Zapdos G (Arceus 12)

Zapdos Galactic LV.60
サンダーG[ギンガ] Thunder G [Galactic]
Lightning
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Team Galactic's Pokémon
Illus. Ryota Saito
Evolution stage Basic Pokémon
Card name Zapdos Galactic
Type Lightning
HP 90
weakness
Lightning×2
resistance
Fighting-20
retreat cost
  
English expansion Arceus
Rarity Rare Holo
English card no. 12/99
Japanese expansion Advent of Arceus
Japanese rarity Rare Holo
Japanese card no. 033/090
For more information on this Pokémon's species, see Zapdos.

Zapdos Pokémon G (Japanese: サンダーG[ギンガ] Thunder G [Galactic]) is a Lightning-type Basic Pokémon Pokémon G card. It is part of the Arceus expansion.

Card text

  Charge Beam
チャージビーム
10
Flip a coin. If heads, search your discard pile for an Energy card and attach it to Zapdos  .
    Lightning Strike
らいげき
40
You may discard all   Energy attached to Zapdos  . If you do, this attack's base damage is 80 instead of 40.


Trivia

Origin

Charge Beam is a move in the Pokémon games that Zapdos can learn via TM57. Lightning Strike's Japanese name is that of Bolt Strike, a move later introduced in the Generation V Pokémon games that Zapdos cannot learn.


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