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Cards/Starmie V
Starmie V card from the Astral Radiance set
Illustration by Eske Yoshinob. Card image via the Pokémon TCG API.
Basic Pokémon

Starmie V

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A powerful water-type attacker that scales its damage based on the opponent's resources.

Water190 HPBasicBeginner to play

What this card does

It deals 50 damage with Swift, ignoring all weakness and resistance modifiers.

It uses Energy Spiral to deal 50 damage for every Energy card attached to all of your opponent's Pokémon.

Signature attack

Swift

This attack's damage isn't affected by Weakness or Resistance, or by any effects on your opponent's Active Pokémon. (50 damage)

The key feature is the Energy Spiral attack which grows stronger as your opponent builds their bench. This means you can deal massive damage if they have many Pokemon in play.

Attacks

CC
Swift50

This attack's damage isn't affected by Weakness or Resistance, or by any effects on your opponent's Active Pokémon.

WW
Energy Spiral50×

This attack does 50 damage for each Energy attached to all of your opponent's Pokémon.

Which deck it belongs in

This card suits decks that aim to overwhelm the opponent with multiple Pokemon on the bench. It works well in strategies that focus on resource accumulation and sudden high damage bursts.

Strengths
  • Ignores weakness
  • Scales with opponent's bench
  • High potential damage
Watch out for
  • Lightning weakness
  • Requires many opponent energies
  • Basic Pokemon vulnerability
Pro tip

Try to attack when the opponent has several Pokemon in play to maximise the Energy Spiral damage.

From the Pokédex

Starmie is known for its mysterious core that glows with a soft blue light.

Note for the parent

Ask your child how many Energy cards are attached to their opponent's Pokemon to understand why this attack is so dangerous.

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