Igglybuff 21 — what does this card actually do?
This card has 50 HP and a Fighting weakness.
Colorless · Basic · Crystal Guardians · measured against 20,444 cards on file — card data read July 28, 2026
What does Igglybuff 21 do in a game?
Igglybuff 21 is a Colorless Pokémon card with 50 HP, printed as Basic.
Because of the Fighting weakness, any Fighting attack printed at 25 damage or more removes it in a single turn.
Igglybuff 21Crystal Guardians
Igglybuff 21 performance summary
50 HP · Colorless · Basic · retreat 1 · Fighting weakness ×2
Among the 17,290 cards in every card in the archive that carry printed HP, this one is number 15,021 at 50 HP.
Igglybuff 2150 HPPrinted HP
The ceiling of this archive is 380 HP — 330 HP above this card.
Mega Emboar ex 273380 HPWhat stands out on Igglybuff 21
- Hit points 50 HP puts it in the ~70 band, where 38.6% of 17,290 cards with printed HP sit.
- Weakness A Fighting attack printed at 25 damage or more removes it in a single turn.
Igglybuff 21 at a glance
- What it is. A Colorless Pokémon card with 50 HP printed as Basic, printed in Crystal Guardians.
- What it fears. A Fighting weakness at ×2, which means 25 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.
How does Igglybuff 21 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 |
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.
| Group | Share | Value |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | 5.3% | 914 cards |
| 1 — this card | 49.3% | 8,503 cards |
| 2 | 28.6% | 4,926 cards |
| 3 | 12.6% | 2,168 cards |
| 4 | 4.2% | 729 cards |
That is where Igglybuff 21 stands highest on HP — number 52 of 82 cards in Crystal Guardians. 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
- 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 summaryWhat Igglybuff 21 does without attacking
Igglybuff 21 carries 2 printed effects that work outside the attack step, so they can matter on a turn the card never attacks.
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.
Baby Evolution 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
Baby Evolution 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.
What does being a Colorless card do for Igglybuff 21?
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 — 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 |
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 Fighting.
What knocks out Igglybuff 21 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 25 printed damage rather than 50.
Makuhita30 damage30 damage becomes 60 against this card
Igglybuff 2150 HPWhy this card was picked to stand opposite
Of the 1,430 cards in the archive that can remove Igglybuff 21 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mega Lucario ex (77) | Mega Evolution | 340 | 270 | 540 |
| Mega Lucario ex (160) | Mega Evolution | 340 | 270 | 540 |
| Mega Lucario ex (179) | Mega Evolution | 340 | 270 | 540 |
| Mega Lucario ex (188) | Mega Evolution | 340 | 270 | 540 |
| Mega Lucario ex (113) | Ascended Heroes | 340 | 270 | 540 |
| Toxtricity ex (100) | Paradox Rift | 260 | 270 | 540 |
50 HP against a Fighting ×2 weakness means any Fighting attack printed at 25 damage or more is enough. 1,446 cards in the archive clear that bar.
Back to summaryWhat is Igglybuff as a Pokémon, across every card it has been printed on?
Igglybuff 21 is one print of Igglybuff. 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 Igglybuff 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 Igglybuff 21 can be?
Igglybuff evolves from an earlier stage, so the whole line has to be built before this card reaches the field.
- It is not the end of the line either — Jigglypuff evolves from this card, so a deck can keep going past it.
- The line runs 3 stages, so the first card has to be in play 2 turns before this one can be.
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 Igglybuff print, and can the older ones still be played?
10 prints carry this name in the archive. 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.
| Set | Regulation mark | Standard | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Togepi & Cleffa & Igglybuff-GX 143a/236 | Alternate Art Promos | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Togepi & Cleffa & Igglybuff-GX 143/236 | SM - Cosmic Eclipse | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Igglybuff 168/236 | SM - Cosmic Eclipse | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Igglybuff 21/100 | EX Crystal Guardians | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Igglybuff 70/106 | Great Encounters | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Igglybuff 37/101 | EX Hidden Legends | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Igglybuff 067/144 | Skyridge | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Igglybuff 40/75 | Neo Discovery | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Igglybuff 36/53 | WoTC Promo | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Igglybuff 44/123 | HeartGold SoulSilver | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
0 of the 10 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 Igglybuff 21?
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.
240
Togepi & Cleffa & Igglybuff-GX [143a]
240
Togepi & Cleffa & Igglybuff-GX [143]
30
Igglybuff [67]
30
Igglybuff [40]
50
Igglybuff [70]
30
Igglybuff [36]
30
Igglybuff [44]
50
Igglybuff [37]
60
Igglybuff [168]
9 cards in the archive share this Pokédex number. The badge on each card is its printed HP, the figure under the name is its hardest printed attack, and the name sits under the picture. Point at a card to see it full size.Tap a card to open its page.
What was printed next to Igglybuff 21 in Crystal Guardians?
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.
80
Cacturne δ [15]
80
Combusken [16]
70
Dusclops [17]
60
Fearow δ [18]
70
Grovyle δ [19]
80
Grumpig [20]
80
Kingler δ [22]
70
Loudred [23]
70
Marshtomp [24]
80
Medicham [25]
70
Pelipper δ [26]
120
Swampert [27]
These are the cards numbered either side of #21 in Crystal Guardians. 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 Igglybuff 21, 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% |
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 August 1, 2006.
Igglybuff 21 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.
Where its HP stands, cut four ways
What actually removes it
- A Fighting attack printed at 25 damage removes it in a single turn — that is the bar, not its 50 HP.
- 1,446 cards in the archive clear that bar.
Igglybuff 21 card record
| Hit points | 50 HP | Type | Colorless |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weakness | Fighting ×2 | Retreat cost | 1 Energy |
| Card type | Basic | Pokédex number | #174 |
| Set | Crystal Guardians | Card number | 21 of 100 |
| Series | EX | Released | August 1, 2006 |
| Rarity | Rare | Illustrator | Miki Tanaka |
| Tournament legality | Unlimited only | ||
Read from the printed card face, the set listing and the official format list.
What does Igglybuff 21 cost?
This page is about what the card does. The figure below is the one number worth carrying across, read on August 14, 2026.
Igglybuff 21 — frequently asked questions
How much damage does it take to knock out Igglybuff 21?
What is the retreat cost of Igglybuff 21?
How often can you use Baby Evolution?
Does Igglybuff 21 deal damage or place damage counters?
Can an older Igglybuff print be played in a tournament?
Can Igglybuff 21 be played in a tournament?
Does this page say how good Igglybuff 21 is in a deck?
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.