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 expansion GX Starter Decks Japanese Deck Lightning Raichu-GX Deck Japanese card no. 035/131 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.	Height	Weight
243	6'03" (1.9 m)	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 as a Holofoil, first released in the Japanese Shining Legneds subset. In Japan, a Non Holofoil reprint was included in the Lightning Raichu-GX Deck of the GX Starter Decks.

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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