Alolan Grimer 83 — what does this card actually do?
This card has 80 HP and a Fighting weakness.
Darkness · Basic · Burning Shadows · measured against 20,444 cards on file — card data read July 28, 2026
What does Alolan Grimer 83 do in a game?
Alolan Grimer 83 is a Darkness Pokémon card with 80 HP, printed as Basic.
Because of the Fighting weakness, any Fighting attack printed at 40 damage or more removes it in a single turn.
Alolan Grimer 83Burning Shadows
Alolan Grimer 83 performance summary
80 HP · Darkness · Basic · retreat 3 · Fighting weakness ×2
Strongest on Attack cost lightness — top 0.1% 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 | 38.6% | 80 HP |
| Retreat lightness | 16.8% | 3 Energy |
| Attack cost lightness | 100.0% | 0 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 9,046 at 80 HP.
Alolan Grimer 8380 HPPrinted HP
The ceiling of this archive is 380 HP — 300 HP above this card.
Mega Emboar ex 273380 HPWhat stands out on Alolan Grimer 83
- Hit points 80 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 40 damage or more removes it in a single turn.
Alolan Grimer 83 at a glance
- What it is. A Darkness Pokémon card with 80 HP printed as Basic, printed in Burning Shadows.
- 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 40 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 Alolan Grimer 83 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | No Energy | 0 | — | — | Search your deck for Alolan Grimer and put it onto your Bench. Then, shuffle your deck. |
| Slippery Sludge | 2 Colorless | 2 | — | — | Your opponent's Active Pokémon is now Confused. |
Retreating costs a further 3 Energy, discarded from this card, and that cost is paid on top of anything in the table.
What each attack asks a deck to attach before it can be used, drawn as the symbols printed on the card.
One Energy card attaches per turn, so the number of symbols is also the number of turns the attack waits.
Back to summaryHow does Alolan Grimer 83 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 80 HP, which is 21% 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 80 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 0 Energy.
Cards whose cheapest attack costs 0 typically have 84 HP and print 45 damage.
| Group | Share | Value |
|---|---|---|
| 0 — this card | 1.8% | 304 cards |
| 1 | 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 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 Alolan Grimer 83 stands highest on HP — number 9,046 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 80 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 Alolan Grimer 83?
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 Alolan Grimer 83 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 40 printed damage rather than 80.
Cynthia's Gabite40 damage40 damage becomes 80 against this card
Alolan Grimer 8380 HPWhy this card was picked to stand opposite
Of the 1,208 cards in the archive that can remove Alolan Grimer 83 in a single attack, this one clears the bar by the smallest margin — 40 printed damage against a bar of 40. 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 |
80 HP against a Fighting ×2 weakness means any Fighting attack printed at 40 damage or more is enough. 1,221 cards in the archive clear that bar.
Back to summaryWhat is Alolan Grimer as a Pokémon, across every card it has been printed on?
Alolan Grimer 83 is one print of Alolan Grimer. 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 Alolan Grimer 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 Alolan Grimer 83 can be?
Alolan Grimer evolves from an earlier stage, so the whole line has to be built before this card reaches the field.
- It is not the end of the line either — Muk evolves from this card, so a deck can keep going past it.
- The line runs 2 stages, so the first card has to be in play 1 turn before this one can be.
- Every print in the line shares Pokédex number 088.
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 Alolan Grimer print, and can the older ones still be played?
5 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alolan Grimer 127/236 | SM - Unified Minds | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Alolan Grimer 57/149 | SM Base Set | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Alolan Grimer 130/236 | SM - Cosmic Eclipse | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Alolan Grimer 83/147 | SM - Burning Shadows | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Alolan Grimer 83/181 | SM - Team Up | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
0 of the 5 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 Alolan Grimer 83?
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.
50
Grimer [56]
40
Grimer [54]
50
Grimer [57]
50
Grimer [79]
60
Grimer [50]
70
Team Aqua's Grimer [7]
50
Koga's Grimer [78]
50
Grimer [48]
60
Grimer [75]
40
Grimer [57]
60
Grimer [88]
70
Grimer [52]
70
Grimer [45]
50
Grimer [78]
80
Alolan Grimer [127]
70
Alolan Grimer [83]
80
Grimer [62]
80
Alolan Grimer [57]
80
Alolan Grimer [130]
80
Grimer [100]
80
Grimer [88]
80
Grimer [84]
80
Team Rocket's Grimer [123]
80
Grimer [126]
24 cards in the archive share this Pokédex number (#088). 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 Alolan Grimer 83 in Burning Shadows?
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 [77]
130
Mudsdale [78]
110
Passimian [79]
150
Marshadow-GX [80]
40
Alolan Rattata [81]
120
Alolan Raticate [82]
220
Alolan Muk-GX [84]
70
Sneasel [85]
90
Weavile [86]
120
Darkrai [87]
180
Darkrai-GX [88]
180
Darkrai-GX [88a]
These are the cards numbered either side of #83 in Burning Shadows. 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 Alolan Grimer 83, 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% |
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 5, 2017.
Alolan Grimer 83 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 40 damage removes it in a single turn — that is the bar, not its 80 HP.
- 1,221 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.
Alolan Grimer 83 card record
| Hit points | 80 HP | Type | Darkness |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weakness | Fighting ×2 | Retreat cost | 3 Energy |
| Card type | Basic | Pokédex number | #088 |
| Set | Burning Shadows | Card number | 83 of 147 |
| Series | Sun & Moon | Released | August 5, 2017 |
| Rarity | Common | 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 Alolan Grimer 83 cost?
This page is about what the card does. The figure below is the one number worth carrying across, read on August 14, 2026.
Alolan Grimer 83 — frequently asked questions
How much damage does it take to knock out Alolan Grimer 83?
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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.
Industry source
Second-party sources — marketplaces, trade associations, research institutes and companies that compile data about the market.