Island Grouper

Mycteroperca fusca

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).

Mycteroperca fusca

Photo: © Michael Bommerer (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

Mycteroperca fusca, the Island grouper or comb grouper, is a species of grouper from the family Serranidae which is endemic to the Macaronesian Islands in the eastern Atlantic. It is classified as Vulnerable in The IUCN Red List of Endangered Species.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article Mycteroperca fusca, 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: 1,017 on iNaturalist
Adult mass: 5.1 kg

Wikipedia iNaturalist

Where its stats come from130 points, the Rare budget

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

HP 37
ATK 45
DEF 48

How they’re shared out:

Type: Fish: HP 33, ATK 30 and DEF 37 out of 100 to start.
Popularity: 1,017 observations on iNaturalist: the better known a species is, the more HP it has.