Rocket's Moltres 12 — what does this card actually do?
This card has 60 HP and a top attack printed at 40 damage.
Fire · Basic · Gym Heroes · measured against 20,444 cards on file — card data read July 28, 2026
What does Rocket's Moltres 12 do in a game?
Rocket's Moltres 12 is a Fire Pokémon card with 60 HP, printed as Basic.
Its strongest attack, Fire Wall, is printed at 40 damage for 3 Energy — 13 damage per Energy card.
Rocket's Moltres 12Gym Heroes
Rocket's Moltres 12 performance summary
60 HP · Fire · Basic · retreat 2
as of July 28, 2026
damage per Energy card, among cards whose cheapest attack costs 3
Strongest on Retreat lightness — top 54.7% of the archive. Weakest on Hit points — bottom 13.1%.
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 | 13.1% | 60 HP |
| Top printed damage | 42.7% | 40 damage |
| Energy efficiency | 28.4% | 13 per Energy |
| Retreat lightness | 45.3% | 2 Energy |
| Attack cost lightness | 17.4% | 3 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 12,840 at 60 HP.
Rocket's Moltres 1260 HPPrinted HP
The ceiling of this archive is 380 HP — 320 HP above this card.
Mega Emboar ex 273380 HPWhat stands out on Rocket's Moltres 12
- Hit points 60 HP puts it in the ~70 band, where 38.6% of 17,290 cards with printed HP sit.
- Energy It returns 13 damage per Energy card against 34.7 for cards whose cheapest attack costs 3.
- Legality 3 of the 5 prints that carry this name are legal in Standard play.
Rocket's Moltres 12 at a glance
- What it is. A Fire Pokémon card with 60 HP printed as Basic, printed in Gym Heroes.
- What it can do. 1 attack printed on the card, the strongest at 40 damage for 3 Energy.
- 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 Rocket's Moltres 12 cost, and what do they hit for?
The card prints 1 attack. The strongest asks for 3 Energy and returns 40 damage, which is 13 damage for every Energy card attached.
| Attack | Energy cost | Cards of Energy | Printed damage | Damage per Energy | Effect |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fire Wall | 3 Fire | 3 | 40 | 13 | If an attack does damage to Rocket's Moltres during your opponent's next turn (even if Rocket's Moltres is Knocked Out), Rocket's Moltres attacks your opponent's Active Pokémon for 10 damage. (Apply Weakness and Resistance.) |
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 Rocket's Moltres 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 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.
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.
| 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 40.
Cards in the 40~60 band typically have 101 HP and ask 1 Energy to retreat.
| Group | Share | Value |
|---|---|---|
| ~30 | 42.7% | 6,938 cards |
| 40~60 — this card | 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 3 Energy.
Cards whose cheapest attack costs 3 typically have 153 HP and print 104 damage.
| Group | Share | Value |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | 1.8% | 304 cards |
| 1 | 54.4% | 9,392 cards |
| 2 | 26.4% | 4,565 cards |
| 3 — this card | 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 Rocket's Moltres 12 stands highest on HP — number 34 of 91 cards in Gym Heroes. Cut the archive a different way and the answer moves, which is what the bars below are for.
- Hit points 60 HP
middle half 60–130 HP - Top printed damage 40 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 Rocket's Moltres 12 does without attacking
Rocket's Moltres 12 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.
Is Rocket's Moltres 12 efficient for the Energy it asks for?
Printed damage on its own says nothing — a 40 damage attack that needs 3 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 3 typically return 34.7 damage per Energy card. This card returns 13.
| 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 |
| Rocket's Moltres 12 — this card | 13.0 | 40 damage for 3 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 |
| Fire Wall | — | 13 | — |
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 40 is read as high or low rather than merely large.
What does being a Fire card do for Rocket's Moltres 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.
What is Rocket's Moltres as a Pokémon, across every card it has been printed on?
Rocket's Moltres 12 is one print of Rocket's Moltres. 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 Rocket's Moltres 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 Rocket's Moltres print, and can the older ones still be played?
5 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Team Rocket's Moltres ex 229/182 | SV10: Destined Rivals | Mark I | Legal in Standard |
| Team Rocket's Moltres ex 208/182 | Miscellaneous Cards & Products | Mark I | Legal in Standard |
| Team Rocket's Moltres ex 031/182 | Miscellaneous Cards & Products | Mark I | Legal in Standard |
| Rocket's Moltres ex 100/109 | EX Team Rocket Returns | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Rocket's Moltres 012/132 | Gym Heroes | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
3 of the 5 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 Rocket's Moltres 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.
100
Rocket's Moltres ex [100]
220
Galarian Moltres V [177]
70
Moltres [149]
70
Moltres [12]
110
Moltres ex [115]
300
Moltres & Zapdos & Articuno-GX [SM210]
120
Moltres [XY127]
90
Blaine's Moltres [1]
100
Moltres ex [31]
220
Team Rocket's Moltres ex [229]
80
Moltres [21]
300
Moltres & Zapdos & Articuno-GX [44]
300
Moltres & Zapdos & Articuno-GX [66]
100
Moltres [10]
300
Moltres & Zapdos & Articuno-GX [69]
70
Moltres [27]
220
Galarian Moltres V [183]
220
Galarian Moltres V [TG20]
70
Moltres [21]
120
Moltres [SWSH185]
220
Galarian Moltres V [176]
120
Galarian Moltres [SWSH125]
120
Galarian Moltres [SWSH284]
70
Moltres [30]
100
Moltres [36]
120
Moltres [SM143]
120
Moltres [9]
170
Moltres-EX [14]
120
Moltres [22]
220
Team Rocket's Moltres ex [208]
120
Moltres [14]
120
Moltres [19]
220
Galarian Moltres V [97]
120
Moltres [38]
220
Team Rocket's Moltres ex [31]
120
Galarian Moltres [93]
120
Moltres [12]
120
Moltres [21]
120
Moltres [14]
39 cards in the archive share this Pokédex number (#146). 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 Rocket's Moltres 12 in Gym Heroes?
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.
70
Lt. Surge's Electabuzz [6]
70
Lt. Surge's Fearow [7]
70
Lt. Surge's Magneton [8]
70
Misty's Seadra [9]
70
Misty's Tentacruel [10]
60
Rocket's Hitmonchan [11]
60
Rocket's Scyther [13]
80
Sabrina's Gengar [14]
Brock [15]
Erika [16]
Lt. Surge [17]
Misty [18]
These are the cards numbered either side of #12 in Gym Heroes. 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 Rocket's Moltres 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 August 14, 2000.
Rocket's Moltres 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.
What it asks a deck for
- Its hardest attack, Fire Wall, needs 3 Energy attached. Energy attaches once a turn, so that attack waits 3 turns from an empty card.
- That works out at 13 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
- Going the other way, it removes 1,415 cards in one attack.
- Damage from Fighting attacks is reduced before it is applied, so an attack that clears the bar on paper may still fall short.
Rocket's Moltres 12 card record
| Hit points | 60 HP | Type | Fire |
|---|---|---|---|
| Retreat cost | 2 Energy | Card type | Basic |
| Pokédex number | #146 | Set | Gym Heroes |
| Card number | 12 of 132 | Series | Gym |
| Released | August 14, 2000 | Rarity | Rare Holo |
| Illustrator | Ken Sugimori | ||
| Tournament legality | Unlimited only | ||
Read from the printed card face, the set listing and the official format list.
What does Rocket's Moltres 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.
Rocket's Moltres 12 — frequently asked questions
What is the strongest attack on Rocket's Moltres 12?
What is the retreat cost of Rocket's Moltres 12?
Can an older Rocket's Moltres print be played in a tournament?
Can Rocket's Moltres 12 be played in a tournament?
Does this page say how good Rocket's Moltres 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
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