Tentacruel (Southern Islands 10)

Tentacruel (Japanese: ドククラゲ Dokukurage) is a Water-type Stage 1 Pokémon card. It is part of the Southern Islands collection.

Tentacruel LV.30
ドククラゲ Dokukurage

Illus. Naoyo Kimura

Evolution stage

Stage 1 Pokémon
Evolves from Tentacool

Card name

60

weakness ×2	resistance None	retreat cost

English expansion	Southern Islands
English card no.	10/18
Japanese expansion	Southern Islands

For more information on this Pokémon's species, see Tentacruel.

Card text

English release

	Tentacle Grip しょくしゅをつかう

Flip a number of coins equal to the number of

Energy cards attached to Tentacruel. For each heads, draw 2 cards.

	Poison Sting どくばり	20

Flip a coin. If heads, the Defending Pokémon is now Paralyzed.

Japanese release

	Tentacle Grip しょくしゅをつかう

Flip a number of coins equal to the number of

Energy cards attached to Tentacruel. For each heads, draw 2 cards.

	Poison Sting どくばり	20

Flip a coin. If heads, the Defending Pokémon is now Poisoned.

Pokédex data

Water Water Tentacruel - Jellyfish Pokémon
No.	Height	Weight
073	5'3" (1.6 m)	121 lbs. (55 kg)
Pokédex entry
This Pokémon attacks its prey with its eighty toxin-producing tentacles.
８０本の触手を自由にのびちぢみさせ、獲物に巻きつき、毒をあたえて弱らせる。

Release information

When released in the Japanese version of the Southern Islands collection, Poison Sting inflicted the Poisoned status. This was changed to inflicting the Paralyzed status in the English release.

Trivia

This was an orphaned card for a time when it came to the Modified format due to the only Tentacool card at the time being in the first rotation. It would not be fully playable in the format until Tentacool was reprinted in Legendary Collection.

Origin

Poison Sting is a move in the Pokémon games that Tentacruel can learn. This card's Pokédex entry comes from Pokémon Yellow, though it is heavily reworded.

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