Starly 145 — what does this card actually do?
This card has 50 HP and a Lightning weakness.
Colorless · Basic · Darkness Ablaze · measured against 20,444 cards on file — card data read July 28, 2026
What does Starly 145 do in a game?
Starly 145 is a Colorless Pokémon card with 50 HP, printed as Basic.
Because of the Lightning weakness, any Lightning attack printed at 25 damage or more removes it in a single turn.
Starly 145Darkness Ablaze
Starly 145 performance summary
50 HP · Colorless · Basic · retreat 1 · Lightning weakness ×2
Strongest on Retreat lightness — top 5.6% of the archive. Weakest on Hit points — bottom 5.0%.
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 | 5.0% | 50 HP |
| Retreat lightness | 94.4% | 1 Energy |
| Attack cost lightness | 43.8% | 2 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 15,021 at 50 HP.
Starly 14550 HPPrinted HP
The ceiling of this archive is 380 HP — 330 HP above this card.
Mega Emboar ex 273380 HPWhat stands out on Starly 145
- Hit points 50 HP puts it in the ~70 band, where 38.6% of 17,290 cards with printed HP sit.
- Weakness A Lightning attack printed at 25 damage or more removes it in a single turn.
- Legality 4 of the 14 prints that carry this name are legal in Standard play.
Starly 145 at a glance
- What it is. A Colorless Pokémon card with 50 HP printed as Basic, printed in Darkness Ablaze.
- What it can do. 1 attack printed on the card, the strongest at 0 damage for 0 Energy.
- What it fears. A Lightning weakness at ×2, which means 25 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, and it carries regulation mark D.
- 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 Starly 145 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Keen Eye | 2 Colorless | 2 | — | — | Search your deck for up to 2 cards and put them into your hand. Then, shuffle your deck. |
Retreating costs a further 1 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 Starly 145 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 50 HP, which is 13% 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 50 HP.
Cards in the ~70 band typically print 23 damage and ask 1 Energy to retreat.
| Group | Share | Value |
|---|---|---|
| ~70 — this card | 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 | 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 2 Energy.
Cards whose cheapest attack costs 2 typically have 116 HP and print 65 damage.
| Group | Share | Value |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | 1.8% | 304 cards |
| 1 | 54.4% | 9,392 cards |
| 2 — this card | 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 Starly 145 stands highest on HP — number 1,787 of 2,171 cards in Colorless cards. Cut the archive a different way and the answer moves, which is what the bars below are for.
- Hit points 50 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 Starly 145 does without attacking
Starly 145 carries 1 printed effect that work outside the attack step, so it can matter on a turn the card never attacks.
Why this sits apart from the attacks
An attack costs Energy and ends your turn. What is printed above does neither — it is available while the card is in play, so it is a different kind of cost to a deck. Attack costs are in the section above.
What does being a Colorless card do for Starly 145?
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 — this card | 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 Colorless weakness.
What being a Colorless card is worth
No group in the archive most often prints a Colorless weakness, so this type gains nothing automatic from the weakness rule. Going the other way, Colorless cards are themselves most exposed to Lightning.
What knocks out Starly 145 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 25 printed damage rather than 50.
Magneton30 damage30 damage becomes 60 against this card
Starly 14550 HPWhy this card was picked to stand opposite
Of the 1,064 cards in the archive that can remove Starly 145 in a single attack, this one clears the bar by the smallest margin — 30 printed damage against a bar of 25. 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 Fighting resistance changes
Damage from Fighting 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
50 HP against a Lightning ×2 weakness means any Lightning attack printed at 25 damage or more is enough. 1,074 cards in the archive clear that bar.
Back to summaryWhat is Starly as a Pokémon, across every card it has been printed on?
Starly 145 is one print of Starly. 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 Starly 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 Starly 145 can be?
Starly 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 — Staravia evolves from this card, so a deck can keep going past it.
- The line runs 3 stages, so the first card has to be in play 2 turns 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 Starly print, and can the older ones still be played?
15 prints carry this name in the archive, and 14 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starly 221/198 | SV01: Scarlet & Violet Base Set | Mark G | Legal in Standard |
| Starly 95/116 | Plasma Freeze | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Larry's Starly 168/217 | ME: Ascended Heroes | Mark J | Not legal in Standard |
| Starly 110/159 | SWSH: Crown Zenith | Mark F | Legal in Standard |
| Starly 81/111 | SM - Crimson Invasion | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Starly 148/198 | SV01: Scarlet & Violet Base Set | Mark G | Legal in Standard |
| Starly 117/172 | SWSH09: Brilliant Stars | Mark F | Legal in Standard |
| Starly 016/017 | POP Series 6 | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Starly 129 | Supreme Victors | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Starly 101/130 | Diamond and Pearl | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Starly 75/100 | Majestic Dawn | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Starly 75/100 | Stormfront | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Starly 125/162 | XY - BREAKthrough | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Starly 145/189 | SWSH03: Darkness Ablaze | Mark D | Not legal in Standard |
4 of the 14 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 Starly 145?
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
Starly [221]
50
Starly [16]
50
Starly [129]
50
Starly [101]
50
Starly [75]
50
Starly [75]
60
Starly [95]
50
Starly [125]
60
Larry's Starly [168]
60
Starly [110]
60
Starly [81]
60
Starly [148]
60
Starly [117]
13 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 Starly 145 in Darkness Ablaze?
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.
140
Ursaring [139]
130
Lugia [140]
60
Skitty [141]
100
Delcatty [142]
220
Salamence V [143]
320
Salamence VMAX [144]
80
Staravia [146]
150
Staraptor [147]
50
Ducklett [148]
110
Swanna [149]
40
Bunnelby [150]
60
Fletchling [151]
These are the cards numbered either side of #145 in Darkness Ablaze. 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 Starly 145, 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 carries regulation mark D, printed next to the card number. It was released on August 14, 2020.
Which generation of cards does Starly 145 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 — this card | 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 | 14.8% | 1,215 cards |
| Mark J | 5.1% | 419 cards |
Starly 145 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 Lightning attack printed at 25 damage removes it in a single turn — that is the bar, not its 50 HP.
- 1,074 cards in the archive clear that bar.
- Damage from Fighting attacks is reduced before it is applied, so an attack that clears the bar on paper may still fall short.
Starly 145 card record
| Hit points | 50 HP | Type | Colorless |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weakness | Lightning ×2 | Retreat cost | 1 Energy |
| Card type | Basic | Regulation mark | Mark D |
| Pokédex number | #396 | Set | Darkness Ablaze |
| Card number | 145 of 189 | Series | Sword & Shield |
| Released | August 14, 2020 | Rarity | Common |
| Illustrator | Naoyo Kimura | ||
| Tournament legality | Unlimited and Expanded only | ||
Read from the printed card face, the set listing and the official format list.
What does Starly 145 cost?
This page is about what the card does. The figure below is the one number worth carrying across, read on August 14, 2026.
Starly 145 — frequently asked questions
How much damage does it take to knock out Starly 145?
What is the retreat cost of Starly 145?
Can an older Starly print be played in a tournament?
Can Starly 145 be played in a tournament?
Does this page say how good Starly 145 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.
Industry source
Second-party sources — marketplaces, trade associations, research institutes and companies that compile data about the market.