Gengar LV.X 97 — what does this card actually do?

Name: Gengar LV.X 97
Brand: Pokémon
Author: Shizurow

This card has 140 HP and a Darkness weakness.

Psychic · Level-Up · Arceus · measured against 20,444 cards on file — card data read July 28, 2026

What does Gengar LV.X 97 do in a game?

Gengar LV.X 97 is a Psychic Pokémon card with 140 HP, printed as Level-Up.

Because of the Darkness weakness, any Darkness attack printed at 70 damage or more removes it in a single turn.

Psychic Level-Up Rare Holo LV.X Unlimited #094 Gengar LV.X

Gengar LV.X 97Arceus

140 HP · Psychic · Level-Up · retreat 0 · Darkness weakness ×2

Hit points140 HP15.5% of 17,290 in the 130~180 band

Retreat cost0 Energy5.3% of 17,240 in the 0 band

Price trackRare Holo LV.XArceusWhat it costs today, how it moved, and where to buy it

Card classLevel-Up

RarityRare Holo LV.X

SetArceus

Card number97

AbilityLevel-Down

Card data readJuly 28, 2026

What it sells for now$448.95Opens the price page — daily prices, every print variant, where to buy · read August 14, 2026 Removed in one hit by70 damage140 HP against a Darkness ×2 weakness Cards that can do it511 cardsCounted across the whole card archive Cards in the same line46 moreEvery print carrying Pokédex #094 Where it can be playedUnlimitedRead from the official format list

How Gengar LV.X 97 is built, on three measures

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.

How Gengar LV.X 97 is built, on three measures
Measure	Percentile	Printed value
Hit points	76.7%	140 HP
Retreat lightness	100.0%	0 Energy
Attack cost lightness	17.4%	3 Energy

What it can do

Attack record

3ECompound Painhas printed text—

1 attack printed on the card. The badge is the Energy it asks for.

Where it stands

No. 3,522of 17,290 cards ranked by printed HP

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Among the 17,290 cards in every card in the archive that carry printed HP, this one is number 3,522 at 140 HP.

Psychic cardsNo. 420of 2,334 by printed HP ArceusNo. 2of 102 by printed HP

This cardGengar LV.X 97Arceus140 HP

Printed HP

The ceiling of this archive is 380 HP — 240 HP above this card.

Highest printed HPMega Emboar ex 273Ascended Heroes380 HP

What stands out on Gengar LV.X 97

Hit points 140 HP puts it in the 130~180 band, where 15.5% of 17,290 cards with printed HP sit.
Weakness A Darkness attack printed at 70 damage or more removes it in a single turn.

Gengar LV.X 97 at a glance

What it is. A Psychic Pokémon card with 140 HP printed as Level-Up, printed in Arceus.
What it can do. 1 attack printed on the card, the strongest at 0 damage for 0 Energy.
What it fears. A Darkness weakness at ×2, which means 70 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 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.

Source: Card facts are read once from openly published card files and change only when a source corrects them.

What do the attacks on Gengar LV.X 97 cost, and what do they hit for?

Every attack printed on the card, with the Energy it asks for.

Gengar LV.X 97 — every printed attack, its cost and its damage
Attack	Energy cost	Cards of Energy	Printed damage	Damage per Energy	Effect
Compound Pain	2 Psychic + 1 Colorless	3	—	—	This attack does 30 damage to each of your opponent's Pokémon that already has any damage counters on it. (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.

Compound Pain3 Energy cards

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.

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How does Gengar LV.X 97 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.

Gengar LV.X 97 — Arceus — Gengar LV.XArceus 97

No.3,522by HP in the archive

Gengar LV.X 97 prints 140 HP, which puts it at number 3,522 of the 17,290 cards in this archive that print an HP figure at all. The tallest figure printed on any card is 380 HP (Mega Emboar ex).

Top 20%Where it sits on printed HP

This card140 HP
Middle half of the archive60–130 HP

The ceiling of this archive is Mega Emboar ex at 380 HP — every bar here is measured against it.

This card prints 140 HP, which is 37% 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.

Hit points — where this card sits

~7038.6%6,669 cards

80~12033.1%5,725 cards

130~180 — this card15.5%2,679 cards

190~2306.6%1,148 cards

240~2803.3%567 cards

290~3302.4%412 cards

340+0.5%90 cards

17,290 cards in the archive carry a printed HP figure. This one has 140 HP.

Cards in the 130~180 band typically print 104 damage and ask 2 Energy to retreat.

Hit points — where this card sits
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

Cheapest attack cost — where this card sits

01.8%304 cards

154.4%9,392 cards

226.4%4,565 cards

3 — this card14.7%2,533 cards

42.4%421 cards

50.3%47 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.

Cheapest attack cost — where this card sits
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

Retreat cost — where this card sits

0 — this card5.3%914 cards

149.3%8,503 cards

228.6%4,926 cards

312.6%2,168 cards

44.2%729 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.

Retreat cost — where this card sits
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

No. 2of 102

That is where Gengar LV.X 97 stands highest on HP — number 2 of 102 cards in Arceus. Cut the archive a different way and the answer moves, which is what the bars below are for.

Every card in the archive — 20,444 cards No. 3,522 of 17,290 by HP · top by HP: Mega Emboar ex, 380
Psychic cards — 2,335 cards No. 420 of 2,334 by HP · top by HP: Mega Gardevoir ex, 360
Arceus — 111 cards No. 2 of 102 by HP · top by HP: Charizard, 140

Each bar is how far up this card sits when the archive is cut a different way. The bar is its place on HP; the tick is its place on printed damage. Counted from the card files this site reads, read July 28, 2026.

Hit points 140 HP~~middle half 60–130 HP~~
this card 140

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.

Read from the card files this site reads, July 28, 2026. The archive tops out at 380 HP and 350 printed damage.

Cards in the same HP band

2,679 of 17,290 (15.5%)

Counted from the card files this site reads, one card at a time.

Open the group this card falls into

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What Gengar LV.X 97 does without attacking

Gengar LV.X 97 carries 1 printed effect that work outside the attack step, so it can matter on a turn the card never attacks.

Printed effects

Capped at once a turn

1 of 1

Read from the printed text quoted below, not counted anywhere else.

Level-Down — Poké-Power · once a turn

Once during your turn (before your attack), you may choose 1 of your opponent's Pokémon LV.X. Remove the Level-Up card from that Pokémon and have your opponent shuffle that card into his or her deck. The power can't be used if Gengar is affected by a Special Condition.

Quoted from the card face. The label after the dash is how the card itself names the effect.

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.

Level-Down 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.

Every card mechanic in the archive

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What does being a Psychic card do for Gengar LV.X 97?

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.

Deals double to this card 1,249 Darkness cards carry that type A Darkness attack printed at 70 damage is enough to remove this card in one turn.

Gengar LV.X 97 · Level-Up 140 HP It prints no attack damage.

Takes double from this card 2,335 cards in groups that print a Psychic weakness Against Psychic, printed damage from this card counts double.

How the archive splits by energy type

Psychic — this cardmost often weak to Psychic13.5%2,335 cards

Watermost often weak to Lightning14.1%2,435 cards

Colorlessmost often weak to Fighting12.6%2,173 cards

Firemost often weak to Water9.1%1,574 cards

Fightingmost often weak to Grass10.9%1,884 cards

Lightningmost often weak to Fighting8.8%1,520 cards

Grassmost often weak to Fire13.8%2,387 cards

Metalmost often weak to Fire5.4%925 cards

Darknessmost often weak to Fighting7.2%1,249 cards

Dragonmost often weak to Fairy3.1%530 cards

Fairymost often weak to Metal1.4%237 cards

17,249 cards carry an energy type. The note under each name is the weakness printed most often on that group.

How the archive splits by energy type
Group	Share	Value
Psychic — this card	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	7.2%	1,249 cards
Dragon	3.1%	530 cards
Fairy	1.4%	237 cards

Psychicweak to Darkness

Psychicweak to Psychic

Read from the weakness printed on each group. The first row is this card; the rest are groups that most often print a Psychic weakness.

What being a Psychic card is worth

Groups that most often print a Psychic weakness: Psychic (2,335 cards). Against those, this card's printed damage counts double. Going the other way, Psychic cards are themselves most exposed to Darkness.

Every energy type in the archive

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What knocks out Gengar LV.X 97 in one hit, and what does it knock out?

Weakness doubles the damage a Darkness attack deals to this card, so the bar it has to clear is 70 printed damage rather than 140.

Cards that remove it in one attack

511

Darkness damage needed to knock it out

Counted across the whole card archive. 140 HP against a Darkness weakness at ×2 decides all three figures.

Removes it in one attackMarnie's LiepardDestined Rivals 13170 damage

×2Darkness weakness · 70 printed damage is enough
70 damage becomes 140 against this card

This cardGengar LV.X 97Arceus 97140 HP

Why this card was picked to stand opposite

Of the 509 cards in the archive that can remove Gengar LV.X 97 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.

Gengar LV.Xweak to Darkness ×2

Gengar LV.Xresists Colorless -20

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.

Darkness cards that remove Gengar LV.X in one attack
Card	Set	HP	Printed damage	After weakness
Mega Sableye & Tyranitar-GX (126)	Unified Minds	280	250	500
Mega Sableye & Tyranitar-GX (225)	Unified Minds	280	250	500
Mega Sableye & Tyranitar-GX (226)	Unified Minds	280	250	500
Mega Sableye & Tyranitar-GX (245)	Unified Minds	280	250	500
Drapion VSTAR (119)	Lost Origin	270	250	500
Drapion VSTAR (200)	Lost Origin	270	250	500

140 HP against a Darkness ×2 weakness means any Darkness attack printed at 70 damage or more is enough. 511 cards in the archive clear that bar.

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What has to be in play before Gengar LV.X 97 can be?

Gengar LV.X evolves from Gengar, so the whole line has to be built before this card reaches the field.

The Gengar LV.X line, oldest stage firstPokédex #094

Gastly28 prints on record · EX Legend Maker

+30 HP · +50 damage

Haunter28 prints on record · EX Legend Maker

+30 HP · +30 damage

No imageGengar16 prints on record · EX Legend Maker

Gastly → Haunter → Gengar

This card cannot be played from your hand onto an empty spot — it goes on top of Gengar.
The line runs 3 stages, so the first card has to be in play 2 turns before this one can be.
Every print in the line shares Pokédex number 094.

1GastlyHardest attack printed at this stage: 30 damage70 HP
2HaunterHardest attack printed at this stage: 80 damage. Evolving here adds 30 HP over the stage before it100 HP
3GengarNo imageGengarHardest attack printed at this stage: 110 damage. Evolving here adds 30 HP over the stage before it130 HP

Bars are the highest HP ever printed on that stage, measured against the top of this line (130 HP). The note beside each bar is the hardest attack printed at that stage.

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.

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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.

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What was printed next to Gengar LV.X 97 in Arceus?

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.

Ultimate Zone [91]

50 Dome Fossil [92]

50 Helix Fossil [93]

Cards printed either side of this one

These are the cards numbered either side of #97 in Arceus. 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.

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Which rules apply to Gengar LV.X 97, 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 Gengar. Gengar LV.X can use any attack, Poké-Power, or Poké-Body from its previous level.”

Rulebook clauses that apply to Gengar LV.X 97
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.

Gengar LV.X 97 — tournament formats
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 November 4, 2009.

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Gengar LV.X 97 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 no Energy at all.
It cannot start the game in play — Gengar has to be on the field first.

Where its HP stands, cut four ways

Every card in the archiveNo. 3,522 of 17,290

Psychic cardsNo. 420 of 2,334

ArceusNo. 2 of 102

What actually removes it

A Darkness attack printed at 70 damage removes it in a single turn — that is the bar, not its 140 HP.
511 cards in the archive clear that bar.
Damage from Colorless attacks is reduced before it is applied, so an attack that clears the bar on paper may still fall short.

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Gengar LV.X 97 card record

Gengar LV.X 97 — the printed record, field by field
Hit points	140 HP	Type	Psychic
Weakness	Darkness ×2	Retreat cost	0 Energy
Evolves from	Gengar	Card type	Level-Up
Pokédex number	#094	Set	Arceus
Card number	97 of 99	Series	Platinum
Released	November 4, 2009	Rarity	Rare Holo LV.X
Illustrator	Shizurow
Tournament legality	Unlimited only
Printed rule	Put this card onto your Active Gengar. Gengar 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.

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What does Gengar LV.X 97 cost?

This page is about what the card does. The figure below is the one number worth carrying across, read on August 14, 2026.

Market price today

$448.95

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One figure only — the price record, the daily chart and the marketplaces live on the price page.

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Gengar LV.X 97 — frequently asked questions

How much damage does it take to knock out Gengar LV.X 97?

Gengar LV.X 97 has 140 HP and a Darkness weakness at ×2, so a Darkness attack printed at 70 damage or more removes it in one turn. Any other type has to print the full 140.

What is the retreat cost of Gengar LV.X 97?

None. Gengar LV.X 97 carries a printed retreat cost of zero, so it can move out of the active spot without discarding any Energy. The once-a-turn limit on retreating still applies.

How often can you use Level-Down?

Once during your turn. The limit is printed in the ability itself, and it is counted per Pokémon — a second copy of Gengar LV.X in play carries its own use.

What does Gengar LV.X evolve from?

Gengar. It cannot be played straight from your hand onto an empty spot — the earlier stage has to be in play first.

Can Gengar LV.X 97 be played in a tournament?

It is legal in Unlimited play. Standard events run on a rotating list of sets, so check the current rotation before entering one.

What does the rule on Gengar LV.X 97 mean?

The card reads “Put this card onto your Active Gengar. Gengar LV.X can use any attack, Poké-Power, or Poké-Body from its previous level.” That sentence is printed on the card itself, so it applies wherever the card is played.

Does this page say how good Gengar LV.X 97 is in a deck?

No. Every figure here is read from the printed card. Deck lists, tournament results and win rates are not published on this site, because the card files it reads do not contain them.

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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.

The Pokémon Company International — official rules, tournament format and rotation announcements www.pokemon.com

Industry source

Second-party sources — marketplaces, trade associations, research institutes and companies that compile data about the market.

Pokémon TCG Data — openly published card files (card text, HP, attacks, weakness, retreat cost, illustrator credits) github.com

TCGdex card database — openly licensed card files (set membership and card numbering) github.com

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Gengar LV.X 97 — what does this card actually do?

What does Gengar LV.X 97 do in a game?

Gengar LV.X 97 performance summary

What it can do

Where it stands

Gengar LV.X 97 at a glance

What do the attacks on Gengar LV.X 97 cost, and what do they hit for?

How does Gengar LV.X 97 compare with every other card?

What Gengar LV.X 97 does without attacking

What does being a Psychic card do for Gengar LV.X 97?

What knocks out Gengar LV.X 97 in one hit, and what does it knock out?

What has to be in play before Gengar LV.X 97 can be?

Which other cards share the Pokémon behind Gengar LV.X 97?

What was printed next to Gengar LV.X 97 in Arceus?

Which rules apply to Gengar LV.X 97, and where can it be played?

Gengar LV.X 97 in depth — what these figures add up to

What it asks a deck for

Where its HP stands, cut four ways

What actually removes it

Gengar LV.X 97 card record

What does Gengar LV.X 97 cost?

Gengar LV.X 97 — frequently asked questions

How much damage does it take to knock out Gengar LV.X 97?

What is the retreat cost of Gengar LV.X 97?

How often can you use Level-Down?

What does Gengar LV.X evolve from?

Can Gengar LV.X 97 be played in a tournament?

What does the rule on Gengar LV.X 97 mean?

Does this page say how good Gengar LV.X 97 is in a deck?

Where these card facts come from

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