Rising Rivals

Gastrodon East Sea

RR21· Rare
Gastrodon East Sea RR 21

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What the card itself says

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

HP
90
Type
Water
Stage
Stage 1
Retreat cost
1
Weakness
+30
Resistance
-20
Number
21/111
Set
Rising RivalsRR
Illustrated by
Ken Sugimori

Its Ability

Sticky Hold

If Gastrodon East Sea is switched or retreats to your Bench, move as many Energy cards attached to Gastrodon East Sea as you like to the new Active Pokémon.

Its attacks

Calling Wave

Search your deck for up to 2 Gastrodon and put them onto your Bench as Basic Pokémon. Put 2 damage counters on each of them. Shuffle your deck afterward.

Wave Splash

40

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. A strength

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

  3. 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.

  4. Keep in mind

    Weakness Grass +30. Against a Grass Pokémon, apply that to the damage it takes — it climbs fast. Of the 3,811 tournament lists we have read, 2,350 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

Rising Rivals landed here on 16 May 2009.

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 7 Gastrodon cards on one page, priciest first.

See every Gastrodon card and its price