Hippopotas 65/99 · Next Destinies

Hippopotas is Pokédex #449, generation 4 (Sinnoh). Hippopotas is a Basic Fighting Pokémon with 90 HP. The card lists Hippowdon, Hippowdon (#450) under evolves to.

Hippopotas sits at 65/99 in Next Destinies, position 65 of 103. Before it is 64 Lucario, and after it is 66 Hippowdon. The set belongs to the Black & White series. It was released on February 8, 2012. The printed size is 99. This checklist is longer, at 103 cards. The listed rarity is Common.

The attack Sand Jet lists no damage number. The cost is Fighting. Does 20 damage to 1 of your opponent's Benched Pokémon. (Don't apply Weakness and Resistance for Benched Pokémon.) Bite is another attack lists 30 damage. The cost is Fighting, Colorless, Colorless. Weakness is Water ×2. Resistance is Lightning -20. Retreat cost is 4. The flavor text reads "It shuts its nostrils tight then travels through sand as if walking. They form colonies of around ten."

Hippopotas (#449) has 13 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 13 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 2007 to 2026. The earliest other card is Hippopotas 51/130 in Diamond & Pearl (2007). That card lists 60 HP, and this one lists 90 HP. The rarity there is Uncommon, and here it is Common. Mitsuhiro Arita illustrated that card, and match illustrated this one. Retreat cost there is 2, and here it is 4. 9 other cards of Hippopotas list a different HP.

The illustrator line reads match. I count 143 other cards in the catalog with that illustrator.

Next Destinies set binder is where a full Next Destinies set goes. This card fills one slot there. A generation binder holds one card of each species. Hippopotas can fill a slot in Generation 4 binder (Sinnoh). I still need this card.