Alolan Raticate 42 — what does this card actually do?
This card has 120 HP and a Grass weakness.
Darkness · Stage 1 · Pokémon GO · measured against 20,444 cards on file — card data read July 28, 2026
What does Alolan Raticate 42 do in a game?
Alolan Raticate 42 is a Darkness Pokémon card with 120 HP, printed as Stage 1.
Because of the Grass weakness, any Grass attack printed at 60 damage or more removes it in a single turn.
Alolan Raticate 42Pokémon GO
Alolan Raticate 42 performance summary
120 HP · Darkness · Stage 1 · retreat 3 · Grass weakness ×2
Strongest on Attack cost lightness — top 1.8% of the archive. Weakest on Retreat lightness — bottom 16.8%.
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 | 66.1% | 120 HP |
| Retreat lightness | 16.8% | 3 Energy |
| Attack cost lightness | 98.2% | 1 Energy |
2 attacks 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 4,897 at 120 HP.
Alolan Raticate 42120 HPPrinted HP
The ceiling of this archive is 380 HP — 260 HP above this card.
Mega Emboar ex 273380 HPWhat stands out on Alolan Raticate 42
- Hit points 120 HP puts it in the 80~120 band, where 33.1% of 17,290 cards with printed HP sit.
- Weakness A Grass attack printed at 60 damage or more removes it in a single turn.
- Legality 1 of the 4 prints that carry this name are legal in Standard play.
Alolan Raticate 42 at a glance
- What it is. A Darkness Pokémon card with 120 HP printed as Stage 1, printed in Pokémon GO.
- What it can do. 2 attacks printed on the card, the strongest at 0 damage for 0 Energy.
- What it fears. A Grass weakness at ×2, which means 60 printed damage is enough to remove it.
- What it costs to move. 3 Energy to retreat, discarded from the card itself.
- Where it can be played. Unlimited and Standard and Expanded only, and it carries regulation mark F.
- 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 Alolan Raticate 42 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chase Up | 1 Darkness | 1 | — | — | Search your deck for a card and put it into your hand. Then, shuffle your deck. |
| Super Fang | 3 Colorless | 3 | — | — | Put damage counters on your opponent's Active Pokémon until its remaining HP is 10. |
Retreating costs a further 3 Energy, discarded from this card, and that cost is paid on top of anything in the table.
What each 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.
This card places damage counters, which is not the same as dealing damage
Super Fang puts damage counters on a Pokémon instead of dealing damage to it. The two look alike on the board — one counter is ten damage — but the rules treat them apart: anything that reduces or prevents damage does not stop counters from being placed, and weakness and resistance are not applied to them either.
How does Alolan Raticate 42 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 120 HP, which is 32% 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 120 HP.
Cards in the 80~120 band typically print 56 damage and ask 1 Energy to retreat.
| Group | Share | Value |
|---|---|---|
| ~70 | 38.6% | 6,669 cards |
| 80~120 — this card | 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 |
17,262 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 3 Energy to retreat.
Cards with a retreat cost of 3 typically have 150 HP and print 99 damage.
| Group | Share | Value |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | 5.3% | 914 cards |
| 1 | 49.3% | 8,503 cards |
| 2 | 28.6% | 4,926 cards |
| 3 — this card | 12.6% | 2,168 cards |
| 4 | 4.2% | 729 cards |
That is where Alolan Raticate 42 stands highest on HP — number 1,051 of 5,102 cards in Stage 1 cards. Cut the archive a different way and the answer moves, which is what the bars below are for.
- Hit points 120 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 does being a Darkness card do for Alolan Raticate 42?
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 | 5.4% | 925 cards |
| Darkness — this card | 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 Darkness weakness.
What being a Darkness card is worth
No group in the archive most often prints a Darkness weakness, so this type gains nothing automatic from the weakness rule. Going the other way, Darkness cards are themselves most exposed to Grass.
What knocks out Alolan Raticate 42 in one hit, and what does it knock out?
Weakness doubles the damage a Grass attack deals to this card, so the bar it has to clear is 60 printed damage rather than 120.
Ivysaur60 damage60 damage becomes 120 against this card
Alolan Raticate 42120 HPWhy this card was picked to stand opposite
Of the 681 cards in the archive that can remove Alolan Raticate 42 in a single attack, this one clears the bar by the smallest margin — 60 printed damage against a bar of 60. 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 weakness printed in the lower-left corner of the card.
| Card | Set | HP | Printed damage | After weakness |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flapple VMAX (19) | Battle Styles | 320 | 250 | 500 |
| Flapple VMAX (164) | Battle Styles | 320 | 250 | 500 |
| Mega Venusaur ex (3) | Mega Evolution | 380 | 240 | 480 |
| Mega Venusaur ex (155) | Mega Evolution | 380 | 240 | 480 |
| Mega Venusaur ex (177) | Mega Evolution | 380 | 240 | 480 |
| Decidueye ex (12) | Perfect Order | 320 | 240 | 480 |
120 HP against a Grass ×2 weakness means any Grass attack printed at 60 damage or more is enough. 681 cards in the archive clear that bar.
Back to summaryWhat is Alolan Raticate as a Pokémon, across every card it has been printed on?
Alolan Raticate 42 is one print of Alolan Raticate. 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 Alolan Raticate 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 Alolan Raticate 42 can be?
Alolan Raticate evolves from Alolan Rattata, 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 Alolan Rattata.
- The line runs 2 stages, so the first card has to be in play 1 turn before this one can be.
- Every print in the line shares Pokédex number 020.
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 Alolan Raticate print, and can the older ones still be played?
4 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alolan Raticate-GX 85/168 | SM - Celestial Storm | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Alolan Raticate 82/147 | SM - Burning Shadows | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Alolan Raticate 77/149 | SM Base Set | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Alolan Raticate 042/078 | Pokemon GO | Mark F | Legal in Standard |
1 of the 4 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 Alolan Raticate 42?
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Umbreon | Aquapolis | 80 | 30 | 1 |
| Umbreon | HS—Undaunted | 100 | 50 | 1 |
| Umbreon | Neo Discovery | 80 | 20 | 1 |
| Umbreon | Aquapolis | 80 | 30 | 1 |
| Rocket's Scizor ex | Team Rocket Returns | 120 | 50 | 1 |
| Houndoom | HS—Undaunted | 110 | 70 | 1 |
This card itself is 120 HP, 0 top damage and 3 retreat, and every card here is Darkness like it.
Back to summaryWhich other cards share the Pokémon behind Alolan Raticate 42?
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.
70
Dark Raticate [17]
70
Raticate [89]
60
Raticate [6]
60
Raticate [40]
70
Raticate [48]
80
Raticate [34]
90
Team Rocket's Raticate [202]
70
Raticate [88]
70
Lt. Surge's Raticate [51]
70
Raticate G [78]
110
Raticate BREAK [89]
70
Raticate [29]
60
Lt. Surge's Raticate [53]
60
Raticate [105]
200
Alolan Raticate-GX [85]
90
Raticate [99]
60
Raticate [61]
70
Raticate [61]
50
Dark Raticate [51]
60
Raticate [58]
60
Raticate [67]
70
Raticate [88]
70
Raticate [144]
120
Alolan Raticate [82]
120
Alolan Raticate [77]
70
Raticate [20]
90
Team Rocket's Raticate [148]
90
Raticate [61]
28 cards in the archive share this Pokédex number (#020). 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 Alolan Raticate 42 in Pokémon GO?
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.
120
Onix [36]
60
Larvitar [37]
90
Pupitar [38]
90
Solrock [39]
230
Conkeldurr V [40]
40
Alolan Rattata [41]
180
Tyranitar [43]
180
Steelix [44]
70
Meltan [45]
160
Melmetal [46]
220
Melmetal V [47]
330
Melmetal VMAX [48]
These are the cards numbered either side of #42 in Pokémon GO. 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 Alolan Raticate 42, 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 F, printed next to the card number. It was released on July 1, 2022.
Which generation of cards does Alolan Raticate 42 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 — this card | 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 | 5.1% | 419 cards |
Alolan Raticate 42 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
- Moving it out of the active spot costs 3 more Energy, discarded from the card itself.
- It cannot start the game in play — Alolan Rattata has to be on the field first.
Where its HP stands, cut four ways
What actually removes it
- A Grass attack printed at 60 damage removes it in a single turn — that is the bar, not its 120 HP.
- 681 cards in the archive clear that bar.
Alolan Raticate 42 card record
| Hit points | 120 HP | Type | Darkness |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weakness | Grass ×2 | Retreat cost | 3 Energy |
| Evolves from | Alolan Rattata | Card type | Stage 1 |
| Regulation mark | Mark F | Pokédex number | #020 |
| Set | Pokémon GO | Card number | 42 of 78 |
| Series | Sword & Shield | Released | July 1, 2022 |
| Rarity | Common | Illustrator | Atsuko Nishida |
| Tournament legality | Unlimited and Standard and Expanded only | ||
Read from the printed card face, the set listing and the official format list.
What does Alolan Raticate 42 cost?
This page is about what the card does. The figure below is the one number worth carrying across, read on August 14, 2026.
Alolan Raticate 42 — 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
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.