How many Pokémon can I have on my bench?

PUT Basic Pokémon cards on the Bench (as many as you want). Choose a Basic Pokémon card from your hand and put it face up on your Bench. You can have no more than 5 Pokémon on your Bench at any time, so you can put a new Basic Pokémon card there only if your Bench has 4 or fewer Pokémon on it.
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What is the max benched Pokémon?

Each player can have 8 Pokémon on his or her Bench. (When this card leaves play, each player discards Benched Pokémon until he or she has 5 Pokémon on the Bench.
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How many Pokémon cards can you have in your hand?

It can be a total of 57 cards after you start your turn. One as a prize, one as a basic, and one as an energy. So yes, there is no limit to hand size unless something affects it.
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What happens if you run out of bench Pokémon?

The rules only require that the player have one Pokemon in the active position. Pokemon on the bench are optional. If the opponents active Pokemon is knocked out, and they have no pokemon on the bench to replace it, the attacking player wins.
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Can you have more than 5 Pokémon on your bench?

PUT Basic Pokémon cards on the Bench (as many as you want). Choose a Basic Pokémon card from your hand and put it face up on your Bench. You can have no more than 5 Pokémon on your Bench at any time, so you can put a new Basic Pokémon card there only if your Bench has 4 or fewer Pokémon on it.
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Can you evolve Pokemon on the bench?

Do you lose if you have no Pokémon on the bench?

If you defeat an opponent's active Pokémon and they have no available Pokémon on their bench to replace it, you can also claim victory. If your opponent runs out of cards in their deck, and therefore can't draw a card at the beginning of their turn, you win.
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Can benched Pokemon take damage?

Yes, it does. When an attack does damage to a Benched Pokémon, who chooses which Pokémon takes damage? Unless specified otherwise, the owner of the Pokémon using the attack chooses.
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Can you move energy from one Pokémon to another?

Energy Switch offers a quick and simple way to move energy from one Pokémon to another.
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What happens if you have no cards in your hand Pokemon?

If you attempt to draw a card when your library is empty, you lose the game. Even if your hand is empty, the rules remain the same, and you still only draw one.
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What is the rarest Pokemon card?

The most expensive Pokémon trading card in the world is the 1998 Pikachu Illustrator card. Only six of these cards exist. They were created for a contest run by CoroCoro Comics in which children were invited to design their own Pokémon trading cards. The six winners won these holofoil trophy cards.
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What is the Mulligan rule in Pokémon?

When taking a mulligan, show your hand to your opponent and shuffle it back into the deck. Then draw seven new cards from the top. Repeat this until you have at least one basic character card in your hand. Your opponent can choose to add one card to their hand for every mulligan you take.
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What happens if you don't draw a basic Pokémon?

If you don't have any Basic Pokémon, what do you do? First, reveal your hand to your opponent and shuffle your hand back into your deck. Then, draw 7 more cards. If you still don't have any Basic Pokémon, repeat.
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Can you evolve multiple Pokémon in one turn?

It is true that you can evolve as many of your Pokemon if you want but only if they can evolve. Say you have three Pidgey in play and they have been there for at least one turn. You can evolve each of them into Pidgeotto, i.e. as often as you want. You can't evolve them into Pidgeot until your next turn.
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What are the rules for asleep Pokémon?

If a Pokémon is Asleep, it can't attack, or retreat back to the bench by paying a retreat cost. At the end of a turn, flip a coin—if you flip a heads, the Pokémon wakes up. If tails, it stays Asleep. To show that it's Asleep, point the top of the card to the left for AsLeep.
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Do Pokémon power work on the bench?

When attaching Energy during my turn, can I attach it to a Basic Pokémon I just put on my Bench this turn? Yes, you can. During your turn, you may attach Energy to any of your Pokémon, even one you just played this turn.
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What Pokémon Cannot be transferred?

You're unable to transfer multiple Shiny Pokémon, Lucky Pokémon, or Buddy Pokémon with whom you've reached Good Buddy status or above at a time. Additionally, certain Legendary and some Mythical Pokémon (e.g. Mew, Celebi) are not able to be selected for transfer.
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What Pokémon Cannot be transferred to home?

Pokémon you can't send to Pokémon HOME
  • Origin Forme Giratina will become Altered Forme Giratina.
  • Sunshine Form Cherrim will become Overcast Form Cherrim.
  • Sunny Form, Rainy Form, and Snowy Form Castform will become Castform in its usual form.
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What does 60x mean on a Pokemon card?

60x means number of heads * 60.
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What does GX mean in Pokémon?

“Giga” is the next metric prefix (it means billion). GX is meant to: Denote the next level of power after Mega (Giga comes after Mega) Establish ties with the existing EX mechanic (It's GX not Giga Ex and functions like EX)
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Do you have to put a Pokémon in the active spot?

It is mandatory to have an active Pokémon! This goes so far, that if you don't have a basic Pokémon in your hand at the beginning of the game, you get a mulligan - show your cards to your opponent, put your hand back into the deck, shuffle and draw a new starting hand.
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Can I remove a Pokémon from a gym?

A Pokemon will stay in a gym until its “motivation" hits “0” - or until it is knocked out by a trainer of a different team. If you find an unpopular gym (with no nearby trainers), and drop the right defender into it, your defender may stay indefinitely, with regular feeding of golden berries.
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Does it matter what Pokémon you leave at a gym?

Claim an open Gym for your team

Only one Pokémon of a single species can be assigned to a Gym at one time. So if there's a Pikachu assigned to a Gym, you won't be able to assign another Pikachu.
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