Bastiodon 70 — what does this card actually do?
This card has 150 HP, a top attack printed at 100 damage and a Fire weakness.
Metal · Stage 1 · Steam Siege · measured against 20,444 cards on file — card data read July 28, 2026
What does Bastiodon 70 do in a game?
Bastiodon 70 is a Metal Pokémon card with 150 HP, printed as Stage 1.
Its strongest attack, Fortress of Rage, is printed at 100 damage for 4 Energy — 25 damage per Energy card.
Because of the Fire weakness, any Fire attack printed at 75 damage or more removes it in a single turn.
Bastiodon 70Steam Siege
Bastiodon 70 performance summary
150 HP · Metal · Stage 1 · retreat 4 · Fire weakness ×2
as of July 28, 2026
damage per Energy card, among cards whose cheapest attack costs 2
Strongest on Hit points — top 20.4% of the archive. Weakest on Retreat lightness — bottom 4.2%.
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 | 79.6% | 150 HP |
| Top printed damage | 76.6% | 100 damage |
| Energy efficiency | 60.6% | 25 per Energy |
| Retreat lightness | 4.2% | 4 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 3,166 at 150 HP.
Bastiodon 70150 HPPrinted HP
The ceiling of this archive is 380 HP — 230 HP above this card.
Mega Emboar ex 273380 HPWhat stands out on Bastiodon 70
- Hit points 150 HP puts it in the 130~180 band, where 15.5% of 17,290 cards with printed HP sit.
- Energy It returns 25 damage per Energy card against 32.5 for cards whose cheapest attack costs 2.
- Weakness A Fire attack printed at 75 damage or more removes it in a single turn.
- Legality 3 of the 10 prints that carry this name are legal in Standard play.
Bastiodon 70 at a glance
- What it is. A Metal Pokémon card with 150 HP printed as Stage 1, printed in Steam Siege.
- What it can do. 2 attacks printed on the card, the strongest at 100 damage for 4 Energy.
- What it fears. A Fire weakness at ×2, which means 75 printed damage is enough to remove it.
- What it costs to move. 4 Energy to retreat, discarded from the card itself.
- Where it can be played. Unlimited and Expanded only.
- 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 Bastiodon 70 cost, and what do they hit for?
The card prints 2 attacks. The strongest asks for 4 Energy and returns 100 damage, which is 25 damage for every Energy card attached.
| Attack | Energy cost | Cards of Energy | Printed damage | Damage per Energy | Effect |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Counter Head | 2 Colorless | 2 | — | — | During your opponent's next turn, if this Pokémon is damaged by an attack (even if this Pokémon is Knocked Out), put damage counters on the Attacking Pokémon equal to the damage done to this Pokémon. |
| Fortress of Rage | 2 Metal + 2 Colorless | 4 | 100+ | 25 | This attack does 10 more damage for each of your Benched Pokémon that has any damage counters on it. |
Retreating costs a further 4 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.
- Fortress of Rage 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.
This card places damage counters, which is not the same as dealing damage
Counter Head puts damage counters on a Pokémon instead of dealing damage to it. The two look alike on the board — one counter is ten damage — but the rules treat them apart: anything that reduces or prevents damage does not stop counters from being placed, and weakness and resistance are not applied to them either.
How does Bastiodon 70 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 150 HP, which is 40% 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 150 HP.
Cards in the 130~180 band typically print 104 damage and ask 2 Energy to retreat.
| Group | Share | Value |
|---|---|---|
| ~70 | 38.6% | 6,669 cards |
| 80~120 | 33.1% | 5,725 cards |
| 130~180 — this card | 15.5% | 2,679 cards |
| 190~230 | 6.6% | 1,148 cards |
| 240~280 | 3.3% | 567 cards |
| 290~330 | 2.4% | 412 cards |
| 340+ | 0.5% | 90 cards |
16,246 cards print damage on at least one attack. The highest on this card is 100.
Cards in the 70~120 band typically have 141 HP and ask 2 Energy to retreat.
| Group | Share | Value |
|---|---|---|
| ~30 | 42.7% | 6,938 cards |
| 40~60 | 22.0% | 3,566 cards |
| 70~120 — this card | 21.8% | 3,535 cards |
| 130~180 | 9.0% | 1,461 cards |
| 190~250 | 3.8% | 621 cards |
| 260+ | 0.8% | 125 cards |
17,262 cards have at least one attack with an Energy cost. The cheapest on this card asks 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 4 Energy to retreat.
Cards with a retreat cost of 4 typically have 175 HP and print 121 damage.
| Group | Share | Value |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | 5.3% | 914 cards |
| 1 | 49.3% | 8,503 cards |
| 2 | 28.6% | 4,926 cards |
| 3 | 12.6% | 2,168 cards |
| 4 — this card | 4.2% | 729 cards |
That is where Bastiodon 70 stands highest on HP — number 470 of 5,102 cards in Stage 1 cards. Cut the archive a different way and the answer moves, which is what the bars below are for.
- Hit points 150 HP
middle half 60–130 HP - Top printed damage 100 damage
middle half 20–90 damage
- Lowest to highest printed in the archive
- Middle half of the archive
- This card
Each row is stretched from the lowest printed figure to the highest, so the two rows are not on one shared scale — read each row on its own.
Open the group this card falls into
Back to summaryIs Bastiodon 70 efficient for the Energy it asks for?
Printed damage on its own says nothing — a 100 damage attack that needs 4 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 25.
| 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 |
| Bastiodon 70 — this card | 25.0 | 100 damage for 4 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 |
| Fortress of Rage | — | 25 | — |
Where this sits once the archive is cut by damage instead
The bars above cut the archive by what an attack asks for. Cut the same archive by what an attack prints and the groups come out differently — the damage ranges on record are gathered on one page, which is where a figure like 100 is read as high or low rather than merely large.
What does being a Metal card do for Bastiodon 70?
Type decides two things at once — which cards take double damage from this one, and which cards deal double to it. Both are read from the weakness printed on each group, not from a rule of thumb.
17,249 cards carry an energy type. The note under each name is the weakness printed most often on that group.
| Group | Share | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Psychic | 13.5% | 2,335 cards |
| Water | 14.1% | 2,435 cards |
| Colorless | 12.6% | 2,173 cards |
| Fire | 9.1% | 1,574 cards |
| Fighting | 10.9% | 1,884 cards |
| Lightning | 8.8% | 1,520 cards |
| Grass | 13.8% | 2,387 cards |
| Metal — this card | 5.4% | 925 cards |
| Darkness | 7.2% | 1,249 cards |
| Dragon | 3.1% | 530 cards |
| Fairy | 1.4% | 237 cards |
Read from the weakness printed on each group. The first row is this card; the rest are groups that most often print a Metal weakness.
What being a Metal card is worth
Groups that most often print a Metal weakness: Fairy (237 cards). Against those, this card's printed damage counts double. Going the other way, Metal cards are themselves most exposed to Fire.
What knocks out Bastiodon 70 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 75 printed damage rather than 150.
Braixen80 damage80 damage becomes 160 against this card
Bastiodon 70150 HPWhy this card was picked to stand opposite
Of the 593 cards in the archive that can remove Bastiodon 70 in a single attack, this one clears the bar by the smallest margin — 80 printed damage against a bar of 75. Anything printed higher removes it just as surely, so this is where the line actually sits, and this print is legal in Standard play today.
Read from the two boxes in the lower-left corner of the card — weakness multiplies incoming damage, resistance subtracts from it.
What the Psychic resistance changes
Damage from Psychic attacks is reduced before it is applied, so an attack printed high enough to knock this card out on paper may not do it. Resistance is a flat subtraction, not a multiplier — it does not scale with the attack.
| Card | Set | HP | Printed damage | After weakness |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Charizard ex (183) | 151 | 330 | 330 | 660 |
| Charizard ex (199) | 151 | 330 | 330 | 660 |
| Charizard ex (161) | Scarlet & Violet Black Star Promos | 330 | 330 | 660 |
| Mega Emboar ex (31) | Ascended Heroes | 380 | 320 | 640 |
| Mega Emboar ex (273) | Ascended Heroes | 380 | 320 | 640 |
| Charizard VSTAR (19) | Crown Zenith | 280 | 320 | 640 |
150 HP against a Fire ×2 weakness means any Fire attack printed at 75 damage or more is enough. 599 cards in the archive clear that bar.
200 HP
Sylveon-GX [92]
200 HP
Sylveon-GX [92a]
200 HP
Sylveon-GX [140]
200 HP
Sylveon-GX [158]
200 HP
Glaceon-GX [39]
200 HP
Glaceon-GX [141]
868 cards in the archive are weak to Metal and sit inside the damage this card can deal. Point at a card to see it full size.Tap a card to open its page.
What is Bastiodon as a Pokémon, across every card it has been printed on?
Bastiodon 70 is one print of Bastiodon. 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 Bastiodon 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 Bastiodon 70 can be?
Bastiodon evolves from Shieldon, 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 Shieldon.
- 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 Bastiodon print, and can the older ones still be played?
10 prints carry this name in the archive. 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bastiodon 085 | ME: Mega Evolution Promo | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Bastiodon 093/084 | ME05: Pitch Black | Mark J | Legal in Standard |
| Bastiodon 062/084 | Deck Exclusives | Mark J | Legal in Standard |
| Bastiodon 110/189 | SWSH10: Astral Radiance | Mark F | Legal in Standard |
| Bastiodon 70/114 | XY - Steam Siege | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Bastiodon 001/017 | POP Series 6 | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Bastiodon 20/127 | Platinum | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Bastiodon 21/123 | Mysterious Treasures | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Bastiodon 14 | Rumble | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Bastiodon GL 2/111 | Rising Rivals | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
3 of the 10 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 Bastiodon 70?
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scizor ex | Unseen Forces | 120 | 50 | 1 |
| Melmetal | SM Black Star Promos | 150 | 130 | 4 |
| Steelix | HS—Unleashed | 140 | 100 | 4 |
| Steelix | Neo Genesis | 110 | 30 | 4 |
| Galarian Perrserker | SWSH Black Star Promos | 120 | 70 | 2 |
| Steelix | Paradox Rift | 180 | 180 | 4 |
This card itself is 150 HP, 100 top damage and 4 retreat, and every card here is Metal like it.
Back to summaryWhich other cards share the Pokémon behind Bastiodon 70?
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.
120
Bastiodon [14]
90
Bastiodon GL [2]
130
Bastiodon [1]
130
Bastiodon [20]
160
Bastiodon [93]
130
Bastiodon [21]
160
Bastiodon [85]
160
Bastiodon [110]
160
Bastiodon [62]
9 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 Bastiodon 70 in Steam Siege?
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.
100
Bisharp [64]
130
Yveltal [65]
150
Yveltal BREAK [66]
180
Steelix-EX [67]
240
M Steelix-EX [68]
90
Shieldon [69]
50
Klink [71]
80
Klang [72]
140
Klinklang [73]
120
Cobalion [74]
160
Magearna-EX [75]
60
Marill [76]
These are the cards numbered either side of #70 in Steam Siege. 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 Bastiodon 70, 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 was released on August 3, 2016.
Bastiodon 70 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, Fortress of Rage, needs 4 Energy attached. Energy attaches once a turn, so that attack waits 4 turns from an empty card.
- That works out at 25 damage for every Energy card attached.
- Moving it out of the active spot costs 4 more Energy, discarded from the card itself.
- It cannot start the game in play — Shieldon has to be on the field first.
Where its HP stands, cut four ways
What actually removes it
- A Fire attack printed at 75 damage removes it in a single turn — that is the bar, not its 150 HP.
- 599 cards in the archive clear that bar.
- Going the other way, it removes 868 cards in one attack.
- Damage from Psychic attacks is reduced before it is applied, so an attack that clears the bar on paper may still fall short.
Bastiodon 70 card record
| Hit points | 150 HP | Type | Metal |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weakness | Fire ×2 | Retreat cost | 4 Energy |
| Evolves from | Shieldon | Card type | Stage 1 |
| Pokédex number | #411 | Set | Steam Siege |
| Card number | 70 of 114 | Series | XY |
| Released | August 3, 2016 | Rarity | Rare |
| Illustrator | match | ||
| Tournament legality | Unlimited and Expanded only | ||
Read from the printed card face, the set listing and the official format list.
What does Bastiodon 70 cost?
This page is about what the card does. The figure below is the one number worth carrying across, read on August 14, 2026.
Bastiodon 70 — frequently asked questions
How much damage does it take to knock out Bastiodon 70?
What is the strongest attack on Bastiodon 70?
What is the retreat cost of Bastiodon 70?
What does the + after the damage on Fortress of Rage mean?
Does Bastiodon 70 deal damage or place damage counters?
Can an older Bastiodon print be played in a tournament?
What does Bastiodon evolve from?
Can Bastiodon 70 be played in a tournament?
Does this page say how good Bastiodon 70 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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