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Cards/Snorlax GX
Snorlax GX card from the SM Black Star Promos set
Illustration by 5ban Graphics. Card image via the Pokémon TCG API.
Basic Pokémon

Snorlax GX

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A heavy hitting sleeping giant that trades its own sleepiness for massive damage.

Colorless190 HPBasicBeginner to play

What this card does

The card has 190 hit points and requires five energy cards to use its strongest attacks.

It can attack while asleep using Thunderous Snore for 180 damage or Collapse for 80 damage.

Pulverizing Pancake GX deals 210 damage but puts Snorlax to sleep and cannot be used more than once per game.

Signature attack

Pulverizing Pancake GX

This Pokémon is now Asleep. (You can’t use more than 1 GX attack in a game.) (210 damage)

Snorlax uses its sleeping state as a weapon rather than a weakness. You must manage when it falls asleep to ensure you can unleash its powerful attacks.

Attacks

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Collapse80

This Pokémon is now Asleep.

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Thunderous Snore180

This attack can be used if this Pokémon is Asleep. If it is not Asleep, this attack does nothing.

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Pulverizing Pancake GX210

This Pokémon is now Asleep. (You can’t use more than 1 GX attack in a game.)

Which deck it belongs in

This card suits decks that focus on dealing heavy damage with fewer cards in play. It works well in strategies that actively induce sleep to bring out its high damage output.

Strengths
  • High damage potential
  • Simple mechanics
  • Big hit points
Watch out for
  • Cannot use GX attacks twice
  • Vulnerable to Fighting types
  • Requires many energy cards
Pro tip

Use a card that puts opponents to sleep to keep the initiative while your Snorlax is resting.

From the Pokédex

Snorlax is known for sleeping almost all day and eating huge amounts of food when it wakes up.

Note for the parent

Explain to your child that they must plan ahead to make Snorlax sleep before the big attacks become available.

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