Lapras 31 — what does this card actually do?
This card has 130 HP, a top attack printed at 110 damage and a Lightning weakness.
Water · Basic · Brilliant Stars · measured against 20,444 cards on file — card data read July 28, 2026
What does Lapras 31 do in a game?
Lapras 31 is a Water Pokémon card with 130 HP, printed as Basic.
Its strongest attack, Raging Freeze, is printed at 110 damage for 3 Energy — 37 damage per Energy card.
Because of the Lightning weakness, any Lightning attack printed at 65 damage or more removes it in a single turn.
Lapras 31Brilliant Stars
Lapras 31 performance summary
130 HP · Water · Basic · retreat 2 · Lightning weakness ×2
as of July 28, 2026
damage per Energy card, among cards whose cheapest attack costs 3
Strongest on Top printed damage — top 19.3% of the archive. Weakest on Attack cost lightness — bottom 17.4%.
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 | 71.7% | 130 HP |
| Top printed damage | 80.7% | 110 damage |
| Energy efficiency | 79.9% | 37 per Energy |
| Retreat lightness | 45.3% | 2 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 4,029 at 130 HP.
Lapras 31130 HPPrinted HP
The ceiling of this archive is 380 HP — 250 HP above this card.
Mega Emboar ex 273380 HPWhat stands out on Lapras 31
- Hit points 130 HP puts it in the 130~180 band, where 15.5% of 17,290 cards with printed HP sit.
- Energy It returns 37 damage per Energy card against 34.7 for cards whose cheapest attack costs 3.
- Weakness A Lightning attack printed at 65 damage or more removes it in a single turn.
- Legality 13 of the 48 prints that carry this name are legal in Standard play.
Lapras 31 at a glance
- What it is. A Water Pokémon card with 130 HP printed as Basic, printed in Brilliant Stars.
- What it can do. 1 attack printed on the card, the strongest at 110 damage for 3 Energy.
- What it fears. A Lightning weakness at ×2, which means 65 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 Standard and Expanded only, and it carries regulation mark F.
- What this page does not claim. Deck lists, tournament results and win rates are not published here, because the card files this site reads do not contain them.
What do the attacks on Lapras 31 cost, and what do they hit for?
The card prints 1 attack. The strongest asks for 3 Energy and returns 110 damage, which is 37 damage for every Energy card attached.
| Attack | Energy cost | Cards of Energy | Printed damage | Damage per Energy | Effect |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Raging Freeze | 2 Water + 1 Colorless | 3 | 110 | 37 | If any of your Pokémon were Knocked Out by damage from an attack from your opponent's Pokémon during their last turn, your opponent's Active Pokémon is now Paralyzed. |
Retreating costs a further 2 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 Lapras 31 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 130 HP, which is 34% 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 130 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 110.
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 2 Energy to retreat.
Cards with a retreat cost of 2 typically have 132 HP and print 79 damage.
| 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 |
That is where Lapras 31 stands highest on HP — number 529 of 2,435 cards in Water cards. Cut the archive a different way and the answer moves, which is what the bars below are for.
- Hit points 130 HP
middle half 60–130 HP - Top printed damage 110 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 Lapras 31 efficient for the Energy it asks for?
Printed damage on its own says nothing — a 110 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 37.
| 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 |
| Lapras 31 — this card | 37.0 | 110 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 |
| Raging Freeze | — | 37 | — |
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 110 is read as high or low rather than merely large.
What does being a Water card do for Lapras 31?
Type decides two things at once — which cards take double damage from this one, and which cards deal double to it. Both are read from the weakness printed on each group, not from a rule of thumb.
17,249 cards carry an energy type. The note under each name is the weakness printed most often on that group.
| Group | Share | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Psychic | 13.5% | 2,335 cards |
| Water — this card | 14.1% | 2,435 cards |
| Colorless | 12.6% | 2,173 cards |
| Fire | 9.1% | 1,574 cards |
| Fighting | 10.9% | 1,884 cards |
| Lightning | 8.8% | 1,520 cards |
| Grass | 13.8% | 2,387 cards |
| Metal | 5.4% | 925 cards |
| Darkness | 7.2% | 1,249 cards |
| Dragon | 3.1% | 530 cards |
| Fairy | 1.4% | 237 cards |
Read from the weakness printed on each group. The first row is this card; the rest are groups that most often print a Water weakness.
What being a Water card is worth
Groups that most often print a Water weakness: Fire (1,574 cards). Against those, this card's printed damage counts double. Going the other way, Water cards are themselves most exposed to Lightning.
What knocks out Lapras 31 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 65 printed damage rather than 130.
70 damage becomes 140 against this card
Lapras 31130 HPWhy this card was picked to stand opposite
Of the 560 cards in the archive that can remove Lapras 31 in a single attack, this one clears the bar by the smallest margin — 70 printed damage against a bar of 65. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
130 HP against a Lightning ×2 weakness means any Lightning attack printed at 65 damage or more is enough. 562 cards in the archive clear that bar.
1,584 cards in the archive are weak to Water and sit inside the damage this card can deal. Point at a card to see it full size.Tap a card to open its page.
What is Lapras as a Pokémon, across every card it has been printed on?
Lapras 31 is one print of Lapras. 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 Lapras 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 summaryIs this the strongest Lapras print, and can the older ones still be played?
49 prints carry this name in the archive, and 48 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.
48 rows are shown of the 49 prints counted under this name.
| Set | Regulation mark | Standard | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lapras VMAX 203/202 | SWSH01: Sword & Shield Base Set | Mark D | Not legal in Standard |
| Lapras VMAX SV111/SV122 | Shining Fates: Shiny Vault | Mark D | Not legal in Standard |
| Lapras VMAX 050/202 | SWSH01: Sword & Shield Base Set | Mark D | Not legal in Standard |
| Lapras ex 164 | SV: Scarlet & Violet Promo Cards | Mark H | Legal in Standard |
| Lapras ex 158/142 | SV07: Stellar Crown | Mark H | Legal in Standard |
| Lapras ex 032/142 | SV07: Stellar Crown | Mark H | Legal in Standard |
| Lapras V 189/202 | SWSH01: Sword & Shield Base Set | Mark D | Not legal in Standard |
| Lapras V SV110/SV122 | Shining Fates: Shiny Vault | Mark D | Not legal in Standard |
| Lapras V 049/202 | SWSH01: Sword & Shield Base Set | Mark D | Not legal in Standard |
| Lapras ex 022/088 | ME03: Perfect Order | Mark I | Legal in Standard |
| Lapras-GX 151/149 | SM Base Set | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Lapras-GX 139/149 | SM Base Set | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Lapras-GX 35/149 | SM Base Set | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Lapras 031/142 | Miscellaneous Cards & Products | Mark H | Legal in Standard |
| Lapras GG05/GG70 | SWSH: Crown Zenith: Galarian Gallery | Mark F | Legal in Standard |
| Lapras 31/181 | SM - Team Up | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Lapras SWSH051 | SWSH: Sword & Shield Promo Cards | Mark D | Not legal in Standard |
| Lapras 048/202 | Miscellaneous Cards & Products | Mark D | Not legal in Standard |
| Lapras 031/172 | SWSH09: Brilliant Stars | Mark F | Legal in Standard |
| Lapras 005/012 | McDonald's Promos 2019 | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Lapras 28/122 | XY - BREAKpoint | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Lapras 56/214 | SM - Lost Thunder | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Lapras 21/70 | Dragon Majesty | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Lapras 17/68 | Hidden Fates | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Lapras 023/078 | Pokemon GO | Mark F | Legal in Standard |
| Lapras 054/264 | SWSH08: Fusion Strike | Mark E | Not legal in Standard |
| Lapras ex 99/109 | EX Ruby and Sapphire | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Misty's Lapras 194/182 | SV10: Destined Rivals | Mark I | Legal in Standard |
| Lapras 35/146 | XY Base Set | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Lapras 36/236 | SM - Unified Minds | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Team Aqua's Muk 008/034 | Trading Card Game Classic | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Lapras 131/165 | SV: Scarlet & Violet 151 | Mark G | Legal in Standard |
| Lapras 045/197 | SV03: Obsidian Flames | Mark G | Legal in Standard |
| Misty's Lapras 050/182 | SV10: Destined Rivals | Mark I | Legal in Standard |
| Lapras 029/198 | SWSH06: Chilling Reign | Mark E | Not legal in Standard |
| Lapras 016/091 | SV: Paldean Fates | Mark G | Legal in Standard |
| Lapras 17/101 | Plasma Blast | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Lapras 25/99 | Next Destinies | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Lapras 24/123 | HeartGold SoulSilver | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Lapras HGSS14 | HGSS Promos | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Lapras 26/99 | Next Destinies | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Lapras 10/62 | Fossil | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Lapras 8/92 | EX Legend Maker | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Lapras 25/62 | Fossil | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Lapras 21/106 | Great Encounters | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Lapras 79/127 | Platinum | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Lapras 12/18 | Southern Islands | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Lapras 071/144 | Skyridge | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
13 of the 48 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 Lapras 31?
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 Lapras 31 in Brilliant Stars?
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 #31 in Brilliant Stars. 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 Lapras 31, 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 | Legal | Can be played in this format |
| Expanded | Legal | Can be played in this format |
| Unlimited | Legal | Can be played in this format |
Read from the format list recorded with the card. Formats rotate on a schedule set by the organiser, and that schedule is not published on this page.
Where this card can be played
This card is legal in Unlimited and Standard and Expanded play. It carries regulation mark F, printed next to the card number. It was released on February 25, 2022.
Which generation of cards does Lapras 31 belong to?
The single letter printed beside the card number groups a card with everything issued under the same rules. Tournament formats are cut along those letters, so the size of a letter is the size of the pool a card sits in.
8,194 cards in the archive carry a regulation mark. Older prints carry none at all, so this is not the whole archive.
The regulation mark is the single letter recorded with each modern card. Older prints carry no mark at all, so this axis covers only the part of the archive that has one.
| Group | Share | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Mark D | 15.4% | 1,261 cards |
| Mark E | 14.7% | 1,202 cards |
| Mark F — this card | 14.4% | 1,180 cards |
| Mark G | 19.9% | 1,634 cards |
| Mark H | 15.7% | 1,283 cards |
| Mark I | 14.8% | 1,215 cards |
| Mark J | 5.1% | 419 cards |
Lapras 31 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, Raging Freeze, needs 3 Energy attached. Energy attaches once a turn, so that attack waits 3 turns from an empty card.
- That works out at 37 damage for every Energy card attached.
- Moving it out of the active spot costs 2 more Energy, discarded from the card itself.
Where its HP stands, cut four ways
What actually removes it
- A Lightning attack printed at 65 damage removes it in a single turn — that is the bar, not its 130 HP.
- 562 cards in the archive clear that bar.
- Going the other way, it removes 1,584 cards in one attack.
Lapras 31 card record
| Hit points | 130 HP | Type | Water |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weakness | Lightning ×2 | Retreat cost | 2 Energy |
| Card type | Basic | Regulation mark | Mark F |
| Pokédex number | #131 | Set | Brilliant Stars |
| Card number | 31 of 172 | Series | Sword & Shield |
| Released | February 25, 2022 | Rarity | Rare |
| Illustrator | Teeziro | ||
| Tournament legality | Unlimited and Standard and Expanded only | ||
Read from the printed card face, the set listing and the official format list.
What does Lapras 31 cost?
This page is about what the card does. The figure below is the one number worth carrying across, read on August 14, 2026.
Lapras 31 — frequently asked questions
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Can an older Lapras print be played in a tournament?
Can Lapras 31 be played in a tournament?
Does this page say how good Lapras 31 is in a deck?
Where these card facts come from
Card facts are read once from openly published card files and do not change between readings — a printed card cannot gain HP. The places below are where the same information can be checked. Last updated: July 28, 2026 — the counts and rankings on this page were taken from the card files read on that day.
Primary official source
First-party official sources — the body that issues the data itself, such as a government agency, a statutory register or a rights holder publishing its own records.
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