Rocket's Sneasel (Best of Game 5)

Rocket's Sneasel  
R団のニューラ Rocket's Nyula
Darkness
RocketSneaselBestGame5.jpg
Illus. Katsura Tabata
Evolution stage Basic Pokémon
Card name Rocket's Sneasel
Type Darkness
HP 60
weakness
Fighting×2
resistance
Psychic-30
retreat cost
 
English expansion Best of Game
English card no. 5
Japanese expansion P Promotional cards
Japanese card no. 003/P
For more information on this Pokémon's species, see Sneasel.

Rocket's Sneasel (Japanese: R団のニューラ Rocket's Nyula) is a Darkness-type Basic Pokémon card. It was released as a Best of Game promotional card.

Card text

  Entrap [create category]
おいつめる
The Defending Pokémon can't retreat during your opponent's next turn.
   Continuous Scratch [create category]
れんぞくひっかき
10×
Flip 4 coins. This attack does 10 damage times the number of heads.


Pokédex data

Sneasel - Sharp Claw Pokémon
No. Height Weight
215 2'11" (0.9 m) 62 lbs. (28.0 kg)


Release information

In Japan, this card was available as an insert with the August 2001 issue of CoroCoro Comic, released on July 15, 2001. The English version of this card was released at BattleZone events in January 2003. There were two versions, one includes a gold "Winner" stamp in the bottom right corner of the artwork and the other did not. A Jumbo version of the card was also released with the winner logo.

Trivia

This card was the first of only two VS-style cards to see release outside Japan, the other being Rocket's Scizor.

Origin

The Iron-Masked Marauder has a Sneasel in Celebi: The Voice of the Forest.


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