Elegant grasshopper

Zonocerus elegans

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).

Zonocerus elegans

Photo: © Romain Boisseau (original photo) · CC BY-SA 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

Zonocerus elegans is a common species of gaudy grasshopper in the family Pyrgomorphidae. It is native to Madagascar and sub-Saharan African savannah, though mainly south of the equator. It has sluggish habits and in many, underdeveloped wings. Adults measure some 3 to 5 cm (1.2 to 2.0 in) long, with males being smaller. Its life cycle is synchronized with rainfall.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article Zonocerus elegans, 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: 3,714 on iNaturalist
Adult mass: about 1 g

Wikipedia iNaturalist

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: Insect: HP 32, ATK 39 and DEF 29 out of 100 to start.
Popularity: 3,714 observations on iNaturalist: the better known a species is, the more HP it has.
Size: About 1 g: small animals are hard to catch, extra DEF.
Variation: A fixed variation, unique to the species, of up to 5% on each stat.