Carracosta 45 — what does this card actually do?
This card has 160 HP, a top attack printed at 80 damage and a Grass weakness.
Water · Stage 2 · Unified Minds · measured against 20,444 cards on file — card data read July 28, 2026
What does Carracosta 45 do in a game?
Carracosta 45 is a Water Pokémon card with 160 HP, printed as Stage 2.
Its strongest attack, Aqua Impact, is printed at 80 damage for 3 Energy — 27 damage per Energy card.
Because of the Grass weakness, any Grass attack printed at 80 damage or more removes it in a single turn.
Carracosta 45Unified Minds
Carracosta 45 performance summary
160 HP · Water · Stage 2 · retreat 3 · Grass weakness ×2
as of July 28, 2026
damage per Energy card, among cards whose cheapest attack costs 3
Strongest on Hit points — top 18.3% 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 | 81.7% | 160 HP |
| Top printed damage | 68.9% | 80 damage |
| Energy efficiency | 64.0% | 27 per Energy |
| Retreat lightness | 16.8% | 3 Energy |
| Attack cost lightness | 17.4% | 3 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 2,895 at 160 HP.
Carracosta 45160 HPPrinted HP
The ceiling of this archive is 380 HP — 220 HP above this card.
Mega Emboar ex 273380 HPWhat stands out on Carracosta 45
- Hit points 160 HP puts it in the 130~180 band, where 15.5% of 17,290 cards with printed HP sit.
- Energy It returns 27 damage per Energy card against 34.7 for cards whose cheapest attack costs 3.
- Weakness A Grass attack printed at 80 damage or more removes it in a single turn.
- Legality 3 of the 7 prints that carry this name are legal in Standard play.
Carracosta 45 at a glance
- What it is. A Water Pokémon card with 160 HP printed as Stage 2, printed in Unified Minds.
- What it can do. 1 attack printed on the card, the strongest at 80 damage for 3 Energy.
- What it fears. A Grass weakness at ×2, which means 80 printed damage is enough to remove it.
- What it costs to move. 3 Energy to retreat, discarded from the card itself.
- Where it can be played. Unlimited and Expanded 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 Carracosta 45 cost, and what do they hit for?
The card prints 1 attack. The strongest asks for 3 Energy and returns 80 damage, which is 27 damage for every Energy card attached.
| Attack | Energy cost | Cards of Energy | Printed damage | Damage per Energy | Effect |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aqua Impact | 1 Fighting + 2 Colorless | 3 | 80+ | 27 | This attack does 20 more damage for each Colorless in your opponent's Active Pokémon's Retreat Cost. |
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.
Why one of these damage figures carries a symbol
A number on a Pokémon card is not always the number that lands.
- Aqua Impact is printed as 80+, 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 Carracosta 45 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 160 HP, which is 42% 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 160 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 80.
Cards in the 70~120 band typically have 141 HP and ask 2 Energy to retreat.
| 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 |
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.
| 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 |
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 Carracosta 45 stands highest on HP — number 369 of 2,435 cards in Water cards. Cut the archive a different way and the answer moves, which is what the bars below are for.
- Hit points 160 HP
middle half 60–130 HP - Top printed damage 80 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 Carracosta 45 does without attacking
Carracosta 45 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.
Is Carracosta 45 efficient for the Energy it asks for?
Printed damage on its own says nothing — a 80 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 3 typically return 34.7 damage per Energy card. This card returns 27.
| 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 |
| Carracosta 45 — this card | 27.0 | 80 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 |
| Aqua Impact | — | 27 | — |
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 80 is read as high or low rather than merely large.
What does being a Water card do for Carracosta 45?
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 — this card | 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 |
Read from the weakness printed on each group. The first row is this card; the rest are groups that most often print a Water weakness.
What being a Water card is worth
Groups that most often print a Water weakness: Fire (1,574 cards). Against those, this card's printed damage counts double. Going the other way, Water cards are themselves most exposed to Grass.
What knocks out Carracosta 45 in one hit, and what does it knock out?
Weakness doubles the damage a Grass attack deals to this card, so the bar it has to clear is 80 printed damage rather than 160.
Beautifly80 damage80 damage becomes 160 against this card
Carracosta 45160 HPWhy this card was picked to stand opposite
Of the 467 cards in the archive that can remove Carracosta 45 in a single attack, this one clears the bar by the smallest margin — 80 printed damage against a bar of 80. Anything printed higher removes it just as surely, so this is where the line actually sits, and this print is legal in Standard play today.
Read from the weakness printed in the lower-left corner of the card.
| Card | Set | HP | Printed damage | After weakness |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flapple VMAX (19) | Battle Styles | 320 | 250 | 500 |
| Flapple VMAX (164) | Battle Styles | 320 | 250 | 500 |
| Mega Venusaur ex (3) | Mega Evolution | 380 | 240 | 480 |
| Mega Venusaur ex (155) | Mega Evolution | 380 | 240 | 480 |
| Mega Venusaur ex (177) | Mega Evolution | 380 | 240 | 480 |
| Decidueye ex (12) | Perfect Order | 320 | 240 | 480 |
160 HP against a Grass ×2 weakness means any Grass attack printed at 80 damage or more is enough. 467 cards in the archive clear that bar.
160 HP
Charizard [19]
160 HP
Ho-Oh-EX [22]
160 HP
Ho-Oh-EX [119]
160 HP
Charizard [20]
160 HP
Charizard [136]
160 HP
Typhlosion ex [99]
1,395 cards in the archive are weak to Water 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 Carracosta as a Pokémon, across every card it has been printed on?
Carracosta 45 is one print of Carracosta. The figures below are about the Pokémon rather than this single card — how many times it has been printed, how tough those prints run, and how many of them can still be played.
Every Carracosta print on record, split by whether it can still be entered in Standard play.
Legality is read from the print rather than from the Pokémon, so an older copy of the same Pokémon is a different card for tournament purposes.
Back to summaryWhat has to be in play before Carracosta 45 can be?
Carracosta evolves from Tirtouga, 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 Tirtouga.
- The line runs 3 stages, so the first card has to be in play 2 turns 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.
Is this the strongest Carracosta print, and can the older ones still be played?
7 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carracosta-GX SM239 | SM Promos | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Carracosta 107/086 | SV: Black Bolt | Mark I | Legal in Standard |
| Carracosta 023/086 | SV: Black Bolt | Mark I | Legal in Standard |
| Carracosta 45/236 | SM - Unified Minds | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Carracosta 038/142 | SV07: Stellar Crown | Mark H | Legal in Standard |
| Carracosta 26/101 | Noble Victories | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Carracosta 28/101 | Plasma Blast | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
3 of the 7 prints listed here are legal in Standard play. An older print of the same Pokémon is a different card for legality, because legality is read from the print rather than from the name — so owning the cheap old copy does not always mean you can enter with it.
Back to summaryWhat can you use instead of Carracosta 45?
Every card below asks a deck for the same kind of slot, so the comparison is between what they print, not what they cost.
| Card | Set | HP | Top damage | Retreat |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salamence ex δ | Dragon Frontiers | 160 | 80 | 2 |
| Blastoise | Plasma Storm | 140 | 60 | 4 |
| Feraligatr | Expedition Base Set | 120 | 70 | 3 |
| Empoleon | Plasma Freeze | 140 | 10 | 2 |
| Swampert ex | Crystal Guardians | 150 | 60 | 3 |
| Seismitoad | Black Bolt | 170 | 160 | 3 |
This card itself is 160 HP, 80 top damage and 3 retreat, and every card here is Water like it.
Back to summaryWhich other cards share the Pokémon behind Carracosta 45?
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.
180
Carracosta [107]
180
Carracosta [23]
140
Carracosta [26]
140
Carracosta [28]
250
Carracosta-GX [SM239]
160
Carracosta [38]
6 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 Carracosta 45 in Unified Minds?
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.
50
Finneon [39]
90
Lumineon [40]
90
Snover [41]
140
Abomasnow [42]
80
Basculin [43]
100
Tirtouga [44]
90
Cryogonal [46]
170
Keldeo-GX [47]
60
Dewpider [48]
100
Araquanid [49]
70
Wimpod [50]
140
Golisopod [51]
These are the cards numbered either side of #45 in Unified Minds. 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 Carracosta 45, 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 | Legal | Can be played in this format |
| Unlimited | Legal | Can be played in this format |
Read from the format list recorded with the card. Formats rotate on a schedule set by the organiser, and that schedule is not published on this page.
Where this card can be played
This card is legal in Unlimited and Expanded play. It was released on August 2, 2019.
Carracosta 45 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, Aqua Impact, needs 3 Energy attached. Energy attaches once a turn, so that attack waits 3 turns from an empty card.
- That works out at 27 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 — Tirtouga has to be on the field first.
Where its HP stands, cut four ways
What actually removes it
- A Grass attack printed at 80 damage removes it in a single turn — that is the bar, not its 160 HP.
- 467 cards in the archive clear that bar.
- Going the other way, it removes 1,395 cards in one attack.
Carracosta 45 card record
| Hit points | 160 HP | Type | Water |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weakness | Grass ×2 | Retreat cost | 3 Energy |
| Evolves from | Tirtouga | Card type | Stage 2 |
| Pokédex number | #565 | Set | Unified Minds |
| Card number | 45 of 236 | Series | Sun & Moon |
| Released | August 2, 2019 | Rarity | Uncommon |
| Illustrator | Kouki Saitou | ||
| Tournament legality | Unlimited and Expanded only | ||
Read from the printed card face, the set listing and the official format list.
What does Carracosta 45 cost?
This page is about what the card does. The figure below is the one number worth carrying across, read on August 14, 2026.
Carracosta 45 — frequently asked questions
How much damage does it take to knock out Carracosta 45?
What is the strongest attack on Carracosta 45?
What is the retreat cost of Carracosta 45?
What does the + after the damage on Aqua Impact mean?
Can an older Carracosta print be played in a tournament?
What does Carracosta evolve from?
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Does this page say how good Carracosta 45 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
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