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Pikachu ★ 104 — what does this card actually do?

This card has 60 HP, a top attack printed at 20 damage and a Fighting weakness.

Lightning · Basic Star · Holon Phantoms · measured against 20,444 cards on file — card data read July 28, 2026

What does Pikachu ★ 104 do in a game?

Pikachu ★ 104 is a Lightning Pokémon card with 60 HP, printed as Basic Star.

Its strongest attack, Spring Back, is printed at 20 damage for 2 Energy — 10 damage per Energy card.

Because of the Fighting weakness, any Fighting attack printed at 30 damage or more removes it in a single turn.

Pikachu ★ 104Holon Phantoms

Pikachu ★ 104 performance summary

60 HP · Lightning · Basic Star · retreat 1 · Fighting weakness ×2

Top printed damage2010 per Energy Spring Back20 damage for 2 Energy
as of July 28, 2026
Hit points60 HP38.6% of 17,290 in the ~70 band
Printed damage2042.7% of 16,246 in the ~30 band
Retreat cost1 Energy49.3% of 17,240 in the 1 band
Energy efficiencyBelow typicalAboveTypicalBelowThis card 10 · typical 49.0
damage per Energy card, among cards whose cheapest attack costs 1
Price trackRare Holo StarHolon PhantomsWhat it costs today, how it moved, and where to buy it
Card classBasic Star
RarityRare Holo Star
SetHolon Phantoms
Card number104
Card data readJuly 28, 2026
How Pikachu ★ 104 is built, on five measures
Hit points60 HPTop printed damage20 damageEnergy efficiency10 per EnergyRetreat lightness1 EnergyAttack cost lightness1 Energy

Strongest on Attack cost lightness — top 1.8% of the archive. Weakest on Energy efficiency — bottom 3.1%.

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.

How Pikachu ★ 104 is built, on five measures
MeasurePercentilePrinted value
Hit points13.1%60 HP
Top printed damage12.8%20 damage
Energy efficiency3.1%10 per Energy
Retreat lightness94.4%1 Energy
Attack cost lightness98.2%1 Energy

What it can do

Attack record
  • 1EThundershock10 damage per Energy card · has printed text10damage
  • 2ESpring Back10 damage per Energy card · has printed text20damage

2 attacks 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 12,840 at 60 HP.

This cardPikachu ★ 104 — Holon PhantomsPikachu ★ 104Holon Phantoms60 HP

Printed HP

The ceiling of this archive is 380 HP320 HP above this card.

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

What stands out on Pikachu ★ 104

  • Hit points 60 HP puts it in the ~70 band, where 38.6% of 17,290 cards with printed HP sit.
  • Energy It returns 10 damage per Energy card against 49.0 for cards whose cheapest attack costs 1.
  • Weakness A Fighting attack printed at 30 damage or more removes it in a single turn.

Pikachu ★ 104 at a glance

  • What it is. A Lightning Pokémon card with 60 HP printed as Basic Star, printed in Holon Phantoms.
  • What it can do. 2 attacks printed on the card, the strongest at 20 damage for 2 Energy.
  • What it fears. A Fighting weakness at ×2, which means 30 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 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 Pikachu ★ 104 cost, and what do they hit for?

The card prints 2 attacks. The strongest asks for 2 Energy and returns 20 damage, which is 10 damage for every Energy card attached.

Pikachu ★ 104 — every printed attack, its cost and its damage
AttackEnergy costCards of EnergyPrinted damageDamage per EnergyEffect
Thundershock1 Colorless11010Flip a coin. If heads, the Defending Pokémon is now Paralyzed.
Spring Back2 Lightning220+10If your opponent has only 1 Prize card left, this attack does 20 damage plus 50 more damage.

Retreating costs a further 1 Energy, discarded from this card, and that cost is paid on top of anything in the table.

Thundershock1 Energy card
Spring Back2 Energy cards

What each 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.

  • Thundershock 1 Energy10 damage for 1 Energy — 10 per Energy card10
  • Spring Back 2 Energy20 damage for 2 Energy — 10 per Energy card20

Bars are printed damage against this card's own highest attack (20).

Why one of these damage figures carries a symbol

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

  • Spring Back is printed as 20+, 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 Pikachu ★ 104 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.

Pikachu ★ 104 — Holon Phantoms
Pikachu ★Holon Phantoms 104

Pikachu ★ 104 prints 60 HP, which puts it at number 12,840 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).

13% on printed damage — it out-hits that share of the 16,246 cards that print damage

  • This card60 HP
  • Middle half of the archive60–130 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 60 HP, which is 16% 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
~70 — this card38.6%6,669 cards
80~12033.1%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 60 HP.

Cards in the ~70 band typically print 23 damage and ask 1 Energy to retreat.

Hit points — where this card sits
GroupShareValue
~70 — this card38.6%6,669 cards
80~12033.1%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
Top printed damage — where this card sits
~30 — this card42.7%6,938 cards
40~6022.0%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 20.

Cards in the ~30 band typically have 70 HP and ask 1 Energy to retreat.

Top printed damage — where this card sits
GroupShareValue
~30 — this card42.7%6,938 cards
40~6022.0%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
Cheapest attack cost — where this card sits
01.8%304 cards
1 — this card54.4%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 1 Energy.

Cards whose cheapest attack costs 1 typically have 93 HP and print 49 damage.

Cheapest attack cost — where this card sits
GroupShareValue
01.8%304 cards
1 — this card54.4%9,392 cards
226.4%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 Pikachu ★ 104 stands highest on HP — number 60 of 94 cards in Holon Phantoms. 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. 12,840 of 17,290 by HP · No. 11,559 of 16,246 by damage · top by HP: Mega Emboar ex, 380
    top 71% on damage
  • Mega Eelektross ex — 350 HP, the highest in this group
    Lightning cards — 1,520 cards No. 1,081 of 1,520 by HP · No. 1,073 of 1,461 by damage · top by HP: Mega Eelektross ex, 350
    top 73% on damage
  • Kingdra δ — 110 HP, the highest in this group
    Holon Phantoms — 111 cards No. 60 of 94 by HP · No. 53 of 87 by damage · top by HP: Kingdra δ, 110
    top 60% 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 60 HPmiddle half 60–130 HP
  • Top printed damage 20 damagemiddle 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.

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
6,669 of 17,290 (38.6%)
Cards with this much printed damage
6,938 of 16,246 (42.7%)
Counted from the card files this site reads, one card at a time.

Open the group this card falls into

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Is Pikachu ★ 104 efficient for the Energy it asks for?

Printed damage on its own says nothing — a 20 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.

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
Pikachu ★ 104 — this card10.020 damage for 2 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 1 typically return 49.0 damage per Energy card. This card returns 10.

Damage per Energy card, across the whole archive
GroupShareValue
1 Energy49.049 damage typical
2 Energy32.565 damage typical
3 Energy34.7104 damage typical
4 Energy27.8111 damage typical
5 Energy41.8209 damage typical
Pikachu ★ 104 — this card10.020 damage for 2 Energy
2501250 damage
012345 Energy
Typical for that Energy cost 6 groupsThundershock 10 / 1Spring Back 20 / 2

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 Pikachu ★ 104.
GroupTypical printed damageDamage per Energy cardCards in this group
Cheapest attack costs 0 Energy45304
Cheapest attack costs 1 Energy49499,392
Cheapest attack costs 2 Energy65334,565
Cheapest attack costs 3 Energy104352,533
Cheapest attack costs 4 Energy11128421
Cheapest attack costs 5 Energy2094247
Thundershock10
Spring Back10
This card, per Energy card
10 damage
Typical for a 1 Energy attack
49.0 damage
Difference
-39.0 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 20 is read as high or low rather than merely large.

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Is Pikachu ★ 104 strong for a Star card?

Star cards are built large to begin with, so measuring this one against the whole archive mixes up what the mechanic gives it with what the card itself gives it. Measured inside its own group, the two come apart.

Hit points60 HPtypical for the group is 80 HP — this card is 25% below
Top printed damage20 damagetypical for the group is 50 damage — this card is 60% below
Retreat cost1 Energytypical for the group is 1 Energy — this card is 0% above

The group is every Star card in the archive — 29 of them. Each figure is compared with what that group typically prints, not with the archive as a whole.

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What does being a Lightning card do for Pikachu ★ 104?

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 1,884 Fighting cards carry that type A Fighting attack printed at 30 damage is enough to remove this card in one turn.
Pikachu ★ 104 · Basic Star 60 HP Its hardest attack is printed at 20 damage.
Takes double from this card 2,435 cards in groups that print a Lightning weakness Against Water, 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
Fightingmost often weak to Grass10.9%1,884 cards
Lightning — this cardmost 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
Water14.1%2,435 cards
Colorless12.6%2,173 cards
Fire9.1%1,574 cards
Fighting10.9%1,884 cards
Lightning — this card8.8%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
Lightningweak to Fighting
Waterweak to Lightning

Read from the weakness printed on each group. The first row is this card; the rest are groups that most often print a Lightning weakness.

What being a Lightning card is worth

Groups that most often print a Lightning weakness: Water (2,435 cards). Against those, this card's printed damage counts double. Going the other way, Lightning cards are themselves most exposed to Fighting.

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What knocks out Pikachu ★ 104 in one hit, and what does it knock out?

Weakness doubles the damage a Fighting attack deals to this card, so the bar it has to clear is 30 printed damage rather than 60.

Cards that remove it in one attack
1,446
Cards it removes in one attack
159
Fighting damage needed to knock it out
30
Counted across the whole card archive. 60 HP against a Fighting weakness at ×2 decides all three figures.
Removes it in one attackMakuhitaMakuhitaMega Evolution 7230 damage
×2Fighting weakness · 30 printed damage is enough
30 damage becomes 60 against this card
This cardPikachu ★ 104Pikachu ★ 104Holon Phantoms 10460 HP

Why this card was picked to stand opposite

Of the 1,430 cards in the archive that can remove Pikachu ★ 104 in a single attack, this one clears the bar by the smallest margin — 30 printed damage against a bar of 30. 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.

Pikachu ★weak to Fighting ×2

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

Fighting cards that remove Pikachu ★ in one attack
CardSetHPPrinted damageAfter weakness
Mega Lucario ex (77)Mega Evolution340270540
Mega Lucario ex (160)Mega Evolution340270540
Mega Lucario ex (179)Mega Evolution340270540
Mega Lucario ex (188)Mega Evolution340270540
Mega Lucario ex (113)Ascended Heroes340270540
Toxtricity ex (100)Paradox Rift260270540

60 HP against a Fighting ×2 weakness means any Fighting attack printed at 30 damage or more is enough. 1,446 cards in the archive clear that bar.

Cards this one removes in a single attack

159 cards in the archive are weak to Lightning 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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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 Pikachu ★ 104 in Holon Phantoms?

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 #104 in Holon Phantoms. 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 Pikachu ★ 104, 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

“You can't have more than 1 Pokémon Star in your deck.”

Rulebook clauses that apply to Pikachu ★ 104
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.

Pikachu ★ 104 — tournament formats
FormatStatusWhat that means
StandardNot listedThis card is not listed for this format
ExpandedNot listedThis card is not listed for 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 play. It was released on May 1, 2006.

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Pikachu ★ 104 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, Spring Back, needs 2 Energy attached. Energy attaches once a turn, so that attack waits 2 turns from an empty card.
  • That works out at 10 damage for every Energy card attached.
  • Moving it out of the active spot costs 1 more Energy, discarded from the card itself.

Where its HP stands, cut four ways

Every card in the archiveNo. 12,840 of 17,290
Lightning cardsNo. 1,081 of 1,520
Holon PhantomsNo. 60 of 94

What actually removes it

  • A Fighting attack printed at 30 damage removes it in a single turn — that is the bar, not its 60 HP.
  • 1,446 cards in the archive clear that bar.
  • Going the other way, it removes 159 cards in one attack.
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Pikachu ★ 104 card record

Pikachu ★ 104 — the printed record, field by field
Hit points60 HPTypeLightning
WeaknessFighting ×2Retreat cost1 Energy
Card typeBasic StarPokédex number#025
SetHolon PhantomsCard number104 of 110
SeriesEXReleasedMay 1, 2006
RarityRare Holo StarIllustratorMasakazu Fukuda
Tournament legalityUnlimited only
Printed ruleYou can't have more than 1 Pokémon Star in your deck.

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

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What does Pikachu ★ 104 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
$3,216.67
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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Pikachu ★ 104 — frequently asked questions

How much damage does it take to knock out Pikachu ★ 104?

Pikachu ★ 104 has 60 HP and a Fighting weakness at ×2, so a Fighting attack printed at 30 damage or more removes it in one turn. Any other type has to print the full 60.

What is the strongest attack on Pikachu ★ 104?

Spring Back, printed at 20 damage for 2 Energy — 10 damage per Energy card. If your opponent has only 1 Prize card left, this attack does 20 damage plus 50 more damage.

What is the retreat cost of Pikachu ★ 104?

1 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 Spring Back 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 — "If your opponent has only 1 Prize card left, this attack does 20 damage plus 50 more damage."

Can Pikachu ★ 104 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 Pikachu ★ 104 mean?

The card reads “You can't have more than 1 Pokémon Star in your deck.” That sentence is printed on the card itself, so it applies wherever the card is played.

Does this page say how good Pikachu ★ 104 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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