Gilded catfish

Brachyplatystoma rousseauxii

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).

Brachyplatystoma rousseauxii

Photo: © Cool critter channel (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

Brachyplatystoma rousseauxii, the gilded catfish or dorado catfish or dourada, is a species of catfish of the family Pimelodidae that is native to the Amazon and Orinoco River basins and major rivers of French Guiana.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article Brachyplatystoma rousseauxii, 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: 19 on iNaturalist
Adult mass: 71 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 52
DEF 41

How they’re shared out:

Type: Fish: HP 33, ATK 30 and DEF 37 out of 100 to start.
Popularity: 19 observations on iNaturalist: too few for extra HP.