Drapion LV.X 123 — what does this card actually do?
This card has 130 HP, a top attack printed at 40 damage and a Psychic weakness.
Darkness · Level-Up · Platinum · measured against 20,444 cards on file — card data read July 28, 2026
What does Drapion LV.X 123 do in a game?
Drapion LV.X 123 is a Darkness Pokémon card with 130 HP, printed as Level-Up.
Its strongest attack, Sniping Tail, is printed at 40 damage for 4 Energy — 10 damage per Energy card.
Because of the Psychic weakness, any Psychic attack printed at 65 damage or more removes it in a single turn.
Drapion LV.X 123Platinum
Drapion LV.X 123 performance summary
130 HP · Darkness · Level-Up · retreat 3 · Psychic weakness ×2
as of July 28, 2026
damage per Energy card, among cards whose cheapest attack costs 4
Strongest on Hit points — top 28.3% of the archive. Weakest on Attack cost lightness — bottom 2.7%.
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 | 71.7% | 130 HP |
| Top printed damage | 42.7% | 40 damage |
| Energy efficiency | 3.1% | 10 per Energy |
| Retreat lightness | 16.8% | 3 Energy |
| Attack cost lightness | 2.7% | 4 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 4,029 at 130 HP.
Drapion LV.X 123130 HPPrinted HP
The ceiling of this archive is 380 HP — 250 HP above this card.
Mega Emboar ex 273380 HPWhat stands out on Drapion LV.X 123
- Hit points 130 HP puts it in the 130~180 band, where 15.5% of 17,290 cards with printed HP sit.
- Energy It returns 10 damage per Energy card against 27.8 for cards whose cheapest attack costs 4.
- Weakness A Psychic attack printed at 65 damage or more removes it in a single turn.
Drapion LV.X 123 at a glance
- What it is. A Darkness Pokémon card with 130 HP printed as Level-Up, printed in Platinum.
- What it can do. 1 attack printed on the card, the strongest at 40 damage for 4 Energy.
- What it fears. A Psychic weakness at ×2, which means 65 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 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.
What do the attacks on Drapion LV.X 123 cost, and what do they hit for?
The card prints 1 attack. The strongest asks for 4 Energy and returns 40 damage, which is 10 damage for every Energy card attached.
| Attack | Energy cost | Cards of Energy | Printed damage | Damage per Energy | Effect |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sniping Tail | 2 Darkness + 2 Colorless | 4 | 40 | 10 | Does 40 damage to 1 of your opponent's Benched Pokémon. (Don't apply Weakness and Resistance for Benched Pokémon.) The Defending Pokémon can't retreat during your opponent's next turn. |
Retreating costs a further 3 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.
How does Drapion LV.X 123 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 130 HP, which is 34% 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 130 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 40.
Cards in the 40~60 band typically have 101 HP and ask 1 Energy to retreat.
| Group | Share | Value |
|---|---|---|
| ~30 | 42.7% | 6,938 cards |
| 40~60 — this card | 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 |
17,262 cards have at least one attack with an Energy cost. The cheapest on this card asks 4 Energy.
Cards whose cheapest attack costs 4 typically have 157 HP and print 111 damage.
| Group | Share | Value |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | 1.8% | 304 cards |
| 1 | 54.4% | 9,392 cards |
| 2 | 26.4% | 4,565 cards |
| 3 | 14.7% | 2,533 cards |
| 4 — this card | 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 Drapion LV.X 123 stands highest on HP — number 3 of 117 cards in Platinum. Cut the archive a different way and the answer moves, which is what the bars below are for.
- Hit points 130 HP
middle half 60–130 HP - Top printed damage 40 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 summaryWhat Drapion LV.X 123 does without attacking
Drapion LV.X 123 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.
Tri-Poison 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.
This effect places damage counters, which is not the same as dealing damage
Tri-Poison puts damage counters on a Pokémon rather than dealing damage to it. One counter is ten damage on the board, but the rules keep them apart: effects that reduce or prevent damage do not stop counters from being placed, and weakness and resistance are not applied to them.
Is Drapion LV.X 123 efficient for the Energy it asks for?
Printed damage on its own says nothing — a 40 damage attack that needs 4 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 4 typically return 27.8 damage per Energy card. This card returns 10.
| 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 |
| Drapion LV.X 123 — this card | 10.0 | 40 damage for 4 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 |
| Sniping Tail | — | 10 | — |
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 40 is read as high or low rather than merely large.
What does being a Darkness card do for Drapion LV.X 123?
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 Psychic.
What knocks out Drapion LV.X 123 in one hit, and what does it knock out?
Weakness doubles the damage a Psychic attack deals to this card, so the bar it has to clear is 65 printed damage rather than 130.
Banette70 damage70 damage becomes 140 against this card
Drapion LV.X 123130 HPWhy this card was picked to stand opposite
Of the 546 cards in the archive that can remove Drapion LV.X 123 in a single attack, this one clears the bar by the smallest margin — 70 printed damage against a bar of 65. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mewtwo V-UNION (SWSH159) | SWSH Black Star Promos | 300 | 300 | 600 |
| Mewtwo V-UNION (SWSH160) | SWSH Black Star Promos | 300 | 300 | 600 |
| Mewtwo V-UNION (SWSH161) | SWSH Black Star Promos | 300 | 300 | 600 |
| Mewtwo V-UNION (SWSH162) | SWSH Black Star Promos | 300 | 300 | 600 |
| Solgaleo & Lunala-GX (75) | Cosmic Eclipse | 270 | 230 | 460 |
| Solgaleo & Lunala-GX (216) | Cosmic Eclipse | 270 | 230 | 460 |
130 HP against a Psychic ×2 weakness means any Psychic attack printed at 65 damage or more is enough. 548 cards in the archive clear that bar.
80 HP
Golett [45]
80 HP
Lampent [59]
80 HP
Dusclops [62]
80 HP
Mismagius [28]
80 HP
Mismagius [19]
80 HP
Banette [14]
353 cards in the archive are weak to Darkness 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 has to be in play before Drapion LV.X 123 can be?
Drapion LV.X evolves from Drapion, 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 Drapion.
- The line runs 2 stages, so the first card has to be in play 1 turn 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.
Which other cards share the Pokémon behind Drapion LV.X 123?
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.
210
Drapion V [GG49]
100
Drapion [4]
270
Drapion VSTAR [200]
100
Drapion [23]
100
Drapion E4 [17]
110
Drapion [15]
210
Drapion V [175]
210
Drapion V [182]
140
Drapion [97]
270
Drapion VSTAR [119]
130
Drapion [54]
110
Drapion [65]
210
Drapion V [118]
210
Drapion V [106]
140
Drapion [134]
130
Drapion [55]
140
Drapion [122]
140
Drapion [52]
18 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 Drapion LV.X 123 in Platinum?
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.
Team Galactic's Invention G-103 Power Spray [117]
Team Galactic's Invention G-105 Poké Turn [118]
50
Armor Fossil [119]
50
Skull Fossil [120]
Rainbow Energy [121]
120
Dialga G LV.X [122]
130
Giratina LV.X [124]
120
Palkia G LV.X [125]
100
Shaymin LV.X [126]
110
Shaymin LV.X [127]
70
Electabuzz [128]
70
Hitmonchan [129]
These are the cards numbered either side of #123 in Platinum. 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 Drapion LV.X 123, 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
“Put this card onto your Active Drapion. Drapion LV.X can use any attack, Poké-Power, or Poké-Body from its previous level.”
| 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 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 February 11, 2009.
Drapion LV.X 123 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, Sniping Tail, needs 4 Energy attached. Energy attaches once a turn, so that attack waits 4 turns from an empty card.
- That works out at 10 damage for every Energy card attached.
- Moving it out of the active spot costs 3 more Energy, discarded from the card itself.
- It cannot start the game in play — Drapion has to be on the field first.
Where its HP stands, cut four ways
What actually removes it
- A Psychic attack printed at 65 damage removes it in a single turn — that is the bar, not its 130 HP.
- 548 cards in the archive clear that bar.
- Going the other way, it removes 353 cards in one attack.
Drapion LV.X 123 card record
| Hit points | 130 HP | Type | Darkness |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weakness | Psychic ×2 | Retreat cost | 3 Energy |
| Evolves from | Drapion | Card type | Level-Up |
| Pokédex number | #452 | Set | Platinum |
| Card number | 123 of 127 | Series | Platinum |
| Released | February 11, 2009 | Rarity | Rare Holo LV.X |
| Illustrator | Ryo Ueda | ||
| Tournament legality | Unlimited only | ||
| Printed rule | Put this card onto your Active Drapion. Drapion LV.X can use any attack, Poké-Power, or Poké-Body from its previous level. | ||
Read from the printed card face, the set listing and the official format list.
What does Drapion LV.X 123 cost?
This page is about what the card does. The figure below is the one number worth carrying across, read on August 14, 2026.
Drapion LV.X 123 — frequently asked questions
How much damage does it take to knock out Drapion LV.X 123?
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What is the retreat cost of Drapion LV.X 123?
How often can you use Tri-Poison?
Does Drapion LV.X 123 deal damage or place damage counters?
What does Drapion LV.X evolve from?
Can Drapion LV.X 123 be played in a tournament?
What does the rule on Drapion LV.X 123 mean?
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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.
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