Team Rocket Returns

Dark Ampharos

TR2· Rare
Dark Ampharos TR 2

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What the card itself says

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HP
120
Type
LightningDarkness
Stage
Stage 2
Retreat cost
2
Weakness
×2
Number
2/109
Set
Team Rocket ReturnsTR
Illustrated by
Emi Miwa

Its Ability

Darkest Impulse

As long as Dark Ampharos is in play, whenever your opponent plays an Evolution card from his or her hand to evolve 1 of his or her Pokémon, put 2 damage counters on that Pokémon. You can't use more than 1 Darkest Impulse Poké-Body each turn.

Its attacks

Ram

30

Shock Bolt

70

Discard all Lightning Energy attached to Dark Ampharos.

What 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.

  1. A strength

    120 HP, and nothing in Team Rocket Returns goes higher. That is the wall your opponent has to break through before taking a Prize.

  2. A strength

    Shock Bolt hits for 70 on 3 Energy. Nothing in Team Rocket Returns hits harder for that price.

  3. A strength

    It has an Ability, Darkest Impulse. An Ability costs you no attack, so you can use it and still swing the same turn.

  4. Keep in mind

    None of the 3,810 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.

  5. Keep in mind

    It is a Stage 2. You have to come through Dark Flaaffy to get here, or find a Rare Candy to skip the middle step.

  6. Keep in mind

    Weakness Fighting ×2. Against a Fighting Pokémon, apply that to the damage it takes — it climbs fast. Of the 3,810 tournament lists we have read, 875 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

Team Rocket Returns landed here on 1 November 2004.

Every set, with both of its dates

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 39 Ampharos cards on one page, priciest first.

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