Pyramid Butterflyfish

Hemitaurichthys polylepis

Fishstrong against mammals, arachnids

Common

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).

Hemitaurichthys polylepis

Photo: © Rob (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 pyramid butterflyfish (Hemitaurichthys polylepis) is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a butterflyfish belonging to the family Chaetodontidae, native from central Indo-Pacific.

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

Least Concern on the IUCN Red List: that’s what makes this card Common.

Observations: 1,459 on iNaturalist
Adult mass: 58 g
Diet: Carnivore

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Where its stats come from100 points, the Common budget

Every Common card has 100 points, shared between HP, ATK and DEF:

HP 29
ATK 33
DEF 38

How they’re shared out:

Type: Fish: HP 33, ATK 30 and DEF 37 out of 100 to start.
Popularity: 1,459 observations on iNaturalist: the better known a species is, the more HP it has.