Every Empoleon card

The short version

Empoleon has three printings in Pokémon TCG Pocket, across two expansions — the earliest in Space-Time Smackdown and the most recent in Mega Shine. It is a Stage 2 Water-type Pokémon printed at between 130 and 150 HP, weak to Lightning, with a retreat cost of 1. They run to two rarities — two Rares and one Art Rare. The hardest to pull is the Art Rare from Mega Shine, at about 1 in 47 packs, or 400 Pack Points to buy outright. Nine hunts in ten end inside 106 packs, which is about 8 weeks at the two free packs a day the game gives you. The printings come out of the Mega Shine and Palkia packs. The most recent is Empoleon #020, from an expansion that shipped in March 2026. That printing attacks with Emperor’s Strike for 80+. The card’s own words: “It avoids unnecessary disputes, but it will mercilessly decimate anything that threatens the safety of its colony.” It has been drawn by two artists, kawayoo more than anyone else with two cards.

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