Electrode 18/64 · Jungle

Electrode is Pokédex #101, generation 1 (Kanto). Electrode is a Stage 1 Lightning Pokémon with 90 HP. The card lists level 42. The card says it evolves from Voltorb. In this catalog that name is Voltorb (#100).

Electrode sits at 18/64 in Jungle, position 18 of 64. Before it is 17 Clefable, and after it is 19 Flareon. The set belongs to the Base series. It was released on June 16, 1999. The printed size is 64, and the checklist is the same length. The listed rarity is Rare.

The attack Tackle lists 20 damage. The cost is Colorless, Colorless. Chain Lightning is another attack lists 20 damage. The cost is Lightning, Lightning, Lightning. If the Defending Pokémon isn't Colorless, this attack does 10 damage to each Benched Pokémon of the same type as the Defending Pokémon (including your own). Weakness is Fighting ×2. Retreat cost is 1. The flavor text reads "It stores electrical energy under very high pressure. It often explodes with little or no provocation."

Electrode (#101) has 45 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 40 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 1999 to 2025. The earliest other card is Electrode 21/102 in Base (1999). That card lists 80 HP, and this one lists 90 HP. Both list the rarity Rare. Keiji Kinebuchi illustrated that card, and Mitsuhiro Arita illustrated this one. 27 other cards of Electrode list a different HP.

The illustrator line reads Mitsuhiro Arita. I count 721 other cards in the catalog with that illustrator.

Jungle set binder is where a full Jungle set goes. This card fills one slot there. A generation binder holds one card of each species. Electrode can fill a slot in Generation 1 binder (Kanto). Themed lists that include this exact card are Mitsuhiro Arita cards. I still need this card.