FireRed & LeafGreen

Voltorb RG 85/112

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Voltorb RG 85

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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 RG 85/112 there. Its illustration is signed Ken Sugimori.
Which set does it come from?
It comes from the FireRed & LeafGreen set, released here on 1 September 2004.

When it came out

FireRed & LeafGreen landed here on 1 September 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
50
Type
Lightning
Stage
Basic
Retreat cost
1
Weakness
×2
Number
85/112
Set
FireRed & LeafGreenRG
Illustrated by
Ken Sugimori

Its Ability

Floating Electrons浮遊電子

As long as Voltorb has any Energy attached to it, Voltorb's Retreat Cost is 0.Voltorbにエネルギーが付着している限り、Voltorbのリトリートコストは0です。

Its attacks

Thundershockサンダーショック

20

Flip a coin. If heads, the Defending Pokémon is now Paralyzed.コインをひっくり返します。頭の場合、防御ポケモンは麻痺しています。

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, Floating Electrons. 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 5,417 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 Fighting ×2. Against a Fighting Pokémon, apply that to the damage it takes — it climbs fast. Of the 5,417 tournament lists we have read, 1,215 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

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 40 Voltorb cards on one page, priciest first.

See every Voltorb card and its price