Pikachu VMAX (SWSH Promo 286)

Pikachu   ピカチュウVMAX PikachuVMAX

Illus. AKIRA EGAWA

Evolution stage Pokémon VMAX Evolves from Pikachu V Gigantamax Card name Pikachu VMAX Type Lightning HP 310 weakness ×2 resistance None retreat cost English expansion SWSH Black Star Promos English card no. SWSH286 Japanese expansion S-P Promotional cards Japanese card no. 265/S-P For more information on this Pokémon's species, see Pikachu.

Pikachu (Japanese: ピカチュウVMAX PikachuVMAX) is a Lightning-type VMAX Pokémon VMAX card. It is one of the SWSH Black Star Promos.

Card text

Tail Charge

じゅうでんテール

30

Attach up to 3 Energy cards from your discard pile to 1 of your Pokémon.

G-Max Thunder

キョダイカミナリ

250

VMAX Rule

When your Pokémon VMAX is Knocked Out, your opponent takes 3 Prize cards.

Release information

This card was released as a SWSH Black Star Promo and was available in the Crown Zenith Special Collection—Pikachu VMAX from February 17, 2023, and the Crown Zenith Premium Collection—Pikachu VMAX from November 10, 2023. A Jumbo version was also included in the collections. In Japan, it was released as a S-P Promotional card and was available as an insert in the February 2022 issue of CoroCoro Comic, released on January 15, 2022. The Japanese print features the CoroCoro Comic logo on the right edge of the illustration.

Trivia

Origin

This card features Gigantamax Pikachu. G-Max Thunder appears to be a G-Max Move version of Thunder, a movein the Pokémon games that Pikachu can learn. However, the Japanese name for Thunder can be translated to to Lightning. But then Max Lightning, a Max Move, translates closer to Dai Thunder, and the attack can be translated as Kyodai Thunder So one could read the attack as a G-Max Move version of Max Lighting.

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