Victini VMAX 165 — what does this card actually do?

Name: Victini VMAX 165
Brand: Pokémon
Author: PLANETA Mochizuki

This card has 310 HP, a top attack printed at 100 damage and a Water weakness.

Fire · VMAX · Battle Styles · measured against 20,444 cards on file — card data read July 28, 2026

What does Victini VMAX 165 do in a game?

Victini VMAX 165 is a Fire Pokémon card with 310 HP, printed as VMAX.

Its strongest attack, Max Victory, is printed at 100 damage for 2 Energy — 50 damage per Energy card.

Because of the Water weakness, any Water attack printed at 155 damage or more removes it in a single turn.

Fire VMAX Rare Rainbow Regulation E Unlimited and Expanded #494 Victini

Victini VMAX 165Battle Styles

310 HP · Fire · VMAX · retreat 2 · Water weakness ×2

Top printed damage10050 per Energy Max Victory100 damage for 2 Energy
as of July 28, 2026

Hit points310 HP2.4% of 17,290 in the 290~330 band

Printed damage10021.8% of 16,246 in the 70~120 band

Retreat cost2 Energy28.6% of 17,240 in the 2 band

Energy efficiencyAbove typicalAboveTypicalBelowThis card 50 · typical 49.0
damage per Energy card, among cards whose cheapest attack costs 1

Price trackRare RainbowBattle Styles39 printsranked among VMAX cardsWhat it costs today, how it moved, and where to buy it

Card classVMAX

Regulation markE

RarityRare Rainbow

SetBattle Styles

Card number165

Card data readJuly 28, 2026

What it sells for now$19.37Opens the price page — daily prices, every print variant, where to buy · read August 14, 2026 Removed in one hit by155 damage310 HP against a Water ×2 weakness Turns of setup2 turnsEnergy attaches once a turn, so the top attack waits that long Cards that can do it136 cardsCounted across the whole card archive Other prints of this name39 printsPrinted HP and legality move from print to print Cards in the same line35 moreEvery print carrying Pokédex #494 Where it can be playedUnlimited and ExpandedRead from the official format list

How Victini VMAX 165 is built, on five measures

Strongest on Attack cost lightness — top 1.8% of the archive. Weakest on Retreat lightness — bottom 45.3%.

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 VMAX 165 is built, on five measures
Measure	Percentile	Printed value
Hit points	97.5%	310 HP
Top printed damage	76.6%	100 damage
Energy efficiency	88.9%	50 per Energy
Retreat lightness	45.3%	2 Energy
Attack cost lightness	98.2%	1 Energy

What it can do

Attack record

1ESpreading Flameshas printed text—
2EMax Victory50 damage per Energy card · has printed text100damage

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

Where it stands

No. 343of 17,290 cards ranked by printed HP

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Among the 17,290 cards in every card in the archive that carry printed HP, this one is number 343 at 310 HP.

Fire cardsNo. 53of 1,574 by printed HP VMAX cardsNo. 154of 209 by printed HP

This cardVictini VMAX 165Battle Styles310 HP

Printed HP

The ceiling of this archive is 380 HP — 70 HP above this card.

Highest printed HPMega Emboar ex 273Ascended Heroes380 HP

What stands out on Victini VMAX 165

Hit points 310 HP puts it in the 290~330 band, where 2.4% of 17,290 cards with printed HP sit.
Energy It returns 50 damage per Energy card against 49.0 for cards whose cheapest attack costs 1.
Weakness A Water attack printed at 155 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 VMAX 165 at a glance

What it is. A Fire Pokémon card with 310 HP printed as VMAX, printed in Battle Styles.
What it can do. 2 attacks printed on the card, the strongest at 100 damage for 2 Energy.
What it fears. A Water weakness at ×2, which means 155 printed damage is enough to remove it.
What it costs to move. 2 Energy to retreat, discarded from the card itself.
Where it can be played. Unlimited and Expanded only, and it carries regulation mark E.
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 VMAX 165 cost, and what do they hit for?

The card prints 2 attacks. The strongest asks for 2 Energy and returns 100 damage, which is 50 damage for every Energy card attached.

Victini VMAX 165 — every printed attack, its cost and its damage
Attack	Energy cost	Cards of Energy	Printed damage	Damage per Energy	Effect
Spreading Flames	1 Colorless	1	—	—	Attach up to 3 Fire Energy cards from your discard pile to your Pokémon in any way you like.
Max Victory	1 Fire + 1 Colorless	2	100+	50	If your opponent's Active Pokémon is a Pokémon V, this attack does 120 more damage.

Retreating costs a further 2 Energy, discarded from this card, and that cost is paid on top of anything in the table.

Spreading Flames1 Energy card

Max Victory2 Energy cards

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.

Max Victory 2 Energy100 damage for 2 Energy — 50 per Energy card100

Bars are printed damage against this card's own highest attack (100).

Why one of these damage figures carries a symbol

A number on a Pokémon card is not always the number that lands.

Max Victory is printed as 100+, so the printed number is a floor — the attack deals at least that much, and the sentence beside it says what adds to it.

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How does Victini VMAX 165 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 VMAX 165 — Battle Styles — Victini VMAXBattle Styles 165

No.343by HP in the archive

Victini VMAX 165 prints 310 HP, which puts it at number 343 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).

77% on printed damage — it out-hits that share of the 16,246 cards that print damage

Top 2%Where it sits on printed HP

This card310 HP
Middle half of the archive60–130 HP
Strongest VMAX card340 HP
Strongest Victini VMAX printed310 HP

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

This card prints 310 HP, which is 82% 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

~7038.6%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

290~330 — this card2.4%412 cards

340+0.5%90 cards

17,290 cards in the archive carry a printed HP figure. This one has 310 HP.

Cards in the 290~330 band typically print 165 damage and ask 2 Energy to retreat.

Hit points — where this card sits
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	3.3%	567 cards
290~330 — this card	2.4%	412 cards
340+	0.5%	90 cards

Top printed damage — where this card sits

~3042.7%6,938 cards

40~6022.0%3,566 cards

70~120 — this card21.8%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 100.

Cards in the 70~120 band typically have 141 HP and ask 2 Energy to retreat.

Top printed damage — where this card sits
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

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
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

Retreat cost — where this card sits

05.3%914 cards

149.3%8,503 cards

2 — this card28.6%4,926 cards

312.6%2,168 cards

44.2%729 cards

17,240 cards carry a retreat cost. This one costs 2 Energy to retreat.

Cards with a retreat cost of 2 typically have 132 HP and print 79 damage.

Retreat cost — where this card sits
Group	Share	Value
0	5.3%	914 cards
1	49.3%	8,503 cards
2 — this card	28.6%	4,926 cards
3	12.6%	2,168 cards
4	4.2%	729 cards

No. 343of 17,290

That is where Victini VMAX 165 stands highest on HP — number 343 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.

Every card in the archive — 20,444 cards No. 343 of 17,290 by HP · No. 3,129 of 16,246 by damage · top by HP: Mega Emboar ex, 380

top 19% on damage
Fire cards — 1,574 cards No. 53 of 1,574 by HP · No. 370 of 1,526 by damage · top by HP: Mega Emboar ex, 380

top 24% on damage
VMAX cards — 209 cards No. 154 of 209 by HP · No. 144 of 207 by damage · top by HP: Copperajah VMAX, 340

top 69% on damage
Battle Styles — 183 cards No. 13 of 146 by HP · No. 48 of 143 by damage · top by HP: Single Strike Urshifu VMAX, 330

top 33% 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 310 HP~~middle half 60–130 HP~~
this card 310
Top printed damage 100 damage~~middle half 20–90 damage~~
this card 100

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 printed as VMAX

209 on record

Cards in the same HP band

412 of 17,290 (2.4%)

Cards with this much printed damage

3,535 of 16,246 (21.8%)

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 VMAX 165 efficient for the Energy it asks for?

Printed damage on its own says nothing — a 100 damage attack that needs 2 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 VMAX 165 — this card50.0100 damage for 2 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 50.

Damage per Energy card, across the whole archive
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
Victini VMAX 165 — this card	50.0	100 damage for 2 Energy

2501250 damage

012345 Energy

Typical for that Energy cost 6 groupsMax Victory 100 / 2

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 VMAX 165.
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
Max Victory	—	50	—

This card, per Energy card

50 damage

Typical for a 1 Energy attack

49.0 damage

Difference

+1.0 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 100 is read as high or low rather than merely large.

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Is Victini VMAX 165 strong for a VMAX card?

VMAX 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.

Hit points310 HPtypical for the group is 320 HP — this card is 3% below

Top printed damage100 damagetypical for the group is 143 damage — this card is 30% below

Retreat cost2 Energytypical for the group is 2 Energy — this card is 0% above

The group is every VMAX card in the archive — 209 of them. Each figure is compared with what that group typically prints, not with the archive as a whole.

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What does being a Fire card do for Victini VMAX 165?

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 155 damage is enough to remove this card in one turn.

Victini VMAX 165 · VMAX 310 HP Its hardest attack is printed at 100 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
Group	Share	Value
Psychic	13.5%	2,335 cards
Water	14.1%	2,435 cards
Colorless	12.6%	2,173 cards
Fire — this card	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

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.

Every energy type in the archive

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What knocks out Victini VMAX 165 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 155 printed damage rather than 310.

Cards that remove it in one attack

136

Cards it removes in one attack

2,745

Water damage needed to knock it out

155

Counted across the whole card archive. 310 HP against a Water weakness at ×2 decides all three figures.

Removes it in one attackAvaluggChaos Rising 24160 damage

×2Water weakness · 155 printed damage is enough
160 damage becomes 320 against this card

This cardVictini VMAX 165Battle Styles 165310 HP

Why this card was picked to stand opposite

Of the 136 cards in the archive that can remove Victini VMAX 165 in a single attack, this one clears the bar by the smallest margin — 160 printed damage against a bar of 155. 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.

Victini VMAXweak to Water ×2

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

Water cards that remove Victini VMAX in one attack
Card	Set	HP	Printed damage	After weakness
Vaporeon ex (23)	Prismatic Evolutions	280	280	560
Vaporeon ex (149)	Prismatic Evolutions	280	280	560
Wailord ex (16)	Pitch Black	380	270	540
Wailord ex (97)	Pitch Black	380	270	540
Palafin ex (61)	Twilight Masquerade	340	250	500
Palafin ex (193)	Twilight Masquerade	340	250	500

310 HP against a Water ×2 weakness means any Water attack printed at 155 damage or more is enough. 136 cards in the archive clear that bar.

200 HP Steelix [93]

200 HP Steelix [150]

200 HP Sprigatito ex [251]

200 HP Venomoth-GX [12]

200 HP Venomoth-GX [193]

200 HP Venomoth-GX [216]

Cards this one removes in a single attack

2,745 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 VMAX 165 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 310 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.

Victini VMAX 165 is the toughest Victini ever printed

Bars are printed HP, measured against the record for this Pokémon

Victini VMAX 022/163the toughest Victini ever printedPrize Pack Series Cards310 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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What has to be in play before Victini VMAX 165 can be?

Victini VMAX evolves from Victini V, so the whole line has to be built before this card reaches the field.

The Victini line, oldest stage firstPokédex #494

Victini20 prints on record · XY Promos

+110 HP

Victini V3 prints on record · SWSH: Sword & Shield Promo Cards

+120 HP

Victini VMAX1 prints on record · SWSH05: Battle Styles

Victini → Victini V → Victini VMAX

This card cannot be played from your hand onto an empty spot — it goes on top of Victini V.
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 494.

1VictiniHardest attack printed at this stage: 120 damage80 HP
2Victini VHardest attack printed at this stage: 120 damage. Evolving here adds 110 HP over the stage before it190 HP
3Victini VMAXHardest attack printed at this stage: 100 damage. Evolving here adds 120 HP over the stage before it310 HP

Bars are the highest HP ever printed on that stage, measured against the top of this line (310 HP). The note beside each bar is the hardest attack printed at that stage.

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.

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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?
Print	Set	Regulation mark	Standard
Victini VMAX 022/163	Prize Pack Series Cards	Mark E	Not legal in Standard
Victini VMAX 165/163	SWSH05: Battle Styles	Mark E	Not legal in Standard
Victini V 025/202	Prize Pack Series Cards	Mark D	Not legal in Standard
Victini V 144/163	SWSH05: Battle Styles	Mark E	Not legal in Standard
Victini ex 142	SV: Scarlet & Violet Promo Cards	Mark G	Legal in Standard
Victini V SWSH104	SWSH: Sword & Shield Promo Cards	Mark D	Not legal in Standard
Victini ex 033/197	SV03: Obsidian Flames	Mark G	Legal in Standard
Victini V 021/163	SWSH05: Battle Styles	Mark E	Not legal in Standard
Victini-EX 131/135	Plasma Storm	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Victini-EX 18/135	Plasma Storm	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Victini-EX 24/113	Legendary Treasures	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Victini ◇ 7/70	World Championship Decks	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Victini 171/086	SV: Black Bolt	Mark I	Legal in Standard
Victini 172/086	SV: White Flare	Mark I	Legal in Standard
Victini 012/086	SV: Black Bolt	Mark I	Legal in Standard
Victini 036/264	SWSH08: Fusion Strike	Mark E	Not legal in Standard
Victini 030/162	SV05: Temporal Forces	Mark H	Legal in Standard
Victini XY117	XY Promos	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Victini 015/101	Jumbo Cards	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Victini XY189	XY Promos	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Victini 49/214	SM - Lost Thunder	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Victini 23/149	Boundaries Crossed	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Victini 30/236	SM - Cosmic Eclipse	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Victini SM225	SM Promos	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Victini 26/236	SM - Unified Minds	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Victini 10/145	SM - Guardians Rising	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Victini 13/108	XY - Roaring Skies	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Victini 023/195	SWSH12: Silver Tempest	Mark F	Legal in Standard
Victini 07/73	Champion's Path	Mark D	Not legal in Standard
Victini 021/191	SV08: Surging Sparks	Mark H	Legal in Standard
Victini 43/101	Black and White Promos	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Victini 98/101	Noble Victories	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Victini 23/113	Legendary Treasures	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Victini 14/101	Noble Victories	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Victini BW32	Black and White Promos	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Victini 020/203	SWSH07: Evolving Skies	Mark E	Not 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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What can you use instead of Victini VMAX 165?

Every card below asks a deck for the same kind of slot, so the comparison is between what they print, not what they cost.

Cards that fill the same slot as Victini VMAX 165
Card	Set	HP	Top damage	Retreat
Blaziken VMAX	Chilling Reign	320	130	2
Charizard VMAX	Champion's Path	330	300	3
Charizard VMAX	Shining Fates Shiny Vault	330	300	3
Charizard VMAX	Darkness Ablaze	330	300	3
Charizard VMAX	SWSH Black Star Promos	330	300	3
Blaziken VMAX	Silver Tempest Trainer Gallery	320	130	2

This card itself is 310 HP, 100 top damage and 2 retreat, and every card here is Fire like 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 VMAX 165 in Battle Styles?

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.

Cheryl [159]

Korrina's Focus [160]

Phoebe [161]

Rapid Strike Style Mustard [162]

Single Strike Style Mustard [163]

320 Flapple VMAX [164]

320 Tapu Koko VMAX [166]

Single Strike Urshifu VMAX 167 — Battle Styles

330 Single Strike Urshifu VMAX [167]

Single Strike Urshifu VMAX 168 — Battle Styles

330 Single Strike Urshifu VMAX [168]

Rapid Strike Urshifu VMAX 169 — Battle Styles

330 Rapid Strike Urshifu VMAX [169]

Rapid Strike Urshifu VMAX 170 — Battle Styles

330 Rapid Strike Urshifu VMAX [170]

320 Corviknight VMAX [171]

Cards printed either side of this one

These are the cards numbered either side of #165 in Battle Styles. 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 VMAX 165, 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

“VMAX rule: When your Pokémon VMAX is Knocked Out, your opponent takes 3 Prize cards.”

Prize cards your opponent takes when it is knocked out

Every knockout carries the opponent 3 steps closer to winning, and that is the cost of putting this card on the field whatever it cost to buy.

Rulebook clauses that apply to Victini VMAX 165
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.

Victini VMAX 165 — tournament formats
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 E, printed next to the card number. It was released on March 19, 2021.

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Which generation of cards does Victini VMAX 165 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.

Cards carrying each regulation mark

Mark Dtypically 133 HP · 84 damage15.4%1,261 cards

Mark E — this cardtypically 150 HP · 87 damage14.7%1,202 cards

Mark Ftypically 142 HP · 88 damage14.4%1,180 cards

Mark Gtypically 124 HP · 80 damage19.9%1,634 cards

Mark Htypically 132 HP · 88 damage15.7%1,283 cards

Mark Itypically 134 HP · 80 damage14.8%1,215 cards

Mark Jtypically 148 HP · 86 damage5.1%419 cards

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.

Cards carrying each regulation mark
Group	Share	Value
Mark D	15.4%	1,261 cards
Mark E — this card	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

This card

Mark E

Cards sharing that mark

1,202

Typical HP for the mark

150 (this card 310)

Typical damage for the mark

87 (this card 100)

Counted from the mark printed beside the card number.

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Victini VMAX 165 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, Max Victory, needs 2 Energy attached. Energy attaches once a turn, so that attack waits 2 turns from an empty card.
That works out at 50 damage for every Energy card attached.
Moving it out of the active spot costs 2 more Energy, discarded from the card itself.
It cannot start the game in play — Victini V has to be on the field first.

Where its HP stands, cut four ways

Every card in the archiveNo. 343 of 17,290

Fire cardsNo. 53 of 1,574

VMAX cardsNo. 154 of 209

Battle StylesNo. 13 of 146

What actually removes it

A Water attack printed at 155 damage removes it in a single turn — that is the bar, not its 310 HP.
136 cards in the archive clear that bar.
Going the other way, it removes 2,745 cards in one attack.

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Victini VMAX 165 card record

Victini VMAX 165 — the printed record, field by field
Hit points	310 HP	Type	Fire
Weakness	Water ×2	Retreat cost	2 Energy
Evolves from	Victini V	Card type	VMAX
Regulation mark	Mark E	Pokédex number	#494
Set	Battle Styles	Card number	165 of 163
Series	Sword & Shield	Released	March 19, 2021
Rarity	Rare Rainbow	Illustrator	PLANETA Mochizuki
Tournament legality	Unlimited and Expanded only
Printed rule	VMAX rule: When your Pokémon VMAX is Knocked Out, your opponent takes 3 Prize cards.

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

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What does Victini VMAX 165 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

$19.37

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One figure only — the price record, the daily chart and the marketplaces live on the price page.

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Victini VMAX 165 — frequently asked questions

How much damage does it take to knock out Victini VMAX 165?

Victini VMAX 165 has 310 HP and a Water weakness at ×2, so a Water attack printed at 155 damage or more removes it in one turn. Any other type has to print the full 310.

What is the strongest attack on Victini VMAX 165?

Max Victory, printed at 100 damage for 2 Energy — 50 damage per Energy card. If your opponent's Active Pokémon is a Pokémon V, this attack does 120 more damage.

What is the retreat cost of Victini VMAX 165?

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

What does the + after the damage on Max Victory mean?

It marks the damage as conditional: the printed figure is the least it can deal, and the sentence on the card says what is added to it. The full sentence is printed on the card and quoted in the attack table on this page — "If your opponent's Active Pokémon is a Pokémon V, this attack does 120 more damage."

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.

What does Victini VMAX evolve from?

Victini V. It cannot be played straight from your hand onto an empty spot — the earlier stage has to be in play first.

Can Victini VMAX 165 be played in a tournament?

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

What does the rule on Victini VMAX 165 mean?

The card reads “VMAX rule: When your Pokémon VMAX is Knocked Out, your opponent takes 3 Prize cards.” That sentence is printed on the card itself, so it applies wherever the card is played.

Does this page say how good Victini VMAX 165 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.

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.

Pokémon TCG Data — openly published card files (card text, HP, attacks, weakness, retreat cost, illustrator credits) github.com

TCGdex card database — openly licensed card files (set membership and card numbering) github.com

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Victini VMAX 165 — what does this card actually do?

What does Victini VMAX 165 do in a game?

Victini VMAX 165 performance summary

What it can do

Where it stands

Victini VMAX 165 at a glance

What do the attacks on Victini VMAX 165 cost, and what do they hit for?

How does Victini VMAX 165 compare with every other card?

Is Victini VMAX 165 efficient for the Energy it asks for?

Is Victini VMAX 165 strong for a VMAX card?

What does being a Fire card do for Victini VMAX 165?

What knocks out Victini VMAX 165 in one hit, and what does it knock out?

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

What has to be in play before Victini VMAX 165 can be?

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

What can you use instead of Victini VMAX 165?

Which other cards share the Pokémon behind Victini VMAX 165?

What was printed next to Victini VMAX 165 in Battle Styles?

Which rules apply to Victini VMAX 165, and where can it be played?

Which generation of cards does Victini VMAX 165 belong to?

Victini VMAX 165 in depth — what these figures add up to

What it asks a deck for

Where its HP stands, cut four ways

What actually removes it

Victini VMAX 165 card record

What does Victini VMAX 165 cost?

Victini VMAX 165 — frequently asked questions

How much damage does it take to knock out Victini VMAX 165?

What is the strongest attack on Victini VMAX 165?

What is the retreat cost of Victini VMAX 165?

What does the + after the damage on Max Victory mean?

Can an older Victini print be played in a tournament?

What does Victini VMAX evolve from?

Can Victini VMAX 165 be played in a tournament?

What does the rule on Victini VMAX 165 mean?

Does this page say how good Victini VMAX 165 is in a deck?

Where these card facts come from

Before you rely on these figures

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