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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

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

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

4. Lycanroc ex — CBB3C #1207 — $37

3. Lycanroc — CBB3C #1201 — $38

2. Lycanroc VMAX — CS4bC #68 — $39

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

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

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

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

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

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

5. Lycanroc — Alter Genesis #48 — $70

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

• Chinese Exclusive cards — the full range, in stock and sourced to order.
• All PSA 10 graded cards.
• Where to buy Simplified Chinese Pokémon cards — the four buying routes compared, and how to check a card before you pay.

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.

Prices quoted are secondary-market observations at the dates cited and move quickly; nothing here is a valuation or an investment recommendation. Our own asking prices for the cards we hold are on each product page.

Quick answer

CardSpicy (cardspicy.com) ranks the most valuable Snom cards printed in the Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines. Snom leads at $592 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.

Snom appears on 7 Chinese-exclusive printings, 1 further Simplified Chinese printings, 11 Japanese, 2 Korean and 12 English numbered Pokémon cards, and this page covers every language the character was printed in — Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines.

Snom carries 7 numbered Chinese-exclusive printings. The head of the list is Snom #2607 (CBB4C) at $54. 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. Snom — CBB4C #2601 — $36

6. Snom — CBB4C #2603 — $37

5. Snom — CBB4C #2602 — $38

4. Snom — CBB4C #2604 — $39

3. Snom — CBB4C #2605 — $39

2. Snom — CBB4C #2606 — $41

1. Snom — CBB4C #2607 — $54

This line only yields 7 priced printings for Snom. Another 3 numbered printings in this line carry no graded sold record yet and are therefore not ranked.

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. Snom — Wild Force #19 — $36

9. Snom — Shield #15 — $37

8. Snom — Fusion Arts #28 — $38

7. Snom — Mega Dream ex #40 — $39

6. Snom [Energy] — Mega Dream ex #40 — $40

5. Snom [Ball] — Mega Dream ex #40 — $40

4. Snom — VMAX Climax #39 — $42

3. Snom — Shiny Star V #47 — $46

2. Snom — Shiny Star V #232 — $63

1. Snom — Wild Force #73 — $65

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.

• Snom — Mega Symphonia #24 — $36

And 1 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. Snom — Ascended Heroes #52 — $31

9. Snom [Reverse Holo] — Temporal Forces #45 — $32

8. Snom [Reverse Holo] — Mega Evolution #42 — $33

7. Snom [Ball] — Ascended Heroes #52 — $34

6. Snom [Reverse Holo] — Fusion Strike #84 — $34

5. Snom — Fusion Strike #84 — $35

4. Snom [Energy] — Ascended Heroes #52 — $36

3. Snom [Reverse Holo] — Shining Fates #29 — $81

2. Snom — Temporal Forces #168 — $99

1. Snom — Shining Fates #29 — $592†

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.

• Snom — Temporal Forces #45 — $31
• Snom — Mega Evolution #42 — $31

And 1 further printings below those, which carry no tracked value at all.

Where Snom is printed, across the languages

Printing line	Cards	With a tracked value	Highest
Simplified Chinese — exclusive sets	7	7	$54
Japanese	11	11	$65
Korean	2	2	$46
English	12	12	$592
All 4 lines	32	32	—

What the ranking shows

On the Chinese-exclusive line, 7 cards carry a tracked value. The four at the top hold 60.9% of it.

Band	Cards	Combined value	Share of total
Ranked 1 – 4	4	$174	60.9%
Ranked 5 – 10	3	$111	39.1%
Ranked 11 and below	0	$0	0.0%
Every priced Chinese-exclusive card	7	$285	100%

If you want one card

One card, no budget limit:

Snom #2607 — CBB4C #2607. $54, and it is the card most lists for this character name first.

One card, under two hundred dollars:

Snom #2601 — CBB4C #2601. $36. 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 Snom card in Simplified Chinese?

Among the Chinese-exclusive numbered sets, Snom #2607 carries the highest tracked value at $54. Promos and other non-C numbered printings sit outside that comparison.

How many Snom 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 Snom card leads the Japanese list?

Snom #73 from Wild Force at $65. Japanese is the original printing line, so its top of the list reaches back further than either Chinese or English.

Which Snom card leads the English list?

Snom #29 from Shining Fates at $592.

Why are the Korean (2 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. 1 of them were reduced as well.

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

Snom is printed in more lines than the three listed above. Two more lines are kept here rather than dropped: 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.

Korean printings

2 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.

• Snom — Wild Force #73 — $46
• Snom [Energy] — Mega Dream ex #40 — $40

A further 4 Korean printings of Snom 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.

• Chinese Exclusive cards — the full range, in stock and sourced to order.
• All PSA 10 graded cards.
• Where to buy Simplified Chinese Pokémon cards — the four buying routes compared, and how to check a card before you pay.

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 Snom 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.

Prices quoted are secondary-market observations at the dates cited and move quickly; nothing here is a valuation or an investment recommendation. Our own asking prices for the cards we hold are on each product page.

Quick answer

CardSpicy (cardspicy.com) ranks the most valuable Darkrai cards printed in the Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines. Darkrai LV. X leads at $8,100 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.

Darkrai appears on 10 Chinese-exclusive printings, 2 further Simplified Chinese printings, 2 Traditional Chinese printings, 47 Japanese, 3 Korean and 48 English numbered Pokémon cards, and this page covers every language the character was printed in — Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines.

Darkrai carries 10 numbered Chinese-exclusive printings, and an English line wide enough that the top of it is decided by vintage printings rather than modern ones. The head of the list is Umbreon & Darkrai GX #158 (CSM2cC) at $400. 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.

10. Darkrai ex — CBB3C #1007 — $25

9. Darkrai — CBB3C #1001 — $37

8. Darkrai [Stars] — CBB3C #1003 — $37

7. Darkrai [Masterball] — CBB3C #1005 — $37

6. Darkrai [Pokeball] — CBB3C #1002 — $38

5. Darkrai [Rotary] — CBB3C #1004 — $38

4. Darkrai [Stamped] — CBB3C #1006 — $38

3. Umbreon & Darkrai GX — CSM2cC #44 — $119

2. Umbreon & Darkrai GX — CSM2cC #157 — $272

1. Umbreon & Darkrai GX — CSM2cC #158 — $400

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. Darkrai G — Promo #5/DPT-P — $925

9. Darkrai EX [1st Edition] — Rage of the Broken Heavens #85 — $1,005

8. Darkrai & Cresselia Legend [Holo] — Lost Link #36 — $1,005

7. Darkrai EX — Rage of the Broken Heavens #85 — $1,096

6. Darkrai EX — Dark Rush #72 — $1,325

5. Umbreon & Darkrai GX — Tag All Stars #182 — $2,000

4. Darkrai — Promo #7/PPP — $2,095

3. Darkrai [Super Rank Prize] — Promo #21/L-P — $2,468

2. Darkrai & Cresselia Legend [Holo] — Lost Link #35 — $2,476

1. Darkrai — Team Plasma Battle Gift Set #5 — $3,575

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.

• Darkrai — Dream Shine Collection #24 — $615
• Mega Darkrai ex — Abyss Eye #118 — $561
• Darkrai GX — Facing a New Trial #63 — $549
• Umbreon & Darkrai GX — Tag All Stars #215 — $483
• Darkrai — Promo #37/XY-P — $410
• Umbreon & Darkrai GX — Tag All Stars #181 — $348
• Darkrai GX — Facing a New Trial #55 — $327
• Darkrai Prism Star — Ultra Sun #31 — $305
• Darkrai — Promo #46/DP-P — $300
• Darkrai GX — GX Ultra Shiny #230 — $275
• Darkrai — Dream Shine Collection #23 — $243
• Mega Darkrai ex — Abyss Eye #114 — $218
• Darkrai EX — Dark Rush #44 — $199
• Darkrai EX [1st Edition] — EX Battle Boost #72 — $165
• Darkrai & Cresselia LEGEND — 30th Celebration #152 — $158
• Darkrai & Cresselia LEGEND — 30th Celebration #151 — $157
• Darkrai — Explosive Walker #48 — $152
• Darkrai EX — Rage of the Broken Heavens #55 — $152
• Darkrai ex — Start Deck 100 #456 — $151
• Darkrai EX — Best of XY #72 — $149
• Darkrai GX — GX Battle Boost #64 — $141
• Darkrai GX — Facing a New Trial #40 — $139
• Darkrai EX — Extra Regulation Box #12 — $136
• Umbreon & Darkrai GX — Tag Team Starter Set #10 — $128
• Darkrai — Battle Rainbow #34 — $124
• Darkrai Prism Star — Tag All Stars #77 — $119
• Darkrai VSTAR — VSTAR Universe #228 — $104
• Darkrai — Ruler of the Black Flame #74 — $85
• Darkrai EX — EX Battle Boost #72 — $84
• Darkrai — GX Ultra Shiny #68 — $78

And 1 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. Darkrai EX — BREAKpoint #118 — $1,550

9. Mega Darkrai ex — Pitch Black #120 — $2,014

8. Darkrai GX — Burning Shadows #158 — $2,025

7. Darkrai & Cresselia LEGEND — Triumphant #100 — $2,375

6. Darkrai EX — Legendary Treasures #88 — $2,380

5. Darkrai — Great Encounters #4 — $2,950

4. Darkrai & Cresselia LEGEND — Triumphant #99 — $4,465

3. Darkrai — Majestic Dawn #3 — $4,597†

2. Darkrai EX — Dark Explorers #107 — $5,500

1. Darkrai LV. X — Great Encounters #104 — $8,100

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.

• Darkrai Prism Star — Ultra Prism #77 — $1,445
• Darkrai GX — Burning Shadows #88a — $1,300
• Mega Darkrai ex — Pitch Black #116 — $1,209
• Darkrai EX — World Championships 2016 #74 — $1,111
• Darkrai — Great Encounters #3 — $1,000
• Darkrai [Reverse Holo] — Great Encounters #4 — $750
• Darkrai [Cosmos Holo] — Darkness Ablaze #105 — $750
• Darkrai G — Rising Rivals #3 — $743
• Darkrai GX — Burning Shadows #139 — $661
• Umbreon & Darkrai GX — Unified Minds #125 — $592
• Darkrai G [Reverse Holo] — Rising Rivals #3 — $564
• Darkrai EX — BREAKpoint #74 — $530
• Darkrai [Reverse Holo] — Majestic Dawn #3 — $501
• Darkrai [Reverse Holo] — Great Encounters #3 — $498
• Darkrai [Reverse Holo] — Darkness Ablaze #105 — $416
• Darkrai — Burning Shadows #87 — $390
• Darkrai EX — Dark Explorers #63 — $350
• Darkrai GX — Burning Shadows #88 — $335
• Darkrai & Cresselia LEGEND [Jumbo] — Triumphant #99 — $335
• Darkrai — Trick or Trade 2024 #136 — $332
• Darkrai [Pokemon League] — Burning Shadows #87 — $279
• Darkrai [Cosmos Holo] — Obsidian Flames #136 — $198
• Darkrai [Reverse Holo] — Burning Shadows #87 — $190
• Darkrai & Cresselia Legend — 30th Celebration #99 — $179
• Darkrai [Holo] — Darkness Ablaze #105 — $178
• Darkrai & Cresselia Legend — 30th Celebration #100 — $171
• Darkrai — Lost Origin #120 — $166
• Darkrai V — Astral Radiance #98 — $137
• Darkrai [Jumbo] — Promo #73 — $135
• Darkrai [Holo] — Obsidian Flames #136 — $128

And 6 further printings below those, which carry no tracked value at all.

Where Darkrai is printed, across the languages

Printing line	Cards	With a tracked value	Highest
Simplified Chinese — exclusive sets	10	10	$400
Traditional Chinese (Taiwan, China / Hong Kong, China)	2	2	$150
Japanese	47	47	$3,575
Korean	3	3	$722
English	48	48	$8,100
All 5 lines	110	110	—

What the ranking shows

On the Chinese-exclusive line, 10 cards carry a tracked value. The four at the top hold 79.7% of it.

Band	Cards	Combined value	Share of total
Ranked 1 – 4	4	$830	79.7%
Ranked 5 – 10	6	$212	20.3%
Ranked 11 and below	0	$0	0.0%
Every priced Chinese-exclusive card	10	$1,041	100%

If you want one card

One card, no budget limit:

Umbreon & Darkrai GX #158 — CSM2cC #158. $400, and it is the card most lists for this character name first.

One card, a few hundred dollars:

Umbreon & Darkrai GX #158 — CSM2cC #158. $400, which is the strongest card on the page that is still reachable without a vintage budget.

One card, under two hundred dollars:

Darkrai ex #1007 — CBB3C #1007. $25. 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 Darkrai card in Simplified Chinese?

Among the Chinese-exclusive numbered sets, Umbreon & Darkrai GX #158 carries the highest tracked value at $400. Promos and other non-C numbered printings sit outside that comparison.

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

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

Which Darkrai card leads the Japanese list?

Darkrai #5 from Team Plasma Battle Gift Set at $3,575. Japanese is the original printing line, so its top of the list reaches back further than either Chinese or English.

Which Darkrai card leads the English list?

Darkrai LV. X #104 from Great Encounters at $8,100.

Why are the Traditional Chinese (2 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. 1 of them were reduced as well.

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

Darkrai is printed in more lines than the three 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)

2 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.

• Darkrai & Cresselia LEGEND — 30th Celebration #151 — $150
• Darkrai & Cresselia LEGEND — 30th Celebration #152 — $124

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.

• Mega Darkrai ex — Abyss Eye #118 — $722
• Mega Darkrai ex — Abyss Eye #114 — $541
• Darkrai VStar — VSTAR Universe #228 — $100

A further 11 Korean printings of Darkrai 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.

• Chinese Exclusive cards — the full range, in stock and sourced to order.
• All PSA 10 graded cards.
• Where to buy Simplified Chinese Pokémon cards — the four buying routes compared, and how to check a card before you pay.

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 Darkrai 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.

Prices quoted are secondary-market observations at the dates cited and move quickly; nothing here is a valuation or an investment recommendation. Our own asking prices for the cards we hold are on each product page.

Quick answer

CardSpicy (cardspicy.com) ranks the most valuable Gardevoir cards printed in the Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines. M Gardevoir EX leads at $7,500 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.

Gardevoir appears on 11 Chinese-exclusive printings, 1 further Simplified Chinese printings, 1 Traditional Chinese printings, 74 Japanese, 5 Korean and 62 English numbered Pokémon cards, and this page covers every language the character was printed in — Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines.

Gardevoir carries 11 numbered Chinese-exclusive printings, and a Japanese line that reaches back into the 1990s promo programmes. The head of the list is Gardevoir & Sylveon GX #167 (CSM2cC) at $376. 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.

10. Gardevoir [Masterball] — CBB3C #605 — $20

9. Gardevoir [Pokeball] — CBB3C #602 — $35

8. Gardevoir ex — CBB3C #607 — $35

7. Gardevoir [Stars] — CBB3C #603 — $36

6. Gardevoir [Rotary] — CBB3C #604 — $36

5. Gardevoir — CBB3C #601 — $37

4. Gardevoir [Stamped] — CBB3C #606 — $43

3. Gardevoir & Sylveon GX — CSM2cC #166 — $44

2. Gardevoir & Sylveon GX — CSM2cC #72 — $57

1. Gardevoir & Sylveon GX — CSM2cC #167 — $376

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.

• Gardevoir — cs3bC #124 — $13

And 2 further printings below those, which carry no tracked value at all.

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.

• Gardevoir — CSUC #7 — $55

A further 10 Simplified Chinese printings of Gardevoir 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. Gardevoir EX — PokeKyun Collection #19 — $936

9. Gardevoir [1st Edition] — Holon Research #50 — $1,014

8. Gardevoir EX [1st Edition] — Cruel Traitor #59 — $1,034

7. Gardevoir ex [1st Edition] — Miracle of the Desert #28 — $1,064

6. Gardevoir ex — Miracle of the Desert #28 — $1,080†

5. Gardevoir EX — Cruel Traitor #59 — $1,334

4. M Gardevoir EX — PokeKyun Collection #20 — $1,350

3. M Gardevoir EX [1st Edition] — Cruel Traitor #57 — $1,383

2. Gardevoir & Sylveon GX — Night Unison #61 — $1,900

1. Gardevoir — Dark Rush #74 — $3,050

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.

• Gardevoir ex — Gardevoir Constructed Starter Deck #5 — $924
• Gardevoir EX [1st Edition] — Tidal Storm #75 — $850
• Mega Gardevoir ex — Mega Symphonia #92 — $732
• Gardevoir — Holon Research #50 — $702
• Gardevoir EX — Tidal Storm #75 — $650
• Mega Gardevoir EX — Tidal Storm #76 — $545
• Gardevoir [1st Edition] — World Champions Pack #34 — $442
• Gardevoir Spirit Link — Best of XY #128 — $310
• Gardevoir EX [1st Edition] — Cruel Traitor #56 — $310
• Gardevoir — World Champions Pack #34 — $300
• Gardevoir [Holo 1st Edition] — Shiny Collection #10 — $285
• Gardevoir GX — Darkness that Consumes Light #61 — $278
• M Gardevoir EX — Cruel Traitor #57 — $265
• Gardevoir EX — Cruel Traitor #56 — $245
• Gardevoir EX — Scarlet Ex #101 — $240
• Gardevoir Spirit Link [1st Edition] — Cruel Traitor #52 — $237
• Gardevoir & Sylveon GX — Night Unison #67 — $228
• Gardevoir — Bandit Ring #54 — $226
• Gardevoir — Hail Blizzard #28 — $202
• Gardevoir ex — Shiny Treasure ex #348 — $202
• Gardevoir [1st Edition] — Hail Blizzard #28 — $193
• Gardevoir [Grand Prix Japan] — Promo #408/SM-P — $188
• Gardevoir [1st Edition] — Bandit Ring #54 — $174
• Gardevoir & Sylveon GX — Night Unison #60 — $172
• Gardevoir GX — GX Ultra Shiny #237 — $163
• M Gardevoir EX [1st Edition] — Cruel Traitor #39 — $159
• Mega Gardevoir ex — Mega Symphonia #87 — $154
• Gardevoir GX — Darkness that Consumes Light #55 — $140
• M Gardevoir EX — Best of XY #92 — $132
• Gardevoir V — Explosive Walker #30 — $117

And 21 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. Gardevoir EX — Steam Siege #116 — $1,875

9. Gardevoir — Next Destinies #57 — $2,066†

8. Gardevoir [Reverse Holo] — Delta Species #6 — $3,350

7. Gardevoir [Reverse Holo] — Emerald #4 — $3,464

6. Gardevoir [Holo] — Platinum #8 — $3,613

5. Gardevoir & Sylveon GX — Unbroken Bonds #205 — $4,100

4. Gardevoir EX — Sandstorm #96 — $6,308

3. Gardevoir — Dark Explorers #109 — $6,615

2. Gardevoir EX — Dragon Frontiers #93 — $7,141

1. M Gardevoir EX — Primal Clash #156 — $7,500†

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.

• Gardevoir — Delta Species #6 — $1,820
• Gardevoir — Emerald #4 — $1,818
• Gardevoir GX — Burning Shadows #159 — $1,530
• Gardevoir LV. X — Secret Wonders #131 — $1,052
• Gardevoir — Power Keepers #9 — $1,042
• Gardevoir EX — Primal Clash #155 — $993
• Gardevoir [Reverse Holo] — Platinum #8 — $900
• Gardevoir [Cosmos Holo] — Lost Thunder #141 — $810
• Gardevoir — Secret Wonders #7 — $700
• Gardevoir & Sylveon GX — Unbroken Bonds #225 — $638
• Mega Gardevoir ex — Mega Evolution #187 — $569
• Gardevoir ex [Kevin Nguyen] — World Championships 2004 #96 — $547
• M Gardevoir EX — Steam Siege #112 — $525
• Gardevoir EX — Steam Siege #111 — $483
• Gardevoir & Sylveon GX — Unbroken Bonds #204 — $402
• Gardevoir [Reverse Holo] — Secret Wonders #7 — $400
• Gardevoir & Sylveon GX — Unbroken Bonds #130 — $399
• Gardevoir ex — Paldean Fates #233 — $368
• M Gardevoir EX — Primal Clash #106 — $332
• Mega Gardevoir ex — Mega Evolution #178 — $300
• Gardevoir [Reverse Holo] — Power Keepers #9 — $296
• Gardevoir — Lost Thunder #141 — $239
• M Gardevoir EX — Steam Siege #79 — $219
• Gardevoir Spirit Link [Reverse Holo] — Steam Siege #101 — $219
• Gardevoir [Reverse Holo] — Next Destinies #57 — $204
• Gardevoir — World Championships 2023 #61 — $200
• Gardevoir — Chilling Reign #61 — $152
• Gardevoir — Ancient Origins #54 — $137
• Gardevoir GX — Burning Shadows #93 — $120
• Gardevoir GX — Burning Shadows #140 — $118

And 11 further printings below those, which carry no tracked value at all.

Where Gardevoir is printed, across the languages

Printing line	Cards	With a tracked value	Highest
Simplified Chinese — exclusive sets	11	11	$376
Simplified Chinese — other printings	1	1	$55
Japanese	74	74	$3,050
Korean	5	5	$303
English	62	62	$7,500
All 5 lines	153	153	—

What the ranking shows

On the Chinese-exclusive line, 11 cards carry a tracked value. The four at the top hold 71.0% of it.

Band	Cards	Combined value	Share of total
Ranked 1 – 4	4	$520	71.0%
Ranked 5 – 10	6	$200	27.3%
Ranked 11 and below	1	$13	1.7%
Every priced Chinese-exclusive card	11	$732	100%

If you want one card

One card, no budget limit:

Gardevoir & Sylveon GX #167 — CSM2cC #167. $376, and it is the card most lists for this character name first.

One card, a few hundred dollars:

Gardevoir & Sylveon GX #167 — CSM2cC #167. $376, which is the strongest card on the page that is still reachable without a vintage budget.

One card, under two hundred dollars:

Gardevoir #124 — cs3bC #124. $13. 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 Gardevoir card in Simplified Chinese?

Among the Chinese-exclusive numbered sets, Gardevoir & Sylveon GX #167 carries the highest tracked value at $376. Promos and other non-C numbered printings sit outside that comparison.

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

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

Which Gardevoir card leads the Japanese list?

Gardevoir #74 from Dark Rush at $3,050. Japanese is the original printing line, so its top of the list reaches back further than either Chinese or English.

Which Gardevoir card leads the English list?

M Gardevoir EX #156 from Primal Clash at $7,500.

Why are the Korean (5 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. 3 of them were reduced as well.

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

Gardevoir is printed in more lines than the four listed above. Two more lines are kept here rather than dropped: 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.

Korean printings

5 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.

• Mega Gardevoir ex — Mega Symphonia #92 — $303
• Mega Gardevoir EX — Mega Symphonia #87 — $140
• Mega Gardevoir ex — Mega Dream ex #226 — $60
• Gardevoir EX — Scarlet Ex #101 — $60
• Mega Gardevoir ex — Mega Symphonia #78 — $50

A further 8 Korean printings of Gardevoir 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.

• Chinese Exclusive cards — the full range, in stock and sourced to order.
• All PSA 10 graded cards.
• Where to buy Simplified Chinese Pokémon cards — the four buying routes compared, and how to check a card before you pay.

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 Gardevoir 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.

Prices quoted are secondary-market observations at the dates cited and move quickly; nothing here is a valuation or an investment recommendation. Our own asking prices for the cards we hold are on each product page.

Quick answer

CardSpicy (cardspicy.com) ranks the most valuable Mimikyu cards printed in the Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines. Mimikyu leads at $20,638 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.

Mimikyu appears on 12 Chinese-exclusive printings, 6 further Simplified Chinese printings, 44 Japanese, 3 Korean and 51 English numbered Pokémon cards, and this page covers every language the character was printed in — Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines.

Mimikyu carries 12 numbered Chinese-exclusive printings, and an English line wide enough that the top of it is decided by vintage printings rather than modern ones. The head of the list is Gengar & Mimikyu GX #163 (CSM2bC) at $665. 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.

10. Mimikyu — CBB3C #1301 — $38

9. Mimikyu [Pokeball] — CBB3C #1302 — $38

8. Mimikyu [Stamped] — CBB3C #1306 — $39

7. Mimikyu [Masterball] — CBB3C #1305 — $40

6. Team Rocket’s Mimikyu — csv10C #95 — $41

5. Mimikyu — CSM2bC #151 — $103

4. Mimikyu [Full Art] — CBB3C #1307 — $127

3. Gengar & Mimikyu GX — CSM2bC #33 — $210

2. Gengar & Mimikyu GX — CSM2bC #162 — $277

1. Gengar & Mimikyu GX — CSM2bC #163 — $665

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.

• Mimikyu [Rotary] — CBB3C #1304 — $35
• Mimikyu [Stars] — CBB3C #1303 — $22

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.

• Gengar & Mimikyu GX — CSM2.1C #51 — $279
• Mimikyu V — CS4.5C #77 — $190
• Mimikyu VMAX — CS4.5C #78 — $150
• Mimikyu — sv4aF #341 — $108
• Mimikyu — CSM1.5C #14 — $45
• Mimikyu — CSM2.5C #22 — $39

A further 9 Simplified Chinese printings of Mimikyu 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. Gengar & Mimikyu GX — Tag Bolt #38 — $350

9. Mimikyu GX — Fairy Rise #60 — $355

8. Mimikyu [Reverse Holo] — GX Ultra Shiny #95 — $455

7. Gengar & Mimikyu GX — Tag Bolt #102 — $600

6. Gengar & Mimikyu GX — Tag Bolt #113 — $846

5. Mimikyu — Promo #198/SM-P — $1,050

4. Team Rocket’s Mimikyu GX — Ash vs Rocket Deck Kit #10 — $1,080

3. Mimikyu — Promo #9/SM-P — $1,399

2. Gengar & Mimikyu GX — Tag Bolt #103 — $3,536

1. Mimikyu — Promo #289/SM-P — $20,638

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.

• Mimikyu — Promo #264/SM-P — $325
• Mimikyu — Promo #294/SM-P — $318
• Mimikyu — Alolan Moonlight #20 — $281
• Mimikyu [Reverse Holo] — Tag All Stars #63 — $250
• Mimikyu — GX Battle Boost #43 — $222
• Mimikyu GX — Fairy Rise #54 — $214
• Mimikyu — Marumiya #16 — $160
• Mimikyu V — Single Strike Master #73 — $146
• Mimikyu V — VMAX Climax #233 — $145
• Mimikyu — Dream League #58 — $140
• Team Rocket’s Mimikyu [Reverse Holo] — Mega Dream ex #79 — $132
• Mimikyu VMAX — VMAX Climax #234 — $132
• Mimikyu — Promo #156/SV-P — $126
• Mimikyu GX — Fairy Rise #38 — $112
• Mimikyu — Tag All Stars #63 — $106
• Mimikyu ex — Starter Deck Generations #54 — $84
• Mimikyu — Shiny Treasure ex #341 — $84
• Mimikyu — GX Ultra Shiny #95 — $82
• Team Rocket’s Mimikyu — Mega Dream ex #79 — $80
• Mimikyu — Shiny Treasure ex #265 — $77
• Mimikyu — Lost Abyss #50 — $76
• Mimikyu VMAX — VMAX Climax #77 — $74
• Mimikyu — Dream League #28 — $73
• Mimikyu — Shiny Treasure ex #88 — $61
• Mimikyu — Mega Starter Deck Diancie Ex #6 — $52
• Mimikyu — Infinity Zone #42 — $50
• Mimikyu V — VMAX Climax #76 — $49
• Team Rocket’s Mimikyu [Energy] — Mega Dream ex #79 — $46
• Mimikyu V — Single Strike Master #27 — $43
• Mimikyu V — Start Deck 100 #197 — $41

And 3 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. Team Rocket’s Mimikyu [Prerelease Staff] — Destined Rivals #87 — $387

9. Mimikyu — Paldean Fates #160 — $405

8. Mimikyu [Reverse Holo] — Team Up #112 — $750

7. Mimikyu — Cosmic Eclipse #245 — $800

6. Mimikyu GX — Lost Thunder #206 — $1,214

5. Gengar & Mimikyu GX — Team Up #164 — $1,750

4. Gengar & Mimikyu GX — Team Up #186 — $2,329

3. Mimikyu GX — Lost Thunder #226 — $2,375

2. Gengar & Mimikyu GX — Team Up #53 — $2,752

1. Gengar & Mimikyu GX — Team Up #165 — $7,945

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.

• Mimikyu [Reverse Holo] — Guardians Rising #58 — $387
• Mimikyu — Lost Origin #80 — $360
• Mimikyu [Pokemon Center] — Promo #75 — $358
• Mimikyu GX — Lost Thunder #149 — $338
• Team Rocket’s Mimikyu [Prerelease] — Destined Rivals #87 — $325
• Mimikyu — Guardians Rising #58 — $316
• Mimikyu [Reverse Holo] — Phantasmal Flames #42 — $299
• Mimikyu V — Battle Styles #148 — $285
• Mimikyu — Cosmic Eclipse #97 — $262
• Mimikyu — Trick or Trade 2024 #37 — $248
• Mimikyu [Cosmos Holo] — Darkness Ablaze #81 — $211
• Mimikyu ex [Jumbo] — Promo #4 — $196
• Team Rocket’s Mimikyu [Reverse Holo] — Destined Rivals #87 — $165
• Mimikyu — Promo #75 — $163
• Mimikyu [Stamped] — Journey Together #69 — $152
• Mimikyu [Prize Pack] — Paldea Evolved #97 — $144
• Team Rocket’s Mimikyu — Ascended Heroes #97 — $138
• Mimikyu V — Brilliant Stars #68 — $137
• Mimikyu [Holo] — Trick or Trade 2023 #97 — $136
• Mimikyu V — Battle Styles #62 — $133
• Mimikyu — Cosmic Eclipse #96 — $122
• Mimikyu VMAX — Brilliant Stars #69 — $122
• Mimikyu [Reverse Holo] — Cosmic Eclipse #97 — $120
• Mimikyu ex — Promo #4 — $112
• Mimikyu ex — Journey Together #69 — $112
• Team Rocket’s Mimikyu — Ascended Heroes #238 — $110
• Mimikyu — Trick or Trade 2022 #81 — $110
• Mimikyu [Reverse Holo] — Paldean Fates #37 — $100
• Mimikyu — Team Up #112 — $94
• Mimikyu [Reverse Holo] — Cosmic Eclipse #96 — $87

And 5 further printings below those, which carry no tracked value at all.

Where Mimikyu is printed, across the languages

Printing line	Cards	With a tracked value	Highest
Simplified Chinese — exclusive sets	12	12	$665
Simplified Chinese — other printings	6	6	$279
Japanese	44	44	$20,638
Korean	3	3	$506
English	51	51	$7,945
All 5 lines	116	116	—

What the ranking shows

On the Chinese-exclusive line, 12 cards carry a tracked value. The four at the top hold 78.2% of it.

Band	Cards	Combined value	Share of total
Ranked 1 – 4	4	$1,279	78.2%
Ranked 5 – 10	6	$299	18.3%
Ranked 11 and below	2	$58	3.5%
Every priced Chinese-exclusive card	12	$1,635	100%

If you want one card

One card, no budget limit:

Gengar & Mimikyu GX #163 — CSM2bC #163. $665, and it is the card most lists for this character name first.

One card, a few hundred dollars:

Gengar & Mimikyu GX #163 — CSM2bC #163. $665, which is the strongest card on the page that is still reachable without a vintage budget.

One card, under two hundred dollars:

Mimikyu [Stars] #1303 — CBB3C #1303. $22. 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 Mimikyu card in Simplified Chinese?

Among the Chinese-exclusive numbered sets, Gengar & Mimikyu GX #163 carries the highest tracked value at $665. Promos and other non-C numbered printings sit outside that comparison.

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

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

Which Mimikyu card leads the Japanese list?

Mimikyu #289/SM-P from Promo at $20,638. Japanese is the original printing line, so its top of the list reaches back further than either Chinese or English.

Which Mimikyu card leads the English list?

Gengar & Mimikyu GX #165 from Team Up at $7,945.

Why are the 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

Mimikyu is printed in more lines than the four listed above. Two more lines are kept here rather than dropped: 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.

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.

• Team Rocket’s Mimikyu GX — Ash vs Rocket Deck Kit #10 — $506
• Team Rocket’s Mimikyu — Mega Dream ex #205 — $55
• Team Rocket’s Mimikyu — Mega Dream ex #79 — $39

A further 11 Korean printings of Mimikyu 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.

• Chinese Exclusive cards — the full range, in stock and sourced to order.
• All PSA 10 graded cards.
• Where to buy Simplified Chinese Pokémon cards — the four buying routes compared, and how to check a card before you pay.

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 Mimikyu 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.

Prices quoted are secondary-market observations at the dates cited and move quickly; nothing here is a valuation or an investment recommendation. Our own asking prices for the cards we hold are on each product page.

Quick answer

CardSpicy (cardspicy.com) ranks the most valuable Paldean Wooper cards printed in the Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines. Paldean Wooper leads at $311 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.

Paldean Wooper appears on 13 Chinese-exclusive printings, 6 further Simplified Chinese printings, 2 Traditional Chinese printings, 7 Japanese, 1 Korean and 16 English numbered Pokémon cards, and this page covers every language the character was printed in — Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines.

Paldean Wooper carries 13 numbered Chinese-exclusive printings. The head of the list is Paldean Wooper #507 (CBB4C) at $49. 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.

10. Paldean Wooper — CBB4C #504 — $37

9. Paldean Wooper — CBB1C #1301 — $38

8. Paldean Wooper — CBB4C #503 — $38

7. Paldean Wooper [Stars] — CBB1C #1303 — $38

6. Paldean Wooper — CBB4C #505 — $38

5. Paldean Wooper — csv5C #79 — $38

4. Paldean Wooper [Stamped] — CBB1C #1305 — $38

3. Paldean Wooper — CBB4C #501 — $39

2. Paldean Wooper — CBB4C #506 — $39

1. Paldean Wooper — CBB4C #507 — $49

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.

• Paldean Wooper [Masterball] — CBB1C #1304 — $37
• Paldean Wooper — CBB4C #502 — $37
• Paldean Wooper [Pokeball] — CBB1C #1302 — $36

And 4 further printings below those, which carry no tracked value at all.

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.

7. Paldean Wooper [Reverse Holo] — Shiny Treasure ex #116 — $18

6. Paldean Wooper — Triplet Beat #52 — $36

5. Paldean Wooper — Shiny Treasure ex #116 — $37

4. Paldean Wooper — Promo #193/SV-P — $42

3. Paldean Wooper — Shiny Treasure ex #287 — $43

2. Paldean Wooper — ex Starter Decks #69 — $47

1. Paldean Wooper — Triplet Beat #85 — $49

This line only yields 7 priced printings for Paldean Wooper. Another 4 numbered printings in this line carry no graded sold record yet and are therefore not ranked.

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. Paldean Wooper — Obsidian Flames #126 — $32

9. Paldean Wooper [Reverse Holo] — Obsidian Flames #127 — $32

8. Paldean Wooper [Reverse Holo] — Obsidian Flames #126 — $33

7. Paldean Wooper [Reverse Holo] — Journey Together #93 — $34

6. Paldean Wooper [Reverse Holo] — Paldean Fates #58 — $34

5. Paldean Wooper — Paldean Fates #58 — $60

4. Paldean Wooper — Phantasmal Flames #102 — $70

3. Paldean Wooper — Paldean Fates #180 — $200

2. Paldean Wooper — Paldea Evolved #221 — $290

1. Paldean Wooper — Promo #41 — $311

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.

• Paldean Wooper — Obsidian Flames #127 — $32
• Paldean Wooper [Reverse Holo] — Paldea Evolved #128 — $31
• Paldean Wooper — Journey Together #93 — $31
• Paldean Wooper — Paldea Evolved #129 — $31
• Paldean Wooper — Paldea Evolved #128 — $31
• Paldean Wooper [Reverse Holo] — Paldea Evolved #129 — $23

Where Paldean Wooper is printed, across the languages

Printing line	Cards	With a tracked value	Highest
Simplified Chinese — exclusive sets	13	13	$49
Japanese	7	7	$49
Korean	1	1	$41
English	16	16	$311
All 4 lines	37	37	—

What the ranking shows

On the Chinese-exclusive line, 13 cards carry a tracked value. The four at the top hold 33.0% of it.

Band	Cards	Combined value	Share of total
Ranked 1 – 4	4	$166	33.0%
Ranked 5 – 10	6	$228	45.3%
Ranked 11 and below	3	$109	21.7%
Every priced Chinese-exclusive card	13	$503	100%

If you want one card

One card, no budget limit:

Paldean Wooper #507 — CBB4C #507. $49, and it is the card most lists for this character name first.

One card, under two hundred dollars:

Paldean Wooper [Pokeball] #1302 — CBB1C #1302. $36. 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 Paldean Wooper card in Simplified Chinese?

Among the Chinese-exclusive numbered sets, Paldean Wooper #507 carries the highest tracked value at $49. Promos and other non-C numbered printings sit outside that comparison.

How many Paldean Wooper cards exist in the Chinese-exclusive sets?

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

Which Paldean Wooper card leads the Japanese list?

Paldean Wooper #85 from Triplet Beat at $49. Japanese is the original printing line, so its top of the list reaches back further than either Chinese or English.

Which Paldean Wooper card leads the English list?

Paldean Wooper #41 from Promo at $311.

Why are the Korean (1 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

Paldean Wooper is printed in more lines than the three listed above. Two more lines are kept here rather than dropped: 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.

Korean printings

1 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.

• Paldean Wooper — Triple Beat #85 — $41

A further 4 Korean printings of Paldean Wooper 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.

• Chinese Exclusive cards — the full range, in stock and sourced to order.
• All PSA 10 graded cards.
• Where to buy Simplified Chinese Pokémon cards — the four buying routes compared, and how to check a card before you pay.

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 Paldean Wooper 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.

Prices quoted are secondary-market observations at the dates cited and move quickly; nothing here is a valuation or an investment recommendation. Our own asking prices for the cards we hold are on each product page.

Quick answer

CardSpicy (cardspicy.com) ranks the most valuable Houndoom cards printed in the Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines. Houndoom [1st Edition] leads at $20,244 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.

Houndoom appears on 14 Chinese-exclusive printings, 2 further Simplified Chinese printings, 56 Japanese, 2 Korean and 71 English numbered Pokémon cards, and this page covers every language the character was printed in — Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines.

Houndoom carries 14 numbered Chinese-exclusive printings, and an English line wide enough that the top of it is decided by vintage printings rather than modern ones. The head of the list is Houndoom #801 (CBB5C) at $87. 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.

10. Houndoom [Masterball] — CBB3C #505 — $37

9. Houndoom ex — CBB3C #507 — $38

8. Houndoom [Pokeball] — CBB3C #502 — $38

7. Houndoom — CBB5C #805 — $39

6. Houndoom [Stamped] — CBB3C #506 — $40

5. Houndoom — CBB5C #804 — $41

4. Houndoom — CBB5C #806 — $44

3. Houndoom — CBB5C #803 — $46

2. Houndoom — CBB5C #807 — $46

1. Houndoom — CBB5C #801 — $87

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.

• Houndoom [Stars] — CBB3C #503 — $36
• Houndoom — CBB5C #802 — $36
• Houndoom [Rotary] — CBB3C #504 — $35
• Houndoom — CBB3C #501 — $34

And 5 further printings below those, which carry no tracked value at all.

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. Houndoom [1st Edition] — The Town on No Map #70 — $920

9. Houndoom — Awakening Legends #229 — $1,778

8. Team Magma’s Houndoom — Magma vs Aqua #20 — $1,825

7. Team Magma’s Houndoom [1st Edition] — Magma vs Aqua #20 — $2,024

6. Houndoom — Mysterious Mountains #70 — $2,214

5. Houndoom [1st Edition] — Mysterious Mountains #70 — $2,379

4. Houndoom — Tyranitar Constructed Starter Deck #8 — $3,050

3. Houndoom [1st Edition] — The Town on No Map #71 — $4,250

2. Houndoom Vs Pikachu — Meiji Promo #14 — $5,259

1. Houndoom — The Town on No Map #71 — $5,800

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.

• Dark Houndoom — Darkness and to Light #229 — $800
• Karen’s Houndoom — VS #92 — $768
• Houndoom — Crossing the Ruins #229 — $655
• Dark Houndoom [1st Edition] — Rocket Gang Strikes Back #21 — $600
• Houndoom [1st Edition] — Golden Sky, Silvery Ocean #18 — $553
• M Houndoom EX — Red Flash #61 — $542
• Dark Houndoom — Rocket Gang Strikes Back #21 — $436
• Houndoom [1st Edition] — Magma Deck Kit #4 — $408
• M Houndoom EX [1st Edition] — Red Flash #61 — $405
• Houndoom [1st Edition] — Mysterious Mountains #69 — $376
• Houndoom EX [1st Edition] — Red Flash #60 — $370
• Houndoom [1st Edition] — Reviving Legends #43 — $362
• Houndoom [1st Edition] — The Town on No Map #19 — $296
• Houndoom — The Town on No Map #19 — $259
• Houndoom EX — Red Flash #60 — $245
• Houndoom — Golden Sky, Silvery Ocean #18 — $222
• Dark Houndoom [1st Edition] — Black Deck Kit #6 — $215
• Dark Houndoom — Black Deck Kit #6 — $214
• Houndoom — The Town on No Map #70 — $194
• Houndoom — Mysterious Mountains #69 — $190
• Houndoom — Hydreigon Half Deck #6 — $151
• M Houndoom EX [1st Edition] — Red Flash #10 — $140
• Houndoom — Reviving Legends #43 — $140
• Houndoom — Megalo Cannon #47 — $123
• Houndoom [1st Edition] — Megalo Cannon #47 — $115
• M Houndoom EX — Red Flash #10 — $112
• Houndoom EX — Red Flash #9 — $90
• Houndoom — Magma Deck Kit #4 — $87
• Houndoom EX [1st Edition] — Red Flash #9 — $86
• Houndoom — Single Strike Master #89 — $85

And 10 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. Houndoom — Neo Discovery #4 — $2,071

9. Houndoom [Reverse Holo] — Unseen Forces #7 — $2,875

8. Dark Houndoom [Reverse Holo] — Team Rocket Returns #5 — $3,138

7. Houndoom [1st Edition] — Neo Discovery #4 — $3,200

6. Dark Houndoom — Neo Destiny #7 — $3,669

5. Houndoom — Call of Legends #10 — $4,075†

4. Dark Houndoom [Reverse Holo] — Team Rocket Returns #37 — $5,490

3. Dark Houndoom [1st Edition] — Neo Destiny #7 — $6,189

2. Houndoom — Neo Revelation #8 — $14,688

1. Houndoom [1st Edition] — Neo Revelation #8 — $20,244

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.

• Dark Houndoom — Team Rocket Returns #5 — $2,048
• Houndoom [Reverse Holo] — Skyridge #12 — $1,998
• Dark Houndoom [Pre-Release] — Team Rocket Returns #37 — $1,846
• Houndoom — Undaunted #82 — $1,764
• Houndoom EX — BREAKthrough #153 — $1,706
• Houndoom — Unseen Forces #7 — $1,500
• Houndoom [Reverse Holo] — Aquapolis #14 — $1,426
• Houndoom [Reverse Holo] — Aquapolis #15 — $1,065
• M Houndoom EX — BREAKthrough #154 — $1,000
• Houndoom [Reverse Holo] — Great Encounters #18 — $816
• Houndoom [Reverse Holo] — Undaunted #5 — $760
• Houndoom — Undaunted #5 — $660
• Houndoom — Plasma Blast #56 — $626
• Houndoom — Aquapolis #15 — $575
• Houndoom [Reverse Holo] — Call of Legends #10 — $509
• Houndoom — Skyridge #12 — $504
• Houndoom [1st Edition] — Neo Discovery #23 — $484
• Houndoom [Reverse Holo] — Dragon #34 — $459
• Houndoom — Aquapolis #14 — $400
• M Houndoom EX — BREAKthrough #22 — $392
• Houndoom G [Reverse Holo] — Platinum #50 — $312
• Houndoom [Reverse Holo] — Legends Awakened #57 — $296
• Dark Houndoom — Team Rocket Returns #37 — $272
• Houndoom — Shrouded Fable #66 — $250
• Houndoom [Reverse Holo] — Rising Rivals #65 — $248
• Houndoom EX — BREAKthrough #21 — $231
• Houndoom [Reverse Holo League] — Undaunted #5 — $205
• Houndoom — Dragon #34 — $175
• Houndoom [Reverse Holo] — Lost Thunder #46 — $150
• Houndoom — Prismatic Evolutions #63 — $148

And 15 further printings below those, which carry no tracked value at all.

Where Houndoom is printed, across the languages

Printing line	Cards	With a tracked value	Highest
Simplified Chinese — exclusive sets	14	14	$87
Japanese	56	56	$5,800
Korean	2	2	$40
English	71	71	$20,244
All 4 lines	143	143	—

What the ranking shows

On the Chinese-exclusive line, 14 cards carry a tracked value. The four at the top hold 37.1% of it.

Band	Cards	Combined value	Share of total
Ranked 1 – 4	4	$222	37.1%
Ranked 5 – 10	6	$234	39.1%
Ranked 11 and below	4	$142	23.8%
Every priced Chinese-exclusive card	14	$597	100%

If you want one card

One card, no budget limit:

Houndoom #801 — CBB5C #801. $87, and it is the card most lists for this character name first.

One card, under two hundred dollars:

Houndoom #501 — CBB3C #501. $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 Houndoom card in Simplified Chinese?

Among the Chinese-exclusive numbered sets, Houndoom #801 carries the highest tracked value at $87. Promos and other non-C numbered printings sit outside that comparison.

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

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

Which Houndoom card leads the Japanese list?

Houndoom #71 from The Town on No Map at $5,800. Japanese is the original printing line, so its top of the list reaches back further than either Chinese or English.

Which Houndoom card leads the English list?

Houndoom [1st Edition] #8 from Neo Revelation at $20,244.

Why are the Korean (2 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. 1 of them were reduced as well.

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

Houndoom is printed in more lines than the three listed above. Two more lines are kept here rather than dropped: 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.

Korean printings

2 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.

• Houndoom — Night Wanderer #66 — $40
• Team Rocket’s Houndoom — Glory Of Team Rocket #100 — $38

A further 5 Korean printings of Houndoom 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.

• Chinese Exclusive cards — the full range, in stock and sourced to order.
• All PSA 10 graded cards.
• Where to buy Simplified Chinese Pokémon cards — the four buying routes compared, and how to check a card before you pay.

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 Houndoom 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.

Prices quoted are secondary-market observations at the dates cited and move quickly; nothing here is a valuation or an investment recommendation. Our own asking prices for the cards we hold are on each product page.

Nothing on this list came out of a booster box. Every one of these 195 cards was handed out around something real — a museum, a brand, an anniversary, a world championship or a city launch — and together they are the most expensive corner of the hobby.

Celebration and collaboration cards sit outside the normal economy of the game. You cannot pull one, you cannot buy it in a pack, and there is no second print run to wait for. Each one exists because of an event that happened once, which is why the top of this list is not the top of any set.

The 195 below are ranked by what a graded copy actually sells for, highest first. Each entry shows the category it belongs to and the event or tie-in behind it, so the list reads as a record of what the card game has been used to celebrate rather than as a price table alone.

Quick answer

CardSpicy’s list has four categories: cards handed out at worlds, tournaments and city launches; brand and character crossovers; anniversaries and milestones; and museum or artist collaborations. They are ranked together on one measure — the recorded PSA 10 sale value — so the order is a price order rather than a judgement of which event mattered most.

171 of the 195 carry a graded PSA 10 value. The remaining 24 are recorded at their raw price. The single most valuable card on the list is a crossover, and it sells for roughly a thousand times what the card at the bottom of the list does.

The four categories

Every card here falls into one of four groups, and the groups behave differently as collectibles.

Category	Cards	What it is
Event	93	Given out at a tournament, a championship or a city launch. The largest group, and the one most tied to a place and a date.
Crossover	64	A licensed tie-in with a company or another franchise. The smallest print runs and the highest prices.
Anniversary	26	Milestone releases — decade marks and special box contents rather than shop or event handouts.
Museum	12	Produced with a museum or a named artist rather than a brand. Fewest in number and the hardest to replace.

The first 100, ranked

The hundred most valuable celebration and collaboration cards, in order. The final column is the event, tie-in or release each card came from.

#	Card	Category	Recorded value	Set and number	Where it came from
1	Mario Pikachu	Crossover	$32,275	XY-P #294	Pokemon Center x Super Mario, 2016
2	Poncho-Wearing Pikachu	Crossover	$23,825	XY-P #207	Poncho series
3	Pikachu 20th Anniversary Festa	Anniversary	$22,983.15	XY-P #279	20th anniversary, 2016
4	Poncho-Wearing Pikachu Charizard	Crossover	$18,386.11	XY-P #208	Poncho series, 2016
5	Poncho-Wearing Pikachu	Crossover	$17,900	XY-P #231	Poncho series
6	Luigi Pikachu	Crossover	$17,007.13	XY-P #296	Pokemon Center x Super Mario, 2016
7	Poncho-Wearing Pikachu	Crossover	$15,600	XY-P #230	Poncho series
8	Birthday Pikachu	Anniversary	$15,500	Promo #24	Birthday card, 2000
9	Pikachu	Crossover	$13,840	Promo #25	Toyota, 1998
10	Pretend Team Skull Pikachu	Crossover	$13,700	SM-P #13	Pretend series, 2017
11	Pretend Gyarados Pikachu	Crossover	$13,406.86	XY-P #151	Pretend series, 2015
12	Pretend Magikarp Pikachu	Crossover	$12,112.50	XY-P #150	Pretend series, 2015
13	Tropical Tidal Wave	Event	$9,587.61	HGSS #18	World Championship promo
14	Pikachu	Event	$9,400	XY-P #90	Battle Festa
15	Mario Pikachu	Crossover	$9,322.14	XY-P #293	Pokemon Center x Super Mario, 2016
16	Poncho-Wearing Pikachu	Crossover	$8,922.61	XY-P #274	Poncho series
17	Mew	Event	$8,550	XY-P	Battle Festa
18	Tropical Wind	Event	$7,811	Promo	World Championship promo
19	Pikachu	Crossover	$7,531.04	XY-P #204	Mega Tokyo, 2014
20	Pikachu Birthday	Anniversary	$7,501.46	Promo #25	White Star
21	Mewtwo EX	Event	$7,200	XY-P	Battle Festa
22	Pikachu	Event	$7,199	DP-P #102	Pokemon Center Fukuoka
23	Flying Pikachu	Crossover	$7,190	Promo #25	All Nippon Airways, 1998
24	Luigi Pikachu	Crossover	$6,968.50	XY-P #295	Pokemon Center x Super Mario, 2016
25	Tropical Wind	Event	Raw $6,904.88	Promo	World Championship promo
26	Gyarados	Event	$6,626	XY-P	Pokemon Center Hiroshima
27	Poncho-Wearing Pikachu	Crossover	$6,485.45	XY-P #275	Pokemon Center Mega Battle
28	Tropical Tidal Wave	Event	$6,250.98	Promo #27	World Championship promo
29	Eevee	Museum	$5,984	SM-P #287	Munch Museum x Pokemon, Oslo
30	Umbreon	Crossover	$5,799.34	XY-P #140	Pokemon Gym
31	Charmander	Event	$5,625	Promo #44	Pokemon Center store promo
32	Poncho-Wearing Eevee	Crossover	$5,600	SM-P #141	Poncho series
33	Tropical Wind	Event	$5,500	DP #25	World Championship promo
34	Magikarp 20th Anniversary Festa	Anniversary	$5,499.99	XY-P	20th anniversary, 2016
35	Psyduck	Crossover	$5,416.51	XY-P	Pokemon Center, 2015
36	Poncho-Wearing Eevee	Crossover	$5,301	SM-P #137	Poncho series
37	Pikachu	Anniversary	$5,253	DP-P #100	10th anniversary, 2006
38	Champion’s Festival	Event	$5,102.40	XY-P	World Championship promo
39	Warm Pikachu	Crossover	$5,050.41	XY-P #95	Uniqlo
40	Warm Pikachu	Crossover	$5,023.86	XY-P #96	Uniqlo
41	Pikachu	Anniversary	$5,000	DP-P #99	10th anniversary, 2006
42	Pikachu	Crossover	$4,799.99	XY-P	With You Wagon
43	Warm Pikachu	Crossover	$4,650	XY-P #97	Uniqlo
44	Pikachu	Event	$4,637.04	BW-P #120	Pokemon Center Tohoku
45	Championship Arena	Event	$4,626.50	Promo #28	World Championship promo
46	Flying Pikachu	Crossover	$4,600	Promo #25	All Nippon Airways, 1998
47	Pikachu	Event	$4,413.50	XY-P #175	Battle Festa
48	Warm Pikachu	Crossover	$4,335.07	XY-P #94	Uniqlo
49	Tropical Wind	Event	$4,332.29	Promo	World Championship promo
50	N’s Zekrom	Event	$4,250	Promo #31	Pokemon Center store promo
51	Poncho-Wearing Eevee	Crossover	$3,966.21	SM-P #144	Poncho series
52	Mudkip	Crossover	$3,950	ADV-P #20	7-Eleven
53	Pokemon Center	Event	$3,900	BW-P #190	Pokemon Center store promo
54	Pikachu	Event	$3,886.73	SM-P #61	Battle Festa
55	Pokemon Center	Event	$3,758.82	Promo #40	Pokemon Center store promo
56	Umbreon	Crossover	$3,698.44	P #25	McDonald’s promo
57	Rayquaza	Crossover	$3,693.94	XY-P #215	Uniqlo
58	Poncho-Wearing Pikachu	Crossover	$3,625.46	SM-P #37	Poncho series
59	Tropical Wind	Event	$3,565	Promo	World Championship promo
60	Pikachu	Event	$3,550	SM-P #68	Champion’s League
61	Tropical Tidal Wave	Event	$3,499.99	L-P	World Championship promo
62	Tropical Beach	Event	$3,499.99	BW-P	World Championship promo
63	Pretend Boss Pikachu	Crossover	$3,457.98	SM-P #197	Pretend series, 2017
64	Greninja	Crossover	$3,452.23	XY-P	Mega Battle, 2014
65	Pretend Boss Pikachu	Crossover	$3,451.53	SM-P #191	Pretend series, 2017
66	Pretend Boss Pikachu	Crossover	$3,300	SM-P #196	Pretend series, 2017
67	Pretend Boss Pikachu	Crossover	$3,263.25	SM-P #195	Pretend series, 2017
68	Poncho-Wearing Pikachu	Crossover	$3,225.48	SM-P #38	Poncho series
69	Lillie	Event	$3,205.25	SM-P #148	School Festa, 2017
70	Pretend Boss Pikachu	Crossover	$3,150	SM-P #194	Pretend series, 2017
71	Poncho-Wearing Eevee	Crossover	$3,100	SM-P #139	Poncho series
72	Tropical Wind	Event	$3,100	DP #05	World Championship promo
73	Pretend Boss Pikachu	Crossover	$3,090.65	SM-P #193	Pretend series, 2017
74	Poncho-Wearing Eevee	Crossover	$3,050	SM-P #138	Poncho series
75	Tropical Tidal Wave	Event	$3,038	Promo	World Championship promo
76	Pokemon Center Osaka	Event	$2,956.26	P #20	Pokemon Center Osaka
77	Mew	Crossover	$2,950	P #33	McDonald’s promo
78	Pretend Grunt Pikachu	Crossover	$2,948.20	SM-P #14	Pretend series, 2017
79	Pretend Boss Pikachu	Crossover	$2,825	SM-P #192	Pretend series, 2017
80	Poncho-Wearing Eevee	Crossover	$2,784.38	SM-P #142	Poncho series
81	Pikachu	Crossover	$2,714.63	XY-P #98	Mega Tokyo, 2014
82	Poncho-Wearing Pikachu	Crossover	$2,699.99	XY-P #203	Poncho series
83	Yokohama’s Pikachu	Event	$2,682.35	SM-P #280	Pokemon Center city promo
84	Poncho-Wearing Eevee	Crossover	$2,649.93	SM-P #140	Poncho series
85	Pikachu	Crossover	$2,642.68	XY-P #154	7-Eleven
86	Poncho-Wearing Eevee	Crossover	$2,600	SM-P #143	Poncho series
87	Riolu	Event	$2,550	Promo #10	Pokemon Center store promo
88	Pikachu with Grey Felt Hat	Museum	$2,525.50	Promo #85	Van Gogh Museum x Pokemon, Amsterdam, 2023
89	Pikachu	Event	$2,319.92	Promo #27	Pokemon Center stamp
90	Birthday Pikachu	Anniversary	$2,274.92	Promo #24	Birthday card, 2000
91	Bulbasaur	Event	$2,150	DPT-P #30	Pokemon Center store promo
92	Tropical Tidal Wave	Event	$2,075	Promo #036	World Championship promo
93	Champion’s Festival	Event	$1,998.55	SM-P	World Championship promo
94	Champions Festival	Event	$1,990.38	XY #91	World Championship promo
95	Champion’s Festival	Event	$1,920.18	BW-P	World Championship promo
96	Sapporo’s Pikachu	Event	$1,917.14	SM-P #5	Pokemon Center Sapporo
97	Snorlax	Event	$1,900	Promo #51	Pokemon Center store promo
98	Tohoku’s Pikachu	Event	$1,850.39	SM-P #88	Pokemon Center Tohoku
99	Tropical Wind	Event	Raw $1,782.59	Promo	World Championship promo
100	Champions Festival	Event	$1,777.17	SM #78	World Championship promo

The rest of the list

Entries 101 to 195 complete the 195. Prices thin out sharply from here: the whole second half of the list covers a range that the top ten covers in single cards.

#	Card	Category	Recorded value	Set and number	Where it came from
101	Treecko	Event	$1,736	PCG-P #37	Pokemon Center store promo
102	Yokohama’s Pikachu	Event	$1,705	SM-P #281	Pokemon Center city promo
103	Yokohama’s Pikachu	Event	$1,583	SM-P #282	Pokemon Center city promo
104	Champions Festival	Event	$1,536.02	SM #148	World Championship promo
105	Player’s Ceremony	Event	$1,487.50	SM-P #398	World Championship promo
106	Champion’s Festival	Event	$1,397	XY #176	World Championship promo
107	Tropical Beach	Event	$1,386.84	BW #28	World Championship promo
108	Champion’s Festival	Event	$1,250.22	SM-P	World Championship promo
109	Yokohamas Pikachu	Event	$1,233.82	SM-P #283	Pokemon Center city promo
110	Champion’s Festival	Event	$1,143.73	SM-P	World Championship promo
111	Pikachu	Anniversary	$1,135.58	SM-P #224	20th anniversary, 2016
112	Kanazawa’s Pikachu	Museum	$1,100	S-P #147	Pokemon x Kanazawa, 2023
113	Champions Festival	Event	$1,075	SM #231	World Championship promo
114	Team Rocket’s Wobbuffet	Event	$1,065.03	Promo #203	Pokemon Center store promo
115	Pokemon Center Tokyo	Event	$1,052	P #19	Pokemon Center store promo
116	Tropical Wind	Event	$1,003.17	Promo #26	World Championship promo
117	Ho-oh	Event	$1,001.42	Promo #52	Pokemon Center store promo
118	M Rayquaza EX	Event	$995	XY-P #272	Pokemon Center store promo
119	Pretend Comedian Pikachu	Crossover	$987	SM-P #407	Pretend series, 2017
120	Paradise Resort	Event	$916.99	Promo #150	World Championship promo
121	Champions Festival	Event	$880.80	BW #95	World Championship promo
122	Shibuya’s Pikachu	Event	$868.50	S-P #2	Pokemon Center city promo
123	Detective Pikachu	Museum	$835.16	S-P #99	Detective Pikachu movie, 2019
124	Pikachu	Event	$775	Promo #101	Asia Championship
125	Champion’s Festival	Event	$757.18	S-P	World Championship promo
126	Alakazam	Event	$742.50	Promo #9	Pokemon Center store promo
127	Eevee	Event	$730	Promo #173	Pokemon Center store promo
128	Paradise Resort	Event	$710	Promo #224	World Championship promo
129	Paradise Resort	Event	$699.53	SV-P	World Championship promo
130	Champions Festival	Event	Raw $650	XY #176	World Championship promo
131	Mewtwo	Event	$611	XY-P #202	Battle Festa
132	Espeon GX	Event	$570	SM-P #124	Pokemon Center city promo
133	All Night Party	Crossover	$480.40	XY-P #139	Pokemon Gym
134	Detective Pikachu	Museum	$480	SM-P #337	Detective Pikachu movie, 2019
135	Detective Pikachu	Museum	$464.35	Promo #50	Detective Pikachu movie, 2019
136	Paradise Resort	Event	$462.50	SV-P	World Championship promo
137	Champion’s Festival	Event	$458.39	SWSH #296	World Championship promo
138	Miraidon	Event	$429	Promo #13	Pokemon Center store promo
139	Rapidash	Event	$416.19	Promo #51	Pokemon Center store promo
140	Tropical Beach	Event	Raw $406.51	BW #28	World Championship promo
141	Champions Festival	Event	Raw $394.95	XY #27	World Championship promo
142	Absol EX	Event	$394.58	XY-P	Battle Festa
143	Pikachu	Crossover	$381.64	SV-P #172	Pizza Hut
144	Detective Pikachu	Museum	$375.48	SV-P #98	Detective Pikachu movie, 2019
145	Pikachu	Museum	$375	S-P #208	Yu Nagaba x Pokemon Center
146	Detective Pikachu	Museum	$372.50	SM-P #338	Detective Pikachu movie, 2019
147	Kanazawa’s Pikachu	Museum	$369.87	S-P #144	Pokemon x Kanazawa, 2023
148	Taipei Pikachu	Event	$362.50	SV-P #57	Pokemon Center Taipei
149	Mimikyu	Event	$358.36	Promo #75	Pokemon Center store promo
150	Umbreon	Museum	$315.50	SV-P #67	Yu Nagaba x Pokemon Center
151	Pikachu & Zekrom GX	Anniversary	$299.99	SV-P #157	5th Anniversary Stamped
152	Paradise Resort	Event	$293.25	SV-P	World Championship promo
153	Pikachu	Crossover	$281.01	Promo #54	Pizza Hut Hong Kong, 2026
154	Pikachu	Event	$271.86	S-P #81	Lunar New Year
155	Magneton	Event	$247.50	Promo #159	Pokemon Center store promo
156	Tropical Wind	Event	Raw $220.65	DP #48	World Championship promo
157	Eevee	Museum	$217	SV-P #62	Yu Nagaba x Pokemon Center
158	Pokemon Center Lady	Event	$216.73	S-P #69	Pokemon Center store promo
159	Hiroshima’s Pikachu	Event	$196.95	SV-P #261	Pokemon Center Hiroshima
160	Slowpoke	Crossover	$190	SV-P #238	FamilyMart stamped
161	Charmander	Crossover	$181.18	SV-P #242	Toys R Us
162	Rayquaza GX	Anniversary	$170.39	SV-P #156	5th Anniversary Stamped
163	Fukuoka’s Pikachu	Event	$158.92	SV-P #289	Pokemon Center city promo
164	Umbreon	Event	Raw $137.14	Promo #60	Regional Champion
165	Squirtle	Crossover	$135.89	SV-P #233	FamilyMart stamped
166	Pikachu	Anniversary	$130	SV-P #169	5th Anniversary Stamped
167	Arceus & Dialga & Palkia GX	Anniversary	$128.24	SV-P #158	5th Anniversary Stamped
168	Pikachu	Event	$127.50	SV-P #2	World Championship promo
169	Paradise Resort Simplified Chinese	Event	$125.34	SV-P	World Championship promo
170	Pikachu	Crossover	$111	SV-P #236	FamilyMart stamped
171	Charizard Ex	Anniversary	Raw $100.50	SV-P #166	5th Anniversary Stamped
172	Eevee	Anniversary	$99	SV-P #171	5th Anniversary Stamped
173	Giratina VSTAR	Anniversary	$94.99	SV-P #162	5th Anniversary Stamped
174	Miraidon Ex	Anniversary	Raw $80	SV-P #164	5th Anniversary Stamped
175	Lugia VSTAR	Anniversary	$80	SV-P #163	5th Anniversary Stamped
176	Zoroark GX	Anniversary	$78	SV-P #154	5th Anniversary Stamped
177	Scizor	Crossover	Raw $61.10	Promo #141	Pokemon Gym
178	Arceus VSTAR	Anniversary	$56	SV-P #161	5th Anniversary Stamped
179	Nidorina	Event	Raw $56	Promo #101	Pokemon Center store promo
180	Lance’s Charizard V	Anniversary	$54.47	S-P #123	25th Anniversary Stamped
181	Lillie	Event	Raw $53.73	125A	2018 Regional Championship
182	Zapdos Ex	Event	Raw $43.51	SV-P #55	World Championship promo
183	Koraidon	Event	Raw $43.01	SV-P #79	Lunar New Year
184	Dark Sylveon V	Anniversary	Raw $42.46	S-P #124	25th Anniversary Stamped
185	Blastoise Ex	Crossover	Raw $42	SV-P #235	FamilyMart stamped
186	Mew VMAX	Anniversary	Raw $34.25	SV-P #160	5th Anniversary Stamped
187	Charmander	Crossover	Raw $30	SV-P #232	FamilyMart stamped
188	Ultra Necrozma GX	Anniversary	$30	SV-P #155	5th Anniversary Stamped
189	Eternatus VMAX	Anniversary	$30	SV-P #159	5th Anniversary Stamped
190	Eevee	Crossover	Raw $29.98	S-P #121	Pokemon Gym
191	Rowlet	Crossover	Raw $25.45	SV-P #231	FamilyMart stamped
192	Miraidon	Event	Raw $18	SV-P #80	Lunar New Year
193	Scorbunny	Anniversary	Raw $16.07	30TH-P #23	30th Anniversary
194	Wartortle	Crossover	Raw $11.63	SV-P #234	FamilyMart stamped
195	Chien-Pao Ex	Anniversary	Raw $11.24	SV-P #165	5th Anniversary Stamped

The ten at the top

#	Card	Category	Recorded value	Source
1	Mario Pikachu	Crossover	$32,275	Pokemon Center x Super Mario, 2016
2	Poncho-Wearing Pikachu	Crossover	$23,825	Poncho series
3	Pikachu 20th Anniversary Festa	Anniversary	$22,983.15	20th anniversary, 2016
4	Poncho-Wearing Pikachu Charizard	Crossover	$18,386.11	Poncho series, 2016
5	Poncho-Wearing Pikachu	Crossover	$17,900	Poncho series
6	Luigi Pikachu	Crossover	$17,007.13	Pokemon Center x Super Mario, 2016
7	Poncho-Wearing Pikachu	Crossover	$15,600	Poncho series
8	Birthday Pikachu	Anniversary	$15,500	Birthday card, 2000
9	Pikachu	Crossover	$13,840	Toyota, 1998
10	Pretend Team Skull Pikachu	Crossover	$13,700	Pretend series, 2017

Four of the ten are crossovers, which is the pattern the whole list follows: the cards tied to a brand or another franchise are the ones with the smallest print runs and the widest audience. The rest are event releases, where the price tracks how long the event ran and how many were handed out rather than how famous the character is.

Why these behave differently from set cards

Three things separate a celebration card from a card out of a set, and all three push the price up.

There is no second printing. A set card that sells out gets reprinted, and the price settles. A card handed out at one event in one city does not, so scarcity is fixed at the moment it is given out. There is also no way to pull one: no amount of opening product produces the card, which caps supply permanently. And the source is documented — an event, a brand or an anniversary — which gives each card a story that a main-set card does not have.

The practical result is that this list is far more volatile than the character pages. A single graded sale can move a card hundreds of places, because so few copies exist and so few of those ever come to market.

Frequently asked questions

What counts as a celebration or collaboration card?

Any card that was not distributed through normal product. That covers four kinds: cards handed out at worlds, tournaments and city launches; brand and character crossovers; anniversary and milestone releases; and museum or artist collaborations. On this list those four groups number 93, 64, 26 and 12 cards.

Why is a crossover card more valuable than a card from an anniversary set?

Because crossovers are printed in smaller numbers and reach a wider audience. A brand tie-in has to be licensed, so the print run is negotiated and finite, and it appeals to people who collect the other brand as well as to card collectors. An anniversary release is usually boxed and sold in shops, so more copies exist.

How are these cards ranked?

By the recorded PSA 10 sale value, highest first, with cards that have no graded sale shown at their raw price. The ranking is a price order only. It is not a judgement of which event or collaboration mattered more, and the categories are shown alongside every entry so the reason behind a card is never lost in the ordering.

Are these cards Simplified Chinese?

Not all of them. Most celebration and collaboration cards were handed out in Japan, and their set codes reflect that. They are collected here because they are the cards Chinese-card collectors ask about most often, and because the Chinese-exclusive gold cards that sit alongside them are covered separately in what a gold UR means.

Does a graded copy always exist?

No. 171 of the 195 have a PSA 10 value on record and 24 are shown at their raw price. For event handouts in particular, many copies were kept as souvenirs and never sent for grading, so the graded population can be very small even where the card is well known.

Sources

Where the cards and values on this page come from

• PriceCharting — printed promo and celebration card records with graded and ungraded sale values, retrieved 27 September 2026.
• Category, event and tie-in details are read from the card record and from the release each card came from.
• Values on this page are the recorded sale price of a graded copy where one exists, and the recorded raw price where none does.

Related reading

The Chinese-exclusive rarities that sit above these are covered in what a gold UR means, and the most expensive Pokémon cards puts the prices on this page in the wider context of the hobby. If you collect by theme rather than by price, collecting one Pokémon per trainer is a different way into the same set of cards.

Explore graded Simplified Chinese cards

Cards like these are the ones worth storing properly. The matte premium sleeves and the 3×4 rigid toploader cover most of it, and the card protection guide covers the rest.

No published ranking of Pokémon trainers covers all nine generations. So the ranking on the Simplified Chinese index is built from two things that can actually be measured — and this page is the full list of all 94 trainers it produces.

Trainer cards are the quiet half of any Chinese collection. They carry no character art, they rarely lead a set, and most collectors meet them sideways — inside a booster box while looking for something else. And yet the people on them are the ones the games are actually built around.

Which raised a question we could not answer by looking it up: who is the most popular Pokémon trainer? No ranking exists. There is no league table of gym leaders, no official count of champions, nothing to compare a Nessa against a Cynthia. So we built one, and this page sets out all 94 characters it ranks, with the two numbers behind every position.

Quick answer

Ninety-four trainers qualify for the ranking CardSpicy publishes. Each is scored on two measures, weighted equally: the combined PSA 10 value of the character’s priced Simplified Chinese cards, and the length of the character’s entry on the Chinese-language Pokémon wiki. Both were read on 27 September 2026. Each measure is turned into a percentile across the 94 before the two are averaged, so a single outlier price cannot dominate the result.

Lillie leads it. Cynthia is second, Red third. The trainers with the largest Chinese card pools are not at the top, and the most expensive trainer card is not either — both facts are a consequence of how the two measures are combined, and both are explained below.

How the ranking is built

With no published ranking to borrow from, the position of every trainer here comes from two things that can be read off a page rather than guessed.

Measure	What is read	Why it is in
Money	The combined PSA 10 value of every priced Simplified Chinese card naming the character, from PriceCharting.	It measures what collectors actually pay for the character, not what they say about them.
Written attention	The byte length of the character’s article on wiki.52poke.com, the Chinese-language Pokémon wiki.	It measures how much has been written about the character, which is a demand signal that does not move with the card market.

Each measure is converted to a percentile across all 94 qualifying characters before the two are averaged. Percentiles rather than raw values, because the money measure is dominated by a handful of expensive cards while the wiki measure is not; without that step one trainer with a single high-value card would outrank the rest of the list. Averaging also means neither measure can quietly decide the whole result on its own.

Where a character’s Chinese cards carry no graded value, the ungraded value is used instead. Where neither exists, the card drops out of the money half of the calculation and the character is ranked on written attention alone.

Which trainers qualify

A character needs at least one card printed in Simplified Chinese that names them to enter the list. Cards that name a trainer class rather than a person — a generic Fisherman or Black Belt — do not qualify, and neither do cards that name a team rather than a character. Both kinds appear in the items, tools and stadiums list instead, so that no card is counted twice across the two pages.

Across the 94 characters, 256 priced Chinese cards carry a value on record, and the wiki entries run from 3,161 bytes to 158,910 bytes. The list spans 53 distinct roles, from Kanto gym leaders to Paldea Team Star bosses.

The full ranking

All 94 trainers, in order. The two scores behind each position are shown as the priced card count and the top card value, and the wiki column is the second measure in raw bytes.

#	Trainer	From	Priced Chinese cards	Top card	Wiki entry (bytes)
1	Lillie	Alola Aether	7	$249	158,910
2	Cynthia	Sinnoh Champion	12	$118.34	113,015
3	Red	Kanto protagonist	1	$173.57	102,999
4	Morty	Johto Gym Leader	3	$158.82	89,202
5	Misty	Kanto Gym Leader	9	$163.01	92,214
6	Green	Kanto rival	2	$143.42	111,323
7	Sabrina	Kanto Gym Leader	1	$200	84,955
8	Erika	Kanto Gym Leader	1	$107.19	99,499
9	Carmine	Kitakami rival	3	$645.50	58,143
10	N	Unova Team Plasma	15	$32.79	147,521
11	Korrina	Kalos Gym Leader	3	$58.53	131,665
12	Bianca	Unova rival	3	$117.63	63,974
13	Brock	Kanto Gym Leader	3	$73.11	99,791
14	Elesa	Unova Gym Leader	2	$49.75	87,620
15	Lana	Alola trial captain	5	$184.36	47,638
16	Ethan	Johto protagonist	15	$59.24	60,489
17	Hop	Galar rival	12	$43.12	82,213
18	Caitlin	Unova Elite Four	4	$118.34	54,537
19	Geeta	Paldea Champion	2	$57.10	60,022
20	Rika	Paldea Elite Four	3	$140	41,816
21	Larry	Paldea Gym Leader	4	$92.50	47,595
22	Lisia	Hoenn Contest star	2	$397.01	32,627
23	Iono	Paldea Gym Leader	9	$35.09	54,815
24	Giovanni	Kanto Gym Leader	2	$5.27	133,592
25	Professor Sada	Paldea professor	2	$52.80	45,409
26	Jasmine	Johto Gym Leader	2	$16.04	74,619
27	Zinnia	Hoenn lorekeeper	2	$7.04	103,463
28	Marnie	Galar rival	9	$10.88	75,508
29	Nemona	Paldea Champion	1	$25	62,301
30	Flannery	Hoenn Gym Leader	1	$32	60,041
31	Irida	Hisui clan leader	1	$8.50	94,037
32	Mallow	Alola trial captain	2	$125	37,558
33	Kieran	Kitakami rival	4	$16.99	57,232
34	Grimsley	Unova Elite Four	2	$12.34	72,762
35	Cheryl	Sinnoh trainer	1	$91.28	38,035
36	Will	Johto Elite Four	2	$80.81	39,247
37	Shauntal	Unova Elite Four	2	$38.89	49,282
38	Janine	Kanto Gym Leader	4	$39	44,532
39	Roxanne	Hoenn Gym Leader	2	$13.50	58,728
40	Perrin	Sinnoh photographer	3	$190.45	21,401
41	Clive	Paldea student	3	$42.47	37,774
42	Mela	Paldea Team Star	5	$85.17	17,802
43	Iris	Unova Champion	2	$5.99	63,034
44	Arven	Paldea rival	8	$12.20	50,252
45	Penny	Paldea Team Star	1	$39.96	36,422
46	Steven	Hoenn Champion · 7 Chinese cards · no price on record yet	0	—	112,889
47	Eri	Paldea Team Star	4	$69.46	20,116
48	Clemont	Kalos Gym Leader	2	$10.44	41,440
49	Lucian	Sinnoh Elite Four	2	$42.73	31,929
50	Lacey	Paldea Elite Four	2	$27.57	33,182
51	Salvatore	Paldea teacher	3	$88.95	11,609
52	Phoebe	Hoenn Elite Four	1	$17.99	37,941
53	Poppy	Paldea Elite Four	3	$36.25	27,840
54	Cassiopeia	Paldea Team Star	3	$13.88	36,422
55	Raihan	Galar Gym Leader	2	$0.99	64,259
56	Karen	Johto Elite Four	1	$11.37	39,758
57	Shauna	Kalos rival	2	$8.49	37,782
58	Hassel	Paldea Elite Four	2	$35.78	27,220
59	Tulip	Paldea Gym Leader	2	$67.42	11,008
60	Lt. Surge	Kanto Gym Leader · 1 Chinese card · no price on record yet	0	—	66,636
61	Drayton	Unova Elite Four	3	$16.27	25,726
62	Norman	Hoenn Gym Leader · 1 Chinese card · no price on record yet	0	—	61,676
63	Bruno	Kanto Elite Four · 1 Chinese card · no price on record yet	0	—	61,167
64	Raifort	Paldea teacher	1	$7.26	33,204
65	Colress	Unova Team Plasma	2	$1.99	42,318
66	Brawly	Hoenn Gym Leader · 3 Chinese cards · no price on record yet	0	—	51,968
67	Kamado	Hisui commander · 1 Chinese card · no price on record yet	0	—	50,353
68	Melony	Galar Gym Leader	3	$15.70	24,675
69	Cress	Unova Gym Leader	2	$2.85	32,467
70	Siebold	Kalos Elite Four · 3 Chinese cards · no price on record yet	0	—	44,321
71	Crispin	Paldea Elite Four	2	$21.88	10,707
72	Chili	Unova Gym Leader	2	$2.85	32,016
73	Roark	Sinnoh Gym Leader · 1 Chinese card · no price on record yet	0	—	42,178
74	Cilan	Unova Gym Leader	2	$2.85	28,341
75	Molayne	Alola Elite Four	2	$5.49	27,162
76	Briar	Paldea researcher	2	$13	10,860
77	Sidney	Hoenn Elite Four	2	$3.25	29,816
78	Ortega	Paldea Team Star	2	$1.93	30,167
79	Atticus	Paldea Team Star	2	$3.99	17,328
80	Xerosic	Kalos Team Flare	2	$4.01	27,902
81	Grant	Kalos Gym Leader · 1 Chinese card · no price on record yet	0	—	37,518
82	Gordie	Galar Gym Leader	2	$2.97	25,318
83	Brassius	Paldea Gym Leader	1	$4.49	24,891
84	Amarys	Paldea Elite Four	2	$4.59	11,170
85	Copycat	Kanto trainer	2	$7.93	7,541
86	Cyrano	Paldea director	1	$5.07	11,700
87	Peonia	Galar trainer	1	$8.51	4,556
88	Tyme	Paldea teacher	1	$6.62	11,147
89	Giacomo	Paldea Team Star	1	$4.48	16,580
90	Drasna	Kalos Elite Four	1	$1.99	24,874
91	Daisy	Kanto trainer	1	$1.06	11,483
92	Mustard	Galar dojo master · 3 Chinese cards · no price on record yet	0	—	14,442
93	Choy	Hisui merchant	1	$3	3,161
94	Kofu	Paldea Gym Leader	2	$0.99	10,244

Who is at the top, and why

Lillie takes first place on the strength of the written measure rather than the money one. Her Chinese cards are not the most valuable in the list, but her wiki entry is the longest of any character here at 158,910 bytes, and no other trainer combines that depth with a working card market underneath it. It is the same result the two measures produce separately: the character a generation is written around tends to be the character collectors remember.

Cynthia is second, and she is the clearest case of both measures agreeing. Sinnoh’s champion carries 12 priced Chinese cards, the largest pool in the top ten, and her wiki entry is the second longest on the list. Red, third, is the opposite shape: one priced Chinese card against an entry of 102,999 bytes, so essentially all of his score comes from written attention. That asymmetry is the point of using two measures — a character can be famous without being printed.

Further down, the list stops behaving like a popularity contest at all. Choy, a Hisui merchant, ranks 93 on a single $3 card; Kofu, a Paldea gym leader, closes the list at 94 with two cards whose top value is under a dollar. Both are in the list because they have a Chinese printing and a wiki entry, not because anyone is collecting them. The ranking measures attention and money, and where a character has almost none of either, that is what it reports.

Where the trainers come from

Counting by region rather than by rank shows how unevenly the card game has covered the nine generations.

Region	Trainers in the list
Kanto	12
Johto	5
Hoenn	9
Sinnoh	5
Unova	12
Kalos	7
Alola	4
Galar	7
Hisui	3
Paldea	28
Kitakami	2

Paldea and Unova dominate, which follows the card game rather than the games themselves: both regions were printed heavily in the Simplified Chinese era, so both contributed a full slate of gym leaders, Elite Four members and rivals. Kanto is under-represented at the top because its trainers were printed early and reprinted rarely, and Hisui contributes only a handful because its cast is small.

Frequently asked questions

How do you rank Pokémon trainers when no ranking exists?

From two measures weighted equally. The combined PriceCharting PSA 10 value of the character’s priced Simplified Chinese cards, and the byte length of the character’s article on wiki.52poke.com. Both were read on 27 September 2026, and each is converted to a percentile across the 94 qualifying characters before the two are averaged.

Who is the most popular Pokémon trainer?

On this ranking it is Lillie, ahead of Cynthia and Red. Lillie leads on the written measure: her entry on the Chinese-language Pokémon wiki is the longest of any trainer in the list. Cynthia is second, and is the only character near the top with both the largest Chinese card pool in the top ten and the second-longest wiki entry.

Why is a famous trainer missing from the list?

Because the list requires a Simplified Chinese card that names the character. A trainer who has never appeared on a Chinese printing has no card to price and no place in the money half of the calculation. Cards that name a trainer class instead of a person are excluded on purpose and appear in the items and stadiums list.

Does a more expensive card always mean a higher rank?

No, and that is deliberate. The two measures are averaged as percentiles, so a character with one very expensive card cannot outrank a character with a broad and well-documented following. The top of the list is decided by the combination, which is why the most expensive trainer card on the site does not belong to the trainer in first place.

Will the ranking change?

Yes. Both measures move. Card values change with every sale recorded on PriceCharting, and wiki entries are edited continuously. The list is a snapshot read on 27 September 2026, and the order is better read as a description of that date rather than a permanent table.

Sources

Where the trainer ranking comes from

• PriceCharting — printing-level records and graded and ungraded sale values for Simplified Chinese cards, retrieved 27 September 2026.
• wiki.52poke.com — the Chinese-language Pokémon wiki, used as the second measure. Article byte lengths read on 27 September 2026.
• The full counting rules behind every figure on this site are set out in How We Count and Rank Chinese Pokémon Cards.

Related reading

The rules behind this ranking are written out in how we count and rank Chinese Pokémon cards. If you collect by character rather than by set, collecting with a theme explains the approach, and the most popular characters by region covers the Pokémon side of the same question.

Explore graded Simplified Chinese cards

Every card behind this ranking is sold as a PSA 10 slab. If you would rather handle a card before it is graded, the card protection range covers sleeves, toploaders and storage — the matte premium sleeves and the 3×4 rigid toploader are the two most collectors start with.

Simplified Chinese cards do not stop at Kanto. Sixty-three characters from later generations have been printed in the format so far, across eight regions — and fourteen of them already carry a full guide on this site. This is the whole list, with the three-language counts behind each one.

The first 151 get the attention, and on a site built around the original Pokédex that is expected. But the Chinese-exclusive sets reach well past Kanto, and the characters they reach for are not a random sample. They are the ones with a following large enough to carry a set, and the ones whose designs work as a chase card.

That makes the list below useful in two directions. If you collect a character from a later generation and want to know whether it has been printed in Chinese at all, the table answers it. If you are looking at what the Chinese format has actually built outside Kanto, the shape of the list — which regions are deep and which are barely touched — is the more interesting read.

Quick answer

CardSpicy’s catalogue records sixty-three characters outside the original 151 with a Simplified Chinese printing, spread across eight regions. Forty-two of the sixty-three carry at least one graded price, and fourteen have a full guide on this site. The deepest pools belong to Eevee’s evolutions: Umbreon on 33 Chinese printings and Sylveon on 30, followed by Leafeon and Glaceon on 26 each. Two characters — Baxcalibur and Kubfu — have no Simplified Chinese printing on record at all.

What “outside the first 151” means here

A character qualifies for this list on one test: it has a Pokédex number above 151 and at least one Simplified Chinese printing on record in our source. That is a narrower test than it sounds. The Chinese format launched in October 2022 and has printed a limited number of sets since, so coverage of later generations is thin and uneven rather than proportional to how many characters each generation introduced.

Paldea is the clearest illustration. Twenty-seven of the sixty-three characters on this list come from Generation IX, because the Chinese sets that have run since 2022 have followed the current generation as it released. Johto is second with nine, driven by Eevee’s evolutions. Hoenn has two. Generations III through VII together account for nineteen characters — not because those characters are unpopular, but because the Chinese print runs have not caught up with them yet.

The sixty-three characters, by region

Counts are Simplified Chinese, Japanese and English printings tracked on PriceCharting, read on 27 September 2026. Names link to a full guide where one exists. Seven of the characters below sit at the end of an evolution line that begins in Kanto, and those relationships are set out in the next section.

Character	Dex	CN	JP	EN	Type
Gen II — Johto — 9 characters
Umbreon	197	33	40	71	Darkness
Espeon	196	24	30	63	Psychic
Houndoom	229	19	32	77	Darkness
Tyranitar	248	9	41	94	Darkness
Celebi	251	5	19	43	Grass
Scizor	212	3	20	52	Metal
Suicune	245	2	20	48	Water
Ampharos	181	1	34	57	Lightning
Lugia	249	1	22	51	Colorless
Gen III — Hoenn — 2 characters
Gardevoir	282	13	34	68	Psychic
Rayquaza	384	8	53	81	Colorless
Gen IV — Sinnoh — 5 characters
Leafeon	470	26	22	58	Grass
Glaceon	471	26	20	54	Water
Darkrai	491	13	26	56	Darkness
Garchomp	445	12	24	56	Dragon
Lucario	448	6	29	84	Fighting
Gen V — Unova — 4 characters
Chandelure	609	12	16	45	Fire
Zoroark	571	9	43	57	Darkness
Hydreigon	635	3	10	42	Darkness
Volcarona	637	1	24	41	Fire
Gen VI — Kalos — 5 characters
Sylveon	700	30	27	52	Fairy
Dedenne	702	6	19	41	Psychic
Greninja	658	5	19	39	Water
Aegislash	681	5	16	38	Metal
Noivern	715	4	14	31	Dragon
Gen VII — Alola — 3 characters
Lycanroc	745	14	21	41	Fighting
Mimikyu	778	12	29	55	Psychic
Zeraora	807	12	30	39	Lightning
Gen VIII — Galar — 8 characters
Applin	840	19	15	23	Grass
Snom	872	10	11	14	Water
Urshifu	892	10	14	27	Fighting
Dragapult	887	4	16	23	Psychic
Toxtricity	849	3	19	33	Lightning
Corviknight	823	1	14	18	Metal
Alcremie	869	1	7	17	Psychic
Kubfu	891	0	2	2	Fighting
Gen IX — Paldea — 26 characters
Ogerpon	1017	23	48	45	Grass
Ceruledge	937	19	11	15	Psychic
Crocalor	910	17	8	7	Fire
Floragato	907	16	8	5	Grass
Quaxwell	913	15	8	5	Water
Cetitan	975	13	8	7	Water
Sprigatito	906	10	12	11	Grass
Annihilape	979	10	9	10	Fighting
Fuecoco	909	9	10	13	Fire
Quaxly	912	9	9	10	Water
Bellibolt	939	7	15	17	Lightning
Gholdengo	1000	7	13	11	Metal
Terapagos	1024	7	16	16	Colorless
Pecharunt	1025	6	14	8	Darkness
Dudunsparce	982	5	12	13	Colorless
Maushold	925	4	9	11	Colorless
Archaludon	1018	4	14	23	Metal
Hydrapple	1019	4	8	10	Grass
Clodsire	980	3	5	9	Darkness
Farigiraf	981	3	9	9	Colorless
Kingambit	983	3	10	7	Darkness
Meowscarada	908	2	9	10	Grass
Skeledirge	911	1	9	12	Fire
Quaquaval	914	1	9	7	Water
Tinkaton	959	1	10	14	Psychic
Baxcalibur	998	0	4	8	Water
Gen IX — Paldean form — 1 characters
Paldean Wooper	194	17	8	15	Darkness

Which of them are evolutions of a Kanto character

The overlap with the first 151 is not only thematic. Several characters on the list are later evolutions of a character that sits in the grid above, which is why a Kanto collector often ends up holding a Johto or Sinnoh card without meaning to.

Umbreon, Espeon, Leafeon, Glaceon and Sylveon all evolve from Eevee, number 133. Scizor evolves from Scyther, number 123. Annihilape evolves from Primeape, number 57. Four of those five Eevee evolutions sit in this list’s top four by Chinese printings — a direct consequence of Eevee itself being the most-printed character in the Chinese format outside Pikachu.

Character	Evolves from	Base Pokédex no.	CN printings
Umbreon	Eevee	133	33
Espeon	Eevee	133	24
Leafeon	Eevee	133	26
Glaceon	Eevee	133	26
Sylveon	Eevee	133	30
Scizor	Scyther	123	3
Annihilape	Primeape	57	10

The two characters with no Chinese printing

Baxcalibur and Kubfu are the only characters in this list whose Simplified Chinese count is zero. Both have Japanese and English printings — Baxcalibur on 4 and 8, Kubfu on 2 and 2 — so the gap is a gap in the Chinese print run rather than a gap in our records. On the index page the two are shown with their English card, labelled as such, because there is no Chinese card to show.

Both are worth watching rather than dismissing. Kubfu is the base form of Urshifu, which does have ten Chinese printings and two priced cards. Baxcalibur is the final evolution of a Paldea line that the Chinese sets have otherwise covered. A future set can close either gap, and when it does, the counts here move.

Where the deepest Chinese-only pools sit

The table rewards reading down the Simplified Chinese column rather than the total. Some characters with very large Japanese and English histories have almost no Chinese presence — Lugia sits on 22 Japanese and 51 English printings but only 1 in Chinese, and Volcarona on 24 Japanese and 41 English against 1 in Chinese. Others run the other way. Ogerpon has 23 Chinese printings against 48 Japanese and 45 English, which is a much flatter profile than its totals suggest.

For a collector deciding what is actually collectable in the Chinese format, the characters with depth are the ones worth a look: Umbreon on 33, Sylveon on 30, Leafeon and Glaceon on 26 each, Espeon on 24, and Ogerpon on 23. Everything below that thins out quickly into single digits.

Frequently asked questions

How many Pokémon outside the original 151 have Simplified Chinese cards?

Sixty-three characters, spread across eight regions, have at least one Simplified Chinese printing on record as of 27 September 2026. Forty-two of them carry at least one graded price, and fourteen have a full guide on this site. The count rises whenever a new Chinese set is printed.

Why are there so few Hoenn or Sinnoh characters with Chinese cards?

Because the Chinese format is young rather than selective. Simplified Chinese launched in October 2022, and the sets printed since have followed the current generation as it released, which is why twenty-seven of the sixty-three characters here come from Paldea. Earlier generations are covered thinly because the print runs have not reached them yet.

Which later-generation Pokémon has the most Chinese cards?

Umbreon, with 33 Simplified Chinese printings, followed by Sylveon on 30 and Leafeon and Glaceon on 26 each. Umbreon is the deepest Chinese-only pool of any character outside the first generation. All five of those are Eevee evolutions, which is the main reason the Johto region is the second-best covered on the list.

Are any of these characters evolutions of a Kanto Pokémon?

Yes, seven of them. Umbreon, Espeon, Leafeon, Glaceon and Sylveon all evolve from Eevee, number 133. Scizor evolves from Scyther, number 123. Annihilape evolves from Primeape, number 57. Their Chinese print counts reflect how heavily Eevee itself has been printed in the format.

Which later-generation characters have no Simplified Chinese card at all?

Two: Baxcalibur and Kubfu. Both have Japanese and English printings, so the gap is in the Chinese print run rather than in our records. Kubfu is the base form of Urshifu, which does have ten Chinese printings, so the gap may close when a future set runs that line.

Sources

Where the card counts and prices in this article come from

• PriceCharting — printing-level card records for all three languages, retrieved 27 September 2026.
• Evolution relationships follow the official Pokédex ordering; the base Pokédex numbers in the second table are the Kanto character each evolution line starts from.
• Card counts quoted in this article were read from our own catalogue on 29 September 2026 and are the same figures carried on the tiles of the Simplified Chinese index.

Related reading

The counting rules behind every number on this page are set out in how we count and rank Chinese Pokémon cards. For the wider picture, see the Simplified Chinese-exclusive card list, why the format is only four years old, and how Chinese cards differ from Japanese.

Explore graded Simplified Chinese cards

Every card on this page is counted from a real printing, and the guides linked in the table carry the priced top list for each character. If you are protecting a set as it grows, the card protection range covers sleeves, toploaders and storage — the matte premium sleeves and the 3×4 rigid toploader are the two most collectors start with.