Hoothoot HGSS05/25 · HGSS Black Star Promos

HGSS Black Star Promos is a set in the HeartGold & SoulSilver series. It was released on February 10, 2010. The printed size is 25, and the checklist is the same length. Hoothoot is HGSS05/25, in position 5 of 25 on this checklist. Before it is HGSS04 Wobbuffet, and after it is HGSS06 Noctowl. The listed rarity is Promo.

Hoothoot is a Basic Colorless Pokémon with 50 HP. In the Pokédex this is Hoothoot (#163), generation 2 (Johto). The card lists Noctowl, Noctowl (#164) under evolves to.

Masakazu Fukuda illustrated this card. The same name is on 471 other cards in the catalog.

Hoothoot (#163) has 15 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 15 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 2000 to 2025. The earliest other card is Hoothoot 60/111 in Neo Genesis (2000). Both list 50 HP. The rarity there is Common, and here it is Promo. Sumiyoshi Kizuki illustrated that card, and Masakazu Fukuda illustrated this one. 9 other cards of Hoothoot list a different HP.

Insomnia is listed as Poké-Body. Hoothoot can't be Asleep. The attack Peck lists 10 damage. The cost is Colorless. Weakness is Lightning ×2. Resistance is Fighting -20. Retreat cost is 1. The flavor text reads "It has a perfect sense of time. Whatever happens, it keeps rhythm by precisely tilting its head in time."

I keep a set binder for HGSS Black Star Promos, meant to hold every card of that set. This card is one slot in the HGSS Black Star Promos set binder. A generation binder holds one card of each species. Hoothoot can fill a slot in Generation 2 binder (Johto). I still need this card.