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The Seven Lycanroc Cards Worth Owning

Lycanroc cards in the Simplified Chinese Pokemon sets: 14 cards, 7 with a PSA 10 value, top card at 43 dollars

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Here are the top 5 Lycanroc cards in Simplified Chinese, ranked by PSA 10 value.

Quick answer

CardSpicy (cardspicy.com) ranks the most valuable Lycanroc cards printed in the Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines. Lycanroc GX leads at $504 as a PSA 10, and the rankings use tracked PSA 10 sales rather than raw prices. Simplified Chinese set codes end in C, the marker of a Chinese-exclusive print run.

Lycanroc appears on 7 Chinese-exclusive printings, 1 further Simplified Chinese printings, 1 Traditional Chinese printings, 24 Japanese, 3 Korean and 37 English numbered Pokémon cards, and this page covers every language the character was printed in — Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines.

Lycanroc carries 7 numbered Chinese-exclusive printings. The head of the list is Lycanroc [Stamped] #1206 (CBB3C) at $43. Everything below is arranged by what each card actually trades for, so the page reads the same way whoever is reading it — the Chinese lines come first, and only the numbers change.

How this list was built

Four rules, applied in this order.

  • The card has to be a numbered Pokémon card. Sealed product, trainer cards and energy are out of scope across every line on this page.
  • The Chinese list is restricted to Chinese-exclusive numbering. Every card in the first list carries a set code ending in C — 151C, CBB1C, CBB5C, CSM2aC, CSV9C. That trailing letter is the dependable way to tell a Simplified Chinese print run from a card that merely happens to be printed in Chinese.
  • The card has to carry a tracked market value. Cards with no graded sold record yet are named at the end of each language section rather than ranked, because there is nothing to rank them on.
  • Prices are PSA 10 market values, and how each one was arrived at is marked. Every figure comes from PriceCharting. Where a PSA 10 copy has actually sold in the last six months, that figure is the median of those sales and the card’s position rests on real trades. Where it has not, the top-grade number is a model output: those cards are marked ‡, or † if the model figure ran so far past what the card’s own lower grades support that the ranking caps it. The raw and grade 9 prices are printed under every card so the traded level is always visible.

The Simplified Chinese list — Chinese-exclusive sets

Every card here sits in a set whose code ends in C — the Simplified Chinese numbering line. Promos and 30th Celebration are excluded, because their numbering is shared across the Chinese branches rather than being Chinese-exclusive.

7. Lycanroc [Rotary] — CBB3C #1204 — $34

Lycanroc [Rotary] — Gem Pack 3, Simplified Chinese Pokemon card
Lycanroc [Rotary] · Gem Pack 3

Raw $0.99 · grade 9 $11.41 · PSA 10 $34.43

Seventh of the 7 priced printings in this line. A raw copy is a $0.99 card and the tracked graded tier is $34.43, a 35× separation. Gem Pack prints each Pokémon in a group as a ladder of treatments — a Poké Ball foil, a Master Ball foil, a shiny, and so on, up to the art rare at the top. At 13.1% of the page’s total, this is one of the cards a Chinese-line collection is built around rather than filled out with.

6. Lycanroc [Masterball] — CBB3C #1205 — $34

Lycanroc [Masterball] — Gem Pack 3, Simplified Chinese Pokemon card
Lycanroc [Masterball] · Gem Pack 3

Raw $0.99 · grade 9 $11.41 · PSA 10 $34.44

Sixth place among the 7 priced printings in this line. A raw copy is a $0.99 card and the tracked graded tier is $34.44, a 35× separation. It is one of 6 cards from CBB3C inside the ten above, which is a lot of the list to come from a single product. At 13.1% of the page’s total, this is one of the cards a Chinese-line collection is built around rather than filled out with.

5. Lycanroc [Stars] — CBB3C #1203 — $36

Lycanroc [Stars] — Gem Pack 3, Simplified Chinese Pokemon card
Lycanroc [Stars] · Gem Pack 3

Raw $1.34 · grade 9 $11.91 · PSA 10 $36

Number 5 of the 7 cards in this line that carry a tracked value. A raw copy is a $1.34 card and the tracked graded tier is $36, a 27× separation. It is one of 6 cards from CBB3C inside the ten above, which is a lot of the list to come from a single product. At 13.7% of the page’s total, this is one of the cards a Chinese-line collection is built around rather than filled out with.

4. Lycanroc ex — CBB3C #1207 — $37

Lycanroc ex — Gem Pack 3, Simplified Chinese Pokemon card
Lycanroc ex · Gem Pack 3

Raw $1.68 · grade 9 $12.33 · PSA 10 $37.35

Sitting at number 4 of the 7 priced printings in this line. A raw copy is a $1.68 card and the tracked graded tier is $37.35, a 22× separation. It is one of 6 cards from CBB3C inside the ten above, which is a lot of the list to come from a single product. At 14.2% of the page’s total, this is one of the cards a Chinese-line collection is built around rather than filled out with.

3. Lycanroc — CBB3C #1201 — $38

Lycanroc — Gem Pack 3, Simplified Chinese Pokemon card
Lycanroc · Gem Pack 3

Raw $1.74 · grade 9 $12.46 · PSA 10 $37.75

Third of the 7 priced printings here — still near the head of the list, but a clear step behind the pair above it. A raw copy is a $1.74 card and the tracked graded tier is $37.75, a 22× separation. It is one of 6 cards from CBB3C inside the ten above, which is a lot of the list to come from a single product. At 14.4% of the page’s total, this is one of the cards a Chinese-line collection is built around rather than filled out with.

2. Lycanroc VMAX — CS4bC #68 — $39

Lycanroc VMAX, Simplified Chinese Pokemon card
Lycanroc VMAX · CS4bC

Raw $1 · PSA 10 $38.88

At number two, close enough to the top that the pair reads as one tier. A raw copy is a $1 card and the tracked graded tier is $38.88, a 39× separation. CS4bC sits alongside CS4aC in the Chinese Sword & Shield numbering line. At 14.8% of the page’s total, this is one of the cards a Chinese-line collection is built around rather than filled out with.

1. Lycanroc [Stamped] — CBB3C #1206 — $43

Lycanroc [Stamped] — Gem Pack 3, Simplified Chinese Pokemon card
Lycanroc [Stamped] · Gem Pack 3

Raw $2.99 · grade 9 $14.25 · PSA 10 $43.40

First place, and the only card here that a casual buyer would recognise as expensive on sight. A raw copy is a $2.99 card and the tracked graded tier is $43.40, a 15× separation. It is one of 6 cards from CBB3C inside the ten above, which is a lot of the list to come from a single product. At 16.5% of the page’s total, this is one of the cards a Chinese-line collection is built around rather than filled out with.

This line only yields 7 priced printings for Lycanroc. Another 7 numbered printings in this line carry no graded sold record yet and are therefore not ranked.

Other Simplified Chinese printings

These are the other Simplified Chinese printings: promos, the reprint sets and the gift-box runs. They sit outside the ranked Chinese-exclusive list because their numbering does not identify a Chinese-only print.

  • Lycanroc GX — CSM1.5C #23 — $36

A further 3 Simplified Chinese printings of Lycanroc sit in our catalogue without a tracked value. No graded sale of any of them has been recorded.

The Japanese list

Japanese is the original language of the TCG, so this list reaches further back than either of the other two — into the 1996 promos, the Gold Star era and the modern art rares alike.

10. Lycanroc GX — Alolan Moonlight #27 — $48

Lycanroc GX, Japanese Pokemon card
Lycanroc GX · Alolan Moonlight

Raw $2.90 · grade 9 $9.25 · PSA 10 $47.67

Sitting at number 10 of the 24 priced printings in this line. A raw copy is a $2.90 card and the tracked graded tier is $47.67, a 16× separation. Alolan Moonlight supplies two cards to the ten above, and this is the lower of the pair.

9. Lycanroc — 30th Celebration #113 — $52

Lycanroc, Japanese Pokemon card
Lycanroc · 30th Celebration

Raw $4.46 · grade 9 $15.76 · PSA 10 $52.31

Ninth of the 24 priced printings in this line. Raw to graded is 11.7× — $4.46 ungraded against $52.31. One of the 24 Japanese printings of this character in our catalogue that carry a tracked market value.

8. Lycanroc V — Skyscraping Perfection #71 — $55

Lycanroc V, Japanese Pokemon card
Lycanroc V · Skyscraping Perfection

Raw $5 · grade 9 $22.62 · PSA 10 $54.99

Sitting at number 8 of the 24 priced printings in this line. Raw to graded is 11.0× — $5 ungraded against $54.99. Skyscraping Perfection supplies two cards to the ten above, and this is the lower of the pair.

7. Lycanroc GX — GX Battle Boost #57 — $55

Lycanroc GX, Japanese Pokemon card
Lycanroc GX · GX Battle Boost

Raw $1.17 · grade 9 $5.50 · PSA 10 $55.03

Seventh place among the 24 priced printings in this line. A raw copy is a $1.17 card and the tracked graded tier is $55.03, a 47× separation. One of the 24 Japanese printings of this character in our catalogue that carry a tracked market value.

6. Lycanroc VMAX — Skyscraping Perfection #80 — $59

Lycanroc VMAX, Japanese Pokemon card
Lycanroc VMAX · Skyscraping Perfection

Raw $7.42 · grade 9 $26.67 · PSA 10 $59.03

Sixth place among the 24 priced printings in this line. Raw to graded is 8.0× — $7.42 ungraded against $59.03. Skyscraping Perfection supplies two cards to the ten above, and this is the lower of the pair.

5. Lycanroc — Alter Genesis #48 — $70

Lycanroc, Japanese Pokemon card
Lycanroc · Alter Genesis

Raw $2.59 · grade 9 $17.16 · PSA 10 $70

Fifth of the 24 priced printings in this line. A raw copy is a $2.59 card and the tracked graded tier is $70, a 27× separation. One of the 24 Japanese printings of this character in our catalogue that carry a tracked market value.

4. Lycanroc — Ash vs Rocket Deck Kit #12 — $78

Lycanroc, Japanese Pokemon card
Lycanroc · Ash vs Rocket Deck Kit

Raw $29.99 · grade 9 $19.31 · PSA 10 $78.40

Fourth place among the 24 priced printings in this line. The grading premium is a moderate 2.6×, $29.99 raw against $78.40 graded. One of the 24 Japanese printings of this character in our catalogue that carry a tracked market value.

3. Lycanroc GX — Alolan Moonlight #58 — $90

Lycanroc GX, Japanese Pokemon card
Lycanroc GX · Alolan Moonlight

Raw $30.43 · PSA 10 $89.99

Third of the 24 priced printings here — still near the head of the list, but a clear step behind the pair above it. The grading premium is a moderate 3.0×, $30.43 raw against $89.99 graded. Alolan Moonlight supplies two cards to the ten above, and this is the lower of the pair.

2. Lycanroc GX — GX Ultra Shiny #227 — $100

Lycanroc GX, Japanese Pokemon card
Lycanroc GX · GX Ultra Shiny

Raw $19.99 · grade 9 $31 · PSA 10 $100

Second of the 24 priced printings in this line, and the last card before the list begins to separate. The grading premium is a moderate 5.0×, $19.99 raw against $100 graded. GX Ultra Shiny supplies two cards to the ten above, and this is the lower of the pair.

1. Lycanroc GX — GX Ultra Shiny #226 — $100

Lycanroc GX, Japanese Pokemon card
Lycanroc GX · GX Ultra Shiny

Raw $19.99 · grade 9 $20 · PSA 10 $100

The highest-priced card on the list, and the one that decides the shape of everything under it. The grading premium is a moderate 5.0×, $19.99 raw against $100 graded. GX Ultra Shiny supplies two cards to the ten above, and this is the lower of the pair.

Ranks 11 and beyond

These carry a tracked value but sit outside the ten above. They are listed rather than written up, because at this level the numbers are close enough that a paragraph each would repeat itself.

  • Lycanroc — Forbidden Light #53 — $44
  • Lycanroc GX — GX Battle Boost #56 — $44
  • Lycanroc V — Skyscraping Perfection #24 — $37
  • Lycanroc GX — Alolan Moonlight #53 — $36
  • Lycanroc — VMAX Climax #87 — $36
  • Lycanroc — Battle Partners #52 — $36
  • Lycanroc — Battle Partners #107 — $35
  • Lycanroc ex — Triplet Beat #90 — $34
  • Lycanroc GX — Rockruff Full Power Deck #9 — $34
  • Lycanroc VMAX — Skyscraping Perfection #25 — $34
  • Lycanroc ex — Triplet Beat #50 — $23
  • Lycanroc GX — GX Ultra Shiny #60 — $22
  • Lycanroc GX — Facing a New Trial #34 — $20
  • Lycanroc GX — GX Ultra Shiny #61 — $19

And 16 further printings below those, which carry no tracked value at all.

The English list

English is the widest printing line of the six, which is why its top ten is the most expensive and the most contested.

10. Lycanroc GX — Guardians Rising #74 — $75

Lycanroc GX, English Pokemon card
Lycanroc GX · Guardians Rising

Raw $2.88 · grade 9 $13.22 · PSA 10 $74.95

Tenth of the 37 priced printings in this line. A raw copy is a $2.88 card and the tracked graded tier is $74.95, a 26× separation. It is one of 3 cards from Guardians Rising inside the ten above, which is a lot of the list to come from a single product. The raw card is cheap enough that the entire decision here is about the holder, not the card.

9. Lycanroc V — Evolving Skies #187 — $75

Lycanroc V, English Pokemon card
Lycanroc V · Evolving Skies

Raw $3.96 · grade 9 $19.90 · PSA 10 $74.99

Ninth place among the 37 priced printings in this line. A raw copy is a $3.96 card and the tracked graded tier is $74.99, a 19× separation. Evolving Skies is the Sword & Shield-era set that produced the modern alternate-art chase cards, and its print run is far larger than anything from the vintage era. The raw card is cheap enough that the entire decision here is about the holder, not the card.

8. Lycanroc [Reverse Holo] — Burning Shadows #76 — $84

Lycanroc [Reverse Holo], English Pokemon card
Lycanroc [Reverse Holo] · Burning Shadows

Raw $0.99 · grade 9 $12.89 · PSA 10 $84

Eighth place among the 37 priced printings in this line. A raw copy is a $0.99 card and the tracked graded tier is $84, a 85× separation. It is one of 4 cards from Burning Shadows inside the ten above, which is a lot of the list to come from a single product. The raw card is cheap enough that the entire decision here is about the holder, not the card.

7. Lycanroc V — Evolving Skies #91 — $100

Lycanroc V, English Pokemon card
Lycanroc V · Evolving Skies

Raw $1.38 · grade 9 $7 · PSA 10 $99.99

Sitting at number 7 of the 37 priced printings in this line. A raw copy is a $1.38 card and the tracked graded tier is $99.99, a 72× separation. Evolving Skies supplies two cards to the ten above, and this is the lower of the pair. The raw card is cheap enough that the entire decision here is about the holder, not the card.

6. Lycanroc GX — Guardians Rising #138 — $109

Lycanroc GX, English Pokemon card
Lycanroc GX · Guardians Rising

Raw $5.34 · grade 9 $29.99 · PSA 10 $109

Sitting at number 6 of the 37 priced printings in this line. A raw copy is a $5.34 card and the tracked graded tier is $109, a 20× separation. It is one of 3 cards from Guardians Rising inside the ten above, which is a lot of the list to come from a single product. The raw card is cheap enough that the entire decision here is about the holder, not the card.

5. Lycanroc [Holo] — Chilling Reign #87 — $125

Lycanroc [Holo], English Pokemon card
Lycanroc [Holo] · Chilling Reign

Raw $0.27 · grade 9 $9.99 · PSA 10 $125

Sitting at number 5 of the 37 priced printings in this line. A raw copy is a $0.27 card and the tracked graded tier is $125, a 463× separation. One of the 37 English printings of this character in our catalogue that carry a tracked market value. The raw card is cheap enough that the entire decision here is about the holder, not the card.

4. Lycanroc GX — Guardians Rising #156 — $150

Lycanroc GX, English Pokemon card
Lycanroc GX · Guardians Rising

Raw $19.46 · grade 9 $29 · PSA 10 $149.63

Number 4 of the 37 cards in this line that carry a tracked value. Raw to graded is 7.7× — $19.46 ungraded against $149.63. It is one of 3 cards from Guardians Rising inside the ten above, which is a lot of the list to come from a single product. The raw card is cheap enough that the entire decision here is about the holder, not the card.

3. Lycanroc GX — Burning Shadows #136 — $156

Lycanroc GX, English Pokemon card
Lycanroc GX · Burning Shadows

Raw $4.78 · grade 9 $22.41 · PSA 10 $156.16

Third of the 37 priced printings here — still near the head of the list, but a clear step behind the pair above it. A raw copy is a $4.78 card and the tracked graded tier is $156.16, a 33× separation. It is one of 4 cards from Burning Shadows inside the ten above, which is a lot of the list to come from a single product. The raw card is cheap enough that the entire decision here is about the holder, not the card.

2. Lycanroc [Reverse Holo] — Burning Shadows #75 — $172

Lycanroc [Reverse Holo], English Pokemon card
Lycanroc [Reverse Holo] · Burning Shadows

Raw $0.75 · grade 9 $17.52 · PSA 10 $172.50

Second of the 37 priced printings in this line, and the last card before the list begins to separate. It sits 2.92× below the card above. A raw copy is a $0.75 card and the tracked graded tier is $172.50, a 230× separation. It is one of 4 cards from Burning Shadows inside the ten above, which is a lot of the list to come from a single product. The raw card is cheap enough that the entire decision here is about the holder, not the card.

1. Lycanroc GX — Burning Shadows #155 — $504

Lycanroc GX, English Pokemon card
Lycanroc GX · Burning Shadows

Raw $17.12 · grade 9 $53.42 · PSA 10 $504.28

The highest-priced card on the list, and the one that decides the shape of everything under it. It alone holds 32.5% of the value in the ten below it. A raw copy is a $17.12 card and the tracked graded tier is $504.28, a 29× separation. It is one of 4 cards from Burning Shadows inside the ten above, which is a lot of the list to come from a single product. The raw card is cheap enough that the entire decision here is about the holder, not the card.

Ranks 11 and beyond

These carry a tracked value but sit outside the ten above. They are listed rather than written up, because at this level the numbers are close enough that a paragraph each would repeat itself.

  • Lycanroc — Journey Together #166 — $75
  • Lycanroc VMAX — Evolving Skies #213 — $73
  • Lycanroc — Obsidian Flames #117 — $60
  • Lycanroc VMAX — Evolving Skies #92 — $54
  • Lycanroc GX — Team Up #82 — $49
  • Lycanroc [Cracked Ice] — Forbidden Light #76 — $48
  • Lycanroc — 30th Celebration #138 — $47
  • Lycanroc — Burning Shadows #75 — $46
  • Lycanroc — Journey Together #85 — $42
  • Lycanroc ex — Paldea Evolved #241 — $40
  • Lycanroc [Reverse Holo] — Forbidden Light #76 — $39
  • Lycanroc ex — Paldea Evolved #117 — $38
  • Lycanroc — Vivid Voltage #95 — $36
  • Lycanroc — Crown Zenith #74 — $33
  • Lycanroc — Cosmic Eclipse #124 — $33
  • Lycanroc — Burning Shadows #76 — $33
  • Lycanroc [Reverse Holo] — Journey Together #85 — $32
  • Lycanroc [Reverse Holo] — Obsidian Flames #117 — $32
  • Lycanroc [Reverse Holo] — Chilling Reign #87 — $31
  • Lycanroc — 30th Celebration #85 — $31
  • Lycanroc [Reverse Holo] — Temporal Forces #90 — $31
  • Lycanroc — Trick or Trade 2023 #95 — $31
  • Lycanroc — Temporal Forces #90 — $31
  • Lycanroc [Reverse Holo] — Cosmic Eclipse #124 — $30
  • Lycanroc [Reverse Holo] — Vivid Voltage #95 — $23
  • Lycanroc — Forbidden Light #76 — $20
  • Lycanroc [Reverse Holo] — Crown Zenith #74 — $20

And 3 further printings below those, which carry no tracked value at all.

Where Lycanroc is printed, across the languages

Printing line Cards With a tracked value Highest
Simplified Chinese — exclusive sets 7 7 $43
Simplified Chinese — other printings 1 1 $36
Traditional Chinese (Taiwan, China / Hong Kong, China) 1 1 $48
Japanese 24 24 $100
Korean 3 3 $50
English 37 37 $504
All 6 lines 73 73 —

What the ranking shows

On the Chinese-exclusive line, 7 cards carry a tracked value. The four at the top hold 60.0% of it.

Band Cards Combined value Share of total
Ranked 1 – 4 4 $157 60.0%
Ranked 5 – 10 3 $105 40.0%
Ranked 11 and below 0 $0 0.0%
Every priced Chinese-exclusive card 7 $262 100%

If you want one card

One card, no budget limit:

Lycanroc [Stamped] #1206 — CBB3C #1206. $43, and it is the card most lists for this character name first.

One card, under two hundred dollars:

Lycanroc [Rotary] #1204 — CBB3C #1204. $34. It is not the card anyone photographs, but it is the same Pokémon from the same line.

Frequently asked questions

What is the most valuable Lycanroc card in Simplified Chinese?

Among the Chinese-exclusive numbered sets, Lycanroc [Stamped] #1206 carries the highest tracked value at $43. Promos and other non-C numbered printings sit outside that comparison.

How many Lycanroc cards exist in the Chinese-exclusive sets?

7 of the numbered Chinese-exclusive printings for this character carry a tracked market value in our catalogue.

Which Lycanroc card leads the Japanese list?

Lycanroc GX #226 from GX Ultra Shiny at $100. Japanese is the original printing line, so its top of the list reaches back further than either Chinese or English.

Which Lycanroc card leads the English list?

Lycanroc GX #155 from Burning Shadows at $504.

Why are the Traditional Chinese (1 printings listed here) and Korean (3 printings listed here) not in a top ten?

Because a top ten should be a market, not a category. Those lines are thin enough that a ranked list would be an artefact of how few copies have sold rather than a statement about what the cards are worth, so they are listed in full instead of ranked — you will find both of them folded away at the foot of this page. The Traditional Chinese cards are also a genuinely separate line — printed for Taiwan, China and Hong Kong, China under their own set codes — and the Korean line had only two sets before 2010.

What do the marks next to some prices mean?

0 of the thirty ranked cards carry a mark. A double dagger (‡) means no PSA 10 copy of that card has sold in the last six months, so the graded price is a model output rather than a traded one. A single dagger (†) means the same thing, taken further: the model figure ran past the ceiling the card’s own lower grades support, so the ranking uses the capped number instead. None of them needed reducing on this page.

Is a PSA 10 worth the premium over a raw card?

It depends entirely on the card. On cheap modern printings the raw-to-graded multiple runs into double figures, which makes grading look like free money until you count the fee and the risk of the card coming back a nine. On the four-figure cards the multiple narrows, because the raw copy already carries most of the premium.

The other printing lines

Lycanroc is printed in more lines than the four listed above. Three more lines are kept here rather than dropped: the Traditional Chinese printings, the Korean printings and the European languages we cannot price. None of them carries a market we can rank honestly, and each one below says why. They are folded because the ranked lists above should stay readable — open any of them to see that line in full.

Traditional Chinese printings (Taiwan, China / Hong Kong, China)

1 printings

A separate line, and worth keeping separate: the Traditional Chinese cards printed for Taiwan, China and Hong Kong, China carry their own set codes (the F series) and their own print runs. The 2000 Traditional Chinese Base Set reaches back to a print that Simplified Chinese never had, and the 30th Celebration run is listed here because the two Chinese lines share it and the marketplace does not separate them.

  • Lycanroc — 30th Celebration #113 — $48

A further 3 Traditional Chinese printings of Lycanroc sit in our catalogue without a tracked value. No graded sale of any of them has been recorded.

Korean printings

3 printings

Korean is the smallest line of the six, and the one with the strangest history. Only two Korean-language sets existed before 2010 — a 2000 Base Set reprint and a 2003 ADV set — before the TCG became a permanent fixture in South Korea with Start of an Adventure that year; from 2011 onward the Korean sets have mirrored the Japanese ones. The Base Set holos, printed in Korean exactly once, are what most collectors mean when they say Korean.

  • Lycanroc — Battle Partners #107 — $50
  • Lycanroc — Battle Partners #52 — $37
  • Lycanroc ex — Triple Beat #90 — $29

A further 12 Korean printings of Lycanroc sit in our catalogue without a tracked value. No graded sale of any of them has been recorded.

Other-language printings — French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese

not ranked here

The Pokémon Trading Card Game has been printed in more languages than any one page usually admits. The Pokémon Company’s own figures put it at sixteen languages across its history and thirteen in current release: Japanese, English, German, French, Italian, European and Latin American Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Korean, both Chinese lines, Thai and Indonesian. Dutch, Polish and Russian runs existed earlier and have since stopped.

Not one of the European lines is listed or ranked on this page, and the reason sits with the price source rather than with the cards. Every figure on this page comes from PriceCharting, whose Pokémon catalogue runs to 803 set listings: 395 Japanese, 94 Chinese, 59 Korean and the remaining 255 English. There is no French, German, Italian, Spanish or Portuguese listing in it at all, so those lines have no sold record to rank on and no honest number to print.

That does not make those cards uncollected. German, French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese Base Set printings are genuine late-1990s products with their own collectors, and Portuguese cards were printed for Portugal first and for Brazil later. They simply trade in far thinner markets than the English and Japanese lines, and the sold records that exist are too scattered to rank a list from.

If we ever have a source for those languages that we would put our name to, that line will appear here with the same treatment as the others — a ranked ten, traded and modelled figures marked separately, and the raw and grade 9 prices printed underneath.

More Pokémon

This page is one entry in a catalogue that covers every Pokémon in the line. The first 151 are all here, and beyond them the collection continues.

If you are looking at the whole Chinese market rather than one character, the ten most popular Chinese-exclusive cards ranks across Pokémon, the price ladder sorts the same catalogue into bands, and how many Chinese-exclusive cards exist sets out the full count. For the differences against the Japanese line, this comparison sets them out, and where to buy Simplified Chinese Pokémon cards compares the four buying routes.

Where to buy these cards

CardSpicy sells the cards in this guide as PSA 10 (Gem Mint) slabs only — no raw cards, and no grades below PSA 10. An in-stock listing states the PSA certification number and shows the exact slab photographed; the rest of the range is sourced to order.

Other character rankings

Each character with a full five or ten-card ranking has its own page: Ceruledge, Charizard, Eevee, Espeon, Flareon, Floragato, Gengar, Glaceon, Jolteon, Leafeon, Mew, Pikachu, Sylveon, Umbreon, Vaporeon, and among the shorter runs Alakazam, Applin, Articuno, Blastoise, Captain Pikachu, Chandelure, Chansey, Charmander, Clefable, Crocalor, Cubone, Fuecoco.

Beyond the single character, the ten most popular Chinese-exclusive cards ranks across Pokémon, the price ladder sorts the same catalogue into bands, and the collector’s index lists every Pokémon that appears in the Chinese-only sets with its card count, priced count and top value.

We do not hold a Lycanroc slab in Simplified Chinese — the character is outside our current stock. The cards we do hold are listed in the PSA 10 collection.

Sources

Sources and further reading
  1. PriceCharting — individual card pages for every card on this list, including the complete grade ladder from Ungraded to PSA 10, and the recorded marketplace and auction sales underneath them. Retrieved 29 September 2026.
  2. PriceCharting — console listings for the Chinese-exclusive sets (151C, CBB1C to CBB6C, CSM2aC, CSM2bC, CSM2cC, CS3aC to CS5.5C, CSV4C to CSV10C), the Japanese line and the English line.
  3. PSA population report — graded populations quoted for the individual cards in this article, including the gem-mint share.
  4. The Pokémon Company — “Pokémon in Figures”, for the sixteen languages the TCG has been printed in and the number of cards produced, the figures quoted in the other-language note at the foot of this page.
  5. CardSpicy — How to read a Simplified Chinese Pokémon set code, on the trailing C and the secret-rare numbering convention.
  6. CardSpicy — the card library, for the character rankings and the printed-product counts this page is built from.

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