Hippopotas 64/111 · Rising Rivals

Hippopotas is Pokédex #449, generation 4 (Sinnoh). Hippopotas is a Basic Fighting Pokémon with 70 HP. The card lists level 31. The card lists Hippowdon, Hippowdon (#450) under evolves to.

Hippopotas sits at 64/111 in Rising Rivals, position 64 of 120. Before it is 63 Growlithe, and after it is 65 Houndoom E4. The set belongs to the Platinum series. It was released on May 16, 2009. The printed size is 111. This checklist is longer, at 120 cards. The listed rarity is Common.

The attack Push Down lists 10 damage. The cost is Colorless. Your opponent switches the Defending Pokémon with 1 of his or her Benched Pokémon. Endeavor is another attack lists 30+ damage. The cost is Fighting, Colorless, Colorless. Flip 2 coins. This attack does 30 damage plus 20 more damage for each heads. Weakness is Water +10. Resistance is Lightning -20. Retreat cost is 2. 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 70 HP. The rarity there is Uncommon, and here it is Common. Mitsuhiro Arita illustrated that card, and kawayoo illustrated this one. 12 other cards of Hippopotas list a different HP.

The illustrator line reads kawayoo. I count 209 other cards in the catalog with that illustrator.

Rising Rivals set binder is where a full Rising Rivals 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.