Character info
The character
Electrode is the Ball Pokemon, a round electric-type creature that evolves from Voltorb. In the games and anime it is known for storing high-pressure electrical energy and for exploding with little or no provocation. Its Pokedex number is 101, and it is a staple electric-type found throughout the Pokemon franchise.
This card
This is the Electrode card from the Jungle set, numbered 18/64, printed in unlimited edition with the rare rarity symbol. The artwork, illustrated by Mitsuhiro Arita, shows a close-up of Electrode's spherical body with its wide grinning mouth against an orange radiating background. The card bears the 1999 Wizards of the Coast copyright along with the Nintendo, Creatures, and GAMEFREAK copyrights.
How it plays
Electrode is a Stage 1 Pokemon with 90 HP that evolves from Voltorb. Its first attack, Tackle, costs two Colorless Energy and deals 20 damage. Its second attack, Chain Lightning, costs three Lightning Energy and deals 20 damage, with an added effect that if the Defending Pokemon isn't Colorless, it also deals 10 damage to each Benched Pokemon of the same type as the Defending Pokemon, including the player's own. It has a weakness to Fighting, no listed resistance, and a retreat cost of one Colorless Energy.
Written with AI from the card and its catalogue entry, and checked by WinnTCG.
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Card details confirmed
A card with this name and number exists in the public card catalogue, in Jungle, a set of 64 cards, rarity R. The details on this certificate match it.
Illustrated by Mitsuhiro Arita and published 1999-06-16. Both come from the public catalogue, not from WinnTCG.
A catalogue match is not the authenticity check. It confirms the card is the card it claims to be. Whether it is genuine was checked separately, on the card itself; see Authenticity below.
About this card
#101 in the National Pokédex · a Generation I Pokémon · 253 different cards of it exist · it evolves from Voltorb.
It stores electrical energy under very high pressure. It often explodes with little or no provocation.
From the card and the public catalogue, not written by WinnTCG.
Authenticity
WinnTCG authenticated this card in hand, on the bench, against genuine Pokémon cards. It was checked four ways: light shone through it to check the core, its weight on a scale, its thickness measured, and its print pattern and surface texture under magnification.
How this card was graded
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The working behind this grade
Every grade here is published with its reasoning. The report states what each measurement returned, what the model proposed on each axis, where the grader disagreed with it, and every defect marked on the photographs above.