Lickitung 16/18 · Southern Islands

Lickitung is Pokédex #108, generation 1 (Kanto). Lickitung is a Basic Colorless Pokémon with 70 HP. The card lists Lickilicky, Lickilicky (#463) under evolves to.

Lickitung sits at 16/18 in Southern Islands, position 16 of 18. Before it is 15 Wartortle, and after it is 17 Vileplume. The set belongs to the Other series. It was released on July 31, 2001. The printed size is 18, and the checklist is the same length.

The attack Lick Wounds lists no damage number. The cost is Colorless. Flip a coin. If heads, choose 1 Pokémon (yours or your opponent's) with damage counters on it and remove 2 damage counters from it (1 if it only has 1). Tongue Stretch is another attack lists no damage number. The cost is Colorless, Colorless. Flip a coin. If heads, choose 1 of your opponent's Pokémon. This attack does 20 damage to that Pokémon. Don't apply Weakness and Resistance. Weakness is Fighting ×2. Resistance is Psychic -30. Retreat cost is 2. The flavor text reads "This Pokémon uses its six-foot tongue as if it were a hand. The origin of its anaesthetic properties is still a mystery."

Lickitung (#108) has 20 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 19 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 1999 to 2024. The earliest other card is Lickitung 38/64 in Jungle (1999). That card lists 90 HP, and this one lists 70 HP. Mitsuhiro Arita illustrated that card, and Naoyo Kimura illustrated this one. Retreat cost there is 3, and here it is 2. 19 other cards of Lickitung list a different HP.

The illustrator line reads Naoyo Kimura. I count 256 other cards in the catalog with that illustrator.

Southern Islands set binder is where a full Southern Islands set goes. This card fills one slot there. A generation binder holds one card of each species. Lickitung can fill a slot in Generation 1 binder (Kanto). I still need this card.