Category: Pokémon

Quick answer

CardSpicy (cardspicy.com) ranks the most valuable Nidoqueen cards printed in the Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines. Nidoqueen [1st Edition] leads at $5,580 as a PSA 10, and the rankings use tracked PSA 10 sales rather than raw prices.

Nidoqueen appears on 4 Chinese-exclusive printings, 17 Japanese, 2 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 Nidoqueen #60 (Offense and Defense (PCG7)) at $727. 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. Nidoqueen [1st Edition] — Gaia Volcano #28 — $127

9. Nidoqueen — Flight of Legends #55 — $136

8. Nidoqueen [1st Edition] — Mysterious Mountains #9 — $141

7. Nidoqueen — Bonds to the End of Time #38 — $148

6. Giovanni’s Nidoqueen — Challenge from the Darkness #31 — $204

5. Nidoqueen — Jungle #31 — $556

4. Nidoqueen [1st Edition] — Flight of Legends #55 — $560

3. Nidoqueen [1st Edition] — Mysterious Mountains #10 — $593

2. Nidoqueen — Mysterious Mountains #10 — $625

1. Nidoqueen — Offense and Defense (PCG7) #60 — $727†

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.

• Nidoqueen [1st Edition] — Clash at the Summit #33 — $104
• Nidoqueen [1st Edition] — Bonds to the End of Time #38 — $88
• Nidoqueen — Gaia Volcano #28 — $79
• Nidoqueen — Clash at the Summit #33 — $67
• Nidoqueen [1st Edition] — Gaia Volcano #27 — $59
• Nidoqueen — Spiral Force #22 — $51
• Nidoqueen — Storm Emeralda #43 — $38

And 7 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. Nidoqueen [1st Edition] — Jungle #23 — $350

9. Nidoqueen — Skyridge #22 — $392

8. Nidoqueen — Jungle #7 — $668

7. Nidoqueen — Base Set 2 #12 — $699

6. Nidoqueen [No Symbol] — Jungle #7 — $950

5. Nidoqueen — Dragon Frontiers #7 — $1,200

4. Nidoqueen [Reverse Holo] — Skyridge #22 — $1,225

3. Nidoqueen [Reverse Holo] — Legendary Collection #32 — $4,050

2. Nidoqueen [Reverse Holo] — Dragon Frontiers #7 — $5,100

1. Nidoqueen [1st Edition] — Jungle #7 — $5,580

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.

• Giovanni’s Nidoqueen [1st Edition] — Gym Challenge #23 — $335
• Nidoqueen [Reverse Holo] — Team Up #56 — $200
• Nidoqueen [Reverse Holo] — Mysterious Treasures #31 — $197
• Nidoqueen — Jungle #23 — $162
• Nidoqueen [Reverse Holo] — Primal Clash #68 — $130
• Nidoqueen [Reverse Holo] — Triumphant #28 — $129
• Nidoqueen — Primal Clash #69 — $125
• Nidoqueen — Legendary Collection #32 — $122
• Nidoqueen [Reverse Holo] — Rising Rivals #30 — $106
• Nidoqueen — Rising Rivals #30 — $101
• Giovanni’s Nidoqueen — Gym Challenge #23 — $82
• Nidoqueen — Triumphant #28 — $73
• Nidoqueen — Mysterious Treasures #31 — $72
• Nidoqueen [Reverse Holo] — Plasma Freeze #42 — $68
• Nidoqueen — Plasma Freeze #42 — $59
• Nidoqueen [Reverse Holo] — Primal Clash #69 — $38
• Nidoqueen — Primal Clash #68 — $37
• Nidoqueen — Team Up #56 — $36
• Team Rocket’s Nidoqueen [Reverse Holo] — Destined Rivals #116 — $34
• Team Rocket’s Nidoqueen — Destined Rivals #116 — $32

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

Where Nidoqueen is printed, across the languages

Printing line	Cards	With a tracked value	Highest
Japanese	17	17	$727
English	30	30	$5,580
All 2 lines	47	47	—

Every Nidoqueen card in the Chinese-only sets

Card	Product	Set code	Number
Team Rocket’s Nidoqueen	Chasing Glory Together	csv10C	124
Nidoqueen [Master Ball]	Collect 151	151C	31
Nidoqueen	Collect 151	151C	31
Nidoqueen [Reverse]	Collect 151	151C	31

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 Nidoqueen 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 Nidoqueen card leads the Japanese list?

Nidoqueen #60 from Offense and Defense of the Furthest Ends at $727. Japanese is the original printing line, so its top of the list reaches back further than either Chinese or English.

Which Nidoqueen card leads the English list?

Nidoqueen [1st Edition] #7 from Jungle at $5,580.

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

Nidoqueen 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 Nidoqueen 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 Nidorino cards printed in the Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines. Nidorino [Reverse Holo] leads at $1,994 as a PSA 10, and the rankings use tracked PSA 10 sales rather than raw prices.

Nidorino appears on 4 Chinese-exclusive printings, 16 Japanese, 1 Korean and 29 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 Nidorino [No Rarity] #33 (Expansion Pack) at $1,079. 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. Nidorino — Offense and Defense (PCG7) #54 — $89

9. Nidorino [1st Edition] — Clash at the Summit #35 — $101

8. Nidorino — Clash at the Summit #35 — $110

7. Nidorino [1st Edition] — Web #18 — $111

6. Nidorino — Flight of Legends #10 — $115

5. Nidorino — Web #18 — $200

4. Giovanni’s Nidorino — Challenge from the Darkness #33 — $202

3. Nidorino [Series III] — Vending #33 — $222

2. Nidorino — Expansion Pack #33 — $521†

1. Nidorino [No Rarity] — Expansion Pack #33 — $1,079

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.

• Nidorino [1st Edition] — The Town on No Map #2 — $52
• Nidorino [1st Edition] — 20th Anniversary #42 — $40
• Nidorino — The Town on No Map #2 — $38
• Team Rocket’s Nidorino — Glory of Team Rocket #62 — $36
• Nidorino — Bonds to the End of Time #40 — $35
• Nidorino [1st Edition] — Bonds to the End of Time #40 — $28

And 9 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. Nidorino [Reverse Holo] — Dragon Frontiers #35 — $142

9. Nidorino — Dragon Frontiers #35 — $152

8. Nidorino — Legendary Collection #56 — $175

7. Nidorino [Shadowless] — Base Set #37 — $206

6. Nidorino — Aquapolis #55 — $256

5. Giovanni’s Nidorino [1st Edition] — Gym Challenge #45 — $274

4. Nidorino — Base Set #37 — $278

3. Nidorino [1st Edition] — Base Set #37 — $659

2. Nidorino [Reverse Holo] — Aquapolis #55 — $1,922

1. Nidorino [Reverse Holo] — Legendary Collection #56 — $1,994

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.

• Nidorino [Reverse Holo] — Rising Rivals #74 — $133
• Nidorino [1999-2000] — Base Set #37 — $110
• Nidorino [Reverse Holo] — Plasma Freeze #44 — $108
• Nidorino [Reverse Holo] — Secret Wonders #57 — $92
• Giovanni’s Nidorino — Gym Challenge #45 — $84
• Nidorino [Reverse Holo] — Triumphant #46 — $73
• Nidorino [Reverse Holo] — Evolutions #44 — $56
• Nidorino [Reverse Holo] — Steam Siege #44 — $54
• Nidorino — Triumphant #46 — $52
• Nidorino — Secret Wonders #57 — $50
• Nidorino — Plasma Freeze #44 — $41
• Nidorino — Rising Rivals #74 — $39
• Nidorino — Evolutions #44 — $34
• Nidorino — Steam Siege #44 — $33
• Nidorino [Reverse Holo] — Team Up #58 — $33
• Team Rocket’s Nidorino — Destined Rivals #118 — $32
• Nidorino — Team Up #58 — $32
• Team Rocket’s Nidorino [Reverse Holo] — Destined Rivals #118 — $32
• Nidorino — Base Set 2 #54 — $28

Where Nidorino is printed, across the languages

Printing line	Cards	With a tracked value	Highest
Japanese	16	16	$1,079
English	29	29	$1,994
All 2 lines	45	45	—

Every Nidorino card in the Chinese-only sets

Card	Product	Set code	Number
Team Rocket’s Nidorino	Chasing Glory Together	csv10C	126
Nidorino [Master Ball]	Collect 151	151C	33
Nidorino	Collect 151	151C	33
Nidorino [Reverse]	Collect 151	151C	33

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 Nidorino 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 Nidorino card leads the Japanese list?

Nidorino [No Rarity] #33 from Expansion Pack at $1,079. Japanese is the original printing line, so its top of the list reaches back further than either Chinese or English.

Which Nidorino card leads the English list?

Nidorino [Reverse Holo] #56 from Legendary Collection at $1,994.

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

Nidorino 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 Nidorino 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 Beedrill cards printed in the Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines. Beedrill [No Rarity] leads at $15,582 as a PSA 10, and the rankings use tracked PSA 10 sales rather than raw prices.

Beedrill appears on 3 Chinese-exclusive printings, 1 further Simplified Chinese printings, 37 Japanese, 2 Korean and 44 English numbered Pokémon cards, and this page covers every language the character was printed in — Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines.

Beedrill 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 Beedrill [No Rarity] #15 (Expansion Pack) at $15,582. 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.

Other Simplified Chinese printings

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

• Beedrill V — CS6aC #136 — $65

A further 2 Simplified Chinese printings of Beedrill sit in our catalogue without a tracked value. No graded sale of any of them has been recorded.

The Japanese list

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

10. Beedrill [1st Edition] — Flight of Legends #6 — $268

9. Beedrill — Flight of Legends #6 — $279

8. Koga’s Beedrill — Challenge from the Darkness #15 — $390

7. Beedrill [1st Edition] — Mysterious Mountains #5 — $449

6. Beedrill — Crossing the Ruins #15 — $452

5. Beedrill — Mysterious Mountains #5 — $471

4. Beedrill — Expansion Pack #15 — $480†

3. Beedrill [1st Edition] — Holon Research #10 — $487

2. Beedrill — Holon Research #10 — $530

1. Beedrill [No Rarity] — Expansion Pack #15 — $15,582†

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.

• Bugsy’s Beedrill — VS #9 — $263
• Janine’s Beedrill — VS #61 — $225
• Beedrill — Mysterious Mountains #4 — $150
• Beedrill [1st Edition] — Mysterious Mountains #4 — $115
• Beedrill — HeartGold Collection #3 — $109
• Beedrill — Collection Y #3 — $106
• Beedrill G — Advent of Arceus #1 — $102
• M Beedrill EX — Premium Champion Pack #2 — $97
• Beedrill — Thunder Knuckle #3 — $95
• Beedrill EX — Premium Champion Pack #1 — $94
• Beedrill [1st Edition] — Bonds to the End of Time #3 — $83
• Beedrill Spirit Link — Premium Champion Pack #113 — $82
• Beedrill G [1st Edition] — Advent of Arceus #1 — $80
• Beedrill — Ultradimensional Beasts #3 — $80
• Beedrill V — Space Juggler #69 — $76
• Beedrill — V Starter Deck SD #4 — $74
• Beedrill [1st Edition] — Thunder Knuckle #3 — $70
• Beedrill [1st Edition] — 20th Anniversary #7 — $67
• Beedrill [1st Edition] — Collection Y #3 — $59
• Beedrill V — Space Juggler #1 — $44
• Beedrill [1st Edition] — Tidal Storm #3 — $40
• Beedrill ex — Ninja Spinner #96 — $39
• Beedrill ex — Ninja Spinner #3 — $36
• Beedrill — Bonds to the End of Time #3 — $32
• Beedrill — VMAX Climax #3 — $25
• Beedrill V — Space Juggler #68 — $25
• Beedrill — Tidal Storm #3 — $18

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

The English list

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

10. Beedrill [Shadowless] — Base Set #17 — $256

9. Beedrill [1st Edition] — Neo Discovery #18 — $265

8. Beedrill [Reverse Holo] — Great Encounters #13 — $287

7. Beedrill [Reverse Holo] — Skyridge #5 — $531

6. Beedrill — Delta Species #1 — $950

5. Koga’s Beedrill — Gym Challenge #9 — $1,833

4. Beedrill [Reverse Holo] — Delta Species #1 — $2,428

3. Koga’s Beedrill [1st Edition] — Gym Challenge #9 — $2,606

2. Beedrill [1st Edition] — Base Set #17 — $3,382

1. Beedrill [Reverse Holo] — Legendary Collection #20 — $3,450

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.

• Beedrill — Legendary Collection #20 — $247
• Beedrill V — Astral Radiance #161 — $186
• Beedrill — Rising Rivals #15 — $180
• Beedrill [Reverse Holo] — Unleashed #12 — $160
• Beedrill [1999-2000] — Base Set #17 — $141
• Beedrill — Base Set #17 — $128
• Beedrill — Skyridge #5 — $125
• Beedrill [Reverse Holo] — Evolutions #7 — $122
• Beedrill G [Reverse Holo] — Arceus #53 — $107
• Beedrill ex — Chaos Rising #98 — $102
• Beedrill [Reverse Holo] — Rising Rivals #15 — $84
• Beedrill V — Astral Radiance #160 — $78
• Beedrill — Unleashed #12 — $74
• Beedrill ex — Chaos Rising #3 — $69
• Beedrill — XY #5 — $67
• Beedrill — Neo Discovery #18 — $66
• Beedrill — Base Set 2 #21 — $65
• Beedrill V — Astral Radiance #1 — $62
• Beedrill [Reverse Holo] — Plasma Freeze #3 — $61
• Beedrill — Great Encounters #13 — $60
• Beedrill [Reverse Holo] — Crimson Invasion #3 — $55
• Beedrill G — Arceus #53 — $48
• Beedrill [Reverse Holo] — XY #5 — $48
• Beedrill — Plasma Freeze #3 — $44
• Beedrill — Primal Clash #3 — $38
• Beedrill [Reverse Holo] — Primal Clash #3 — $38
• Beedrill [Reverse Holo] — Vivid Voltage #3 — $38
• Beedrill — Evolutions #7 — $36
• Beedrill [Reverse Holo] — Team Up #5 — $35
• Beedrill — Crimson Invasion #3 — $32

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

Where Beedrill is printed, across the languages

Printing line	Cards	With a tracked value	Highest
Simplified Chinese — other printings	1	1	$65
Japanese	37	37	$15,582
Korean	2	2	$50
English	44	44	$3,450
All 4 lines	84	84	—

Every Beedrill card in the Chinese-only sets

Card	Product	Set code	Number
Beedrill [Reverse]	Collect 151	151C	15
Beedrill [Master Ball]	Collect 151	151C	15
Beedrill	Collect 151	151C	15

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 Beedrill 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 Beedrill card leads the Japanese list?

Beedrill [No Rarity] #15 from Expansion Pack at $15,582. Japanese is the original printing line, so its top of the list reaches back further than either Chinese or English.

Which Beedrill card leads the English list?

Beedrill [Reverse Holo] #20 from Legendary Collection at $3,450.

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

Beedrill 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.

• Beedrill ex — Ninja Spinner #96 — $50
• Beedrill ex — Ninja Spinner #3 — $37

A further 1 Korean printings of Beedrill 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 Beedrill 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 Sandslash cards printed in the Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines. Sandslash [Reverse Holo] leads at $3,247 as a PSA 10, and the rankings use tracked PSA 10 sales rather than raw prices.

Sandslash appears on 5 Chinese-exclusive printings, 1 further Simplified Chinese printings, 19 Japanese, 5 Korean and 39 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 Dark Sandslash [1st Edition] #51 (Rocket Gang Strikes Back) at $413. 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. Sandslash [1st Edition] — Beat of the Frontier #53 — $100

9. Sandslash — Blue Shock #32 — $127

8. Sandslash [1st Edition] — Split Earth #50 — $142

7. Dark Sandslash — Rocket Gang Strikes Back #51 — $210†

6. Sandslash — Split Earth #50 — $265

5. Sandslash — Mystery of the Fossils #28 — $285

4. Sandslash [Series III] — Vending #28 — $322

3. Sandslash — Holon Research #57 — $332

2. Sandslash [1st Edition] — Holon Research #57 — $334

1. Dark Sandslash [1st Edition] — Rocket Gang Strikes Back #51 — $413

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.

• Sandslash [1st Edition] — Miracle of the Desert #34 — $82
• Sandslash — SoulSilver Collection #46 — $76
• Sandslash [1st Edition] — Blue Shock #32 — $43
• Sandslash — Storm Emeralda #36 — $37
• Sandslash — Mega Brave #21 — $37
• Sandslash — Mask of Change #58 — $36
• Alolan Sandslash — Facing a New Trial #12 — $29
• Alolan Sandslash — GX Battle Boost #21 — $29
• Sandslash — Classic: Venusaur #9 — $23

And 9 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. Dark Sandslash — Team Rocket Returns #18 — $170

9. Sandslash [Reverse Holo] — Skyridge #93 — $178

8. Brock’s Sandslash [1st Edition] — Gym Heroes #23 — $199

7. Sandslash [1st Edition] — Fossil #41 — $335

6. Brock’s Sandslash [1st Edition] — Gym Challenge #36 — $352

5. Sandslash — Legendary Collection #62 — $371

4. Sandslash [Reverse Holo] — Sandstorm #21 — $596

3. Sandslash [Reverse Holo] — Delta Species #27 — $1,461

2. Dark Sandslash [Reverse Holo] — Team Rocket Returns #18 — $2,794

1. Sandslash [Reverse Holo] — Legendary Collection #62 — $3,247

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.

• Sandslash — Fossil #41 — $128
• Sandslash [Reverse Holo] — Mysterious Treasures #61 — $104
• Sandslash [Reverse Holo] — Supreme Victors #42 — $97
• Brock’s Sandslash — Gym Heroes #23 — $85
• Sandslash — Supreme Victors #42 — $82
• Sandslash [Reverse Holo] — Boundaries Crossed #79 — $73
• Sandslash — Sandstorm #21 — $70
• Sandslash — Delta Species #27 — $62
• Sandslash — Skyridge #93 — $60
• Alolan Sandslash [Reverse Holo] — Ultra Prism #29 — $53
• Sandslash — Mysterious Treasures #61 — $47
• Brock’s Sandslash — Gym Challenge #36 — $42
• Sandslash [Reverse Holo] — BREAKthrough #76 — $40
• Alolan Sandslash [Reverse Holo] — Guardians Rising #20 — $40
• Alolan Sandslash — Cosmic Eclipse #138 — $40
• Sandslash — Boundaries Crossed #79 — $37
• Sandslash [Reverse Holo] — Mega Evolution #69 — $37
• Sandslash — TCG Classic: Venusaur Deck #9 — $36
• Alolan Sandslash — Guardians Rising #20 — $36
• Alolan Sandslash [Reverse Holo] — Cosmic Eclipse #138 — $35
• Sandslash — BREAKthrough #76 — $34
• Sandslash [Reverse Holo] — Unbroken Bonds #84 — $33
• Alolan Sandslash — Ultra Prism #29 — $33
• Sandslash — Unbroken Bonds #84 — $32
• Sandslash [Reverse Holo] — Fusion Strike #132 — $31
• Sandslash — Fusion Strike #132 — $31
• Sandslash [Reverse Holo] — Twilight Masquerade #98 — $31
• Sandslash — Mega Evolution #69 — $31
• Sandslash — Twilight Masquerade #98 — $31

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

Where Sandslash is printed, across the languages

Printing line	Cards	With a tracked value	Highest
Japanese	19	19	$413
English	39	39	$3,247
All 2 lines	58	58	—

Every Sandslash card in the Chinese-only sets

Card	Product	Set code	Number
Alolan Sandslash GX	CSM2aC	CSM2aC	10
Alolan Sandslash	CSM2aC	CSM2aC	92
Sandslash	Collect 151	151C	28
Sandslash [Master Ball]	Collect 151	151C	28
Sandslash [Reverse]	Collect 151	151C	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 Sandslash 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 Sandslash card leads the Japanese list?

Dark Sandslash [1st Edition] #51 from Rocket Gang Strikes Back at $413. Japanese is the original printing line, so its top of the list reaches back further than either Chinese or English.

Which Sandslash card leads the English list?

Sandslash [Reverse Holo] #62 from Legendary Collection at $3,247.

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

Sandslash 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 Sandslash 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 Weedle cards printed in the Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines. Weedle [Reverse Holo] leads at $3,419 as a PSA 10, and the rankings use tracked PSA 10 sales rather than raw prices.

Weedle appears on 3 Chinese-exclusive printings, 2 further Simplified Chinese printings, 21 Japanese, 2 Korean and 44 English numbered Pokémon cards, and this page covers every language the character was printed in — Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines.

Weedle 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 Weedle [No Rarity] #13 (Expansion Pack) at $961. 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. Weedle — Crossing the Ruins #13 — $118

9. Weedle [1st Edition] — Flight of Legends #4 — $127

8. Weedle — Mysterious Mountains #2 — $138

7. Weedle [1st Edition] — Mysterious Mountains #2 — $140

6. Koga’s Weedle — Challenge from the Darkness #13 — $150

5. Weedle — Expansion Pack #13 — $179

4. Weedle [1st Edition] — Mysterious Mountains #1 — $195

3. Weedle — Mysterious Mountains #1 — $402†

2. Weedle [Series 1] — Vending #13 — $907

1. Weedle [No Rarity] — Expansion Pack #13 — $961

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.

• Weedle — Flight of Legends #4 — $102
• Weedle — HeartGold Collection #1 — $76
• Weedle [1st Edition] — 20th Anniversary #5 — $72
• Weedle [1st Edition] — Tidal Storm #1 — $71
• Weedle — Bonds to the End of Time #1 — $66
• Weedle [1st Edition] — Collection Y #1 — $62
• Weedle — Collection Y #1 — $50
• Weedle — Holon Research #1 — $43
• Weedle — Tag Bolt #2 — $40
• Weedle — VMAX Climax #1 — $38
• Weedle — Ninja Spinner #1 — $37

And 13 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. Weedle [Reverse Holo] — Team Up #2 — $168

9. Weedle — Delta Species #87 — $203

8. Weedle [Reverse Holo] — Evolutions #5 — $241

7. Weedle — Skyridge #115 — $271

6. Weedle — Legendary Collection #99 — $364

5. Weedle [Reverse Holo] — Delta Species #87 — $402

4. Weedle [Reverse Holo] — Skyridge #115 — $580

3. Weedle [1st Edition] — Base Set #69 — $670

2. Weedle [Reverse Holo] — Skyridge #114 — $1,586

1. Weedle [Reverse Holo] — Legendary Collection #99 — $3,419

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.

• Weedle [Shadowless] — Base Set #69 — $158
• Koga’s Weedle [1st Edition] — Gym Challenge #82 — $149
• Weedle [1st Edition] — Neo Discovery #70 — $139
• Weedle [Reverse Holo] — Great Encounters #93 — $129
• Weedle — Skyridge #114 — $124
• Weedle — McDonalds 2014 #1 — $120
• Weedle — Base Set #69 — $101
• Weedle [Reverse Holo] — Unleashed #69 — $99
• Weedle [Reverse Holo] — Rising Rivals #86 — $84
• Weedle — Base Set 2 #100 — $66
• Weedle — Neo Discovery #70 — $60
• Weedle [1999-2000] — Base Set #69 — $60
• Weedle — Crimson Invasion #1 — $60
• Koga’s Weedle — Gym Challenge #82 — $60
• Weedle — Evolutions #5 — $50
• Weedle [Reverse Holo] — Plasma Freeze #1 — $49
• Weedle — Unleashed #69 — $42
• Weedle — Great Encounters #93 — $39
• Weedle — Rising Rivals #86 — $39
• Weedle [Reverse Holo] — Primal Clash #1 — $39
• Weedle — Plasma Freeze #1 — $38
• Weedle [Reverse Holo] — Chaos Rising #1 — $38
• Weedle [Reverse Holo] — XY #3 — $37
• Weedle — Team Up #2 — $36
• Weedle — Primal Clash #1 — $34
• Weedle [Reverse Holo] — Crimson Invasion #1 — $34
• Weedle — XY #3 — $33
• Weedle [Reverse Holo] — Vivid Voltage #1 — $32
• Weedle [Reverse Holo] — Team Up #3 — $32
• Weedle [Reverse Holo] — Chilling Reign #1 — $32

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

Where Weedle is printed, across the languages

Printing line	Cards	With a tracked value	Highest
Japanese	21	21	$961
English	44	44	$3,419
All 2 lines	65	65	—

Every Weedle card in the Chinese-only sets

Card	Product	Set code	Number
Weedle [Master Ball]	Collect 151	151C	13
Weedle	Collect 151	151C	13
Weedle [Reverse]	Collect 151	151C	13

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 Weedle 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 Weedle card leads the Japanese list?

Weedle [No Rarity] #13 from Expansion Pack at $961. Japanese is the original printing line, so its top of the list reaches back further than either Chinese or English.

Which Weedle card leads the English list?

Weedle [Reverse Holo] #99 from Legendary Collection at $3,419.

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

Weedle 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 Weedle 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 Kakuna cards printed in the Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines. Kakuna [Reverse Holo] leads at $1,238 as a PSA 10, and the rankings use tracked PSA 10 sales rather than raw prices.

Kakuna appears on 3 Chinese-exclusive printings, 1 further Simplified Chinese printings, 16 Japanese, 2 Korean and 37 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 Kakuna [Series 1] #14 (Vending) at $580. 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. Kakuna — Flight of Legends #5 — $56

9. Kakuna [1st Edition] — Flight of Legends #5 — $63†

8. Kakuna [1st Edition] — Bonds to the End of Time #2 — $75

7. Kakuna — Holon Research #2 — $106

6. Kakuna [1st Edition] — Holon Research #2 — $120

5. Kakuna [1st Edition] — Mysterious Mountains #3 — $122

4. Koga’s Kakuna — Challenge from the Darkness #14 — $241

3. Kakuna — Mysterious Mountains #3 — $302

2. Kakuna — Expansion Pack #14 — $456†

1. Kakuna [Series 1] — Vending #14 — $580

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.

• Kakuna — HeartGold Collection #2 — $51
• Kakuna [1st Edition] — 20th Anniversary #6 — $43
• Kakuna — Tag Bolt #4 — $42
• Kakuna — Crossing the Ruins #14 — $40
• Kakuna [1st Edition] — Tidal Storm #2 — $39
• Kakuna — Ninja Spinner #2 — $37

And 13 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. Kakuna [Reverse Holo] — Rising Rivals #66 — $118

9. Kakuna [Shadowless] — Base Set #33 — $134

8. Kakuna [Reverse Holo] — Great Encounters #73 — $135

7. Koga’s Kakuna [1st Edition] — Gym Challenge #47 — $166

6. Kakuna — Skyridge #70 — $239

5. Kakuna — Legendary Collection #50 — $295

4. Kakuna [Reverse Holo] — Delta Species #46 — $510

3. Kakuna [1st Edition] — Base Set #33 — $688

2. Kakuna [Reverse Holo] — Skyridge #70 — $703

1. Kakuna [Reverse Holo] — Legendary Collection #50 — $1,238

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.

• Kakuna [Reverse Holo] — Evolutions #6 — $104
• Kakuna — Base Set #33 — $97
• Kakuna — Evolutions #6 — $81
• Kakuna [1999-2000] — Base Set #33 — $81
• Kakuna [Reverse Holo] — Unleashed #32 — $80
• Kakuna — Base Set 2 #47 — $74
• Kakuna [1st Edition] — Neo Discovery #41 — $62
• Kakuna — Rising Rivals #66 — $59
• Kakuna — Unleashed #32 — $55
• Kakuna — Great Encounters #73 — $45
• Kakuna [Reverse Holo] — Team Up #4 — $43
• Koga’s Kakuna — Gym Challenge #47 — $38
• Kakuna — Crimson Invasion #2 — $37
• Kakuna [Reverse Holo] — Chaos Rising #2 — $37
• Kakuna [Reverse Holo] — Primal Clash #2 — $36
• Kakuna — Team Up #4 — $36
• Kakuna — Plasma Freeze #2 — $34
• Kakuna [Reverse Holo] — Crimson Invasion #2 — $34
• Kakuna — Neo Discovery #41 — $34
• Kakuna — Primal Clash #2 — $34
• Kakuna — XY #4 — $33
• Kakuna — Delta Species #46 — $32
• Kakuna — Chaos Rising #2 — $32
• Kakuna [Reverse Holo] — Chilling Reign #2 — $31
• Kakuna [Reverse Holo] — Vivid Voltage #2 — $31
• Kakuna — Chilling Reign #2 — $31
• Kakuna — Vivid Voltage #2 — $30

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

Where Kakuna is printed, across the languages

Printing line	Cards	With a tracked value	Highest
Japanese	16	16	$580
English	37	37	$1,238
All 2 lines	53	53	—

Every Kakuna card in the Chinese-only sets

Card	Product	Set code	Number
Kakuna [Master Ball]	Collect 151	151C	14
Kakuna	Collect 151	151C	14
Kakuna [Reverse]	Collect 151	151C	14

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 Kakuna 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 Kakuna card leads the Japanese list?

Kakuna [Series 1] #14 from Vending at $580. Japanese is the original printing line, so its top of the list reaches back further than either Chinese or English.

Which Kakuna card leads the English list?

Kakuna [Reverse Holo] #50 from Legendary Collection at $1,238.

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

Kakuna 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 Kakuna 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 Kadabra cards printed in the Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines. Kadabra [Reverse Holo] leads at $11,645 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.

Kadabra appears on 2 Chinese-exclusive printings, 3 further Simplified Chinese printings, 20 Japanese, 5 Korean and 20 English numbered Pokémon cards, and this page covers every language the character was printed in — Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines.

Kadabra carries 2 numbered Chinese-exclusive printings. The head of the list is Kadabra #64 (151C) at $36. 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.

2. Kadabra — 151C #161 — $22

1. Kadabra — 151C #64 — $36

This line only yields 2 priced printings for Kadabra. Another 7 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. Sabrina’s Kadabra — Yamabuki City Gym #64 — $208

9. Sabrina’s Kadabra — Challenge from the Darkness #64 — $225

8. Dark Kadabra — Rocket Gang #64 — $226

7. Dark Kadabra [1st Edition] — Web #27 — $240

6. Dark Kadabra — Web #27 — $255

5. Kadabra — Expansion Pack #64 — $473

4. Kadabra [Series III] — Vending #64 — $597

3. Kadabra [Series III Yoshida] — Vending #64 — $600

2. Kadabra — Expedition Expansion Pack #40 — $696

1. Kadabra [No Rarity] — Expansion Pack #64 — $3,500

Ranks 11 and beyond

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

• Kadabra [1st Edition] — Expedition Expansion Pack #40 — $207
• Kadabra — Split Earth #41 — $172
• Kadabra [1st Edition] — Split Earth #41 — $162
• Kadabra — Shiny Treasure ex #254 — $39
• Kadabra — Mega Symphonia #37 — $37
• Kadabra [Master Ball] — Terastal Festival #58 — $37
• Kadabra — Mask of Change #48 — $36
• Kadabra — Shiny Treasure ex #74 — $30
• Kadabra — Terastal Festival #58 — $29
• Kadabra [Poke Ball] — Terastal Festival #58 — $23

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

The English list

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

10. Kadabra — Skyridge #69 — $192

9. Kadabra — Base Set #32 — $232

8. Kadabra — Expedition #84 — $250

7. Dark Kadabra [1st Edition] — Team Rocket #39 — $291

6. Kadabra [Shadowless] — Base Set #32 — $457

5. Sabrina’s Kadabra [1st Edition] — Gym Challenge #58 — $468

4. Kadabra [Reverse Holo] — Expedition #84 — $643

3. Kadabra [Reverse Holo] — Skyridge #69 — $696

2. Kadabra [1st Edition] — Base Set #32 — $3,703

1. Kadabra [Reverse Holo] — Legendary Collection #49 — $11,645

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.

• Sabrina’s Kadabra — Gym Challenge #58 — $125
• Kadabra [1999-2000] — Base Set #32 — $120
• Kadabra — Legendary Collection #49 — $117
• Kadabra [Reverse Holo] — Mega Evolution #55 — $113
• Kadabra — Paldean Fates #149 — $102
• Dark Kadabra — Team Rocket #39 — $59
• Kadabra [Reverse Holo] — Twilight Masquerade #81 — $57
• Kadabra — Base Set 2 #46 — $46
• Kadabra — Mega Evolution #55 — $33
• Kadabra — Twilight Masquerade #81 — $31

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

Where Kadabra is printed, across the languages

Printing line	Cards	With a tracked value	Highest
Simplified Chinese — exclusive sets	2	2	$36
Japanese	20	20	$3,500
English	20	20	$11,645
All 3 lines	42	42	—

What the ranking shows

On the Chinese-exclusive line, 2 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	2	$58	100.0%
Ranked 5 – 10	0	$0	0.0%
Ranked 11 and below	0	$0	0.0%
Every priced Chinese-exclusive card	2	$58	100%

If you want one card

One card, no budget limit:

Kadabra #64 — 151C #64. $36, and it is the card most lists for this character name first.

One card, under two hundred dollars:

Kadabra #161 — 151C #161. $22. It is not the card anyone photographs, but it is the same Pokémon from the same line.

Frequently asked questions

What is the most valuable Kadabra card in Simplified Chinese?

Among the Chinese-exclusive numbered sets, Kadabra #64 carries the highest tracked value at $36. Promos and other non-C numbered printings sit outside that comparison.

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

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

Which Kadabra card leads the Japanese list?

Kadabra [No Rarity] #64 from Expansion Pack at $3,500. Japanese is the original printing line, so its top of the list reaches back further than either Chinese or English.

Which Kadabra card leads the English list?

Kadabra [Reverse Holo] #49 from Legendary Collection at $11,645.

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

Kadabra is printed in more lines than the three 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.

Other character rankings

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

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

We do not hold a Kadabra 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 Butterfree cards printed in the Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines. Butterfree leads at $24,440 as a PSA 10, and the rankings use tracked PSA 10 sales rather than raw prices.

Butterfree appears on 5 Chinese-exclusive printings, 2 further Simplified Chinese printings, 21 Japanese, 2 Korean and 38 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 Butterfree [1st Edition] #98 (Expedition Expansion Pack) at $1,104. 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. Butterfree [1st Edition] — Expedition Expansion Pack #66 — $187

9. Butterfree — Darkness that Consumes Light #3 — $192†

8. Butterfree — Expedition Expansion Pack #66 — $264

7. Bugsy’s Butterfree — VS #8 — $300

6. Butterfree — Expedition Expansion Pack #98 — $339

5. Butterfree — Flight of Legends #3 — $366†

4. Butterfree [1st Edition] — Flight of Legends #3 — $450†

3. Butterfree — Jungle #12 — $570†

2. Butterfree — Crossing the Ruins #12 — $705

1. Butterfree [1st Edition] — Expedition Expansion Pack #98 — $1,104

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.

• Butterfree — SoulSilver Collection #3 — $159
• Butterfree [1st Edition] — Beat of the Frontier #4 — $133
• Butterfree VMAX — Explosive Walker #79 — $62
• Butterfree V — Explosive Walker #71 — $58
• Butterfree — Family #3 — $55
• Butterfree — Starter Pack #5 — $52
• Butterfree VMAX — Explosive Walker #2 — $52
• Butterfree — Battle Partners #3 — $36
• Butterfree V — Explosive Walker #1 — $26
• Butterfree — Fusion Arts #3 — $20
• Butterfree [1st Edition] — Wild Blaze #3 — $20

And 6 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. Butterfree — Generations #5 — $191

9. Butterfree — Expedition #38 — $210

8. Butterfree [Reverse Holo] — Great Encounters #14 — $302

7. Butterfree [Reverse Holo] — Expedition #38 — $363

6. Butterfree [1st Edition] — Jungle #33 — $437

5. Butterfree — Southern Islands #9 — $441

4. Butterfree [D Edition Error] — Jungle #33 — $720

3. Butterfree FB — Supreme Victors #17 — $1,500†

2. Butterfree [Reverse Holo] — Legendary Collection #21 — $6,800

1. Butterfree — Expedition #5 — $24,440†

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.

• Butterfree [Reverse Holo] — Expedition #5 — $162
• Butterfree — Neo Discovery #19 — $150
• Butterfree FB [Reverse Holo] — Supreme Victors #17 — $150
• Butterfree — Jungle #33 — $139
• Butterfree [1st Edition] — Neo Discovery #19 — $130
• Butterfree — Legendary Collection #21 — $110
• Butterfree — Base Set 2 #34 — $110
• Butterfree — Unbroken Bonds #4 — $100
• Butterfree — Journey Together #3 — $100
• Butterfree [Holo] — Fusion Strike #3 — $85
• Butterfree VMAX — Darkness Ablaze #190 — $79
• Butterfree FB [Crosshatch Holo] — Supreme Victors #17 — $70
• Butterfree VMAX — Darkness Ablaze #2 — $61
• Butterfree V — Darkness Ablaze #177 — $60
• Butterfree — Hidden Fates #3 — $55
• Butterfree [Reverse Holo] — Rebel Clash #3 — $50
• Butterfree V — Darkness Ablaze #1 — $46
• Butterfree — Flashfire #3 — $40
• Butterfree [Reverse Holo] — Burning Shadows #3 — $38
• Butterfree — Rebel Clash #3 — $35
• Butterfree [Reverse Holo] — Unbroken Bonds #4 — $35
• Butterfree [Reverse Holo] — Hidden Fates #3 — $34
• Butterfree — Burning Shadows #3 — $33
• Butterfree [Reverse Holo] — Journey Together #3 — $33
• Butterfree — Great Encounters #14 — $32
• Butterfree — Fusion Strike #3 — $32
• Butterfree [Reverse Holo] — Fusion Strike #3 — $32
• Butterfree [Reverse Holo] — Flashfire #3 — $30

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

Where Butterfree is printed, across the languages

Printing line	Cards	With a tracked value	Highest
Japanese	21	21	$1,104
English	38	38	$24,440
All 2 lines	59	59	—

Every Butterfree card in the Chinese-only sets

Card	Product	Set code	Number
Butterfree	CS4aC	CS4aC	3
Butterfree [Reverse Holo]	CS4aC	CS4aC	3
Butterfree	Collect 151	151C	12
Butterfree [Master Ball]	Collect 151	151C	12
Butterfree [Reverse]	Collect 151	151C	12

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 Butterfree 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 Butterfree card leads the Japanese list?

Butterfree [1st Edition] #98 from Expedition Expansion Pack at $1,104. Japanese is the original printing line, so its top of the list reaches back further than either Chinese or English.

Which Butterfree card leads the English list?

Butterfree #5 from Expedition at $24,440.

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. 6 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

Butterfree 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 Butterfree 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 Nidoking cards printed in the Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines. Nidoking leads at $18,021 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.

Nidoking appears on 1 Chinese-exclusive printings, 31 Japanese, 1 Korean and 35 English numbered Pokémon cards, and this page covers every language the character was printed in — Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines.

Nidoking carries 1 numbered Chinese-exclusive printings. The head of the list is Nidoking #34 (151C) at $24. 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. Nidoking — 151C #34 — $24

This line only yields 1 priced printings for Nidoking. Another 5 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. Nidoking [1st Edition] — Offense and Defense (PCG7) #55 — $654

9. Giovanni’s Nidoking — Challenge from the Darkness #34 — $658

8. Nidoking — The Town on No Map #49 — $783

7. Nidoking [1st Edition] — The Town on No Map #49 — $960

6. Nidoking — Offense and Defense (PCG7) #55 — $1,200†

5. Nidoking — Expansion Pack #34 — $1,399

4. Nidoking [1st Edition] — Wind from the Sea #88 — $7,463

3. Nidoking — Wind from the Sea #88 — $7,500

2. Nidoking [No Rarity] — Expansion Pack #34 — $11,633

1. Giovanni’s Nidoking [CoroCoro] — Promo #34 — $12,100

Ranks 11 and beyond

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

• Nidoking — Flight of Legends #56 — $355
• Nidoking [1st Edition] — Flight of Legends #56 — $314
• Nidoking [1st Edition] — Web #33 — $306
• Nidoking — Web #33 — $298
• Team Rocket’s Nidoking ex — Start Deck 100 #437 — $200
• Nidoking — Clash at the Summit #41 — $172
• Nidoking [1st Edition] — Clash at the Summit #41 — $160
• Nidoking [1st Edition] — Cruel Traitor #22 — $138
• Team Rocket’s Nidoking ex — Glory of Team Rocket #126 — $130
• Nidoking [1st Edition] — The Town on No Map #48 — $128
• Nidoking BREAK [1st Edition] — 20th Anniversary #44 — $125
• Nidoking [1st Edition] — 20th Anniversary #43 — $121
• Nidoking — Bonds to the End of Time #47 — $120
• Nidoking [1st Edition] — Thunder Knuckle #28 — $100
• Nidoking [1st Edition] — Bonds to the End of Time #47 — $95
• Nidoking — Cruel Traitor #22 — $95
• Nidoking — The Town on No Map #48 — $91
• Nidoking — Thunder Knuckle #28 — $61
• Team Rocket’s Nidoking ex — Glory of Team Rocket #116 — $50
• Nidoking — Tag Bolt #44 — $40
• Team Rocket’s Nidoking ex — Glory of Team Rocket #63 — $29

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

The English list

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

10. Nidoking — Secret Wonders #34 — $1,032

9. Nidoking — Base Set #11 — $1,110

8. Nidoking [1999-2000] — Base Set #11 — $1,578

7. Giovanni’s Nidoking [1st Edition] — Gym Challenge #7 — $3,207

6. Nidoking — Dragon Frontiers #6 — $3,268

5. Nidoking [Reverse Holo] — Dragon Frontiers #6 — $3,325

4. Nidoking [Reverse Holo] — Legendary Collection #31 — $3,813

3. Nidoking [Shadowless] — Base Set #11 — $3,901

2. Nidoking [1st Edition] — Base Set #11 — $14,377

1. Nidoking — Aquapolis #150 — $18,021

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.

• Nidoking [Holo] — Evolutions #45 — $852
• Nidoking [Prerelease] — Evolutions #45 — $795
• Nidoking — Triumphant #6 — $772
• Giovanni’s Nidoking — Gym Challenge #7 — $523
• Nidoking — Base Set 2 #11 — $411
• Nidoking [Reverse Holo] — Evolutions #45 — $299
• Nidoking — Evolutions #45 — $280
• Team Rocket’s Nidoking ex — Destined Rivals #233 — $244
• Nidoking [Reverse Holo] — Secret Wonders #34 — $235
• Nidoking [Reverse Holo] — Aquapolis #24 — $219
• Nidoking [Reverse Holo] — Rising Rivals #29 — $199
• Nidoking — Aquapolis #24 — $192
• Nidoking [Reverse Holo] — Steam Siege #45 — $165
• Nidoking [Reverse Holo] — Triumphant #6 — $152
• Nidoking [Reverse Holo] — Plasma Freeze #58 — $150
• Nidoking BREAK — Evolutions #46 — $116
• Nidoking — Legendary Collection #31 — $81
• Nidoking — Rising Rivals #29 — $81
• Nidoking — Steam Siege #45 — $70
• Nidoking — Plasma Freeze #58 — $68
• Team Rocket’s Nidoking ex — Destined Rivals #216 — $60
• Team Rocket’s Nidoking ex — Promo #217 — $50
• Nidoking [Reverse Holo] — Team Up #59 — $45
• Nidoking — Team Up #59 — $38
• Team Rocket’s Nidoking ex — Destined Rivals #119 — $37

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

Where Nidoking is printed, across the languages

Printing line	Cards	With a tracked value	Highest
Simplified Chinese — exclusive sets	1	1	$24
Japanese	31	31	$12,100
Korean	1	1	$71
English	35	35	$18,021
All 4 lines	68	68	—

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	$24	100.0%
Ranked 5 – 10	0	$0	0.0%
Ranked 11 and below	0	$0	0.0%
Every priced Chinese-exclusive card	1	$24	100%

If you want one card

One card, no budget limit:

Nidoking #34 — 151C #34. $24, and it is the card most lists for this character name first.

One card, under two hundred dollars:

Nidoking #34 — 151C #34. $24. It is not the card anyone photographs, but it is the same Pokémon from the same line.

Frequently asked questions

What is the most valuable Nidoking card in Simplified Chinese?

Among the Chinese-exclusive numbered sets, Nidoking #34 carries the highest tracked value at $24. Promos and other non-C numbered printings sit outside that comparison.

How many Nidoking 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 Nidoking card leads the Japanese list?

Giovanni’s Nidoking [CoroCoro] #34 from Promo at $12,100. Japanese is the original printing line, so its top of the list reaches back further than either Chinese or English.

Which Nidoking card leads the English list?

Nidoking #150 from Aquapolis at $18,021.

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

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

What do the marks next to some prices mean?

0 of the thirty ranked cards carry a mark. A double dagger (‡) means no PSA 10 copy of that card has sold in the last six months, so the graded price is a model output rather than a traded one. A single dagger (†) means the same thing, taken further: the model figure ran past the ceiling the card’s own lower grades support, so the ranking uses the capped number instead. 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

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

Korean printings

1 printings

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

• Team Rocket’s Nidoking ex — Glory Of Team Rocket #126 — $71

A further 2 Korean printings of Nidoking sit in our catalogue without a tracked value. No graded sale of any of them has been recorded.

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

not ranked here

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

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

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

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

More Pokémon

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

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

Where to buy these cards

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

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

Other character rankings

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

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

We do not hold a Nidoking 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 Bulbasaur cards printed in the Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines. Erika’s Bulbasaur [Glossy CoroCoro] leads at $9,750 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.

Bulbasaur appears on 1 Chinese-exclusive printings, 3 further Simplified Chinese printings, 35 Japanese, 2 Korean and 44 English numbered Pokémon cards, and this page covers every language the character was printed in — Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines.

Bulbasaur 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 Bulbasaur #1 (151C) at $34. 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. Bulbasaur — 151C #1 — $34

This line only yields 1 priced printings for Bulbasaur. Another 2 numbered printings in this line carry no graded sold record yet and are therefore not ranked.

Other Simplified Chinese printings

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

• Bulbasaur — Promo #97/SV-P — $140
• Bulbasaur — Promo #1/30th-P — $44
• Bulbasaur — Promo #66/SV-P — $12

A further 1 Simplified Chinese printings of Bulbasaur sit in our catalogue without a tracked value. No graded sale of any of them has been recorded.

The Japanese list

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

10. Bulbasaur — Expedition Expansion Pack #94 — $821

9. Bulbasaur [1st Edition] — E-Starter Deck #1 — $910

8. Bulbasaur — Promo #51/ADV-P — $1,041

7. Bulbasaur [No Rarity] — Expansion Pack #1 — $1,389

6. Bulbasaur [Pokemon Center] — Promo #30/DPt-P — $2,150

5. Bulbasaur [Series 1] — Vending #1 — $2,250

4. Bulbasaur — E-Starter Deck #2 — $2,722

3. Bulbasaur — Promo #30/DPt-P — $3,507

2. Bulbasaur, Pikachu, Squirtle [Prism] — Meiji Promo #38 — $3,643

1. Erika’s Bulbasaur [Glossy CoroCoro] — Promo #1 — $9,750

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.

• Bulbasaur — Bulbasaur Deck #29 — $784
• Bulbasaur — Bulbasaur Deck #18 — $741
• Bulbasaur [1st Edition] — E-Starter Deck #2 — $735
• Bulbasaur — Expansion Pack #1 — $567
• Bulbasaur — Groudon Constructed Starter Deck #1 — $500
• Bulbasaur — Bulbasaur Deck #35 — $376
• Bulbasaur — Dark Rush #1 — $265
• Bulbasaur — Miracle Crystal #1 — $187
• Bulbasaur — Master Kit #1 — $182
• Bulbasaur — SVG Special Set #50 — $175
• Bulbasaur [1st Edition] — Miracle Crystal #1 — $174
• Bulbasaur [1st Edition] — Beat of the Frontier #1 — $161
• Bulbasaur — GX Ultra Shiny #1 — $128
• Bulbasaur — Bulbasaur Deck #1 — $114
• Bulbasaur — Promo #59/SV-P — $99
• Bulbasaur — Shining Legends #1 — $81
• Bulbasaur — Mega Brave #1 — $77
• Bulbasaur [Illustration Contest 2022] — Promo #337/S-P — $74
• Bulbasaur — Beat of the Frontier #1 — $71
• Bulbasaur — Go #1 — $62
• Bulbasaur — Promo #287/S-P — $60
• Bulbasaur — Detective Pikachu #1 — $52
• Bulbasaur — Mega Brave #64 — $50
• Bulbasaur — Classic: Venusaur #1 — $50
• Bulbasaur — Detective Pikachu #2 — $48

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. Bulbasaur [Stamped] — Mega Evolution #133 — $700

9. Bulbasaur [Reverse Holo] — Secret Wonders #77 — $771

8. Bulbasaur [Pokemon Day 2026] — Promo #1 — $875

7. Bulbasaur [Reverse Holo] — Crystal Guardians #45 — $1,104

6. Bulbasaur [Reverse Holo] — Expedition #95 — $1,168

5. Bulbasaur [Reverse Holo] — Supreme Victors #93 — $1,184

4. Bulbasaur [Reverse Holo] — Expedition #94 — $1,850

3. Bulbasaur [Reverse Holo] — Crystal Guardians #46 — $2,604

2. Bulbasaur [Reverse Holo] — Legendary Collection #68 — $3,740

1. Bulbasaur [1st Edition] — Base Set #44 — $6,422

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.

• Bulbasaur — Crystal Guardians #45 — $660
• Bulbasaur — Expedition #95 — $605
• Erika’s Bulbasaur [1st Edition] — Gym Challenge #39 — $585
• Bulbasaur — Expedition #94 — $570
• Bulbasaur [Shadowless] — Base Set #44 — $543
• Bulbasaur — Crystal Guardians #46 — $479
• Bulbasaur [1st Edition] — 2004 Starter Deck #2 — $450
• Bulbasaur — Secret Wonders #77 — $420
• Bulbasaur — Base Set #44 — $314
• Bulbasaur — Stellar Crown #143 — $311
• Erika’s Bulbasaur — Gym Challenge #39 — $296
• Bulbasaur [1999-2000] — Base Set #44 — $282
• Bulbasaur [Reverse Holo] — Dark Explorers #1 — $247
• Bulbasaur [General Mills] — Shining Legends #1 — $208
• Bulbasaur — Base Set 2 #67 — $206
• Bulbasaur — POP Series 2 #12 — $202
• Bulbasaur — 2004 Starter Deck #1 — $192
• Bulbasaur — Promo #46 — $184
• Bulbasaur [Holo] — McDonalds 2021 #1 — $172
• Bulbasaur — Legendary Collection #68 — $158
• Bulbasaur [Reverse Holo] — Go #1 — $141
• Bulbasaur — Shining Legends #1 — $125
• Bulbasaur — Dark Explorers #1 — $113
• Bulbasaur — Mega Evolution #133 — $110
• Bulbasaur [Build A Bear] — Dark Explorers #1 — $100
• Bulbasaur [Reverse Holo] — Mega Evolution #1 — $100
• Bulbasaur [Reverse Holo] — Shining Legends #1 — $100
• Bulbasaur — Detective Pikachu #1 — $97
• Bulbasaur — McDonalds 2021 #1 — $90
• Bulbasaur — TCG Classic: Venusaur Deck #1 — $84

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

Where Bulbasaur is printed, across the languages

Printing line	Cards	With a tracked value	Highest
Simplified Chinese — exclusive sets	1	1	$34
Simplified Chinese — other printings	3	3	$140
Japanese	35	35	$9,750
Korean	2	2	$49
English	44	44	$6,422
All 5 lines	85	85	—

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	$34	100.0%
Ranked 5 – 10	0	$0	0.0%
Ranked 11 and below	0	$0	0.0%
Every priced Chinese-exclusive card	1	$34	100%

If you want one card

One card, no budget limit:

Bulbasaur #1 — 151C #1. $34, and it is the card most lists for this character name first.

One card, under two hundred dollars:

Bulbasaur #1 — 151C #1. $34. It is not the card anyone photographs, but it is the same Pokémon from the same line.

Frequently asked questions

What is the most valuable Bulbasaur card in Simplified Chinese?

Among the Chinese-exclusive numbered sets, Bulbasaur #1 carries the highest tracked value at $34. Promos and other non-C numbered printings sit outside that comparison.

How many Bulbasaur 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 Bulbasaur card leads the Japanese list?

Erika’s Bulbasaur [Glossy CoroCoro] #1 from Promo at $9,750. Japanese is the original printing line, so its top of the list reaches back further than either Chinese or English.

Which Bulbasaur card leads the English list?

Bulbasaur [1st Edition] #44 from Base Set at $6,422.

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. 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

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

Korean printings

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.

• Bulbasaur — Mega Brave #64 — $49
• Bulbasaur — Shining Legends #1 — $48

A further 4 Korean printings of Bulbasaur sit in our catalogue without a tracked value. No graded sale of any of them has been recorded.

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

not ranked here

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

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

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

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

More Pokémon

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

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

Where to buy these cards

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

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

Other character rankings

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

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

We do not hold a Bulbasaur 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.