Starmie BREAK 32 — what does this card actually do?
This card has 130 HP.
Water · BREAK · Evolutions · measured against 20,444 cards on file — card data read July 28, 2026
What does Starmie BREAK 32 do in a game?
Starmie BREAK 32 is a Water Pokémon card with 130 HP, printed as BREAK.
Starmie BREAK 32Evolutions
Starmie BREAK 32 performance summary
130 HP · Water · BREAK · retreat 0
Strongest on Retreat lightness — top 0.1% of the archive. Weakest on Hit points — bottom 71.7%.
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 |
| Retreat lightness | 100.0% | 0 Energy |
| Attack cost lightness | 98.2% | 1 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.
Starmie BREAK 32130 HPPrinted HP
The ceiling of this archive is 380 HP — 250 HP above this card.
Mega Emboar ex 273380 HPWhat stands out on Starmie BREAK 32
- Hit points 130 HP puts it in the 130~180 band, where 15.5% of 17,290 cards with printed HP sit.
- Legality 7 of the 36 prints that carry this name are legal in Standard play.
Starmie BREAK 32 at a glance
- What it is. A Water Pokémon card with 130 HP printed as BREAK, printed in Evolutions.
- What it can do. 1 attack printed on the card, the strongest at 0 damage for 0 Energy.
- What it costs to move. 0 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 Starmie BREAK 32 cost, and what do they hit for?
Every attack printed on the card, with the Energy it asks for.
| Attack | Energy cost | Cards of Energy | Printed damage | Damage per Energy | Effect |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Break Star | 1 Water | 1 | — | — | This attack does 100 damage to each of your opponent's Pokémon BREAK. (Don't apply Weakness and Resistance for Benched Pokémon.) |
This card has no retreat cost at all, so it can leave the active spot without discarding any Energy — the only limit is that retreating happens once a turn.
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.
Back to summaryHow does Starmie BREAK 32 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 |
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.
| 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 |
17,240 cards carry a retreat cost. This one costs 0 Energy to retreat.
Cards with a retreat cost of 0 typically have 103 HP and print 61 damage.
| Group | Share | Value |
|---|---|---|
| 0 — this card | 5.3% | 914 cards |
| 1 | 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 Starmie BREAK 32 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
- 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 summaryWhat does being a Water card do for Starmie BREAK 32?
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.
What is Starmie BREAK as a Pokémon, across every card it has been printed on?
Starmie BREAK 32 is one print of Starmie BREAK. 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 Starmie BREAK 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 Starmie BREAK 32 can be?
Starmie BREAK evolves from Starmie, 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 Starmie.
- 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 121.
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 Starmie BREAK print, and can the older ones still be played?
36 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mega Starmie ex 118/088 | ME03: Perfect Order | Mark J | Not legal in Standard |
| Mega Starmie ex 021/088 | Prize Pack Series Cards | Mark J | Not legal in Standard |
| Mega Starmie ex 102/088 | ME03: Perfect Order | Mark J | Not legal in Standard |
| Starmie V TG13/TG30 | SWSH10: Astral Radiance Trainer Gallery | Mark F | Legal in Standard |
| Starmie V 030/189 | Prize Pack Series Cards | Mark F | Legal in Standard |
| Starmie V 166/189 | SWSH10: Astral Radiance | Mark F | Legal in Standard |
| Starmie-GX 14/68 | Hidden Fates | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Team Aqua's Walrein 005/034 | Trading Card Game Classic | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Starmie BREAK 32/108 | XY - Evolutions | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Misty's Starmie 047/182 | SV10: Destined Rivals | Mark I | Legal in Standard |
| Starmie 119/091 | SV: Paldean Fates | Mark G | Legal in Standard |
| Starmie 16/111 | SM - Crimson Invasion | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Starmie 53/123 | HeartGold SoulSilver | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Starmie 31/108 | XY - Evolutions | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Starmie 34/146 | XY Base Set | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Starmie 121/165 | SV: Scarlet & Violet 151 | Mark G | Legal in Standard |
| Starmie 24/99 | Next Destinies | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Starmie 73/160 | XY - Primal Clash | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Starmie 30/162 | XY - BREAKthrough | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Starmie 053/264 | SWSH08: Fusion Strike | Mark E | Not legal in Standard |
| Starmie 055/172 | SWSH09: Brilliant Stars | Mark F | Legal in Standard |
| Starmie H28/H32 | Skyridge | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Starmie 5 | Rumble | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Starmie 030/144 | Skyridge | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Starmie 49/101 | EX Hidden Legends | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Misty's Starmie 056/132 | Gym Heroes | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Starmie 71/146 | Legends Awakened | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Starmie 50/111 | Rising Rivals | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Starmie 65/181 | SM - Team Up | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Starmie 044/144 | Skyridge | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Starmie δ 30/113 | EX Delta Species | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Starmie 25/64 | Neo Revelation | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Starmie 48/107 | EX Deoxys | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Starmie δ 15/113 | EX Delta Species | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Starmie 064/102 | Base Set (Shadowless) | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Starmie 094/130 | Base Set 2 | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
7 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.
Back to summaryWhat can you use instead of Starmie BREAK 32?
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Greninja BREAK | BREAKpoint | 170 | 0 | 0 |
| Golduck BREAK | BREAKpoint | 140 | 0 | 0 |
| Clawitzer BREAK | Steam Siege | 130 | 0 | 0 |
| Omastar BREAK | Fates Collide | 140 | 0 | 0 |
This card itself is 130 HP, 0 top damage and 0 retreat, and every card here is Water like it.
Back to summaryWhich other cards share the Pokémon behind Starmie BREAK 32?
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.
80
Starmie [H28]
190
Starmie V [TG13]
80
Starmie [5]
80
Starmie [30]
60
Starmie δ [15]
80
Starmie [49]
330
Mega Starmie ex [118]
70
Starmie [44]
70
Starmie δ [30]
70
Starmie [25]
80
Misty's Starmie [56]
80
Starmie [71]
90
Starmie [119]
330
Mega Starmie ex [102]
190
Starmie V [166]
60
Starmie [64]
90
Starmie [16]
70
Starmie [48]
190
Starmie-GX [14]
90
Starmie [31]
80
Starmie [50]
190
Starmie V [30]
330
Mega Starmie ex [21]
90
Starmie [34]
80
Starmie [65]
90
Starmie [121]
90
Starmie [24]
90
Starmie [73]
90
Starmie [30]
60
Starmie [94]
90
Starmie [53]
100
Misty's Starmie [47]
90
Starmie [55]
34 cards in the archive share this Pokédex number (#121). 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 Starmie BREAK 32 in Evolutions?
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.
180
Slowbro-EX [26]
220
M Slowbro-EX [27]
80
Seel [28]
120
Dewgong [29]
60
Staryu [30]
90
Starmie [31]
30
Magikarp [33]
130
Gyarados [34]
60
Pikachu [35]
100
Raichu [36]
50
Magnemite [37]
80
Magneton [38]
These are the cards numbered either side of #32 in Evolutions. 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 Starmie BREAK 32, 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
“BREAK Evolution Rule: Starmie BREAK retains the attacks, Abilities, Weakness, Resistance, and Retreat Cost of its previous Evolution.”
| Clause | What the rulebook says | Cards it applies to | Share of the archive |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 November 2, 2016.
Starmie BREAK 32 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
- Moving it out of the active spot costs no Energy at all.
- It cannot start the game in play — Starmie has to be on the field first.
Where its HP stands, cut four ways
Starmie BREAK 32 card record
| Hit points | 130 HP | Type | Water |
|---|---|---|---|
| Retreat cost | 0 Energy | Evolves from | Starmie |
| Card type | BREAK | Pokédex number | #121 |
| Set | Evolutions | Card number | 32 of 108 |
| Series | XY | Released | November 2, 2016 |
| Rarity | Rare BREAK | Illustrator | 5ban Graphics |
| Tournament legality | Unlimited and Expanded only | ||
| Printed rule | BREAK Evolution Rule: Starmie BREAK retains the attacks, Abilities, Weakness, Resistance, and Retreat Cost of its previous Evolution. | ||
Read from the printed card face, the set listing and the official format list.
What does Starmie BREAK 32 cost?
This page is about what the card does. The figure below is the one number worth carrying across, read on August 14, 2026.
Starmie BREAK 32 — frequently asked questions
What is the retreat cost of Starmie BREAK 32?
Can an older Starmie BREAK print be played in a tournament?
What does Starmie BREAK evolve from?
Can Starmie BREAK 32 be played in a tournament?
What does the rule on Starmie BREAK 32 mean?
Does this page say how good Starmie BREAK 32 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.