Nidoking H18 — what does this card actually do?

Name: Nidoking H18
Brand: Pokémon
Author: Naoyo Kimura

This card has 110 HP, a top attack printed at 50 damage and a Grass weakness.

Fighting · Stage 2 · Aquapolis · measured against 20,444 cards on file — card data read July 28, 2026

What does Nidoking H18 do in a game?

Nidoking H18 is a Fighting Pokémon card with 110 HP, printed as Stage 2.

Its strongest attack, Giant Horn, is printed at 50 damage for 4 Energy — 13 damage per Energy card.

Because of the Grass weakness, any Grass attack printed at 55 damage or more removes it in a single turn.

Fighting Stage 2 Rare Holo Unlimited #034 Nidoking

Nidoking H18Aquapolis

110 HP · Fighting · Stage 2 · retreat 3 · Grass weakness ×2

Top printed damage5013 per Energy Giant Horn50 damage for 4 Energy
as of July 28, 2026

Hit points110 HP33.1% of 17,290 in the 80~120 band

Printed damage5022.0% of 16,246 in the 40~60 band

Retreat cost3 Energy12.6% of 17,240 in the 3 band

Energy efficiencyBelow typicalAboveTypicalBelowThis card 13 · typical 27.8
damage per Energy card, among cards whose cheapest attack costs 4

Price trackRare HoloAquapolis24 printsranked among Stage 2 cardsWhat it costs today, how it moved, and where to buy it

Card classStage 2

RarityRare Holo

SetAquapolis

Card numberH18

AbilityEarth Rage

Card data readJuly 28, 2026

What it sells for now$230.98Opens the price page — daily prices, every print variant, where to buy · read August 14, 2026 Removed in one hit by55 damage110 HP against a Grass ×2 weakness Turns of setup4 turnsEnergy attaches once a turn, so the top attack waits that long Cards that can do it681 cardsCounted across the whole card archive Other prints of this name24 printsPrinted HP and legality move from print to print Cards in the same line19 moreEvery print carrying Pokédex #034 Where it can be playedUnlimitedRead from the official format list

How Nidoking H18 is built, on five measures

Strongest on Hit points — top 38.4% 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.

How Nidoking H18 is built, on five measures
Measure	Percentile	Printed value
Hit points	61.6%	110 HP
Top printed damage	49.6%	50 damage
Energy efficiency	28.4%	13 per Energy
Retreat lightness	16.8%	3 Energy
Attack cost lightness	2.7%	4 Energy

What it can do

Attack record

4EGiant Horn13 damage per Energy card · has printed text50damage

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

Where it stands

No. 5,859of 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 5,859 at 110 HP.

Fighting cardsNo. 676of 1,884 by printed HP Stage 2 cardsNo. 1,439of 1,749 by printed HP

This cardNidoking H18Aquapolis110 HP

Printed HP

The ceiling of this archive is 380 HP — 270 HP above this card.

Highest printed HPMega Emboar ex 273Ascended Heroes380 HP

What stands out on Nidoking H18

Hit points 110 HP puts it in the 80~120 band, where 33.1% of 17,290 cards with printed HP sit.
Energy It returns 13 damage per Energy card against 27.8 for cards whose cheapest attack costs 4.
Weakness A Grass attack printed at 55 damage or more removes it in a single turn.
Legality 5 of the 20 prints that carry this name are legal in Standard play.

Nidoking H18 at a glance

What it is. A Fighting Pokémon card with 110 HP printed as Stage 2, printed in Aquapolis.
What it can do. 1 attack printed on the card, the strongest at 50 damage for 4 Energy.
What it fears. A Grass weakness at ×2, which means 55 printed damage is enough to remove it.
What it costs to move. 3 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 Nidoking H18 cost, and what do they hit for?

The card prints 1 attack. The strongest asks for 4 Energy and returns 50 damage, which is 13 damage for every Energy card attached.

Nidoking H18 — every printed attack, its cost and its damage
Attack	Energy cost	Cards of Energy	Printed damage	Damage per Energy	Effect
Giant Horn	2 Fighting + 2 Colorless	4	50+	13	Flip a coin. If heads, this attack does 50 damage plus 30 more damage.

Retreating costs a further 3 Energy, discarded from this card, and that cost is paid on top of anything in the table.

Giant Horn4 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.

Giant Horn 4 Energy50 damage for 4 Energy — 13 per Energy card50

Bars are printed damage against this card's own highest attack (50).

Why one of these damage figures carries a symbol

A number on a Pokémon card is not always the number that lands.

Giant Horn is printed as 50+, so the printed number is a floor — the attack deals at least that much, and the sentence beside it says what adds to it.

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How does Nidoking H18 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.

Nidoking H18 — Aquapolis — NidokingAquapolis H18

No.5,859by HP in the archive

Nidoking H18 prints 110 HP, which puts it at number 5,859 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).

50% on printed damage — it out-hits that share of the 16,246 cards that print damage

Top 34%Where it sits on printed HP

This card110 HP
Middle half of the archive60–130 HP
Strongest Stage 2 card380 HP
Strongest Nidoking printed170 HP

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

This card prints 110 HP, which is 29% 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

80~120 — this card33.1%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 110 HP.

Cards in the 80~120 band typically print 56 damage and ask 1 Energy to retreat.

Hit points — where this card sits
Group	Share	Value
~70	38.6%	6,669 cards
80~120 — this card	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

Top printed damage — where this card sits

~3042.7%6,938 cards

40~60 — this card22.0%3,566 cards

70~12021.8%3,535 cards

130~1809.0%1,461 cards

190~2503.8%621 cards

260+0.8%125 cards

16,246 cards print damage on at least one attack. The highest on this card is 50.

Cards in the 40~60 band typically have 101 HP and ask 1 Energy to retreat.

Top printed damage — where this card sits
Group	Share	Value
~30	42.7%	6,938 cards
40~60 — this card	22.0%	3,566 cards
70~120	21.8%	3,535 cards
130~180	9.0%	1,461 cards
190~250	3.8%	621 cards
260+	0.8%	125 cards

Cheapest attack cost — where this card sits

01.8%304 cards

154.4%9,392 cards

226.4%4,565 cards

314.7%2,533 cards

4 — this card2.4%421 cards

50.3%47 cards

17,262 cards have at least one attack with an Energy cost. The cheapest on this card asks 4 Energy.

Cards whose cheapest attack costs 4 typically have 157 HP and print 111 damage.

Cheapest attack cost — where this card sits
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

Retreat cost — where this card sits

05.3%914 cards

149.3%8,503 cards

228.6%4,926 cards

3 — this card12.6%2,168 cards

44.2%729 cards

17,240 cards carry a retreat cost. This one costs 3 Energy to retreat.

Cards with a retreat cost of 3 typically have 150 HP and print 99 damage.

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

No. 7of 152

That is where Nidoking H18 stands highest on HP — number 7 of 152 cards in Aquapolis. 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. 5,859 of 17,290 by HP · No. 6,925 of 16,246 by damage · top by HP: Mega Emboar ex, 380

top 43% on damage
Fighting cards — 1,884 cards No. 676 of 1,884 by HP · No. 906 of 1,848 by damage · top by HP: Mega Gallade ex, 350

top 49% on damage
Stage 2 cards — 1,749 cards No. 1,439 of 1,749 by HP · No. 1,309 of 1,721 by damage · top by HP: Mega Emboar ex, 380

top 76% on damage
Aquapolis — 182 cards No. 7 of 152 by HP · No. 8 of 145 by damage · top by HP: Tyranitar, 120

top 5% on damage

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 110 HP~~middle half 60–130 HP~~
this card 110
Top printed damage 50 damage~~middle half 20–90 damage~~
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 printed as Stage 2

1,749 on record

Cards in the same HP band

5,725 of 17,290 (33.1%)

Cards with this much printed damage

3,566 of 16,246 (22.0%)

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 Nidoking H18 does without attacking

Nidoking H18 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.

Earth Rage — Poké-Power · once a turn

Once during your turn (before your attack), if Nidoking is your Active Pokémon, you may flip a coin. If heads, put a damage counter on each of your opponent's Benched Pokémon. This power can't be used if Nidoking is affected by a Special Condition.

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.

Earth Rage 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

Earth Rage 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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Is Nidoking H18 efficient for the Energy it asks for?

Printed damage on its own says nothing — a 50 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.

Damage per Energy card, across the whole archive

1 Energy9,392 cards49.049 damage typical

2 Energy4,565 cards32.565 damage typical

3 Energy2,533 cards34.7104 damage typical

4 Energy421 cards27.8111 damage typical

5 Energy47 cards41.8209 damage typical

Nidoking H18 — this card13.050 damage for 4 Energy

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 13.

Damage per Energy card, across the whole archive
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
Nidoking H18 — this card	13.0	50 damage for 4 Energy

2501250 damage

012345 Energy

Typical for that Energy cost 6 groupsGiant Horn 50 / 4

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.

Energy cost against printed damage. Each grey dot is what cards asking that much Energy typically print; the coloured dots are the attacks on Nidoking H18.
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 Horn	—	13	—

This card, per Energy card

13 damage

Typical for a 4 Energy attack

27.8 damage

Difference

-14.8 damage

Both figures are damage divided by Energy cost, counted the same way.

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 50 is read as high or low rather than merely large.

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What does being a Fighting card do for Nidoking H18?

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 55 damage is enough to remove this card in one turn.

Nidoking H18 · Stage 2 110 HP Its hardest attack is printed at 50 damage.

Takes double from this card 4,942 cards in groups that print a Fighting weakness Against Colorless, Lightning and Darkness, printed damage from this card counts double.

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

Colorlessmost often weak to Fighting12.6%2,173 cards

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

Fighting — this cardmost 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	12.6%	2,173 cards
Fire	9.1%	1,574 cards
Fighting — this card	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

Fightingweak to Grass

Colorlessweak to Fighting

Lightningweak to Fighting

Darknessweak 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 Fighting weakness.

What being a Fighting card is worth

Groups that most often print a Fighting weakness: Colorless (2,173 cards), Lightning (1,520 cards) and Darkness (1,249 cards). Against those, this card's printed damage counts double. Going the other way, Fighting cards are themselves most exposed to Grass.

Every energy type in the archive

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What knocks out Nidoking H18 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 55 printed damage rather than 110.

Cards that remove it in one attack

681

Cards it removes in one attack

2,134

Grass damage needed to knock it out

Counted across the whole card archive. 110 HP against a Grass weakness at ×2 decides all three figures.

Removes it in one attackIvysaurMega Evolution 13460 damage

×2Grass weakness · 55 printed damage is enough
60 damage becomes 120 against this card

This cardNidoking H18Aquapolis H18110 HP

Why this card was picked to stand opposite

Of the 681 cards in the archive that can remove Nidoking H18 in a single attack, this one clears the bar by the smallest margin — 60 printed damage against a bar of 55. 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.

Nidokingweak to Grass ×2

Nidokingresists Lightning -30

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

What the Lightning resistance changes

Damage from Lightning 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.

Grass cards that remove Nidoking in one attack
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

110 HP against a Grass ×2 weakness means any Grass attack printed at 55 damage or more is enough. 681 cards in the archive clear that bar.

100 HP Zoroark [71]

100 HP Bouffalant [91]

100 HP Houndoom [56]

100 HP Kangaskhan [71]

100 HP Zoroark [90]

100 HP Bouffalant [107]

Cards this one removes in a single attack

2,134 cards in the archive are weak to Fighting and sit inside the damage this card can deal. Point at a card to see it full size.Tap a card to open its page.

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

Nidoking H18 is one print of Nidoking. 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.

Nidoking has been printed 24 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 Nidoking cards ever printedPokédex #034Prints on record 24Toughest print 330 HPThis card 110 HP

24prints

Legal in Standard5Older prints, not in Standard19

Every Nidoking 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 Nidoking printed is 330 HP, and this card is 33.3% of it

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

Team Rocket's Nidoking ex 233/182the toughest Nidoking ever printedSV10: Destined Rivals330 HP
Nidoking H18against that record33.3% of the record110 HP

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

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What has to be in play before Nidoking H18 can be?

Nidoking evolves from Nidorino, so the whole line has to be built before this card reaches the field.

The Nidoking line, oldest stage first

Nidorino14 prints on record · Legendary Collection

+80 HP · +90 damage

Nidoking12 prints on record · Base Set (Shadowless)

Nidorino → Nidoking

This card cannot be played from your hand onto an empty spot — it goes on top of Nidorino.
The line runs 2 stages, so the first card has to be in play 1 turn before this one can be.

1NidorinoHardest attack printed at this stage: 100 damage90 HP
2NidokingHardest attack printed at this stage: 190 damage. Evolving here adds 80 HP over the stage before it170 HP

Bars are the highest HP ever printed on that stage, measured against the top of this line (170 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 Nidoking print, and can the older ones still be played?

24 prints carry this name in the archive, and 20 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 (330 HP), and the highlighted row is the card this page is about.

20 rows are shown of the 24 prints counted under this name.

Nidoking prints — can each one still be played?
Print	Set	Regulation mark	Standard
Team Rocket's Nidoking ex 233/182	SV10: Destined Rivals	Mark I	Legal in Standard
Team Rocket's Nidoking ex 119/182	Prize Pack Series Cards	Mark I	Legal in Standard
Team Rocket's Nidoking ex 216/182	SV10: Destined Rivals	Mark I	Legal in Standard
Nidoking BREAK 46/108	XY - Evolutions	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Nidoking 174/165	SV: Scarlet & Violet 151	Mark G	Legal in Standard
Nidoking 034/165	SV: Scarlet & Violet 151	Mark G	Legal in Standard
Nidoking 59/181	SM - Team Up	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Nidoking 45/108	XY - Evolutions	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Nidoking 45/114	XY - Steam Siege	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Nidoking 58/116	Plasma Freeze	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Nidoking 34/132	Secret Wonders	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Nidoking 29/111	Rising Rivals	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Giovanni's Nidoking 007/132	Gym Challenge	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Nidoking 8/112	EX FireRed & LeafGreen	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Nidoking δ 6/101	EX Dragon Frontiers	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Nidoking H18/H32	Aquapolis	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Nidoking 024/147	Aquapolis	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Nidoking 011/102	Base Set (Shadowless)	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Nidoking 011/130	Base Set 2	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Nidoking 031/110	Legendary Collection	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard

5 of the 20 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 Nidoking H18?

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 Nidoking H18
Card	Set	HP	Top damage	Retreat
Machamp	Skyridge	120	30	2
Kabutops	Skyridge	90	50	2
Dark Tyranitar	Neo Destiny	90	50	3
Machamp	Legendary Collection	100	60	3
Blaziken ex	Crystal Guardians	150	100	2
Machamp	Expedition Base Set	120	50	2

This card itself is 110 HP, 50 top damage and 3 retreat, and every card here is Fighting 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 Nidoking H18 in Aquapolis?

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 #H18 in Aquapolis. 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 Nidoking H18, 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 Nidoking H18
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.

Nidoking H18 — 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 January 15, 2003.

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Nidoking H18 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 Horn, needs 4 Energy attached. Energy attaches once a turn, so that attack waits 4 turns from an empty card.
That works out at 13 damage for every Energy card attached.
Moving it out of the active spot costs 3 more Energy, discarded from the card itself.
It cannot start the game in play — Nidorino has to be on the field first.

Where its HP stands, cut four ways

Every card in the archiveNo. 5,859 of 17,290

Fighting cardsNo. 676 of 1,884

Stage 2 cardsNo. 1,439 of 1,749

AquapolisNo. 7 of 152

What actually removes it

A Grass attack printed at 55 damage removes it in a single turn — that is the bar, not its 110 HP.
681 cards in the archive clear that bar.
Going the other way, it removes 2,134 cards in one attack.
Damage from Lightning attacks is reduced before it is applied, so an attack that clears the bar on paper may still fall short.

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Nidoking H18 card record

Nidoking H18 — the printed record, field by field
Hit points	110 HP	Type	Fighting
Weakness	Grass ×2	Retreat cost	3 Energy
Evolves from	Nidorino	Card type	Stage 2
Pokédex number	#034	Set	Aquapolis
Card number	H18 of 147	Series	E-Card
Released	January 15, 2003	Rarity	Rare Holo
Illustrator	Naoyo Kimura
Tournament legality	Unlimited only

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

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What does Nidoking H18 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

$230.98

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Nidoking H18 — frequently asked questions

How much damage does it take to knock out Nidoking H18?

Nidoking H18 has 110 HP and a Grass weakness at ×2, so a Grass attack printed at 55 damage or more removes it in one turn. Any other type has to print the full 110.

What is the strongest attack on Nidoking H18?

Giant Horn, printed at 50 damage for 4 Energy — 13 damage per Energy card. Flip a coin. If heads, this attack does 50 damage plus 30 more damage.

What is the retreat cost of Nidoking H18?

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

What does the + after the damage on Giant Horn mean?

It marks the damage as conditional: the printed figure is the least it can deal, and the sentence on the card says what is added to it. The full sentence is printed on the card and quoted in the attack table on this page — "Flip a coin. If heads, this attack does 50 damage plus 30 more damage."

How often can you use Earth Rage?

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

Does Nidoking H18 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.

Can an older Nidoking print be played in a tournament?

Legality is read from the print, not from the Pokémon. Of the 20 prints listed on this page, 5 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 Nidoking evolve from?

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

Can Nidoking H18 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 Nidoking H18 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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Nidoking H18 — what does this card actually do?

What does Nidoking H18 do in a game?

Nidoking H18 performance summary

What it can do

Where it stands

Nidoking H18 at a glance

What do the attacks on Nidoking H18 cost, and what do they hit for?

How does Nidoking H18 compare with every other card?

What Nidoking H18 does without attacking

Is Nidoking H18 efficient for the Energy it asks for?

What does being a Fighting card do for Nidoking H18?

What knocks out Nidoking H18 in one hit, and what does it knock out?

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

What has to be in play before Nidoking H18 can be?

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

What can you use instead of Nidoking H18?

Which other cards share the Pokémon behind Nidoking H18?

What was printed next to Nidoking H18 in Aquapolis?

Which rules apply to Nidoking H18, and where can it be played?

Nidoking H18 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

Nidoking H18 card record

What does Nidoking H18 cost?

Nidoking H18 — frequently asked questions

How much damage does it take to knock out Nidoking H18?

What is the strongest attack on Nidoking H18?

What is the retreat cost of Nidoking H18?

What does the + after the damage on Giant Horn mean?

How often can you use Earth Rage?

Does Nidoking H18 deal damage or place damage counters?

Can an older Nidoking print be played in a tournament?

What does Nidoking evolve from?

Can Nidoking H18 be played in a tournament?

Does this page say how good Nidoking H18 is in a deck?

Where these card facts come from

Before you rely on these figures

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