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Flying Pikachu LV.12
そらをとぶピカチュウ Flying Pikachu
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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.
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Wizards Black Star Promo print
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| Flip a coin. If heads, the Defending Pokémon is now Paralyzed.
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| 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).
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Pokédex data (Wizards Black Star Promo print)
Rising Rivals print
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| Flip a coin. If heads, the Defending Pokémon is now Paralyzed.
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| 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.
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Pokédex data (Rising Rivals print)
Release information
In Japan, this card was available as an insert with the November 1996 issue of CoroCoro Comic. The English version of the card was released through the Pokémon League in August 2001. The card was also released with slightly different artwork in Japan as a special card through All Nippon Airways in 1998. Passengers flying in conjunction with the "Pokémon Getaways" campaign could redeem their boarding passes for a two-card set that included Flying Pikachu and Dragonite. This variant card has an airplane added to the artwork, and was never released in English. The original print was later reprinted as a retro card in the Rising Rivals expansion, previously reprinted in the Japanese Bonds to the End of Time expansion.
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Trivia
Since the release of this card, Pikachu that know Fly have appeared in other Pokémon media. A Pikachu with Fly can be downloaded to a Pokémon video game via certain events or game peripherals.
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.
