Raticate 88 — what does this card actually do?
This card has 70 HP and a Fighting weakness.
Colorless · Stage 1 · BREAKpoint · measured against 20,444 cards on file — card data read July 28, 2026
What does Raticate 88 do in a game?
Raticate 88 is a Colorless Pokémon card with 70 HP, printed as Stage 1.
Because of the Fighting weakness, any Fighting attack printed at 35 damage or more removes it in a single turn.
Raticate 88BREAKpoint
Raticate 88 performance summary
70 HP · Colorless · Stage 1 · retreat 0 · Fighting weakness ×2
Strongest on Retreat lightness — top 0.1% of the archive. Weakest on Hit points — bottom 25.7%.
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 | 25.7% | 70 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 10,622 at 70 HP.
Raticate 8870 HPPrinted HP
The ceiling of this archive is 380 HP — 310 HP above this card.
Mega Emboar ex 273380 HPWhat stands out on Raticate 88
- Hit points 70 HP puts it in the ~70 band, where 38.6% of 17,290 cards with printed HP sit.
- Weakness A Fighting attack printed at 35 damage or more removes it in a single turn.
- Legality 4 of the 30 prints that carry this name are legal in Standard play.
Raticate 88 at a glance
- What it is. A Colorless Pokémon card with 70 HP printed as Stage 1, printed in BREAKpoint.
- What it can do. 1 attack printed on the card, the strongest at 0 damage for 0 Energy.
- What it fears. A Fighting weakness at ×2, which means 35 printed damage is enough to remove it.
- 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 Raticate 88 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dirty Shock | 1 Colorless | 1 | — | — | Your opponent's Active Pokémon is now Poisoned. Discard all Pokémon Tool cards attached to that 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 Raticate 88 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 70 HP, which is 18% 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 70 HP.
Cards in the ~70 band typically print 23 damage and ask 1 Energy to retreat.
| Group | Share | Value |
|---|---|---|
| ~70 — this card | 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 | 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 Raticate 88 stands highest on HP — number 1,181 of 2,171 cards in Colorless cards. Cut the archive a different way and the answer moves, which is what the bars below are for.
- Hit points 70 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 Raticate 88 does without attacking
Raticate 88 carries 1 printed effect that work outside the attack step, so it can matter on a turn the card never attacks.
Why this sits apart from the attacks
An attack costs Energy and ends your turn. What is printed above does neither — it is available while the card is in play, so it is a different kind of cost to a deck. Attack costs are in the section above.
What does being a Colorless card do for Raticate 88?
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 — this card | 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 Colorless weakness.
What being a Colorless card is worth
No group in the archive most often prints a Colorless weakness, so this type gains nothing automatic from the weakness rule. Going the other way, Colorless cards are themselves most exposed to Fighting.
What knocks out Raticate 88 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 35 printed damage rather than 70.
40 damage becomes 80 against this card
Raticate 8870 HPWhy this card was picked to stand opposite
Of the 1,208 cards in the archive that can remove Raticate 88 in a single attack, this one clears the bar by the smallest margin — 40 printed damage against a bar of 35. 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 |
70 HP against a Fighting ×2 weakness means any Fighting attack printed at 35 damage or more is enough. 1,221 cards in the archive clear that bar.
Back to summaryWhat is Raticate as a Pokémon, across every card it has been printed on?
Raticate 88 is one print of Raticate. 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 Raticate 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 Raticate 88 can be?
Raticate evolves from Rattata, so the whole line has to be built before this card reaches the field.
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 Raticate print, and can the older ones still be played?
30 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alolan Raticate-GX 85/168 | SM - Celestial Storm | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Alolan Raticate 82/147 | SM - Burning Shadows | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Alolan Raticate 77/149 | SM Base Set | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Alolan Raticate 042/078 | Pokemon GO | Mark F | Legal in Standard |
| Raticate BREAK 89/122 | XY - BREAKpoint | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Team Rocket's Raticate 202/182 | SV10: Destined Rivals | Mark I | Legal in Standard |
| Raticate 099/088 | ME03: Perfect Order | Mark J | Not legal in Standard |
| Team Rocket's Raticate 148/182 | SV10: Destined Rivals | Mark I | Legal in Standard |
| Raticate 061/088 | ME03: Perfect Order | Mark J | Not legal in Standard |
| Raticate 34/90 | Undaunted | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Dark Raticate 17/109 | EX Team Rocket Returns | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Raticate 089/144 | Skyridge | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Raticate 48/112 | EX FireRed & LeafGreen | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Raticate 88/116 | Plasma Freeze | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Lt. Surge's Raticate 051/132 | Gym Heroes | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Raticate G 78 | Supreme Victors | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Raticate 29/99 | Arceus | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Raticate 61/132 | Secret Wonders | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Raticate 88/122 | XY - BREAKpoint | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Raticate 144/214 | SM - Unbroken Bonds | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Raticate 020/165 | SV: Scarlet & Violet 151 | Mark G | Legal in Standard |
| Raticate 06/18 | Southern Islands | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Raticate 040/102 | Base Set (Shadowless) | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Lt. Surge's Raticate 053/132 | Gym Challenge | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Raticate 105/149 | Boundaries Crossed | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Raticate 061/110 | Legendary Collection | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Team Aqua's Poochyena 016/034 | Trading Card Game Classic | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Raticate 058/130 | Base Set 2 | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Raticate 67/108 | XY - Evolutions | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Dark Raticate 51/82 | Team Rocket | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
4 of the 30 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 Raticate 88?
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Erika's Dragonair | Gym Heroes | 80 | 30 | 2 |
| Altaria ex | Emerald | 100 | 70 | 1 |
| Light Togetic | Neo Destiny | 60 | 30 | 0 |
| Togetic | Aquapolis | 60 | 0 | 1 |
| Dragonair | Base | 80 | 30 | 2 |
| Togetic | Neo Genesis | 60 | 30 | 0 |
This card itself is 70 HP, 0 top damage and 0 retreat, and every card here is Colorless like it.
Back to summaryWhich other cards share the Pokémon behind Raticate 88?
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 Raticate 88 in BREAKpoint?
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 #88 in BREAKpoint. 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 Raticate 88, 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 February 3, 2016.
Raticate 88 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 — Rattata has to be on the field first.
Where its HP stands, cut four ways
What actually removes it
- A Fighting attack printed at 35 damage removes it in a single turn — that is the bar, not its 70 HP.
- 1,221 cards in the archive clear that bar.
Raticate 88 card record
| Hit points | 70 HP | Type | Colorless |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weakness | Fighting ×2 | Retreat cost | 0 Energy |
| Evolves from | Rattata | Card type | Stage 1 |
| Pokédex number | #020 | Set | BREAKpoint |
| Card number | 88 of 122 | Series | XY |
| Released | February 3, 2016 | Rarity | Rare |
| Illustrator | Kagemaru Himeno | ||
| Tournament legality | Unlimited and Expanded only | ||
Read from the printed card face, the set listing and the official format list.
What does Raticate 88 cost?
This page is about what the card does. The figure below is the one number worth carrying across, read on August 14, 2026.
Raticate 88 — 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.