Octillery 178/163 · Battle Styles

Octillery is Pokédex #224, generation 2 (Johto). Octillery is a Stage 1 Rapid Strike Water Pokémon with 110 HP. The card says it evolves from Remoraid. In this catalog that name is Remoraid (#223).

Octillery sits at 178/163 in Battle Styles, position 178 of 183. Before it is 177 Single Strike Style Mustard, and after it is 179 Houndoom. The set belongs to the Sword & Shield series. It was released on March 19, 2021. The printed size is 163. This checklist is longer, at 183 cards. The collector number is above the printed set size of 163. The listed rarity is Rare Secret.

Rapid Strike Search is listed as Ability. Once during your turn, you may search your deck for a Rapid Strike card, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then, shuffle your deck. You can't use more than 1 Rapid Strike Search Ability each turn. The attack Waterfall lists 50 damage. The cost is Water, Colorless, Colorless. Weakness is Lightning ×2. Retreat cost is 2. The flavor text reads "It traps enemies with its suction-cupped tentacles, then smashes them with its rock-hard head." The regulation mark is E.

Octillery (#224) has 18 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 17 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 2001 to 2026. The earliest other card is Octillery 34/64 in Neo Revelation (2001). That card lists 80 HP, and this one lists 110 HP. The rarity there is Uncommon, and here it is Rare Secret. Tomokazu Komiya illustrated that card, and PLANETA Mochizuki illustrated this one. 12 other cards of Octillery list a different HP.

The illustrator line reads PLANETA Mochizuki. I count 131 other cards in the catalog with that illustrator.

Battle Styles set binder is where a full Battle Styles set goes. This card fills one slot there. A generation binder holds one card of each species. Octillery can fill a slot in Generation 2 binder (Johto). I still need this card.