First Pikachu Promo of the Sword & Shield Era! By: Water Pokémon Master Posted 4 months ago to TCG 11 comments A new Pikachu promo has been revealed from the Sword & Shield era. It features Grookey, Scorbunny, and Sobble in the artwork. Pikachu – Lightning – HP70 Basic Pokemon [C][C] Iron Tail: 30x damage. Flip a coin until you get tails. This attack does 30 damage for each heads. [L][C][C] Electro Ball: 60 damage. Weakness: Fighting (x2) Resistance: none Retreat: 1 The promo was revealed on Japan’s 7-11 website. You can get it for preordering Sword or Shield from their online store. I believe this is the first Pikachu card since the Diamond & Pearl era that doesn’t have a Resistance to Metal. Could this be a hint of new type changes coming? The existence of this card also means full art cards will be returning to the Sword & Shield era. Not that there was any doubt. Thanks goes to Tunu for the translation! Update: Added a better image. It reveals the card is numbered #001/S-P.
Perhaps resistance will be made exclusive to evolution cards. Or maybe it's an effort to help Metal in the meta.
Pikachu has been without Metal Resistance during the BW Era of the TCG, it was only in the XY Set that the Lightning types got their metal Resistance back. Maybe they are losing Metal Resistance again to help the Metal types become more useful (just like Lightning types will become more useful as evidenced by the fact that Sobble has Lightning Weakness instead of Grass Weakness).
How does one go about pre-ordering From Japan 7-11 without speaking the language and have it shipped to the US? My kiddo would love this card.
Looks like the Japanese promo designation will be S-P for Swish? I guess I like that better than the English SWSH.
Interesting. Like what I'm seeing so far and looking forward to the English translation of it. Makes me wonder now if there are similar cards like that one for the other former Gens.
