Saltillo Chub

Gila modesta

Fishstrong against mammals, arachnids

Epic

School

While active with another fish in play, a fish on your bench absorbs up to 9 of the damage this card takes, without being knocked out (18 with two others).

Gila modesta

Reconstruction: © Wikapi (original image) · original illustration · cropped

In battle

Strong against

Mammals
Arachnids

Weak against

Birds
Insects

Strong against: it deals 20% more damage to them. Weak against: these types deal 20% more damage to it.

The species

Salinas chub (Gila modesta) is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Leuciscidae, which includes the daces, chubs, Eurasian minnows and related species. This species is endemic to northeastetern Mexico in the Chorro stream, part of the headwaters of the Río Salinas catchment in the Rio San Juan basin near Saltillo in Coahuila, it is classified as endangered.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article Salinas chub, by its authors, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

Endangered on the IUCN Red List: that’s what makes this card Epic.

Observations: 36 on iNaturalist
Adult mass: about 107 g

Wikipedia iNaturalist

Where its stats come from145 points, the Epic budget

Every Epic card has 145 points, shared between HP, ATK and DEF:

HP 39
ATK 47
DEF 59

How they’re shared out:

Type: Fish: HP 33, ATK 30 and DEF 37 out of 100 to start.