Ninjask 18 — what does this card actually do?
This card has 70 HP, a top attack printed at 30 damage and a Fire weakness.
Grass · Stage 1 · Dragon · measured against 20,444 cards on file — card data read July 28, 2026
What does Ninjask 18 do in a game?
Ninjask 18 is a Grass Pokémon card with 70 HP, printed as Stage 1.
Its strongest attack, Quick Touch, is printed at 30 damage for 2 Energy — 15 damage per Energy card.
Because of the Fire weakness, any Fire attack printed at 35 damage or more removes it in a single turn.
Ninjask 18Dragon
Ninjask 18 performance summary
70 HP · Grass · Stage 1 · retreat 0 · Fire weakness ×2
as of July 28, 2026
damage per Energy card, among cards whose cheapest attack costs 2
Strongest on Retreat lightness — top 0.1% of the archive. Weakest on Hit points — bottom 25.7%.
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.
| Measure | Percentile | Printed value |
|---|---|---|
| Hit points | 25.7% | 70 HP |
| Top printed damage | 28.9% | 30 damage |
| Energy efficiency | 32.6% | 15 per Energy |
| Retreat lightness | 100.0% | 0 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 10,622 at 70 HP.
Ninjask 1870 HPPrinted HP
The ceiling of this archive is 380 HP — 310 HP above this card.
Mega Emboar ex 273380 HPWhat stands out on Ninjask 18
- Hit points 70 HP puts it in the ~70 band, where 38.6% of 17,290 cards with printed HP sit.
- Energy It returns 15 damage per Energy card against 32.5 for cards whose cheapest attack costs 2.
- Weakness A Fire attack printed at 35 damage or more removes it in a single turn.
- Legality 2 of the 11 prints that carry this name are legal in Standard play.
Ninjask 18 at a glance
- What it is. A Grass Pokémon card with 70 HP printed as Stage 1, printed in Dragon.
- What it can do. 1 attack printed on the card, the strongest at 30 damage for 2 Energy.
- What it fears. A Fire weakness at ×2, which means 35 printed damage is enough to remove it.
- What it costs to move. 0 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 Ninjask 18 cost, and what do they hit for?
The card prints 1 attack. The strongest asks for 2 Energy and returns 30 damage, which is 15 damage for every Energy card attached.
| Attack | Energy cost | Cards of Energy | Printed damage | Damage per Energy | Effect |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quick Touch | 2 Colorless | 2 | 30 | 15 | You may switch Ninjask with 1 of your Benched Pokémon. If you do, you may move any number of Grass Energy cards attached to Ninjask to the new Active Pokémon. |
This card has no retreat cost at all, so it can leave the active spot without discarding any Energy — the only limit is that retreating happens once a turn.
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 Ninjask 18 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 70 HP, which is 18% 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 70 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 30.
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 0 Energy to retreat.
Cards with a retreat cost of 0 typically have 103 HP and print 61 damage.
| Group | Share | Value |
|---|---|---|
| 0 — this card | 5.3% | 914 cards |
| 1 | 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 Ninjask 18 stands highest on HP — number 32 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 70 HP
middle half 60–130 HP - Top printed damage 30 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 summaryWhat Ninjask 18 does without attacking
Ninjask 18 carries 1 printed effect that work outside the attack step, so it 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.
Loose Shell 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.
Is Ninjask 18 efficient for the Energy it asks for?
Printed damage on its own says nothing — a 30 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 15.
| 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 |
| Ninjask 18 — this card | 15.0 | 30 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 |
| Quick Touch | — | 15 | — |
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 30 is read as high or low rather than merely large.
What does being a Grass card do for Ninjask 18?
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 | 9.1% | 1,574 cards |
| Fighting | 10.9% | 1,884 cards |
| Lightning | 8.8% | 1,520 cards |
| Grass — this card | 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 Grass weakness.
What being a Grass card is worth
Groups that most often print a Grass weakness: Fighting (1,884 cards). Against those, this card's printed damage counts double. Going the other way, Grass cards are themselves most exposed to Fire.
What knocks out Ninjask 18 in one hit, and what does it knock out?
Weakness doubles the damage a Fire attack deals to this card, so the bar it has to clear is 35 printed damage rather than 70.
Chi-Yu40 damage40 damage becomes 80 against this card
Ninjask 1870 HPWhy this card was picked to stand opposite
Of the 999 cards in the archive that can remove Ninjask 18 in a single attack, this one clears the bar by the smallest margin — 40 printed damage against a bar of 35. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Charizard ex (183) | 151 | 330 | 330 | 660 |
| Charizard ex (199) | 151 | 330 | 330 | 660 |
| Charizard ex (161) | Scarlet & Violet Black Star Promos | 330 | 330 | 660 |
| Mega Emboar ex (31) | Ascended Heroes | 380 | 320 | 640 |
| Mega Emboar ex (273) | Ascended Heroes | 380 | 320 | 640 |
| Charizard VSTAR (19) | Crown Zenith | 280 | 320 | 640 |
70 HP against a Fire ×2 weakness means any Fire attack printed at 35 damage or more is enough. 1,014 cards in the archive clear that bar.
60 HP
Poliwhirl [38]
60 HP
Marowak [39]
60 HP
Aerodactyl [1]
60 HP
Kabutops [9]
60 HP
Aerodactyl [16]
60 HP
Kabutops [24]
353 cards in the archive are weak to Grass 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.
What is Ninjask as a Pokémon, across every card it has been printed on?
Ninjask 18 is one print of Ninjask. 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 Ninjask 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 Ninjask 18 can be?
Ninjask evolves from Nincada, so the whole line has to be built before this card reaches the field.
- This card cannot be played from your hand onto an empty spot — it goes on top of Nincada.
- It is not the end of the line either — Shedinja 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 Ninjask print, and can the older ones still be played?
11 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ninjask 137/132 | ME01: Mega Evolution | Mark I | Legal in Standard |
| Ninjask 67/146 | Legends Awakened | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Ninjask 73 | Supreme Victors | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Ninjask 30/214 | SM - Lost Thunder | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Ninjask 017/132 | ME01: Mega Evolution | Mark I | Legal in Standard |
| Ninjask 13/107 | EX Deoxys | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Ninjask 18/97 | EX Dragon | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Ninjask 38/97 | EX Dragon | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Ninjask 10/108 | XY - Roaring Skies | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Ninjask 11/124 | Dragons Exalted | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Ninjask 014/185 | SWSH04: Vivid Voltage | Mark D | Not legal in Standard |
2 of the 11 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 summaryWhat can you use instead of Ninjask 18?
Every card below asks a deck for the same kind of slot, so the comparison is between what they print, not what they cost.
| Card | Set | HP | Top damage | Retreat |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Muk | Aquapolis | 70 | 10 | 1 |
| Cacturne ex | Emerald | 110 | 50 | 1 |
| Exeggutor | Aquapolis | 80 | 40 | 1 |
| Ledian | Skyridge | 70 | 50 | 0 |
| Nidorina | Legendary Collection | 70 | 30 | 1 |
| Ivysaur | Legendary Collection | 60 | 30 | 1 |
This card itself is 70 HP, 30 top damage and 0 retreat, and every card here is Grass like it.
Back to summaryWhich other cards share the Pokémon behind Ninjask 18?
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.
70
Ninjask [13]
70
Ninjask [38]
80
Ninjask [137]
80
Ninjask [67]
60
Ninjask [11]
80
Ninjask [73]
60
Ninjask [14]
70
Ninjask [10]
80
Ninjask [30]
80
Ninjask [17]
10 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 Ninjask 18 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
Torkoal [12]
80
Crawdaunt [13]
70
Dragonair [14]
100
Flygon [15]
70
Girafarig [16]
70
Magneton [17]
100
Salamence [19]
80
Shelgon [20]
70
Skarmory [21]
80
Vibrava [22]
50
Bagon [23]
80
Camerupt [24]
These are the cards numbered either side of #18 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 Ninjask 18, 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.
Ninjask 18 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, Quick Touch, needs 2 Energy attached. Energy attaches once a turn, so that attack waits 2 turns from an empty card.
- That works out at 15 damage for every Energy card attached.
- Moving it out of the active spot costs no Energy at all.
- It cannot start the game in play — Nincada has to be on the field first.
Where its HP stands, cut four ways
What actually removes it
- A Fire attack printed at 35 damage removes it in a single turn — that is the bar, not its 70 HP.
- 1,014 cards in the archive clear that bar.
- Going the other way, it removes 353 cards in one attack.
Ninjask 18 card record
| Hit points | 70 HP | Type | Grass |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weakness | Fire ×2 | Retreat cost | 0 Energy |
| Evolves from | Nincada | Card type | Stage 1 |
| Pokédex number | #291 | Set | Dragon |
| Card number | 18 of 97 | Series | EX |
| Released | November 24, 2003 | Rarity | Rare |
| Illustrator | Hajime Kusajima | ||
| Tournament legality | Unlimited only | ||
Read from the printed card face, the set listing and the official format list.
What does Ninjask 18 cost?
This page is about what the card does. The figure below is the one number worth carrying across, read on August 14, 2026.
Ninjask 18 — frequently asked questions
How much damage does it take to knock out Ninjask 18?
What is the strongest attack on Ninjask 18?
What is the retreat cost of Ninjask 18?
How often can you use Loose Shell?
Can an older Ninjask print be played in a tournament?
What does Ninjask evolve from?
Can Ninjask 18 be played in a tournament?
Does this page say how good Ninjask 18 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.