Ditto 18 — what does this card actually do?

Name: Ditto 18
Brand: Pokémon
Author: Keiji Kinebuchi

This card has 50 HP and a Fighting weakness.

Colorless · Basic · Fossil · measured against 20,444 cards on file — card data read July 28, 2026

What does Ditto 18 do in a game?

Ditto 18 is a Colorless Pokémon card with 50 HP, printed as Basic.

Because of the Fighting weakness, any Fighting attack printed at 25 damage or more removes it in a single turn.

Colorless Basic Rare Unlimited #132 Ditto

Ditto 18Fossil

50 HP · Colorless · Basic · retreat 1 · Fighting weakness ×2

Hit points50 HP38.6% of 17,290 in the ~70 band

Retreat cost1 Energy49.3% of 17,240 in the 1 band

Price trackRareFossil38 printsWhat it costs today, how it moved, and where to buy it

Card classBasic

RarityRare

SetFossil

Card number18

AbilityTransform

Card data readJuly 28, 2026

What it sells for now$22.87Opens the price page — daily prices, every print variant, where to buy · read August 14, 2026 Removed in one hit by25 damage50 HP against a Fighting ×2 weakness Cards that can do it1,446 cardsCounted across the whole card archive Other prints of this name38 printsPrinted HP and legality move from print to print Cards in the same line27 moreEvery print carrying Pokédex #132 Where it can be playedUnlimitedRead from the official format list

Where it stands

No. 15,021of 17,290 cards ranked by printed HP

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Among the 17,290 cards in every card in the archive that carry printed HP, this one is number 15,021 at 50 HP.

Colorless cardsNo. 1,787of 2,171 by printed HP FossilNo. 40of 58 by printed HP

This cardDitto 18Fossil50 HP

Printed HP

The ceiling of this archive is 380 HP — 330 HP above this card.

Highest printed HPMega Emboar ex 273Ascended Heroes380 HP

What stands out on Ditto 18

Hit points 50 HP puts it in the ~70 band, where 38.6% of 17,290 cards with printed HP sit.
Weakness A Fighting attack printed at 25 damage or more removes it in a single turn.
Legality 7 of the 31 prints that carry this name are legal in Standard play.

Ditto 18 at a glance

What it is. A Colorless Pokémon card with 50 HP printed as Basic, printed in Fossil.
What it fears. A Fighting weakness at ×2, which means 25 printed damage is enough to remove it.
What it costs to move. 1 Energy to retreat, discarded from the card itself.
Where it can be played. Unlimited only.
What this page does not claim. Deck lists, tournament results and win rates are not published here, because the card files this site reads do not contain them.

Source: Card facts are read once from openly published card files and change only when a source corrects them.

How does Ditto 18 compare with every other card?

Each bar below is the whole archive cut by one printed figure, with the band this card falls into marked. A number on its own says nothing about whether it is high or low — the shape of the archive does.

No.15,021by HP in the archive

Ditto 18 prints 50 HP, which puts it at number 15,021 of the 17,290 cards in this archive that print an HP figure at all. The tallest figure printed on any card is 380 HP (Mega Emboar ex).

Bottom 13%Where it sits on printed HP

This card50 HP
Middle half of the archive60–130 HP
Strongest Ditto printed70 HP

The ceiling of this archive is Mega Emboar ex at 380 HP — every bar here is measured against it.

This card prints 50 HP, which is 13% of that ceiling.

Every figure in this panel is counted the same way: from the card files this site reads, read July 28, 2026, over the 17,290 cards that print an HP figure. Each bar is measured against the tallest HP in the archive, 380 HP.

Hit points — where this card sits

~70 — this card38.6%6,669 cards

80~12033.1%5,725 cards

130~18015.5%2,679 cards

190~2306.6%1,148 cards

240~2803.3%567 cards

290~3302.4%412 cards

340+0.5%90 cards

17,290 cards in the archive carry a printed HP figure. This one has 50 HP.

Cards in the ~70 band typically print 23 damage and ask 1 Energy to retreat.

Hit points — where this card sits
Group	Share	Value
~70 — this card	38.6%	6,669 cards
80~120	33.1%	5,725 cards
130~180	15.5%	2,679 cards
190~230	6.6%	1,148 cards
240~280	3.3%	567 cards
290~330	2.4%	412 cards
340+	0.5%	90 cards

Retreat cost — where this card sits

05.3%914 cards

1 — this card49.3%8,503 cards

228.6%4,926 cards

312.6%2,168 cards

44.2%729 cards

17,240 cards carry a retreat cost. This one costs 1 Energy to retreat.

Cards with a retreat cost of 1 typically have 81 HP and print 40 damage.

Retreat cost — where this card sits
Group	Share	Value
0	5.3%	914 cards
1 — this card	49.3%	8,503 cards
2	28.6%	4,926 cards
3	12.6%	2,168 cards
4	4.2%	729 cards

No. 40of 58

That is where Ditto 18 stands highest on HP — number 40 of 58 cards in Fossil. Cut the archive a different way and the answer moves, which is what the bars below are for.

Every card in the archive — 20,444 cards No. 15,021 of 17,290 by HP · top by HP: Mega Emboar ex, 380
Colorless cards — 2,173 cards No. 1,787 of 2,171 by HP · top by HP: Slaking ex, 340
Fossil — 62 cards No. 40 of 58 by HP · top by HP: Dragonite, 100

Each bar is how far up this card sits when the archive is cut a different way. The bar is its place on HP; the tick is its place on printed damage. Counted from the card files this site reads, read July 28, 2026.

Hit points 50 HP~~middle half 60–130 HP~~
this card 50

Lowest to highest printed in the archive
Middle half of the archive
This card

Each row is stretched from the lowest printed figure to the highest, so the two rows are not on one shared scale — read each row on its own.

Read from the card files this site reads, July 28, 2026. The archive tops out at 380 HP and 350 printed damage.

Cards in the same HP band

6,669 of 17,290 (38.6%)

Counted from the card files this site reads, one card at a time.

Open the group this card falls into

Retreat cost 18,503 cards

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What Ditto 18 does without attacking

Ditto 18 carries 1 printed effect that work outside the attack step, so it can matter on a turn the card never attacks.

Printed effects

Capped at once a turn

None

Read from the printed text quoted below, not counted anywhere else.

Transform — Pokémon Power

If Ditto is your Active Pokémon, treat it as if it were the same card as the Defending Pokémon, including type, Hit Points, Weakness, and so on, except Ditto can't evolve, always has this Pokémon Power, and you may treat any Energy attached to Ditto as Energy of any type. Ditto isn't a copy of any other Pokémon while Ditto is Asleep, Confused, or Paralyzed.

Quoted from the card face. The label after the dash is how the card itself names the effect.

Why this sits apart from the attacks

An attack costs Energy and ends your turn. What is printed above does neither — it is available while the card is in play, so it is a different kind of cost to a deck. Attack costs are in the section above.

Every card mechanic in the archive

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What does being a Colorless card do for Ditto 18?

Type decides two things at once — which cards take double damage from this one, and which cards deal double to it. Both are read from the weakness printed on each group, not from a rule of thumb.

Deals double to this card 1,884 Fighting cards carry that type A Fighting attack printed at 25 damage is enough to remove this card in one turn.

Ditto 18 · Basic 50 HP It prints no attack damage.

Takes double from this card — no group most often prints a Colorless weakness This type gains nothing automatic from the weakness rule.

How the archive splits by energy type

Psychicmost often weak to Psychic13.5%2,335 cards

Watermost often weak to Lightning14.1%2,435 cards

Colorless — this cardmost often weak to Fighting12.6%2,173 cards

Firemost often weak to Water9.1%1,574 cards

Fightingmost often weak to Grass10.9%1,884 cards

Lightningmost often weak to Fighting8.8%1,520 cards

Grassmost often weak to Fire13.8%2,387 cards

Metalmost often weak to Fire5.4%925 cards

Darknessmost often weak to Fighting7.2%1,249 cards

Dragonmost often weak to Fairy3.1%530 cards

Fairymost often weak to Metal1.4%237 cards

17,249 cards carry an energy type. The note under each name is the weakness printed most often on that group.

How the archive splits by energy type
Group	Share	Value
Psychic	13.5%	2,335 cards
Water	14.1%	2,435 cards
Colorless — this card	12.6%	2,173 cards
Fire	9.1%	1,574 cards
Fighting	10.9%	1,884 cards
Lightning	8.8%	1,520 cards
Grass	13.8%	2,387 cards
Metal	5.4%	925 cards
Darkness	7.2%	1,249 cards
Dragon	3.1%	530 cards
Fairy	1.4%	237 cards

Colorlessweak to Fighting

Read from the weakness printed on each group. The first row is this card; the rest are groups that most often print a Colorless weakness.

What being a Colorless card is worth

No group in the archive most often prints a Colorless weakness, so this type gains nothing automatic from the weakness rule. Going the other way, Colorless cards are themselves most exposed to Fighting.

Every energy type in the archive

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What knocks out Ditto 18 in one hit, and what does it knock out?

Weakness doubles the damage a Fighting attack deals to this card, so the bar it has to clear is 25 printed damage rather than 50.

Cards that remove it in one attack

1,446

Fighting damage needed to knock it out

Counted across the whole card archive. 50 HP against a Fighting weakness at ×2 decides all three figures.

Removes it in one attackMakuhitaMega Evolution 7230 damage

×2Fighting weakness · 25 printed damage is enough
30 damage becomes 60 against this card

This cardDitto 18Fossil 1850 HP

Why this card was picked to stand opposite

Of the 1,430 cards in the archive that can remove Ditto 18 in a single attack, this one clears the bar by the smallest margin — 30 printed damage against a bar of 25. Anything printed higher removes it just as surely, so this is where the line actually sits, and this print is legal in Standard play today.

Dittoweak to Fighting ×2

Dittoresists Psychic -30

Read from the two boxes in the lower-left corner of the card — weakness multiplies incoming damage, resistance subtracts from it.

What the Psychic resistance changes

Damage from Psychic attacks is reduced before it is applied, so an attack printed high enough to knock this card out on paper may not do it. Resistance is a flat subtraction, not a multiplier — it does not scale with the attack.

Fighting cards that remove Ditto in one attack
Card	Set	HP	Printed damage	After weakness
Mega Lucario ex (77)	Mega Evolution	340	270	540
Mega Lucario ex (160)	Mega Evolution	340	270	540
Mega Lucario ex (179)	Mega Evolution	340	270	540
Mega Lucario ex (188)	Mega Evolution	340	270	540
Mega Lucario ex (113)	Ascended Heroes	340	270	540
Toxtricity ex (100)	Paradox Rift	260	270	540

50 HP against a Fighting ×2 weakness means any Fighting attack printed at 25 damage or more is enough. 1,446 cards in the archive clear that bar.

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What is Ditto as a Pokémon, across every card it has been printed on?

Ditto 18 is one print of Ditto. The figures below are about the Pokémon rather than this single card — how many times it has been printed, how tough those prints run, and how many of them can still be played.

Ditto has been printed 38 times, and the printed numbers move from one print to the next. Point at a card to see it full size.Tap a card to open its page.

The three toughest Ditto cards ever printedPokédex #132Prints on record 38Toughest print 320 HPThis card 50 HP

38prints

Legal in Standard7Older prints, not in Standard31

Every Ditto print on record, split by whether it can still be entered in Standard play.

Legality is read from the print rather than from the Pokémon, so an older copy of the same Pokémon is a different card for tournament purposes.

The toughest Ditto printed is 320 HP, and this card is 15.6% of it

Bars are printed HP, measured against the record for this Pokémon

Ditto VMAX SV119/SV122the toughest Ditto ever printedShining Fates: Shiny Vault320 HP
Ditto 18against that record15.6% of the record50 HP

Read from the printed card face of every Ditto print on record. Printed HP does not change after a card is issued.

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Is this the strongest Ditto print, and can the older ones still be played?

38 prints carry this name in the archive, and 31 of them are laid out below. They share a Pokémon but not a card — printed HP, printed damage and tournament legality all move from one print to the next.

Bar height and the number above each bar = highest HP that year; the two digits below = the year.

Rows run from the toughest print down. Bars are printed HP, measured against the toughest print of this name shown here (320 HP), and the highlighted row is the card this page is about.

31 rows are shown of the 38 prints counted under this name.

Ditto prints — can each one still be played?
Print	Set	Regulation mark	Standard
Ditto VMAX SV119/SV122	Shining Fates: Shiny Vault	Mark D	Not legal in Standard
Ditto VMAX 051/072	Shining Fates	Mark D	Not legal in Standard
Ditto V SV118/SV122	Shining Fates: Shiny Vault	Mark D	Not legal in Standard
Ditto V 050/072	Shining Fates	Mark D	Not legal in Standard
Numel 013/078	Pokemon GO	Mark F	Legal in Standard
Ditto XY40	XY Promos	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Ditto 108/149	Boundaries Crossed	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Ditto GG22/GG70	SWSH: Crown Zenith: Galarian Gallery	Mark F	Legal in Standard
Bidoof 059/078	Pokemon GO	Mark F	Legal in Standard
Ditto 107/159	Prize Pack Series Cards	Mark F	Legal in Standard
Ditto 053/078	Pokemon GO	Mark F	Legal in Standard
Ditto 36/113	EX Delta Species	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Ditto 40/113	EX Delta Species	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Ditto 37/113	EX Delta Species	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Ditto 4/112	EX FireRed & LeafGreen	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Ditto 38/113	EX Delta Species	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Ditto 27/146	Legends Awakened	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Ditto 39/113	EX Delta Species	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Ditto 063/113	EX Delta Species	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Ditto 35/113	EX Delta Species	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Ditto 012/017	POP Series 3	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Ditto 201/091	SV: Paldean Fates	Mark G	Legal in Standard
Ditto 62/113	EX Delta Species	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Spinarak 006/078	Pokemon GO	Mark F	Legal in Standard
Ditto 17/18	Detective Pikachu	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Ditto 03/62	Fossil	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Ditto 051/144	Skyridge	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Ditto 18/62	Fossil	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Ditto 17/102	Triumphant	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Koga's Ditto 010/132	Gym Challenge	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Ditto ◇ 154/214	SM - Lost Thunder	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard

7 of the 31 prints listed here are legal in Standard play. An older print of the same Pokémon is a different card for legality, because legality is read from the print rather than from the name — so owning the cheap old copy does not always mean you can enter with it.

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Every card below carries the same Pokédex number as this one, so they are the same Pokémon printed as different cards — different stages, different mechanics and different names all sit in this group.

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What was printed next to Ditto 18 in Fossil?

A card is met inside a set, not on its own, and the number on it is the order that set gave it. The cards either side are the ones a collector actually turns past to reach this one.

Cards printed either side of this one

These are the cards numbered either side of #18 in Fossil. The badge on each card is its printed HP. Point at a card to see it full size.Tap a card to open its page.

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Which rules apply to Ditto 18, and where can it be played?

Two kinds of rule meet on one card — the sentence printed on the card face, and the rulebook clauses that apply because of what the card carries.

Rulebook clauses that apply to Ditto 18
Clause	What the rulebook says	Cards it applies to	Share of the archive
Weakness	Some Pokemon have Weakness or Resistance to Pokemon of certain types, marked in the lower-left corner of the card.	16,744 cards	81.9%
Retreat	Retreat your Active Pokemon (only once per turn).	17,244 cards	84.3%

Counted across 20,444 English cards. A clause applies to this card because the card carries the property the clause names, not because we judged it to.

Ditto 18 — tournament formats
Format	Status	What that means
Standard	Not listed	This card is not listed for this format
Expanded	Not listed	This card is not listed for this format
Unlimited	Legal	Can be played in this format

Read from the format list recorded with the card. Formats rotate on a schedule set by the organiser, and that schedule is not published on this page.

Where this card can be played

This card is legal in Unlimited play. It was released on October 10, 1999.

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Ditto 18 in depth — what these figures add up to

Three readings of the same card, side by side: what it costs to get going, where it sits among the cards it will be compared with, and what takes it off the field.

Where its HP stands, cut four ways

Every card in the archiveNo. 15,021 of 17,290

Colorless cardsNo. 1,787 of 2,171

FossilNo. 40 of 58

What actually removes it

A Fighting attack printed at 25 damage removes it in a single turn — that is the bar, not its 50 HP.
1,446 cards in the archive clear that bar.
Damage from Psychic attacks is reduced before it is applied, so an attack that clears the bar on paper may still fall short.

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Ditto 18 card record

Ditto 18 — the printed record, field by field
Hit points	50 HP	Type	Colorless
Weakness	Fighting ×2	Retreat cost	1 Energy
Card type	Basic	Pokédex number	#132
Set	Fossil	Card number	18 of 62
Series	Base	Released	October 10, 1999
Rarity	Rare	Illustrator	Keiji Kinebuchi
Tournament legality	Unlimited only

Read from the printed card face, the set listing and the official format list.

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What does Ditto 18 cost?

This page is about what the card does. The figure below is the one number worth carrying across, read on August 14, 2026.

Market price today

$22.87

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August 14, 2026

One figure only — the price record, the daily chart and the marketplaces live on the price page.

Ditto 18 priceOne year of daily prices, every print variant, and where to buy it.Open the price page

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Ditto 18 — frequently asked questions

How much damage does it take to knock out Ditto 18?

Ditto 18 has 50 HP and a Fighting weakness at ×2, so a Fighting attack printed at 25 damage or more removes it in one turn. Any other type has to print the full 50.

What is the retreat cost of Ditto 18?

1 Energy, discarded from this card to move it out of the active spot. Retreating is allowed once per turn.

Can an older Ditto print be played in a tournament?

Legality is read from the print, not from the Pokémon. Of the 31 prints listed on this page, 7 are legal in Standard play. The rest can still be played in formats that accept them, and the table on this page names the regulation mark each print carries.

Can Ditto 18 be played in a tournament?

It is legal in Unlimited play. Standard events run on a rotating list of sets, so check the current rotation before entering one.

Does this page say how good Ditto 18 is in a deck?

No. Every figure here is read from the printed card. Deck lists, tournament results and win rates are not published on this site, because the card files it reads do not contain them.

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Where these card facts come from

Card facts are read once from openly published card files and do not change between readings — a printed card cannot gain HP. The places below are where the same information can be checked. Last updated: July 28, 2026 — the counts and rankings on this page were taken from the card files read on that day.

Primary official source

First-party official sources — the body that issues the data itself, such as a government agency, a statutory register or a rights holder publishing its own records.

The Pokémon Company International — official rules, tournament format and rotation announcements www.pokemon.com

Industry source

Second-party sources — marketplaces, trade associations, research institutes and companies that compile data about the market.

Pokémon TCG Data — openly published card files (card text, HP, attacks, weakness, retreat cost, illustrator credits) github.com

TCGdex card database — openly licensed card files (set membership and card numbering) github.com

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Ditto 18 — what does this card actually do?

What does Ditto 18 do in a game?

Ditto 18 performance summary

Where it stands

Ditto 18 at a glance

How does Ditto 18 compare with every other card?

What Ditto 18 does without attacking

What does being a Colorless card do for Ditto 18?

What knocks out Ditto 18 in one hit, and what does it knock out?

What is Ditto as a Pokémon, across every card it has been printed on?

Is this the strongest Ditto print, and can the older ones still be played?

Which other cards share the Pokémon behind Ditto 18?

What was printed next to Ditto 18 in Fossil?

Which rules apply to Ditto 18, and where can it be played?

Ditto 18 in depth — what these figures add up to

Where its HP stands, cut four ways

What actually removes it

Ditto 18 card record

What does Ditto 18 cost?

Ditto 18 — frequently asked questions

How much damage does it take to knock out Ditto 18?

What is the retreat cost of Ditto 18?

Can an older Ditto print be played in a tournament?

Can Ditto 18 be played in a tournament?

Does this page say how good Ditto 18 is in a deck?

Where these card facts come from

Before you rely on these figures

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