Gym Challenge

Lt. Surge's Electrode

G2FR52· Uncommon
Lt. Surge's Electrode G2 52

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What the card itself says

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HP
70
Type
Lightning
Stage
Stage 1
Retreat cost
2
Weakness
×2
Number
52/132
Set
Gym ChallengeG2
Illustrated by
Ken Sugimori

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Its Ability

Shock Blast

If Lt. Surge's Electrode is your Active Pokémon and gets damaged (even if it's Knocked Out), flip a coin. If tails, this power does 20 damage to each Active Pokémon. This power works even if Lt. Surge's Electrode is already Asleep, Confused, or Paralyzed when it takes damage.

Its attacks

Power Ball

30+

Flip 3 coins. This attack does 30 damage plus 10 more damage for each heads.

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

  2. Keep in mind

    None of the 5,006 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 5,006 tournament lists we have read, 1,123 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.

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 46 Electrode cards on one page, priciest first.

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