Ruby & Sapphire

Swellow RS 46/109

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Swellow RS 46

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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 RS 46/109 there. Its illustration is signed Ken Sugimori.
Which set does it come from?
It comes from the Ruby & Sapphire set, released here on 1 July 2003.

When it came out

Ruby & Sapphire landed here on 1 July 2003.

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
70
Type
Colorless
Stage
Stage 1
Retreat cost
0
Weakness
×2
Resistance
-30
Number
46/109
Set
Ruby & SapphireRS
Illustrated by
Ken Sugimori

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Its Ability

Drive Off

Once during your turn (before your attack), if Swellow is your Active Pokémon, you may switch 1 of the Defending Pokémon with 1 of your opponent's Benched Pokémon. Your opponent picks the Benched Pokémon to switch. This power can't be used if Swellow is affected by a Special Condition.

Its attacks

Wing Attack

30

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 retreats for free. You can pull it back to the Bench whenever you like, even with no Energy on it at all.

  2. A strength

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

  3. Keep in mind

    None of the 5,624 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 Lightning ×2. Against a Lightning Pokémon, apply that to the damage it takes — it climbs fast. Of the 5,624 tournament lists we have read, 461 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.

The other cards of this Pokémon

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