Arroyo Chub

Gila orcuttii

Fishstrong against mammals, arachnids

Rare

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 orcuttii

Photo: © Zack Abbey (original photo) · CC BY 4.0 (licence text) · 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

The arroyo chub (Gila orcuttii) 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 found only in the coastal streams of southern California, United States.

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

Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List: that’s what makes this card Rare.

Observations: 258 on iNaturalist
Adult mass: 640 g

Wikipedia iNaturalist

Where its stats come from130 points, the Rare budget

Every Rare card has 130 points, shared between HP, ATK and DEF:

HP 36
ATK 44
DEF 50

How they’re shared out:

Type: Fish: HP 33, ATK 30 and DEF 37 out of 100 to start.
Popularity: 258 observations on iNaturalist: the better known a species is, the more HP it has.