Absol 81 — what does this card actually do?
This card has 100 HP and a Fighting weakness.
Darkness · Basic · Guardians Rising · measured against 20,444 cards on file — card data read July 28, 2026
What does Absol 81 do in a game?
Absol 81 is a Darkness Pokémon card with 100 HP, printed as Basic.
Because of the Fighting weakness, any Fighting attack printed at 50 damage or more removes it in a single turn.
Absol 81Guardians Rising
Absol 81 performance summary
100 HP · Darkness · Basic · retreat 1 · Fighting weakness ×2
Strongest on Attack cost lightness — top 1.8% of the archive. Weakest on Hit points — bottom 56.1%.
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 | 56.1% | 100 HP |
| Retreat lightness | 94.4% | 1 Energy |
| Attack cost lightness | 98.2% | 1 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 6,636 at 100 HP.
Absol 81100 HPPrinted HP
The ceiling of this archive is 380 HP — 280 HP above this card.
Mega Emboar ex 273380 HPWhat stands out on Absol 81
- Hit points 100 HP puts it in the 80~120 band, where 33.1% of 17,290 cards with printed HP sit.
- Weakness A Fighting attack printed at 50 damage or more removes it in a single turn.
- Legality 11 of the 28 prints that carry this name are legal in Standard play.
Absol 81 at a glance
- What it is. A Darkness Pokémon card with 100 HP printed as Basic, printed in Guardians Rising.
- What it can do. 2 attacks printed on the card, the strongest at 0 damage for 0 Energy.
- What it fears. A Fighting weakness at ×2, which means 50 printed damage is enough to remove it.
- What it costs to move. 1 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 Absol 81 cost, and what do they hit for?
Every attack printed on the card, with the Energy it asks for.
| Attack | Energy cost | Cards of Energy | Printed damage | Damage per Energy | Effect |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Future Sight | 1 Darkness | 1 | — | — | Look at the top 4 cards of either player's deck and put them back in any order. |
| Doom News | 1 Darkness + 1 Colorless | 2 | — | — | Put all Energy attached to this Pokémon into your hand. At the end of your opponent's next turn, the Defending Pokémon will be Knocked Out. |
Retreating costs a further 1 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.
Back to summaryHow does Absol 81 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 100 HP, which is 26% 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 100 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 |
17,262 cards have at least one attack with an Energy cost. The cheapest on this card asks 1 Energy.
Cards whose cheapest attack costs 1 typically have 93 HP and print 49 damage.
| Group | Share | Value |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | 1.8% | 304 cards |
| 1 — this card | 54.4% | 9,392 cards |
| 2 | 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 1 Energy to retreat.
Cards with a retreat cost of 1 typically have 81 HP and print 40 damage.
| Group | Share | Value |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | 5.3% | 914 cards |
| 1 — this card | 49.3% | 8,503 cards |
| 2 | 28.6% | 4,926 cards |
| 3 | 12.6% | 2,168 cards |
| 4 | 4.2% | 729 cards |
That is where Absol 81 stands highest on HP — number 6,636 of 17,290 cards in Every card in the archive. Cut the archive a different way and the answer moves, which is what the bars below are for.
- Hit points 100 HP
middle half 60–130 HP
- 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 does being a Darkness card do for Absol 81?
Type decides two things at once — which cards take double damage from this one, and which cards deal double to it. Both are read from the weakness printed on each group, not from a rule of thumb.
17,249 cards carry an energy type. The note under each name is the weakness printed most often on that group.
| Group | Share | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Psychic | 13.5% | 2,335 cards |
| Water | 14.1% | 2,435 cards |
| Colorless | 12.6% | 2,173 cards |
| Fire | 9.1% | 1,574 cards |
| Fighting | 10.9% | 1,884 cards |
| Lightning | 8.8% | 1,520 cards |
| Grass | 13.8% | 2,387 cards |
| Metal | 5.4% | 925 cards |
| Darkness — this card | 7.2% | 1,249 cards |
| Dragon | 3.1% | 530 cards |
| Fairy | 1.4% | 237 cards |
Read from the weakness printed on each group. The first row is this card; the rest are groups that most often print a Darkness weakness.
What being a Darkness card is worth
No group in the archive most often prints a Darkness weakness, so this type gains nothing automatic from the weakness rule. Going the other way, Darkness cards are themselves most exposed to Fighting.
What knocks out Absol 81 in one hit, and what does it knock out?
Weakness doubles the damage a Fighting attack deals to this card, so the bar it has to clear is 50 printed damage rather than 100.
Lunatone50 damage50 damage becomes 100 against this card
Absol 81100 HPWhy this card was picked to stand opposite
Of the 1,061 cards in the archive that can remove Absol 81 in a single attack, this one clears the bar by the smallest margin — 50 printed damage against a bar of 50. 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 Psychic resistance changes
Damage from Psychic 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 Lucario ex (77) | Mega Evolution | 340 | 270 | 540 |
| Mega Lucario ex (160) | Mega Evolution | 340 | 270 | 540 |
| Mega Lucario ex (179) | Mega Evolution | 340 | 270 | 540 |
| Mega Lucario ex (188) | Mega Evolution | 340 | 270 | 540 |
| Mega Lucario ex (113) | Ascended Heroes | 340 | 270 | 540 |
| Toxtricity ex (100) | Paradox Rift | 260 | 270 | 540 |
100 HP against a Fighting ×2 weakness means any Fighting attack printed at 50 damage or more is enough. 1,071 cards in the archive clear that bar.
Back to summaryWhat is Absol as a Pokémon, across every card it has been printed on?
Absol 81 is one print of Absol. 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 Absol 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 summaryIs this the strongest Absol print, and can the older ones still be played?
33 prints carry this name in the archive, and 28 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.
28 rows are shown of the 33 prints counted under this name.
| Set | Regulation mark | Standard | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mega Absol ex 180/132 | ME01: Mega Evolution | Mark I | Legal in Standard |
| Mega Absol ex 086/132 | Prize Pack Series Cards | Mark I | Legal in Standard |
| Mega Absol ex 161/132 | ME01: Mega Evolution | Mark I | Legal in Standard |
| Absol ex 214/197 | SV03: Obsidian Flames | Mark G | Legal in Standard |
| Absol ex 135/197 | SV03: Obsidian Flames | Mark G | Legal in Standard |
| Absol-EX XY62 | XY Promos | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Absol 030/064 | SV: Shrouded Fable | Mark H | Legal in Standard |
| Absol 063/094 | ME02: Phantasmal Flames | Mark I | Legal in Standard |
| Absol G LV.X 141 | Supreme Victors | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Absol XY178 | XY Promos | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Absol 67/116 | Plasma Freeze | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Absol GG16/GG70 | SWSH: Crown Zenith: Galarian Gallery | Mark F | Legal in Standard |
| Absol 88/181 | SM - Team Up | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Absol 133/236 | SM - Cosmic Eclipse | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Absol 097/189 | Miscellaneous Cards & Products | Mark F | Legal in Standard |
| Absol 81/145 | SM - Guardians Rising | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Absol 40/108 | XY - Roaring Skies | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Absol 076/159 | SWSH: Crown Zenith | Mark F | Legal in Standard |
| Absol 164/264 | SWSH08: Fusion Strike | Mark E | Not legal in Standard |
| Absol 113/182 | SV04: Paradox Rift | Mark G | Legal in Standard |
| Absol 38/73 | Champion's Path | Mark D | Not legal in Standard |
| Absol 91/102 | Triumphant | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Absol 96/95 | EX Team Magma vs Team Aqua | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Absol 1/97 | EX Dragon | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Absol 18/110 | EX Holon Phantoms | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Absol 15/92 | EX Legend Maker | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Absol G 1 | Supreme Victors | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Absol 21/132 | Secret Wonders | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
11 of the 28 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 Absol 81?
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.
70
Absol [96]
70
Absol [1]
80
Absol [91]
70
Absol [18]
100
Absol G LV.X [141]
70
Absol [15]
280
Mega Absol ex [180]
70
Absol G [1]
100
Absol [XY178]
70
Absol [21]
100
Absol [67]
170
Absol-EX [XY62]
100
Absol [GG16]
280
Mega Absol ex [161]
100
Absol [88]
210
Absol ex [214]
100
Absol [133]
100
Absol [40]
210
Absol ex [135]
280
Mega Absol ex [86]
100
Absol [76]
100
Absol [97]
100
Absol [164]
100
Absol [113]
100
Absol [38]
110
Absol [30]
110
Absol [63]
27 cards in the archive share this Pokédex number (#359). 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 Absol 81 in Guardians Rising?
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.
80
Mudbray [75]
140
Mudsdale [76]
70
Minior [77]
70
Murkrow [78]
110
Honchkrow [79]
60
Sableye [80]
130
Pangoro [82]
60
Beldum [83]
90
Metang [84]
250
Metagross-GX [85]
130
Probopass [86]
160
Solgaleo [87]
These are the cards numbered either side of #81 in Guardians Rising. 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 Absol 81, 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 May 5, 2017.
Absol 81 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.
Where its HP stands, cut four ways
What actually removes it
- A Fighting attack printed at 50 damage removes it in a single turn — that is the bar, not its 100 HP.
- 1,071 cards in the archive clear that bar.
- Damage from Psychic attacks is reduced before it is applied, so an attack that clears the bar on paper may still fall short.
Absol 81 card record
| Hit points | 100 HP | Type | Darkness |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weakness | Fighting ×2 | Retreat cost | 1 Energy |
| Card type | Basic | Pokédex number | #359 |
| Set | Guardians Rising | Card number | 81 of 145 |
| Series | Sun & Moon | Released | May 5, 2017 |
| Rarity | Rare Holo | Illustrator | Anesaki Dynamic |
| Tournament legality | Unlimited and Expanded only | ||
Read from the printed card face, the set listing and the official format list.
What does Absol 81 cost?
This page is about what the card does. The figure below is the one number worth carrying across, read on August 14, 2026.
- Absol 81 priceOne year of daily prices, every print variant, and where to buy it.Open the price page
Absol 81 — frequently asked questions
How much damage does it take to knock out Absol 81?
What is the retreat cost of Absol 81?
Can an older Absol print be played in a tournament?
Can Absol 81 be played in a tournament?
Does this page say how good Absol 81 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.
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