Team Rocket

Dark Gloom

RO36· Uncommon
Dark Gloom RO 36

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What the card itself says

Its characteristics and effects in play, with the original text when available.

HP
50
Type
Grass
Stage
Stage 1
Retreat cost
2
Weakness
×2
Number
36/82
Set
Team RocketRO
Illustrated by
Kagemaru Himeno

Its Ability

Pollen Stench

Once during your turn (before your attack), you may flip a coin. If heads, the Defending Pokémon is now Confused; if tails, your Active Pokémon is now Confused. This power can't be used if Dark Gloom is Asleep, Confused, or Paralyzed.

Its attacks

Poisonpowder

10

The Defending Pokémon is now 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

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

  2. Keep in mind

    None of the 3,811 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 Fighting ×2. Against a Fighting Pokémon, apply that to the damage it takes — it climbs fast. Of the 3,811 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 landed here on 24 April 2000.

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 27 Gloom cards on one page, priciest first.

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