Misty's Gyarados 49 — what does this card actually do?
This card has 180 HP, a top attack printed at 120 damage and a Lightning weakness.
Water · Stage 1 · Destined Rivals · measured against 20,444 cards on file — card data read July 28, 2026
What does Misty's Gyarados 49 do in a game?
Misty's Gyarados 49 is a Water Pokémon card with 180 HP, printed as Stage 1.
Its strongest attack, Waterfall, is printed at 120 damage for 3 Energy — 40 damage per Energy card.
Because of the Lightning weakness, any Lightning attack printed at 90 damage or more removes it in a single turn.
Misty's Gyarados 49Destined Rivals
Misty's Gyarados 49 performance summary
180 HP · Water · Stage 1 · retreat 4 · Lightning weakness ×2
as of July 28, 2026
damage per Energy card, among cards whose cheapest attack costs 1
Strongest on Attack cost lightness — top 1.8% of the archive. Weakest on Retreat lightness — bottom 4.2%.
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 | 85.2% | 180 HP |
| Top printed damage | 82.1% | 120 damage |
| Energy efficiency | 81.3% | 40 per Energy |
| Retreat lightness | 4.2% | 4 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 2,218 at 180 HP.
Misty's Gyarados 49180 HPPrinted HP
The ceiling of this archive is 380 HP — 200 HP above this card.
Mega Emboar ex 273380 HPWhat stands out on Misty's Gyarados 49
- Hit points 180 HP puts it in the 130~180 band, where 15.5% of 17,290 cards with printed HP sit.
- Energy It returns 40 damage per Energy card against 49.0 for cards whose cheapest attack costs 1.
- Weakness A Lightning attack printed at 90 damage or more removes it in a single turn.
- Legality 1 of the 2 prints that carry this name are legal in Standard play.
Misty's Gyarados 49 at a glance
- What it is. A Water Pokémon card with 180 HP printed as Stage 1, printed in Destined Rivals.
- What it can do. 2 attacks printed on the card, the strongest at 120 damage for 3 Energy.
- What it fears. A Lightning weakness at ×2, which means 90 printed damage is enough to remove it.
- What it costs to move. 4 Energy to retreat, discarded from the card itself.
- Where it can be played. Unlimited and Standard and Expanded only, and it carries regulation mark I.
- 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 Misty's Gyarados 49 cost, and what do they hit for?
The card prints 2 attacks. The strongest asks for 3 Energy and returns 120 damage, which is 40 damage for every Energy card attached.
| Attack | Energy cost | Cards of Energy | Printed damage | Damage per Energy | Effect |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Splashing Panic | 1 Water | 1 | 70× | 70 | Discard the top 7 cards of your deck, and this attack does 70 damage for each Misty's Pokémon that you discarded in this way. |
| Waterfall | 2 Water + 1 Colorless | 3 | 120 | 40 | No extra effect. |
Retreating costs a further 4 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.
- Splashing Panic is printed as 70×, so the printed number is multiplied — the attack deals that much for each thing the sentence beside it counts.
How does Misty's Gyarados 49 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 180 HP, which is 47% 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 180 HP.
Cards in the 130~180 band typically print 104 damage and ask 2 Energy to retreat.
| Group | Share | Value |
|---|---|---|
| ~70 | 38.6% | 6,669 cards |
| 80~120 | 33.1% | 5,725 cards |
| 130~180 — this card | 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 120.
Cards in the 70~120 band typically have 141 HP and ask 2 Energy to retreat.
| Group | Share | Value |
|---|---|---|
| ~30 | 42.7% | 6,938 cards |
| 40~60 | 22.0% | 3,566 cards |
| 70~120 — this card | 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 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 4 Energy to retreat.
Cards with a retreat cost of 4 typically have 175 HP and print 121 damage.
| Group | Share | Value |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | 5.3% | 914 cards |
| 1 | 49.3% | 8,503 cards |
| 2 | 28.6% | 4,926 cards |
| 3 | 12.6% | 2,168 cards |
| 4 — this card | 4.2% | 729 cards |
That is where Misty's Gyarados 49 stands highest on HP — number 425 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 180 HP
middle half 60–130 HP - Top printed damage 120 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 Misty's Gyarados 49 efficient for the Energy it asks for?
Printed damage on its own says nothing — a 120 damage attack that needs 3 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.
Cards whose cheapest attack costs 1 typically return 49.0 damage per Energy card. This card returns 40.
| 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 |
| Misty's Gyarados 49 — this card | 40.0 | 120 damage for 3 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 |
| Splashing Panic | — | 70 | — |
| Waterfall | — | 40 | — |
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 120 is read as high or low rather than merely large.
What does being a Water card do for Misty's Gyarados 49?
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 — this card | 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 | 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 Water weakness.
What being a Water card is worth
Groups that most often print a Water weakness: Fire (1,574 cards). Against those, this card's printed damage counts double. Going the other way, Water cards are themselves most exposed to Lightning.
What knocks out Misty's Gyarados 49 in one hit, and what does it knock out?
Weakness doubles the damage a Lightning attack deals to this card, so the bar it has to clear is 90 printed damage rather than 180.
Miraidon90 damage90 damage becomes 180 against this card
Misty's Gyarados 49180 HPWhy this card was picked to stand opposite
Of the 441 cards in the archive that can remove Misty's Gyarados 49 in a single attack, this one clears the bar by the smallest margin — 90 printed damage against a bar of 90. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pikachu ex (57) | Ascended Heroes | 200 | 300 | 600 |
| Pikachu ex (277) | Ascended Heroes | 200 | 300 | 600 |
| Pikachu ex (57) | Surging Sparks | 200 | 300 | 600 |
| Pikachu ex (219) | Surging Sparks | 200 | 300 | 600 |
| Pikachu ex (238) | Surging Sparks | 200 | 300 | 600 |
| Pikachu ex (247) | Surging Sparks | 200 | 300 | 600 |
180 HP against a Lightning ×2 weakness means any Lightning attack printed at 90 damage or more is enough. 443 cards in the archive clear that bar.
240 HP
Blaziken-GX [28]
240 HP
Blaziken-GX [153]
240 HP
Blaziken-GX [170]
230 HP
Ethan's Ho-Oh ex [26]
230 HP
Reshiram ex [20]
230 HP
Reshiram ex [158]
1,605 cards in the archive are weak to Water 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 Misty's Gyarados as a Pokémon, across every card it has been printed on?
Misty's Gyarados 49 is one print of Misty's Gyarados. 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.
Is this the strongest Misty's Gyarados print, and can the older ones still be played?
2 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Misty's Gyarados 049/182 | Miscellaneous Cards & Products | Mark I | Legal in Standard |
| Misty's Gyarados 013/132 | Gym Challenge | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
1 of the 2 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 Misty's Gyarados 49?
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wailord ex | Sandstorm | 200 | 100 | 5 |
| Alolan Ninetales-GX | Guardians Rising | 210 | 160 | 1 |
| Glaceon-GX | Ultra Prism | 200 | 90 | 2 |
| Glaceon-GX | Hidden Fates Shiny Vault | 200 | 90 | 2 |
| Alolan Ninetales-GX | Hidden Fates Shiny Vault | 210 | 160 | 1 |
| Glaceon-GX | Ultra Prism | 200 | 90 | 2 |
This card itself is 180 HP, 120 top damage and 4 retreat, and every card here is Water like it.
Back to summaryWhich other cards share the Pokémon behind Misty's Gyarados 49?
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
Gyarados ★ δ [102]
100
Shining Gyarados [65]
130
Gyarados [XY60]
100
Gyarados [6]
100
Misty's Gyarados [13]
90
Giovanni's Gyarados [5]
90
Gyarados δ [8]
90
Gyarados [8]
130
Gyarados [123]
130
Gyarados ex [109]
70
Dark Gyarados [8]
180
Gyarados-EX [123]
90
Gyarados [11]
240
M Gyarados-EX [115]
240
Gyarados-GX [112]
180
Gyarados-EX [114]
130
Gyarados [7]
130
Gyarados [21]
130
Gyarados [XY109]
110
Gyarados G [30]
240
M Gyarados-EX [27]
330
Gyarados VMAX [207]
100
Gyarados [12]
100
Gyarados [7]
130
Gyarados [31]
130
Gyarados [19]
120
Gyarados [26]
80
Dark Gyarados [36]
70
Dark Gyarados [25]
240
Gyarados-GX [101]
180
Gyarados-EX [26]
180
Gyarados-EX [XY106]
240
Gyarados-GX [18]
130
Gyarados [24]
220
Gyarados V [171]
150
Gyarados [30]
130
Gyarados [34]
300
Gyarados ex [225]
330
Gyarados VMAX [29]
130
Gyarados [23]
230
Gyarados-GX [16]
160
Gyarados [20]
70
Dark Gyarados [8]
130
Gyarados [20]
150
Gyarados [33]
180
Gyarados [40]
220
Gyarados V [28]
300
Gyarados ex [45]
190
Gyarados [130]
170
Gyarados [22]
51 cards in the archive share this Pokédex number (#130). 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 Misty's Gyarados 49 in Destined Rivals?
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
Heat Rotom [43]
110
Hearthflame Mask Ogerpon [44]
70
Misty's Psyduck [45]
70
Misty's Staryu [46]
100
Misty's Starmie [47]
30
Misty's Magikarp [48]
110
Misty's Lapras [50]
120
Team Rocket's Articuno [51]
30
Cynthia's Feebas [52]
130
Cynthia's Milotic [53]
60
Clamperl [54]
110
Huntail [55]
These are the cards numbered either side of #49 in Destined Rivals. 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 Misty's Gyarados 49, 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 | Legal | Can be played in 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 Standard and Expanded play. It carries regulation mark I, printed next to the card number. It was released on May 30, 2025.
Which generation of cards does Misty's Gyarados 49 belong to?
The single letter printed beside the card number groups a card with everything issued under the same rules. Tournament formats are cut along those letters, so the size of a letter is the size of the pool a card sits in.
8,194 cards in the archive carry a regulation mark. Older prints carry none at all, so this is not the whole archive.
The regulation mark is the single letter recorded with each modern card. Older prints carry no mark at all, so this axis covers only the part of the archive that has one.
| Group | Share | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Mark D | 15.4% | 1,261 cards |
| Mark E | 14.7% | 1,202 cards |
| Mark F | 14.4% | 1,180 cards |
| Mark G | 19.9% | 1,634 cards |
| Mark H | 15.7% | 1,283 cards |
| Mark I — this card | 14.8% | 1,215 cards |
| Mark J | 5.1% | 419 cards |
Misty's Gyarados 49 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, Waterfall, needs 3 Energy attached. Energy attaches once a turn, so that attack waits 3 turns from an empty card.
- That works out at 40 damage for every Energy card attached.
- Moving it out of the active spot costs 4 more Energy, discarded from the card itself.
- It cannot start the game in play — Misty's Magikarp has to be on the field first.
Where its HP stands, cut four ways
What actually removes it
- A Lightning attack printed at 90 damage removes it in a single turn — that is the bar, not its 180 HP.
- 443 cards in the archive clear that bar.
- Going the other way, it removes 1,605 cards in one attack.
Misty's Gyarados 49 card record
| Hit points | 180 HP | Type | Water |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weakness | Lightning ×2 | Retreat cost | 4 Energy |
| Evolves from | Misty's Magikarp | Card type | Stage 1 |
| Regulation mark | Mark I | Pokédex number | #130 |
| Set | Destined Rivals | Card number | 49 of 182 |
| Series | Scarlet & Violet | Released | May 30, 2025 |
| Rarity | Rare | ||
| Tournament legality | Unlimited and Standard and Expanded only | ||
Read from the printed card face, the set listing and the official format list.
What does Misty's Gyarados 49 cost?
This page is about what the card does. The figure below is the one number worth carrying across, read on August 14, 2026.
Misty's Gyarados 49 — frequently asked questions
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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
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