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Blastoise & Piplup GX card from the Cosmic Eclipse set
Illustration by Mitsuhiro Arita. Card image via the Pokémon TCG API.
Basic Pokémon

Blastoise & Piplup GX

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A powerful TAG TEAM-GX Pokémon that controls the board with water energy and paralysis.

Water270 HPBasicBeginner to play

What this card does

Splash Maker lets you attach up to three Water Energy cards from your hand to any of your Pokémon and heal damage.

Bubble Launcher GX paralyzes the opponent's Active Pokémon and deals extra damage if you have enough Water Energy attached.

Signature attack

Splash Maker

You may attach up to 3 Water Energy cards from your hand to your Pokémon in any way you like. If you do, heal 50 damage from those Pokémon for each card you attached to them in this way. (150 damage)

This card allows you to rapidly build up energy resources while healing your team. The GX attack adds a status effect that hinders the opponent, making it a strong strategic tool.

Attacks

WWC
Splash Maker150

You may attach up to 3 Water Energy cards from your hand to your Pokémon in any way you like. If you do, heal 50 damage from those Pokémon for each card you attached to them in this way.

WWC
Bubble Launcher GX100+

Your opponent’s Active Pokémon is now Paralyzed. If this Pokémon has at least 3 extra Water Energy attached to it (in addition to this attack’s cost), this attack does 150 more damage. (You can’t use more than 1 GX attack in a game.)

Which deck it belongs in

It suits aggressive Water-type decks that focus on quickly attaching multiple Energy cards. It works well in strategies that aim to overwhelm the opponent with high damage and board control.

Strengths
  • High HP
  • Board control
  • Healing capability
Watch out for
  • Weak to Grass
  • One-time GX use
  • Energy dependency
Pro tip

Use Splash Maker early to set up energy and heal, then switch to Bubble Launcher GX when the opponent is vulnerable.

From the Pokédex

Blastoise has water cannons on its shell that can shoot powerful jets of water.

Note for the parent

Remind your child they can only use the Bubble Launcher GX attack once per entire game, so they should save it for a key moment.

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