Rocket's Scizor (Best of Game 4)

Rocket's Scizor   R団のハッサム Rocket's Hassam

Illus. K. Hoshiba

Evolution stage Basic Pokémon Card name Rocket's Scizor Type Metal HP 60 weakness ×2 resistance -30 retreat cost English expansion Best of Game English card no. 4 Japanese expansion P Promotional cards Japanese card no. 002/P For more information on this Pokémon's species, see Scizor.

Rocket's Scizor (Japanese: R団のハッサム Rocket's Hassam) is a Metal-type Basic Pokémon card. It was released as a Best of Game promotional card.

Card text

Focus きあいだめ

During your next turn, Rocket's Scizor's Agility attack's base damage is doubled.

Agility こうそくいどう 20

Flip a coin. If heads, during your opponent's next turn, prevent all effects of attacks, including damage, done to Rocket's Scizor.

Pokédex data

Scizor - Scissors Pokémon
No.	Height	Weight
212	5'11" (1.8 m)	260 lbs. (118.0 kg)

Release information

This card was released as a promotional card. The Japanese version of this card was released in Trainer Magazine #12. The English version of this card was released at BattleZone events in March 2003. There was another version, which includes a gold "Winner" stamp in the bottom right corner of the artwork. A jumbo versions of the card was also released, with the winner logo, which lack the reverse-holographic treatment.

Trivia

• This card was the second of only two VS-style cards to see release outside Japan, the other being Rocket's Sneasel, and the only VS-style card to see release outside Japan that wouldn't be a Basic Pokémon in a traditional style.
  • At the same time, like several other VS-styled cards, this card could technically have been an evolution card, as a card of Rocket's Scyther had been previously released.

Origin

Focus's Japanese name is that of Focus Energy, a move in the Pokémon games that Scizor can learn. Agility is also a move that Scizor can learn.

This article is part of Project TCG, a Bulbapedia project that aims to report on every aspect of the Pokémon Trading Card Game.