Greninja 9 — what does this card actually do?
This card has 140 HP and a Grass weakness.
Water · Stage 2 · Detective Pikachu · measured against 20,444 cards on file — card data read July 28, 2026
What does Greninja 9 do in a game?
Greninja 9 is a Water Pokémon card with 140 HP, printed as Stage 2.
Because of the Grass weakness, any Grass attack printed at 70 damage or more removes it in a single turn.
Greninja 9Detective Pikachu
Greninja 9 performance summary
140 HP · Water · Stage 2 · retreat 1 · Grass weakness ×2
Strongest on Retreat lightness — top 5.6% of the archive. Weakest on Attack cost lightness — bottom 43.8%.
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 | 76.7% | 140 HP |
| Retreat lightness | 94.4% | 1 Energy |
| Attack cost lightness | 43.8% | 2 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 3,522 at 140 HP.
Greninja 9140 HPPrinted HP
The ceiling of this archive is 380 HP — 240 HP above this card.
Mega Emboar ex 273380 HPWhat stands out on Greninja 9
- Hit points 140 HP puts it in the 130~180 band, where 15.5% of 17,290 cards with printed HP sit.
- Weakness A Grass attack printed at 70 damage or more removes it in a single turn.
- Legality 12 of the 35 prints that carry this name are legal in Standard play.
Greninja 9 at a glance
- What it is. A Water Pokémon card with 140 HP printed as Stage 2, printed in Detective Pikachu.
- What it can do. 1 attack printed on the card, the strongest at 0 damage for 0 Energy.
- What it fears. A Grass weakness at ×2, which means 70 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 and Expanded 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 Greninja 9 cost, and what do they hit for?
Every attack printed on the card, with the Energy it asks for.
| Attack | Energy cost | Cards of Energy | Printed damage | Damage per Energy | Effect |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Furious Shurikens | 2 Water | 2 | — | — | This attack does 50 damage to 2 of your opponent's Pokémon. (Don't apply Weakness and Resistance for Benched Pokémon.) |
Retreating costs a further 1 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.
Back to summaryHow does Greninja 9 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 140 HP, which is 37% 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 140 HP.
Cards in the 130~180 band typically print 104 damage and ask 2 Energy to retreat.
| Group | Share | Value |
|---|---|---|
| ~70 | 38.6% | 6,669 cards |
| 80~120 | 33.1% | 5,725 cards |
| 130~180 — this card | 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 |
17,262 cards have at least one attack with an Energy cost. The cheapest on this card asks 2 Energy.
Cards whose cheapest attack costs 2 typically have 116 HP and print 65 damage.
| Group | Share | Value |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | 1.8% | 304 cards |
| 1 | 54.4% | 9,392 cards |
| 2 — this card | 26.4% | 4,565 cards |
| 3 | 14.7% | 2,533 cards |
| 4 | 2.4% | 421 cards |
| 5 | 0.3% | 47 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.
| 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 |
That is where Greninja 9 stands highest on HP — number 4 of 18 cards in Detective Pikachu. Cut the archive a different way and the answer moves, which is what the bars below are for.
- Hit points 140 HP
middle half 60–130 HP
- 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 Greninja 9 does without attacking
Greninja 9 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.
What does being a Water card do for Greninja 9?
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 — this card | 14.1% | 2,435 cards |
| Colorless | 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 |
Read from the weakness printed on each group. The first row is this card; the rest are groups that most often print a Water weakness.
What being a Water card is worth
Groups that most often print a Water weakness: Fire (1,574 cards). Against those, this card's printed damage counts double. Going the other way, Water cards are themselves most exposed to Grass.
What knocks out Greninja 9 in one hit, and what does it knock out?
Weakness doubles the damage a Grass attack deals to this card, so the bar it has to clear is 70 printed damage rather than 140.
70 damage becomes 140 against this card
Greninja 9140 HPWhy this card was picked to stand opposite
Of the 534 cards in the archive that can remove Greninja 9 in a single attack, this one clears the bar by the smallest margin — 70 printed damage against a bar of 70. 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.
Read from the weakness printed in the lower-left corner of the card.
| Card | Set | HP | Printed damage | After weakness |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flapple VMAX (19) | Battle Styles | 320 | 250 | 500 |
| Flapple VMAX (164) | Battle Styles | 320 | 250 | 500 |
| Mega Venusaur ex (3) | Mega Evolution | 380 | 240 | 480 |
| Mega Venusaur ex (155) | Mega Evolution | 380 | 240 | 480 |
| Mega Venusaur ex (177) | Mega Evolution | 380 | 240 | 480 |
| Decidueye ex (12) | Perfect Order | 320 | 240 | 480 |
140 HP against a Grass ×2 weakness means any Grass attack printed at 70 damage or more is enough. 534 cards in the archive clear that bar.
Back to summaryWhat is Greninja as a Pokémon, across every card it has been printed on?
Greninja 9 is one print of Greninja. 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 Greninja 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 Greninja 9 can be?
Greninja evolves from Frogadier, 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 Frogadier.
- 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 658.
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 Greninja print, and can the older ones still be played?
40 prints carry this name in the archive, and 35 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.
35 rows are shown of the 40 prints counted under this name.
| Set | Regulation mark | Standard | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mega Greninja ex 116/086 | ME04: Chaos Rising | Mark J | Legal in Standard |
| Mega Greninja ex 122/086 | ME04: Chaos Rising | Mark J | Legal in Standard |
| Mega Greninja ex 100/086 | ME04: Chaos Rising | Mark J | Legal in Standard |
| Mega Greninja ex 022/086 | Jumbo Cards | Mark J | Legal in Standard |
| Greninja ex 214/167 | SV06: Twilight Masquerade | Mark H | Legal in Standard |
| Greninja ex 106/167 | Miscellaneous Cards & Products | Mark H | Legal in Standard |
| Greninja ex 198/167 | SV06: Twilight Masquerade | Mark H | Legal in Standard |
| Greninja ex 132 | SV: Scarlet & Violet Promo Cards | Mark G | Legal in Standard |
| Greninja V-UNION SWSH157 | SWSH: Sword & Shield Promo Cards | Mark E | Not legal in Standard |
| Greninja V-UNION SWSH158 | SWSH: Sword & Shield Promo Cards | Mark E | Not legal in Standard |
| Greninja V-UNION SWSH156 | SWSH: Sword & Shield Promo Cards | Mark E | Not legal in Standard |
| Greninja V-UNION SWSH155 | SWSH: Sword & Shield Promo Cards | Mark E | Not legal in Standard |
| Greninja ex 054 | SV: Scarlet & Violet Promo Cards | Mark G | Legal in Standard |
| Greninja ex 041/142 | Jumbo Cards | Mark H | Legal in Standard |
| Greninja & Zoroark-GX 201/214 | SM - Unbroken Bonds | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Greninja & Zoroark-GX 222/214 | SM - Unbroken Bonds | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Greninja & Zoroark-GX 200/214 | SM - Unbroken Bonds | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Greninja & Zoroark-GX 107/214 | SM - Unbroken Bonds | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Greninja-GX SV56/SV94 | Hidden Fates: Shiny Vault | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Greninja-GX 133/131 | SM - Forbidden Light | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Greninja-GX 120/131 | SM - Forbidden Light | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Greninja-GX 24/131 | SM - Forbidden Light | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Greninja V 073/264 | Deck Exclusives | Mark E | Not legal in Standard |
| Greninja-EX XY20 | XY Promos | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Greninja BREAK 41/122 | XY - BREAKpoint | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Greninja SWSH305 | SWSH: Sword & Shield Promo Cards | Mark F | Legal in Standard |
| Greninja 9/18 | Detective Pikachu | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Greninja 14/39 | Kalos Starter Set | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Greninja 040/122 | League & Championship Cards | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Radiant Greninja 046/189 | Prize Pack Series Cards | Mark F | Legal in Standard |
| Greninja XY24 | XY Promos | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Greninja 117/214 | SM - Unbroken Bonds | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Greninja ★ SWSH144 | SWSH: Sword & Shield Promo Cards | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Greninja 041/146 | Blister Exclusives | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Greninja XY162 | XY Promos | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
12 of the 35 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 Greninja 9?
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blastoise | Base | 100 | 40 | 3 |
| Salamence ex δ | Dragon Frontiers | 160 | 80 | 2 |
| Blastoise | Expedition Base Set | 100 | 40 | 2 |
| Blastoise | Plasma Storm | 140 | 60 | 4 |
| Politoed | Skyridge | 110 | 70 | 2 |
| Feraligatr | Expedition Base Set | 120 | 70 | 3 |
This card itself is 140 HP, 0 top damage and 1 retreat, and every card here is Water like it.
Back to summaryWhich other cards share the Pokémon behind Greninja 9?
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.
What was printed next to Greninja 9 in Detective Pikachu?
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.
These are the cards numbered either side of #9 in Detective Pikachu. 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 Greninja 9, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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% |
| 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 | Legal | Can be played in 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 and Expanded play. It was released on April 5, 2019.
Greninja 9 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
- Moving it out of the active spot costs 1 more Energy, discarded from the card itself.
- It cannot start the game in play — Frogadier has to be on the field first.
Where its HP stands, cut four ways
What actually removes it
- A Grass attack printed at 70 damage removes it in a single turn — that is the bar, not its 140 HP.
- 534 cards in the archive clear that bar.
Greninja 9 card record
| Hit points | 140 HP | Type | Water |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weakness | Grass ×2 | Retreat cost | 1 Energy |
| Evolves from | Frogadier | Card type | Stage 2 |
| Pokédex number | #658 | Set | Detective Pikachu |
| Card number | 9 of 18 | Series | Sun & Moon |
| Released | April 5, 2019 | Rarity | Rare Ultra |
| Illustrator | MPC Film | ||
| Tournament legality | Unlimited and Expanded only | ||
Read from the printed card face, the set listing and the official format list.
What does Greninja 9 cost?
This page is about what the card does. The figure below is the one number worth carrying across, read on August 14, 2026.
Greninja 9 — frequently asked questions
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Does this page say how good Greninja 9 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.