Raikou

Raikou

Raikou appears in the English print of Shining Legends, released on October 6, 2017. Raikou is a rare holo rarity and 120 HP. The Shining Legends set contains 81 cards.

Artist Info

This card's illustration was created by Mitsuhiro Arita.

Collector Insights

Raikou is a Lightning-type Pokémon from the Sun & Moon series, part of the Shining Legends set released in 2017. It has 120 HP and requires two Colorless Energy to retreat. The card features a resistance to Metal attacks, reducing damage by 20, and a weakness to Fighting-type attacks, dealing double damage. Raikou has two attacks: Booming Thunder, which costs a single Lightning Energy and deals 30 damage while allowing the player to attach a Lightning Energy from their discard pile to one of their Benched Pokémon, and Electric Ball, which costs two Lightning and one Colorless Energy to deal 90 damage. The flavor text describes Raikou as a creature that carries rain clouds and can summon thunderbolts at will, with a legend stating it descended with lightning. Its design is attributed to artist Mitsuhiro Arita, and it is classified as a Rare Holo card. The card’s number in the set is 32.

The rain clouds it carries let it fire thunderbolts at will. They say that it descended with lightning.

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