Raikou (Shining Legends 32)

Raikou   ライコウ Raikou

Illus. Mitsuhiro Arita

Evolution stage Basic Pokémon Card name Raikou Type Lightning HP 120 weakness ×2 resistance -20 retreat cost English expansion Shining Legends Rarity English card no. 32/73 Japanese expansion Shining Legends Japanese rarity Japanese card no. 033/072 Japanese Deck Lightning Raichu-GX Deck Japanese card no. 035/131 Japanese expansion GX Ultra Shiny Japanese card no. 034/150 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 was first released as part of the Shining Legends expansion.

Card text

Booming Thunder

とどろくらいめい

30

Attach a Energy card from your discard pile to 1 of your Benched Pokémon.

Electric Ball

ライトニングボール

90

Pokédex data

Raikou - Thunder Pokémon

No.

243

Height

6'03" (1.9 m)

Weight

392.4 lbs. (178.0 kg)

Pokédex entry

The rain clouds it carries let it fire thunderbolts at will. They say that it descended with lightning.

雨雲を 背負っているので どんなときでも 雷を 出せる。雷とともに 落ちてきたという。

Release information

This card was included in the Shining Legends expansion, first released in the Japanese subset of the same name. It was reprinted as a Non Holofoil in the Japanese Lightning Raichu-GX Deck. It was reprinted in the Japanese GX Ultra Shiny subset. It was later reprinted as Cracked Ice Holofoil inside the Let's Play, Pikachu! theme deck.

Trivia

Origin

Electric Ball is an attack that first appeared on Eelektrik from Noble Victories. This card's Pokédex entry comes from Pokémon X.

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