Detective Pikachu SM194 — what does this card actually do?
This card has 90 HP and a Fighting weakness.
Lightning · Basic · SM Black Star Promos · measured against 20,444 cards on file — card data read July 28, 2026
What does Detective Pikachu SM194 do in a game?
Detective Pikachu SM194 is a Lightning Pokémon card with 90 HP, printed as Basic.
Because of the Fighting weakness, any Fighting attack printed at 45 damage or more removes it in a single turn.
Detective Pikachu SM194SM Black Star Promos
Detective Pikachu SM194 performance summary
90 HP · Lightning · Basic · retreat 2 · Fighting weakness ×2
Strongest on Attack cost lightness — top 1.8% of the archive. Weakest on Retreat lightness — bottom 45.3%.
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 | 47.7% | 90 HP |
| Retreat lightness | 45.3% | 2 Energy |
| Attack cost lightness | 98.2% | 1 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 7,584 at 90 HP.
Detective Pikachu SM19490 HPPrinted HP
The ceiling of this archive is 380 HP — 290 HP above this card.
Mega Emboar ex 273380 HPWhat stands out on Detective Pikachu SM194
- Hit points 90 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 45 damage or more removes it in a single turn.
Detective Pikachu SM194 at a glance
- What it is. A Lightning Pokémon card with 90 HP printed as Basic, printed in SM Black Star Promos.
- What it can do. 1 attack printed on the card, the strongest at 0 damage for 0 Energy.
- What it fears. A Fighting weakness at ×2, which means 45 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 Detective Pikachu SM194 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brilliant Deduction | 1 Lightning | 1 | — | — | Look at the top 4 cards of your deck and put 1 of them into your hand. Shuffle the other cards back into your deck. |
Retreating costs a further 2 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.
Back to summaryHow does Detective Pikachu SM194 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 90 HP, which is 24% 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 90 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 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 Detective Pikachu SM194 stands highest on HP — number 607 of 1,520 cards in Lightning cards. Cut the archive a different way and the answer moves, which is what the bars below are for.
- Hit points 90 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 Lightning card do for Detective Pikachu SM194?
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 — 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 |
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.
What knocks out Detective Pikachu SM194 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 45 printed damage rather than 90.
Lunatone50 damage50 damage becomes 100 against this card
Detective Pikachu SM19490 HPWhy this card was picked to stand opposite
Of the 1,061 cards in the archive that can remove Detective Pikachu SM194 in a single attack, this one clears the bar by the smallest margin — 50 printed damage against a bar of 45. 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 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.
| 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 |
90 HP against a Fighting ×2 weakness means any Fighting attack printed at 45 damage or more is enough. 1,071 cards in the archive clear that bar.
Back to summaryWhat is Detective Pikachu as a Pokémon, across every card it has been printed on?
Detective Pikachu SM194 is one print of Detective Pikachu. 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 Detective Pikachu 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 Detective Pikachu SM194 can be?
Detective Pikachu 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 — Raichu 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 025.
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 Detective Pikachu 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detective Pikachu SM170 | SM Promos | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Detective Pikachu SM190 | SM Promos | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Detective Pikachu 10/18 | Detective Pikachu | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Detective Pikachu SM194 | SM Promos | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Psyduck SM199 | SM Promos | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Bulbasaur SM198 | SM Promos | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Snubbull SM200 | SM Promos | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
0 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 summaryWhich other cards share the Pokémon behind Detective Pikachu SM194?
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.
60
Pikachu ★ [104]
60
Pikachu with Grey Felt Hat [85]
200
Pikachu ex [276]
60
Special Delivery Pikachu [SWSH074]
200
Pikachu ex [277]
50
Surfing Pikachu [114]
40
Pikachu [112]
200
Pikachu ex [238]
50
Pikachu [78]
240
Pikachu & Zekrom-GX [184]
240
Pikachu & Zekrom-GX [SM168]
70
Pikachu [241]
40
Pikachu δ [93]
310
Pikachu VMAX [188]
60
Pikachu [XY95]
40
Flying Pikachu [113]
60
Pikachu [SM162]
60
Pikachu [RC29]
240
Pikachu & Zekrom-GX [162]
50
Pikachu [84]
50
Pikachu [61]
50
Pikachu [72]
60
Pikachu [115]
70
Ash's Pikachu [SM109]
190
Pikachu V [TG16]
190
Pikachu V [SWSH145]
310
Pikachu VMAX [TG17]
70
Pikachu [SWSH020]
50
Pikachu [124]
60
Pikachu [BW54]
40
Pikachu [26]
50
Pikachu [9]
200
Pikachu ex [247]
60
Pikachu [RC7]
60
Pikachu [173]
70
Pikachu [131]
40
Flying Pikachu [25]
50
Surfing Pikachu [28]
130
Pikachu-EX [XY84]
50
Pikachu [12]
50
Pikachu [13]
200
Pikachu ex [179]
50
Pikachu [120]
240
Pikachu & Zekrom-GX [33]
70
Ash's Pikachu [SM110]
70
Ash's Pikachu [SM111]
70
Ash's Pikachu [SM112]
70
Ash's Pikachu [SM113]
60
Pikachu [SM98]
50
Pikachu [XY202]
150 cards in the archive share this Pokédex number (#025). 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 Detective Pikachu SM194 in SM Black Star Promos?
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.
180
Kangaskhan-GX [SM188]
240
Blastoise-GX [SM189]
90
Detective Pikachu [SM190]
270
Mewtwo & Mew-GX [SM191]
260
Lucario & Melmetal-GX [SM192]
270
Garchomp & Giratina-GX [SM193]
250
Charizard-GX [SM195]
190
Mewtwo-GX [SM196]
230
Greninja-GX [SM197]
70
Bulbasaur [SM198]
70
Psyduck [SM199]
60
Snubbull [SM200]
These are the cards numbered either side of #SM194 in SM Black Star Promos. 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 Detective Pikachu SM194, 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 February 3, 2017.
Detective Pikachu SM194 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 45 damage removes it in a single turn — that is the bar, not its 90 HP.
- 1,071 cards in the archive clear that bar.
- Damage from Metal attacks is reduced before it is applied, so an attack that clears the bar on paper may still fall short.
Detective Pikachu SM194 card record
| Hit points | 90 HP | Type | Lightning |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weakness | Fighting ×2 | Retreat cost | 2 Energy |
| Card type | Basic | Pokédex number | #025 |
| Set | SM Black Star Promos | Card number | SM194 of 248 |
| Series | Sun & Moon | Released | February 3, 2017 |
| Rarity | Promo | Illustrator | MPC Film |
| Tournament legality | Unlimited and Expanded only | ||
Read from the printed card face, the set listing and the official format list.
What does Detective Pikachu SM194 cost?
This page is about what the card does. The figure below is the one number worth carrying across, read on August 14, 2026.
Detective Pikachu SM194 — frequently asked questions
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Can an older Detective Pikachu 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.
Industry source
Second-party sources — marketplaces, trade associations, research institutes and companies that compile data about the market.