Wailord ex (EX Sandstorm 100)

Wailord ex
ホエルオー ex Whaloh ex
Water
File:WailordSandstorm.jpg
Illus. Ryo Ueda
Evolution stage
Wailmer
Stage 1 Pokémon
Evolves from Wailmer
Card name Wailord ex
Type Water
HP 200
weakness
Grass Lightning
resistance
None
retreat cost
   
  
Expansion EX Sandstorm
Rarity Rare Holo ex
English card no. 100/100
Japanese card no. 021/053
For more information on this Pokémon's species, see Wailord.

Wailord ex (Japanese: ホエルオー ex Whaloh ex) is a Water-type Stage 1 Pokémon card. It is part of the EX Sandstorm set.

Card text

 
When Pokémon-ex has been Knocked Out, your opponent takes 2 Prize cards.
 
Super Deep Dive
ふかくもぐる
If you don't have any Benched Pokémon, this attack does nothing. Remove 3 damage counters from Wailord ex. Switch Wailord ex with 1 of your Benched Pokémon.
    
Dwindling Wave
ひきしお
100-
Does 100 damage minus 10 damage for each damage counter on Wailord ex.


Trivia

This was the first card in the TCG to have 200 HP, and also the first card with a Retreat Cost of five. Neither of these figures have been surpassed as of Dragon Blast/Dragon Blade, though they have been matched. A value of 200 HP exists so far only on three cards, all of them being Wailords.[1][2][3] A Retreat Cost of five exists so far only on four cards, the three others being Golem ex, Steelix ex and Mamoswine.[4][5]

Origin

Super Deep Dive might be based on Dive, a move in the Pokémon games that Wailord can learn via HM (in Generation III) or move tutor (in Generation IV). Dwindling Wave's effect of weakening as Wailord takes damage mirrors that of Water Spout, which Wailord can also learn.

References


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