Team Rocket Returns

Rocket's Hitmonchan ex TR 98/109

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Rocket's Hitmonchan ex TR 98

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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 98/109 there. Its illustration is signed Mitsuhiro Arita.
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.

Every set, with both of its dates

What the card itself says

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

HP
100
Type
Darkness
Retreat cost
1
Weakness
×2
Number
98/109
Set
Team Rocket ReturnsTR
Illustrated by
Mitsuhiro Arita

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

Its Ability

Strikes Back

If Rocket's Hitmonchan ex is your Active Pokémon and is damaged by an opponent's attack (even if Rocket's Hitmonchan ex is Knocked Out), put 2 damage counters on the Attacking Pokémon.

Its attacks

Mach Punch

10

Does 10 damage to 1 of your opponent's Benched Pokémon. (Don't apply Weakness and Resistance for Benched Pokémon.)

Magnum Punch

60

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

  3. Keep in mind

    None of the 5,461 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

    It is an ex card. The turn it goes down your opponent takes 2 Prizes instead of one, and games do turn on exactly that.

  5. Keep in mind

    Weakness Psychic ×2. Against a Psychic Pokémon, apply that to the damage it takes — it climbs fast. Of the 5,461 tournament lists we have read, 3,253 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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