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Cards/Wishiwashi GX
Wishiwashi GX card from the Cosmic Eclipse set
Illustration by sadaji. Card image via the Pokémon TCG API.
Basic Pokémon

Wishiwashi GX

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A large Water-type Pokemon that searches for new allies and scales its damage with team size.

Water130 HPBasicBeginner to play

What this card does

Wishiwashi GX has 130 HP and is a Water type.

The School Storm attack deals 20 damage for each Wishiwashi you have in play.

The Massive Catch GX ability lets you look at the top 12 cards of your deck to find Basic Pokemon.

Signature attack

School Storm

This attack does 20 damage for each of your Wishiwashi and Wishiwashi-GX in play. (20× damage)

The School Storm attack grows stronger as you add more Wishiwashi to the battlefield. It turns a single card into a heavy hitter by counting its teammates to determine the damage.

Attacks

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School Storm20×

This attack does 20 damage for each of your Wishiwashi and Wishiwashi-GX in play.

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Massive Catch GX

Look at the top 12 cards of your deck and put any number of Basic Pokémon you find there onto your Bench. Shuffle the other cards back into your deck. (You can’t use more than 1 GX attack in a game.)

Which deck it belongs in

This card suits decks that focus on playing multiple copies of itself or other Water types. It works well in strategies that need to quickly fill the Bench with Basic Pokemon.

Strengths
  • Scalable damage
  • Bench search
  • High HP
Watch out for
  • One GX limit
  • Lightning weakness
  • Requires multiple copies
Pro tip

Play more Wishiwashi cards to make the School Storm attack deal significantly more damage.

From the Pokédex

Wishiwashi lives in large schools but can transform into a solitary form when threatened.

Note for the parent

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

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