Radiant Hawlucha 81/189 · Astral Radiance

Astral Radiance is a set in the Sword & Shield series. It was released on 27 May 2022. The printed size is 189. This checklist is longer, at 216 cards. Radiant Hawlucha is 81/189, in position 81 of 216 on this checklist. Before it is 80 Hippowdon, and after it is 82 Hisuian Decidueye. The listed rarity is Radiant Rare.

Radiant Hawlucha is a Basic Radiant Fighting Pokémon with 90 HP. In the Pokédex this is Hawlucha (#701), generation 6 (Kalos).

Masakazu Fukuda illustrated this card. The same name is on 471 other cards in the catalog.

Hawlucha (#701) has 20 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 17 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 2014 to 2026. The earliest other card is Hawlucha 63/111 in Furious Fists (2014). That card is named Hawlucha, while this one is Radiant Hawlucha. That card lists 70 HP, and this one lists 90 HP. The rarity there is Rare Holo, and here it is Radiant Rare. 5ban Graphics illustrated that card, and Masakazu Fukuda illustrated this one. 18 other cards of Hawlucha list a different HP.

Big Match is listed as Ability. As long as this Pokémon is on your Bench, your Pokémon's attacks do 30 more damage to your opponent's Active Pokémon VMAX (before applying Weakness and Resistance). The attack Spiral Kick lists 50 damage. The cost is Fighting, Colorless. Weakness is Psychic ×2. Retreat cost is 1. The card text says: Radiant Pokémon Rule: You can't have more than 1 Radiant Pokémon in your deck. The flavor text reads "It drives its opponents to exhaustion with its agile maneuvers, then ends the fight with a flashy finishing move." The regulation mark is F.

I keep a set binder for Astral Radiance, meant to hold every card of that set. This card is one slot in the Astral Radiance set binder. A generation binder holds one card of each species. Hawlucha can fill a slot in Generation 6 binder (Kalos). I still need this card.