Alolan Vulpix VSTAR 197 — what does this card actually do?
This card has 240 HP, a top attack printed at 160 damage and a Metal weakness.
Water · VSTAR · Silver Tempest · measured against 20,444 cards on file — card data read July 28, 2026
What does Alolan Vulpix VSTAR 197 do in a game?
Alolan Vulpix VSTAR 197 is a Water Pokémon card with 240 HP, printed as VSTAR.
Its strongest attack, Snow Mirage, is printed at 160 damage for 3 Energy — 53 damage per Energy card.
Because of the Metal weakness, any Metal attack printed at 120 damage or more removes it in a single turn.
Alolan Vulpix VSTAR 197Silver Tempest
Alolan Vulpix VSTAR 197 performance summary
240 HP · Water · VSTAR · retreat 1 · Metal weakness ×2
as of July 28, 2026
Strongest on Attack cost lightness — top 0.1% of the archive. Weakest on Energy efficiency — bottom 91.0%.
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 | 93.8% | 240 HP |
| Top printed damage | 91.7% | 160 damage |
| Energy efficiency | 91.0% | 53 per Energy |
| Retreat lightness | 94.4% | 1 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 978 at 240 HP.
Alolan Vulpix VSTAR 197240 HPPrinted HP
The ceiling of this archive is 380 HP — 140 HP above this card.
Mega Emboar ex 273380 HPWhat stands out on Alolan Vulpix VSTAR 197
- Hit points 240 HP puts it in the 240~280 band, where 3.3% of 17,290 cards with printed HP sit.
- Weakness A Metal attack printed at 120 damage or more removes it in a single turn.
- Legality 4 of the 11 prints that carry this name are legal in Standard play.
Alolan Vulpix VSTAR 197 at a glance
- What it is. A Water Pokémon card with 240 HP printed as VSTAR, printed in Silver Tempest.
- What it can do. 2 attacks printed on the card, the strongest at 160 damage for 3 Energy.
- What it fears. A Metal weakness at ×2, which means 120 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 Standard and Expanded only, and it carries regulation mark F.
- 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 Vulpix VSTAR 197 cost, and what do they hit for?
The card prints 2 attacks. The strongest asks for 3 Energy and returns 160 damage, which is 53 damage for every Energy card attached.
| Attack | Energy cost | Cards of Energy | Printed damage | Damage per Energy | Effect |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Snow Mirage | 1 Water + 2 Colorless | 3 | 160 | 53 | This attack's damage isn't affected by any effects on your opponent's Active Pokémon. During your opponent's next turn, prevent all damage done to this Pokémon by attacks from Pokémon that have an Ability. |
| Silvery Snow Star | No Energy | 0 | 70× | — | This attack does 70 damage for each of your opponent's Pokémon V in play. This damage isn't affected by Weakness or Resistance. (You can't use more than 1 VSTAR Power in a game.) |
Retreating costs a further 1 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.
- Silvery Snow Star 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 Alolan Vulpix VSTAR 197 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 240 HP, which is 63% 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 240 HP.
Cards in the 240~280 band typically print 158 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 | 15.5% | 2,679 cards |
| 190~230 | 6.6% | 1,148 cards |
| 240~280 — this card | 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 160.
Cards in the 130~180 band typically have 198 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 | 21.8% | 3,535 cards |
| 130~180 — this card | 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 1 Energy to retreat.
Cards with a retreat cost of 1 typically have 81 HP and print 40 damage.
| Group | Share | Value |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | 5.3% | 914 cards |
| 1 — this card | 49.3% | 8,503 cards |
| 2 | 28.6% | 4,926 cards |
| 3 | 12.6% | 2,168 cards |
| 4 | 4.2% | 729 cards |
That is where Alolan Vulpix VSTAR 197 stands highest on HP — number 115 of 2,435 cards in Water cards. Cut the archive a different way and the answer moves, which is what the bars below are for.
- Hit points 240 HP
middle half 60–130 HP - Top printed damage 160 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 Vulpix VSTAR 197 efficient for the Energy it asks for?
Printed damage on its own says nothing — a 160 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.
| 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 Vulpix VSTAR 197 — this card | 53.0 | 160 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 |
| Snow Mirage | — | 53 | — |
| Silvery Snow Star | — | — | — |
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 160 is read as high or low rather than merely large.
Is Alolan Vulpix VSTAR 197 strong for a VSTAR card?
VSTAR cards are built large to begin with, so measuring this one against the whole archive mixes up what the mechanic gives it with what the card itself gives it. Measured inside its own group, the two come apart.
The group is every VSTAR card in the archive — 94 of them. Each figure is compared with what that group typically prints, not with the archive as a whole.
What does being a Water card do for Alolan Vulpix VSTAR 197?
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 Metal.
What knocks out Alolan Vulpix VSTAR 197 in one hit, and what does it knock out?
Weakness doubles the damage a Metal attack deals to this card, so the bar it has to clear is 120 printed damage rather than 240.
Archaludon120 damage120 damage becomes 240 against this card
Alolan Vulpix VSTAR 197240 HPWhy this card was picked to stand opposite
Of the 251 cards in the archive that can remove Alolan Vulpix VSTAR 197 in a single attack, this one clears the bar by the smallest margin — 120 printed damage against a bar of 120. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zacian V-UNION (SWSH163) | SWSH Black Star Promos | 320 | 340 | 680 |
| Zacian V-UNION (SWSH164) | SWSH Black Star Promos | 320 | 340 | 680 |
| Zacian V-UNION (SWSH165) | SWSH Black Star Promos | 320 | 340 | 680 |
| Zacian V-UNION (SWSH166) | SWSH Black Star Promos | 320 | 340 | 680 |
| Zacian VSTAR (96) | Crown Zenith | 270 | 310 | 620 |
| Aggron VMAX (97) | Brilliant Stars | 330 | 270 | 540 |
240 HP against a Metal ×2 weakness means any Metal attack printed at 120 damage or more is enough. 252 cards in the archive clear that bar.
320 HP
Cinderace ex [38]
320 HP
Incineroar ex [34]
320 HP
Incineroar ex [187]
320 HP
Cinderace ex [28]
320 HP
Cinderace ex [157]
320 HP
Blaziken ex [24]
1,673 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 Alolan Vulpix as a Pokémon, across every card it has been printed on?
Alolan Vulpix VSTAR 197 is one print of Alolan Vulpix. 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 Vulpix 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 Vulpix VSTAR 197 can be?
Alolan Vulpix VSTAR evolves from Alolan Vulpix V, 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 Alolan Vulpix V.
- It is not the end of the line either — Ninetales evolves from this card, so a deck can keep going past it.
- The line runs 4 stages, so the first card has to be in play 3 turns before this one can be.
- Every print in the line shares Pokédex number 037.
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 Vulpix print, and can the older ones still be played?
11 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 Vulpix VSTAR 197/195 | SWSH12: Silver Tempest | Mark F | Legal in Standard |
| Alolan Vulpix VSTAR 034/195 | Prize Pack Series Cards | Mark F | Legal in Standard |
| Alolan Vulpix V 173/195 | SWSH12: Silver Tempest | Mark F | Legal in Standard |
| Alolan Vulpix V 033/195 | Prize Pack Series Cards | Mark F | Legal in Standard |
| Alolan Vulpix 021/145 | Miscellaneous Cards & Products | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Alolan Vulpix 021a/145 | Alternate Art Promos | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Alolan Vulpix SV8/SV94 | Hidden Fates: Shiny Vault | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Alolan Vulpix 30/156 | SM - Ultra Prism | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Alolan Vulpix 53/214 | SM - Lost Thunder | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Alolan Vulpix 39/236 | SM - Cosmic Eclipse | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Alolan Vulpix 27/147 | SM - Burning Shadows | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
4 of the 11 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 Vulpix VSTAR 197?
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Origin Forme Palkia VSTAR | Crown Zenith Galarian Gallery | 280 | 60 | 2 |
| Glaceon VSTAR | Crown Zenith Galarian Gallery | 260 | 220 | 2 |
| Origin Forme Palkia VSTAR | Astral Radiance | 280 | 60 | 2 |
| Origin Forme Palkia VSTAR | Astral Radiance | 280 | 60 | 2 |
| Alolan Vulpix VSTAR | Silver Tempest | 240 | 160 | 1 |
| Origin Forme Palkia VSTAR | Astral Radiance | 280 | 60 | 2 |
This card itself is 240 HP, 160 top damage and 1 retreat, and every card here is Water like it.
Back to summaryWhich other cards share the Pokémon behind Alolan Vulpix VSTAR 197?
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
Vulpix [SH6]
50
Vulpix [98]
50
Vulpix [116]
50
Vulpix [81]
50
Vulpix [68]
50
Vulpix [75]
50
Vulpix [136]
50
Vulpix δ [70]
50
Vulpix [87]
70
Vulpix [138]
50
Brock's Vulpix [37]
50
Vulpix [91]
60
Alolan Vulpix [21a]
60
Alolan Vulpix [SV8]
60
Vulpix [107]
190
Alolan Vulpix V [173]
40
Blaine's Vulpix [65]
40
Brock's Vulpix [73]
50
Blaine's Vulpix [66]
60
Alolan Vulpix [30]
60
Vulpix [18]
50
Vulpix [99]
60
Alolan Vulpix [53]
60
Alolan Vulpix [39]
240
Alolan Vulpix VSTAR [34]
60
Alolan Vulpix [21]
190
Alolan Vulpix V [33]
60
Vulpix [15]
50
Vulpix [72]
50
Vulpix [102]
60
Vulpix [20]
50
Vulpix [69]
50
Vulpix [7]
60
Alolan Vulpix [27]
60
Vulpix [24]
60
Vulpix [14]
60
Vulpix [20]
60
Vulpix [6]
70
Vulpix [29]
70
Vulpix [22]
70
Vulpix [26]
70
Vulpix [17]
70
Vulpix [28]
70
Vulpix [16]
70
Vulpix [37]
70
Vulpix [19]
60
Vulpix [28]
70
Vulpix [8]
50 cards in the archive share this Pokédex number (#037). 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 Vulpix VSTAR 197 in Silver Tempest?
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.
Gym Trainer [191]
Lance [192]
Serena [193]
Wallace [194]
Worker [195]
270
Serperior VSTAR [196]
310
Regieleki VMAX [198]
250
Unown VSTAR [199]
260
Mawile VSTAR [200]
280
Regidrago VSTAR [201]
280
Lugia VSTAR [202]
Brandon [203]
These are the cards numbered either side of #197 in Silver Tempest. 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 Vulpix VSTAR 197, 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.
The rule printed on this card
“VSTAR rule: When your Pokémon VSTAR is Knocked Out, your opponent takes 2 Prize cards.”
Prize cards your opponent takes when it is knocked out
Every knockout carries the opponent 2 steps closer to winning, and that is the cost of putting this card on the field whatever it cost to buy.
| 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 | 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 F, printed next to the card number. It was released on November 11, 2022.
Which generation of cards does Alolan Vulpix VSTAR 197 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 — this card | 14.4% | 1,180 cards |
| Mark G | 19.9% | 1,634 cards |
| Mark H | 15.7% | 1,283 cards |
| Mark I | 14.8% | 1,215 cards |
| Mark J | 5.1% | 419 cards |
Alolan Vulpix VSTAR 197 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, Snow Mirage, needs 3 Energy attached. Energy attaches once a turn, so that attack waits 3 turns from an empty card.
- That works out at 53 damage for every Energy card attached.
- Moving it out of the active spot costs 1 more Energy, discarded from the card itself.
- It cannot start the game in play — Alolan Vulpix V has to be on the field first.
Where its HP stands, cut four ways
What actually removes it
- A Metal attack printed at 120 damage removes it in a single turn — that is the bar, not its 240 HP.
- 252 cards in the archive clear that bar.
- Going the other way, it removes 1,673 cards in one attack.
Alolan Vulpix VSTAR 197 card record
| Hit points | 240 HP | Type | Water |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weakness | Metal ×2 | Retreat cost | 1 Energy |
| Evolves from | Alolan Vulpix V | Card type | VSTAR |
| Regulation mark | Mark F | Pokédex number | #037 |
| Set | Silver Tempest | Card number | 197 of 195 |
| Series | Sword & Shield | Released | November 11, 2022 |
| Rarity | Rare Rainbow | Illustrator | PLANETA Hiiragi |
| Tournament legality | Unlimited and Standard and Expanded only | ||
| Printed rule | VSTAR rule: When your Pokémon VSTAR is Knocked Out, your opponent takes 2 Prize cards. | ||
Read from the printed card face, the set listing and the official format list.
What does Alolan Vulpix VSTAR 197 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 Vulpix VSTAR 197 — frequently asked questions
How much damage does it take to knock out Alolan Vulpix VSTAR 197?
What is the strongest attack on Alolan Vulpix VSTAR 197?
What is the retreat cost of Alolan Vulpix VSTAR 197?
What does the × after the damage on Silvery Snow Star mean?
Can an older Alolan Vulpix print be played in a tournament?
What does Alolan Vulpix VSTAR evolve from?
Can Alolan Vulpix VSTAR 197 be played in a tournament?
What does the rule on Alolan Vulpix VSTAR 197 mean?
Does this page say how good Alolan Vulpix VSTAR 197 is in a deck?
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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