Cottonee 4/86 · White Flare

White Flare is a set in the Scarlet & Violet series. It was released on July 18, 2025. The printed size is 86. This checklist is longer, at 173 cards. Cottonee is 4/86, in position 4 of 173 on this checklist. Before it is 3 Leavanny, and after it is 5 Whimsicott ex. The listed rarity is Common.

Cottonee is a Basic Grass Pokémon with 60 HP. In the Pokédex this is Cottonee (#546), generation 5 (Unova). The card lists Whimsicott, Whimsicott (#547) under evolves to.

sui illustrated this card. The same name is on 194 other cards in the catalog.

Cottonee (#546) has 15 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 14 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 2011 to 2025. The earliest other card is Cottonee 9/98 in Emerging Powers (2011). That card lists 40 HP, and this one lists 60 HP. Both list the rarity Common. Atsuko Nishida illustrated that card, and sui illustrated this one. 8 other cards of Cottonee list a different HP.

The attack Absorb lists 10 damage. The cost is Grass. Heal 10 damage from this Pokémon. Weakness is Fire ×2. Retreat cost is 1. The flavor text reads "When attacked, it escapes by shooting cotton from its body. The cotton serves as a decoy to distract the attacker." The regulation mark is I.

I keep a set binder for White Flare, meant to hold every card of that set. This card is one slot in the White Flare set binder. A generation binder holds one card of each species. Cottonee can fill a slot in Generation 5 binder (Unova). I still need this card.