Ampharos 1 — what does this card actually do?

Name: Ampharos 1
Brand: Pokémon
Author: Kouki Saitou

This card has 130 HP, a top attack printed at 70 damage and a Fighting weakness.

Lightning · Stage 2 · POP Series 7 · measured against 20,444 cards on file — card data read July 28, 2026

What does Ampharos 1 do in a game?

Ampharos 1 is a Lightning Pokémon card with 130 HP, printed as Stage 2.

Its strongest attack, Cluster Bolt, is printed at 70 damage for 3 Energy — 23 damage per Energy card.

Lightning Stage 2 Rare Unlimited #181 Ampharos

Ampharos 1POP Series 7

130 HP · Lightning · Stage 2 · retreat 3 · Fighting weakness +30

Top printed damage7023 per Energy Cluster Bolt70 damage for 3 Energy
as of July 28, 2026

Hit points130 HP15.5% of 17,290 in the 130~180 band

Printed damage7021.8% of 16,246 in the 70~120 band

Retreat cost3 Energy12.6% of 17,240 in the 3 band

Energy efficiencyBelow typicalAboveTypicalBelowThis card 23 · typical 34.7
damage per Energy card, among cards whose cheapest attack costs 3

Price trackRarePOP Series 742 printsranked among Stage 2 cardsWhat it costs today, how it moved, and where to buy it

Card classStage 2

RarityRare

SetPOP Series 7

Card number1

AbilityJamming

Card data readJuly 28, 2026

What it sells for now$25.41Opens the price page — daily prices, every print variant, where to buy · read August 14, 2026 Turns of setup3 turnsEnergy attaches once a turn, so the top attack waits that long Cards that can do it492 cardsCounted across the whole card archive Other prints of this name42 printsPrinted HP and legality move from print to print Cards in the same line35 moreEvery print carrying Pokédex #181 Where it can be playedUnlimitedRead from the official format list

How Ampharos 1 is built, on five measures

Strongest on Hit points — top 28.3% 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.

How Ampharos 1 is built, on five measures
Measure	Percentile	Printed value
Hit points	71.7%	130 HP
Top printed damage	64.7%	70 damage
Energy efficiency	57.8%	23 per Energy
Retreat lightness	16.8%	3 Energy
Attack cost lightness	17.4%	3 Energy

What it can do

Attack record

3ECluster Bolt23 damage per Energy card · has printed text70damage

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

Where it stands

No. 4,029of 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 4,029 at 130 HP.

Lightning cardsNo. 355of 1,520 by printed HP Stage 2 cardsNo. 1,100of 1,749 by printed HP

This cardAmpharos 1POP Series 7130 HP

Printed HP

The ceiling of this archive is 380 HP — 250 HP above this card.

Highest printed HPMega Emboar ex 273Ascended Heroes380 HP

What stands out on Ampharos 1

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 23 damage per Energy card against 34.7 for cards whose cheapest attack costs 3.
Legality 4 of the 36 prints that carry this name are legal in Standard play.

Ampharos 1 at a glance

What it is. A Lightning Pokémon card with 130 HP printed as Stage 2, printed in POP Series 7.
What it can do. 1 attack printed on the card, the strongest at 70 damage for 3 Energy.
What it fears. A Fighting weakness at +30.
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.

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

What do the attacks on Ampharos 1 cost, and what do they hit for?

The card prints 1 attack. The strongest asks for 3 Energy and returns 70 damage, which is 23 damage for every Energy card attached.

Ampharos 1 — every printed attack, its cost and its damage
Attack	Energy cost	Cards of Energy	Printed damage	Damage per Energy	Effect
Cluster Bolt	1 Lightning + 2 Colorless	3	70	23	You may discard all Lightning Energy attached to Ampharos. If you do, this attack does 20 damage to each of your opponent's Benched Pokémon that has any Energy cards attached to it. (Don't apply Weakness and Resistance for Benched Pokémon.)

Retreating costs a further 3 Energy, discarded from this card, and that cost is paid on top of anything in the table.

Cluster Bolt3 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.

Cluster Bolt 3 Energy70 damage for 3 Energy — 23 per Energy card70

Bars are printed damage against this card's own highest attack (70).

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How does Ampharos 1 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.

Ampharos 1 — POP Series 7 — AmpharosPOP Series 7 1

No.4,029by HP in the archive

Ampharos 1 prints 130 HP, which puts it at number 4,029 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).

65% on printed damage — it out-hits that share of the 16,246 cards that print damage

Top 23%Where it sits on printed HP

This card130 HP
Middle half of the archive60–130 HP
Strongest Stage 2 card380 HP
Strongest Ampharos printed160 HP

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.

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 130 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

Top printed damage — where this card sits

~3042.7%6,938 cards

40~6022.0%3,566 cards

70~120 — this card21.8%3,535 cards

130~1809.0%1,461 cards

190~2503.8%621 cards

260+0.8%125 cards

16,246 cards print damage on at least one attack. The highest on this card is 70.

Cards in the 70~120 band typically have 141 HP and ask 2 Energy to retreat.

Top printed damage — where this card sits
Group	Share	Value
~30	42.7%	6,938 cards
40~60	22.0%	3,566 cards
70~120 — this card	21.8%	3,535 cards
130~180	9.0%	1,461 cards
190~250	3.8%	621 cards
260+	0.8%	125 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

05.3%914 cards

149.3%8,503 cards

228.6%4,926 cards

3 — this card12.6%2,168 cards

44.2%729 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.

Retreat cost — where this card sits
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

No. 1of 17

That is where Ampharos 1 stands highest on HP — number 1 of 17 cards in POP Series 7. 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. 4,029 of 17,290 by HP · No. 5,054 of 16,246 by damage · top by HP: Mega Emboar ex, 380

top 31% on damage
Lightning cards — 1,520 cards No. 355 of 1,520 by HP · No. 490 of 1,461 by damage · top by HP: Mega Eelektross ex, 350

top 34% on damage
Stage 2 cards — 1,749 cards No. 1,100 of 1,749 by HP · No. 1,014 of 1,721 by damage · top by HP: Mega Emboar ex, 380

top 59% on damage
POP Series 7 — 17 cards No. 1 of 17 by HP · No. 3 of 16 by damage · top by HP: Ampharos, 130

top 13% on damage

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 130 HP~~middle half 60–130 HP~~
this card 130
Top printed damage 70 damage~~middle half 20–90 damage~~
this card 70

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 printed as Stage 2

1,749 on record

Cards in the same HP band

2,679 of 17,290 (15.5%)

Cards with this much printed damage

3,535 of 16,246 (21.8%)

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 Ampharos 1 does without attacking

Ampharos 1 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

None

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

Jamming — Poké-Body

After your opponent plays a Supporter card from his or her hand, put 1 damage counter on each of your opponent's Pokémon. You can't use more than 1 Jamming Poké-Body each turn.

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.

This effect places damage counters, which is not the same as dealing damage

Jamming 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.

Every card mechanic in the archive

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Is Ampharos 1 efficient for the Energy it asks for?

Printed damage on its own says nothing — a 70 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.

Damage per Energy card, across the whole archive

1 Energy9,392 cards49.049 damage typical

2 Energy4,565 cards32.565 damage typical

3 Energy2,533 cards34.7104 damage typical

4 Energy421 cards27.8111 damage typical

5 Energy47 cards41.8209 damage typical

Ampharos 1 — this card23.070 damage for 3 Energy

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 3 typically return 34.7 damage per Energy card. This card returns 23.

Damage per Energy card, across the whole archive
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
Ampharos 1 — this card	23.0	70 damage for 3 Energy

2501250 damage

012345 Energy

Typical for that Energy cost 6 groupsCluster Bolt 70 / 3

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.

Energy cost against printed damage. Each grey dot is what cards asking that much Energy typically print; the coloured dots are the attacks on Ampharos 1.
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
Cluster Bolt	—	23	—

This card, per Energy card

23 damage

Typical for a 3 Energy attack

34.7 damage

Difference

-11.7 damage

Both figures are damage divided by Energy cost, counted the same way.

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 70 is read as high or low rather than merely large.

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What does being a Lightning card do for Ampharos 1?

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 1,884 Fighting cards carry that type Damage from Fighting attacks is increased before it is applied.

Ampharos 1 · Stage 2 130 HP Its hardest attack is printed at 70 damage.

Takes double from this card 2,435 cards in groups that print a Lightning weakness Against Water, printed damage from this card counts double.

How the archive splits by energy type

Psychicmost 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

Lightning — this cardmost 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	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

Lightningweak to Fighting

Waterweak to Lightning

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 Fighting.

Every energy type in the archive

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What knocks out Ampharos 1 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.

Cards that remove it in one attack

492

Cards it removes in one attack

1,974

Fighting damage needed to knock it out

100

Counted across the whole card archive. 130 HP against a Fighting weakness at +30 decides all three figures.

Removes it in one attackSandslashMega Evolution 69100 damage

+30Fighting weakness · 100 printed damage is enough
100 damage becomes 130 against this card

This cardAmpharos 1POP Series 7 1130 HP

Why this card was picked to stand opposite

Of the 490 cards in the archive that can remove Ampharos 1 in a single attack, this one clears the bar by the smallest margin — 100 printed damage against a bar of 100. 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.

Ampharosweak to Fighting +30

Ampharosresists Metal -20

Read from the two boxes in the lower-left corner of the card — weakness multiplies incoming damage, resistance subtracts from it.

What the Metal resistance changes

Damage from Metal 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.

Fighting cards that remove Ampharos in one attack
Card	Set	HP	Printed damage	After weakness
Mega Lucario ex (77)	Mega Evolution	340	270	270
Mega Lucario ex (160)	Mega Evolution	340	270	270
Mega Lucario ex (179)	Mega Evolution	340	270	270
Mega Lucario ex (188)	Mega Evolution	340	270	270
Mega Lucario ex (113)	Ascended Heroes	340	270	270
Toxtricity ex (100)	Paradox Rift	260	270	270

140 HP Togekiss [104]

Cards this one removes in a single attack

1,974 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.

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What is Ampharos as a Pokémon, across every card it has been printed on?

Ampharos 1 is one print of Ampharos. 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.

Ampharos has been printed 42 times, and the printed numbers move from one print to the next. Point at a card to see it full size.Tap a card to open its page.

The three toughest Ampharos cards ever printedPokédex #181Prints on record 42Toughest print 240 HPThis card 130 HP

42prints

Legal in Standard4Older prints, not in Standard38

Every Ampharos 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.

The toughest Ampharos printed is 240 HP, and this card is 54.2% of it

Bars are printed HP, measured against the record for this Pokémon

Ampharos-GX 185/181the toughest Ampharos ever printedSM - Team Up240 HP
Ampharos 1against that record54.2% of the record130 HP

Read from the printed card face of every Ampharos print on record. Printed HP does not change after a card is issued.

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What has to be in play before Ampharos 1 can be?

Ampharos evolves from Flaaffy, so the whole line has to be built before this card reaches the field.

The Ampharos line, oldest stage firstPokédex #181

Mareep23 prints on record · Expedition

+30 HP · +40 damage

Flaaffy22 prints on record · POP Series 7

+60 HP · +60 damage

Ampharos17 prints on record · Neo Revelation

Mareep → Flaaffy → Ampharos

This card cannot be played from your hand onto an empty spot — it goes on top of Flaaffy.
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 181.

1MareepHardest attack printed at this stage: 40 damage70 HP
2FlaaffyHardest attack printed at this stage: 80 damage. Evolving here adds 30 HP over the stage before it100 HP
3AmpharosHardest attack printed at this stage: 140 damage. Evolving here adds 60 HP over the stage before it160 HP

Bars are the highest HP ever printed on that stage, measured against the top of this line (160 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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Is this the strongest Ampharos print, and can the older ones still be played?

42 prints carry this name in the archive, and 36 of them are laid out below. 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.

Rows run from the toughest print down. Bars are printed HP, measured against the toughest print of this name shown here (240 HP), and the highlighted row is the card this page is about.

36 rows are shown of the 42 prints counted under this name.

Ampharos prints — can each one still be played?
Print	Set	Regulation mark	Standard
Ampharos-GX 185/181	SM - Team Up	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Ampharos-GX 163/181	SM - Team Up	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Ampharos-GX 43/181	SM - Team Up	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
M Ampharos-EX 88/98	XY - Ancient Origins	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
M Ampharos-EX 28/98	XY - Ancient Origins	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Ampharos V 171/185	SWSH04: Vivid Voltage	Mark D	Not legal in Standard
Ampharos V 049/185	SWSH04: Vivid Voltage	Mark D	Not legal in Standard
Ampharos-EX 87/98	XY - Ancient Origins	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Ampharos-EX 27/98	XY - Ancient Origins	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Ampharos 090/086	ME04: Chaos Rising	Mark J	Legal in Standard
Ampharos 109	Battle Academy 2024	Mark H	Legal in Standard
Ampharos 029/086	Deck Exclusives	Mark J	Legal in Standard
Ampharos 049/198	SWSH06: Chilling Reign	Mark E	Not legal in Standard
Ampharos ex 89/97	EX Dragon	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Ampharos 78/214	SM - Lost Thunder	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Ampharos 057/189	SWSH03: Darkness Ablaze	Mark D	Not legal in Standard
Ampharos 056/203	SWSH07: Evolving Skies	Mark E	Not legal in Standard
Ampharos 105/123	HeartGold SoulSilver	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Ampharos BW67	Black and White Promos	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Ampharos 040/124	Blister Exclusives	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Ampharos 40/114	XY - Steam Siege	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Team Rocket's Ampharos 074/182	SV10: Destined Rivals	Mark I	Legal in Standard
Ampharos 1/132	Secret Wonders	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Ampharos 1/127	Platinum	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Ampharos 001/017	POP Series 7	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Ampharos δ 1/101	EX Dragon Frontiers	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Ampharos 1/115	EX Unseen Forces	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Dark Ampharos 2/109	EX Team Rocket Returns	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Ampharos 14/123	HeartGold SoulSilver	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Ampharos 23/95	Call of Legends	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Ampharos 002/165	Expedition	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Ampharos 001/147	Aquapolis	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Ampharos 034/165	Expedition	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Ampharos 01/64	Neo Revelation	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Ampharos 001/111	Neo Genesis	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Dark Ampharos 001/105	Neo Destiny	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard

4 of the 36 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.

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What can you use instead of Ampharos 1?

Every card below asks a deck for the same kind of slot, so the comparison is between what they print, not what they cost.

Cards that fill the same slot as Ampharos 1
Card	Set	HP	Top damage	Retreat
Ampharos	Neo Revelation	90	40	3
Ampharos ex	Dragon	150	40	3
Tyranitar ex δ	Dragon Frontiers	150	70	3
Ampharos	Expedition Base Set	100	40	2
Kabutops δ	Holon Phantoms	100	40	1
Feraligatr δ	Dragon Frontiers	120	60	2

This card itself is 130 HP, 70 top damage and 3 retreat, and every card here is Lightning like 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 Ampharos 1 in POP Series 7?

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.

Cards printed either side of this one

These are the cards numbered either side of #1 in POP Series 7. 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 Ampharos 1, 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.

Rulebook clauses that apply to Ampharos 1
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.

Ampharos 1 — 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 March 1, 2008.

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Ampharos 1 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, Cluster Bolt, needs 3 Energy attached. Energy attaches once a turn, so that attack waits 3 turns from an empty card.
That works out at 23 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 — Flaaffy has to be on the field first.

Where its HP stands, cut four ways

Every card in the archiveNo. 4,029 of 17,290

Lightning cardsNo. 355 of 1,520

Stage 2 cardsNo. 1,100 of 1,749

POP Series 7No. 1 of 17

What actually removes it

A Fighting attack printed at 100 damage removes it in a single turn — that is the bar, not its 130 HP.
492 cards in the archive clear that bar.
Going the other way, it removes 1,974 cards in one attack.
Damage from Metal attacks is reduced before it is applied, so an attack that clears the bar on paper may still fall short.

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Ampharos 1 card record

Ampharos 1 — the printed record, field by field
Hit points	130 HP	Type	Lightning
Weakness	Fighting +30	Retreat cost	3 Energy
Evolves from	Flaaffy	Card type	Stage 2
Pokédex number	#181	Set	POP Series 7
Card number	1 of 17	Series	POP
Released	March 1, 2008	Rarity	Rare
Illustrator	Kouki Saitou
Tournament legality	Unlimited only

Read from the printed card face, the set listing and the official format list.

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What does Ampharos 1 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

$25.41

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August 14, 2026

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

Ampharos 1 priceOne year of daily prices, every print variant, and where to buy it.Open the price page

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Ampharos 1 — frequently asked questions

How much damage does it take to knock out Ampharos 1?

Ampharos 1 has 130 HP and a Fighting weakness at +30, so a Fighting attack printed at 100 damage or more removes it in one turn. Any other type has to print the full 130.

What is the strongest attack on Ampharos 1?

Cluster Bolt, printed at 70 damage for 3 Energy — 23 damage per Energy card. You may discard all Lightning Energy attached to Ampharos. If you do, this attack does 20 damage to each of your opponent's Benched Pokémon that has any Energy cards attached to it. (Don't apply Weakness and Resistance for Benched Pokémon.)

What is the retreat cost of Ampharos 1?

3 Energy, discarded from this card to move it out of the active spot. Retreating is allowed once per turn.

Does Ampharos 1 deal damage or place damage counters?

It places damage counters. One counter is ten damage on the board, but the two are different things in the rules: weakness and resistance are not applied to counters, and effects that reduce or prevent damage do not stop counters from being placed.

Can an older Ampharos print be played in a tournament?

Legality is read from the print, not from the Pokémon. Of the 36 prints listed on this page, 4 are legal in Standard play. The rest can still be played in formats that accept them, and the table on this page names the regulation mark each print carries.

What does Ampharos evolve from?

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

Can Ampharos 1 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.

Does this page say how good Ampharos 1 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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Ampharos 1 — what does this card actually do?

What does Ampharos 1 do in a game?

Ampharos 1 performance summary

What it can do

Where it stands

Ampharos 1 at a glance

What do the attacks on Ampharos 1 cost, and what do they hit for?

How does Ampharos 1 compare with every other card?

What Ampharos 1 does without attacking

Is Ampharos 1 efficient for the Energy it asks for?

What does being a Lightning card do for Ampharos 1?

What knocks out Ampharos 1 in one hit, and what does it knock out?

What is Ampharos as a Pokémon, across every card it has been printed on?

What has to be in play before Ampharos 1 can be?

Is this the strongest Ampharos print, and can the older ones still be played?

What can you use instead of Ampharos 1?

Which other cards share the Pokémon behind Ampharos 1?

What was printed next to Ampharos 1 in POP Series 7?

Which rules apply to Ampharos 1, and where can it be played?

Ampharos 1 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

Ampharos 1 card record

What does Ampharos 1 cost?

Ampharos 1 — frequently asked questions

How much damage does it take to knock out Ampharos 1?

What is the strongest attack on Ampharos 1?

What is the retreat cost of Ampharos 1?

Does Ampharos 1 deal damage or place damage counters?

Can an older Ampharos print be played in a tournament?

What does Ampharos evolve from?

Can Ampharos 1 be played in a tournament?

Does this page say how good Ampharos 1 is in a deck?

Where these card facts come from

Before you rely on these figures

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