Meowth (2-1-070)

Meowth ニャース Nyarth

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Name Meowth Type Normal Energy 62 Collection no. 2-1-070 (Japanese) Grade Grade 4

Meowth (Japanese: ニャース Nyarth) is a Grade 4 Pokémon Mezastar tag. It is part of the first Super Tag set.

Tag data

Move Fury Swipes Branch Poke

Z-Move Bloom Doom

Max Move Max Overgrowth

G-Max Move G-Max Drum Solo

Tera move Tera Blast

Stats HP 83 Attack 41 Defense 33 Sp. Attack 37 Sp. Defense 37 Speed 78

Pokédex entry It loves things that sparkle. It picks up coins in the city at night and secretly hoards. キラキラ ひかるものが だいすき。 よるの まちで コインを ひろっては どこかに かくしている。

Tag partner This Pokémon can attack together with Pikachu if successful during Tag Attack Chance! Thunderbolt

Release information

This tag was available as a prize for challenging Team Rocket in Trainer and Battle from the first Super Tag set. Players could select to dispense this tag following the battle regardless of the outcome. A promotional transparent purple version of this tag was one in a set of four tags available as part of a gift campaign held in conjunction with the Japanese broadcast of Pocket Monsters: Right Before Summer Vacation 1-Hour Special! on July 2, 2021.^[1] People wishing to enter the competition were required to note the five characters that appeared during the broadcast and call the telephone line displayed at the end of the episode based on the answer (the correct answer was "ポッチャマ", Piplup). Entrants calling the correct number were entered into a lottery to win one of thirty tag sets mounted in an acrylic frame. The entry period was open until the broadcast of an animated series episode on July 9, 2021. Winners were scheduled to receive their prizes by the end of August 2021.^[2]

Anime lottery prize version Pokémon Mezastar tag 2-1-070	Pokémon Tretta U1-26	Pokémon Ga-Olé disk 01-001
Pokémon Mezastar tag 2-1-026	Pokémon Frienda Pick 1-1-035

Trivia

Origin

This Meowth is based on Team Rocket's Meowth as he appears in Pokémon Journeys: The Series. An image of Jessie and James appears in-game when Meowth attacks for the first time. Fury Swipes is a move that Meowth can learn in the games and one Team Rocket's has used.

References

This article is part of Project Arcade, a Bulbapedia project that covers all aspects of Pokémon arcade games.