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Victini SM225 — what does this card actually do?

This card has 70 HP, a top attack printed at 20 damage and a Water weakness.

Fire · Basic · SM Black Star Promos · measured against 20,444 cards on file — card data read July 28, 2026

What does Victini SM225 do in a game?

Victini SM225 is a Fire Pokémon card with 70 HP, printed as Basic.

Its strongest attack, Flare, is printed at 20 damage for 1 Energy — 20 damage per Energy card.

Because of the Water weakness, any Water attack printed at 35 damage or more removes it in a single turn.

Victini SM225SM Black Star Promos

Victini SM225 performance summary

70 HP · Fire · Basic · retreat 1 · Water weakness ×2

Top printed damage2020 per Energy Flare20 damage for 1 Energy
as of July 28, 2026
Hit points70 HP38.6% of 17,290 in the ~70 band
Printed damage2042.7% of 16,246 in the ~30 band
Retreat cost1 Energy49.3% of 17,240 in the 1 band
Energy efficiencyBelow typicalAboveTypicalBelowThis card 20 · typical 49.0
damage per Energy card, among cards whose cheapest attack costs 1
Price trackPromoSM Black Star Promos39 printsWhat it costs today, how it moved, and where to buy it
Card classBasic
RarityPromo
SetSM Black Star Promos
Card numberSM225
Card data readJuly 28, 2026
How Victini SM225 is built, on five measures
Hit points70 HPTop printed damage20 damageEnergy efficiency20 per EnergyRetreat lightness1 EnergyAttack cost lightness1 Energy

Strongest on Attack cost lightness — top 1.8% of the archive. Weakest on Top printed damage — bottom 12.8%.

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.

How Victini SM225 is built, on five measures
MeasurePercentilePrinted value
Hit points25.7%70 HP
Top printed damage12.8%20 damage
Energy efficiency46.1%20 per Energy
Retreat lightness94.4%1 Energy
Attack cost lightness98.2%1 Energy

What it can do

Attack record
  • 1EVictory Signhas printed text
  • 1EFlare20 damage per Energy card20damage

2 attacks printed on the card. The badge is the Energy it asks for.

Where it stands

Among the 17,290 cards in every card in the archive that carry printed HP, this one is number 10,622 at 70 HP.

This cardVictini SM225 — SM Black Star PromosVictini SM225SM Black Star Promos70 HP

Printed HP

The ceiling of this archive is 380 HP310 HP above this card.

Highest printed HPMega Emboar ex — Ascended HeroesMega Emboar ex 273Ascended Heroes380 HP

What stands out on Victini SM225

  • Hit points 70 HP puts it in the ~70 band, where 38.6% of 17,290 cards with printed HP sit.
  • Energy It returns 20 damage per Energy card against 49.0 for cards whose cheapest attack costs 1.
  • Weakness A Water attack printed at 35 damage or more removes it in a single turn.
  • Legality 8 of the 36 prints that carry this name are legal in Standard play.

Victini SM225 at a glance

  • What it is. A Fire Pokémon card with 70 HP printed as Basic, printed in SM Black Star Promos.
  • What it can do. 2 attacks printed on the card, the strongest at 20 damage for 1 Energy.
  • What it fears. A Water weakness at ×2, which means 35 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.
Source: Card facts are read once from openly published card files and change only when a source corrects them.

What do the attacks on Victini SM225 cost, and what do they hit for?

The card prints 2 attacks. The strongest asks for 1 Energy and returns 20 damage, which is 20 damage for every Energy card attached.

Victini SM225 — every printed attack, its cost and its damage
AttackEnergy costCards of EnergyPrinted damageDamage per EnergyEffect
Victory Sign1 Fire1Search your deck for up to 2 basic Energy cards of different types and attach them to your Pokémon in any way you like. Then, shuffle your deck.
Flare1 Fire12020No extra effect.

Retreating costs a further 1 Energy, discarded from this card, and that cost is paid on top of anything in the table.

Victory Sign1 Energy card
Flare1 Energy card

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.

  • Flare 1 Energy20 damage for 1 Energy — 20 per Energy card20

Bars are printed damage against this card's own highest attack (20).

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How does Victini SM225 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.

Victini SM225 — SM Black Star Promos
VictiniSM Black Star Promos SM225

Victini SM225 prints 70 HP, which puts it at number 10,622 of the 17,290 cards in this archive that print an HP figure at all. The tallest figure printed on any card is 380 HP (Mega Emboar ex).

13% on printed damage — it out-hits that share of the 16,246 cards that print damage

  • This card70 HP
  • Middle half of the archive60–130 HP
  • Strongest Victini printed80 HP
Mega Emboar ex — Ascended Heroes 273 · the highest printed HP in the archive at 380

The ceiling of this archive is Mega Emboar ex at 380 HP — every bar here is measured against it.

This card prints 70 HP, which is 18% 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.

Hit points — where this card sits
~70 — this card38.6%6,669 cards
80~12033.1%5,725 cards
130~18015.5%2,679 cards
190~2306.6%1,148 cards
240~2803.3%567 cards
290~3302.4%412 cards
340+0.5%90 cards

17,290 cards in the archive carry a printed HP figure. This one has 70 HP.

Cards in the ~70 band typically print 23 damage and ask 1 Energy to retreat.

Hit points — where this card sits
GroupShareValue
~70 — this card38.6%6,669 cards
80~12033.1%5,725 cards
130~18015.5%2,679 cards
190~2306.6%1,148 cards
240~2803.3%567 cards
290~3302.4%412 cards
340+0.5%90 cards
Top printed damage — where this card sits
~30 — this card42.7%6,938 cards
40~6022.0%3,566 cards
70~12021.8%3,535 cards
130~1809.0%1,461 cards
190~2503.8%621 cards
260+0.8%125 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.

Top printed damage — where this card sits
GroupShareValue
~30 — this card42.7%6,938 cards
40~6022.0%3,566 cards
70~12021.8%3,535 cards
130~1809.0%1,461 cards
190~2503.8%621 cards
260+0.8%125 cards
Cheapest attack cost — where this card sits
01.8%304 cards
1 — this card54.4%9,392 cards
226.4%4,565 cards
314.7%2,533 cards
42.4%421 cards
50.3%47 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.

Cheapest attack cost — where this card sits
GroupShareValue
01.8%304 cards
1 — this card54.4%9,392 cards
226.4%4,565 cards
314.7%2,533 cards
42.4%421 cards
50.3%47 cards
Retreat cost — where this card sits
05.3%914 cards
1 — this card49.3%8,503 cards
228.6%4,926 cards
312.6%2,168 cards
44.2%729 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.

Retreat cost — where this card sits
GroupShareValue
05.3%914 cards
1 — this card49.3%8,503 cards
228.6%4,926 cards
312.6%2,168 cards
44.2%729 cards

That is where Victini SM225 stands highest on HP — number 10,622 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.

  • Mega Emboar ex — 380 HP, the highest in this group
    Every card in the archive — 20,444 cards No. 10,622 of 17,290 by HP · No. 11,559 of 16,246 by damage · top by HP: Mega Emboar ex, 380
    top 71% on damage
  • Mega Emboar ex — 380 HP, the highest in this group
    Fire cards — 1,574 cards No. 1,055 of 1,574 by HP · No. 1,207 of 1,526 by damage · top by HP: Mega Emboar ex, 380
    top 79% on damage
  • Moltres & Zapdos & Articuno-GX — 300 HP, the highest in this group
    SM Black Star Promos — 251 cards No. 192 of 247 by HP · No. 206 of 238 by damage · top by HP: Moltres & Zapdos & Articuno-GX, 300
    top 86% on damage

Each bar is how far up this card sits when the archive is cut a different way. The bar is its place on HP; the tick is its place on printed damage. Counted from the card files this site reads, read July 28, 2026.

  • Hit points 70 HPmiddle half 60–130 HP
  • Top printed damage 20 damagemiddle 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.

Read from the card files this site reads, July 28, 2026. The archive tops out at 380 HP and 350 printed damage.
Cards in the same HP band
6,669 of 17,290 (38.6%)
Cards with this much printed damage
6,938 of 16,246 (42.7%)
Counted from the card files this site reads, one card at a time.

Open the group this card falls into

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Is Victini SM225 efficient for the Energy it asks for?

Printed damage on its own says nothing — a 20 damage attack that needs 1 Energy and one that needs two are different cards. Dividing one by the other puts every attack on the same scale.

Damage per Energy card, across the whole archive
1 Energy9,392 cards49.049 damage typical
2 Energy4,565 cards32.565 damage typical
3 Energy2,533 cards34.7104 damage typical
4 Energy421 cards27.8111 damage typical
5 Energy47 cards41.8209 damage typical
Victini SM225 — this card20.020 damage for 1 Energy

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 1 typically return 49.0 damage per Energy card. This card returns 20.

Damage per Energy card, across the whole archive
GroupShareValue
1 Energy49.049 damage typical
2 Energy32.565 damage typical
3 Energy34.7104 damage typical
4 Energy27.8111 damage typical
5 Energy41.8209 damage typical
Victini SM225 — this card20.020 damage for 1 Energy
2501250 damage
012345 Energy
Typical for that Energy cost 6 groupsFlare 20 / 1

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.

Energy cost against printed damage. Each grey dot is what cards asking that much Energy typically print; the coloured dots are the attacks on Victini SM225.
GroupTypical printed damageDamage per Energy cardCards in this group
Cheapest attack costs 0 Energy45304
Cheapest attack costs 1 Energy49499,392
Cheapest attack costs 2 Energy65334,565
Cheapest attack costs 3 Energy104352,533
Cheapest attack costs 4 Energy11128421
Cheapest attack costs 5 Energy2094247
Flare20
This card, per Energy card
20 damage
Typical for a 1 Energy attack
49.0 damage
Difference
-29.0 damage
Both figures are damage divided by Energy cost, counted the same way.

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.

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What does being a Fire card do for Victini SM225?

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.

Deals double to this card 2,435 Water cards carry that type A Water attack printed at 35 damage is enough to remove this card in one turn.
Victini SM225 · Basic 70 HP Its hardest attack is printed at 20 damage.
Takes double from this card 3,312 cards in groups that print a Fire weakness Against Grass and Metal, printed damage from this card counts double.
How the archive splits by energy type
Psychicmost often weak to Psychic13.5%2,335 cards
Watermost often weak to Lightning14.1%2,435 cards
Colorlessmost often weak to Fighting12.6%2,173 cards
Fire — this cardmost often weak to Water9.1%1,574 cards
Fightingmost often weak to Grass10.9%1,884 cards
Lightningmost often weak to Fighting8.8%1,520 cards
Grassmost often weak to Fire13.8%2,387 cards
Metalmost often weak to Fire5.4%925 cards
Darknessmost often weak to Fighting7.2%1,249 cards
Dragonmost often weak to Fairy3.1%530 cards
Fairymost often weak to Metal1.4%237 cards

17,249 cards carry an energy type. The note under each name is the weakness printed most often on that group.

How the archive splits by energy type
GroupShareValue
Psychic13.5%2,335 cards
Water14.1%2,435 cards
Colorless12.6%2,173 cards
Fire — this card9.1%1,574 cards
Fighting10.9%1,884 cards
Lightning8.8%1,520 cards
Grass13.8%2,387 cards
Metal5.4%925 cards
Darkness7.2%1,249 cards
Dragon3.1%530 cards
Fairy1.4%237 cards
Fireweak to Water
Grassweak to Fire
Metalweak to Fire

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.

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What knocks out Victini SM225 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 35 printed damage rather than 70.

Cards that remove it in one attack
1,277
Cards it removes in one attack
165
Water damage needed to knock it out
35
Counted across the whole card archive. 70 HP against a Water weakness at ×2 decides all three figures.
Removes it in one attackDelibirdDelibirdChaos Rising 1840 damage
×2Water weakness · 35 printed damage is enough
40 damage becomes 80 against this card
This cardVictini SM225Victini SM225SM Black Star Promos SM22570 HP

Why this card was picked to stand opposite

Of the 1,263 cards in the archive that can remove Victini SM225 in a single attack, this one clears the bar by the smallest margin — 40 printed damage against a bar of 35. 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.

Victiniweak to Water ×2

Read from the weakness printed in the lower-left corner of the card.

Water cards that remove Victini in one attack
CardSetHPPrinted damageAfter weakness
Vaporeon ex (23)Prismatic Evolutions280280560
Vaporeon ex (149)Prismatic Evolutions280280560
Wailord ex (16)Pitch Black380270540
Wailord ex (97)Pitch Black380270540
Palafin ex (61)Twilight Masquerade340250500
Palafin ex (193)Twilight Masquerade340250500

70 HP against a Water ×2 weakness means any Water attack printed at 35 damage or more is enough. 1,277 cards in the archive clear that bar.

Cards this one removes in a single attack

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.

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What is Victini as a Pokémon, across every card it has been printed on?

Victini SM225 is one print of Victini. 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.

Victini has been printed 39 times, and the printed numbers move from one print to the next. Point at a card to see it full size.Tap a card to open its page.
The three toughest Victini cards ever printedPokédex #494Prints on record 39Toughest print 310 HPThis card 70 HP
39prints
Legal in Standard8Older prints, not in Standard31

Every Victini 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.

The toughest Victini printed is 310 HP, and this card is 22.6% of it

Bars are printed HP, measured against the record for this Pokémon
  • Victini VMAX 022/163the toughest Victini ever printedPrize Pack Series Cards310 HP
  • Victini SM225against that record22.6% of the record70 HP

Read from the printed card face of every Victini print on record. Printed HP does not change after a card is issued.

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Is this the strongest Victini print, and can the older ones still be played?

39 prints carry this name in the archive, and 36 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.

Rows run from the toughest print down. Bars are printed HP, measured against the toughest print of this name shown here (310 HP), and the highlighted row is the card this page is about.

36 rows are shown of the 39 prints counted under this name.

Victini prints — can each one still be played?
PrintSetRegulation markStandard
Victini VMAX 022/163Prize Pack Series CardsMark ENot legal in Standard
Victini VMAX 165/163SWSH05: Battle StylesMark ENot legal in Standard
Victini V 025/202Prize Pack Series CardsMark DNot legal in Standard
Victini V 144/163SWSH05: Battle StylesMark ENot legal in Standard
Victini ex 142SV: Scarlet & Violet Promo CardsMark GLegal in Standard
Victini V SWSH104SWSH: Sword & Shield Promo CardsMark DNot legal in Standard
Victini ex 033/197SV03: Obsidian FlamesMark GLegal in Standard
Victini V 021/163SWSH05: Battle StylesMark ENot legal in Standard
Victini-EX 131/135Plasma StormNo mark printedNot legal in Standard
Victini-EX 18/135Plasma StormNo mark printedNot legal in Standard
Victini-EX 24/113Legendary TreasuresNo mark printedNot legal in Standard
Victini ◇ 7/70World Championship DecksNo mark printedNot legal in Standard
Victini 171/086SV: Black BoltMark ILegal in Standard
Victini 172/086SV: White FlareMark ILegal in Standard
Victini 012/086SV: Black BoltMark ILegal in Standard
Victini 036/264SWSH08: Fusion StrikeMark ENot legal in Standard
Victini 030/162SV05: Temporal ForcesMark HLegal in Standard
Victini XY117XY PromosNo mark printedNot legal in Standard
Victini 015/101Jumbo CardsNo mark printedNot legal in Standard
Victini XY189XY PromosNo mark printedNot legal in Standard
Victini 49/214SM - Lost ThunderNo mark printedNot legal in Standard
Victini 23/149Boundaries CrossedNo mark printedNot legal in Standard
Victini 30/236SM - Cosmic EclipseNo mark printedNot legal in Standard
Victini SM225SM PromosNo mark printedNot legal in Standard
Victini 26/236SM - Unified MindsNo mark printedNot legal in Standard
Victini 10/145SM - Guardians RisingNo mark printedNot legal in Standard
Victini 13/108XY - Roaring SkiesNo mark printedNot legal in Standard
Victini 023/195SWSH12: Silver TempestMark FLegal in Standard
Victini 07/73Champion's PathMark DNot legal in Standard
Victini 021/191SV08: Surging SparksMark HLegal in Standard
Victini 43/101Black and White PromosNo mark printedNot legal in Standard
Victini 98/101Noble VictoriesNo mark printedNot legal in Standard
Victini 23/113Legendary TreasuresNo mark printedNot legal in Standard
Victini 14/101Noble VictoriesNo mark printedNot legal in Standard
Victini BW32Black and White PromosNo mark printedNot legal in Standard
Victini 020/203SWSH07: Evolving SkiesMark ENot legal in Standard

8 of the 36 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.

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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.

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What was printed next to Victini SM225 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.

Cards printed either side of this one

These are the cards numbered either side of #SM225 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.

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Which rules apply to Victini SM225, 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.

Rulebook clauses that apply to Victini SM225
ClauseWhat the rulebook saysCards it applies toShare of the archive
WeaknessSome Pokemon have Weakness or Resistance to Pokemon of certain types, marked in the lower-left corner of the card.16,744 cards81.9%
RetreatRetreat your Active Pokemon (only once per turn).17,244 cards84.3%
Energy per turnYou can attach Energy just once each turn!17,180 cards84.0%

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.

Victini SM225 — tournament formats
FormatStatusWhat that means
StandardNot listedThis card is not listed for this format
ExpandedLegalCan be played in this format
UnlimitedLegalCan 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.

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Victini SM225 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, Flare, needs 1 Energy attached. Energy attaches once a turn, so that attack waits 1 turn from an empty card.
  • That works out at 20 damage for every Energy card attached.
  • Moving it out of the active spot costs 1 more Energy, discarded from the card itself.

Where its HP stands, cut four ways

Every card in the archiveNo. 10,622 of 17,290
Fire cardsNo. 1,055 of 1,574
SM Black Star PromosNo. 192 of 247

What actually removes it

  • A Water attack printed at 35 damage removes it in a single turn — that is the bar, not its 70 HP.
  • 1,277 cards in the archive clear that bar.
  • Going the other way, it removes 165 cards in one attack.
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Victini SM225 card record

Victini SM225 — the printed record, field by field
Hit points70 HPTypeFire
WeaknessWater ×2Retreat cost1 Energy
Card typeBasicPokédex number#494
SetSM Black Star PromosCard numberSM225 of 248
SeriesSun & MoonReleasedFebruary 3, 2017
RarityPromoIllustratornagimiso
Tournament legalityUnlimited and Expanded only

Read from the printed card face, the set listing and the official format list.

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What does Victini SM225 cost?

This page is about what the card does. The figure below is the one number worth carrying across, read on August 14, 2026.

Market price today
$1.70
Read on
August 14, 2026
One figure only — the price record, the daily chart and the marketplaces live on the price page.
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Victini SM225 — frequently asked questions

How much damage does it take to knock out Victini SM225?

Victini SM225 has 70 HP and a Water weakness at ×2, so a Water attack printed at 35 damage or more removes it in one turn. Any other type has to print the full 70.

What is the strongest attack on Victini SM225?

Flare, printed at 20 damage for 1 Energy — 20 damage per Energy card.

What is the retreat cost of Victini SM225?

1 Energy, discarded from this card to move it out of the active spot. Retreating is allowed once per turn.

Can an older Victini print be played in a tournament?

Legality is read from the print, not from the Pokémon. Of the 36 prints listed on this page, 8 are legal in Standard play. The rest can still be played in formats that accept them, and the table on this page names the regulation mark each print carries.

Can Victini SM225 be played in a tournament?

It is legal in Unlimited and Expanded play. Standard events run on a rotating list of sets, so check the current rotation before entering one.

Does this page say how good Victini SM225 is in a deck?

No. Every figure here is read from the printed card. Deck lists, tournament results and win rates are not published on this site, because the card files it reads do not contain them.
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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.

1
The Pokémon Company International — official rules, tournament format and rotation announcements www.pokemon.com

Industry source

Second-party sources — marketplaces, trade associations, research institutes and companies that compile data about the market.

1
Pokémon TCG Data — openly published card files (card text, HP, attacks, weakness, retreat cost, illustrator credits) github.com
2
TCGdex card database — openly licensed card files (set membership and card numbering) github.com
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