Ho-Oh (Skyridge 149)

Ho-Oh   ホウオウ Houou

Illus. Hajime Kusajima

Evolution stage Basic Pokémon Card name Ho-Oh Type Colorless HP 80 weakness ×2 resistance None retreat cost English expansion Skyridge Rarity English card no. 149/144 Japanese expansion Split Earth Japanese rarity Japanese card no. 091/088 Expansion Box Topper English card no. 11/12 For more information on this Pokémon's species, see Ho-Oh.

Ho-Oh (Japanese: ホウオウ Houou) is a Colorless-type Basic Pokémon card. It is part of the Skyridge expansion.

Card text

Crystal Type クリスタルタイプ

Whenever you attach a , , or basic Energy card from your hand to Ho-Oh, Ho-Oh's type (color) becomes the same as that type of Energy until the end of the turn.

Holy Flame ホーリーフレイム 20

Scalding Steam スチームバーン 40

Discard an Energy card attached to Ho-Oh and flip a coin. If heads, the Defending Pokémon is now Burned.

Pokédex data

Ho-Oh - Rainbow Pokémon
No.	Height	Weight
250	12'6" (3.8 m)	439 lbs. (199 kg)

Release information

This card was included in the Skyridge expansion, first released in the Japanese Split Earth expansion. Booster boxes of the English expansion also included a Reverse Holofoil Jumbo Box Topper print of this card.

Trivia

Ho-Oh is written as Ho-oh on the card. This is the last time the Pokémon's name was written this way in the TCG; the next time Ho-Oh appeared on a TCG card in EX Unseen Forces, it confirmed Ho-Oh as the correct way to capitalize the Pokémon's name.

Origin

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