Dark Slowbro (Team Rocket 12)

Dark Slowbro LV.27
わるいヤドラン Bad Yadoran

Illus. Mitsuhiro Arita

Evolution stage

Stage 1 Pokémon
Evolves from Slowpoke

Card name

Dark Slowbro

Type

Psychic

HP

60

weakness ×2	resistance None	retreat cost

English expansion	Team Rocket
Rarity
English card no.	12/82
Japanese expansion	Rocket Gang
Japanese rarity

Expansion	Team Rocket
Rarity
English card no.	29/82

TCG GB2 set	Team Rocket's Ambition
TCG GB2 ID	H24

Japanese expansion	Pokémon Web
Japanese rarity
Japanese card no.	028/048

Expansion	Legendary Collection
Rarity
English card no.	8/110

For more information on this Pokémon's species, see Slowbro.

Dark Slowbro (Japanese: わるいヤドラン Bad Yadoran) is a Psychic-type Stage 1 Pokémon card. It was first released as part of the Team Rocket expansion.

Card text

Team Rocket print

Pokémon Power:

Reel In
つりあげる

When you play Dark Slowbro from your hand, choose up to 3 Basic Pokémon and/or Evolution cards from your discard pile and put them into your hand.

	Fickle Attack きまぐれこうげき	40

Flip a coin. If tails, this attack does nothing.

Pokémon Web print

Pokémon Power:

Reel In
つりあげる

When you play this Pokémon from your hand to evolve 1 of your Pokémon, you may put 3 Pokémon from your discard pile into your hand.

	Fickle Attack きまぐれこうげき	40

Flip a coin. If tails, this attack does nothing.

Pokédex data

Slowbro - Hermitcrab Pokémon
No.	Height	Weight
080	5'3" (1.6 m)	173 lbs. (78.5 kg)
Pokédex entry
It loves nothing better than to be left alone, and so sometimes ends up being manipulated by unscrupulous people.
ぼーっとしているのが好きなだけに、人間に利用されてしまうことがある。

Release information

This card was included in the Team Rocket expansion as both a Holofoil and Non Holofoil card, first released in the Japanese Rocket Gang expansion as a Holofoil card. The Non Holofoil print was later reprinted in the Japanese Pokémon Web expansion. The Holofoil print was later reprinted in the Legendary Collection expansion.

Gallery

TCG GB2 Team Rocket's Ambition sprite

Trivia

Although this Pokémon is level 27, Slowpoke does not evolve into Slowbro until level 37.
Slowbro's species name is mislabeled as "Hermitcrab Pokémon," while its actual species name is the "Hermit Crab Pokémon."

Origin

This article is part of Project TCG, a Bulbapedia project that aims to report on every aspect of the Pokémon Trading Card Game.