Metagross 118 — what does this card actually do?
This card has 170 HP, a top attack printed at 100 damage and a Fire weakness.
Metal · Stage 2 · Vivid Voltage · measured against 20,444 cards on file — card data read July 28, 2026
What does Metagross 118 do in a game?
Metagross 118 is a Metal Pokémon card with 170 HP, printed as Stage 2.
Its strongest attack, Leg Quake, is printed at 100 damage for 3 Energy — 33 damage per Energy card.
Because of the Fire weakness, any Fire attack printed at 85 damage or more removes it in a single turn.
Metagross 118Vivid Voltage
Metagross 118 performance summary
170 HP · Metal · Stage 2 · retreat 3 · Fire weakness ×2
as of July 28, 2026
damage per Energy card, among cards whose cheapest attack costs 3
Strongest on Hit points — top 16.7% of the archive. Weakest on Retreat lightness — bottom 16.8%.
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.
| Measure | Percentile | Printed value |
|---|---|---|
| Hit points | 83.3% | 170 HP |
| Top printed damage | 76.6% | 100 damage |
| Energy efficiency | 75.0% | 33 per Energy |
| Retreat lightness | 16.8% | 3 Energy |
| Attack cost lightness | 17.4% | 3 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 2,568 at 170 HP.
Metagross 118170 HPPrinted HP
The ceiling of this archive is 380 HP — 210 HP above this card.
Mega Emboar ex 273380 HPWhat stands out on Metagross 118
- Hit points 170 HP puts it in the 130~180 band, where 15.5% of 17,290 cards with printed HP sit.
- Energy It returns 33 damage per Energy card against 34.7 for cards whose cheapest attack costs 3.
- Weakness A Fire attack printed at 85 damage or more removes it in a single turn.
- Legality 7 of the 31 prints that carry this name are legal in Standard play.
Metagross 118 at a glance
- What it is. A Metal Pokémon card with 170 HP printed as Stage 2, printed in Vivid Voltage.
- What it can do. 1 attack printed on the card, the strongest at 100 damage for 3 Energy.
- What it fears. A Fire weakness at ×2, which means 85 printed damage is enough to remove it.
- What it costs to move. 3 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 Metagross 118 cost, and what do they hit for?
The card prints 1 attack. The strongest asks for 3 Energy and returns 100 damage, which is 33 damage for every Energy card attached.
| Attack | Energy cost | Cards of Energy | Printed damage | Damage per Energy | Effect |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leg Quake | 1 Metal + 2 Colorless | 3 | 100 | 33 | If the Defending Pokémon is an Evolution Pokémon, it can't attack during your opponent's next turn. |
Retreating costs a further 3 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.
How does Metagross 118 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 170 HP, which is 45% 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 170 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 100.
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 3 Energy.
Cards whose cheapest attack costs 3 typically have 153 HP and print 104 damage.
| Group | Share | Value |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | 1.8% | 304 cards |
| 1 | 54.4% | 9,392 cards |
| 2 | 26.4% | 4,565 cards |
| 3 — this card | 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 3 Energy to retreat.
Cards with a retreat cost of 3 typically have 150 HP and print 99 damage.
| Group | Share | Value |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | 5.3% | 914 cards |
| 1 | 49.3% | 8,503 cards |
| 2 | 28.6% | 4,926 cards |
| 3 — this card | 12.6% | 2,168 cards |
| 4 | 4.2% | 729 cards |
That is where Metagross 118 stands highest on HP — number 2,568 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.
- Hit points 170 HP
middle half 60–130 HP - Top printed damage 100 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 summaryWhat Metagross 118 does without attacking
Metagross 118 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.
Is Metagross 118 efficient for the Energy it asks for?
Printed damage on its own says nothing — a 100 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 3 typically return 34.7 damage per Energy card. This card returns 33.
| 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 |
| Metagross 118 — this card | 33.0 | 100 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 |
| Leg Quake | — | 33 | — |
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 100 is read as high or low rather than merely large.
What does being a Metal card do for Metagross 118?
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 | 8.8% | 1,520 cards |
| Grass | 13.8% | 2,387 cards |
| Metal — this card | 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 Metal weakness.
What being a Metal card is worth
Groups that most often print a Metal weakness: Fairy (237 cards). Against those, this card's printed damage counts double. Going the other way, Metal cards are themselves most exposed to Fire.
What knocks out Metagross 118 in one hit, and what does it knock out?
Weakness doubles the damage a Fire attack deals to this card, so the bar it has to clear is 85 printed damage rather than 170.
90 damage becomes 180 against this card
Metagross 118170 HPWhy this card was picked to stand opposite
Of the 512 cards in the archive that can remove Metagross 118 in a single attack, this one clears the bar by the smallest margin — 90 printed damage against a bar of 85. 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 Grass resistance changes
Damage from Grass 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Charizard ex (183) | 151 | 330 | 330 | 660 |
| Charizard ex (199) | 151 | 330 | 330 | 660 |
| Charizard ex (161) | Scarlet & Violet Black Star Promos | 330 | 330 | 660 |
| Mega Emboar ex (31) | Ascended Heroes | 380 | 320 | 640 |
| Mega Emboar ex (273) | Ascended Heroes | 380 | 320 | 640 |
| Charizard VSTAR (19) | Crown Zenith | 280 | 320 | 640 |
170 HP against a Fire ×2 weakness means any Fire attack printed at 85 damage or more is enough. 517 cards in the archive clear that bar.
868 cards in the archive are weak to Metal 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 Metagross as a Pokémon, across every card it has been printed on?
Metagross 118 is one print of Metagross. 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 Metagross 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 Metagross 118 can be?
Metagross evolves from Metang, 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 Metang.
- The line runs 3 stages, so the first card has to be in play 2 turns before this one can be.
- Every print in the line shares Pokédex number 376.
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 Metagross print, and can the older ones still be played?
37 prints carry this name in the archive, and 31 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.
31 rows are shown of the 37 prints counted under this name.
| Set | Regulation mark | Standard | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steven's Metagross ex 289/217 | ME: Ascended Heroes | Mark I | Legal in Standard |
| Steven's Metagross ex 145/182 | SV10: Destined Rivals | Mark I | Legal in Standard |
| Metagross VMAX 208/198 | SWSH06: Chilling Reign | Mark E | Not legal in Standard |
| Metagross VMAX 113/198 | SWSH06: Chilling Reign | Mark E | Not legal in Standard |
| Metagross-GX 157a/145 | Alternate Art Promos | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Metagross-GX 157/145 | SM - Guardians Rising | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Metagross-GX 139/145 | SM - Guardians Rising | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Metagross-GX 85/145 | SM - Guardians Rising | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Metagross V 181/198 | SWSH06: Chilling Reign | Mark E | Not legal in Standard |
| Metagross V 112/198 | SWSH06: Chilling Reign | Mark E | Not legal in Standard |
| Metagross 178/162 | SV05: Temporal Forces | Mark H | Legal in Standard |
| Metagross-EX XY34 | XY Promos | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Metagross 115/162 | SV05: Temporal Forces | Mark H | Legal in Standard |
| Metagross 061/086 | ME04: Chaos Rising | Mark J | Legal in Standard |
| Metagross 95/168 | SM - Celestial Storm | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Metagross 063/159 | SV09: Journey Together | Mark I | Legal in Standard |
| Metagross 119/195 | SWSH12: Silver Tempest | Mark F | Legal in Standard |
| Metagross 118/185 | SWSH04: Vivid Voltage | Mark D | Not legal in Standard |
| Metagross ex 95/101 | EX Hidden Legends | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Metagross ex 95/108 | EX Power Keepers | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Metagross 50/98 | XY - Ancient Origins | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Metagross 049/098 | Deck Exclusives | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Metagross BW75 | Black and White Promos | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Metagross 52/116 | Plasma Freeze | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Metagross 7 | Supreme Victors | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Metagross 18/90 | Undaunted | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Metagross 10/146 | Legends Awakened | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Metagross δ 11/113 | EX Delta Species | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Metagross 11/107 | EX Deoxys | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Metagross 002/017 | POP Series 1 | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Metagross ★ 113/113 | EX Delta Species | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
7 of the 31 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 Metagross 118?
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Metagross ex | Hidden Legends | 150 | 50 | 4 |
| Aggron ex | Sandstorm | 150 | 50 | 4 |
| Metagross ex | Power Keepers | 150 | 70 | 4 |
| Aggron ex | Crystal Guardians | 150 | 100 | 4 |
| Metagross | Temporal Forces | 180 | 200 | 3 |
| Klinklang | Black Bolt | 150 | 120 | 3 |
This card itself is 170 HP, 100 top damage and 3 retreat, and every card here is Metal like it.
Back to summaryWhich other cards share the Pokémon behind Metagross 118?
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.
What was printed next to Metagross 118 in Vivid Voltage?
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.
These are the cards numbered either side of #118 in Vivid Voltage. 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 Metagross 118, 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 November 13, 2020.
Which generation of cards does Metagross 118 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 |
Metagross 118 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, Leg Quake, needs 3 Energy attached. Energy attaches once a turn, so that attack waits 3 turns from an empty card.
- That works out at 33 damage for every Energy card attached.
- Moving it out of the active spot costs 3 more Energy, discarded from the card itself.
- It cannot start the game in play — Metang has to be on the field first.
Where its HP stands, cut four ways
What actually removes it
- A Fire attack printed at 85 damage removes it in a single turn — that is the bar, not its 170 HP.
- 517 cards in the archive clear that bar.
- Going the other way, it removes 868 cards in one attack.
- Damage from Grass attacks is reduced before it is applied, so an attack that clears the bar on paper may still fall short.
Metagross 118 card record
| Hit points | 170 HP | Type | Metal |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weakness | Fire ×2 | Retreat cost | 3 Energy |
| Evolves from | Metang | Card type | Stage 2 |
| Regulation mark | Mark D | Pokédex number | #376 |
| Set | Vivid Voltage | Card number | 118 of 185 |
| Series | Sword & Shield | Released | November 13, 2020 |
| Rarity | Rare | Illustrator | kawayoo |
| Tournament legality | Unlimited and Expanded only | ||
Read from the printed card face, the set listing and the official format list.
What does Metagross 118 cost?
This page is about what the card does. The figure below is the one number worth carrying across, read on August 14, 2026.
Metagross 118 — 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
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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