Tinkaton 98 — what does this card actually do?
This card has 160 HP, a top attack printed at 240 damage and a Fire weakness.
Metal · Stage 2 · Mega Evolution · measured against 20,444 cards on file — card data read July 28, 2026
What does Tinkaton 98 do in a game?
Tinkaton 98 is a Metal Pokémon card with 160 HP, printed as Stage 2.
Its strongest attack, Windup Swing, is printed at 240 damage for 1 Energy — 240 damage per Energy card.
Because of the Fire weakness, any Fire attack printed at 80 damage or more removes it in a single turn.
Tinkaton 98Mega Evolution
Tinkaton 98 performance summary
160 HP · Metal · Stage 2 · retreat 2 · Fire weakness ×2
as of July 28, 2026
damage per Energy card, among cards whose cheapest attack costs 1
Strongest on Energy efficiency — top 0.1% of the archive. Weakest on Retreat lightness — bottom 45.3%.
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.
| Measure | Percentile | Printed value |
|---|---|---|
| Hit points | 81.7% | 160 HP |
| Top printed damage | 98.5% | 240 damage |
| Energy efficiency | 100.0% | 240 per Energy |
| Retreat lightness | 45.3% | 2 Energy |
| Attack cost lightness | 98.2% | 1 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 2,895 at 160 HP.
Tinkaton 98160 HPPrinted HP
The ceiling of this archive is 380 HP — 220 HP above this card.
Mega Emboar ex 273380 HPWhat stands out on Tinkaton 98
- Hit points 160 HP puts it in the 130~180 band, where 15.5% of 17,290 cards with printed HP sit.
- Energy It returns 240 damage per Energy card against 49.0 for cards whose cheapest attack costs 1.
- Weakness A Fire attack printed at 80 damage or more removes it in a single turn.
- Legality 9 of the 9 prints that carry this name are legal in Standard play.
Tinkaton 98 at a glance
- What it is. A Metal Pokémon card with 160 HP printed as Stage 2, printed in Mega Evolution.
- What it can do. 1 attack printed on the card, the strongest at 240 damage for 1 Energy.
- What it fears. A Fire weakness at ×2, which means 80 printed damage is enough to remove it.
- What it costs to move. 2 Energy to retreat, discarded from the card itself.
- Where it can be played. Unlimited and Standard and Expanded only, and it carries regulation mark I.
- 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 Tinkaton 98 cost, and what do they hit for?
The card prints 1 attack. The strongest asks for 1 Energy and returns 240 damage, which is 240 damage for every Energy card attached.
| Attack | Energy cost | Cards of Energy | Printed damage | Damage per Energy | Effect |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Windup Swing | 1 Metal | 1 | 240− | 240 | This attack does 60 less damage for each Energy attached to your opponent's Active Pokémon. |
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.
Why one of these damage figures carries a symbol
A number on a Pokémon card is not always the number that lands.
- Windup Swing is printed as 240−, so the printed number is a ceiling — the attack starts there and the sentence beside it takes damage away.
How does Tinkaton 98 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 160 HP, which is 42% 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 160 HP.
Cards in the 130~180 band typically print 104 damage and ask 2 Energy to retreat.
| Group | Share | Value |
|---|---|---|
| ~70 | 38.6% | 6,669 cards |
| 80~120 | 33.1% | 5,725 cards |
| 130~180 — this card | 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 240.
Cards in the 190~250 band typically have 238 HP and ask 2 Energy to retreat.
| Group | Share | Value |
|---|---|---|
| ~30 | 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 — this card | 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 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 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 Tinkaton 98 stands highest on HP — number 2,895 of 17,290 cards in Every card in the archive. Cut the archive a different way and the answer moves, which is what the bars below are for.
- Hit points 160 HP
middle half 60–130 HP - Top printed damage 240 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 summaryIs Tinkaton 98 efficient for the Energy it asks for?
Printed damage on its own says nothing — a 240 damage attack that needs 1 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 1 typically return 49.0 damage per Energy card. This card returns 240.
| 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 |
| Tinkaton 98 — this card | 240.0 | 240 damage for 1 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 |
| Windup Swing | — | 240 | — |
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 240 is read as high or low rather than merely large.
What does being a Metal card do for Tinkaton 98?
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 | 13.8% | 2,387 cards |
| Metal — this card | 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 Metal weakness.
What being a Metal card is worth
Groups that most often print a Metal weakness: Fairy (237 cards). Against those, this card's printed damage counts double. Going the other way, Metal cards are themselves most exposed to Fire.
What knocks out Tinkaton 98 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 80 printed damage rather than 160.
Braixen80 damage80 damage becomes 160 against this card
Tinkaton 98160 HPWhy this card was picked to stand opposite
Of the 593 cards in the archive that can remove Tinkaton 98 in a single attack, this one clears the bar by the smallest margin — 80 printed damage against a bar of 80. 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 two boxes in the lower-left corner of the card — weakness multiplies incoming damage, resistance subtracts from it.
What the Grass resistance changes
Damage from Grass attacks is reduced before it is applied, so an attack printed high enough to knock this card out on paper may not do it. Resistance is a flat subtraction, not a multiplier — it does not scale with the attack.
| 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 |
160 HP against a Fire ×2 weakness means any Fire attack printed at 80 damage or more is enough. 599 cards in the archive clear that bar.
350 HP
Mega Abomasnow ex [36]
350 HP
Mega Abomasnow ex [157]
330 HP
Kyurem VMAX [49]
330 HP
Kyurem VMAX [197]
320 HP
Mega Clefable ex [31]
320 HP
Mega Clefable ex [103]
1,002 cards in the archive are weak to Metal 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 Tinkaton as a Pokémon, across every card it has been printed on?
Tinkaton 98 is one print of Tinkaton. 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 Tinkaton 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 Tinkaton 98 can be?
Tinkaton evolves from Tinkatuff, 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 Tinkatuff.
- 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 Tinkaton print, and can the older ones still be played?
9 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tinkaton ex 262/193 | SV02: Paldea Evolved | Mark G | Legal in Standard |
| Tinkaton ex 031 | SV: Scarlet & Violet Promo Cards | Mark G | Legal in Standard |
| Tinkaton ex 240/193 | SV02: Paldea Evolved | Mark G | Legal in Standard |
| Tinkaton 098/132 | ME01: Mega Evolution | Mark I | Legal in Standard |
| Tinkaton 020 | SV: Scarlet & Violet Promo Cards | Mark G | Legal in Standard |
| Tinkaton 105/193 | Miscellaneous Cards & Products | Mark G | Legal in Standard |
| Tinkaton 167/091 | SV: Paldean Fates | Mark G | Legal in Standard |
| Tinkaton 140 | SV: Scarlet & Violet Promo Cards | Mark G | Legal in Standard |
| Tinkaton 085/182 | SV04: Paradox Rift | Mark G | Legal in Standard |
9 of the 9 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 Tinkaton 98?
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Metagross ex | Hidden Legends | 150 | 50 | 4 |
| Aggron ex | Sandstorm | 150 | 50 | 4 |
| Bastiodon | Pokémon Rumble | 120 | 40 | 4 |
| Metagross ex | Power Keepers | 150 | 70 | 4 |
| Aggron ex | Crystal Guardians | 150 | 100 | 4 |
| Metagross | Temporal Forces | 180 | 200 | 3 |
This card itself is 160 HP, 240 top damage and 2 retreat, and every card here is Metal like it.
Back to summaryWhich other cards share the Pokémon behind Tinkaton 98?
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.
140
Tinkaton [20]
300
Tinkaton ex [262]
140
Tinkaton [167]
300
Tinkaton ex [31]
300
Tinkaton ex [240]
140
Tinkaton [140]
140
Tinkaton [105]
130
Tinkaton [85]
8 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 Tinkaton 98 in Mega Evolution?
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.
100
Grafaiai [92]
200
Steelix [93]
270
Mega Mawile ex [94]
140
Dialga [95]
70
Tinkatink [96]
90
Tinkatuff [97]
130
Gholdengo [99]
280
Mega Latias ex [100]
130
Latios [101]
60
Spearow [102]
100
Fearow [103]
300
Mega Kangaskhan ex [104]
These are the cards numbered either side of #98 in Mega Evolution. 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 Tinkaton 98, 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 | Legal | Can be played in this format |
| Expanded | Legal | Can be played in 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 and Standard and Expanded play. It carries regulation mark I, printed next to the card number. It was released on September 26, 2025.
Which generation of cards does Tinkaton 98 belong to?
The single letter printed beside the card number groups a card with everything issued under the same rules. Tournament formats are cut along those letters, so the size of a letter is the size of the pool a card sits in.
8,194 cards in the archive carry a regulation mark. Older prints carry none at all, so this is not the whole archive.
The regulation mark is the single letter recorded with each modern card. Older prints carry no mark at all, so this axis covers only the part of the archive that has one.
| Group | Share | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Mark D | 15.4% | 1,261 cards |
| Mark E | 14.7% | 1,202 cards |
| Mark F | 14.4% | 1,180 cards |
| Mark G | 19.9% | 1,634 cards |
| Mark H | 15.7% | 1,283 cards |
| Mark I — this card | 14.8% | 1,215 cards |
| Mark J | 5.1% | 419 cards |
Tinkaton 98 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, Windup Swing, needs 1 Energy attached. Energy attaches once a turn, so that attack waits 1 turn from an empty card.
- That works out at 240 damage for every Energy card attached.
- Moving it out of the active spot costs 2 more Energy, discarded from the card itself.
- It cannot start the game in play — Tinkatuff has to be on the field first.
Where its HP stands, cut four ways
What actually removes it
- A Fire attack printed at 80 damage removes it in a single turn — that is the bar, not its 160 HP.
- 599 cards in the archive clear that bar.
- Going the other way, it removes 1,002 cards in one attack.
- Damage from Grass attacks is reduced before it is applied, so an attack that clears the bar on paper may still fall short.
Tinkaton 98 card record
| Hit points | 160 HP | Type | Metal |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weakness | Fire ×2 | Retreat cost | 2 Energy |
| Evolves from | Tinkatuff | Card type | Stage 2 |
| Regulation mark | Mark I | Pokédex number | #959 |
| Set | Mega Evolution | Card number | 98 of 132 |
| Series | Mega Evolution | Released | September 26, 2025 |
| Rarity | Uncommon | ||
| Tournament legality | Unlimited and Standard and Expanded only | ||
Read from the printed card face, the set listing and the official format list.
What does Tinkaton 98 cost?
This page is about what the card does. The figure below is the one number worth carrying across, read on August 14, 2026.
Tinkaton 98 — frequently asked questions
How much damage does it take to knock out Tinkaton 98?
What is the strongest attack on Tinkaton 98?
What is the retreat cost of Tinkaton 98?
What does the − after the damage on Windup Swing mean?
Can an older Tinkaton print be played in a tournament?
What does Tinkaton evolve from?
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Does this page say how good Tinkaton 98 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.