Hitmonlee HGSS25/25 · HGSS Black Star Promos

HGSS Black Star Promos is a set in the HeartGold & SoulSilver series. It was released on 10 February 2010. The printed size is 25, and the checklist is the same length. Hitmonlee is HGSS25/25, in position 25 of 25 on this checklist. The card before it is HGSS24 Hitmonchan. The listed rarity is Promo.

Hitmonlee is a Basic Fighting Pokémon with 80 HP. In the Pokédex this is Hitmonlee (#106), generation 1 (Kanto).

Kouki Saitou illustrated this card. The same name is on 652 other cards in the catalog.

Hitmonlee (#106) has 14 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 13 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 1999 to 2023. The earliest other card is Hitmonlee 7/62 in Fossil (1999). That card lists 60 HP, and this one lists 80 HP. The rarity there is Rare Holo, and here it is Promo. Ken Sugimori illustrated that card, and Kouki Saitou illustrated this one. Retreat cost there is 1, and here it is 2. 11 other cards of Hitmonlee list a different HP.

The attack Kick lists 20 damage. The cost is Fighting. High Jump Kick is another attack lists 60 damage. The cost is Fighting, Fighting, Colorless. Weakness is Psychic ×2. Retreat cost is 2. The flavor text reads "If it starts kicking repeatedly, both legs will stretch even longer to strike a fleeing foe."

I keep a set binder for HGSS Black Star Promos, meant to hold every card of that set. This card is one slot in the HGSS Black Star Promos set binder. A generation binder holds one card of each species. Hitmonlee can fill a slot in Generation 1 binder (Kanto). I still need this card.