Gym Challenge

Erika's Venusaur

G2FR4· Holo Rare
Erika's Venusaur G2 4

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What the card itself says

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HP
90
Type
Grass
Stage
Stage 2
Retreat cost
2
Weakness
×2
Number
4/132
Set
Gym ChallengeG2
Illustrated by
Ken Sugimori

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Its attacks

Growth

Flip a coin. If heads, you may attach up to 2 Grass Energy cards from your hand to Erika's Venusaur.

Wide Solarbeam

20

If your opponent has any Benched Pokémon, choose 2 of them (or 1 if he or she only has 1). This attack does 20 damage to each of them. (Don't apply Weakness and Resistance for Benched Pokémon.)

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

    90 HP. Only 5 cards in Gym Challenge carry more.

  2. Keep in mind

    None of the 4,726 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

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

  4. Keep in mind

    Weakness Fire ×2. Against a Fire Pokémon, apply that to the damage it takes — it climbs fast. Of the 4,726 tournament lists we have read, 1,074 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

Gym Challenge landed here on 16 October 2000.

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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 49 Venusaur cards on one page, priciest first.

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