Dark Octillery 8/109 · Team Rocket Returns

Octillery is Pokédex #224, generation 2 (Johto). Dark Octillery is a Stage 1 Water Darkness Pokémon with 70 HP. The card says it evolves from Remoraid. In this catalog that name is Remoraid (#223).

Dark Octillery sits at 8/109 in Team Rocket Returns, position 8 of 111. Before it is 7 Dark Marowak, and after it is 9 Dark Slowking. 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 Black Suction Cups lists no damage number. The cost is Water. Does 10 damage to each Defending Pokémon. Flip a coin. If heads, each Defending Pokémon is now Paralyzed. Ink Blast is another attack lists 30+ damage. The cost is Colorless, Colorless. Does 30 damage plus 10 more damage for each Energy attached to Dark Octillery but not used to pay for this attack's Energy cost. You can't add more than 20 damage in this way. Weakness is Lightning ×2. Retreat cost is 1. The card text says: This Pokémon is both Water Darkness type.

Octillery (#224) has 18 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 16 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 2001 to 2026. The earliest other card is Octillery 34/64 in Neo Revelation (2001). That card is named Octillery, while this one is Dark Octillery. That card lists 80 HP, and this one lists 70 HP. The rarity there is Uncommon, and here it is Rare Holo. Tomokazu Komiya illustrated that card, and Mitsuhiro Arita illustrated this one. Retreat cost there is 2, and here it is 1. 18 other cards of Octillery list a different HP.

The illustrator line reads Mitsuhiro Arita. I count 721 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. Octillery can fill a slot in Generation 2 binder (Johto). Themed lists that include this exact card are Mitsuhiro Arita cards and Team Rocket cards. I still need this card.