Torkoal 12 — what does this card actually do?
This card has 80 HP and a Water weakness.
Fire · Basic · Dragon · measured against 20,444 cards on file — card data read July 28, 2026
What does Torkoal 12 do in a game?
Torkoal 12 is a Fire Pokémon card with 80 HP, printed as Basic.
Because of the Water weakness, any Water attack printed at 40 damage or more removes it in a single turn.
Torkoal 12Dragon
Torkoal 12 performance summary
80 HP · Fire · Basic · retreat 3 · Water weakness ×2
Strongest on Attack cost lightness — top 1.8% of the archive. Weakest on Retreat lightness — bottom 16.8%.
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 | 38.6% | 80 HP |
| Retreat lightness | 16.8% | 3 Energy |
| Attack cost lightness | 98.2% | 1 Energy |
2 attacks 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 9,046 at 80 HP.
Torkoal 1280 HPPrinted HP
The ceiling of this archive is 380 HP — 300 HP above this card.
Mega Emboar ex 273380 HPWhat stands out on Torkoal 12
- Hit points 80 HP puts it in the 80~120 band, where 33.1% of 17,290 cards with printed HP sit.
- Weakness A Water attack printed at 40 damage or more removes it in a single turn.
- Legality 6 of the 23 prints that carry this name are legal in Standard play.
Torkoal 12 at a glance
- What it is. A Fire Pokémon card with 80 HP printed as Basic, printed in Dragon.
- What it can do. 2 attacks printed on the card, the strongest at 0 damage for 0 Energy.
- What it fears. A Water weakness at ×2, which means 40 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.
What do the attacks on Torkoal 12 cost, and what do they hit for?
Every attack printed on the card, with the Energy it asks for.
| Attack | Energy cost | Cards of Energy | Printed damage | Damage per Energy | Effect |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Power Generation | 1 Colorless | 1 | — | — | Search your discard pile for up to 2 basic Energy cards, show them to your opponent, and put them into your hand. |
| Scorching Smoke | 1 Fire | 1 | — | — | The Defending Pokémon is now Burned. Flip a coin. If tails, discard a Fire Energy card attached to Torkoal. |
Retreating costs a further 3 Energy, discarded from this card, and that cost is paid on top of anything in the table.
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.
Back to summaryHow does Torkoal 12 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 80 HP, which is 21% 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 80 HP.
Cards in the 80~120 band typically print 56 damage and ask 1 Energy to retreat.
| 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 |
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.
| Group | Share | Value |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | 1.8% | 304 cards |
| 1 — this card | 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 |
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.
| 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 |
That is where Torkoal 12 stands highest on HP — number 18 of 93 cards in Dragon. Cut the archive a different way and the answer moves, which is what the bars below are for.
- Hit points 80 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 does being a Fire card do for Torkoal 12?
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 Torkoal 12 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 40 printed damage rather than 80.
Delibird40 damage40 damage becomes 80 against this card
Torkoal 1280 HPWhy this card was picked to stand opposite
Of the 1,263 cards in the archive that can remove Torkoal 12 in a single attack, this one clears the bar by the smallest margin — 40 printed damage against a bar of 40. 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 |
80 HP against a Water ×2 weakness means any Water attack printed at 40 damage or more is enough. 1,277 cards in the archive clear that bar.
Back to summaryWhat is Torkoal as a Pokémon, across every card it has been printed on?
Torkoal 12 is one print of Torkoal. 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 Torkoal 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 summaryIs this the strongest Torkoal print, and can the older ones still be played?
23 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Torkoal V 188/202 | SWSH01: Sword & Shield Base Set | Mark D | Not legal in Standard |
| Torkoal V 024/202 | SWSH01: Sword & Shield Base Set | Mark D | Not legal in Standard |
| Torkoal 172/167 | SV06: Twilight Masquerade | Mark H | Legal in Standard |
| Torkoal 025/159 | SV09: Journey Together | Mark H | Legal in Standard |
| Torkoal 035/198 | SV01: Scarlet & Violet Base Set | Mark G | Legal in Standard |
| Torkoal 030/167 | SV06: Twilight Masquerade | Mark H | Legal in Standard |
| Torkoal 29/168 | SM - Celestial Storm | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Torkoal 023/172 | SWSH09: Brilliant Stars | Mark F | Legal in Standard |
| Torkoal 237/236 | SM - Cosmic Eclipse | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Torkoal 29/236 | SM - Cosmic Eclipse | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Torkoal 11/73 | Shining Legends | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Torkoal 23/149 | SM Base Set | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Torkoal 023/196 | SWSH11: Lost Origin | Mark F | Legal in Standard |
| Torkoal 16/106 | XY - Flashfire | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Torkoal 18/108 | Dark Explorers | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Torkoal 12/97 | EX Dragon | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Team Magma's Torkoal 12/95 | EX Team Magma vs Team Aqua | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Torkoal 27/92 | EX Legend Maker | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Torkoal 33/110 | EX Holon Phantoms | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Torkoal 25/95 | Unleashed | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Torkoal 010/017 | POP Series 1 | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Torkoal 41/146 | Legends Awakened | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Torkoal 100/127 | Platinum | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
6 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 Torkoal 12?
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.
80
Team Magma's Torkoal [12]
80
Torkoal [27]
80
Torkoal [33]
80
Torkoal [25]
110
Torkoal [237]
80
Torkoal [10]
130
Torkoal [172]
80
Torkoal [41]
210
Torkoal V [188]
80
Torkoal [100]
90
Torkoal [18]
100
Torkoal [16]
210
Torkoal V [24]
110
Torkoal [29]
120
Torkoal [29]
110
Torkoal [11]
110
Torkoal [23]
130
Torkoal [25]
130
Torkoal [35]
130
Torkoal [30]
120
Torkoal [23]
110
Torkoal [23]
22 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 Torkoal 12 in Dragon?
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
Grumpig [6]
50
Minun [7]
50
Plusle [8]
60
Roselia [9]
120
Salamence [10]
30
Shedinja [11]
80
Crawdaunt [13]
70
Dragonair [14]
100
Flygon [15]
70
Girafarig [16]
70
Magneton [17]
70
Ninjask [18]
These are the cards numbered either side of #12 in Dragon. 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 Torkoal 12, 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 November 24, 2003.
Torkoal 12 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 Water attack printed at 40 damage removes it in a single turn — that is the bar, not its 80 HP.
- 1,277 cards in the archive clear that bar.
Torkoal 12 card record
| Hit points | 80 HP | Type | Fire |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weakness | Water ×2 | Retreat cost | 3 Energy |
| Card type | Basic | Pokédex number | #324 |
| Set | Dragon | Card number | 12 of 97 |
| Series | EX | Released | November 24, 2003 |
| Rarity | Rare Holo | Illustrator | Kagemaru Himeno |
| Tournament legality | Unlimited only | ||
Read from the printed card face, the set listing and the official format list.
What does Torkoal 12 cost?
This page is about what the card does. The figure below is the one number worth carrying across, read on August 14, 2026.
Torkoal 12 — frequently asked questions
How much damage does it take to knock out Torkoal 12?
What is the retreat cost of Torkoal 12?
Can an older Torkoal print be played in a tournament?
Can Torkoal 12 be played in a tournament?
Does this page say how good Torkoal 12 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.