Dark Dragonite 5 — what does this card actually do?
This card has 70 HP and a top attack printed at 70 damage.
Colorless · Stage 2 · Legendary Collection · measured against 20,444 cards on file — card data read July 28, 2026
What does Dark Dragonite 5 do in a game?
Dark Dragonite 5 is a Colorless Pokémon card with 70 HP, printed as Stage 2.
Its strongest attack, Giant Tail, is printed at 70 damage for 4 Energy — 18 damage per Energy card.
Dark Dragonite 5Legendary Collection
Dark Dragonite 5 performance summary
70 HP · Colorless · Stage 2 · retreat 2
as of July 28, 2026
damage per Energy card, among cards whose cheapest attack costs 4
Strongest on Top printed damage — top 35.3% of the archive. Weakest on Attack cost lightness — bottom 2.7%.
Each spoke is this card's place among every card in the archive that prints that figure. Further out is stronger — retreat and attack cost are shown as lightness, so a cheap card reaches outward. Counted July 28, 2026.
| Measure | Percentile | Printed value |
|---|---|---|
| Hit points | 25.7% | 70 HP |
| Top printed damage | 64.7% | 70 damage |
| Energy efficiency | 45.7% | 18 per Energy |
| Retreat lightness | 45.3% | 2 Energy |
| Attack cost lightness | 2.7% | 4 Energy |
1 attack printed on the card. The badge is the Energy it asks for.
Among the 17,290 cards in every card in the archive that carry printed HP, this one is number 10,622 at 70 HP.
Dark Dragonite 570 HPPrinted HP
The ceiling of this archive is 380 HP — 310 HP above this card.
Mega Emboar ex 273380 HPWhat stands out on Dark Dragonite 5
- Hit points 70 HP puts it in the ~70 band, where 38.6% of 17,290 cards with printed HP sit.
- Energy It returns 18 damage per Energy card against 27.8 for cards whose cheapest attack costs 4.
Dark Dragonite 5 at a glance
- What it is. A Colorless Pokémon card with 70 HP printed as Stage 2, printed in Legendary Collection.
- What it can do. 1 attack printed on the card, the strongest at 70 damage for 4 Energy.
- What it costs to move. 2 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.
What do the attacks on Dark Dragonite 5 cost, and what do they hit for?
The card prints 1 attack. The strongest asks for 4 Energy and returns 70 damage, which is 18 damage for every Energy card attached.
| Attack | Energy cost | Cards of Energy | Printed damage | Damage per Energy | Effect |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Giant Tail | 4 Colorless | 4 | 70 | 18 | Flip a coin. If tails, this attack does nothing. |
Retreating costs a further 2 Energy, discarded from this card, and that cost is paid on top of anything in the table.
The Energy this attack asks a deck to attach before it can be used, drawn as the symbols printed on the card.
One Energy card attaches per turn, so the number of symbols is also the number of turns the attack waits.
How does Dark Dragonite 5 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.
The ceiling of this archive is Mega Emboar ex at 380 HP — every bar here is measured against it.
This card prints 70 HP, which is 18% 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.
17,290 cards in the archive carry a printed HP figure. This one has 70 HP.
Cards in the ~70 band typically print 23 damage and ask 1 Energy to retreat.
| 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 |
16,246 cards print damage on at least one attack. The highest on this card is 70.
Cards in the 70~120 band typically have 141 HP and ask 2 Energy to retreat.
| Group | Share | Value |
|---|---|---|
| ~30 | 42.7% | 6,938 cards |
| 40~60 | 22.0% | 3,566 cards |
| 70~120 — this card | 21.8% | 3,535 cards |
| 130~180 | 9.0% | 1,461 cards |
| 190~250 | 3.8% | 621 cards |
| 260+ | 0.8% | 125 cards |
17,262 cards have at least one attack with an Energy cost. The cheapest on this card asks 4 Energy.
Cards whose cheapest attack costs 4 typically have 157 HP and print 111 damage.
| Group | Share | Value |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | 1.8% | 304 cards |
| 1 | 54.4% | 9,392 cards |
| 2 | 26.4% | 4,565 cards |
| 3 | 14.7% | 2,533 cards |
| 4 — this card | 2.4% | 421 cards |
| 5 | 0.3% | 47 cards |
17,240 cards carry a retreat cost. This one costs 2 Energy to retreat.
Cards with a retreat cost of 2 typically have 132 HP and print 79 damage.
| Group | Share | Value |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | 5.3% | 914 cards |
| 1 | 49.3% | 8,503 cards |
| 2 — this card | 28.6% | 4,926 cards |
| 3 | 12.6% | 2,168 cards |
| 4 | 4.2% | 729 cards |
That is where Dark Dragonite 5 stands highest on HP — number 26 of 100 cards in Legendary Collection. Cut the archive a different way and the answer moves, which is what the bars below are for.
- Hit points 70 HP
middle half 60–130 HP - Top printed damage 70 damage
middle half 20–90 damage
- 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.
Open the group this card falls into
Back to summaryWhat Dark Dragonite 5 does without attacking
Dark Dragonite 5 carries 1 printed effect that work outside the attack step, so it can matter on a turn the card never attacks.
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.
Is Dark Dragonite 5 efficient for the Energy it asks for?
Printed damage on its own says nothing — a 70 damage attack that needs 4 Energy and one that needs two are different cards. Dividing one by the other puts every attack on the same scale.
Each bar is what cards asking that much Energy typically print, divided by the Energy they ask for. The number beside the bar is that figure.
Cards whose cheapest attack costs 4 typically return 27.8 damage per Energy card. This card returns 18.
| Group | Share | Value |
|---|---|---|
| 1 Energy | 49.0 | 49 damage typical |
| 2 Energy | 32.5 | 65 damage typical |
| 3 Energy | 34.7 | 104 damage typical |
| 4 Energy | 27.8 | 111 damage typical |
| 5 Energy | 41.8 | 209 damage typical |
| Dark Dragonite 5 — this card | 18.0 | 70 damage for 4 Energy |
Further right is a costlier attack, further up is a harder-hitting one, so the cheap and heavy corner is top left. The size of a grey dot is how many cards sit at that Energy cost.
| Group | Typical printed damage | Damage per Energy card | Cards in this group |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cheapest attack costs 0 Energy | 45 | — | 304 |
| Cheapest attack costs 1 Energy | 49 | 49 | 9,392 |
| Cheapest attack costs 2 Energy | 65 | 33 | 4,565 |
| Cheapest attack costs 3 Energy | 104 | 35 | 2,533 |
| Cheapest attack costs 4 Energy | 111 | 28 | 421 |
| Cheapest attack costs 5 Energy | 209 | 42 | 47 |
| Giant Tail | — | 18 | — |
Where this sits once the archive is cut by damage instead
The bars above cut the archive by what an attack asks for. Cut the same archive by what an attack prints and the groups come out differently — the damage ranges on record are gathered on one page, which is where a figure like 70 is read as high or low rather than merely large.
What does being a Colorless card do for Dark Dragonite 5?
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.
17,249 cards carry an energy type. The note under each name is the weakness printed most often on that group.
| 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 |
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.
What is Dark Dragonite as a Pokémon, across every card it has been printed on?
Dark Dragonite 5 is one print of Dark Dragonite. 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.
Every Dark Dragonite 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.
Back to summaryWhat has to be in play before Dark Dragonite 5 can be?
Dark Dragonite evolves from Dark Dragonair, so the whole line has to be built before this card reaches the field.
- This card cannot be played from your hand onto an empty spot — it goes on top of Dark Dragonair.
- The line runs 3 stages, so the first card has to be in play 2 turns before this one can be.
- Every print in the line shares Pokédex number 149.
Every print of a stage is counted, not just the one shown in the chain above, so the bar is the ceiling that stage has reached rather than one card from it.
Is this the strongest Dark Dragonite print, and can the older ones still be played?
5 prints carry this name in the archive, and 3 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.
| Set | Regulation mark | Standard | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dark Dragonite 05/82 | Team Rocket | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Dark Dragonite 005/110 | Legendary Collection | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Dark Dragonite 22/82 | Team Rocket | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
0 of the 3 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.
Back to summaryWhat can you use instead of Dark Dragonite 5?
Every card below asks a deck for the same kind of slot, so the comparison is between what they print, not what they cost.
| Card | Set | HP | Top damage | Retreat |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dragonite | Expedition Base Set | 100 | 40 | 2 |
| Kingdra | Aquapolis | 110 | 60 | 3 |
| Golem | Skyridge | 100 | 50 | 4 |
| Kabutops | Skyridge | 90 | 30 | 3 |
| Dragonite | Fossil | 100 | 40 | 1 |
| Light Dragonite | Neo Destiny | 100 | 40 | 2 |
This card itself is 70 HP, 70 top damage and 2 retreat, and every card here is Colorless like it.
Back to summaryWhich other cards share the Pokémon behind Dark Dragonite 5?
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.
100
Dragonite [9]
370
Mega Dragonite ex [290]
150
Dragonite ex [90]
230
Dragonite V [192]
100
Dragonite [4]
100
Light Dragonite [14]
70
Dark Dragonite [5]
150
Dragonite ex δ [91]
100
Dragonite δ [3]
370
Mega Dragonite ex [295]
140
Dragonite [18]
100
Dragonite [43]
140
Dragonite [2]
250
Dragonite-GX [248]
180
Dragonite-EX [108]
100
Dragonite [19]
250
Dragonite-GX [SM156]
70
Dark Dragonite [22]
250
Dragonite-GX [67]
90
Dragonite [5]
250
Dragonite-GX [229]
180
Dragonite-EX [106]
280
Dragonite VSTAR [81]
230
Dragonite V [191]
370
Mega Dragonite ex [271]
150
Dragonite [83]
100
Dragonite FB [56]
150
Dragonite [5]
160
Dragonite [52]
250
Dragonite-GX [37]
250
Dragonite-GX [152]
230
Dragonite V [76]
150
Dragonite [51]
180
Dragonite-EX [74]
160
Dragonite [151]
160
Dragonite [119]
180
Dragonite-EX [72]
230
Dragonite V [SWSH235]
370
Mega Dragonite ex [152]
280
Dragonite VSTAR [SWSH236]
230
Dragonite V [49]
280
Dragonite VSTAR [50]
330
Dragonite ex [159]
160
Dragonite [131]
44 cards in the archive share this Pokédex number (#149). The badge on each card is its printed HP, the figure under the name is its hardest printed attack, and the name sits under the picture. Point at a card to see it full size.Tap a card to open its page.
What was printed next to Dark Dragonite 5 in Legendary Collection?
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.
80
Alakazam [1]
70
Articuno [2]
120
Charizard [3]
70
Dark Blastoise [4]
60
Dark Persian [6]
70
Dark Raichu [7]
60
Dark Slowbro [8]
60
Dark Vaporeon [9]
70
Flareon [10]
80
Gengar [11]
These are the cards numbered either side of #5 in Legendary Collection. 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.
Which rules apply to Dark Dragonite 5, 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.
| Clause | What the rulebook says | Cards it applies to | Share of the archive |
|---|---|---|---|
| Retreat | Retreat your Active Pokemon (only once per turn). | 17,244 cards | 84.3% |
| Energy per turn | You can attach Energy just once each turn! | 17,180 cards | 84.0% |
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.
| 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 May 24, 2002.
Dark Dragonite 5 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.
What it asks a deck for
- Its hardest attack, Giant Tail, needs 4 Energy attached. Energy attaches once a turn, so that attack waits 4 turns from an empty card.
- That works out at 18 damage for every Energy card attached.
- Moving it out of the active spot costs 2 more Energy, discarded from the card itself.
- It cannot start the game in play — Dark Dragonair has to be on the field first.
Where its HP stands, cut four ways
What actually removes it
- Going the other way, it removes 98 cards in one attack.
- Damage from Fighting attacks is reduced before it is applied, so an attack that clears the bar on paper may still fall short.
Dark Dragonite 5 card record
| Hit points | 70 HP | Type | Colorless |
|---|---|---|---|
| Retreat cost | 2 Energy | Evolves from | Dark Dragonair |
| Card type | Stage 2 | Pokédex number | #149 |
| Set | Legendary Collection | Card number | 5 of 110 |
| Series | Other | Released | May 24, 2002 |
| Rarity | Rare Holo | Illustrator | Mitsuhiro Arita |
| Tournament legality | Unlimited only | ||
Read from the printed card face, the set listing and the official format list.
What does Dark Dragonite 5 cost?
This page is about what the card does. The figure below is the one number worth carrying across, read on August 14, 2026.
Dark Dragonite 5 — frequently asked questions
What is the strongest attack on Dark Dragonite 5?
What is the retreat cost of Dark Dragonite 5?
Can an older Dark Dragonite print be played in a tournament?
What does Dark Dragonite evolve from?
Can Dark Dragonite 5 be played in a tournament?
Does this page say how good Dark Dragonite 5 is in a deck?
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.
Industry source
Second-party sources — marketplaces, trade associations, research institutes and companies that compile data about the market.