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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

Hit points140 HP15.5% of 17,290 in the 130~180 band
Retreat cost1 Energy49.3% of 17,240 in the 1 band
Price trackRare UltraDetective Pikachu40 printsranked among Stage 2 cardsWhat it costs today, how it moved, and where to buy it
Card classStage 2
RarityRare Ultra
SetDetective Pikachu
Card number9
AbilityEvasion Jutsu
Card data readJuly 28, 2026
How Greninja 9 is built, on three measures
Hit points140 HPRetreat lightness1 EnergyAttack cost lightness2 Energy

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.

How Greninja 9 is built, on three measures
MeasurePercentilePrinted value
Hit points76.7%140 HP
Retreat lightness94.4%1 Energy
Attack cost lightness43.8%2 Energy

What it can do

Attack record
  • 2EFurious Shurikenshas printed text

1 attack printed on the card. The badge is the Energy it asks for.

Where it stands

Among the 17,290 cards in every card in the archive that carry printed HP, this one is number 3,522 at 140 HP.

This cardGreninja 9 — Detective PikachuGreninja 9Detective Pikachu140 HP

Printed HP

The ceiling of this archive is 380 HP240 HP above this card.

Highest printed HPMega Emboar ex — Ascended HeroesMega Emboar ex 273Ascended Heroes380 HP

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

Greninja 9 — every printed attack, its cost and its damage
AttackEnergy costCards of EnergyPrinted damageDamage per EnergyEffect
Furious Shurikens2 Water2This 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.

Furious Shurikens2 Energy cards

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.

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How 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.

Greninja 9 — Detective Pikachu
GreninjaDetective Pikachu 9

Greninja 9 prints 140 HP, which puts it at number 3,522 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).

  • This card140 HP
  • Middle half of the archive60–130 HP
  • Strongest Stage 2 card380 HP
  • Strongest Greninja printed140 HP
Mega Emboar ex — Ascended Heroes 273 · the highest printed HP in the archive at 380

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.

Hit points — where this card sits
~7038.6%6,669 cards
80~12033.1%5,725 cards
130~180 — this card15.5%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 140 HP.

Cards in the 130~180 band typically print 104 damage and ask 2 Energy to retreat.

Hit points — where this card sits
GroupShareValue
~7038.6%6,669 cards
80~12033.1%5,725 cards
130~180 — this card15.5%2,679 cards
190~2306.6%1,148 cards
240~2803.3%567 cards
290~3302.4%412 cards
340+0.5%90 cards
Cheapest attack cost — where this card sits
01.8%304 cards
154.4%9,392 cards
2 — this card26.4%4,565 cards
314.7%2,533 cards
42.4%421 cards
50.3%47 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.

Cheapest attack cost — where this card sits
GroupShareValue
01.8%304 cards
154.4%9,392 cards
2 — this card26.4%4,565 cards
314.7%2,533 cards
42.4%421 cards
50.3%47 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
GroupShareValue
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

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.

  • Mega Emboar ex — 380 HP, the highest in this group
    Every card in the archive — 20,444 cards No. 3,522 of 17,290 by HP · top by HP: Mega Emboar ex, 380
  • Wailord ex — 380 HP, the highest in this group
    Water cards — 2,435 cards No. 465 of 2,435 by HP · top by HP: Wailord ex, 380
  • Mega Emboar ex — 380 HP, the highest in this group
    Stage 2 cards — 1,749 cards No. 861 of 1,749 by HP · top by HP: Mega Emboar ex, 380
  • Charizard — 180 HP, the highest in this group
    Detective Pikachu — 18 cards No. 4 of 18 by HP · top by HP: Charizard, 180

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 140 HPmiddle 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.

Read from the card files this site reads, July 28, 2026. The archive tops out at 380 HP and 350 printed damage.
Cards printed as Stage 2
1,749 on record
Cards in the same HP band
2,679 of 17,290 (15.5%)
Counted from the card files this site reads, one card at a time.

Open the group this card falls into

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What 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.

Printed effects
1
Capped at once a turn
None
Read from the printed text quoted below, not counted anywhere else.
Evasion Jutsu — Ability
If any damage is done to this Pokémon by attacks, flip a coin. If heads, prevent that damage.
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.

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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.

Deals double to this card 2,387 Grass cards carry that type A Grass attack printed at 70 damage is enough to remove this card in one turn.
Greninja 9 · Stage 2 140 HP It prints no attack damage.
Takes double from this card 1,574 cards in groups that print a Water weakness Against Fire, printed damage from this card counts double.
How the archive splits by energy type
Psychicmost often weak to Psychic13.5%2,335 cards
Water — this cardmost often weak to Lightning14.1%2,435 cards
Colorlessmost 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
GroupShareValue
Psychic13.5%2,335 cards
Water — this card14.1%2,435 cards
Colorless12.6%2,173 cards
Fire9.1%1,574 cards
Fighting10.9%1,884 cards
Lightning8.8%1,520 cards
Grass13.8%2,387 cards
Metal5.4%925 cards
Darkness7.2%1,249 cards
Dragon3.1%530 cards
Fairy1.4%237 cards
Waterweak to Grass
Fireweak to Water

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.

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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.

Cards that remove it in one attack
534
Grass damage needed to knock it out
70
Counted across the whole card archive. 140 HP against a Grass weakness at ×2 decides all three figures.
Removes it in one attackEthan's PinsirEthan's PinsirDestined Rivals 170 damage
×2Grass weakness · 70 printed damage is enough
70 damage becomes 140 against this card
This cardGreninja 9Greninja 9Detective Pikachu 9140 HP

Why 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.

Greninjaweak to Grass ×2

Read from the weakness printed in the lower-left corner of the card.

Grass cards that remove Greninja in one attack
CardSetHPPrinted damageAfter weakness
Flapple VMAX (19)Battle Styles320250500
Flapple VMAX (164)Battle Styles320250500
Mega Venusaur ex (3)Mega Evolution380240480
Mega Venusaur ex (155)Mega Evolution380240480
Mega Venusaur ex (177)Mega Evolution380240480
Decidueye ex (12)Perfect Order320240480

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.

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What 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.

Greninja has been printed 40 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 Greninja cards ever printedPokédex #658Prints on record 40Toughest print 350 HPThis card 140 HP
40prints
Legal in Standard12Older prints, not in Standard28

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.

The toughest Greninja printed is 350 HP, and this card is 40% of it

Bars are printed HP, measured against the record for this Pokémon
  • Mega Greninja ex 116/086the toughest Greninja ever printedME04: Chaos Rising350 HP
  • Greninja 9against that record40% of the record140 HP

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

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What 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.

The Greninja line, oldest stage firstPokédex #658
  • 1FroakieFroakieHardest attack printed at this stage: 30 damage70 HP
  • 2FrogadierFrogadierHardest attack printed at this stage: 50 damage. Evolving here adds 30 HP over the stage before it100 HP
  • 3GreninjaGreninjaHardest attack printed at this stage: 120 damage. Evolving here adds 40 HP over the stage before it140 HP

Bars are the highest HP ever printed on that stage, measured against the top of this line (140 HP). The note beside each bar is the hardest attack printed at that stage.

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.

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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.

Rows run from the toughest print down. Bars are printed HP, measured against the toughest print of this name shown here (350 HP), and the highlighted row is the card this page is about.

35 rows are shown of the 40 prints counted under this name.

Greninja prints — can each one still be played?
PrintSetRegulation markStandard
Mega Greninja ex 116/086ME04: Chaos RisingMark JLegal in Standard
Mega Greninja ex 122/086ME04: Chaos RisingMark JLegal in Standard
Mega Greninja ex 100/086ME04: Chaos RisingMark JLegal in Standard
Mega Greninja ex 022/086Jumbo CardsMark JLegal in Standard
Greninja ex 214/167SV06: Twilight MasqueradeMark HLegal in Standard
Greninja ex 106/167Miscellaneous Cards & ProductsMark HLegal in Standard
Greninja ex 198/167SV06: Twilight MasqueradeMark HLegal in Standard
Greninja ex 132SV: Scarlet & Violet Promo CardsMark GLegal in Standard
Greninja V-UNION SWSH157SWSH: Sword & Shield Promo CardsMark ENot legal in Standard
Greninja V-UNION SWSH158SWSH: Sword & Shield Promo CardsMark ENot legal in Standard
Greninja V-UNION SWSH156SWSH: Sword & Shield Promo CardsMark ENot legal in Standard
Greninja V-UNION SWSH155SWSH: Sword & Shield Promo CardsMark ENot legal in Standard
Greninja ex 054SV: Scarlet & Violet Promo CardsMark GLegal in Standard
Greninja ex 041/142Jumbo CardsMark HLegal in Standard
Greninja & Zoroark-GX 201/214SM - Unbroken BondsNo mark printedNot legal in Standard
Greninja & Zoroark-GX 222/214SM - Unbroken BondsNo mark printedNot legal in Standard
Greninja & Zoroark-GX 200/214SM - Unbroken BondsNo mark printedNot legal in Standard
Greninja & Zoroark-GX 107/214SM - Unbroken BondsNo mark printedNot legal in Standard
Greninja-GX SV56/SV94Hidden Fates: Shiny VaultNo mark printedNot legal in Standard
Greninja-GX 133/131SM - Forbidden LightNo mark printedNot legal in Standard
Greninja-GX 120/131SM - Forbidden LightNo mark printedNot legal in Standard
Greninja-GX 24/131SM - Forbidden LightNo mark printedNot legal in Standard
Greninja V 073/264Deck ExclusivesMark ENot legal in Standard
Greninja-EX XY20XY PromosNo mark printedNot legal in Standard
Greninja BREAK 41/122XY - BREAKpointNo mark printedNot legal in Standard
Greninja SWSH305SWSH: Sword & Shield Promo CardsMark FLegal in Standard
Greninja 9/18Detective PikachuNo mark printedNot legal in Standard
Greninja 14/39Kalos Starter SetNo mark printedNot legal in Standard
Greninja 040/122League & Championship CardsNo mark printedNot legal in Standard
Radiant Greninja 046/189Prize Pack Series CardsMark FLegal in Standard
Greninja XY24XY PromosNo mark printedNot legal in Standard
Greninja 117/214SM - Unbroken BondsNo mark printedNot legal in Standard
Greninja ★ SWSH144SWSH: Sword & Shield Promo CardsNo mark printedNot legal in Standard
Greninja 041/146Blister ExclusivesNo mark printedNot legal in Standard
Greninja XY162XY PromosNo mark printedNot 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.

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What 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.

Cards that fill the same slot as Greninja 9
CardSetHPTop damageRetreat
BlastoiseBase100403
Salamence ex δDragon Frontiers160802
BlastoiseExpedition Base Set100402
BlastoisePlasma Storm140604
PolitoedSkyridge110702
FeraligatrExpedition Base Set120703

This card itself is 140 HP, 0 top damage and 1 retreat, and every card here is Water like 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 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.

Cards printed either side of 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.

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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.

Rulebook clauses that apply to Greninja 9
ClauseWhat the rulebook saysCards it applies toShare of the archive
WeaknessSome Pokemon have Weakness or Resistance to Pokemon of certain types, marked in the lower-left corner of the card.16,744 cards81.9%
RetreatRetreat your Active Pokemon (only once per turn).17,244 cards84.3%
Energy per turnYou can attach Energy just once each turn!17,180 cards84.0%

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.

Greninja 9 — tournament formats
FormatStatusWhat that means
StandardNot listedThis card is not listed for this format
ExpandedLegalCan be played in this format
UnlimitedLegalCan 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.

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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

Every card in the archiveNo. 3,522 of 17,290
Water cardsNo. 465 of 2,435
Stage 2 cardsNo. 861 of 1,749
Detective PikachuNo. 4 of 18

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.
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Greninja 9 card record

Greninja 9 — the printed record, field by field
Hit points140 HPTypeWater
WeaknessGrass ×2Retreat cost1 Energy
Evolves fromFrogadierCard typeStage 2
Pokédex number#658SetDetective Pikachu
Card number9 of 18SeriesSun & Moon
ReleasedApril 5, 2019RarityRare Ultra
IllustratorMPC Film
Tournament legalityUnlimited and Expanded only

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

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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.

Market price today
$14.18
Read on
August 14, 2026
One figure only — the price record, the daily chart and the marketplaces live on the price page.
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Greninja 9 — frequently asked questions

How much damage does it take to knock out Greninja 9?

Greninja 9 has 140 HP and a Grass weakness at ×2, so a Grass attack printed at 70 damage or more removes it in one turn. Any other type has to print the full 140.

What is the retreat cost of Greninja 9?

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

Can an older Greninja print be played in a tournament?

Legality is read from the print, not from the Pokémon. Of the 35 prints listed on this page, 12 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.

What does Greninja evolve from?

Frogadier. It cannot be played straight from your hand onto an empty spot — the earlier stage has to be in play first.

Can Greninja 9 be played in a tournament?

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

Does this page say how good Greninja 9 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.

1
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.

1
Pokémon TCG Data — openly published card files (card text, HP, attacks, weakness, retreat cost, illustrator credits) github.com
2
TCGdex card database — openly licensed card files (set membership and card numbering) github.com
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