Voltorb 47/168 · Celestial Storm

Voltorb is Pokédex #100, generation 1 (Kanto). Voltorb is a Basic Lightning Pokémon with 50 HP. The card lists Electrode, Electrode (#101) under evolves to.

Voltorb sits at 47/168 in Celestial Storm, position 48 of 187. Before it is 46 Kyogre, and after it is 48 Electrode-GX. The set belongs to the Sun & Moon series. It was released on August 3, 2018. The printed size is 168. This checklist is longer, at 187 cards. The listed rarity is Common.

Floating Electrons is listed as Ability. If this Pokémon has any Energy attached to it, it has no Retreat Cost. The attack Thunder Shock lists 20 damage. The cost is Lightning, Colorless. Flip a coin. If heads, your opponent's Active Pokémon is now Paralyzed. Weakness is Fighting ×2. Resistance is Metal -20. Retreat cost is 1. The flavor text reads "Usually found in power plants. Easily mistaken for a Poké Ball, it has zapped many people."

Voltorb (#100) has 39 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 36 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 1999 to 2026. The earliest other card is Voltorb 67/102 in Base (1999). That card lists 40 HP, and this one lists 50 HP. Both list the rarity Common. Keiji Kinebuchi illustrated that card, and Ken Sugimori illustrated this one. 24 other cards of Voltorb list a different HP.

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

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