African Five-lined Skink

African Five-lined Skink

Trachylepis quinquetaeniata

Reptilestrong against amphibians, mammals

Common

Scales

While active with another reptile in play, it takes 3 less damage (6 with two others).

32

28

40

Trachylepis quinquetaeniata

Photo: © Joey Bom (original photo) · CC BY 4.0 (licence text) · cropped

In battle

Strong against

• Amphibians
• Mammals

Weak against

• Birds
• Fungi

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

The species

The African five-lined skink (Trachylepis quinquetaeniata, formerly Mabuya quinquetaeniata), or rainbow mabuya, is a north-central African species of skink lizard.

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T. margaritifera is another closely related skink species that is also called the "rainbow skink" (although it occurs primarily in Eastern Africa); T. margaritifera, overall, possesses more colourful, "rainbow"-like scales (as opposed to the predominantly blue, black and yellowish five-lined skink, T. quinquetaeniata).

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

1. LC
2. NT
3. VU
4. EN
5. CR
6. EX

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

Observations

1,369 on iNaturalist

Adult mass

11 g

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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 32
• ATK 28
• DEF

How they’re shared out:

Type

Reptile: HP 36, ATK 30 and DEF 34 out of 100 to start.

Popularity

1,369 observations on iNaturalist: the better known a species is, the more HP it has.

Size

11 g: small animals are hard to catch, extra DEF.

Variation

A fixed variation, unique to the species, of up to 5% on each stat.