Black Bolt
Klinklang
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What the card itself says
Everything below is written on the card itself: how much health it has, what it fears, and what its attacks cost.
- HP
- 150
- Type
- Metal
- Stage
- Stage 2
- Retreat cost
- 3
- Weakness
- ×2
- Resistance
- -30
- Regulation mark
- I
Its Ability
Gear Coating
All of your Pokémon that have any Energy attached take 20 less damage from attacks from your opponent's Pokémon (after applying Weakness and Resistance).
Its attacks
Hammer In
120What to make of it
Have a look at what it does well, then at what will get in your way. After that you'll know whether it belongs in your deck.
WHAT IT HAS GOING FOR IT
- It has an Ability, Gear Coating. An Ability costs you no attack, so you can use it and still swing the same turn.
- Mark I. The next rotation takes mark H away, so this one stays tournament legal.
WHAT TO WATCH OUT FOR
- Retreat cost 3. Once it is out front, it stays there. Pack something that moves it another way, or you will burn whole turns discarding Energy.
- None of the 3,299 tournament lists we have read runs it. That does not make it a bad card — it means we have not seen it on a table yet.
- It is a Stage 2. You have to come through Klang to get here, or find a Rare Candy to skip the middle step.
- Weakness Fire ×2. Against a Fire Pokémon, apply that to the damage it takes — it climbs fast. Of the 3,299 tournament lists we have read, 816 run at least one Pokémon of that type.
Who plays it
None of the tournament lists we have read mentions this card. That happens with a card that has just come out, or one players have not tried yet.
When it came out
Black Bolt landed here on 17 July 2025.
In Japan these cards were already in shops on 6 June 2025, under the code SV11B. That is 41 days ahead of us.
The other cards of this Pokémon
Two cards of the same Pokémon can be worth wildly different amounts — it depends on the set, the rarity and the artwork. We put all 12 Klinklang cards on one page, priciest first.