Mega Skarmory ex 55 — what does this card actually do?
This card has 260 HP and a Lightning weakness.
Metal · Basic MEGA ex · Perfect Order · measured against 20,444 cards on file — card data read July 28, 2026
What does Mega Skarmory ex 55 do in a game?
Mega Skarmory ex 55 is a Metal Pokémon card with 260 HP, printed as Basic MEGA ex.
Because of the Lightning weakness, any Lightning attack printed at 130 damage or more removes it in a single turn.
Mega Skarmory ex 55Perfect Order
Mega Skarmory ex 55 performance summary
260 HP · Metal · Basic MEGA ex · retreat 0 · Lightning weakness ×2
Strongest on Retreat lightness — top 0.1% of the archive. Weakest on Attack cost lightness — bottom 17.4%.
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 | 95.0% | 260 HP |
| Retreat lightness | 100.0% | 0 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 765 at 260 HP.
Mega Skarmory ex 55260 HPPrinted HP
The ceiling of this archive is 380 HP — 120 HP above this card.
Mega Emboar ex 273380 HPWhat stands out on Mega Skarmory ex 55
- Hit points 260 HP puts it in the 240~280 band, where 3.3% of 17,290 cards with printed HP sit.
- Weakness A Lightning attack printed at 130 damage or more removes it in a single turn.
Mega Skarmory ex 55 at a glance
- What it is. A Metal Pokémon card with 260 HP printed as Basic MEGA ex, printed in Perfect Order.
- What it can do. 1 attack printed on the card, the strongest at 0 damage for 0 Energy.
- What it fears. A Lightning weakness at ×2, which means 130 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 and Expanded only, and it carries regulation mark J.
- 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 Mega Skarmory ex 55 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sonic Ripper | 2 Metal + 1 Colorless | 3 | — | — | Shuffle all Energy attached to this Pokémon into your deck, and this attack does 220 damage to 1 of your opponent's Pokémon. (Don't apply Weakness and Resistance for Benched 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.
Back to summaryHow does Mega Skarmory ex 55 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 260 HP, which is 68% 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 260 HP.
Cards in the 240~280 band typically print 158 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 | 15.5% | 2,679 cards |
| 190~230 | 6.6% | 1,148 cards |
| 240~280 — this card | 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 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 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 Mega Skarmory ex 55 stands highest on HP — number 765 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 260 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 summaryIs Mega Skarmory ex 55 strong for a MEGA card?
MEGA cards are built large to begin with, so measuring this one against the whole archive mixes up what the mechanic gives it with what the card itself gives it. Measured inside its own group, the two come apart.
The group is every MEGA card in the archive — 207 of them. Each figure is compared with what that group typically prints, not with the archive as a whole.
What does being a Metal card do for Mega Skarmory ex 55?
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 Lightning.
What knocks out Mega Skarmory ex 55 in one hit, and what does it knock out?
Weakness doubles the damage a Lightning attack deals to this card, so the bar it has to clear is 130 printed damage rather than 260.
Rotom ex130 damage130 damage becomes 260 against this card
Mega Skarmory ex 55260 HPWhy this card was picked to stand opposite
Of the 244 cards in the archive that can remove Mega Skarmory ex 55 in a single attack, this one clears the bar by the smallest margin — 130 printed damage against a bar of 130. 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 Fighting resistance changes
Damage from Fighting 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pikachu ex (57) | Ascended Heroes | 200 | 300 | 600 |
| Pikachu ex (277) | Ascended Heroes | 200 | 300 | 600 |
| Pikachu ex (57) | Surging Sparks | 200 | 300 | 600 |
| Pikachu ex (219) | Surging Sparks | 200 | 300 | 600 |
| Pikachu ex (238) | Surging Sparks | 200 | 300 | 600 |
| Pikachu ex (247) | Surging Sparks | 200 | 300 | 600 |
260 HP against a Lightning ×2 weakness means any Lightning attack printed at 130 damage or more is enough. 244 cards in the archive clear that bar.
Back to summaryWhat is Mega Skarmory as a Pokémon, across every card it has been printed on?
Mega Skarmory ex 55 is one print of Mega Skarmory. 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.
Is this the strongest Mega Skarmory print, and can the older ones still be played?
2 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.
| Set | Regulation mark | Standard | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mega Skarmory ex 055/088 | Prize Pack Series Cards | Mark J | Not legal in Standard |
| Mega Skarmory ex 106/088 | ME03: Perfect Order | Mark J | Not legal in Standard |
0 of the 2 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 Mega Skarmory ex 55?
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mega Skarmory ex | Perfect Order | 260 | 0 | 0 |
| Mega Mawile ex | Mega Evolution | 270 | 260 | 2 |
| Mega Mawile ex | Mega Evolution | 270 | 260 | 2 |
This card itself is 260 HP, 0 top damage and 0 retreat, and every card here is Metal like it.
Back to summaryWhich other cards share the Pokémon behind Mega Skarmory ex 55?
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.
60
Skarmory [13]
100
Skarmory ex [98]
60
Skarmory [27]
70
Skarmory [26]
170
Skarmory-EX [145]
70
Skarmory [21]
60
Skarmory [63]
60
Skarmory [23]
70
Skarmory [55]
60
Skarmory [97]
110
Skarmory [209]
80
Skarmory [31]
170
Skarmory-EX [80]
100
Skarmory [96]
260
Mega Skarmory ex [106]
70
Skarmory [53]
80
Skarmory FB [83]
90
Skarmory [87]
80
Skarmory [51]
80
Skarmory [95]
100
Skarmory [59]
110
Skarmory [98]
100
Skarmory [69]
110
Skarmory [88]
120
Skarmory [120]
120
Skarmory [182]
110
Skarmory [141]
120
Skarmory [142]
120
Steven's Skarmory [142]
120
Skarmory [119]
110
Skarmory [124]
120
Skarmory [60]
33 cards in the archive share this Pokédex number (#227). 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 Mega Skarmory ex 55 in Perfect Order?
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
Haunter [49]
130
Gengar [50]
80
Skorupi [51]
140
Drapion [52]
210
Yveltal ex [53]
120
Chien-Pao [54]
70
Honedge [56]
100
Doublade [57]
150
Aegislash [58]
70
Klefki [59]
40
Rattata [60]
90
Raticate [61]
These are the cards numbered either side of #55 in Perfect Order. 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 Mega Skarmory ex 55, 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.
The rule printed on this card
“Pokémon ex rule: When your Pokémon ex is Knocked Out, your opponent takes 2 Prize cards. Mega Evolution ex Rule: When your Mega Evolution Pokémon ex is Knocked Out, your opponent takes 3 Prize cards.”
Prize cards your opponent takes when it is knocked out
Every knockout carries the opponent 2 steps closer to winning, and that is the cost of putting this card on the field whatever it cost to buy.
| 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 Legal | Not Legal |
| 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 Expanded play. It carries regulation mark J, printed next to the card number. It was released on March 27, 2026.
Which generation of cards does Mega Skarmory ex 55 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 | 14.8% | 1,215 cards |
| Mark J — this card | 5.1% | 419 cards |
Mega Skarmory ex 55 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 Lightning attack printed at 130 damage removes it in a single turn — that is the bar, not its 260 HP.
- 244 cards in the archive clear that bar.
- Damage from Fighting attacks is reduced before it is applied, so an attack that clears the bar on paper may still fall short.
Mega Skarmory ex 55 card record
| Hit points | 260 HP | Type | Metal |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weakness | Lightning ×2 | Retreat cost | 0 Energy |
| Card type | Basic MEGA ex | Regulation mark | Mark J |
| Pokédex number | #227 | Set | Perfect Order |
| Card number | 55 of 88 | Series | Mega Evolution |
| Released | March 27, 2026 | Rarity | Double Rare (RR) |
| Tournament legality | Unlimited and Expanded only | ||
| Printed rule | Pokémon ex rule: When your Pokémon ex is Knocked Out, your opponent takes 2 Prize cards. Mega Evolution ex Rule: When your Mega Evolution Pokémon ex is Knocked Out, your opponent takes 3 Prize cards. | ||
Read from the printed card face, the set listing and the official format list.
What does Mega Skarmory ex 55 cost?
This page is about what the card does. The figure below is the one number worth carrying across, read on August 14, 2026.
Mega Skarmory ex 55 — frequently asked questions
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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
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