Slugma 99 — what does this card actually do?
This card has 50 HP, a top attack printed at 10 damage and a Water weakness.
Fire · Basic · Skyridge · measured against 20,444 cards on file — card data read July 28, 2026
What does Slugma 99 do in a game?
Slugma 99 is a Fire Pokémon card with 50 HP, printed as Basic.
Its strongest attack, Singe, is printed at 10 damage for 2 Energy — 5 damage per Energy card.
Because of the Water weakness, any Water attack printed at 25 damage or more removes it in a single turn.
Slugma 99Skyridge
Slugma 99 performance summary
50 HP · Fire · Basic · retreat 2 · Water weakness ×2
as of July 28, 2026
damage per Energy card, among cards whose cheapest attack costs 2
Strongest on Retreat lightness — top 54.7% of the archive. Weakest on Top printed damage — bottom 0.1%.
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 | 5.0% | 50 HP |
| Top printed damage | 0.0% | 10 damage |
| Energy efficiency | 0.3% | 5 per Energy |
| Retreat lightness | 45.3% | 2 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 15,021 at 50 HP.
Slugma 9950 HPPrinted HP
The ceiling of this archive is 380 HP — 330 HP above this card.
Mega Emboar ex 273380 HPWhat stands out on Slugma 99
- Hit points 50 HP puts it in the ~70 band, where 38.6% of 17,290 cards with printed HP sit.
- Energy It returns 5 damage per Energy card against 32.5 for cards whose cheapest attack costs 2.
- Weakness A Water attack printed at 25 damage or more removes it in a single turn.
- Legality 5 of the 23 prints that carry this name are legal in Standard play.
Slugma 99 at a glance
- What it is. A Fire Pokémon card with 50 HP printed as Basic, printed in Skyridge.
- What it can do. 1 attack printed on the card, the strongest at 10 damage for 2 Energy.
- What it fears. A Water weakness at ×2, which means 25 printed damage is enough to remove it.
- What it costs to move. 2 Energy to retreat, discarded from the card itself.
- Where it can be played. Unlimited only.
- What this page does not claim. Deck lists, tournament results and win rates are not published here, because the card files this site reads do not contain them.
What do the attacks on Slugma 99 cost, and what do they hit for?
The card prints 1 attack. The strongest asks for 2 Energy and returns 10 damage, which is 5 damage for every Energy card attached.
| Attack | Energy cost | Cards of Energy | Printed damage | Damage per Energy | Effect |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singe | 1 Fire + 1 Colorless | 2 | 10 | 5 | The Defending Pokémon is now Burned. |
Retreating costs a further 2 Energy, discarded from this card, and that cost is paid on top of anything in the table.
The Energy this attack asks a deck to attach before it can be used, drawn as the symbols printed on the card.
One Energy card attaches per turn, so the number of symbols is also the number of turns the attack waits.
How does Slugma 99 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 50 HP, which is 13% 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 50 HP.
Cards in the ~70 band typically print 23 damage and ask 1 Energy to retreat.
| Group | Share | Value |
|---|---|---|
| ~70 — this card | 38.6% | 6,669 cards |
| 80~120 | 33.1% | 5,725 cards |
| 130~180 | 15.5% | 2,679 cards |
| 190~230 | 6.6% | 1,148 cards |
| 240~280 | 3.3% | 567 cards |
| 290~330 | 2.4% | 412 cards |
| 340+ | 0.5% | 90 cards |
16,246 cards print damage on at least one attack. The highest on this card is 10.
Cards in the ~30 band typically have 70 HP and ask 1 Energy to retreat.
| Group | Share | Value |
|---|---|---|
| ~30 — this card | 42.7% | 6,938 cards |
| 40~60 | 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 |
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 2 Energy to retreat.
Cards with a retreat cost of 2 typically have 132 HP and print 79 damage.
| Group | Share | Value |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | 5.3% | 914 cards |
| 1 | 49.3% | 8,503 cards |
| 2 — this card | 28.6% | 4,926 cards |
| 3 | 12.6% | 2,168 cards |
| 4 | 4.2% | 729 cards |
That is where Slugma 99 stands highest on HP — number 106 of 156 cards in Skyridge. Cut the archive a different way and the answer moves, which is what the bars below are for.
- Hit points 50 HP
middle half 60–130 HP - Top printed damage 10 damage
middle half 20–90 damage
- Lowest to highest printed in the archive
- Middle half of the archive
- This card
Each row is stretched from the lowest printed figure to the highest, so the two rows are not on one shared scale — read each row on its own.
Open the group this card falls into
Back to summaryIs Slugma 99 efficient for the Energy it asks for?
Printed damage on its own says nothing — a 10 damage attack that needs 2 Energy and one that needs two are different cards. Dividing one by the other puts every attack on the same scale.
Each bar is what cards asking that much Energy typically print, divided by the Energy they ask for. The number beside the bar is that figure.
Cards whose cheapest attack costs 2 typically return 32.5 damage per Energy card. This card returns 5.
| 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 |
| Slugma 99 — this card | 5.0 | 10 damage for 2 Energy |
Further right is a costlier attack, further up is a harder-hitting one, so the cheap and heavy corner is top left. The size of a grey dot is how many cards sit at that Energy cost.
| Group | Typical printed damage | Damage per Energy card | Cards in this group |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cheapest attack costs 0 Energy | 45 | — | 304 |
| Cheapest attack costs 1 Energy | 49 | 49 | 9,392 |
| Cheapest attack costs 2 Energy | 65 | 33 | 4,565 |
| Cheapest attack costs 3 Energy | 104 | 35 | 2,533 |
| Cheapest attack costs 4 Energy | 111 | 28 | 421 |
| Cheapest attack costs 5 Energy | 209 | 42 | 47 |
| Singe | — | 5 | — |
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 10 is read as high or low rather than merely large.
What does being a Fire card do for Slugma 99?
Type decides two things at once — which cards take double damage from this one, and which cards deal double to it. Both are read from the weakness printed on each group, not from a rule of thumb.
17,249 cards carry an energy type. The note under each name is the weakness printed most often on that group.
| Group | Share | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Psychic | 13.5% | 2,335 cards |
| Water | 14.1% | 2,435 cards |
| Colorless | 12.6% | 2,173 cards |
| Fire — this card | 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 Fire weakness.
What being a Fire card is worth
Groups that most often print a Fire weakness: Grass (2,387 cards) and Metal (925 cards). Against those, this card's printed damage counts double. Going the other way, Fire cards are themselves most exposed to Water.
What knocks out Slugma 99 in one hit, and what does it knock out?
Weakness doubles the damage a Water attack deals to this card, so the bar it has to clear is 25 printed damage rather than 50.
30 damage becomes 60 against this card
Slugma 9950 HPWhy this card was picked to stand opposite
Of the 1,571 cards in the archive that can remove Slugma 99 in a single attack, this one clears the bar by the smallest margin — 30 printed damage against a bar of 25. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vaporeon ex (23) | Prismatic Evolutions | 280 | 280 | 560 |
| Vaporeon ex (149) | Prismatic Evolutions | 280 | 280 | 560 |
| Wailord ex (16) | Pitch Black | 380 | 270 | 540 |
| Wailord ex (97) | Pitch Black | 380 | 270 | 540 |
| Palafin ex (61) | Twilight Masquerade | 340 | 250 | 500 |
| Palafin ex (193) | Twilight Masquerade | 340 | 250 | 500 |
50 HP against a Water ×2 weakness means any Water attack printed at 25 damage or more is enough. 1,588 cards in the archive clear that bar.
Back to summaryWhat is Slugma as a Pokémon, across every card it has been printed on?
Slugma 99 is one print of Slugma. 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 Slugma 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 Slugma 99 can be?
Slugma evolves from an earlier stage, so the whole line has to be built before this card reaches the field.
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 Slugma print, and can the older ones still be played?
25 prints carry this name in the archive, and 23 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.
23 rows are shown of the 25 prints counted under this name.
| Set | Regulation mark | Standard | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Slugma 6/39 | Kalos Starter Set | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Slugma 26/236 | SM - Cosmic Eclipse | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Slugma 43/214 | SM - Lost Thunder | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Slugma 028/167 | SV06: Twilight Masquerade | Mark H | Legal in Standard |
| Slugma 034/264 | SWSH08: Fusion Strike | Mark E | Not legal in Standard |
| Ethan's Slugma 023/217 | ME: Ascended Heroes | Mark I | Legal in Standard |
| Ethan's Slugma 035/182 | SV10: Destined Rivals | Mark I | Legal in Standard |
| Slugma 028/162 | SV05: Temporal Forces | Mark H | Legal in Standard |
| Slugma 22/160 | XY - Primal Clash | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Slugma 23/168 | SM - Celestial Storm | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Slugma 20/146 | XY Base Set | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Slugma 021/196 | SWSH11: Lost Origin | Mark F | Legal in Standard |
| Slugma 027/185 | SWSH04: Vivid Voltage | Mark D | Not legal in Standard |
| Slugma 67/90 | Undaunted | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Slugma 83/106 | Great Encounters | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Slugma 77/109 | EX Team Rocket Returns | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Slugma 75/107 | EX Deoxys | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Slugma 099/144 | Skyridge | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Slugma 098/144 | Skyridge | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Slugma 72/97 | EX Dragon | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Slugma 53/64 | Neo Revelation | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Slugma 082/105 | Neo Destiny | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Slugma 73/115 | EX Unseen Forces | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
5 of the 23 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 summaryWhich other cards share the Pokémon behind Slugma 99?
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 Slugma 99 in Skyridge?
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 #99 in Skyridge. 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 Slugma 99, 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 | 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 12, 2003.
Slugma 99 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, Singe, needs 2 Energy attached. Energy attaches once a turn, so that attack waits 2 turns from an empty card.
- That works out at 5 damage for every Energy card attached.
- Moving it out of the active spot costs 2 more Energy, discarded from the card itself.
Where its HP stands, cut four ways
What actually removes it
- A Water attack printed at 25 damage removes it in a single turn — that is the bar, not its 50 HP.
- 1,588 cards in the archive clear that bar.
Slugma 99 card record
| Hit points | 50 HP | Type | Fire |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weakness | Water ×2 | Retreat cost | 2 Energy |
| Card type | Basic | Pokédex number | #218 |
| Set | Skyridge | Card number | 99 of 144 |
| Series | E-Card | Released | May 12, 2003 |
| Rarity | Common | Illustrator | Yukiko Baba |
| Tournament legality | Unlimited only | ||
Read from the printed card face, the set listing and the official format list.
What does Slugma 99 cost?
This page is about what the card does. The figure below is the one number worth carrying across, read on August 14, 2026.
Slugma 99 — frequently asked questions
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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.
Industry source
Second-party sources — marketplaces, trade associations, research institutes and companies that compile data about the market.