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Dark Machoke

Pokémon · Stage1 · RO 40

Dark Machoke
Fighting

Card

Set
Team Rocket
Number
40/82
Rarity
Uncommon
Category
Pokémon
HP
60
Stage
Stage1
Evolves from
Machop
Illustrator
Mitsuhiro Arita

What it does

Fighting Fighting Colorless Drag Off 20

Before doing damage, choose 1 of your opponent's Benched Pokémon and switch it with the Defending Pokémon. Do the damage to the new Defending Pokémon. This attack can't be used if your opponent has no Benched Pokémon.

Fighting Fighting Colorless Knock Back 30

If your opponent has any Benched Pokémon, he or she chooses 1 of them and switches it with the Defending Pokémon. (Do the damage before switching the Pokémon.)

In play

Weakness
Psychic ×2
Retreat cost
2

Where you can play it

The same check the deck builder makes.

  • Ditto Draft
  • Expanded
  • Gym Leader Challenge
  • Legacy
  • Standard — Dark Machoke is not Standard-legal (regulation mark out of rotation).
  • Worlds 2015 — Dark Machoke is from a set that isn't legal in Worlds 2015.