Lt. Surge's Electabuzz 6/132 · Gym Heroes

Electabuzz is Pokédex #125, generation 1 (Kanto). Lt. Surge's Electabuzz is a Basic Lightning Pokémon with 70 HP. The card lists level 28. The card lists Electivire, Electivire (#466) under evolves to.

Lt. Surge's Electabuzz sits at 6/132 in Gym Heroes, position 6 of 132. Before it is 5 Erika's Vileplume, and after it is 7 Lt. Surge's Fearow. The set belongs to the Gym series. It was released on August 14, 2000. The printed size is 132, and the checklist is the same length. The listed rarity is Rare Holo.

The attack Charge lists no damage number. The cost is Lightning. Take up to 2 Lightning Energy cards from your discard pile and attach them to Lt. Surge's Electabuzz. Discharge is another attack lists 30× damage. The cost is Lightning. Discard all Lightning Energy cards attached to Lt. Surge's Electabuzz in order to use this attack. Flip a number of coins equal to the number of Lightning Energy cards you discarded. This attack does 30 damage times the number of heads. Weakness is Fighting ×2. Retreat cost is 2.

Electabuzz (#125) has 30 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 29 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 1999 to 2025. The earliest other card is Electabuzz 20/102 in Base (1999). That card is named Electabuzz, while this one is Lt. Surge's Electabuzz. Both list 70 HP. The rarity there is Rare, and here it is Rare Holo. 19 other cards of Electabuzz list a different HP.

The illustrator line reads Ken Sugimori. I count 1,112 other cards in the catalog with that illustrator.

Gym Heroes set binder is where a full Gym Heroes set goes. This card fills one slot there. A generation binder holds one card of each species. Electabuzz can fill a slot in Generation 1 binder (Kanto). Themed lists that include this exact card are Trainer's Pokémon. I still need this card.