Alolan Marowak 12 — what does this card actually do?
This card has 120 HP, a top attack printed at 20 damage and a Water weakness.
Fire · Stage 1 · Forbidden Light · measured against 20,444 cards on file — card data read July 28, 2026
What does Alolan Marowak 12 do in a game?
Alolan Marowak 12 is a Fire Pokémon card with 120 HP, printed as Stage 1.
Its strongest attack, Alolan Club, is printed at 20 damage for 2 Energy — 10 damage per Energy card.
Because of the Water weakness, any Water attack printed at 60 damage or more removes it in a single turn.
Alolan Marowak 12Forbidden Light
Alolan Marowak 12 performance summary
120 HP · Fire · Stage 1 · retreat 2 · Water weakness ×2
as of July 28, 2026
Strongest on Attack cost lightness — top 0.1% of the archive. Weakest on Energy efficiency — bottom 3.1%.
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 | 66.1% | 120 HP |
| Top printed damage | 12.8% | 20 damage |
| Energy efficiency | 3.1% | 10 per Energy |
| Retreat lightness | 45.3% | 2 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 4,897 at 120 HP.
Alolan Marowak 12120 HPPrinted HP
The ceiling of this archive is 380 HP — 260 HP above this card.
Mega Emboar ex 273380 HPWhat stands out on Alolan Marowak 12
- Hit points 120 HP puts it in the 80~120 band, where 33.1% of 17,290 cards with printed HP sit.
- Weakness A Water attack printed at 60 damage or more removes it in a single turn.
- Legality 1 of the 5 prints that carry this name are legal in Standard play.
Alolan Marowak 12 at a glance
- What it is. A Fire Pokémon card with 120 HP printed as Stage 1, printed in Forbidden Light.
- What it can do. 2 attacks printed on the card, the strongest at 20 damage for 2 Energy.
- What it fears. A Water weakness at ×2, which means 60 printed damage is enough to remove it.
- What it costs to move. 2 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 Marowak 12 cost, and what do they hit for?
The card prints 2 attacks. The strongest asks for 2 Energy and returns 20 damage, which is 10 damage for every Energy card attached.
| Attack | Energy cost | Cards of Energy | Printed damage | Damage per Energy | Effect |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Limbo Limbo | No Energy | 0 | — | — | Search your deck for up to 2 basic Energy cards and attach them to your Pokémon in any way you like. Then, shuffle your deck. |
| Alolan Club | 2 Colorless | 2 | 20× | 10 | This attack does 20 damage for each of your Pokémon in play that has Alolan in its name. |
Retreating costs a further 2 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.
Why one of these damage figures carries a symbol
A number on a Pokémon card is not always the number that lands.
- Alolan Club is printed as 20×, so the printed number is multiplied — the attack deals that much for each thing the sentence beside it counts.
How does Alolan Marowak 12 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 120 HP, which is 32% 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 120 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 |
16,246 cards print damage on at least one attack. The highest on this card is 20.
Cards in the ~30 band typically have 70 HP and ask 1 Energy to retreat.
| Group | Share | Value |
|---|---|---|
| ~30 — this card | 42.7% | 6,938 cards |
| 40~60 | 22.0% | 3,566 cards |
| 70~120 | 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 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 2 Energy to retreat.
Cards with a retreat cost of 2 typically have 132 HP and print 79 damage.
| Group | Share | Value |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | 5.3% | 914 cards |
| 1 | 49.3% | 8,503 cards |
| 2 — this card | 28.6% | 4,926 cards |
| 3 | 12.6% | 2,168 cards |
| 4 | 4.2% | 729 cards |
That is where Alolan Marowak 12 stands highest on HP — number 1,051 of 5,102 cards in Stage 1 cards. Cut the archive a different way and the answer moves, which is what the bars below are for.
- Hit points 120 HP
middle half 60–130 HP - Top printed damage 20 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 summaryIs Alolan Marowak 12 efficient for the Energy it asks for?
Printed damage on its own says nothing — a 20 damage attack that needs 2 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.
| 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 |
| Alolan Marowak 12 — this card | 10.0 | 20 damage for 2 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 |
| Alolan Club | — | 10 | — |
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 20 is read as high or low rather than merely large.
What does being a Fire card do for Alolan Marowak 12?
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 — this card | 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 Fire weakness.
What being a Fire card is worth
Groups that most often print a Fire weakness: Grass (2,387 cards) and Metal (925 cards). Against those, this card's printed damage counts double. Going the other way, Fire cards are themselves most exposed to Water.
What knocks out Alolan Marowak 12 in one hit, and what does it knock out?
Weakness doubles the damage a Water attack deals to this card, so the bar it has to clear is 60 printed damage rather than 120.
Golduck60 damage60 damage becomes 120 against this card
Alolan Marowak 12120 HPWhy this card was picked to stand opposite
Of the 914 cards in the archive that can remove Alolan Marowak 12 in a single attack, this one clears the bar by the smallest margin — 60 printed damage against a bar of 60. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vaporeon ex (23) | Prismatic Evolutions | 280 | 280 | 560 |
| Vaporeon ex (149) | Prismatic Evolutions | 280 | 280 | 560 |
| Wailord ex (16) | Pitch Black | 380 | 270 | 540 |
| Wailord ex (97) | Pitch Black | 380 | 270 | 540 |
| Palafin ex (61) | Twilight Masquerade | 340 | 250 | 500 |
| Palafin ex (193) | Twilight Masquerade | 340 | 250 | 500 |
120 HP against a Water ×2 weakness means any Water attack printed at 60 damage or more is enough. 918 cards in the archive clear that bar.
40 HP
Caterpie [45]
40 HP
Weedle [69]
40 HP
Bellsprout [49]
40 HP
Paras [59]
40 HP
Venonat [63]
40 HP
Bellsprout [66]
165 cards in the archive are weak to Fire 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 Alolan Marowak as a Pokémon, across every card it has been printed on?
Alolan Marowak 12 is one print of Alolan Marowak. 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 Marowak 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 Marowak 12 can be?
Alolan Marowak evolves from Cubone, 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 Cubone.
- The line runs 2 stages, so the first card has to be in play 1 turn 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 Alolan Marowak print, and can the older ones still be played?
7 prints carry this name in the archive, and 5 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.
| Set | Regulation mark | Standard | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alolan Marowak 64/181 | SM - Team Up | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Alolan Marowak 75/236 | SM - Unified Minds | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Alolan Marowak 12/131 | SM - Forbidden Light | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Alolan Marowak 057/159 | SV09: Journey Together | Mark H | Legal in Standard |
| Alolan Marowak 12/111 | SM - Crimson Invasion | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
1 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 summaryWhat can you use instead of Alolan Marowak 12?
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arcanine ex | Legend Maker | 120 | 100 | 2 |
| Ninetales | Aquapolis | 80 | 40 | 1 |
| Light Arcanine | Neo Destiny | 100 | 50 | 2 |
| Ninetales | Legendary Collection | 80 | 80 | 1 |
| Charmeleon | Legendary Collection | 80 | 50 | 1 |
| Ninetales | Pokémon Rumble | 90 | 60 | 1 |
This card itself is 120 HP, 20 top damage and 2 retreat, and every card here is Fire like it.
Back to summaryWhich other cards share the Pokémon behind Alolan Marowak 12?
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.
80
Marowak δ [10]
80
Marowak [7]
70
Marowak [54]
60
Marowak [39]
90
Marowak [63]
120
Alolan Marowak [64]
140
Marowak BREAK [79]
120
Alolan Marowak [75]
60
Marowak [52]
100
Marowak [61]
100
Marowak [78]
100
Alolan Marowak [12]
90
Marowak [44]
110
Marowak [91]
120
Marowak [105]
100
Marowak [37]
110
Marowak [70]
120
Alolan Marowak [57]
120
Marowak [73]
19 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 Alolan Marowak 12 in Forbidden Light?
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.
40
Scatterbug [6]
70
Spewpa [7]
130
Vivillon [8]
70
Skiddo [9]
120
Gogoat [10]
110
Pheromosa [11]
130
Heatran [13]
60
Fennekin [14]
70
Fennekin [15]
90
Braixen [16]
150
Delphox [17]
70
Litleo [18]
These are the cards numbered either side of #12 in Forbidden Light. 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 Marowak 12, 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 May 4, 2018.
Alolan Marowak 12 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, Alolan Club, needs 2 Energy attached. Energy attaches once a turn, so that attack waits 2 turns from an empty card.
- That works out at 10 damage for every Energy card attached.
- Moving it out of the active spot costs 2 more Energy, discarded from the card itself.
- It cannot start the game in play — Cubone has to be on the field first.
Where its HP stands, cut four ways
What actually removes it
- A Water attack printed at 60 damage removes it in a single turn — that is the bar, not its 120 HP.
- 918 cards in the archive clear that bar.
- Going the other way, it removes 165 cards in one attack.
Alolan Marowak 12 card record
| Hit points | 120 HP | Type | Fire |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weakness | Water ×2 | Retreat cost | 2 Energy |
| Evolves from | Cubone | Card type | Stage 1 |
| Pokédex number | #105 | Set | Forbidden Light |
| Card number | 12 of 131 | Series | Sun & Moon |
| Released | May 4, 2018 | Rarity | Rare |
| Illustrator | Suwama Chiaki | ||
| Tournament legality | Unlimited and Expanded only | ||
Read from the printed card face, the set listing and the official format list.
What does Alolan Marowak 12 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 Marowak 12 — frequently asked questions
How much damage does it take to knock out Alolan Marowak 12?
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What does the × after the damage on Alolan Club mean?
Can an older Alolan Marowak print be played in a tournament?
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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.
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