This modern Japanese Golem card captures the species at its most explosive, framed in a metallic orange burst of shattered rock and kinetic force. The artwork emphasises Golem’s identity as the Megaton Pokémon — a creature defined by geological density, internal pressure, and catastrophic release of energy. With its aggressive stance and debris flying outward, this card embodies the raw destructive potential of a living boulder on the brink of detonation.
Card Details
Card Name: ゴローニャ (Golem)
Type: Fighting
HP: 150
Set: XY‑era Japanese set (042/080 U)
Illustrator: Suniyoshi Kikuchi
Year of Release: 2016 Language: Japanese
Card Text & Attacks
ストーンエッジ — Stone Edge: 60+
Flip a coin. If heads, this attack does 30 more damage.
だいばくはつ — Self‑Destruct: 150
This Pokémon also does 100 damage to itself.
Pokédex Data:
National Dex No. 076
Megaton Pokémon
Height: 1.4 m
Weight: 300.0 kg
Weakness: Grass ×2
Retreat Cost: ★★★
Collector’s Notes
This Golem is a quintessential example of the XY BREAK era’s visual style: high‑contrast metallic backgrounds, dynamic motion, and a sense of explosive impact. The orange foil evokes heated rock, magma glow, and the shockwave of a geological detonation — perfectly suited to a Pokémon whose biology is tied to pressure, density, and violent release of stored energy.
The attacks reinforce this identity. Stone Edge reflects precision‑based lithic strikes, while Self‑Destruct is one of the most geologically thematic moves in the franchise — a catastrophic rupture of internal structure, mirroring real‑world explosive decompression in unstable rock formations.
Suniyoshi Kikuchi’s illustration emphasises Golem’s mineral armour, with fractured plates and flying debris suggesting tectonic force. As a modern interpretation of a classic rock‑type, this card bridges early geological design with contemporary TCG aesthetics.
