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{{Redirect|Flying Pikachu (ANA promo)|the card released through {{wp|All Nippon Airways}} one year after this card|Flying Pikachu (ANA promo 99)}}
{{PokémoncardInfobox
 
|cardname=Flying Pikachu
{{PokémoncardInfobox |
|level=12
cardname=Flying Pikachu |
|jname=そらをとぶピカチュウ
level=12 |
|jtrans=Flying Pikachu
jname=そらをとぶピカチュウ |
|image=FlyingPikachuWizardsPromo25.jpg
jtrans=Flying Pikachu |
|caption={{TCG|Wizards Black Star Promos|Wizards Black Star Promo}} print<br>Illus. [[Toshinao Aoki]]
image=FlyingPikachuWizardsPromo25.jpg |
|reprints=3
caption=Illus. [[Toshinao Aoki]] |
|reprint1=FlyingPikachuANAPromo98.jpg
species=Pikachu |
|recaption1={{TCG|Unnumbered Promotional cards|Unnumbered Promotional}} print<br>Illus. [[Toshinao Aoki]]
evostage=Basic |
|reprint2=FlyingPikachuRisingRivals113.jpg
type=Lightning |
|recaption2={{TCG|Rising Rivals}} print<br>Illus. [[Toshinao Aoki]]
hp=40 |
|species=Pikachu
weakness=None |
|evostage=Basic
resistance=Fighting |
|type=Lightning
retreatcost=1 |
|hp=40
retro=yes |
|weakness=None
|resistance=Fighting
|retreatcost=1
|retro=yes
}}
}}
{{PokémoncardInfobox/Expansion|type=Lightning|expansion={{TCG|Wizards Black Star Promos}}|cardno=25|jpexpansion={{TCG|Unnumbered Promotional cards}}}}
{{PokémoncardInfobox/Expansion|type=Lightning|expansion={{TCG|Wizards Black Star Promos}}|cardno=25|jpexpansion={{TCG|Unnumbered Promotional cards}}}}
{{PokémoncardInfobox/Expansion|type=Lightning|gbset={{GB|1|Promotional Card}}|gbid=P06|gb2set={{GB|2|Promotional}}|gb2id=P13}}
{{PokémoncardInfobox/Expansion|type=Lightning|gbset={{GB|1|Promotional Card}}|gbid=P06|gb2set={{GB|2|Promotion Card}}|gb2id=P13}}
{{PokémoncardInfobox/Expansion|type=Lightning|jpexpansion={{TCG|Unnumbered Promotional cards}}}}
{{PokémoncardInfobox/Expansion|type=Lightning|jpexpansion={{TCG|Unnumbered Promotional cards}}}}
{{PokémoncardInfobox/Expansion|type=Lightning|gb2set={{GB|2|Promotional}}|gb2id=P14}}
{{PokémoncardInfobox/Expansion|type=Lightning|gb2set={{GB|2|Promotion Card}}|gb2id=P14}}
{{PokémoncardInfobox/Expansion|type=Lightning|expansion={{TCG|Rising Rivals}}|rarity={{rar|Rare Holo}}|cardno=113/111|jprarity={{rar|Ultra-Rare Rare}}|jpcardno=090/090}}
{{PokémoncardInfobox/Expansion|type=Lightning|expansion={{TCG|Rising Rivals}}|rarity={{rar|Rare Secret}}|cardno=113/111|jpexpansion={{TCG|Bonds to the End of Time}}|jprarity={{rar|Ultra-Rare Rare}}|jpcardno=090/090}}
{{PokémoncardInfobox/Footer|type=Lightning|species=Pikachu}}
{{PokémoncardInfobox/Footer|type=Lightning|species=Pikachu}}


'''Flying Pikachu''' (Japanese: '''そらをとぶピカチュウ''' ''Flying Pikachu'') is a {{ct|Lightning}} Basic Pokémon card. It was released as a promotional card.
'''Flying Pikachu''' (Japanese: '''そらをとぶピカチュウ''' ''Flying Pikachu'') is a {{ct|Lightning}} Basic Pokémon card. It was first released as one of the {{TCG|Wizards Black Star Promos}}.


==Card text (Wizards Promo print)==
==Card text==
{{TCGAttack |
===Wizards Black Star Promo print===
type=Lightning |
{{Cardtext/Header|type=Lightning}}
position=Top |
{{Cardtext/Attack
cost={{e|Lightning}} |
|type=Lightning
name=Thundershock |
|cost={{e|Lightning}}
jname=でんきショック |
|name=Thundershock
jtrans=Electric Shock |
|namecategory=Thunder Shock
damage=10 |
|jname=でんきショック
effect=Flip a coin. If heads, the Defending Pokémon is now {{TCG|Paralyzed}}. |
|jtrans=Electric Shock
|damage=10
|effect=Flip a coin. If heads, the Defending Pokémon is now {{TCG|Paralyzed}}.
}}
}}
{{TCGAttack |
{{Cardtext/Attack
type=Lightning |
|type=Lightning
position=Bottom |
|cost={{e|Colorless}}{{e|Colorless}}{{e|Colorless}}
cost={{e|Colorless}}{{e|Colorless}}{{e|Colorless}} |
|name=Fly
name=Fly |
|jname=そらをとぶ
jname=そらをとぶ |
|jtrans=Fly
jtrans=Fly |
|damage=30
damage=30 |
|effect=Flip a coin. If heads, during your opponent's next turn, prevent all effects of attacks, including damage, done to {{tt|Flying Pikachu|this Pokémon}}; if tails, this attack does nothing (not even damage).
effect=Flip a coin. If heads, during your opponent's next turn, prevent all effects of attacks, including damage, done to {{tt|Flying Pikachu|this Pokémon}}; if tails, this attack does nothing (not even damage). |
}}
}}
{{Cardtext/Footer}}


===Pokédex data===
===Pokédex data (Wizards Black Star Promo print)===
{{Carddex |
{{Carddex
type=Lightning |
|type=Lightning
name=Pikachu |
|name=Pikachu
species=Mouse |
|species=Mouse
ndex=25 |
|ndex=25
height=1'4" |
|height=1'4"
jheight=0.4 |
|jheight=0.4
weight=13 |
|weight=13
jweight=6 |
|jweight=6
dex=By learning how to fly, Pikachu overcame its weakness to Fighting Pokémon. |
|dex=By learning how to fly, Pikachu overcame its weakness to Fighting Pokémon.
jdex=空を飛ぶことによって自らの弱点を克服したピカチュウだ。 |
|jdex=空を飛ぶことによって自らの弱点を克服したピカチュウだ。
}}
}}


==Card text (Rising Rivals print)==
===Rising Rivals print===
{{TCGAttack |
{{Cardtext/Header|type=Lightning}}
type=Lightning |
{{Cardtext/Attack
position=Top |
|type=Lightning
cost={{e|Lightning}} |
|cost={{e|Lightning}}
name=Thundershock |
|name=Thundershock
jname=でんきショック |
|namecategory=Thunder Shock
jtrans=Electric Shock |
|jname=でんきショック
damage=10 |
|jtrans=Electric Shock
effect=Flip a coin. If heads, the Defending Pokémon is now {{TCG|Paralyzed}}. |
|damage=10
|effect=Flip a coin. If heads, the Defending Pokémon is now {{TCG|Paralyzed}}.
}}
}}
{{TCGAttack |
{{Cardtext/Attack
type=Lightning |
|type=Lightning
position=Bottom |
|cost={{e|Colorless}}{{e|Colorless}}{{e|Colorless}}
cost={{e|Colorless}}{{e|Colorless}}{{e|Colorless}} |
|name=Fly
name=Fly |
|jname=そらをとぶ
jname=そらをとぶ |
|jtrans=Fly
jtrans=Fly |
|damage=30
damage=30 |
|effect=Flip a coin. If tails, this attack does nothing. If heads, prevent all effects of attacks, including damage, done to {{tt|Flying Pikachu|this Pokémon}} during your opponent's next turn.
effect=Flip a coin. If tails, this attack does nothing. If heads, prevent all effects of attacks, including damage, done to {{tt|Flying Pikachu|this Pokémon}} during your opponent's next turn. |
}}
}}
{{Cardtext/Footer}}


===Pokédex data===
===Pokédex data (Rising Rivals print)===
{{Carddex |
{{Carddex
type=Lightning |
|type=Lightning
name=Pikachu |
|name=Pikachu
species=Mouse |
|species=Mouse
ndex=025 |
|ndex=025
height=1'04" |
|height=1'04"
jheight=0.4 |
|jheight=0.4
weight=13.2 |
|weight=13.2
jweight=6 |
|jweight=6
dex=By learning how to fly, Pikachu overcame its weakness to Fighting Pokémon. |
|dex=By learning how to fly, Pikachu overcame its weakness to Fighting Pokémon.
jdex=そらをとぶ ことに よって みずからの じゃくてんを こくふくした ピカチュウだ。 |
|jdex=そらをとぶ ことに よって みずからの じゃくてんを こくふくした ピカチュウだ。
}}
}}


==Release information==
==Release information==
[[Image:FlyingPikachu2.jpg|left|180px|Alternate version.]]
This card was released as a {{TCG|Wizards Black Star Promos|Wizards Black Star Promo}} through the {{TCG|Pokémon League}} in August 2001. In Japan, it was first available as an {{TCG|Unnumbered Promotional cards|Unnumbered Promotional card}} on an insert in the November 1997 issue of ''[[CoroCoro]] Comic'', released on October 15, 1997. A mail-in prize draw offering another copy of the Japanese print was published in the December 1998 issue of ''CoroCoro Comic'', released on November 15, 1998. People wishing to enter the prize draw were required to affix the application ticket on the bottom left of the article page to a postcard and send it to [[Shogakukan]]. Two thousand winners were sent a set of five cards mounted on two plain sheets: {{TCG ID|CoroCoro|Surfing Pikachu|promo}} and Flying Pikachu on one; {{TCG ID|CoroCoro|Jynx|promo}}, {{TCG ID|CoroCoro|Cubone|promo}}, and {{TCG ID|CoroCoro|Farfetch'd|promo}} on the other.
[[File:FlyingPikachuRisingRivals113.jpg|thumb|Rising Rivals print]]
 
This card was released as a promotional card. In Japan, it was included with the the November 1996 issue of [[CoroCoro]] Comic. The English version of the card was released through Pokémon card leagues in August 2001. This card was later reprinted as a {{TCG|retro card}} in the {{TCG|Rising Rivals}} expansion.
It was reprinted with slightly different artwork in Japan as another Unnumbered Promotional card and was distributed by {{wp|All Nippon Airways|All Nippon Airlines}} between November 1 and 31, 1998. Passengers flying in conjunction with the "Get in a Jet! Double Chance Campaign" could redeem two domestic boarding pass stubs for a two-card set that included Flying Pikachu and {{TCG ID|ANA|Dragonite|promo}}. Five thousand of these passengers were also selected by lottery to receive either a children's-size ANA Pokémon Jet Stadium Jumper or a [[Game Boy Color]].
 
A German version of the Wizards Black Star Promo print was included in the {{TCG|Pikachu World Collection 2000|Pikachu World Collection}}, available to purchase exclusively at Pokémon Park 2000 held at Sydney University, Sydney, Australia from September 12 to October 4, 2000. This print features a gold foil Pikachu tail stamp opposite the Black Star Promo symbol. It was later reprinted as a {{TCG|retro card}} in the {{TCG|Rising Rivals}} expansion, first released in the Japanese {{TCG|Bonds to the End of Time}} expansion.


A different variation of this card with a plane in the background was released in Japan as a special card by All Nippon Airways in 1998. Passengers flying in conjunction with the "Pokémon Getaways" campaign could redeem their boarding passes for the 2 card set including Flying Pikachu and {{TCG ID|Wizards Promo|Dragonite|5}}. This variant card was never released in English.
===Gallery===
{{TCGGallery
|type=Lightning
|image1=FlyingPikachuWizardsPromo25.jpg
|caption1={{TCG|Wizards Black Star Promos|Wizards Black Star Promo}} print<br>Illus. [[Toshinao Aoki]]
|image2=FlyingPikachuANAPromo98.jpg
|caption2={{TCG|Unnumbered Promotional cards|Unnumbered Promotional}} print<br>Illus. [[Toshinao Aoki]]
|image3=FlyingPikachuRisingRivals113.jpg
|set3=Rising Rivals
|illus3=Toshinao Aoki
|image4=Pikachu-World-Collection-2000-German.jpg
|set4=Pikachu World Collection 2000
|illus4=Toshinao Aoki
}}
{{TCGGallery
|type=Lightning
|image1=TCG1 P06 Flying Pikachu.png
|size1=64px
|caption1={{TCG GB1}} {{GB|1|Promotional Card}} sprite
|image2=TCG2 P13 Flying Pikachu.png
|size2=64px
|caption2={{TCG GB2}} {{GB|2|Promotion Card}} sprite (P13)
|image3=TCG2 P14 Flying Pikachu.png
|size3=64px
|caption3={{TCG GB2}} {{GB|2|Promotion Card}} sprite (P14)
}}


==Trivia==
==Trivia==
*The Japanese versions of the card are identical with the exception that the print given on ANA features an airplane in the illustration.
The two Japanese Unnumbered Promotional prints have clauses under the card name stating "This card cannot evolve into {{p|Raichu}}."
*Since the release of this card, {{p|Pikachu}} that know {{m|Fly}} [[Pikachu variants#Flying Pikachu|have appeared in other Pokémon media]]. A Pikachu with Fly can be downloaded to a Pokémon video game at certain events.
* Flying Pikachu has a resistance to {{tcg|Fighting|Fighting-types}}, despite not being a {{type2|Flying}}, likely due to the fact that it can fly.
 
===Origin===
===Origin===
{{m|ThunderShock}} is a [[move]] in the [[Pokémon games]] that {{p|Pikachu}} can learn. {{m|Fly}} is also a move, though Pikachu cannot learn it under normal conditions.
{{m|ThunderShock}} is a [[move]] in the [[Pokémon games]] that {{p|Pikachu}} can learn. {{m|Fly}} is also a move, though Pikachu cannot learn it under normal conditions. [[Flying Pikachu]] have appeared in other Pokémon media since the release of this card.


{{Project TCG notice}}
{{Project TCG notice}}


[[Category:Pokémon cards]]
[[Category:Wizards Black Star Promotional cards]]
[[Category:Promotional cards]]
[[Category:Promotional cards]]
[[Category:Wizards Black Star Promotional cards]]
[[Category:Rising Rivals cards]]
[[Category:Rising Rivals cards]]
[[Category:Bonds to the End of Time cards]]
[[Category:Illus. by Toshinao Aoki]]
[[Category:Illus. by Toshinao Aoki]]
[[Category:Holographic cards]]
[[Category:Secret cards]]


[[ja:そらをとぶピカチュウLV.12 (プロモーションカード コロコロ)]]
[[de:Fliegendes Pikachu (Wizards Black Star Promos 25)]]
[[ja:そらをとぶピカチュウLV.12 (プロモーションカード ANA)]]
[[es:Pikachu Volador (WoTC Promo TCG)]]
[[fr:Pikachu volant (Platine Rivaux Émergeants 113)]]
[[it:Flying Pikachu (Wizards Promo 25)]]
[[ja:そらをとぶピカチュウ (DPt2-B)]]
[[ja:そらをとぶピカチュウ (DPt2-B)]]

Latest revision as of 01:10, 13 November 2023

Flying Pikachu LV.12
そらをとぶピカチュウ Flying Pikachu 		Lightning
FlyingPikachuRisingRivals113.jpg
Rising Rivals print
Illus. Toshinao Aoki
Evolution stage Basic Pokémon
Card name Flying Pikachu
Type Lightning
HP 40
weakness
None 		resistance
Fighting-30 		retreat cost
 
English expansion Wizards Black Star Promos
English card no. 25
Japanese expansion Unnumbered Promotional cards
TCG GB1 set Promotional Card
TCG GB1 ID P06
TCG GB2 set Promotion Card
TCG GB2 ID P13
Japanese expansion Unnumbered Promotional cards
TCG GB2 set Promotion Card
TCG GB2 ID P14
English expansion Rising Rivals
Rarity Rare Secret
English card no. 113/111
Japanese expansion Bonds to the End of Time
Japanese rarity Ultra-Rare Rare
Japanese card no. 090/090
For more information on this Pokémon's species, see Pikachu.

Flying Pikachu (Japanese: そらをとぶピカチュウ Flying Pikachu) is a Lightning-type Basic Pokémon card. It was first released as one of the Wizards Black Star Promos.

Card text

Wizards Black Star Promo print

Lightning Thundershock
でんきショック 		10
Flip a coin. If heads, the Defending Pokémon is now Paralyzed.
ColorlessColorlessColorless Fly
そらをとぶ 		30
Flip a coin. If heads, during your opponent's next turn, prevent all effects of attacks, including damage, done to Flying Pikachu; if tails, this attack does nothing (not even damage).


Pokédex data (Wizards Black Star Promo print)

Lightning
Lightning
Pikachu - Mouse Pokémon
No. Height Weight
025 1'4" (0.4 m) 13 lbs. (6 kg)
Pokédex entry
By learning how to fly, Pikachu overcame its weakness to Fighting Pokémon.
空を飛ぶことによって自らの弱点を克服したピカチュウだ。


Rising Rivals print

Lightning Thundershock
でんきショック 		10
Flip a coin. If heads, the Defending Pokémon is now Paralyzed.
ColorlessColorlessColorless Fly
そらをとぶ 		30
Flip a coin. If tails, this attack does nothing. If heads, prevent all effects of attacks, including damage, done to Flying Pikachu during your opponent's next turn.


Pokédex data (Rising Rivals print)

Lightning
Lightning
Pikachu - Mouse Pokémon
No. Height Weight
025 1'04" (0.4 m) 13.2 lbs. (6 kg)
Pokédex entry
By learning how to fly, Pikachu overcame its weakness to Fighting Pokémon.
そらをとぶ ことに よって みずからの じゃくてんを こくふくした ピカチュウだ。


Release information

This card was released as a Wizards Black Star Promo through the Pokémon League in August 2001. In Japan, it was first available as an Unnumbered Promotional card on an insert in the November 1997 issue of CoroCoro Comic, released on October 15, 1997. A mail-in prize draw offering another copy of the Japanese print was published in the December 1998 issue of CoroCoro Comic, released on November 15, 1998. People wishing to enter the prize draw were required to affix the application ticket on the bottom left of the article page to a postcard and send it to Shogakukan. Two thousand winners were sent a set of five cards mounted on two plain sheets: Surfing Pikachu and Flying Pikachu on one; Jynx, Cubone, and Farfetch'd on the other.

It was reprinted with slightly different artwork in Japan as another Unnumbered Promotional card and was distributed by All Nippon Airlines between November 1 and 31, 1998. Passengers flying in conjunction with the "Get in a Jet! Double Chance Campaign" could redeem two domestic boarding pass stubs for a two-card set that included Flying Pikachu and Dragonite. Five thousand of these passengers were also selected by lottery to receive either a children's-size ANA Pokémon Jet Stadium Jumper or a Game Boy Color.

A German version of the Wizards Black Star Promo print was included in the Pikachu World Collection, available to purchase exclusively at Pokémon Park 2000 held at Sydney University, Sydney, Australia from September 12 to October 4, 2000. This print features a gold foil Pikachu tail stamp opposite the Black Star Promo symbol. It was later reprinted as a retro card in the Rising Rivals expansion, first released in the Japanese Bonds to the End of Time expansion.

Gallery

FlyingPikachuWizardsPromo25.jpg
Wizards Black Star Promo print
Illus. Toshinao Aoki
FlyingPikachuANAPromo98.jpg
Unnumbered Promotional print
Illus. Toshinao Aoki
FlyingPikachuRisingRivals113.jpg
Rising Rivals print
Illus. Toshinao Aoki
Pikachu-World-Collection-2000-German.jpg
Pikachu World Collection 2000 print
Illus. Toshinao Aoki
RioluDiamondPearl61.jpg
Diamond & Pearl print
Illus. Ken Sugimori
RioluDiamondPearl61.jpg
Diamond & Pearl print
Illus. Ken Sugimori
RioluDiamondPearl61.jpg
Diamond & Pearl print
Illus. Ken Sugimori
RioluDiamondPearl61.jpg
Diamond & Pearl print
Illus. Ken Sugimori
RioluDiamondPearl61.jpg
Diamond & Pearl print
Illus. Ken Sugimori
RioluDiamondPearl61.jpg
Diamond & Pearl print
Illus. Ken Sugimori
RioluDiamondPearl61.jpg
Diamond & Pearl print
Illus. Ken Sugimori
RioluDiamondPearl61.jpg
Diamond & Pearl print
Illus. Ken Sugimori
RioluDiamondPearl61.jpg
Diamond & Pearl print
Illus. Ken Sugimori
RioluDiamondPearl61.jpg
Diamond & Pearl print
Illus. Ken Sugimori
RioluDiamondPearl61.jpg
Diamond & Pearl print
Illus. Ken Sugimori
RioluDiamondPearl61.jpg
Diamond & Pearl print
Illus. Ken Sugimori
RioluDiamondPearl61.jpg
Diamond & Pearl print
Illus. Ken Sugimori
RioluDiamondPearl61.jpg
Diamond & Pearl print
Illus. Ken Sugimori


TCG1 P06 Flying Pikachu.png
TCG GB1 Promotional Card sprite
TCG2 P13 Flying Pikachu.png
TCG GB2 Promotion Card sprite (P13)
TCG2 P14 Flying Pikachu.png
TCG GB2 Promotion Card sprite (P14)
RioluDiamondPearl61.jpg
Diamond & Pearl print
Illus. Ken Sugimori
RioluDiamondPearl61.jpg
Diamond & Pearl print
Illus. Ken Sugimori
RioluDiamondPearl61.jpg
Diamond & Pearl print
Illus. Ken Sugimori
RioluDiamondPearl61.jpg
Diamond & Pearl print
Illus. Ken Sugimori
RioluDiamondPearl61.jpg
Diamond & Pearl print
Illus. Ken Sugimori
RioluDiamondPearl61.jpg
Diamond & Pearl print
Illus. Ken Sugimori
RioluDiamondPearl61.jpg
Diamond & Pearl print
Illus. Ken Sugimori
RioluDiamondPearl61.jpg
Diamond & Pearl print
Illus. Ken Sugimori
RioluDiamondPearl61.jpg
Diamond & Pearl print
Illus. Ken Sugimori
RioluDiamondPearl61.jpg
Diamond & Pearl print
Illus. Ken Sugimori
RioluDiamondPearl61.jpg
Diamond & Pearl print
Illus. Ken Sugimori
RioluDiamondPearl61.jpg
Diamond & Pearl print
Illus. Ken Sugimori
RioluDiamondPearl61.jpg
Diamond & Pearl print
Illus. Ken Sugimori
RioluDiamondPearl61.jpg
Diamond & Pearl print
Illus. Ken Sugimori
RioluDiamondPearl61.jpg
Diamond & Pearl print
Illus. Ken Sugimori


Trivia

The two Japanese Unnumbered Promotional prints have clauses under the card name stating "This card cannot evolve into Raichu."

Origin

ThunderShock is a move in the Pokémon games that Pikachu can learn. Fly is also a move, though Pikachu cannot learn it under normal conditions. Flying Pikachu have appeared in other Pokémon media since the release of this card.


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