Simipour 42 — what does this card actually do?
This card has 90 HP and a Grass weakness.
Water · Stage 1 · BREAKthrough · measured against 20,444 cards on file — card data read July 28, 2026
What does Simipour 42 do in a game?
Simipour 42 is a Water Pokémon card with 90 HP, printed as Stage 1.
Because of the Grass weakness, any Grass attack printed at 45 damage or more removes it in a single turn.
Simipour 42BREAKthrough
Simipour 42 performance summary
90 HP · Water · Stage 1 · retreat 1 · Grass weakness ×2
Strongest on Attack cost lightness — top 1.8% of the archive. Weakest on Hit points — bottom 47.7%.
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 | 47.7% | 90 HP |
| Retreat lightness | 94.4% | 1 Energy |
| Attack cost lightness | 98.2% | 1 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 7,584 at 90 HP.
Simipour 4290 HPPrinted HP
The ceiling of this archive is 380 HP — 290 HP above this card.
Mega Emboar ex 273380 HPWhat stands out on Simipour 42
- Hit points 90 HP puts it in the 80~120 band, where 33.1% of 17,290 cards with printed HP sit.
- Weakness A Grass attack printed at 45 damage or more removes it in a single turn.
- Legality 3 of the 11 prints that carry this name are legal in Standard play.
Simipour 42 at a glance
- What it is. A Water Pokémon card with 90 HP printed as Stage 1, printed in BREAKthrough.
- What it can do. 2 attacks printed on the card, the strongest at 0 damage for 0 Energy.
- What it fears. A Grass weakness at ×2, which means 45 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.
- 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 Simipour 42 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Green Fling | 1 Colorless | 1 | — | — | Put 3 Grass Energy from your discard pile into your hand. |
| Hand Fling | 2 Colorless | 2 | — | — | This attack does 10 damage times the number of cards in your hand. |
Retreating costs a further 1 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.
Back to summaryHow does Simipour 42 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 90 HP, which is 24% 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 90 HP.
Cards in the 80~120 band typically print 56 damage and ask 1 Energy to retreat.
| Group | Share | Value |
|---|---|---|
| ~70 | 38.6% | 6,669 cards |
| 80~120 — this card | 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 |
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 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 Simipour 42 stands highest on HP — number 57 of 142 cards in BREAKthrough. Cut the archive a different way and the answer moves, which is what the bars below are for.
- Hit points 90 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 Simipour 42?
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 Grass.
What knocks out Simipour 42 in one hit, and what does it knock out?
Weakness doubles the damage a Grass attack deals to this card, so the bar it has to clear is 45 printed damage rather than 90.
Nuzleaf50 damage50 damage becomes 100 against this card
Simipour 4290 HPWhy this card was picked to stand opposite
Of the 875 cards in the archive that can remove Simipour 42 in a single attack, this one clears the bar by the smallest margin — 50 printed damage against a bar of 45. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flapple VMAX (19) | Battle Styles | 320 | 250 | 500 |
| Flapple VMAX (164) | Battle Styles | 320 | 250 | 500 |
| Mega Venusaur ex (3) | Mega Evolution | 380 | 240 | 480 |
| Mega Venusaur ex (155) | Mega Evolution | 380 | 240 | 480 |
| Mega Venusaur ex (177) | Mega Evolution | 380 | 240 | 480 |
| Decidueye ex (12) | Perfect Order | 320 | 240 | 480 |
90 HP against a Grass ×2 weakness means any Grass attack printed at 45 damage or more is enough. 880 cards in the archive clear that bar.
Back to summaryWhat is Simipour as a Pokémon, across every card it has been printed on?
Simipour 42 is one print of Simipour. 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 Simipour 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 Simipour 42 can be?
Simipour evolves from Panpour, 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 Panpour.
- The line runs 2 stages, so the first card has to be in play 1 turn 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 Simipour print, and can the older ones still be played?
11 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Simipour 018/086 | SV: Black Bolt | Mark I | Legal in Standard |
| Simipour 102/086 | SV: Black Bolt | Mark I | Legal in Standard |
| Simipour 042/189 | SWSH03: Darkness Ablaze | Mark D | Not legal in Standard |
| Simipour 042/182 | SV04: Paradox Rift | Mark G | Legal in Standard |
| Simipour 069/264 | SWSH08: Fusion Strike | Mark E | Not legal in Standard |
| Simipour 23/98 | Emerging Powers | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Simipour 34/114 | Black and White | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Simipour 38/146 | XY Base Set | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Simipour 29/99 | Next Destinies | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Simipour 42/162 | XY - BREAKthrough | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Simipour 37/147 | SM - Burning Shadows | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
3 of the 11 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 Simipour 42?
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gyarados | XY Black Star Promos | 130 | 100 | 3 |
| Gyarados | Base | 100 | 50 | 3 |
| Milotic ex | Emerald | 130 | 70 | 2 |
| Vaporeon | Skyridge | 70 | 40 | 1 |
| Piloswine | Skyridge | 90 | 40 | 3 |
| Misty's Gyarados | Gym Challenge | 100 | 70 | 3 |
This card itself is 90 HP, 0 top damage and 1 retreat, and every card here is Water like it.
Back to summaryWhich other cards share the Pokémon behind Simipour 42?
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.
100
Simipour [18]
100
Simipour [102]
90
Simipour [23]
90
Simipour [34]
90
Simipour [38]
90
Simipour [29]
100
Simipour [42]
90
Simipour [37]
100
Simipour [42]
100
Simipour [69]
10 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 Simipour 42 in BREAKthrough?
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.
60
Piplup [36]
80
Prinplup [37]
140
Empoleon [38]
80
Snover [39]
130
Abomasnow [40]
60
Panpour [41]
50
Vanillite [43]
70
Vanillish [44]
130
Vanilluxe [45]
50
Froakie [46]
70
Frogadier [47]
60
Pikachu [48]
These are the cards numbered either side of #42 in BREAKthrough. 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 Simipour 42, 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 November 4, 2015.
Simipour 42 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 1 more Energy, discarded from the card itself.
- It cannot start the game in play — Panpour has to be on the field first.
Where its HP stands, cut four ways
What actually removes it
- A Grass attack printed at 45 damage removes it in a single turn — that is the bar, not its 90 HP.
- 880 cards in the archive clear that bar.
Simipour 42 card record
| Hit points | 90 HP | Type | Water |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weakness | Grass ×2 | Retreat cost | 1 Energy |
| Evolves from | Panpour | Card type | Stage 1 |
| Pokédex number | #516 | Set | BREAKthrough |
| Card number | 42 of 162 | Series | XY |
| Released | November 4, 2015 | Rarity | Rare |
| Illustrator | Masakazu Fukuda | ||
| Tournament legality | Unlimited and Expanded only | ||
Read from the printed card face, the set listing and the official format list.
What does Simipour 42 cost?
This page is about what the card does. The figure below is the one number worth carrying across, read on August 14, 2026.
Simipour 42 — frequently asked questions
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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.
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.