Team Rocket Returns

Dark Arbok

TRFR29· Uncommon
Dark Arbok TR 29

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What the card itself says

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HP
90
Type
GrassDarkness
Stage
Stage 1
Retreat cost
1
Weakness
×2
Number
29/109
Set
Team Rocket ReturnsTR
Illustrated by
Nakaoka

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Its attacks

Swallow Up

10+

Before doing damage, count the remaining HP of the Defending Pokémon and Dark Arbok. If the Defending Pokémon has fewer remaining HP than Dark Arbok's, this attack does 10 damage plus 30 more damage.

Extra Poison

30

If the Defending Pokémon is Pokémon-ex, the Defending Pokémon is now Asleep and Poisoned.

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

    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.

  2. Keep in mind

    None of the 4,868 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.

  3. Keep in mind

    Weakness Psychic ×2. Against a Psychic Pokémon, apply that to the damage it takes — it climbs fast. Of the 4,868 tournament lists we have read, 2,889 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.

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The other cards of this Pokémon

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