Aipom 90/114 · Steam Siege

Aipom is Pokédex #190, generation 2 (Johto). Aipom is a Basic Colorless Pokémon with 60 HP. The card lists Ambipom, Ambipom (#424) under evolves to.

Aipom sits at 90/114 in Steam Siege, position 90 of 116. Before it is 89 Persian, and after it is 91 Ambipom. The set belongs to the XY series. It was released on August 3, 2016. The printed size is 114. This checklist is longer, at 116 cards. The listed rarity is Common.

The attack Fiddle Around lists no damage number. The cost is Colorless. Look at the top 3 cards of your opponent's deck and put them back in any order. Tail Jab is another attack lists 20 damage. The cost is Colorless, Colorless. Weakness is Fighting ×2. Retreat cost is 1. The flavor text reads "Its tail is so powerful that it can use it to grab a tree branch and hold itself up in the air."

Aipom (#190) has 18 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 16 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 2000 to 2025. The earliest other card is Aipom 26/111 in Neo Genesis (2000). That card lists 40 HP, and this one lists 60 HP. The rarity there is Uncommon, and here it is Common. Hironobu Yoshida illustrated that card, and Naoki Saito illustrated this one. 6 other cards of Aipom list a different HP.

The illustrator line reads Naoki Saito. I count 270 other cards in the catalog with that illustrator.

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