Blackspotted Puffer

Arothron nigropunctatusBlue

The Blackspotted Puffer is a reef fish with a rounded body, expressive face, and highly variable coloration ranging from dark grey to bright yellow, all marked by scattered black spotting. It moves with calm precision along lagoons and coral slopes, often seeming almost curious as it inspects crevices and hard surfaces.

RareBlackspotted Puffer

HP 2650ATK 2550DEF 2500Level 0/10

In battle

HP: 2,650
ATK: 2,550
DEF: 2,500
Energy cost: 2

Passive Skills

50% Chance of dodging an attack
For each successful dodge, ATK and DEF +10% (70% max)
Initial boost of damage reduction +30%, decreased by 10% for each hit dealt

Attack Effects

Poisons enemy (30% of attack value)
Consume 1 energy point

Overview

The animal behind the card

Its beak-like mouth is built to crush hard prey such as mollusks, crustaceans, and other armored invertebrates, and like other puffers it can inflate its body when threatened. The species also carries potent toxins in its tissues, a defense that makes many predators think twice even if they can overcome the inflation display.

Usually solitary and territorial, it gives reefs a very different kind of predator presence than fast pursuit fish do. The Blackspotted Puffer shows how coral ecosystems also depend on slow, well-defended specialists that patrol by persistence, not speed.