Zeraora VMAX SWSH264 — what does this card actually do?
This card has 320 HP, a top attack printed at 240 damage and a Fighting weakness.
Lightning · VMAX · SWSH Black Star Promos · measured against 20,444 cards on file — card data read July 28, 2026
What does Zeraora VMAX SWSH264 do in a game?
Zeraora VMAX SWSH264 is a Lightning Pokémon card with 320 HP, printed as VMAX.
Its strongest attack, Max Fist, is printed at 240 damage for 3 Energy — 80 damage per Energy card.
Because of the Fighting weakness, any Fighting attack printed at 160 damage or more removes it in a single turn.
Zeraora VMAX SWSH264SWSH Black Star Promos
Zeraora VMAX SWSH264 performance summary
320 HP · Lightning · VMAX · retreat 2 · Fighting weakness ×2
as of July 28, 2026
damage per Energy card, among cards whose cheapest attack costs 2
Strongest on Top printed damage — top 1.5% of the archive. Weakest on Attack cost lightness — bottom 43.8%.
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 | 98.0% | 320 HP |
| Top printed damage | 98.5% | 240 damage |
| Energy efficiency | 98.2% | 80 per Energy |
| Retreat lightness | 45.3% | 2 Energy |
| Attack cost lightness | 43.8% | 2 Energy |
2 attacks 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 207 at 320 HP.
Zeraora VMAX SWSH264320 HPPrinted HP
The ceiling of this archive is 380 HP — 60 HP above this card.
Mega Emboar ex 273380 HPWhat stands out on Zeraora VMAX SWSH264
- Hit points 320 HP puts it in the 290~330 band, where 2.4% of 17,290 cards with printed HP sit.
- Energy It returns 80 damage per Energy card against 32.5 for cards whose cheapest attack costs 2.
- Weakness A Fighting attack printed at 160 damage or more removes it in a single turn.
- Legality 15 of the 27 prints that carry this name are legal in Standard play.
Zeraora VMAX SWSH264 at a glance
- What it is. A Lightning Pokémon card with 320 HP printed as VMAX, printed in SWSH Black Star Promos.
- What it can do. 2 attacks printed on the card, the strongest at 240 damage for 3 Energy.
- What it fears. A Fighting weakness at ×2, which means 160 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 Zeraora VMAX SWSH264 cost, and what do they hit for?
The card prints 2 attacks. The strongest asks for 3 Energy and returns 240 damage, which is 80 damage for every Energy card attached.
| Attack | Energy cost | Cards of Energy | Printed damage | Damage per Energy | Effect |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reactive Pulse | 2 Lightning | 2 | 60× | 30 | This attack does 60 damage for each of your opponent's Pokémon in play that has an Ability. |
| Max Fist | 2 Lightning + 1 Colorless | 3 | 240 | 80 | Discard 2 Energy from this Pokémon. |
Retreating costs a further 2 Energy, discarded from this card, and that cost is paid on top of anything in the table.
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.
Why one of these damage figures carries a symbol
A number on a Pokémon card is not always the number that lands.
- Reactive Pulse is printed as 60×, so the printed number is multiplied — the attack deals that much for each thing the sentence beside it counts.
How does Zeraora VMAX SWSH264 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 320 HP, which is 84% 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 320 HP.
Cards in the 290~330 band typically print 165 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 | 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 |
16,246 cards print damage on at least one attack. The highest on this card is 240.
Cards in the 190~250 band typically have 238 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 | 21.8% | 3,535 cards |
| 130~180 | 9.0% | 1,461 cards |
| 190~250 — this card | 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 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 Zeraora VMAX SWSH264 stands highest on HP — number 13 of 1,520 cards in Lightning cards. Cut the archive a different way and the answer moves, which is what the bars below are for.
- Hit points 320 HP
middle half 60–130 HP - Top printed damage 240 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 Zeraora VMAX SWSH264 efficient for the Energy it asks for?
Printed damage on its own says nothing — a 240 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 2 typically return 32.5 damage per Energy card. This card returns 80.
| 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 |
| Zeraora VMAX SWSH264 — this card | 80.0 | 240 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 |
| Reactive Pulse | — | 30 | — |
| Max Fist | — | 80 | — |
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 240 is read as high or low rather than merely large.
Is Zeraora VMAX SWSH264 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.
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.
What does being a Lightning card do for Zeraora VMAX SWSH264?
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 — this card | 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 Lightning weakness.
What being a Lightning card is worth
Groups that most often print a Lightning weakness: Water (2,435 cards). Against those, this card's printed damage counts double. Going the other way, Lightning cards are themselves most exposed to Fighting.
What knocks out Zeraora VMAX SWSH264 in one hit, and what does it knock out?
Weakness doubles the damage a Fighting attack deals to this card, so the bar it has to clear is 160 printed damage rather than 320.
160 damage becomes 320 against this card
Zeraora VMAX SWSH264320 HPWhy this card was picked to stand opposite
Of the 183 cards in the archive that can remove Zeraora VMAX SWSH264 in a single attack, this one clears the bar by the smallest margin — 160 printed damage against a bar of 160. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mega Lucario ex (77) | Mega Evolution | 340 | 270 | 540 |
| Mega Lucario ex (160) | Mega Evolution | 340 | 270 | 540 |
| Mega Lucario ex (179) | Mega Evolution | 340 | 270 | 540 |
| Mega Lucario ex (188) | Mega Evolution | 340 | 270 | 540 |
| Mega Lucario ex (113) | Ascended Heroes | 340 | 270 | 540 |
| Toxtricity ex (100) | Paradox Rift | 260 | 270 | 540 |
320 HP against a Fighting ×2 weakness means any Fighting attack printed at 160 damage or more is enough. 184 cards in the archive clear that bar.
2,395 cards in the archive are weak to Lightning 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 Zeraora as a Pokémon, across every card it has been printed on?
Zeraora VMAX SWSH264 is one print of Zeraora. 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 Zeraora 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 Zeraora VMAX SWSH264 can be?
Zeraora VMAX evolves from Zeraora V, 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 Zeraora 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 807.
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 Zeraora print, and can the older ones still be played?
29 prints carry this name in the archive, and 27 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.
27 rows are shown of the 29 prints counted under this name.
| Set | Regulation mark | Standard | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zeraora VMAX GG42/GG70 | SWSH: Crown Zenith: Galarian Gallery | Mark F | Legal in Standard |
| Zeraora VMAX SWSH264 | SWSH: Sword & Shield Promo Cards | Mark F | Legal in Standard |
| Zeraora VMAX 054/159 | SWSH: Crown Zenith | Mark F | Legal in Standard |
| Mega Zeraora ex 114/084 | ME05: Pitch Black | Mark J | Legal in Standard |
| Zeraora VSTAR GG43/GG70 | SWSH: Crown Zenith: Galarian Gallery | Mark F | Legal in Standard |
| Mega Zeraora ex 098/084 | ME05: Pitch Black | Mark J | Legal in Standard |
| Zeraora VSTAR 055/159 | SWSH: Crown Zenith | Mark F | Legal in Standard |
| Mega Zeraora ex 027/084 | ME05: Pitch Black | Mark J | Legal in Standard |
| Zeraora V 166/198 | SWSH06: Chilling Reign | Mark E | Not legal in Standard |
| Zeraora V 053/198 | Prize Pack Series Cards | Mark E | Not legal in Standard |
| Zeraora V TG16/TG30 | SWSH12: Silver Tempest Trainer Gallery | Mark E | Not legal in Standard |
| Zeraora V 165/198 | SWSH06: Chilling Reign | Mark E | Not legal in Standard |
| Zeraora V SWSH263 | SWSH: Sword & Shield Promo Cards | Mark F | Legal in Standard |
| Zeraora V 053/159 | SWSH: Crown Zenith | Mark F | Legal in Standard |
| Zeraora-GX 221/214 | SM - Lost Thunder | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Zeraora-GX 201/214 | SM - Lost Thunder | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Zeraora-GX 86/214 | SM - Lost Thunder | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Zeraora 151/142 | SV07: Stellar Crown | Mark H | Legal in Standard |
| Zeraora 060/214 | Deck Exclusives | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Zeraora 52/181 | SM - Team Up | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Zeraora 102/264 | SWSH08: Fusion Strike | Mark E | Not legal in Standard |
| Zeraora 052/159 | SWSH: Crown Zenith | Mark E | Not legal in Standard |
| Zeraora 055/142 | SV07: Stellar Crown | Mark H | Legal in Standard |
| Zeraora 057/162 | SV05: Temporal Forces | Mark H | Legal in Standard |
| Zeraora 056/195 | SWSH12: Silver Tempest | Mark F | Legal in Standard |
| Zeraora 078/182 | Prize Pack Series Cards | Mark I | Legal in Standard |
| Zeraora 061/185 | SWSH04: Vivid Voltage | Mark D | Not legal in Standard |
15 of the 27 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 Zeraora VMAX SWSH264?
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pikachu VMAX | Vivid Voltage | 310 | 120 | 2 |
| Pikachu VMAX | Lost Origin Trainer Gallery | 310 | 120 | 2 |
| Zeraora VMAX | Crown Zenith Galarian Gallery | 320 | 240 | 2 |
| Morpeko VMAX | Sword & Shield | 300 | 180 | 1 |
| Pikachu VMAX | Lost Origin Trainer Gallery | 310 | 120 | 2 |
| Toxtricity VMAX | Rebel Clash | 320 | 160 | 2 |
This card itself is 320 HP, 240 top damage and 2 retreat, and every card here is Lightning like it.
Back to summaryWhich other cards share the Pokémon behind Zeraora VMAX SWSH264?
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 Zeraora VMAX SWSH264 in SWSH Black Star Promos?
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 #SWSH264 in SWSH Black Star Promos. 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 Zeraora VMAX SWSH264, 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.
| 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 November 15, 2019.
Which generation of cards does Zeraora VMAX SWSH264 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 |
Zeraora VMAX SWSH264 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 Fist, needs 3 Energy attached. Energy attaches once a turn, so that attack waits 3 turns from an empty card.
- That works out at 80 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 — Zeraora V has to be on the field first.
Where its HP stands, cut four ways
What actually removes it
- A Fighting attack printed at 160 damage removes it in a single turn — that is the bar, not its 320 HP.
- 184 cards in the archive clear that bar.
- Going the other way, it removes 2,395 cards in one attack.
Zeraora VMAX SWSH264 card record
| Hit points | 320 HP | Type | Lightning |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weakness | Fighting ×2 | Retreat cost | 2 Energy |
| Evolves from | Zeraora V | Card type | VMAX |
| Regulation mark | Mark F | Pokédex number | #807 |
| Set | SWSH Black Star Promos | Card number | SWSH264 of 307 |
| Series | Sword & Shield | Released | November 15, 2019 |
| Rarity | Promo | Illustrator | N-DESIGN Inc. |
| Tournament legality | Unlimited and Standard 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.
What does Zeraora VMAX SWSH264 cost?
This page is about what the card does. The figure below is the one number worth carrying across, read on August 14, 2026.
Zeraora VMAX SWSH264 — frequently asked questions
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What does Zeraora VMAX evolve from?
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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.
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