Team Rocket Returns

Hoppip TR 57/109

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Hoppip TR 57

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What you might be wondering about this card

How can you tell your card is this one?
Look at the bottom of your card: you should read TR 57/109 there. Its illustration is signed Kyoko Umemoto.
Which set does it come from?
It comes from the Team Rocket Returns set, released here on 1 November 2004.

When it came out

Team Rocket Returns landed here on 1 November 2004.

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What the card itself says

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

HP
30
Type
Grass
Stage
Basic
Retreat cost
1
Weakness
×2
Resistance
-30
Number
57/109
Set
Team Rocket ReturnsTR
Illustrated by
Kyoko Umemoto

The Korean text is not available yet. Text shown: English.

Its Ability

Buffer

If Hoppip would be Knocked Out by an opponent's attack, flip a coin. If heads, Hoppip is not Knocked Out and its remaining HP becomes 10 instead.

Its attacks

Miracle Powder

Flip a coin. If heads, choose 1 Special Condition. The Defending Pokémon is now affected by that Special Condition.

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, Buffer. An Ability costs you no attack, so you can use it and still swing the same turn.

  3. A strength

    It is a Basic Pokémon. You can put it down on your very first turn, with nothing to evolve through.

  4. Keep in mind

    None of the 5,466 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

    Weakness Fire ×2. Against a Fire Pokémon, apply that to the damage it takes — it climbs fast. Of the 5,466 tournament lists we have read, 1,266 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.

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