Slowbro 43/214 · Unbroken Bonds

Slowbro is Pokédex #080, generation 1 (Kanto). Slowbro is a Stage 1 Water Pokémon with 120 HP. The card says it evolves from Slowpoke. In this catalog that name is Slowpoke (#079).

Slowbro sits at 43/214 in Unbroken Bonds, position 43 of 238. Before it is 42 Slowpoke, and after it is 44 Seel. The set belongs to the Sun & Moon series. It was released on May 3, 2019. The printed size is 214. This checklist is longer, at 238 cards. The listed rarity is Rare Holo.

The attack Yawn lists no damage number. The cost is Water. Your opponent's Active Pokémon is now Asleep. Three Strikes is another attack lists 100× damage. The cost is Water, Colorless, Colorless. Flip 3 coins. This attack does 100 damage for each heads. If all of them are tails, you lose this game. Weakness is Grass ×2. Retreat cost is 2. The flavor text reads "Spacing out is basically all it does. It turns back into Slowpoke if its tail, along with Shellder, breaks off."

Slowbro (#080) has 26 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 22 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 1999 to 2026. The earliest other card is Slowbro 43/62 in Fossil (1999). That card lists 60 HP, and this one lists 120 HP. The rarity there is Uncommon, and here it is Rare Holo. Kagemaru Himeno illustrated that card, and Ken Sugimori illustrated this one. Retreat cost there is 1, and here it is 2. 25 other cards of Slowbro list a different HP.

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

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