Lake Kutubu Rainbowfish

Melanotaenia lacustris

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).

Melanotaenia lacustris

Photo: © Klaus Rudloff (original photo) · CC BY-SA 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 Lake Kutubu rainbowfish (Melanotaenia lacustris) is a species of fish in the family Melanotaeniidae. It is also known as turquoise rainbowfish. It is one of 13

fish endemic to Lake Kutubu, a lake found within the Kikori River system in Papua New Guinea.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article Lake Kutubu rainbowfish, 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: 51 on iNaturalist
Adult mass: 10 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 40
ATK 44
DEF 61

How they’re shared out:

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