Ditto 17 — what does this card actually do?

Name: Ditto 17
Brand: Pokémon
Author: match

This card has 40 HP, a top attack printed at 20 damage and a Fighting weakness.

Colorless · Basic · HS—Triumphant · measured against 20,444 cards on file — card data read July 28, 2026

What does Ditto 17 do in a game?

Ditto 17 is a Colorless Pokémon card with 40 HP, printed as Basic.

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

Because of the Fighting weakness, any Fighting attack printed at 20 damage or more removes it in a single turn.

Colorless Basic Rare Unlimited #132 Ditto

Ditto 17HS—Triumphant

40 HP · Colorless · Basic · retreat 1 · Fighting weakness ×2

Top printed damage2010 per Energy Sharp Point20 damage for 2 Energy
as of July 28, 2026

Hit points40 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 32.5
damage per Energy card, among cards whose cheapest attack costs 2

Price trackRareHS—Triumphant38 printsWhat it costs today, how it moved, and where to buy it

Card classBasic

RarityRare

SetHS—Triumphant

Card number17

AbilityDittobolic

Card data readJuly 28, 2026

What it sells for now$121.15Opens the price page — daily prices, every print variant, where to buy · read August 14, 2026 Removed in one hit by20 damage40 HP against a Fighting ×2 weakness Turns of setup2 turnsEnergy attaches once a turn, so the top attack waits that long Cards that can do it1,677 cardsCounted across the whole card archive Other prints of this name38 printsPrinted HP and legality move from print to print Cards in the same line27 moreEvery print carrying Pokédex #132 Where it can be playedUnlimitedRead from the official format list

How Ditto 17 is built, on five measures

Strongest on Retreat lightness — top 5.6% of the archive. Weakest on Hit points — bottom 1.3%.

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 Ditto 17 is built, on five measures
Measure	Percentile	Printed value
Hit points	1.3%	40 HP
Top printed damage	12.8%	20 damage
Energy efficiency	3.1%	10 per Energy
Retreat lightness	94.4%	1 Energy
Attack cost lightness	43.8%	2 Energy

What it can do

Attack record

2ESharp Point10 damage per Energy card20damage

1 attack printed on the card. The badge is the Energy it asks for.

Where it stands

No. 16,429of 17,290 cards ranked by printed HP

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Among the 17,290 cards in every card in the archive that carry printed HP, this one is number 16,429 at 40 HP.

Colorless cardsNo. 2,028of 2,171 by printed HP HS—TriumphantNo. 89of 96 by printed HP

This cardDitto 17HS—Triumphant40 HP

Printed HP

The ceiling of this archive is 380 HP — 340 HP above this card.

Highest printed HPMega Emboar ex 273Ascended Heroes380 HP

What stands out on Ditto 17

Hit points 40 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 32.5 for cards whose cheapest attack costs 2.
Weakness A Fighting attack printed at 20 damage or more removes it in a single turn.
Legality 7 of the 31 prints that carry this name are legal in Standard play.

Ditto 17 at a glance

What it is. A Colorless Pokémon card with 40 HP printed as Basic, printed in HS—Triumphant.
What it can do. 1 attack printed on the card, the strongest at 20 damage for 2 Energy.
What it fears. A Fighting weakness at ×2, which means 20 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 Ditto 17 cost, and what do they hit for?

The card prints 1 attack. The strongest asks for 2 Energy and returns 20 damage, which is 10 damage for every Energy card attached.

Ditto 17 — every printed attack, its cost and its damage
Attack	Energy cost	Cards of Energy	Printed damage	Damage per Energy	Effect
Sharp Point	2 Colorless	2	20	10	No extra effect.

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

Sharp Point2 Energy cards

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.

Sharp Point 2 Energy20 damage for 2 Energy — 10 per Energy card20

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

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How does Ditto 17 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.

Ditto 17 — HS—Triumphant — DittoHS—Triumphant 17

No.16,429by HP in the archive

Ditto 17 prints 40 HP, which puts it at number 16,429 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

Bottom 5%Where it sits on printed HP

This card40 HP
Middle half of the archive60–130 HP
Strongest Ditto printed70 HP

The ceiling of this archive is Mega Emboar ex at 380 HP — every bar here is measured against it.

This card prints 40 HP, which is 11% 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 40 HP.

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

Hit points — where this card sits
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

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
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

Cheapest attack cost — where this card sits

01.8%304 cards

154.4%9,392 cards

2 — this card26.4%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 2 Energy.

Cards whose cheapest attack costs 2 typically have 116 HP and print 65 damage.

Cheapest attack cost — where this card sits
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

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
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

No. 89of 96

That is where Ditto 17 stands highest on HP — number 89 of 96 cards in HS—Triumphant. Cut the archive a different way and the answer moves, which is what the bars below are for.

Every card in the archive — 20,444 cards No. 16,429 of 17,290 by HP · No. 11,559 of 16,246 by damage · top by HP: Mega Emboar ex, 380

top 71% on damage
Colorless cards — 2,173 cards No. 2,028 of 2,171 by HP · No. 1,303 of 2,018 by damage · top by HP: Slaking ex, 340

top 65% on damage
HS—Triumphant — 103 cards No. 89 of 96 by HP · No. 59 of 83 by damage · top by HP: Wailord, 180

top 70% 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 40 HP~~middle half 60–130 HP~~
this card 40
Top printed damage 20 damage~~middle half 20–90 damage~~
this card 20

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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What Ditto 17 does without attacking

Ditto 17 carries 1 printed effect that work outside the attack step, so it can matter on a turn the card never attacks.

Printed effects

Capped at once a turn

None

Read from the printed text quoted below, not counted anywhere else.

Dittobolic — Poké-Body

The number of Benched Pokémon your opponent can have is now 4. If your opponent has 5 Benched Pokémon, your opponent must discard 1 of them and all cards attached to it.

Quoted from the card face. The label after the dash is how the card itself names the effect.

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.

Every card mechanic in the archive

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Is Ditto 17 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

Ditto 17 — 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 2 typically return 32.5 damage per Energy card. This card returns 10.

Damage per Energy card, across the whole archive
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
Ditto 17 — this card	10.0	20 damage for 2 Energy

2501250 damage

012345 Energy

Typical for that Energy cost 6 groupsSharp Point 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 Ditto 17.
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
Sharp Point	—	10	—

This card, per Energy card

10 damage

Typical for a 2 Energy attack

32.5 damage

Difference

-22.5 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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What does being a Colorless card do for Ditto 17?

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 20 damage is enough to remove this card in one turn.

Ditto 17 · Basic 40 HP Its hardest attack is printed at 20 damage.

Takes double from this card — no group most often prints a Colorless weakness This type gains nothing automatic from the weakness rule.

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

Colorless — this cardmost 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

Lightningmost 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
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

Colorlessweak to Fighting

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.

Every energy type in the archive

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What knocks out Ditto 17 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 20 printed damage rather than 40.

Cards that remove it in one attack

1,677

Fighting damage needed to knock it out

Counted across the whole card archive. 40 HP against a Fighting weakness at ×2 decides all three figures.

Removes it in one attackSandshrewMega Evolution 6820 damage

×2Fighting weakness · 20 printed damage is enough
20 damage becomes 40 against this card

This cardDitto 17HS—Triumphant 1740 HP

Why this card was picked to stand opposite

Of the 1,672 cards in the archive that can remove Ditto 17 in a single attack, this one clears the bar by the smallest margin — 20 printed damage against a bar of 20. 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.

Dittoweak to Fighting ×2

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

Fighting cards that remove Ditto in one attack
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

40 HP against a Fighting ×2 weakness means any Fighting attack printed at 20 damage or more is enough. 1,677 cards in the archive clear that bar.

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What is Ditto as a Pokémon, across every card it has been printed on?

Ditto 17 is one print of Ditto. 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.

Ditto has been printed 38 times, and the printed numbers move from one print to the next. Point at a card to see it full size.Tap a card to open its page.

The three toughest Ditto cards ever printedPokédex #132Prints on record 38Toughest print 320 HPThis card 40 HP

38prints

Legal in Standard7Older prints, not in Standard31

Every Ditto 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.

The toughest Ditto printed is 320 HP, and this card is 12.5% of it

Bars are printed HP, measured against the record for this Pokémon

Ditto VMAX SV119/SV122the toughest Ditto ever printedShining Fates: Shiny Vault320 HP
Ditto 17against that record12.5% of the record40 HP

Read from the printed card face of every Ditto print on record. Printed HP does not change after a card is issued.

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Is this the strongest Ditto print, and can the older ones still be played?

38 prints carry this name in the archive, and 31 of them are laid out below. 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.

Rows run from the toughest print down. Bars are printed HP, measured against the toughest print of this name shown here (320 HP), and the highlighted row is the card this page is about.

31 rows are shown of the 38 prints counted under this name.

Ditto prints — can each one still be played?
Print	Set	Regulation mark	Standard
Ditto VMAX SV119/SV122	Shining Fates: Shiny Vault	Mark D	Not legal in Standard
Ditto VMAX 051/072	Shining Fates	Mark D	Not legal in Standard
Ditto V SV118/SV122	Shining Fates: Shiny Vault	Mark D	Not legal in Standard
Ditto V 050/072	Shining Fates	Mark D	Not legal in Standard
Numel 013/078	Pokemon GO	Mark F	Legal in Standard
Ditto XY40	XY Promos	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Ditto 108/149	Boundaries Crossed	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Ditto GG22/GG70	SWSH: Crown Zenith: Galarian Gallery	Mark F	Legal in Standard
Bidoof 059/078	Pokemon GO	Mark F	Legal in Standard
Ditto 107/159	Prize Pack Series Cards	Mark F	Legal in Standard
Ditto 053/078	Pokemon GO	Mark F	Legal in Standard
Ditto 36/113	EX Delta Species	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Ditto 40/113	EX Delta Species	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Ditto 37/113	EX Delta Species	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Ditto 4/112	EX FireRed & LeafGreen	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Ditto 38/113	EX Delta Species	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Ditto 27/146	Legends Awakened	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Ditto 39/113	EX Delta Species	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Ditto 063/113	EX Delta Species	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Ditto 35/113	EX Delta Species	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Ditto 012/017	POP Series 3	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Ditto 201/091	SV: Paldean Fates	Mark G	Legal in Standard
Ditto 62/113	EX Delta Species	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Spinarak 006/078	Pokemon GO	Mark F	Legal in Standard
Ditto 17/18	Detective Pikachu	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Ditto 03/62	Fossil	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Ditto 051/144	Skyridge	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Ditto 18/62	Fossil	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Ditto 17/102	Triumphant	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Koga's Ditto 010/132	Gym Challenge	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Ditto ◇ 154/214	SM - Lost Thunder	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard

7 of the 31 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.

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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 Ditto 17 in HS—Triumphant?

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 #17 in HS—Triumphant. 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 Ditto 17, 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.

Rulebook clauses that apply to Ditto 17
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.

Ditto 17 — tournament formats
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 3, 2010.

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Ditto 17 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, Sharp Point, 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. 16,429 of 17,290

Colorless cardsNo. 2,028 of 2,171

HS—TriumphantNo. 89 of 96

What actually removes it

A Fighting attack printed at 20 damage removes it in a single turn — that is the bar, not its 40 HP.
1,677 cards in the archive clear that bar.

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Ditto 17 card record

Ditto 17 — the printed record, field by field
Hit points	40 HP	Type	Colorless
Weakness	Fighting ×2	Retreat cost	1 Energy
Card type	Basic	Pokédex number	#132
Set	HS—Triumphant	Card number	17 of 102
Series	HeartGold & SoulSilver	Released	November 3, 2010
Rarity	Rare	Illustrator	match
Tournament legality	Unlimited only

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

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What does Ditto 17 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

$121.15

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One figure only — the price record, the daily chart and the marketplaces live on the price page.

Ditto 17 priceOne year of daily prices, every print variant, and where to buy it.Open the price page

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Ditto 17 — frequently asked questions

How much damage does it take to knock out Ditto 17?

Ditto 17 has 40 HP and a Fighting weakness at ×2, so a Fighting attack printed at 20 damage or more removes it in one turn. Any other type has to print the full 40.

What is the strongest attack on Ditto 17?

Sharp Point, printed at 20 damage for 2 Energy — 10 damage per Energy card.

What is the retreat cost of Ditto 17?

1 Energy, discarded from this card to move it out of the active spot. Retreating is allowed once per turn.

Can an older Ditto print be played in a tournament?

Legality is read from the print, not from the Pokémon. Of the 31 prints listed on this page, 7 are legal in Standard play. The rest can still be played in formats that accept them, and the table on this page names the regulation mark each print carries.

Can Ditto 17 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.

Does this page say how good Ditto 17 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.

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.

Pokémon TCG Data — openly published card files (card text, HP, attacks, weakness, retreat cost, illustrator credits) github.com

TCGdex card database — openly licensed card files (set membership and card numbering) github.com

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Ditto 17 — what does this card actually do?

What does Ditto 17 do in a game?

Ditto 17 performance summary

What it can do

Where it stands

Ditto 17 at a glance

What do the attacks on Ditto 17 cost, and what do they hit for?

How does Ditto 17 compare with every other card?

What Ditto 17 does without attacking

Is Ditto 17 efficient for the Energy it asks for?

What does being a Colorless card do for Ditto 17?

What knocks out Ditto 17 in one hit, and what does it knock out?

What is Ditto as a Pokémon, across every card it has been printed on?

Is this the strongest Ditto print, and can the older ones still be played?

Which other cards share the Pokémon behind Ditto 17?

What was printed next to Ditto 17 in HS—Triumphant?

Which rules apply to Ditto 17, and where can it be played?

Ditto 17 in depth — what these figures add up to

What it asks a deck for

Where its HP stands, cut four ways

What actually removes it

Ditto 17 card record

What does Ditto 17 cost?

Ditto 17 — frequently asked questions

How much damage does it take to knock out Ditto 17?

What is the strongest attack on Ditto 17?

What is the retreat cost of Ditto 17?

Can an older Ditto print be played in a tournament?

Can Ditto 17 be played in a tournament?

Does this page say how good Ditto 17 is in a deck?

Where these card facts come from

Before you rely on these figures

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