AbilityDark Scale
If Dark Gyarados is your Active Pokémon and is Knocked Out by an opponent's attack, put 3 damage counters on the Attacking Pokémon.
Dark Gyarados 36/109 · Team Rocket Returns
Team Rocket Returns is a set in the EX series. It was released on 1 November 2004. The printed size is 109. This checklist is longer, at 111 cards. Dark Gyarados is 36/109, in position 36 of 111 on this checklist. Before it is 35 Dark Golduck, and after it is 37 Dark Houndoom. The listed rarity is Uncommon.
Dark Gyarados is a Stage 1 Water Darkness Pokémon with 80 HP. In the Pokédex this is Gyarados (#130), generation 1 (Kanto). The card says it evolves from Magikarp. In this catalog that name is Magikarp (#129).
Nakaoka illustrated this card. The same name is on 46 other cards in the catalog.
Gyarados (#130) has 56 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 38 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 1999 to 2025. The earliest other card is Gyarados 6/102 in Base (1999). That card is named Gyarados, while this one is Dark Gyarados. That card lists 100 HP, and this one lists 80 HP. The rarity there is Rare Holo, and here it is Uncommon. Mitsuhiro Arita illustrated that card, and Nakaoka illustrated this one. Retreat cost there is 3, and here it is 2. 55 other cards of Gyarados list a different HP.
Dark Scale is listed as Poké-Body. If Dark Gyarados is your Active Pokémon and is Knocked Out by an opponent's attack, put 3 damage counters on the Attacking Pokémon. The attack Sharp Fang lists 30 damage. The cost is Water, Colorless. Dark Streak is another attack lists 40 damage. The cost is Water, Colorless, Colorless. Flip a coin. If heads, each Defending Pokémon is now Paralyzed. Weakness is Lightning ×2. Resistance is Fighting -30. Retreat cost is 2. The card text says: This Pokémon is both Water Darkness type.
I keep a set binder for Team Rocket Returns, meant to hold every card of that set. This card is one slot in the Team Rocket Returns set binder. A generation binder holds one card of each species. Gyarados can fill a slot in Generation 1 binder (Kanto). Themed lists that include this exact card are Team Rocket cards and Magikarp and Gyarados. I still need this card.
Card facts
- Number
- 36/109
- Series
- EX
- Released
- 1 November 2004
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Supertype
- Pokémon
- Subtypes
- Stage 1
- HP
- 80
- Type
- Water, Darkness
- Illustrator
- Nakaoka
- Pokédex
- Gyarados (#130)
- Evolves from
- Magikarp
- Weakness
- Lightning ×2
- Resistance
- Fighting -30
- Retreat
- 2
Attacks and card text
AttackSharp Fang
AttackDark Streak
Flip a coin. If heads, each Defending Pokémon is now Paralyzed.
Card text
This Pokémon is both Water Darkness type.
Binders this card belongs in
Other printings in the list
Next to it in the set
Questions about this card
Which set is Dark Gyarados from?
Team Rocket Returns, in the EX series. It was released on 1 November 2004. The printed size is 109.
What is the collector number?
36/109. It is entry 36 of 111 in this checklist.
Who illustrated it?
Nakaoka. The catalog lists 46 other cards with that illustrator.
What rarity is listed?
Uncommon.
What Pokédex number does the card use?
Gyarados #130, generation 1 (Kanto).
Which attacks are printed?
Sharp Fang (30) and Dark Streak (40).