Black Bolt
Volcarona
Versions of this card
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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
- 120
- Type
- Fire
- Stage
- Stage 1
- Retreat cost
- 1
- Weakness
- ×2
- Regulation mark
- I
Its Ability
Torrid Scales
You must discard a Basic Energy card from your hand in order to use this Ability. Once during your turn, you may make your opponent's Active Pokémon Burned.
Its attacks
Fire Wing
70What 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
- Retreat cost 1. One Energy to discard and it is back on the Bench, which matters a lot on the turn you need to swap attackers.
- It has an Ability, Torrid Scales. An Ability costs you no attack, so you can use it and still swing the same turn.
- Mega Camerupt ex runs it in 27 of the 30 lists we have read, seen across 26 different tournaments.
- Mark I. The next rotation takes mark H away, so this one stays tournament legal.
WHAT TO WATCH OUT FOR
- Weakness Water ×2. Against a Water Pokémon, apply that to the damage it takes — it climbs fast. Of the 3,299 tournament lists we have read, 1,351 run at least one Pokémon of that type.
Who plays it
These decks really played this card at a tournament. We spot it by the little set code printed at the bottom, the one players copy onto their list — two cards sometimes share a name, the code never lies.
| Deck | Lists | Tournaments | Printing listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mega Camerupt ex | 27 of 30 | 26 | BLK 16 |
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 21 Volcarona cards on one page, priciest first.