Grookey 16 — what does this card actually do?
This card has 60 HP, a top attack printed at 30 damage and a Fire weakness.
Grass · Basic Rapid Strike · Chilling Reign · measured against 20,444 cards on file — card data read July 28, 2026
What does Grookey 16 do in a game?
Grookey 16 is a Grass Pokémon card with 60 HP, printed as Basic Rapid Strike.
Its strongest attack, Hit Twice, is printed at 30 damage for 2 Energy — 15 damage per Energy card.
Because of the Fire weakness, any Fire attack printed at 30 damage or more removes it in a single turn.
Grookey 16Chilling Reign
Grookey 16 performance summary
60 HP · Grass · Basic Rapid Strike · retreat 1 · Fire weakness ×2
as of July 28, 2026
damage per Energy card, among cards whose cheapest attack costs 2
Strongest on Retreat lightness — top 5.6% of the archive. Weakest on Hit points — bottom 13.1%.
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 | 13.1% | 60 HP |
| Top printed damage | 28.9% | 30 damage |
| Energy efficiency | 32.6% | 15 per Energy |
| 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 12,840 at 60 HP.
Grookey 1660 HPPrinted HP
The ceiling of this archive is 380 HP — 320 HP above this card.
Mega Emboar ex 273380 HPWhat stands out on Grookey 16
- Hit points 60 HP puts it in the ~70 band, where 38.6% of 17,290 cards with printed HP sit.
- Energy It returns 15 damage per Energy card against 32.5 for cards whose cheapest attack costs 2.
- Weakness A Fire attack printed at 30 damage or more removes it in a single turn.
- Legality 1 of the 8 prints that carry this name are legal in Standard play.
Grookey 16 at a glance
- What it is. A Grass Pokémon card with 60 HP printed as Basic Rapid Strike, printed in Chilling Reign.
- What it can do. 1 attack printed on the card, the strongest at 30 damage for 2 Energy.
- What it fears. A Fire weakness at ×2, which means 30 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 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.
What do the attacks on Grookey 16 cost, and what do they hit for?
The card prints 1 attack. The strongest asks for 2 Energy and returns 30 damage, which is 15 damage for every Energy card attached.
| Attack | Energy cost | Cards of Energy | Printed damage | Damage per Energy | Effect |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hit Twice | 1 Grass + 1 Colorless | 2 | 30× | 15 | Flip 2 coins. This attack does 30 damage for each heads. |
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.
Why one of these damage figures carries a symbol
A number on a Pokémon card is not always the number that lands.
- Hit Twice is printed as 30×, so the printed number is multiplied — the attack deals that much for each thing the sentence beside it counts.
How does Grookey 16 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 60 HP, which is 16% 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 60 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 |
16,246 cards print damage on at least one attack. The highest on this card is 30.
Cards in the ~30 band typically have 70 HP and ask 1 Energy to retreat.
| Group | Share | Value |
|---|---|---|
| ~30 — this card | 42.7% | 6,938 cards |
| 40~60 | 22.0% | 3,566 cards |
| 70~120 | 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 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 Grookey 16 stands highest on HP — number 1,593 of 2,387 cards in Grass cards. Cut the archive a different way and the answer moves, which is what the bars below are for.
- Hit points 60 HP
middle half 60–130 HP - Top printed damage 30 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 Grookey 16 efficient for the Energy it asks for?
Printed damage on its own says nothing — a 30 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.
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 2 typically return 32.5 damage per Energy card. This card returns 15.
| 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 |
| Grookey 16 — this card | 15.0 | 30 damage for 2 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 |
| Hit Twice | — | 15 | — |
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 30 is read as high or low rather than merely large.
Is Grookey 16 strong for a Rapid Strike card?
Rapid Strike 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 Rapid Strike card in the archive — 158 of them. Each figure is compared with what that group typically prints, not with the archive as a whole.
What does being a Grass card do for Grookey 16?
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 — this card | 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 Grass weakness.
What being a Grass card is worth
Groups that most often print a Grass weakness: Fighting (1,884 cards). Against those, this card's printed damage counts double. Going the other way, Grass cards are themselves most exposed to Fire.
What knocks out Grookey 16 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 30 printed damage rather than 60.
Litleo30 damage30 damage becomes 60 against this card
Grookey 1660 HPWhy this card was picked to stand opposite
Of the 1,191 cards in the archive that can remove Grookey 16 in a single attack, this one clears the bar by the smallest margin — 30 printed damage against a bar of 30. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
60 HP against a Fire ×2 weakness means any Fire attack printed at 30 damage or more is enough. 1,208 cards in the archive clear that bar.
60 HP
Poliwhirl [38]
60 HP
Marowak [39]
60 HP
Aerodactyl [1]
60 HP
Kabutops [9]
60 HP
Aerodactyl [16]
60 HP
Kabutops [24]
353 cards in the archive are weak to Grass 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 Grookey as a Pokémon, across every card it has been printed on?
Grookey 16 is one print of Grookey. 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 Grookey 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 Grookey 16 can be?
Grookey 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 — Thwackey 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 Grookey print, and can the older ones still be played?
12 prints carry this name in the archive, and 8 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grookey 011/202 | Miscellaneous Cards & Products | Mark D | Not legal in Standard |
| Grookey 014/167 | SV06: Twilight Masquerade | Mark H | Legal in Standard |
| Grookey SV004/SV122 | Shining Fates: Shiny Vault | Mark D | Not legal in Standard |
| Grookey SWSH070 | SWSH: Sword & Shield Promo Cards | Mark D | Not legal in Standard |
| Grookey 008/025 | McDonald's 25th Anniversary Promos | Mark D | Not legal in Standard |
| Grookey 010/202 | Blister Exclusives | Mark D | Not legal in Standard |
| Grookey 016/198 | SWSH06: Chilling Reign | Mark E | Not legal in Standard |
| Grookey 011/072 | Shining Fates | Mark D | Not legal in Standard |
1 of the 8 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 Grookey 16?
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
Grookey [SV004]
60
Grookey [SWSH070]
60
Grookey [8]
70
Grookey [14]
60
Grookey [10]
70
Grookey [11]
60
Grookey [11]
7 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 Grookey 16 in Chilling Reign?
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
Abomasnow [10]
60
Deerling [11]
110
Sawsbuck [12]
60
Bounsweet [13]
80
Steenee [14]
140
Tsareena [15]
100
Thwackey [17]
180
Rillaboom [18]
130
Zarude [19]
210
Blaziken V [20]
320
Blaziken VMAX [21]
70
Castform Sunny Form [22]
These are the cards numbered either side of #16 in Chilling Reign. 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 Grookey 16, 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 E, printed next to the card number. It was released on June 18, 2021.
Which generation of cards does Grookey 16 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 — 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 |
Grookey 16 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, Hit Twice, needs 2 Energy attached. Energy attaches once a turn, so that attack waits 2 turns from an empty card.
- That works out at 15 damage for every Energy card attached.
- Moving it out of the active spot costs 1 more Energy, discarded from the card itself.
Where its HP stands, cut four ways
What actually removes it
- A Fire attack printed at 30 damage removes it in a single turn — that is the bar, not its 60 HP.
- 1,208 cards in the archive clear that bar.
- Going the other way, it removes 353 cards in one attack.
Grookey 16 card record
| Hit points | 60 HP | Type | Grass |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weakness | Fire ×2 | Retreat cost | 1 Energy |
| Card type | Basic Rapid Strike | Regulation mark | Mark E |
| Pokédex number | #810 | Set | Chilling Reign |
| Card number | 16 of 198 | Series | Sword & Shield |
| Released | June 18, 2021 | Rarity | Common |
| Illustrator | kodama | ||
| Tournament legality | Unlimited and Expanded only | ||
Read from the printed card face, the set listing and the official format list.
What does Grookey 16 cost?
This page is about what the card does. The figure below is the one number worth carrying across, read on August 14, 2026.
Grookey 16 — frequently asked questions
How much damage does it take to knock out Grookey 16?
What is the strongest attack on Grookey 16?
What is the retreat cost of Grookey 16?
What does the × after the damage on Hit Twice mean?
Can an older Grookey print be played in a tournament?
Can Grookey 16 be played in a tournament?
Does this page say how good Grookey 16 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.