Elekid 22 — what does this card actually do?
This card has 30 HP.
Lightning · Baby · Neo Genesis · measured against 20,444 cards on file — card data read July 28, 2026
What does Elekid 22 do in a game?
Elekid 22 is a Lightning Pokémon card with 30 HP, printed as Baby.
Elekid 22Neo Genesis
Elekid 22 performance summary
30 HP · Lightning · Baby · retreat 0
Among the 17,290 cards in every card in the archive that carry printed HP, this one is number 17,062 at 30 HP.
Elekid 2230 HPPrinted HP
The ceiling of this archive is 380 HP — 350 HP above this card.
Mega Emboar ex 273380 HPWhat stands out on Elekid 22
- Hit points 30 HP puts it in the ~70 band, where 38.6% of 17,290 cards with printed HP sit.
- Legality 1 of the 8 prints that carry this name are legal in Standard play.
Elekid 22 at a glance
- What it is. A Lightning Pokémon card with 30 HP printed as Baby, printed in Neo Genesis.
- 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.
How does Elekid 22 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 30 HP, which is 8% 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 30 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 |
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 Elekid 22 stands highest on HP — number 77 of 81 cards in Neo Genesis. Cut the archive a different way and the answer moves, which is what the bars below are for.
- Hit points 30 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 summaryWhat Elekid 22 does without attacking
Elekid 22 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.
Playful Punch 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.
What does being a Lightning card do for Elekid 22?
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 — this card | 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 Lightning weakness.
What being a Lightning card is worth
Groups that most often print a Lightning weakness: Water (2,435 cards). Against those, this card's printed damage counts double.
What is Elekid as a Pokémon, across every card it has been printed on?
Elekid 22 is one print of Elekid. 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 Elekid 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 Elekid 22 can be?
Elekid evolves from an earlier stage, so the whole line has to be built before this card reaches the field.
- It is not the end of the line either — Electabuzz 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 Elekid print, and can the older ones still be played?
8 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elekid 23/115 | EX Unseen Forces | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Elekid δ 48/101 | EX Dragon Frontiers | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Elekid 48/130 | Diamond and Pearl | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Elekid 36/100 | EX Sandstorm | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Elekid 009/147 | Aquapolis | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Elekid 022/111 | Neo Genesis | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Elekid 21/102 | Triumphant | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Elekid 059/182 | SV04: Paradox Rift | Mark G | Legal in Standard |
1 of the 8 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 Elekid 22?
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.
50
Elekid [23]
40
Elekid δ [48]
30
Elekid [9]
30
Elekid [21]
40
Elekid [48]
40
Elekid [36]
30
Elekid [59]
7 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 Elekid 22 in Neo Genesis?
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.
60
Togetic [16]
100
Typhlosion [17]
100
Typhlosion [18]
Metal Energy [19]
30
Cleffa [20]
70
Donphan [21]
30
Magby [23]
50
Murkrow [24]
60
Sneasel [25]
40
Aipom [26]
60
Ariados [27]
70
Bayleef [28]
These are the cards numbered either side of #22 in Neo Genesis. 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 Elekid 22, 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
“If this Baby Pokémon is your Active Pokémon and your opponent tries to attack, your opponent flips a coin (before doing anything required in order to use that attack). If tails, your opponent's turn ends without an attack.”
| 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% |
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 December 16, 2000.
Elekid 22 card record
| Hit points | 30 HP | Type | Lightning |
|---|---|---|---|
| Retreat cost | 0 Energy | Card type | Baby |
| Pokédex number | #239 | Set | Neo Genesis |
| Card number | 22 of 111 | Series | Neo |
| Released | December 16, 2000 | Rarity | Rare |
| Illustrator | Miki Tanaka | ||
| Tournament legality | Unlimited only | ||
| Printed rule | If this Baby Pokémon is your Active Pokémon and your opponent tries to attack, your opponent flips a coin (before doing anything required in order to use that attack). If tails, your opponent's turn ends without an attack. | ||
Read from the printed card face, the set listing and the official format list.
What does Elekid 22 cost?
This page is about what the card does. The figure below is the one number worth carrying across, read on August 14, 2026.
Elekid 22 — frequently asked questions
What is the retreat cost of Elekid 22?
How often can you use Playful Punch?
Can an older Elekid print be played in a tournament?
Can Elekid 22 be played in a tournament?
What does the rule on Elekid 22 mean?
Does this page say how good Elekid 22 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.