Hoopa ex
When your Pokémon ex is Knocked Out, your opponent gets 2 points.
Other versions of this card
Other cards of Hoopa
About Hoopa ex — Strengths / Weaknesses
+ Dynamite Punch deals 100 damage for 3 energy (33.3 damage/energy) — about 55% above the average for Basic cards.
+ It's a Basic Pokémon — can attack from turn one, no evolving needed.
- Retreat cost is 2 energy — fairly high, easy to get stuck Active under pressure.
- It's an ex card — if Knocked Out, the opponent gets 2 points instead of 1, which can speed up their win.
- Weak to Grass (+20 damage) — avoid facing that type's decks.
Hoopa ex is a Super Rare card from the Ruler of the Skies set. Check its attacks, retreat cost and which pack it drops from below.
Attacks
This attack also does 20 damage to 1 of your opponent's Benched Pokémon.
This Pokémon also does 20 damage to itself.
Which pack does this card drop from?
Three ways to get this card
Want to know exactly how many packs you need to open to get Hoopa ex?
Is Hoopa ex played in any meta deck?
Hoopa ex is a core card in 3 of the 50 meta decks currently tracked (tier S · A · C), most notably Hoopa ex Mega Absol ex. Worth chasing: it holds collection value and it changes games, so if you play to climb, this is the card to spend Pack Points on first.
Same type in this set
Reading Hoopa ex's stat block
Hoopa ex is a Super Rare Basic card from the Ruler of the Skies set with 150 HP. Every STAT on this page comes straight from the card record; the expected pack count further down is a statistical estimate recomputed from the pull table, not a promise.
Its weakness is Grass, which is the fastest way for an opponent to remove it in a straight trade, and its retreat cost is 2 — that is what you pay in energy to swap it out mid-turn, and it is the number people forget until the card is stranded in the active spot.
Its attacks:
- Shadow Bullet — 30 damage · cost Darkness — This attack also does 20 damage to 1 of your opponent's Benched Pokémon.
- Dynamite Punch — 100 damage · cost Darkness + Darkness + Colorless — This Pokémon also does 20 damage to itself.
Read the energy costs together, not just the damage. A card with two attacks usually trades a cheap, weak opener for a pricier attack that does the real work, and the question that decides whether it belongs in a deck is whether you can actually pay for the big one on curve.
Which pack actually drops it
The per-slot rate table doesn't yet cover Hoopa ex's exact rarity grade, so no number is shown here — that's a data gap, not proof this is a PROMO card: Hoopa ex genuinely belongs to Ruler of the Skies. Use Pack Points or trading below while this gets filled in. This page shows no per-slot odds or expected pack count for Hoopa ex because the rate table doesn't yet cover its exact grade — making up a number here would be a lie. This is NOT a PROMO card: it belongs to Ruler of the Skies. Pack Points and trading below still work.
Three ways to own it
For Hoopa ex, pulling packs is still a real path — it belongs to Ruler of the Skies — but the per-slot rate table doesn't yet cover its exact grade, so this page won't guess a number. The second path removes luck entirely. Every pack you open awards 5 Pack Points (an official in-game mechanic, not part of the drop-rate table) regardless of what comes out of it, and those points accumulate until you can redeem this exact card outright. Hoopa ex costs 1,250 PP — no pulls, no gambling, just the count. The third path is trading, which spends Shinedust rather than Pack Points, and whether it is open to you depends entirely on the card's rarity. For Hoopa ex: It can be traded for 25,000 Shinedust.
Evolution line and other printings
Hoopa ex does not evolve from or into anything — it stands alone. Some Pokémon are also printed more than once — across different sets or promo drops, with different art, different rarity, and sometimes different attacks under the same name. Where other printings of this card exist, they are linked on this page, because the stats can differ even when the name matches.
Where this card stands on the ladder
Hoopa ex is a core card in 3 of the 50 meta decks currently tracked (tier S · A · C), most notably Hoopa ex Mega Absol ex. Worth chasing: it holds collection value and it changes games, so if you play to climb, this is the card to spend Pack Points on first. The meta deck table is recomputed from tournament data (play rate plus win/loss/tie record), not from anyone's opinion. A card missing from that table can still be beautiful and still be expensive to trade for, but it will not win games on its own — those are two different questions and this page answers them separately.
Frequently asked questions
Which pack should I open to get Hoopa ex?
Ruler of the Skies — the card genuinely belongs to that pack. The page just hasn't computed an exact percentage yet because the per-slot data doesn't cover this grade.
Roughly how many packs does it take to pull Hoopa ex?
No reliable number here: the per-slot rate data doesn't yet cover Hoopa ex's grade, even though it does drop from Ruler of the Skies. Use Pack Points or trading while this gets filled in.
Can I trade for Hoopa ex instead of pulling it?
It can be traded for 25,000 Shinedust. Trading uses Shinedust, and whether a card is tradeable at all is fixed by its rarity tier — Immersive Rare and Crown Rare cards can never be traded under any circumstance, so for those two tiers Pack Points or a direct pull are the only ways in.