Frost Rotom RT2 — what does this card actually do?
This card has 90 HP, a top attack printed at 40 damage and a Darkness weakness.
Lightning · Basic · Rising Rivals · measured against 20,444 cards on file — card data read July 28, 2026
What does Frost Rotom RT2 do in a game?
Frost Rotom RT2 is a Lightning Pokémon card with 90 HP, printed as Basic.
Its strongest attack, Crushing Ice, is printed at 40 damage for 3 Energy — 13 damage per Energy card.
Frost Rotom RT2Rising Rivals
Frost Rotom RT2 performance summary
90 HP · Lightning · Basic · retreat 3 · Darkness weakness +20
as of July 28, 2026
damage per Energy card, among cards whose cheapest attack costs 2
Strongest on Hit points — top 52.3% 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 | 47.7% | 90 HP |
| Top printed damage | 42.7% | 40 damage |
| Energy efficiency | 28.4% | 13 per Energy |
| Retreat lightness | 16.8% | 3 Energy |
| Attack cost lightness | 43.8% | 2 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 7,584 at 90 HP.
Frost Rotom RT290 HPPrinted HP
The ceiling of this archive is 380 HP — 290 HP above this card.
Mega Emboar ex 273380 HPWhat stands out on Frost Rotom RT2
- Hit points 90 HP puts it in the 80~120 band, where 33.1% of 17,290 cards with printed HP sit.
- Energy It returns 13 damage per Energy card against 32.5 for cards whose cheapest attack costs 2.
Frost Rotom RT2 at a glance
- What it is. A Lightning Pokémon card with 90 HP printed as Basic, printed in Rising Rivals.
- What it can do. 2 attacks printed on the card, the strongest at 40 damage for 3 Energy.
- What it fears. A Darkness weakness at +20.
- 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 Frost Rotom RT2 cost, and what do they hit for?
The card prints 2 attacks. The strongest asks for 3 Energy and returns 40 damage, which is 13 damage for every Energy card attached.
| Attack | Energy cost | Cards of Energy | Printed damage | Damage per Energy | Effect |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hail | 2 Colorless | 2 | — | — | This attack does 10 damage to each of your opponent's Pokémon. (Don't apply Weakness and Resistance for Benched Pokémon.) |
| Crushing Ice | 1 Water + 2 Colorless | 3 | 40+ | 13 | Does 40 damage plus 10 more damage for each Colorless Energy in the Defending Pokémon's Retreat Cost (after applying effects to the Retreat Cost). |
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.
Why one of these damage figures carries a symbol
A number on a Pokémon card is not always the number that lands.
- Crushing Ice is printed as 40+, so the printed number is a floor — the attack deals at least that much, and the sentence beside it says what adds to it.
How does Frost Rotom RT2 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 90 HP, which is 24% 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 90 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 |
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 2 Energy.
Cards whose cheapest attack costs 2 typically have 116 HP and print 65 damage.
| Group | Share | Value |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | 1.8% | 304 cards |
| 1 | 54.4% | 9,392 cards |
| 2 — this card | 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 Frost Rotom RT2 stands highest on HP — number 28 of 104 cards in Rising Rivals. Cut the archive a different way and the answer moves, which is what the bars below are for.
- Hit points 90 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 Frost Rotom RT2 does without attacking
Frost Rotom RT2 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.
Frost Shift 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.
Is Frost Rotom RT2 efficient for the Energy it asks for?
Printed damage on its own says nothing — a 40 damage attack that needs 3 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 2 typically return 32.5 damage per Energy card. This card returns 13.
| 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 |
| Frost Rotom RT2 — this card | 13.0 | 40 damage for 3 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 |
| Crushing Ice | — | 13 | — |
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 Lightning card do for Frost Rotom RT2?
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. Going the other way, Lightning cards are themselves most exposed to Darkness.
What knocks out Frost Rotom RT2 in one hit, and what does it knock out?
The weakness printed on the card decides which attacks are enough to remove it in one turn.
Marnie's Liepard70 damage70 damage becomes 90 against this card
Frost Rotom RT290 HPWhy this card was picked to stand opposite
Of the 509 cards in the archive that can remove Frost Rotom RT2 in a single attack, this one clears the bar by the smallest margin — 70 printed damage against a bar of 70. 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 Colorless resistance changes
Damage from Colorless 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mega Sableye & Tyranitar-GX (126) | Unified Minds | 280 | 250 | 250 |
| Mega Sableye & Tyranitar-GX (225) | Unified Minds | 280 | 250 | 250 |
| Mega Sableye & Tyranitar-GX (226) | Unified Minds | 280 | 250 | 250 |
| Mega Sableye & Tyranitar-GX (245) | Unified Minds | 280 | 250 | 250 |
| Drapion VSTAR (119) | Lost Origin | 270 | 250 | 250 |
| Drapion VSTAR (200) | Lost Origin | 270 | 250 | 250 |
80 HP
Dewgong [25]
80 HP
Pidgeot [8]
80 HP
Vaporeon [12]
80 HP
Pidgeot [24]
80 HP
Vaporeon [28]
80 HP
Lapras [10]
1,154 cards in the archive are weak to Lightning 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 Frost Rotom as a Pokémon, across every card it has been printed on?
Frost Rotom RT2 is one print of Frost Rotom. 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 Frost Rotom 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.
Bar height and the number above each bar = highest HP that year; the two digits below = the year.
| Set | Regulation mark | Standard | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frost Rotom RT2 | Rising Rivals | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Frost Rotom 41/156 | SM - Ultra Prism | No mark printed | 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 summaryWhich other cards share the Pokémon behind Frost Rotom RT2?
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.
90
Wash Rotom [SM94]
80
Heat Rotom [RT3]
90
Mow Rotom [RT4]
90
Wash Rotom [RT5]
70
Rotom [7]
70
Fan Rotom [RT1]
190
Rotom V [177]
60
Rotom [20]
190
Rotom ex [126]
60
Rotom [13]
60
Rotom [49]
70
Rotom [82]
80
Rotom [SV038]
70
Rotom [5]
90
Frost Rotom [41]
60
Rotom [197]
70
Fan Rotom [250]
190
Rotom V [176]
70
Fan Rotom [85]
70
Rotom [24]
250
Rotom VSTAR [46]
190
Rotom ex [111]
70
Fan Rotom [110]
90
Wash Rotom [40]
90
Heat Rotom [24]
190
Rotom V [SWSH257]
190
Rotom V [58]
90
Mow Rotom [14]
190
Rotom V [45]
70
Rotom [40]
70
Rotom [86]
70
Rotom [50]
190
Rotom ex [29]
60
Rotom [92]
80
Rotom [34]
80
Wash Rotom [61]
90
Mow Rotom [8]
80
Rotom [94]
70
Fan Rotom [171]
70
Fan Rotom [118]
80
Rotom [61]
80
Rotom [70]
70
Mow Rotom [9]
60
Rotom [69]
80
Heat Rotom [43]
60
Rotom [77]
90
Heat Rotom [13]
80
Rotom [53]
70
Rotom [29]
49 cards in the archive share this Pokédex number (#479). 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 Frost Rotom RT2 in Rising Rivals?
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
Arcanine [1]
70
Fan Rotom [RT1]
90
Bastiodon GL [2]
90
Darkrai G [3]
80
Heat Rotom [RT3]
80
Floatzel GL [4]
90
Mow Rotom [RT4]
120
Flygon [5]
90
Wash Rotom [RT5]
These are the cards numbered either side of #RT2 in Rising Rivals. 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 Frost Rotom RT2, 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 | 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 May 16, 2009.
Frost Rotom RT2 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, Crushing Ice, needs 3 Energy attached. Energy attaches once a turn, so that attack waits 3 turns from an empty card.
- That works out at 13 damage for every Energy card attached.
- Moving it out of the active spot costs 3 more Energy, discarded from the card itself.
Where its HP stands, cut four ways
What actually removes it
- A Darkness attack printed at 70 damage removes it in a single turn — that is the bar, not its 90 HP.
- 511 cards in the archive clear that bar.
- Going the other way, it removes 1,154 cards in one attack.
- Damage from Colorless attacks is reduced before it is applied, so an attack that clears the bar on paper may still fall short.
Frost Rotom RT2 card record
| Hit points | 90 HP | Type | Lightning |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weakness | Darkness +20 | Retreat cost | 3 Energy |
| Card type | Basic | Pokédex number | #479 |
| Set | Rising Rivals | Card number | RT2 of 111 |
| Series | Platinum | Released | May 16, 2009 |
| Rarity | Rare | Illustrator | Hironobu Yoshida |
| Tournament legality | Unlimited only | ||
Read from the printed card face, the set listing and the official format list.
What does Frost Rotom RT2 cost?
This page is about what the card does. The figure below is the one number worth carrying across, read on August 14, 2026.
Frost Rotom RT2 — frequently asked questions
How much damage does it take to knock out Frost Rotom RT2?
What is the strongest attack on Frost Rotom RT2?
What is the retreat cost of Frost Rotom RT2?
What does the + after the damage on Crushing Ice mean?
How often can you use Frost Shift?
Can an older Frost Rotom print be played in a tournament?
Can Frost Rotom RT2 be played in a tournament?
Does this page say how good Frost Rotom RT2 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.