Card
- Set
- Rising Rivals
- Number
- 25/111
- Rarity
- Rare
- Category
- Pokémon
- HP
- 110
- Stage
- Stage1
- Evolves from
- Hippopotas
- Illustrator
- Tomoaki Imakuni
What it does
Poke-BODY Sand Cover
As long as Hippowdon is your Active Pokémon, put 1 damage counter on each of your opponent's Pokémon LV.X between turns.
Colorless Save Sand 20+
Does 20 damage plus 10 more damage for each Energy attached to Hippowdon. Before doing damage, you may search your discard pile for a Fighting Energy card and attach it to Hippowdon.
Fighting Fighting Colorless Colorless Groundquake 80
Does 10 damage to each Benched Pokémon that isn't an Evolved Pokémon (both yours and your opponent's). (Don't apply Weakness and Resistance for Benched Pokémon).
In play
- Weakness
- Water +20
- Resistance
- Lightning -20
- Retreat cost
- 4
Where you can play it
The same check the deck builder makes.
- Ditto Draft
- Expanded
- Gym Leader Challenge
- Legacy
- Standard — Hippowdon is not Standard-legal (regulation mark out of rotation).
- Worlds 2015 — Hippowdon is from a set that isn't legal in Worlds 2015.
Other printings
Same card, different set — legality can differ.