Ninetales (Base Set 12)

Ninetales LV.32
キュウコン Kyukon

Illus. Ken Sugimori

Evolution stage

Stage 1 Pokémon
Evolves from Vulpix

Card name

Ninetales

Type

Fire

HP

80

weakness ×2	resistance None	retreat cost

English expansion	Base Set
Rarity
English card no.	12/102
Japanese expansion	Expansion Pack
Japanese rarity

Expansion	Base Set 2
Rarity
English card no.	13/130

Card GB set	Mystery
Card GB ID	C12
Card GB 2 set	Beginning Pokémon
Card GB 2 ID	A15

Japanese expansion	Pokémon Web
Japanese rarity
Japanese card no.	034/048

Expansion	Legendary Collection
Rarity
English card no.	17/110

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

Ninetales (Japanese: キュウコン Kyukon) is a Fire-type Stage 1 Pokémon card. It was first released as part of the Base Set.

Card text

Base Set and Base Set 2 prints

	Lure かどわかす

If your opponent has any Benched Pokémon, choose 1 of them and switch it with the Defending Pokémon.

	Fire Blast だいもんじ	80

Discard 1 Energy card attached to Ninetales in order to use this attack.

Legendary Collection print

	Lure かどわかす

If your opponent has any Benched Pokémon, choose 1 of them and switch it with the Defending Pokémon.

	Fire Blast だいもんじ	80

Discard 1 Energy card attached to Ninetales or this attack does nothing.

Pokédex data

Ninetales - Fox Pokémon
No.	Height	Weight
038	3'7" (1.1 m)	44 lbs. (19.9 kg)
Pokédex entry
Very smart and very vengeful. Grabbing one of its many tails could result in a 1,000-year curse.
黄金に輝く体毛と９本の長い尻尾を持つ。１０００年は生きると言われている。

Release information

This card was included in the Base Set, first released in the Japanese Expansion Pack. It was reprinted in the Base Set 2 expansion. It was reprinted again as a Non Holofoil card in the Japanese Pokémon Web set. It was reprinted once again in the Legendary Collection expansion.

Gallery

GB1 Mystery sprite

GB2 Beginning Pokémon sprite

Trivia

In the American version of the video game Pokémon Trading Card Game, the two available Ninetales cards (this and the one exclusive to Game Boy) have their name misspelled as Ninetails, although the name Ninetales is shown correctly in the description of this card's Fire Blast attack. The misspelling was fixed in the European versions.
A small number of these cards lack Fire Blast's base damage.

Origin

Fire Blast is a move in the Pokémon games that Ninetales can learn. This card's English Pokédex entry comes from Pokémon Red and Blue, whereas the Japanese entry comes from Pokémon Red and Green.

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