Shelmet 9/189 · Darkness Ablaze

Darkness Ablaze is a set in the Sword & Shield series. It was released on August 14, 2020. The printed size is 189. This checklist is longer, at 201 cards. Shelmet is 9/189, in position 9 of 201 on this checklist. Before it is 8 Karrablast, and after it is 10 Accelgor. The listed rarity is Common.

Shelmet is a Basic Grass Pokémon with 70 HP. In the Pokédex this is Shelmet (#616), generation 5 (Unova). The card lists Accelgor, Accelgor (#617) under evolves to.

Megumi Mizutani illustrated this card. The same name is on 133 other cards in the catalog.

Shelmet (#616) has 9 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 8 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 2011 to 2025. The earliest other card is Shelmet 11/101 in Noble Victories (2011). That card lists 60 HP, and this one lists 70 HP. Both list the rarity Common. Midori Harada illustrated that card, and Megumi Mizutani illustrated this one. 7 other cards of Shelmet list a different HP.

The attack Spray Fluid lists 10 damage. The cost is Colorless. Weakness is Fire ×2. Retreat cost is 3. The flavor text reads "When attacked, it tightly shuts the lid of its shell. This reaction fails to protect it from Karrablast, however, because they can still get into the shell." The regulation mark is D.

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