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Tank (サイカ Saika) is a Saichania and the Alpha Gang's third dinosaur. Ed and Laura use her frequently, but she has also been used by Ursula, Zander, and once by Seth.

Statistics

Arcade Stats

Tank card

Tank arcade combined card (Japanese McDonald Happy Set Meal Edition)

Availability

Like all anime dinosaurs except Black Tyrannosaurus, her card was only available in the Japanese and Taiwanese versions, but can be used in the English arcade.

Anime Stats

9

Tank anime card

Move Cards

Dino Swing
Tank bites the dinosaur's tail and swings them around several times before tossing them away! It was first used against Utahraptor and last used against Ampelosaurus.
Earth Barrier
Chunks of earth fly up when Tank stomps the ground, expanding into a glowing crystal dome, protecting her from her opponent! It was only used to defend against Daspletosaurus's Fire Bomb.
Earthquake
Tank stomps the ground, opening up a narrow crevice that her opponent falls into, and then slams shut! It defeated Daspletosaurus and was also used in the Fusion Move against the Black T-Rex.
Tail Smash
Tank hits the opponent with her tail! It was only used to flip herself right-side up and attack Fukuisaurus, but she was defeated before reaching it. Many times before she had also made a signature tail-swinging attack similar to Tail Smash, but without the use of a Move Card.
Ultimate Earth
While wearing DinoTector Armor, crystals stick up around Tank's path, which she charges through, absorbing power and speed as she breaks them, and then slams into her opponent! It defeated Gabbro's Carcharodontosaurus, but was blocked by Gigas and was never used again.
Quake Saber
A crystal sword forms on Tank's tail to slice her opponent with! This was only used against Genie.
Tupuxuara Dive
Tupuxuara flies in and divebombs Tank's opponent! It was only used to save Zoe from the collapsing bridge in the 17th Century Paris Arc and to drive Foolscap away.
Spike Arrows
Energy surged across Tank's back and up her tail, and a she shot a swarm of crystal spikes from her tail! It was only used as part of the Fusion Move against the Dark Pterosaur.

TCG Stats

Saichania - Tank TCG Card 1-DKTB

Tank TCG card (DKTB)

Saichania - Tank Battle Mode TCG Card 1-DKTB-Gold

Tank (Battle Mode) TCG card (DKTB)

  • Element: Earth
  • Icon: Rock
  • Power: 700-800 (Tank), 1500 (Battle Mode)
  • Level: 1 (Tank), - (Battle Mode)
  • Life: 0 (Tank), 3 (Battle Mode)
  • Card Codes (Tank): DKTB-086/100, DKAA-085/100, DKBD-085/100, DKDS-085/100, DKTA-085/100, SAS-079/100, DKJC-???/100
  • Card Rarities (Tank): Common
  • Card Codes (Battle Mode): DKTB-085/100, DKAA-086/100, DKBD-086/100, DKBD-097/100
  • Card Rarities (Battle Mode): Gold Rare (DKTB, DKAA), Silver Rare (DKBD), Colossal Rare (DKBD)
  • Other: As a Special Dinosaur, her larger forms, Battle Mode and Dinotector, can only be summoned by being placed on her smaller form. She can only be included in a deck if the player's Character card is Ed or The Alpha Gang. Tank's Jurassic Clash cards are completely unknown, but presumably exist.
  • Abilities:
Alpha Slash (Tank (DKTB, DKAA, DKBD, DKDS))
You can only Dino Slash "Tank (Battle Mode)" by placing it on top of this Dinosaur.
Pinch Hitter (Tank (DKTB))
During your turn, when one of your other Dinosaurs battles, you can send this Dinosaur to your discard pile. If you do, use this Dinosaur's Rock-Paper-Scissors icon to decide which Dinosaur has to use a Move first.
Assist (Tank (DKAA))
When you Dino Slash this Dinosaur from your hand, all of your other Special Dinosaurs in play gain +200 Power until the end of the turn. (You can only use 1 [Assist] ability per turn.)
Elemental Boost: Fire (Tank (DKBD))
If you have a Fire Dinosaur in play when you Dino Slash this Dinosaur, draw 1 card.
Dinotector On (Tank (DKDS, DKTA, SAS))
If your Turn Counter is 4 or higher, you can Dino Slash "Tank (Dinotector)" by placing it on top of this Dinosaur.
Special Assistance (Tank (DKTA))
Earth Special Dinosaurs can use this card as a Super Move that gives +500 Power.
Alpha Assistance (Tank (SAS))
When you Dino Slash this Dinosaur, you can reveal your hand. If you do and there are no Dinosaurs, choose a Special Dinosaur from your deck and put it into your hand. Then, shuffle your deck.
Earth Master (Tank (Battle Mode) (DKTB, DKAA))
This Dinosaur can use all Earth Super Moves.
Earth Counter (Tank (Battle Mode) (DKTB))
During your opponent's turn, when this Dinosaur uses a Super Move and wins the battle, your opponent loses 1 extra Life Point. (This ability doesn't work if another ability makes your opponent lose extra Life Points after the battle.)
Loyal (Tank (Battle Mode) (DKAA))
While your Character is face up, this Dinosaur's Power is 1700 (from 1500).
Fusion Master (Tank (Battle Mode) (DKBD))
When this Dinosaur uses a Fusion Move, it gains an extra +300 Power.

DS Stats

Character Design

Name

Tank's Japanese name, Saika (サイカ), is probably an allusion/parody to her species name, Saichania, the "ch" being pronounced like a "k". Her English name given in the 4Kids dub is a reference to the ankylosaur family in general, as they are commonly given the nickname of "living tanks" due to their bony armor.

Anime

Dinosaur King

Saichania's card was first activated in Tanks a Lot! in a museum in London by Zander by accident (the Earth Stone was found there too), and after wandering the museum for a while she was defeated by Terry and captured by the Alpha Gang, having already been named "Tank" by Ursula before she was even caught. She is the second wild dinosaur that became a main dinosaur (the first being Spiny), and was quickly given a more violent personality by Dr. Z with the Alpha Controller.

Out of the dinosaurs that the Alpha Gang has, she is the least-often used. Despite the fact that she wasn't summoned very many times, however, she did defeat a number of dinosaurs she was summoned to fight (unlike Spiny, though many of Tank's victories were against weak, distracted, or previously worn-down opponents, and she suffered an Alpha Gang-signature number of losses). When she was first summoned to battle, she managed to defeat Utahraptor with Dino Swing. This became the Move she used the most often during the series with three episodes, but repeating the Super Fusion Move in the finale let Earthquake overtake it with five total season uses. Earth Barrier and Tail Smash (originally Spiny's move, but passed from Terry) were used only once each (and Tail Smash never hit), though she would often use a non-Move tail swinging attack to a similar effect to Tail Smash. She used Super Moves only once before the finale, in Dance Evolution against Daspletosaurus and Ace. As time went on, she was usually only used alongside one or both of the Alpha Gang's other dinosaurs.

As a chibi, she often curls into a ball and rolls around. In Field of Screams, she is dressed up as a parade float so the Alpha Gang can scout for the dinosaur, and A Miner Disaster displays her uncanny tunneling ability, carving a spacious tunnel in one pass with no debris left behind. However, she can easily be rendered useless and helpless by being flipped onto her back, as seen many times.

She is summoned against the betraying Seth's Saurophaganax alongside Spiny in Full Scheme Ahead, quickly being defeated by Fire Scorcher. She is summoned alongside Ampelosaurus to fight it again in the next episode, but is defeated again. In the finale, she uses Earthquake in the Super Fusion Move against the Black T-Rex, helping to defeat it after three hits. In the end, she and the other dinosaurs are taken back to the future by Rex, the Ancients, and the Alpha Gang…

Mesozoic Meltdown

…until the Backlander is forced to return by the attacking Spectral Space Pirates, after which she was confined on board with the rest of the Alpha Gang until the ship was "fixed" and sent careening through time. After Terry failed to capture any dinosaurs in the Cretaceous Period in Alien Parent Trap, the Alpha Gang were told to summon her and Spiny, but Ace and Paris surrounded them.

In this season, she was used far less often than before, partly owing to the Alpha Gang's marked decrease in taking part in dinosaur battles by this point. She first appeared in her full size during the Ancient China Arc, the third arc of the season, but it wasn't in a battle. In her first battle, at almost halfway through the season during The Third Cosmos Stone, she used her DinoTector form to defeat Gabbro's Carcharodontosaurus, but this was the last dinosaur she would defeat. After that, she lost all of her battles (Genie, Ankylosaurus, Gigas, Armatus, and was losing to Ace), and, unlike every other main dinosaur, didn't directly take part in the defeat of any of the Space Pirates' altered dinosaurs. Though she didn't reuse any of the Moves she'd used last season, she gained four new Moves, but only one of them, her Ultimate Move, was ever used more than once (twice, to be precise) or actually defeated a dinosaur.

In the finale, she helped break through the Dark Pterosaur using Spike Arrows in the Fusion Move, but was quickly defeated by Maximus with Spectral Punisher after she tried to protect Terry from the attack. She appeared again in the Backlander's Mesozoic forest projection after all the Space Pirates' remaining dinosaurs were rescued, but as she had been summoned by Seth's copied Stones to take part in the battle, she was forever locked from being summoned pet-sized again. She and the other dinosaurs were again taken back to the future, this time on the recovered Space Pirate Ship.

Character design

Personality

She doesn't seem to be particularly close to any of the Alpha Gang, though like the other dinos is shown to like Rod and Laura better than the Alpha Trio. In Season 1, she is more sucessfull in fighting than Spiny, but there were also battles in which she was ineffective, such as in "Fashion Victims", when she was easily overpowered by the Anchiceratops with no way to defend herself. She is typically summoned by Ed, Ursula or Laura.

Tank was originally a docile dinosaur, but shortly after she came into the possession of the Alpha Gang, Dr. Z used the Alpha Controller to make her more violent. He did this so that Tank could better serve the purpose of the Alpha Gang, but there were also disadvantages. The clearlest example was in "A Miner Disaster" when she injured Futaba, and act that made him befriend Zoe and later turned against the Alpha Gang. Althought she proves to be tactic smart in the same episode by surprisingly appearing behind Zoe to make her drop the Move Card, she often acted rashly in many of her fights, such as "The Haunted Hunt" when she opened Gigas ran, even thought he activated Spectral Lanzer and was able to defeat her.

Although Tank has a better relationship with the D-Team´s main dinosaurs in Season 2, it can still be assumed that they never really became friends. However, she developed a good friendship with Terry and Spiny, and in the case of Terry, it went so far that she threw herself in to protect him from Maximus Spectral Punisher, thereby defeating herself.

Trivia

  • Ed's arcade comments:
    • Taiwanese: 保護身體的刺和尾巴的槌頭讓人不敢靠近它呢。
  • In the dub, she was initially called a male in her first episode, but was called a female in all later appearances. The original Japanese version always called her a female. However, in the French dub, she is still considered a male after this first episode.
  • After Terry, she is likely the second strongest dinosaur of the Alpha Gang, judging by how physically weak Spiny is often shown to be. As this is by Alpha Gang standards, that isn't saying much.
  • Tank is the only dinosaur of the Alpha Gang who defeated a dinosaur (Utahraptor in A Game Show Showdown) the first time she was summoned to battle. Terry and Chomp defeated each other in Prehistory in the Making (Terry went down first), and Spiny was defeated by Ace in Battle at the Pyramids.
  • She is rendered helpless when she is flipped onto her back. When that happens, Zander and Ed are usually forced to flip her back over—not an easy task, as she weighs several tons (except in episode 44, where she flipped herself back up by using Tail Smash).
  • She and Spiny are the Alpha Gang dinosaurs who did not defeat all the main dinosaurs of the D-Team (in her case, she never defeated Ace, while Spiny never defeated Paris), despite all of them being enemies.
  • All of the dinosaurs she defeated with Earth Moves are Fire Dinosaurs (Daspletosaurus, Black T-Rex, and Carcharodontosaurus).
  • Tank is the only main dinosaur that does not defeat any of the Spectral Space Pirates' altered dinosaurs.
  • When she fights the D-Team, she is often defeated by Ace using Ninja Attack.
  • Tank is the only main dinosaur who doesn't reuse any of her Season 1 Moves in Season 2.
  • Despite having a decent record by Alpha Gang standards in Season 1, she wasn't really successful at fighting in Season 2, only defeating Carcharodontosaurus.
  • Tank is the only main dinosaur to not use their Element's first After-effect Super Move as their first Move Card (her first was Dino Swing, Earth Barrier debuting later and only being used once ever).
  • Tank is often seen rolling into a ball to move when in chibi form.
  • Although she is not quite as strong as Terry, she did managed to defeat some dinosaurs that defeated Terry, such as Ampelosaurus and Carcharodontosaurus (though she only defeated a weakened Ampelosaurus in a surprise attack and fought a different Carcharodontosaurus), though at the same time she was also defeated by some dinosaurs that Terry than defeated, such as Fukuisaurus, Saurophaganax, and Gigas (though the last two also defeated Terry at one time or another).
  • Tank is highly skilled at digging tunnels very quickly (both horizontally and even vertically), and is capable of creating smooth, circular tunnels in spite of having spikes on her back. She also doesn't seem to leave behind any stray debris from carving out the tunnels, implying she may be compressing it against the surrounding material, which could account for their stability.
  • Tank is the only main dinosaur to have been defeated by all three of Space Pirates' altered dinosaurs (Gigas defeated her with Spectral Lancer in The Haunted Hunt, Armatus used Spectral Stinger in Clash for the Cosmos Stones, and Maximus finished her with Spectral Punisher in Fate of the Cosmos).
  • Tank is the only main dinosaur that does not defeat a dinosaur of her own Element (she fought against both of the Ankylosaurus and against Armatus, and was defeated in all cases).
  • Tank's roar was used for the Umoonasaurus in the mobile game "Jurassic World: The Game".[1]
  • Tank is the only Earth Dinosaur in Season 1 whose card was not activated with a Move Card (as all of her Move Cards were later recreated by Dr. Z).
  • Tank is the only dinosaur to be defeated by Fire Scorcher more than once (unless one counts Terry being drained of energy by the Move).
  • Tank is the only dinosaur in the anime that has inflicted a visible injury on another prehistoric creature (Futaba in A Miner Disaster, and by accident).
  • Tank and Ace are the only main dinosaurs to directly attack the Space Pirates as chibis: Tank did so in The Haunted Hunt when she rolled into a ball and bounced on Gabbro and Foolscaps' heads after Gigas was defeated by Chomp, Ace and Spiny.

Gallery

References

  1. skip to 7:50 in this video: https://youtube.com/watch?v=e1PxMOSwCzY

Navigation

p · e · t Main Dinosaurs
D-Team: Chomp (Max) · Ace (Rex) · Paris (Zoe)
Alpha Gang: Terry · Spiny · Tank
Spectral Space Pirates: Brontikens (Spectre) · Gigas (Gabbro) · Armatus (Foolscap) · Maximus (Shear) · Eocarcharia (Goma)
Seth: Saurophaganax · Black Tyrannosaurus · Cryolophosaurus


p · e · t Earth Anime Dinosaurs
Season 1: Tank · Ankylosaurus · Euoplocephalus · Stegosaurus
Season 2: Edmontonia · Edmontonia/Armor · Tank · Tank/Armor · Tuojiangosaurus · Tuojiangosaurus/Armor · Lexovisaurus · Lexovisaurus/Armor · Ankylosaurus · Ankylosaurus/Armor · Armatus/Armor
p · e · t Earth Dinosaurs
Normal: Ankylosaurus · Dacentrurus · Edmontonia · Euoplocephalus · Gastonia · Gigantspinosaurus · Kentrosaurus · Lexovisaurus · Minmi · Nodosaurus · Panoplosaurus · Pinacosaurus · Polacanthus · Saichania · Sauropelta · Stegosaurus · Talarurus · Tarchia · Tuojiangosaurus · Wuerhosaurus
Altered/Armored: Ankylosaurus/Alpha · Ankylosaurus/Armor · Armatus · Armatus/Armor · Edmontonia/Armor · Edmontonia/Super · Euoplocephalus/Armor · Kentrosaurus/Alpha · Lexovisaurus/Armor · Nodosaurus/Super · Saichania/Armor · Saichania/Black · Saichania/Super · Sauropelta/Alpha · Sauropelta/Super · Talarurus/Super · Tank/Armor · Tank/Super · Tarchia/Super · Tuojiangosaurus/Armor · Wuerhosaurus/Alpha
Main: Tank · Armatus


p · e · t   Gold Rare Arcade Dinosaurs
Fire: Tyrannosaurus (1st) · Mapusaurus (2nd)
Water: Spinosaurus (1st) · Ampelosaurus (2nd) · Isisaurus (3rd)
Lightning: Styracosaurus (1st) · Pentaceratops (2nd)
Earth:  Saichania (1st) · Euoplocephalus (2nd) ·
Grass: Parasaurolophus (1st) · Saurolophus (2nd) · Lambeosaurus/magnicristatus (3rd) 
Wind: Carnotaurus (1st) · Megaraptor (2nd) · Allosaurus/atrox (3rd)
Other & Exclusive: Acrocanthosaurus/Alpha · Chomp · Ace · Paris · Terry · Spiny · Tank · Saurophaganax · Tyrannosaurus/Black · Gojirasaurus · Eocarcharia
Armored: Chomp/Armor · Ace/Armor · Paris/Armor  Terry/Armor · Spiny/Armor · Tank/Armor · Eocarcharia/Armor
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