Piloswine 13/109 · Team Rocket Returns

Piloswine is Pokédex #221, generation 2 (Johto). Piloswine is a Stage 1 Fighting Pokémon with 100 HP. The card says it evolves from Swinub. In this catalog that name is Swinub (#220). The card lists Mamoswine, Mamoswine (#473) under evolves to.

Piloswine sits at 13/109 in Team Rocket Returns, position 13 of 111. Before it is 12 Kingdra, and after it is 14 Togetic. The set belongs to the EX series. It was released on November 1, 2004. The printed size is 109. This checklist is longer, at 111 cards. The listed rarity is Rare Holo.

The attack Sheer Cold lists 20 damage. The cost is Colorless, Colorless. Flip a coin. If heads, each Defending Pokémon can't attack during your opponent's next turn. Tonnage is another attack lists 60+ damage. The cost is Fighting, Fighting, Colorless, Colorless. You may do 60 damage plus 40 more damage. If you do, Piloswine does 30 damage to itself. Weakness is Grass ×2. Retreat cost is 2.

Piloswine (#221) has 15 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 13 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 2000 to 2025. The earliest other card is Piloswine 44/111 in Neo Genesis (2000). That card lists 80 HP, and this one lists 100 HP. The rarity there is Uncommon, and here it is Rare Holo. Ken Sugimori illustrated that card, and Tomokazu Komiya illustrated this one. Retreat cost there is 3, and here it is 2. 8 other cards of Piloswine list a different HP.

The illustrator line reads Tomokazu Komiya. I count 248 other cards in the catalog with that illustrator.

Team Rocket Returns set binder is where a full Team Rocket Returns set goes. This card fills one slot there. A generation binder holds one card of each species. Piloswine can fill a slot in Generation 2 binder (Johto). I still need this card.