Giant Shield Bug

Pycanum rubens

Insectstrong against fungi, fish

Common

Swarm

While active with another insect in play, each of its attacks also hits the opposing bench for 10, without knocking them out (20 with two others).

Pycanum rubens

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

In battle

Strong against

Fungi
Fish

Weak against

Amphibians
Arachnids

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

The species

Pycanum rubens is a species of giant stink bug in the family Tessaratomidae. The species is widespread, and has been recorded in Borneo, Burma, China (Yunnan), India (Hindustan), Indonesia, Java, the Malay Peninsula, Moluccas, Philippines, Sumatra, and Vietnam.

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

No global status on the IUCN Red List: that’s what makes this card Common.

Observations: 2,564 on iNaturalist
Adult mass: about 30 mg

Wikipedia iNaturalist

Where its stats come from100 points, the Common budget

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

HP 30
ATK 31
DEF 39

How they’re shared out:

Type: Insect: HP 32, ATK 39 and DEF 29 out of 100 to start.
Popularity: 2,564 observations on iNaturalist: the better known a species is, the more HP it has.