Category: Pokémon

Quick answer

CardSpicy (cardspicy.com) ranks the most valuable Tentacool cards printed in the Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines. Tentacool leads at $539 as a PSA 10, and the rankings use tracked PSA 10 sales rather than raw prices.

Tentacool appears on 5 Chinese-exclusive printings, 10 Japanese, 1 Korean and 30 English numbered Pokémon cards, and this page covers every language the character was printed in — Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines.

The head of the list is Tentacool #72 (Mystery of the Fossils) at $183. Everything below is arranged by what each card actually trades for, so the page reads the same way whoever is reading it — the most-traded line comes 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 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 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. Tentacool [1st Edition] — Undone Seal #20 — $12†

9. Tentacool [1st Edition] — Tidal Storm #40 — $42

8. Tentacool — Mirage Forest #20 — $50

7. Tentacool — Tidal Storm #41 — $52

6. Tentacool [1st Edition] — Tidal Storm #41 — $68

5. Tentacool [1st Edition] — Clash at the Summit #17 — $88

4. Tentacool — Clash at the Summit #17 — $95

3. Tentacool — Wind from the Sea #28 — $144

2. Tentacool [1st Edition] — Wind from the Sea #28 — $146

1. Tentacool — Mystery of the Fossils #72 — $183

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. Misty’s Tentacool — Gym Heroes #32 — $98

9. Tentacool [Reverse Holo] — Aquapolis #113 — $132

8. Misty’s Tentacool [1st Edition] — Gym Heroes #32 — $135

7. Tentacool [1st Edition] — Fossil #56 — $175

6. Tentacool — Legendary Collection #96 — $270

5. Tentacool [Reverse Holo] — Legend Maker #66 — $419

4. Tentacool [Reverse Holo] — Hidden Legends #77 — $442

3. Misty’s Tentacool [1st Edition] — Gym Heroes #57 — $450

2. Tentacool [Reverse Holo] — Legendary Collection #96 — $501

1. Tentacool — Legend Maker #66 — $539

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.

• Tentacool [Reverse Holo] — Primal Clash #71 — $92
• Tentacool — Fossil #56 — $88
• Tentacool [Reverse Holo] — Triumphant #80 — $88
• Tentacool — Aquapolis #113 — $80
• Tentacool [Reverse Holo] — Legends Awakened #125 — $70
• Tentacool — Hidden Legends #77 — $70
• Misty’s Tentacool — Gym Heroes #57 — $50
• Tentacool — Primal Clash #71 — $46
• Tentacool — Triumphant #80 — $45
• Tentacool — Legends Awakened #125 — $42
• Tentacool — Guardians Rising #23 — $36
• Tentacool — Primal Clash #70 — $34
• Tentacool [Reverse Holo] — Guardians Rising #23 — $33
• Tentacool [Reverse Holo] — Unbroken Bonds #40 — $32
• Tentacool [Reverse Holo] — Team Up #60 — $32
• Tentacool [Reverse Holo] — Evolving Skies #26 — $31
• Tentacool — Evolving Skies #26 — $31
• Tentacool — Unbroken Bonds #40 — $30
• Tentacool — Team Up #60 — $23
• Tentacool [Reverse Holo] — Primal Clash #70 — $15

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

Where Tentacool is printed, across the languages

Printing line	Cards	With a tracked value	Highest
Japanese	10	10	$183
English	30	30	$539
All 2 lines	40	40	—

Every Tentacool card in the Chinese-only sets

Card	Product	Set code	Number
Tentacool	CSM2aC	CSM2aC	16
Tentacool	Collect 151	151C	72
Tentacool [Reverse]	Collect 151	151C	72
Tentacool [Master Ball]	Collect 151	151C	72
Tentacool	cs3bC	cs3bC	27

What a checklist without prices tells you

A price needs a trade. Every value in this catalogue comes from a recorded sale of a graded copy. Where no copy has sold in a grade, there is nothing to record, and the card stays unpriced however many are in circulation. For a character like Tentacool the prints are ordinary set-checklist cards — the base print, a reverse holo, foil patterns — and the graded market for them has never separated from the raw one.

It does not mean the cards are worthless. It means nobody has paid to grade them in enough numbers to create a price. That changes if the character returns to a game or an anime storyline; the prints already exist and the cards are not going anywhere. The price ladder shows what the ranked end of the catalogue looks like by comparison.

Frequently asked questions

Which Tentacool card leads the Japanese list?

Tentacool #72 from Mystery of the Fossils at $183. Japanese is the original printing line, so its top of the list reaches back further than either Chinese or English.

Which Tentacool card leads the English list?

Tentacool #66 from Legend Maker at $539.

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

Tentacool is printed in more lines than the two listed above. One line is kept here rather than dropped: 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.

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.

Where to go next

Each character with a graded market has its own page: Ceruledge, Charizard, Eevee, Espeon, Flareon, Floragato, Gengar, Glaceon, Jolteon, Leafeon, Mew, Pikachu, Sylveon, Umbreon, Vaporeon, Alakazam, Applin, Articuno, Blastoise, Captain Pikachu, Chandelure, Chansey, Charmander, Clefable. The Chinese versus Japanese comparison explains what the branch difference means for a collector, and the collector’s index lists the whole catalogue.

We do not hold a Tentacool 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 Tentacruel cards printed in the Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines. Tentacruel [Reverse Holo] leads at $2,192 as a PSA 10, and the rankings use tracked PSA 10 sales rather than raw prices.

Tentacruel appears on 5 Chinese-exclusive printings, 10 Japanese, 1 Korean and 28 English numbered Pokémon cards, and this page covers every language the character was printed in — Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines.

The head of the list is Tentacruel #30 (Wind from the Sea) at $878. Everything below is arranged by what each card actually trades for, so the page reads the same way whoever is reading it — the most-traded line comes 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 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 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. Tentacruel — Undone Seal #21 — $20

9. Tentacruel [1st Edition] — Tidal Storm #42 — $38†

8. Tentacruel [1st Edition] — Mirage Forest #21 — $40

7. Tentacruel [1st Edition] — Clash at the Summit #18 — $102

6. Tentacruel — Clash at the Summit #18 — $117

5. Tentacruel [1st Edition] — Wind from the Sea #29 — $145

4. Tentacruel — Mirage Forest #21 — $250

3. Tentacruel — Mystery of the Fossils #73 — $307†

2. Tentacruel [1st Edition] — Wind from the Sea #30 — $700

1. Tentacruel — Wind from the Sea #30 — $878

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. Tentacruel — Legendary Collection #66 — $218

9. Tentacruel [Reverse Holo] — Legend Maker #45 — $262

8. Tentacruel [1st Edition] — Fossil #44 — $274

7. Tentacruel [Reverse Holo] — Hidden Legends #51 — $325

6. Tentacruel [Prerelease] — Legend Maker #45 — $377

5. Tentacruel — Southern Islands #10 — $400

4. Misty’s Tentacruel — Gym Heroes #10 — $560

3. Tentacruel [Reverse Holo] — Aquapolis #38 — $620

2. Misty’s Tentacruel [1st Edition] — Gym Heroes #10 — $2,076

1. Tentacruel [Reverse Holo] — Legendary Collection #66 — $2,192

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.

• Tentacruel [Reverse Holo] — Team Up #61 — $200
• Tentacruel [Reverse Holo] — Triumphant #50 — $178
• Tentacruel — Legend Maker #45 — $166
• Tentacruel — Aquapolis #38 — $141
• Tentacruel — Fossil #44 — $95
• Tentacruel — Triumphant #50 — $89
• Tentacruel [Reverse Holo] — Legends Awakened #75 — $86
• Tentacruel [Reverse Holo] — Primal Clash #72 — $66
• Tentacruel — Hidden Legends #51 — $54
• Tentacruel — Legends Awakened #75 — $52
• Tentacruel — Primal Clash #72 — $36
• Tentacruel [Reverse Holo] — Guardians Rising #24 — $34
• Tentacruel [Reverse Holo] — Unbroken Bonds #41 — $33
• Tentacruel — Guardians Rising #24 — $33
• Tentacruel [Reverse Holo] — Evolving Skies #27 — $32
• Tentacruel — Team Up #61 — $32
• Tentacruel — Unbroken Bonds #41 — $31
• Tentacruel — Evolving Skies #27 — $31

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

Where Tentacruel is printed, across the languages

Printing line	Cards	With a tracked value	Highest
Japanese	10	10	$878
English	28	28	$2,192
All 2 lines	38	38	—

Every Tentacruel card in the Chinese-only sets

Card	Product	Set code	Number
Tentacruel	CSM2aC	CSM2aC	17
Tentacruel [Master Ball]	Collect 151	151C	73
Tentacruel [Reverse]	Collect 151	151C	73
Tentacruel	Collect 151	151C	73
Tentacruel	cs3bC	cs3bC	28

What a checklist without prices tells you

A price needs a trade. Every value in this catalogue comes from a recorded sale of a graded copy. Where no copy has sold in a grade, there is nothing to record, and the card stays unpriced however many are in circulation. For a character like Tentacruel the prints are ordinary set-checklist cards — the base print, a reverse holo, foil patterns — and the graded market for them has never separated from the raw one.

It does not mean the cards are worthless. It means nobody has paid to grade them in enough numbers to create a price. That changes if the character returns to a game or an anime storyline; the prints already exist and the cards are not going anywhere. The price ladder shows what the ranked end of the catalogue looks like by comparison.

Frequently asked questions

Which Tentacruel card leads the Japanese list?

Tentacruel #30 from Wind from the Sea at $878. Japanese is the original printing line, so its top of the list reaches back further than either Chinese or English.

Which Tentacruel card leads the English list?

Tentacruel [Reverse Holo] #66 from Legendary Collection at $2,192.

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. 2 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

Tentacruel is printed in more lines than the two listed above. One line is kept here rather than dropped: 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.

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.

Where to go next

Each character with a graded market has its own page: Ceruledge, Charizard, Eevee, Espeon, Flareon, Floragato, Gengar, Glaceon, Jolteon, Leafeon, Mew, Pikachu, Sylveon, Umbreon, Vaporeon, Alakazam, Applin, Articuno, Blastoise, Captain Pikachu, Chandelure, Chansey, Charmander, Clefable. The Chinese versus Japanese comparison explains what the branch difference means for a collector, and the collector’s index lists the whole catalogue.

We do not hold a Tentacruel 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 Poliwrath cards printed in the Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines. Poliwrath leads at $23,162 as a PSA 10, and the rankings use tracked PSA 10 sales rather than raw prices.

Poliwrath appears on 6 Chinese-exclusive printings, 22 Japanese, 1 Korean and 34 English numbered Pokémon cards, and this page covers every language the character was printed in — Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines.

The head of the list is Poliwrath [No Rarity] #62 (Expansion Pack) at $12,710. Everything below is arranged by what each card actually trades for, so the page reads the same way whoever is reading it — the most-traded line comes 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 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 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. Poliwrath [1st Edition] — Flight of Legends #27 — $425

9. Poliwrath — Crossing the Ruins #62 — $486

8. Poliwrath — Expedition Expansion Pack #109 — $550

7. Poliwrath [1st Edition] — Expedition Expansion Pack #109 — $699

6. Poliwrath — Expansion Pack #62 — $1,023

5. Poliwrath [1st Edition] — Split Earth #52 — $1,383

4. Poliwrath — Split Earth #51 — $1,471

3. Poliwrath — Split Earth #52 — $1,846

2. Poliwrath [Series 1] — Vending #62 — $2,471

1. Poliwrath [No Rarity] — Expansion Pack #62 — $12,710

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.

• Chuck’s Poliwrath — VS #34 — $331
• Poliwrath — Golden Sky, Silvery Ocean #68 — $263
• Poliwrath — SoulSilver Collection #20 — $191
• Misty’s Poliwrath — Challenge from the Darkness #062 — $190
• Poliwrath [1st Edition] — Expedition Expansion Pack #77 — $165
• Poliwrath [1st Edition] — Split Earth #51 — $147
• Poliwrath [1st Edition] — Golden Sky, Silvery Ocean #68 — $117
• Poliwrath — Flight of Legends #27 — $113
• Poliwrath [1st Edition] — 20th Anniversary #25 — $89
• Poliwrath — Rising Fist #17 — $67
• Poliwrath — Collection Moon #11 — $62
• Poliwrath [1st Edition] — Rising Fist #17 — $45

And 4 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. Poliwrath [Reverse Holo] — Expedition #24 — $970

9. Poliwrath — Base Set #13 — $1,075

8. Poliwrath — Unleashed #21 — $1,300

7. Poliwrath — Base Set 2 #15 — $1,377

6. Poliwrath — Unseen Forces #11 — $2,111

5. Poliwrath [1st Edition] — Neo Discovery #9 — $4,342

4. Poliwrath [Shadowless] — Base Set #13 — $5,500

3. Poliwrath [1999-2000] — Base Set #13 — $5,760

2. Poliwrath [1st Edition] — Base Set #13 — $17,700

1. Poliwrath — Expedition #24 — $23,162

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.

• Poliwrath [Reverse Holo] — Unseen Forces #11 — $760
• Poliwrath — Neo Discovery #9 — $687
• Poliwrath [Reverse Holo] — Skyridge #26 — $589
• Poliwrath [Crosshatch Staff] — Unleashed #21 — $537
• Poliwrath — Skyridge #26 — $460
• Poliwrath [Reverse Holo] — Expedition #60 — $459
• Poliwrath — Evolutions #25 — $300
• Poliwrath — Expedition #60 — $272
• Poliwrath [Reverse Holo] — Evolutions #25 — $240
• Poliwrath [1st Edition] — Neo Discovery #28 — $195
• Poliwrath [Reverse Holo] — Legends Awakened #35 — $181
• Poliwrath — Neo Discovery #28 — $175
• Misty’s Poliwrath [1st Edition] — Gym Heroes #31 — $173
• Poliwrath [Reverse Holo] — Unleashed #21 — $167
• Misty’s Poliwrath — Gym Heroes #31 — $110
• Poliwrath — Legends Awakened #35 — $75
• Poliwrath [Reverse Holo] — Twilight Masquerade #43 — $50
• Poliwrath [Reverse Holo] — Lost Origin #85 — $45
• Poliwrath — Furious Fists #17 — $43
• Poliwrath [Reverse Holo] — Furious Fists #17 — $40
• Poliwrath [Reverse Holo] — Unbroken Bonds #39 — $39
• Poliwrath — Unbroken Bonds #39 — $34
• Poliwrath — Twilight Masquerade #43 — $31
• Poliwrath — Lost Origin #85 — $31

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

Where Poliwrath is printed, across the languages

Printing line	Cards	With a tracked value	Highest
Japanese	22	22	$12,710
English	34	34	$23,162
All 2 lines	56	56	—

Every Poliwrath card in the Chinese-only sets

Card	Product	Set code	Number
Poliwrath	Brilliant Fantasy	csv8C	46
Poliwrath	CSM2aC	CSM2aC	15
Poliwrath	Collect 151	151C	62
Poliwrath [Master Ball]	Collect 151	151C	62
Poliwrath [Reverse]	Collect 151	151C	62
Poliwrath	cs5.5C	cs5.5C	42

What a checklist without prices tells you

A price needs a trade. Every value in this catalogue comes from a recorded sale of a graded copy. Where no copy has sold in a grade, there is nothing to record, and the card stays unpriced however many are in circulation. For a character like Poliwrath the prints are ordinary set-checklist cards — the base print, a reverse holo, foil patterns — and the graded market for them has never separated from the raw one.

It does not mean the cards are worthless. It means nobody has paid to grade them in enough numbers to create a price. That changes if the character returns to a game or an anime storyline; the prints already exist and the cards are not going anywhere. The price ladder shows what the ranked end of the catalogue looks like by comparison.

Frequently asked questions

Which Poliwrath card leads the Japanese list?

Poliwrath [No Rarity] #62 from Expansion Pack at $12,710. Japanese is the original printing line, so its top of the list reaches back further than either Chinese or English.

Which Poliwrath card leads the English list?

Poliwrath #24 from Expedition at $23,162.

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

Poliwrath is printed in more lines than the two listed above. One line is kept here rather than dropped: 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.

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.

Where to go next

Each character with a graded market has its own page: Ceruledge, Charizard, Eevee, Espeon, Flareon, Floragato, Gengar, Glaceon, Jolteon, Leafeon, Mew, Pikachu, Sylveon, Umbreon, Vaporeon, Alakazam, Applin, Articuno, Blastoise, Captain Pikachu, Chandelure, Chansey, Charmander, Clefable. The Chinese versus Japanese comparison explains what the branch difference means for a collector, and the collector’s index lists the whole catalogue.

We do not hold a Poliwrath 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 Bellsprout cards printed in the Simplified Chinese, Japanese and English lines. Bellsprout [Reverse Holo] leads at $1,317 as a PSA 10, and the rankings use tracked PSA 10 sales rather than raw prices.

Bellsprout appears on 3 Chinese-exclusive printings, 11 Japanese and 31 English numbered Pokémon cards, and this page covers every language the character was printed in — Simplified Chinese, Japanese and English lines.

The head of the list is Bellsprout [1st Edition] #1 (Clash at the Summit) at $480. Everything below is arranged by what each card actually trades for, so the page reads the same way whoever is reading it — the most-traded line comes 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 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 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. Bellsprout — Facing a New Trial #1 — $49

9. Bellsprout — Clash at the Summit #1 — $80

8. Bellsprout [1st Edition] — Wind from the Sea #8 — $110

7. Bellsprout — Wind from the Sea #8 — $125

6. Bellsprout — Wind from the Sea #7 — $126

5. Bellsprout — Flight of Legends #15 — $149

4. Bellsprout [1st Edition] — Wind from the Sea #7 — $170

3. Bellsprout — Jungle #69 — $247

2. Bellsprout [Series III] — Vending #69 — $275

1. Bellsprout [1st Edition] — Clash at the Summit #1 — $480†

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.

• Bellsprout — Islands Await You #1 — $48

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. Erika’s Bellsprout [1st Edition] — Gym Challenge #38 — $83

9. Bellsprout [Reverse Holo] — Triumphant #57 — $102

8. Bellsprout [Reverse Holo] — Aquapolis #45 — $122

7. Bellsprout — Jungle #49 — $138

6. Erika’s Bellsprout [1st Edition] — Gym Heroes #76 — $138

5. Erika’s Bellsprout [1st Edition] — Gym Heroes #75 — $194

4. Bellsprout [1st Edition] — Jungle #49 — $196

3. Bellsprout — Aquapolis #45 — $475

2. Bellsprout [Reverse Holo] — Legend Maker #49 — $1,220

1. Bellsprout [Reverse Holo] — Aquapolis #68 — $1,317†

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.

• Bellsprout — Aquapolis #68 — $71
• Bellsprout [Reverse Holo] — Battle Styles #1 — $65
• Bellsprout — Legends Awakened #85 — $55
• Erika’s Bellsprout — Gym Heroes #76 — $54
• Erika’s Bellsprout — Gym Challenge #38 — $48
• Bellsprout — Base Set 2 #66 — $43
• Bellsprout — Triumphant #57 — $37
• Bellsprout [Reverse Holo] — Celestial Storm #1 — $37
• Bellsprout [Reverse Holo] — Furious Fists #1 — $37
• Bellsprout — Furious Fists #1 — $33
• Bellsprout [Reverse Holo] — Guardians Rising #1 — $33
• Bellsprout — Celestial Storm #1 — $33
• Bellsprout [Reverse Holo] — Unbroken Bonds #13 — $32
• Erika’s Bellsprout — Ascended Heroes #4 — $32
• Bellsprout — Battle Styles #1 — $32
• Bellsprout — Guardians Rising #1 — $32
• Erika’s Bellsprout [Energy] — Ascended Heroes #4 — $31
• Erika’s Bellsprout [Ball] — Ascended Heroes #4 — $31
• Bellsprout — Unbroken Bonds #13 — $31
• Erika’s Bellsprout — Gym Heroes #75 — $26
• Bellsprout — Legend Maker #49 — $25

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

Where Bellsprout is printed, across the languages

Printing line	Cards	With a tracked value	Highest
Japanese	11	11	$480
English	31	31	$1,317
All 2 lines	42	42	—

Every Bellsprout card in the Chinese-only sets

Card	Product	Set code	Number
Bellsprout [Master Ball]	Collect 151	151C	69
Bellsprout	Collect 151	151C	69
Bellsprout [Reverse]	Collect 151	151C	69

What a checklist without prices tells you

A price needs a trade. Every value in this catalogue comes from a recorded sale of a graded copy. Where no copy has sold in a grade, there is nothing to record, and the card stays unpriced however many are in circulation. For a character like Bellsprout the prints are ordinary set-checklist cards — the base print, a reverse holo, foil patterns — and the graded market for them has never separated from the raw one.

It does not mean the cards are worthless. It means nobody has paid to grade them in enough numbers to create a price. That changes if the character returns to a game or an anime storyline; the prints already exist and the cards are not going anywhere. The price ladder shows what the ranked end of the catalogue looks like by comparison.

Frequently asked questions

Which Bellsprout card leads the Japanese list?

Bellsprout [1st Edition] #1 from Clash at the Summit at $480. Japanese is the original printing line, so its top of the list reaches back further than either Chinese or English.

Which Bellsprout card leads the English list?

Bellsprout [Reverse Holo] #68 from Aquapolis at $1,317.

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. 2 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

Bellsprout is printed in more lines than the two listed above. One line is kept here rather than dropped: 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.

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.

Where to go next

Each character with a graded market has its own page: Ceruledge, Charizard, Eevee, Espeon, Flareon, Floragato, Gengar, Glaceon, Jolteon, Leafeon, Mew, Pikachu, Sylveon, Umbreon, Vaporeon, Alakazam, Applin, Articuno, Blastoise, Captain Pikachu, Chandelure, Chansey, Charmander, Clefable. The Chinese versus Japanese comparison explains what the branch difference means for a collector, and the collector’s index lists the whole catalogue.

We do not hold a Bellsprout 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 Dugtrio cards printed in the Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines. Dugtrio [Reverse Holo] leads at $4,985 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.

Dugtrio appears on 1 Chinese-exclusive printings, 2 further Simplified Chinese printings, 1 Traditional Chinese printings, 31 Japanese, 2 Korean and 54 English numbered Pokémon cards, and this page covers every language the character was printed in — Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines.

Dugtrio carries 1 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 Alolan Dugtrio #106 (CBB6C) at $45. 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.

1. Alolan Dugtrio — CBB6C #106 — $45

This line only yields 1 priced printings for Dugtrio. Another 11 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. Dugtrio [Asobikata] — Promo #51 — $280

9. Dugtrio [1st Edition] — Web #29 — $326

8. Dugtrio — Mysterious Mountains #49 — $370

7. Dugtrio — Expedition Expansion Pack #120 — $387

6. Dugtrio — Miracle Crystal #43 — $398

5. Dugtrio [1st Edition] — Miracle Crystal #43 — $403

4. Dugtrio — Expansion Pack #51 — $561†

3. Dugtrio [1st Edition] — Expedition Expansion Pack #120 — $583

2. Dark Dugtrio — Rocket Gang #51 — $594

1. Dugtrio [No Rarity] — Expansion Pack #51 — $4,430

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.

• Brock’s Dugtrio — Challenge from the Darkness #51 — $261
• Dugtrio [1st Edition] — Expedition Expansion Pack #88 — $236
• Dugtrio [1st Edition] — Mysterious Mountains #49 — $164
• Alolan Dugtrio — GX Ultra Shiny #77 — $125
• Alolan Dugtrio [Reverse Holo] — Tag All Stars #85 — $100
• Dugtrio — Lost Link #24 — $83
• Dugtrio — Web #29 — $81
• Alolan Dugtrio — Full Metal Wall #31 — $71
• Dugtrio — Expedition Expansion Pack #88 — $58
• Dugtrio — Collection Y #30 — $56
• Team Rocket’s Dugtrio — Mega Dream ex #83 — $55
• Alolan Dugtrio — Super Electric Breaker #116 — $50
• Alolan Dugtrio — Thunderclap Spark #36 — $48
• Dugtrio — V Starter Set sA #2 — $46
• Team Rocket’s Dugtrio [Reverse Holo] — Mega Dream ex #83 — $40
• Alolan Dugtrio — Super Electric Breaker #77 — $38
• Alolan Dugtrio — Tag All Stars #85 — $37
• Team Rocket’s Dugtrio [Energy] — Mega Dream ex #83 — $36
• Team Rocket’s Dugtrio — Mega Dream ex #206 — $32
• Dugtrio [1st Edition] — 20th Anniversary #54 — $28
• Dugtrio — Flight of Legends #58 — $8

And 11 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. Dugtrio [Shadowless] — Base Set #19 — $297

9. Dugtrio [Reverse Holo] — Expedition #10 — $469

8. Dugtrio [Reverse Holo] — Skyridge #52 — $850

7. Dugtrio — Crystal Guardians #5 — $950

6. Dark Dugtrio — Team Rocket #6 — $1,259

5. Dugtrio [Reverse Holo] — Expedition #44 — $1,311

4. Dugtrio [1st Edition] — Base Set #19 — $2,200

3. Dark Dugtrio [1st Edition] — Team Rocket #6 — $2,750

2. Dugtrio — Expedition #10 — $3,881

1. Dugtrio [Reverse Holo] — Crystal Guardians #5 — $4,985†

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 Dugtrio [1st Edition] — Team Rocket #23 — $288
• Dugtrio — Skyridge #52 — $260
• Brock’s Dugtrio [1st Edition] — Gym Challenge #22 — $247
• Dugtrio [1999-2000] — Base Set #19 — $246
• Dugtrio — Base Set #19 — $183
• Dugtrio [Reverse Holo] — Evolutions #56 — $172
• Dugtrio — Expedition #44 — $126
• Alolan Dugtrio — Surging Sparks #208 — $117
• Dugtrio [Reverse Holo] — Triumphant #19 — $109
• Alolan Dugtrio [Reverse Holo] — Lost Thunder #123 — $109
• Dugtrio [Reverse Holo] — Platinum #24 — $101
• Dark Dugtrio — Team Rocket #23 — $101
• Dugtrio — XY #59 — $100
• Alolan Dugtrio [Indonesian Collector’s Set Stamp] — Promo #209/SV-P — $100
• Dugtrio [Reverse Holo] — Secret Wonders #24 — $91
• Dugtrio — Base Set 2 #23 — $88
• Dugtrio — Platinum #24 — $66
• Alolan Dugtrio — Lost Thunder #123 — $62
• Dugtrio — Obsidian Flames #104 — $56
• Dugtrio — Secret Wonders #24 — $55
• Team Rocket’s Dugtrio — Ascended Heroes #239 — $55
• Dugtrio [Reverse Holo] — Generations #39 — $54
• Team Rocket’s Dugtrio — Ascended Heroes #101 — $51
• Dugtrio — Triumphant #19 — $45
• Dugtrio [Reverse Holo] — XY #59 — $41
• Alolan Dugtrio — McDonalds 2019 #11 — $38
• Alolan Dugtrio [Reverse Holo] — Surging Sparks #123 — $37
• Brock’s Dugtrio — Gym Challenge #22 — $37
• Team Rocket’s Dugtrio [Energy] — Ascended Heroes #101 — $37
• Alolan Dugtrio [Reverse Holo] — Unbroken Bonds #122 — $37

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

Where Dugtrio is printed, across the languages

Printing line	Cards	With a tracked value	Highest
Simplified Chinese — exclusive sets	1	1	$45
Japanese	31	31	$4,430
Korean	2	2	$50
English	54	54	$4,985
All 4 lines	88	88	—

What the ranking shows

On the Chinese-exclusive line, 1 cards carry a tracked value. The four at the top hold 100.0% of it.

Band	Cards	Combined value	Share of total
Ranked 1 – 4	1	$45	100.0%
Ranked 5 – 10	0	$0	0.0%
Ranked 11 and below	0	$0	0.0%
Every priced Chinese-exclusive card	1	$45	100%

If you want one card

One card, no budget limit:

Alolan Dugtrio #106 — CBB6C #106. $45, and it is the card most lists for this character name first.

One card, under two hundred dollars:

Alolan Dugtrio #106 — CBB6C #106. $45. It is not the card anyone photographs, but it is the same Pokémon from the same line.

Every Dugtrio card in the Chinese-only sets

Card	Product	Set code	Number
Alolan Dugtrio	CSM2aC	CSM2aC	94
Dugtrio	Collect 151	151C	51
Dugtrio [Master Ball]	Collect 151	151C	51
Dugtrio [Reverse]	Collect 151	151C	51
Alolan Dugtrio	Gem Pack Vol. 6	CBB6C	101
Alolan Dugtrio	Gem Pack Vol. 6	CBB6C	102
Alolan Dugtrio	Gem Pack Vol. 6	CBB6C	103
Alolan Dugtrio	Gem Pack Vol. 6	CBB6C	104
Alolan Dugtrio	Gem Pack Vol. 6	CBB6C	105
Alolan Dugtrio	Gem Pack Vol. 6	CBB6C	106
Alolan Dugtrio	Gem Pack Vol. 6	CBB6C	107
Dugtrio	cs3bC	cs3bC	69

What a checklist without prices tells you

A price needs a trade. Every value in this catalogue comes from a recorded sale of a graded copy. Where no copy has sold in a grade, there is nothing to record, and the card stays unpriced however many are in circulation. For a character like Dugtrio the prints are ordinary set-checklist cards — the base print, a reverse holo, foil patterns — and the graded market for them has never separated from the raw one.

It does not mean the cards are worthless. It means nobody has paid to grade them in enough numbers to create a price. That changes if the character returns to a game or an anime storyline; the prints already exist and the cards are not going anywhere. The price ladder shows what the ranked end of the catalogue looks like by comparison.

Frequently asked questions

What is the most valuable Dugtrio card in Simplified Chinese?

Among the Chinese-exclusive numbered sets, Alolan Dugtrio #106 carries the highest tracked value at $45. Promos and other non-C numbered printings sit outside that comparison.

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

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

Which Dugtrio card leads the Japanese list?

Dugtrio [No Rarity] #51 from Expansion Pack at $4,430. Japanese is the original printing line, so its top of the list reaches back further than either Chinese or English.

Which Dugtrio card leads the English list?

Dugtrio [Reverse Holo] #5 from Crystal Guardians at $4,985.

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. 2 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

Dugtrio 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.

• Alolan Dugtrio — Electric Breaker #116 — $50
• Team Rocket’s Dugtrio — Mega Dream ex #206 — $46

A further 6 Korean printings of Dugtrio 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.

Where to go next

Each character with a graded market has its own page: Ceruledge, Charizard, Eevee, Espeon, Flareon, Floragato, Gengar, Glaceon, Jolteon, Leafeon, Mew, Pikachu, Sylveon, Umbreon, Vaporeon, Alakazam, Applin, Articuno, Blastoise, Captain Pikachu, Chandelure, Chansey, Charmander, Clefable. The Chinese versus Japanese comparison explains what the branch difference means for a collector, and the collector’s index lists the whole catalogue.

We do not hold a Dugtrio 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 Primeape cards printed in the Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines. Primeape [Reverse Holo] leads at $3,600 as a PSA 10, and the rankings use tracked PSA 10 sales rather than raw prices.

Primeape appears on 5 Chinese-exclusive printings, 6 further Simplified Chinese printings, 18 Japanese, 5 Korean and 42 English numbered Pokémon cards, and this page covers every language the character was printed in — Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines.

Primeape carries 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 Primeape [1st Edition] #55 (Wind from the Sea) at $303. Everything below is arranged by what each card actually trades for, so the page reads the same way whoever is reading it — the most-traded line comes 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 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 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. Primeape — HeartGold Collection #43 — $69

9. Primeape — Spiral Force #29 — $75

8. Primeape — Beat of the Frontier #55 — $81

7. Primeape — Wind from the Sea #55 — $85

6. Primeape [1st Edition] — Holon Phantom #5 — $128

5. Primeape [Reverse Holo] — HeartGold Collection #43 — $148

4. Dark Primeape — Rocket Gang #57 — $174

3. Primeape — Jungle #57 — $225†

2. Chuck’s Primeape — VS #33 — $260

1. Primeape [1st Edition] — Wind from the Sea #55 — $303

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.

• Primeape [1st Edition] — Cruel Traitor #25 — $64
• Primeape — Start Deck 100 #209 — $50
• Primeape — Shiny Treasure ex #277 — $50
• Primeape — Cruel Traitor #25 — $50
• Primeape — Shiny Treasure ex #101 — $37
• Primeape — Super Electric Breaker #61 — $37
• Primeape — Abyss Eye #41 — $37
• Primeape [Reverse Holo] — Shiny Treasure ex #101 — $10

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. Brock’s Primeape [1st Edition] — Gym Challenge #35 — $296

9. Dark Primeape [1st Edition] — Team Rocket #43 — $296

8. Primeape — Legendary Collection #59 — $300

7. Primeape [Reverse Holo] — Unleashed #22 — $305

6. Primeape — Southern Islands #18 — $331

5. Primeape [Reverse Holo] — Aquapolis #29 — $393

4. Primeape [Reverse Holo] — Steam Siege #53 — $460

3. Primeape [Reverse Holo] — Great Encounters #27 — $548

2. Primeape [Reverse Holo] — Holon Phantoms #50 — $3,004

1. Primeape [Reverse Holo] — Legendary Collection #59 — $3,600

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.

• Primeape [1st Edition] — Jungle #43 — $266
• Primeape — Holon Phantoms #50 — $174
• Primeape — Jungle #43 — $170
• Primeape [Reverse Holo] — Supreme Victors #39 — $147
• Primeape — Paldean Fates #170 — $128
• Primeape — Aquapolis #29 — $109
• Primeape — Unleashed #22 — $77
• Primeape [Reverse Holo] — Surging Sparks #99 — $60
• Primeape — Supreme Victors #39 — $60
• Primeape [Reverse Holo] — Plasma Freeze #60 — $53
• Primeape — Great Encounters #27 — $51
• Brock’s Primeape — Gym Challenge #35 — $50
• Primeape [Reverse Holo] — Crimson Invasion #51 — $43
• Primeape — Plasma Freeze #60 — $40
• Primeape [Reverse Holo] — Pitch Black #43 — $37
• Primeape [Reverse Holo] — Team Up #72 — $36
• Primeape — Steam Siege #53 — $34
• Primeape — Team Up #72 — $34
• Primeape — Battle Styles #67 — $31
• Primeape [Reverse Holo] — Destined Rivals #91 — $31
• Primeape [Reverse Holo] — Battle Styles #67 — $31
• Primeape [Reverse Holo] — Fusion Strike #134 — $31
• Primeape — Fusion Strike #134 — $31
• Primeape [Reverse Holo] — Paldea Evolved #107 — $31
• Primeape — Surging Sparks #99 — $31
• Primeape — Paldea Evolved #107 — $30
• Dark Primeape — Team Rocket #43 — $30
• Primeape — Destined Rivals #91 — $30
• Primeape — Pitch Black #43 — $30
• Primeape — Paldean Fates #46 — $30

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

Where Primeape is printed, across the languages

Printing line	Cards	With a tracked value	Highest
Japanese	18	18	$303
English	42	42	$3,600
All 2 lines	60	60	—

Every Primeape card in the Chinese-only sets

Card	Product	Set code	Number
Primeape	Chasing Glory Together	csv10C	99
Primeape [Master Ball]	Collect 151	151C	57
Primeape	Collect 151	151C	57
Primeape [Reverse]	Collect 151	151C	57
Primeape	Reward Round	csv4C	65

What a checklist without prices tells you

A price needs a trade. Every value in this catalogue comes from a recorded sale of a graded copy. Where no copy has sold in a grade, there is nothing to record, and the card stays unpriced however many are in circulation. For a character like Primeape the prints are ordinary set-checklist cards — the base print, a reverse holo, foil patterns — and the graded market for them has never separated from the raw one.

It does not mean the cards are worthless. It means nobody has paid to grade them in enough numbers to create a price. That changes if the character returns to a game or an anime storyline; the prints already exist and the cards are not going anywhere. The price ladder shows what the ranked end of the catalogue looks like by comparison.

Frequently asked questions

Which Primeape card leads the Japanese list?

Primeape [1st Edition] #55 from Wind from the Sea at $303. Japanese is the original printing line, so its top of the list reaches back further than either Chinese or English.

Which Primeape card leads the English list?

Primeape [Reverse Holo] #59 from Legendary Collection at $3,600.

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

Primeape is printed in more lines than the two listed above. One line is kept here rather than dropped: 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.

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.

Where to go next

Each character with a graded market has its own page: Ceruledge, Charizard, Eevee, Espeon, Flareon, Floragato, Gengar, Glaceon, Jolteon, Leafeon, Mew, Pikachu, Sylveon, Umbreon, Vaporeon, Alakazam, Applin, Articuno, Blastoise, Captain Pikachu, Chandelure, Chansey, Charmander, Clefable. The Chinese versus Japanese comparison explains what the branch difference means for a collector, and the collector’s index lists the whole catalogue.

We do not hold a Primeape 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 Poliwag cards printed in the Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines. Poliwag [Reverse Holo] leads at $1,991 as a PSA 10, and the rankings use tracked PSA 10 sales rather than raw prices.

Poliwag appears on 5 Chinese-exclusive printings, 19 Japanese, 1 Korean and 34 English numbered Pokémon cards, and this page covers every language the character was printed in — Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines.

The head of the list is Poliwag [No Rarity] #60 (Expansion Pack) at $936. Everything below is arranged by what each card actually trades for, so the page reads the same way whoever is reading it — the most-traded line comes 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 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 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. Poliwag — SoulSilver Collection #18 — $118

9. Poliwag — Split Earth #21 — $132

8. Poliwag — Squirtle Deck #9 — $140

7. Poliwag — Crossing the Ruins #60 — $147

6. Poliwag [1st Edition] — Expedition Expansion Pack #8 — $156

5. Poliwag [1st Edition] — Split Earth #21 — $227

4. Poliwag — Expedition Expansion Pack #8 — $229†

3. Poliwag — Expansion Pack #60 — $248

2. Poliwag [Series 1] — Vending #60 — $400

1. Poliwag [No Rarity] — Expansion Pack #60 — $936

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.

• Poliwag [1st Edition] — Flight of Legends #25 — $111
• Poliwag — Golden Sky, Silvery Ocean #21 — $102
• Poliwag [1st Edition] — Rising Fist #15 — $71
• Poliwag — Rising Fist #15 — $67
• Poliwag — Flight of Legends #25 — $50
• Poliwag — Collection Moon #9 — $47
• Poliwag [1st Edition] — 20th Anniversary #23 — $44
• Poliwag — Double Blaze #21 — $39
• Poliwag — Mask of Change #23 — $36

And 5 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. Poliwag [Reverse Holo] — Legends Awakened #114 — $158

9. Poliwag [Shadowless] — Base Set #59 — $169

8. Misty’s Poliwag [1st Edition] — Gym Challenge #89 — $182

7. Poliwag [Reverse Holo] — Unleashed #58 — $183

6. Poliwag [Staff] — Promo #58 — $272

5. Poliwag — Skyridge #87 — $348

4. Poliwag [1st Edition] — Base Set #59 — $559

3. Poliwag [Reverse Holo] — Unseen Forces #67 — $976

2. Poliwag [Reverse Holo] — Expedition #125 — $1,112

1. Poliwag [Reverse Holo] — Skyridge #87 — $1,991

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.

• Poliwag [1st Edition] — Neo Discovery #62 — $156
• Poliwag — Base Set #59 — $103
• Poliwag — Expedition #125 — $94
• Poliwag [1999-2000] — Base Set #59 — $72
• Poliwag — Evolutions #23 — $65
• Poliwag [Reverse Holo] — Evolutions #23 — $64
• Misty’s Poliwag [1st Edition] — Gym Heroes #87 — $64
• Poliwag — Unleashed #58 — $60
• Misty’s Poliwag — Gym Challenge #89 — $56
• Poliwag — Unseen Forces #67 — $50
• Poliwag — Legends Awakened #114 — $49
• Poliwag [Reverse Holo] — Furious Fists #15 — $44
• Misty’s Poliwag — Gym Heroes #87 — $40
• Poliwag — Neo Discovery #62 — $38
• Poliwag [Reverse Holo] — Unbroken Bonds #37 — $37
• Poliwag [Reverse Holo] — Twilight Masquerade #41 — $35
• Poliwag — Furious Fists #15 — $34
• Poliwag — Base Set 2 #88 — $33
• Poliwag [Reverse Holo] — Unbroken Bonds #36 — $32
• Poliwag — Unbroken Bonds #36 — $32
• Poliwag — Lost Origin #30 — $32
• Poliwag — Unbroken Bonds #37 — $32
• Poliwag [Reverse Holo] — Lost Origin #30 — $31
• Poliwag — Twilight Masquerade #41 — $14

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

Where Poliwag is printed, across the languages

Printing line	Cards	With a tracked value	Highest
Japanese	19	19	$936
English	34	34	$1,991
All 2 lines	53	53	—

Every Poliwag card in the Chinese-only sets

Card	Product	Set code	Number
Poliwag	Brilliant Fantasy	csv8C	44
Poliwag	CSM2aC	CSM2aC	13
Poliwag [Reverse]	Collect 151	151C	60
Poliwag	Collect 151	151C	60
Poliwag [Master Ball]	Collect 151	151C	60

What a checklist without prices tells you

A price needs a trade. Every value in this catalogue comes from a recorded sale of a graded copy. Where no copy has sold in a grade, there is nothing to record, and the card stays unpriced however many are in circulation. For a character like Poliwag the prints are ordinary set-checklist cards — the base print, a reverse holo, foil patterns — and the graded market for them has never separated from the raw one.

It does not mean the cards are worthless. It means nobody has paid to grade them in enough numbers to create a price. That changes if the character returns to a game or an anime storyline; the prints already exist and the cards are not going anywhere. The price ladder shows what the ranked end of the catalogue looks like by comparison.

Frequently asked questions

Which Poliwag card leads the Japanese list?

Poliwag [No Rarity] #60 from Expansion Pack at $936. Japanese is the original printing line, so its top of the list reaches back further than either Chinese or English.

Which Poliwag card leads the English list?

Poliwag [Reverse Holo] #87 from Skyridge at $1,991.

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

Poliwag is printed in more lines than the two listed above. One line is kept here rather than dropped: 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.

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.

Where to go next

Each character with a graded market has its own page: Ceruledge, Charizard, Eevee, Espeon, Flareon, Floragato, Gengar, Glaceon, Jolteon, Leafeon, Mew, Pikachu, Sylveon, Umbreon, Vaporeon, Alakazam, Applin, Articuno, Blastoise, Captain Pikachu, Chandelure, Chansey, Charmander, Clefable. The Chinese versus Japanese comparison explains what the branch difference means for a collector, and the collector’s index lists the whole catalogue.

We do not hold a Poliwag 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 Clefairy cards printed in the Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines. Clefairy [No Rarity] leads at $33,475 as a PSA 10, and the rankings use tracked PSA 10 sales rather than raw prices.

Clefairy appears on 6 Chinese-exclusive printings, 1 Traditional Chinese printings, 38 Japanese, 3 Korean and 72 English numbered Pokémon cards, and this page covers every language the character was printed in — Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines.

Clefairy carries 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 Clefairy [No Rarity] #35 (Expansion Pack) at $33,475. 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 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 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. Clefairy — Rage of the Broken Heavens #61 — $172†

9. Lillie’s Clefairy ex — Battle Partners #126 — $182

8. Clefairy [1st Edition] — Expedition Expansion Pack #28 — $249

7. Clefairy — Expedition Expansion Pack #28 — $282

6. Clefairy — Gold, Silver, New World #35 — $400

5. Clefairy — Promo #381/SM-P — $560

4. Lillie’s Clefairy ex — Start Deck 100 #765 — $800

3. Clefairy [Series 1] — Vending #35 — $1,032

2. Clefairy — Expansion Pack #35 — $1,360

1. Clefairy [No Rarity] — Expansion Pack #35 — $33,475†

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.

• Clefairy — Starter Pack #39 — $169
• Clefairy — Dream League #35 — $156
• Clefairy — Typhlosion Starter Deck #7 — $133
• Clefairy — HeartGold Collection #50 — $125
• Clefairy [1st Edition] — Flight of Legends #65 — $125
• Clefairy — Flight of Legends #65 — $118
• Clefairy [Gym] — Promo #301/SM-P — $103
• Clefairy — Promo #14/XY-P — $100
• Clefairy [1st Edition] — 20th Anniversary #61 — $91
• Clefairy [1st Edition] — Rising Fist #65 — $76
• Clefairy — Plasma Gale #51 — $75
• Clefairy — Classic: Charizard #13 — $55
• Clefairy — Family #29 — $53
• Clefairy [1st Edition] — Plasma Gale #51 — $52
• Clefairy — Rising Fist #65 — $50
• Lillie’s Clefairy ex — Battle Partners #115 — $48
• Clefairy — Shiny Star V #65 — $47
• Clefairy — Islands Await You #35 — $40
• Clefairy [Reverse Holo] — Dark Phantasma #19 — $39
• Clefairy — Night Unison #32 — $39
• Clefairy — Mask of Change #45 — $37
• Clefairy — Star Birth #41 — $36
• Clefairy — Dark Phantasma #19 — $35
• Clefairy — Nihil Zero #86 — $30
• Clefairy — Legendary Heartbeat #23 — $29
• Lillie’s Clefairy ex — Battle Partners #33 — $28
• Clefairy — Nihil Zero #29 — $26
• Lillie’s Clefairy ex — Mega Dream ex #60 — $23

And 14 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. Erika’s Clefairy [1st Edition] — Gym Heroes #25 — $397

9. Clefairy Doll [Shadowless] — Base Set #70 — $409

8. Clefairy — Base Set 2 #6 — $503

7. Clefairy [Toys R Us] — Generations #50 — $1,088

6. Clefairy Doll [1st Edition] — Base Set #70 — $1,252

5. Clefairy [Reverse Holo] — Expedition #101 — $1,550

4. Clefairy [Red Heart Error] — Base Set #5 — $3,428

3. Clefairy — Base Set #5 — $4,335

2. Clefairy [Shadowless] — Base Set #5 — $5,138

1. Clefairy [1st Edition] — Base Set #5 — $9,126

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.

• Clefairy [Reverse Holo] — Call of Legends #54 — $390
• Clefairy [Reverse Holo] — Secret Wonders #83 — $338
• Lillie’s Clefairy ex — Journey Together #184 — $326
• Clefairy Doll — Base Set #70 — $321
• Clefairy — Generations #50 — $300
• Lillie’s Clefairy ex — Ascended Heroes #280 — $282
• Clefairy [1st Edition] — Neo Genesis #30 — $268
• Clefairy [Reverse Holo] — Hidden Fates #39 — $260
• Clefairy Doll [1999-2000] — Base Set #70 — $251
• Clefairy — Secret Wonders #83 — $216
• Clefairy — Expedition #101 — $212
• Clefairy [Reverse Holo] — Evolutions #63 — $203
• Clefairy — Evolutions #63 — $175
• Clefairy [Reverse Holo] — Unseen Forces #53 — $171
• Clefairy [Reverse Holo] — BREAKpoint #81 — $167
• Clefairy — Hidden Fates #38 — $154
• Erika’s Clefairy [1st Edition] — Gym Challenge #40 — $146
• Erika’s Clefairy — Gym Challenge #40 — $136
• Lillie’s Clefairy ex — Promo #195 — $105
• Clefairy — Perfect Order #94 — $101
• Clefairy [Reverse Holo] — Rebel Clash #74 — $101
• Clefairy — Ascended Heroes #74 — $91
• Clefairy [Reverse Holo] — Generations #50 — $91
• Clefairy [Reverse Holo] — Perfect Order #30 — $90
• Clefairy [Reverse Holo] — Plasma Storm #97 — $73
• Clefairy [Reverse Holo] — Cosmic Eclipse #144 — $70
• Clefairy — TCG Classic: Charizard Deck #13 — $70
• Erika’s Clefairy — Gym Heroes #25 — $67
• Lillie’s Clefairy ex — Journey Together #173 — $59
• Clefairy [Reverse Holo] — Furious Fists #70 — $58

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

Where Clefairy is printed, across the languages

Printing line	Cards	With a tracked value	Highest
Traditional Chinese (Taiwan, China / Hong Kong, China)	1	1	$95
Japanese	38	38	$33,475
Korean	3	3	$176
English	72	72	$9,126
All 4 lines	114	114	—

Every Clefairy card in the Chinese-only sets

Card	Product	Set code	Number
Lillie’s Clefairy ex	Chasing Glory Together	csv10C	82
Lillie’s Clefairy Ex	Chasing Glory Together	csv10C	238
Lillie’s Clefairy Ex	Chasing Glory Together	csv10C	267
Clefairy	Collect 151	151C	35
Clefairy [Reverse]	Collect 151	151C	35
Clefairy [Master Ball]	Collect 151	151C	35

What a checklist without prices tells you

A price needs a trade. Every value in this catalogue comes from a recorded sale of a graded copy. Where no copy has sold in a grade, there is nothing to record, and the card stays unpriced however many are in circulation. For a character like Clefairy the prints are ordinary set-checklist cards — the base print, a reverse holo, foil patterns — and the graded market for them has never separated from the raw one.

It does not mean the cards are worthless. It means nobody has paid to grade them in enough numbers to create a price. That changes if the character returns to a game or an anime storyline; the prints already exist and the cards are not going anywhere. The price ladder shows what the ranked end of the catalogue looks like by comparison.

Frequently asked questions

Which Clefairy card leads the Japanese list?

Clefairy [No Rarity] #35 from Expansion Pack at $33,475. Japanese is the original printing line, so its top of the list reaches back further than either Chinese or English.

Which Clefairy card leads the English list?

Clefairy [1st Edition] #5 from Base Set at $9,126.

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. 2 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

Clefairy is printed in more lines than the two 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.

• Clefairy — m3 #86 — $95

A further 2 Traditional Chinese printings of Clefairy 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.

• Lillie’s Clefairy ex — Start Deck 100 #765 — $176
• Lillie’s Clefairy ex — Battle Partners #126 — $124
• Clefairy — Nihil Zero #86 — $42

A further 10 Korean printings of Clefairy 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.

Where to go next

Each character with a graded market has its own page: Ceruledge, Charizard, Eevee, Espeon, Flareon, Floragato, Gengar, Glaceon, Jolteon, Leafeon, Mew, Pikachu, Sylveon, Umbreon, Vaporeon, Alakazam, Applin, Articuno, Blastoise, Captain Pikachu, Chandelure, Chansey, Charmander, Clefable. The Chinese versus Japanese comparison explains what the branch difference means for a collector, and the collector’s index lists the whole catalogue.

We do not hold a Clefairy 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 Parasect cards printed in the Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines. Parasect [Series 1] leads at $362 as a PSA 10, and the rankings use tracked PSA 10 sales rather than raw prices.

Parasect appears on 3 Chinese-exclusive printings, 3 further Simplified Chinese printings, 13 Japanese, 3 Korean and 24 English numbered Pokémon cards, and this page covers every language the character was printed in — Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines.

The head of the list is Parasect [Series 1] #47 (Vending) at $362. Everything below is arranged by what each card actually trades for, so the page reads the same way whoever is reading it — the most-traded line comes 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 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 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. Parasect — Battle Partners #5 — $35

9. Parasect — VSTAR Universe #2 — $36

8. Parasect — SoulSilver Collection #5 — $46

7. Parasect — Starter Pack #7 — $50

6. Parasect — Wind from the Sea #6 — $62

5. Parasect [1st Edition] — Wind from the Sea #6 — $105

4. Parasect — Jungle #47 — $105

3. Parasect — Awakening Legends #47 — $125

2. Parasect — Flight of Legends #12 — $274

1. Parasect [Series 1] — Vending #47 — $362

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.

• Parasect — Dark Phantasma #72 — $30
• Parasect — Classic: Venusaur #5 — $28
• Parasect [Reverse Holo] — VSTAR Universe #2 — $25

And 15 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. Parasect — Supreme Victors #38 — $60

9. Parasect [Reverse Holo] — Mysterious Treasures #58 — $63

8. Parasect [1st Edition] — Neo Revelation #35 — $66

7. Parasect — Neo Revelation #35 — $70

6. Parasect [Reverse Holo] — Darkness Ablaze #4 — $87

5. Parasect — Jungle #41 — $102

4. Parasect [Reverse Holo] — Aquapolis #27 — $114

3. Parasect — Aquapolis #27 — $176

2. Parasect [1st Edition] — Jungle #41 — $211

1. Parasect [Reverse Holo] — Supreme Victors #38 — $224

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.

• Parasect [Reverse Holo] — Generations #7 — $45
• Parasect — Mysterious Treasures #58 — $42
• Parasect — Base Set 2 #55 — $40
• Parasect — Generations #7 — $40
• Parasect — BREAKthrough #2 — $33
• Parasect [Reverse Holo] — Team Up #7 — $33
• Parasect — Team Up #7 — $32
• Parasect [Reverse Holo] — Journey Together #5 — $31
• Parasect — Journey Together #5 — $31
• Parasect [Reverse Holo] — Lost Origin #5 — $31
• Parasect — Lost Origin #5 — $31
• Parasect — Darkness Ablaze #4 — $30
• Parasect [Reverse Holo] — BREAKthrough #2 — $24
• Parasect — TCG Classic: Venusaur Deck #5 — $16

Where Parasect is printed, across the languages

Printing line	Cards	With a tracked value	Highest
Japanese	13	13	$362
English	24	24	$224
All 2 lines	37	37	—

Every Parasect card in the Chinese-only sets

Card	Product	Set code	Number
Parasect	Collect 151	151C	47
Parasect [Master Ball]	Collect 151	151C	47
Parasect [Reverse]	Collect 151	151C	47

What a checklist without prices tells you

A price needs a trade. Every value in this catalogue comes from a recorded sale of a graded copy. Where no copy has sold in a grade, there is nothing to record, and the card stays unpriced however many are in circulation. For a character like Parasect the prints are ordinary set-checklist cards — the base print, a reverse holo, foil patterns — and the graded market for them has never separated from the raw one.

It does not mean the cards are worthless. It means nobody has paid to grade them in enough numbers to create a price. That changes if the character returns to a game or an anime storyline; the prints already exist and the cards are not going anywhere. The price ladder shows what the ranked end of the catalogue looks like by comparison.

Frequently asked questions

Which Parasect card leads the Japanese list?

Parasect [Series 1] #47 from Vending at $362. Japanese is the original printing line, so its top of the list reaches back further than either Chinese or English.

Which Parasect card leads the English list?

Parasect [Reverse Holo] #38 from Supreme Victors at $224.

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

Parasect is printed in more lines than the two listed above. One line is kept here rather than dropped: 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.

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.

Where to go next

Each character with a graded market has its own page: Ceruledge, Charizard, Eevee, Espeon, Flareon, Floragato, Gengar, Glaceon, Jolteon, Leafeon, Mew, Pikachu, Sylveon, Umbreon, Vaporeon, Alakazam, Applin, Articuno, Blastoise, Captain Pikachu, Chandelure, Chansey, Charmander, Clefable. The Chinese versus Japanese comparison explains what the branch difference means for a collector, and the collector’s index lists the whole catalogue.

We do not hold a Parasect 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 Nidorina cards printed in the Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines. Nidorina [Reverse Holo] leads at $2,740 as a PSA 10, and the rankings use tracked PSA 10 sales rather than raw prices.

Nidorina appears on 4 Chinese-exclusive printings, 1 Traditional Chinese printings, 13 Japanese, 4 Korean and 26 English numbered Pokémon cards, and this page covers every language the character was printed in — Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines.

The head of the list is Nidorina #30 (Jungle) at $486. 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 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 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. Nidorina [1st Edition] — Offense and Defense (PCG7) #59 — $46

9. Nidorina [1st Edition] — Gaia Volcano #26 — $50

8. Nidorina — 30th Celebration #114 — $55

7. Nidorina — Clash at the Summit #32 — $62

6. Nidorina — Offense and Defense (PCG7) #59 — $145

5. Giovanni’s Nidorina — Challenge from the Darkness #30 — $157

4. Nidorina [1st Edition] — Mysterious Mountains #8 — $198

3. Nidorina — Mysterious Mountains #8 — $200

2. Nidorina [Series III] — Vending #30 — $287

1. Nidorina — Jungle #30 — $486†

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.

• Nidorina — Gaia Volcano #26 — $37
• Nidorina — Storm Emeralda #42 — $37
• Team Rocket’s Nidorina — Glory of Team Rocket #59 — $35

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. Giovanni’s Nidorina — Gym Challenge #44 — $100

9. Nidorina — Skyridge #83 — $100

8. Nidorina [Reverse Holo] — Mysterious Treasures #56 — $103

7. Nidorina — Legendary Collection #55 — $121

6. Nidorina — Dragon Frontiers #34 — $137

5. Giovanni’s Nidorina [1st Edition] — Gym Challenge #44 — $220

4. Nidorina [Reverse Holo] — Dragon Frontiers #34 — $250

3. Nidorina [1st Edition] — Jungle #40 — $270

2. Nidorina [Reverse Holo] — Skyridge #83 — $281

1. Nidorina [Reverse Holo] — Legendary Collection #55 — $2,740

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.

• Nidorina — Base Set 2 #53 — $83
• Nidorina [Reverse Holo] — Rising Rivals #73 — $82
• Nidorina [Reverse Holo] — Triumphant #45 — $80
• Nidorina — Jungle #40 — $77
• Nidorina — Team Up #55 — $75
• Nidorina — Rising Rivals #73 — $64
• Nidorina — Triumphant #45 — $53
• Nidorina — Mysterious Treasures #56 — $51
• Nidorina — Plasma Freeze #41 — $48
• Nidorina [Reverse Holo] — Plasma Freeze #41 — $47
• Nidorina [Reverse Holo] — Primal Clash #67 — $42
• Team Rocket’s Nidorina [Reverse Holo] — Destined Rivals #115 — $39
• Nidorina — Primal Clash #67 — $38
• Nidorina — 30th Celebration #88 — $34
• Nidorina [Reverse Holo] — Team Up #55 — $33
• Team Rocket’s Nidorina — Destined Rivals #115 — $32

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

Where Nidorina is printed, across the languages

Printing line	Cards	With a tracked value	Highest
Traditional Chinese (Taiwan, China / Hong Kong, China)	1	1	$60
Japanese	13	13	$486
English	26	26	$2,740
All 3 lines	40	40	—

Every Nidorina card in the Chinese-only sets

Card	Product	Set code	Number
Team Rocket’s Nidorina	Chasing Glory Together	csv10C	123
Nidorina [Master Ball]	Collect 151	151C	30
Nidorina	Collect 151	151C	30
Nidorina [Reverse]	Collect 151	151C	30

What a checklist without prices tells you

A price needs a trade. Every value in this catalogue comes from a recorded sale of a graded copy. Where no copy has sold in a grade, there is nothing to record, and the card stays unpriced however many are in circulation. For a character like Nidorina the prints are ordinary set-checklist cards — the base print, a reverse holo, foil patterns — and the graded market for them has never separated from the raw one.

It does not mean the cards are worthless. It means nobody has paid to grade them in enough numbers to create a price. That changes if the character returns to a game or an anime storyline; the prints already exist and the cards are not going anywhere. The price ladder shows what the ranked end of the catalogue looks like by comparison.

Frequently asked questions

Which Nidorina card leads the Japanese list?

Nidorina #30 from Jungle at $486. Japanese is the original printing line, so its top of the list reaches back further than either Chinese or English.

Which Nidorina card leads the English list?

Nidorina [Reverse Holo] #55 from Legendary Collection at $2,740.

Why are the Traditional Chinese (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. 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

Nidorina is printed in more lines than the two listed above. Two more lines are kept here rather than dropped: the Traditional Chinese 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.

• Nidorina — 30th Celebration #114 — $60

A further 1 Traditional Chinese printings of Nidorina 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.

Where to go next

Each character with a graded market has its own page: Ceruledge, Charizard, Eevee, Espeon, Flareon, Floragato, Gengar, Glaceon, Jolteon, Leafeon, Mew, Pikachu, Sylveon, Umbreon, Vaporeon, Alakazam, Applin, Articuno, Blastoise, Captain Pikachu, Chandelure, Chansey, Charmander, Clefable. The Chinese versus Japanese comparison explains what the branch difference means for a collector, and the collector’s index lists the whole catalogue.

We do not hold a Nidorina 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.