team, a move in the Pokémon games that Scyther can learn.