Garchomp LV.X 97 — what does this card actually do?

Name: Garchomp LV.X 97
Brand: Pokémon
Author: Ryo Ueda

This card has 140 HP and a Colorless weakness.

Colorless · Level-Up · Majestic Dawn · measured against 20,444 cards on file — card data read July 28, 2026

What does Garchomp LV.X 97 do in a game?

Garchomp LV.X 97 is a Colorless Pokémon card with 140 HP, printed as Level-Up.

Because of the Colorless weakness, any Colorless attack printed at 70 damage or more removes it in a single turn.

Colorless Level-Up Rare Holo LV.X Unlimited #445 Garchomp LV.X

Garchomp LV.X 97Majestic Dawn

140 HP · Colorless · Level-Up · retreat 0 · Colorless weakness ×2

Hit points140 HP15.5% of 17,290 in the 130~180 band

Retreat cost0 Energy5.3% of 17,240 in the 0 band

Price trackRare Holo LV.XMajestic DawnWhat it costs today, how it moved, and where to buy it

Card classLevel-Up

RarityRare Holo LV.X

SetMajestic Dawn

Card number97

AbilityDragon Pulse

Card data readJuly 28, 2026

What it sells for now$193.50Opens the price page — daily prices, every print variant, where to buy · read August 14, 2026 Removed in one hit by70 damage140 HP against a Colorless ×2 weakness Cards that can do it595 cardsCounted across the whole card archive Cards in the same line34 moreEvery print carrying Pokédex #445 Where it can be playedUnlimitedRead from the official format list

How Garchomp LV.X 97 is built, on three measures

Strongest on Retreat lightness — top 0.1% of the archive. Weakest on Hit points — bottom 76.7%.

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.

How Garchomp LV.X 97 is built, on three measures
Measure	Percentile	Printed value
Hit points	76.7%	140 HP
Retreat lightness	100.0%	0 Energy
Attack cost lightness	100.0%	0 Energy

What it can do

Attack record

0ERestorehas printed text—

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

Where it stands

No. 3,522of 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 3,522 at 140 HP.

Colorless cardsNo. 328of 2,171 by printed HP Majestic DawnNo. 1of 85 by printed HP

This cardGarchomp LV.X 97Majestic Dawn140 HP

Printed HP

The ceiling of this archive is 380 HP — 240 HP above this card.

Highest printed HPMega Emboar ex 273Ascended Heroes380 HP

What stands out on Garchomp LV.X 97

Hit points 140 HP puts it in the 130~180 band, where 15.5% of 17,290 cards with printed HP sit.
Weakness A Colorless attack printed at 70 damage or more removes it in a single turn.

Garchomp LV.X 97 at a glance

What it is. A Colorless Pokémon card with 140 HP printed as Level-Up, printed in Majestic Dawn.
What it can do. 1 attack printed on the card, the strongest at 0 damage for 0 Energy.
What it fears. A Colorless weakness at ×2, which means 70 printed damage is enough to remove it.
What it costs to move. 0 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.

What do the attacks on Garchomp LV.X 97 cost, and what do they hit for?

Every attack printed on the card, with the Energy it asks for.

Garchomp LV.X 97 — every printed attack, its cost and its damage
Attack	Energy cost	Cards of Energy	Printed damage	Damage per Energy	Effect
Restore	No Energy	0	—	—	Search your discard pile for a Pokémon (excluding Pokémon LV.X) and put it onto your Bench as a Basic Pokémon. Then, you may search your discard pile for up to 3 basic Energy cards and attach them to that Pokémon.

This card has no retreat cost at all, so it can leave the active spot without discarding any Energy — the only limit is that retreating happens once a turn.

Restoreno Energy at all0 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 Garchomp LV.X 97 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.

Garchomp LV.X 97 — Majestic Dawn — Garchomp LV.XMajestic Dawn 97

No.3,522by HP in the archive

Garchomp LV.X 97 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).

Top 20%Where it sits on printed HP

This card140 HP
Middle half of the archive60–130 HP

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
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

Cheapest attack cost — where this card sits

0 — this card1.8%304 cards

154.4%9,392 cards

226.4%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 0 Energy.

Cards whose cheapest attack costs 0 typically have 84 HP and print 45 damage.

Cheapest attack cost — where this card sits
Group	Share	Value
0 — this card	1.8%	304 cards
1	54.4%	9,392 cards
2	26.4%	4,565 cards
3	14.7%	2,533 cards
4	2.4%	421 cards
5	0.3%	47 cards

Retreat cost — where this card sits

0 — this card5.3%914 cards

149.3%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 0 Energy to retreat.

Cards with a retreat cost of 0 typically have 103 HP and print 61 damage.

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

No. 1of 85

That is where Garchomp LV.X 97 stands highest on HP — number 1 of 85 cards in Majestic Dawn. 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. 3,522 of 17,290 by HP · top by HP: Mega Emboar ex, 380
Colorless cards — 2,173 cards No. 328 of 2,171 by HP · top by HP: Slaking ex, 340
Majestic Dawn — 100 cards No. 1 of 85 by HP · top by HP: Torterra, 140

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 HP~~middle half 60–130 HP~~
this card 140

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

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 Garchomp LV.X 97 does without attacking

Garchomp LV.X 97 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

1 of 1

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

Dragon Pulse — Poké-Power · once a turn

Once during your turn (before your attack), when you put Garchomp LV.X from your hand onto your Active Garchomp, you may flip 3 coins. For each heads, put 1 damage counter on each of your opponent's Benched Pokémon.

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.

Dragon Pulse can only be used once a turn

The words once during your turn are printed in it, which caps it at one use per turn on that one card. Two copies of the card in play are two separate Pokémon, so each carries its own use.

This effect places damage counters, which is not the same as dealing damage

Dragon Pulse puts damage counters on a Pokémon rather than dealing damage to it. One counter is ten damage on the board, but the rules keep them apart: effects that reduce or prevent damage do not stop counters from being placed, and weakness and resistance are not applied to them.

Every card mechanic in the archive

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What does being a Colorless card do for Garchomp LV.X 97?

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 2,173 Colorless cards carry that type A Colorless attack printed at 70 damage is enough to remove this card in one turn.

Garchomp LV.X 97 · Level-Up 140 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 Colorless

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 Colorless.

Every energy type in the archive

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What knocks out Garchomp LV.X 97 in one hit, and what does it knock out?

Weakness doubles the damage a Colorless 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

595

Colorless damage needed to knock it out

Counted across the whole card archive. 140 HP against a Colorless weakness at ×2 decides all three figures.

Removes it in one attackLinoonePhantasmal Flames 8270 damage

×2Colorless weakness · 70 printed damage is enough
70 damage becomes 140 against this card

This cardGarchomp LV.X 97Majestic Dawn 97140 HP

Why this card was picked to stand opposite

Of the 591 cards in the archive that can remove Garchomp LV.X 97 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.

Garchomp LV.Xweak to Colorless ×2

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

Colorless cards that remove Garchomp LV.X in one attack
Card	Set	HP	Printed damage	After weakness
Slaking ex (147)	Surging Sparks	340	280	560
Slaking ex (227)	Surging Sparks	340	280	560
Slaking V (77)	Pokémon GO	230	260	520
Lugia (132)	Vivid Voltage	130	250	500
Lugia (SWSH069)	SWSH Black Star Promos	130	250	500
Slaking (162)	Paldea Evolved	180	240	480

140 HP against a Colorless ×2 weakness means any Colorless attack printed at 70 damage or more is enough. 595 cards in the archive clear that bar.

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What has to be in play before Garchomp LV.X 97 can be?

Garchomp LV.X evolves from Garchomp, so the whole line has to be built before this card reaches the field.

The Garchomp LV.X line, oldest stage firstPokédex #445

Gible11 prints on record · Supreme Victors

+30 HP · +40 damage

Gabite11 prints on record · Supreme Victors

+60 HP · +90 damage

Garchomp10 prints on record · POP Series 9

Gible → Gabite → Garchomp

This card cannot be played from your hand onto an empty spot — it goes on top of Garchomp.
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 445.

1GibleHardest attack printed at this stage: 30 damage70 HP
2GabiteHardest attack printed at this stage: 70 damage. Evolving here adds 30 HP over the stage before it100 HP
3GarchompHardest attack printed at this stage: 160 damage. Evolving here adds 60 HP over the stage before it160 HP

Bars are the highest HP ever printed on that stage, measured against the top of this line (160 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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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 Garchomp LV.X 97 in Majestic Dawn?

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.

100 Glaceon LV.X [98]

110 Leafeon LV.X [99]

130 Porygon-Z LV.X [100]

Cards printed either side of this one

These are the cards numbered either side of #97 in Majestic Dawn. 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 Garchomp LV.X 97, 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.

The rule printed on this card

“Put this card onto your Active Garchomp. Garchomp LV.X can use any attack, Poké-Power, or Poké-Body from its previous level.”

Rulebook clauses that apply to Garchomp LV.X 97
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.

Garchomp LV.X 97 — 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 May 1, 2008.

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Garchomp LV.X 97 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 no Energy at all.
It cannot start the game in play — Garchomp has to be on the field first.

Where its HP stands, cut four ways

Every card in the archiveNo. 3,522 of 17,290

Colorless cardsNo. 328 of 2,171

Majestic DawnNo. 1 of 85

What actually removes it

A Colorless attack printed at 70 damage removes it in a single turn — that is the bar, not its 140 HP.
595 cards in the archive clear that bar.

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Garchomp LV.X 97 card record

Garchomp LV.X 97 — the printed record, field by field
Hit points	140 HP	Type	Colorless
Weakness	Colorless ×2	Retreat cost	0 Energy
Evolves from	Garchomp	Card type	Level-Up
Pokédex number	#445	Set	Majestic Dawn
Card number	97 of 100	Series	Diamond & Pearl
Released	May 1, 2008	Rarity	Rare Holo LV.X
Illustrator	Ryo Ueda
Tournament legality	Unlimited only
Printed rule	Put this card onto your Active Garchomp. Garchomp LV.X can use any attack, Poké-Power, or Poké-Body from its previous level.

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

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What does Garchomp LV.X 97 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

$193.50

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Garchomp LV.X 97 — frequently asked questions

How much damage does it take to knock out Garchomp LV.X 97?

Garchomp LV.X 97 has 140 HP and a Colorless weakness at ×2, so a Colorless 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 Garchomp LV.X 97?

None. Garchomp LV.X 97 carries a printed retreat cost of zero, so it can move out of the active spot without discarding any Energy. The once-a-turn limit on retreating still applies.

How often can you use Dragon Pulse?

Once during your turn. The limit is printed in the ability itself, and it is counted per Pokémon — a second copy of Garchomp LV.X in play carries its own use.

Does Garchomp LV.X 97 deal damage or place damage counters?

It places damage counters. One counter is ten damage on the board, but the two are different things in the rules: weakness and resistance are not applied to counters, and effects that reduce or prevent damage do not stop counters from being placed.

What does Garchomp LV.X evolve from?

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

Can Garchomp LV.X 97 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.

What does the rule on Garchomp LV.X 97 mean?

The card reads “Put this card onto your Active Garchomp. Garchomp LV.X can use any attack, Poké-Power, or Poké-Body from its previous level.” That sentence is printed on the card itself, so it applies wherever the card is played.

Does this page say how good Garchomp LV.X 97 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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Garchomp LV.X 97 — what does this card actually do?

What does Garchomp LV.X 97 do in a game?

Garchomp LV.X 97 performance summary

What it can do

Where it stands

Garchomp LV.X 97 at a glance

What do the attacks on Garchomp LV.X 97 cost, and what do they hit for?

How does Garchomp LV.X 97 compare with every other card?

What Garchomp LV.X 97 does without attacking

What does being a Colorless card do for Garchomp LV.X 97?

What knocks out Garchomp LV.X 97 in one hit, and what does it knock out?

What has to be in play before Garchomp LV.X 97 can be?

Which other cards share the Pokémon behind Garchomp LV.X 97?

What was printed next to Garchomp LV.X 97 in Majestic Dawn?

Which rules apply to Garchomp LV.X 97, and where can it be played?

Garchomp LV.X 97 in depth — what these figures add up to

What it asks a deck for

Where its HP stands, cut four ways

What actually removes it

Garchomp LV.X 97 card record

What does Garchomp LV.X 97 cost?

Garchomp LV.X 97 — frequently asked questions

How much damage does it take to knock out Garchomp LV.X 97?

What is the retreat cost of Garchomp LV.X 97?

How often can you use Dragon Pulse?

Does Garchomp LV.X 97 deal damage or place damage counters?

What does Garchomp LV.X evolve from?

Can Garchomp LV.X 97 be played in a tournament?

What does the rule on Garchomp LV.X 97 mean?

Does this page say how good Garchomp LV.X 97 is in a deck?

Where these card facts come from

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