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
おいつめる
The Defending Pokémon can't retreat during your opponent's next turn.
  
Continuous Scratch
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

This card was released as a promotional card. The Japanese version of this card was released in CoroCoro magazine in August 2001. The English version of this card was released at BattleZone events in January 2003. A jumbo versions of the card was also released, with the winner logo, which lack the reverse-holographic treatment.

Trivia

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

Origin

Continuous Scratch may be based on Fury Swipes, a move in the Pokémon games that Sneasel can learn.


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