Voltorb SV13/94 · Hidden Fates Shiny Vault

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 SV13/94 in Hidden Fates Shiny Vault, position 13 of 94. Before it is SV12 Frogadier, and after it is SV14 Xurkitree. The set belongs to the Sun & Moon series. It was released on August 23, 2019. The printed size is 94, and the checklist is the same length. The listed rarity is Rare Shiny.

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. The rarity there is Common, and here it is Rare Shiny. Keiji Kinebuchi illustrated that card, and Shin Nagasawa illustrated this one. 24 other cards of Voltorb list a different HP.

The illustrator line reads Shin Nagasawa. I count 303 other cards in the catalog with that illustrator.

Hidden Fates Shiny Vault set binder is where a full Hidden Fates Shiny Vault 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.