Category: Pokémon

Quick answer

CardSpicy (cardspicy.com) ranks the most valuable Drowzee cards printed in the Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines. Drowzee [Reverse Holo] leads at $1,947 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.

Drowzee appears on 1 Chinese-exclusive printings, 1 further Simplified Chinese printings, 24 Japanese, 6 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.

Drowzee carries 1 numbered Chinese-exclusive printings. The head of the list is Drowzee #96 (151C) at $38. 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. Drowzee — 151C #96 — $38

This line only yields 1 priced printings for Drowzee. Another 5 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.

• Drowzee — CSVL1C #98 — $290

A further 2 Simplified Chinese printings of Drowzee 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. Drowzee — SoulSilver Collection #38 — $95

9. Sabrina’s Drowzee — Yamabuki City Gym #96 — $96

8. Drowzee — Rage of the Broken Heavens #33 — $99

7. Sabrina’s Drowzee — Challenge from the Darkness #96 — $188

6. Drowzee [1st Edition] — The Town on No Map #40 — $215

5. Drowzee — Rocket Gang #96 — $221

4. Drowzee [1st Edition] — Holon Research #44 — $222†

3. Drowzee — Expansion Pack #96 — $260

2. Drowzee — Holon Research #44 — $383

1. Drowzee [No Rarity] — Expansion Pack #96 — $731

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.

• Drowzee — The Town on No Map #40 — $78
• Drowzee [1st Edition] — 20th Anniversary #47 — $77
• Drowzee — Rocket Gang Strikes Back #41 — $75
• Drowzee — Violet Ex #86 — $66
• Drowzee — Flight of Legends #49 — $59
• Drowzee [1st Edition] — Rising Fist #33 — $50
• Drowzee — Bulbasaur Deck #2 — $49
• Drowzee — Full Metal Wall #19 — $39
• Drowzee — Storm Emeralda #29 — $36
• Team Rocket’s Drowzee — Glory of Team Rocket #37 — $36
• Drowzee — Night Wanderer #16 — $36
• Drowzee — Classic: Blastoise #11 — $27
• Drowzee — Rising Fist #33 — $24
• Drowzee — Lost Abyss #42 — $18

And 10 further printings below those, which carry no tracked value at all.

The English list

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

10. Drowzee [Shadowless] — Base Set #49 — $157

9. Drowzee — Delta Species #67 — $198

8. Drowzee [Reverse Holo] — Evolutions #49 — $254

7. Drowzee — Aquapolis #74a — $300

6. Drowzee — Aquapolis #74B — $319

5. Sabrina’s Drowzee [1st Edition] — Gym Heroes #92 — $388

4. Drowzee [1st Edition] — Base Set #49 — $600

3. Drowzee [Reverse Holo] — Delta Species #67 — $1,000

2. Drowzee [Reverse Holo] — Legendary Collection #73 — $1,153

1. Drowzee [Reverse Holo] — Team Rocket Returns #54 — $1,947

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 Drowzee [1st Edition] — Gym Challenge #95 — $152
• Drowzee [1st Edition] — Team Rocket #54 — $140
• Drowzee [1999-2000] — Base Set #49 — $131
• Drowzee — Base Set #49 — $124
• Drowzee — Team Rocket Returns #54 — $118
• Drowzee [Reverse Holo] — Great Encounters #65 — $113
• Drowzee — Legendary Collection #73 — $83
• Drowzee [Reverse Holo] — Aquapolis #74 — $69
• Drowzee — Evolutions #49 — $67
• Sabrina’s Drowzee — Gym Heroes #92 — $65
• Drowzee — Evolving Skies #61 — $63
• Sabrina’s Drowzee — Gym Challenge #95 — $63
• Drowzee — Team Rocket #54 — $53
• Drowzee — Great Encounters #65 — $46
• Drowzee [Reverse Holo] — Furious Fists #35 — $45
• Drowzee — Base Set 2 #73 — $44
• Drowzee [Reverse Holo] — BREAKpoint #50 — $35
• Drowzee [Reverse Holo] — Unbroken Bonds #71 — $34
• Drowzee — BREAKpoint #50 — $33
• Team Rocket’s Drowzee [Reverse Holo] — Destined Rivals #79 — $33
• Drowzee — Furious Fists #35 — $32
• Drowzee [Reverse Holo] — Shrouded Fable #16 — $32
• Drowzee [Reverse Holo] — Evolving Skies #61 — $32
• Drowzee — Silver Tempest #60 — $32
• Drowzee — Unbroken Bonds #71 — $31
• Team Rocket’s Drowzee — Destined Rivals #79 — $30
• Drowzee — Shrouded Fable #16 — $28
• Drowzee — TCG Classic: Blastoise Deck #11 — $25

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

Where Drowzee is printed, across the languages

Printing line	Cards	With a tracked value	Highest
Simplified Chinese — exclusive sets	1	1	$38
Simplified Chinese — other printings	1	1	$290
Japanese	24	24	$731
English	38	38	$1,947
All 4 lines	64	64	—

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	$38	100.0%
Ranked 5 – 10	0	$0	0.0%
Ranked 11 and below	0	$0	0.0%
Every priced Chinese-exclusive card	1	$38	100%

If you want one card

One card, no budget limit:

Drowzee #96 — 151C #96. $38, and it is the card most lists for this character name first.

One card, under two hundred dollars:

Drowzee #96 — 151C #96. $38. 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 Drowzee card in Simplified Chinese?

Among the Chinese-exclusive numbered sets, Drowzee #96 carries the highest tracked value at $38. Promos and other non-C numbered printings sit outside that comparison.

How many Drowzee 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 Drowzee card leads the Japanese list?

Drowzee [No Rarity] #96 from Expansion Pack at $731. Japanese is the original printing line, so its top of the list reaches back further than either Chinese or English.

Which Drowzee card leads the English list?

Drowzee [Reverse Holo] #54 from Team Rocket Returns at $1,947.

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

Drowzee is printed in more lines than the four 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 Drowzee 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 Rhyhorn cards printed in the Simplified Chinese, Japanese and English lines. Rhyhorn [Reverse Holo] leads at $2,766 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.

Rhyhorn appears on 1 Chinese-exclusive printings, 10 Japanese and 35 English numbered Pokémon cards, and this page covers every language the character was printed in — Simplified Chinese, Japanese and English lines.

Rhyhorn carries 1 numbered Chinese-exclusive printings. The head of the list is Rhyhorn #111 (151C) at $38. 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. Rhyhorn — 151C #111 — $38

This line only yields 1 priced printings for Rhyhorn. Another 3 numbered printings in this line carry no graded sold record yet and are therefore not ranked.

The Japanese list

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

10. Rhyhorn [1st Edition] — Gaia Volcano #29 — $36

9. Rhyhorn — Magma Deck Kit #8 — $55

8. Rhyhorn — Darkness that Consumes Light #27 — $56

7. Rhyhorn — Collection Y #31 — $68

6. Rhyhorn — Beat of the Frontier #56 — $77

5. Rhyhorn [1st Edition] — Beat of the Frontier #56 — $83

4. Rhyhorn [1st Edition] — Split Earth #53 — $148

3. Rhyhorn — Split Earth #53 — $179

2. Blaine’s Rhyhorn — Challenge from the Darkness #111 — $184

1. Rhyhorn — Jungle #111 — $201

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. Rhyhorn — Supreme Victors #122 — $106

9. Rhyhorn [Reverse Holo] — Generations #49 — $150

8. Blaine’s Rhyhorn [1st Edition] — Gym Challenge #65 — $158

7. Rhyhorn — Skyridge #91 — $167

6. Rhyhorn [1st Edition] — Jungle #61 — $201

5. Rhyhorn [Reverse Holo] — Supreme Victors #122 — $281

4. Rhyhorn [Reverse Holo] — Hidden Legends #70 — $434

3. Rhyhorn [Reverse Holo] — Skyridge #91 — $468

2. Rhyhorn [Reverse Holo] — Emerald #62 — $1,825

1. Rhyhorn [Reverse Holo] — Legendary Collection #90 — $2,766

Ranks 11 and beyond

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

• Brock’s Rhyhorn [1st Edition] — Gym Heroes #22 — $103
• Rhyhorn — Jungle #61 — $87
• Blaine’s Rhyhorn — Gym Challenge #65 — $83
• Brock’s Rhyhorn [1st Edition] — Gym Heroes #70 — $74
• Rhyhorn — Base Set 2 #90 — $65
• Rhyhorn — McDonalds 2015 #8 — $64
• Rhyhorn — Hidden Legends #70 — $63
• Brock’s Rhyhorn — Gym Heroes #22 — $61
• Rhyhorn — Emerald #62 — $49
• Rhyhorn — Legendary Collection #90 — $38
• Rhyhorn [Reverse Holo] — Primal Clash #74 — $35
• Rhyhorn — Primal Clash #74 — $34
• Rhyhorn — Generations #49 — $34
• Rhyhorn [Reverse Holo] — Burning Shadows #65 — $33
• Rhyhorn — XY #60 — $33
• Rhyhorn — Unbroken Bonds #93 — $32
• Rhyhorn [Reverse Holo] — Unbroken Bonds #92 — $32
• Rhyhorn — Burning Shadows #65 — $32
• Rhyhorn [Reverse Holo] — Unbroken Bonds #93 — $32
• Rhyhorn — Unbroken Bonds #92 — $31
• Rhyhorn [Reverse Holo] — Lost Origin #89 — $31
• Rhyhorn — Lost Origin #89 — $31
• Rhyhorn — Stellar Crown #74 — $30
• Rhyhorn [Reverse Holo] — Stellar Crown #74 — $29
• Brock’s Rhyhorn — Gym Heroes #70 — $27

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

Where Rhyhorn is printed, across the languages

Printing line	Cards	With a tracked value	Highest
Simplified Chinese — exclusive sets	1	1	$38
Japanese	10	10	$201
English	35	35	$2,766
All 3 lines	46	46	—

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	$38	100.0%
Ranked 5 – 10	0	$0	0.0%
Ranked 11 and below	0	$0	0.0%
Every priced Chinese-exclusive card	1	$38	100%

If you want one card

One card, no budget limit:

Rhyhorn #111 — 151C #111. $38, and it is the card most lists for this character name first.

One card, under two hundred dollars:

Rhyhorn #111 — 151C #111. $38. 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 Rhyhorn card in Simplified Chinese?

Among the Chinese-exclusive numbered sets, Rhyhorn #111 carries the highest tracked value at $38. Promos and other non-C numbered printings sit outside that comparison.

How many Rhyhorn 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 Rhyhorn card leads the Japanese list?

Rhyhorn #111 from Jungle at $201. Japanese is the original printing line, so its top of the list reaches back further than either Chinese or English.

Which Rhyhorn card leads the English list?

Rhyhorn [Reverse Holo] #90 from Legendary Collection at $2,766.

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

Rhyhorn 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 Rhyhorn 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 Onix cards printed in the Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines. Onix [Reverse Holo] leads at $4,850 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.

Onix appears on 1 Chinese-exclusive printings, 1 further Simplified Chinese printings, 22 Japanese, 4 Korean and 54 English numbered Pokémon cards, and this page covers every language the character was printed in — Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines.

Onix 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 Onix #95 (151C) at $38. 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. Onix — 151C #95 — $38

This line only yields 1 priced printings for Onix. Another 5 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.

• Onix — Promo #86/SV-P — $77

A further 1 Simplified Chinese printings of Onix 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. Onix [1st Edition] — Reviving Legends #30 — $105

9. Onix [1st Edition] — Intense Fight in the Destroyed Sky #53 — $109

8. Onix — Rocket Gang Strikes Back #46 — $113†

7. Onix [1st Edition] — Wind from the Sea #56 — $140

6. Onix — Golden Sky, Silvery Ocean #69 — $140

5. Onix — Wind from the Sea #56 — $146

4. Onix [1st Edition] — Magma vs Aqua #49 — $182

3. Onix — Expansion Pack #95 — $198

2. Onix [No Rarity] — Expansion Pack #95 — $1,206

1. Onix [Series II] — Vending #95 — $3,346†

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.

• Onix — Gold, Silver, New World #95 — $91
• Onix — Flight of Legends #61 — $90
• Onix — Reviving Legends #30 — $82
• Onix [1st Edition] — 20th Anniversary #59 — $73
• Onix — Magma vs Aqua #49 — $68
• Onix — Thunderclap Spark #34 — $54
• Onix — Steelix Constructed Starter Deck #5 — $46
• Onix — Classic: Venusaur #10 — $45
• Onix — Miracle Twins #43 — $39
• Onix — Storm Emeralda #37 — $37
• Onix — Mega Brave #22 — $36
• Onix — Spiral Force #30 — $27

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. Brock’s Onix [1st Edition] — Gym Heroes #21 — $285

9. Onix — 1998 KFC #95 — $434

8. Onix — Southern Islands #3 — $445

7. Brock’s Onix [1st Edition] — Gym Heroes #69 — $503

6. Onix [Reverse Holo] — Sandstorm #71 — $628

5. Onix [1st Edition] — Base Set #56 — $854

4. Onix [Reverse Holo] — Unseen Forces #65 — $963

3. Onix [Reverse Holo] — Team Rocket Returns #69 — $2,056

2. Onix [Reverse Holo] — Legendary Collection #84 — $2,738

1. Onix [Reverse Holo] — Aquapolis #98 — $4,850

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.

• Onix — Aquapolis #98 — $264
• Onix — Evolutions #61 — $218
• Onix — Sandstorm #71 — $185
• Onix [Shadowless] — Base Set #56 — $185
• Brock’s Onix — Gym Heroes #21 — $181
• Onix [Reverse Holo] — Evolutions #61 — $170
• Onix [1999-2000] — Base Set #56 — $158
• Onix [1st Edition] — Neo Genesis #69 — $132
• Onix — Team Rocket Returns #69 — $122
• Onix — Base Set #56 — $113
• Onix [Reverse Holo] — Unleashed #56 — $82
• Brock’s Onix — Gym Heroes #69 — $82
• Onix — Cosmic Eclipse #105 — $76
• Onix [Reverse Holo] — Stormfront #69 — $75
• Onix — Legendary Collection #84 — $67
• Onix — Base Set 2 #84 — $64
• Onix GX — Hidden Fates #36 — $60
• Onix [Reverse Holo] — Unleashed #57 — $56
• Onix — Unleashed #56 — $52
• Onix — McDonalds 2019 #9 — $52
• Onix — TCG Classic: Venusaur Deck #10 — $49
• Onix [Reverse Holo] — Go #36 — $45
• Onix [Reverse Holo] — Lost Thunder #109 — $45
• Onix — Unleashed #57 — $45
• Onix [Reverse Holo] — Plasma Freeze #61 — $43
• Onix — Unseen Forces #65 — $41
• Onix — Paradox Rift #90 — $40
• Onix — Stormfront #69 — $39
• Onix — Plasma Freeze #61 — $38
• Onix — Lost Thunder #109 — $35

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

Where Onix is printed, across the languages

Printing line	Cards	With a tracked value	Highest
Simplified Chinese — exclusive sets	1	1	$38
Simplified Chinese — other printings	1	1	$77
Japanese	22	22	$3,346
English	54	54	$4,850
All 4 lines	78	78	—

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	$38	100.0%
Ranked 5 – 10	0	$0	0.0%
Ranked 11 and below	0	$0	0.0%
Every priced Chinese-exclusive card	1	$38	100%

If you want one card

One card, no budget limit:

Onix #95 — 151C #95. $38, and it is the card most lists for this character name first.

One card, under two hundred dollars:

Onix #95 — 151C #95. $38. 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 Onix card in Simplified Chinese?

Among the Chinese-exclusive numbered sets, Onix #95 carries the highest tracked value at $38. Promos and other non-C numbered printings sit outside that comparison.

How many Onix 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 Onix card leads the Japanese list?

Onix [Series II] #95 from Vending at $3,346. Japanese is the original printing line, so its top of the list reaches back further than either Chinese or English.

Which Onix card leads the English list?

Onix [Reverse Holo] #98 from Aquapolis at $4,850.

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

Onix is printed in more lines than the four 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 an Onix 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 Slowbro cards printed in the Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines. Dark Slowbro [Reverse Holo] leads at $11,897 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.

Slowbro appears on 1 Chinese-exclusive printings, 5 further Simplified Chinese printings, 32 Japanese, 1 Korean and 43 English numbered Pokémon cards, and this page covers every language the character was printed in — Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines.

Slowbro 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 Slowbro #80 (151C) at $38. 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. Slowbro — 151C #80 — $38

This line only yields 1 priced printings for Slowbro. Another 4 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. Slowbro — Wind from the Sea #32 — $600

9. Slowbro [Series III] — Vending #80 — $672

8. Slowbro [1st Edition] — Wind from the Sea #32 — $696

7. Slowbro — Golden Sky, Silvery Ocean #23 — $702

6. Sabrina’s Slowbro — Challenge from the Darkness #80 — $730

5. Dark Slowbro — Rocket Gang #80 — $905

4. Slowbro — Trainers Magazine #5/T — $962

3. Slowbro [1st Edition] — Flight of Legends #45 — $1,276

2. Light Slowbro — Darkness and to Light #80 — $1,350†

1. Slowbro — Promo #29/L-P — $2,528

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.

• Slowbro [1st Edition] — Golden Sky, Silvery Ocean #23 — $592
• Will’s Slowbro — VS #72 — $535
• Dark Slowbro [1st Edition] — Web #28 — $459
• Slowbro — HeartGold Collection #18 — $444
• Slowbro — Mystery of the Fossils #80 — $405
• Dark Slowbro — Web #28 — $255
• M Slowbro EX — Promo #263/XY-P — $195
• Slowbro — Islands Await You #24 — $182
• Slowbro — Flight of Legends #45 — $181
• Slowbro — Rage of the Broken Heavens #14 — $162
• Slowbro Spirit Link — Promo #265/XY-P — $160
• Slowbro ex — Promo #262/XY-P — $111
• Slowbro — Full Metal Wall #12 — $111
• Slowbro — Violet Ex #20 — $101
• Galarian Slowbro — Start Deck 100 #252 — $85
• Slowbro — Dark Rush #17 — $72
• Slowbro — Shiny Treasure ex #220 — $70
• Slowbro — Go #20 — $54
• Mega Slowbro ex [Gym] — Promo #71/M-P — $50
• Slowbro — Shiny Treasure ex #37 — $35
• Slowbro — Abyss Eye #87 — $32
• Slowbro — Abyss Eye #29 — $22

And 2 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. Slowbro — Aquapolis #33 — $674

9. Light Slowbro — Neo Destiny #51 — $700

8. Slowbro [Reverse Holo] — Guardians Rising #49 — $900

7. Light Slowbro [1st Edition] — Neo Destiny #51 — $1,400

6. Dark Slowbro — Team Rocket #12 — $1,447

5. Dark Slowbro — Legendary Collection #8 — $1,544

4. Slowbro [Reverse Holo] — Unseen Forces #13 — $2,355

3. Dark Slowbro [1st Edition] — Team Rocket #12 — $3,626

2. Slowbro [Reverse Holo] — Aquapolis #33 — $3,818

1. Dark Slowbro [Reverse Holo] — Legendary Collection #8 — $11,897

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.

• Slowbro [Reverse Holo] — Dark Explorers #24 — $660
• Sabrina’s Slowbro [1st Edition] — Gym Heroes #60 — $560
• Slowbro — Unseen Forces #13 — $507
• Slowbro [1st Edition] — Fossil #43 — $492
• Slowbro [Reverse Holo] — Great Encounters #54 — $395
• Dark Slowbro [1st Edition] — Team Rocket #29 — $346
• Slowbro [Reverse Holo] — Undaunted #38 — $326
• Slowbro — Unbroken Bonds #43 — $262
• Slowbro [1999-2000] — Fossil #43 — $238
• Dark Slowbro — Team Rocket #29 — $212
• Slowbro — Fossil #43 — $203
• Slowbro — Paldean Fates #117 — $170
• Slowbro — Undaunted #38 — $156
• Slowbro — Pitch Black #90 — $140
• M Slowbro EX — Evolutions #27 — $138
• Slowbro — Great Encounters #54 — $97
• Sabrina’s Slowbro — Gym Heroes #60 — $82
• Slowbro EX — Evolutions #26 — $71
• Slowbro — Dark Explorers #24 — $57
• Slowbro [Reverse Holo] — Go #20 — $55
• Slowbro Spirit Link [Reverse Holo] — Evolutions #86 — $50
• Slowbro [Reverse Holo] — Unbroken Bonds #43 — $49
• Slowbro [Reverse Holo] — BREAKpoint #20 — $48
• Galarian Slowbro V — Darkness Ablaze #99 — $42
• Slowbro — Guardians Rising #49 — $38
• Slowbro [Reverse Holo] — Pitch Black #30 — $37
• Slowbro — BREAKpoint #20 — $37
• Mega Slowbro ex — Pitch Black #31 — $37
• Slowbro — Go #20 — $36
• Galarian Slowbro [Reverse Holo] — Battle Styles #92 — $35

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

Where Slowbro is printed, across the languages

Printing line	Cards	With a tracked value	Highest
Simplified Chinese — exclusive sets	1	1	$38
Japanese	32	32	$2,528
Korean	1	1	$68
English	43	43	$11,897
All 4 lines	77	77	—

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	$38	100.0%
Ranked 5 – 10	0	$0	0.0%
Ranked 11 and below	0	$0	0.0%
Every priced Chinese-exclusive card	1	$38	100%

If you want one card

One card, no budget limit:

Slowbro #80 — 151C #80. $38, and it is the card most lists for this character name first.

One card, under two hundred dollars:

Slowbro #80 — 151C #80. $38. 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 Slowbro card in Simplified Chinese?

Among the Chinese-exclusive numbered sets, Slowbro #80 carries the highest tracked value at $38. Promos and other non-C numbered printings sit outside that comparison.

How many Slowbro 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 Slowbro card leads the Japanese list?

Slowbro #29/L-P from Promo at $2,528. Japanese is the original printing line, so its top of the list reaches back further than either Chinese or English.

Which Slowbro card leads the English list?

Dark Slowbro [Reverse Holo] #8 from Legendary Collection at $11,897.

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

Slowbro 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.

• Slowbro — Abyss Eye #87 — $68

A further 3 Korean printings of Slowbro 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 Slowbro 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 Metapod cards printed in the Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines. Metapod [Reverse Holo] leads at $3,228 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.

Metapod appears on 1 Chinese-exclusive printings, 1 further Simplified Chinese printings, 1 Traditional Chinese printings, 14 Japanese, 2 Korean and 31 English numbered Pokémon cards, and this page covers every language the character was printed in — Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines.

Metapod carries 1 numbered Chinese-exclusive printings. The head of the list is Metapod #11 (151C) at $38. 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. Metapod — 151C #11 — $38

This line only yields 1 priced printings for Metapod. Another 4 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. Metapod — Collection Sun #2 — $50

9. Metapod — Darkness that Consumes Light #2 — $54

8. Metapod — Crossing the Ruins #11 — $71

7. Metapod — Starter Pack #4 — $80

6. Metapod — SoulSilver Collection #2 — $100

5. Metapod — Flight of Legends #2 — $108

4. Metapod [1st Edition] — Expedition Expansion Pack #33 — $132

3. Metapod — Expansion Pack #11 — $260

2. Metapod [Series 1] — Vending #11 — $535

1. Metapod [No Rarity] — Expansion Pack #11 — $586

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.

• Metapod — Family #2 — $48
• Metapod [1st Edition] — 20th Anniversary #4 — $36
• Metapod — Battle Partners #2 — $32
• Metapod [1st Edition] — Flight of Legends #2 — $14

And 8 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. Metapod [Reverse Holo] — Evolutions #4 — $89

9. Metapod [Reverse Holo] — Great Encounters #47 — $130

8. Metapod [Reverse Holo] — Rebel Clash #2 — $151

7. Metapod [Shadowless] — Base Set #54 — $162

6. Metapod [1999-2000] — Base Set #54 — $172

5. Metapod — Evolutions #4 — $198

4. Metapod [Reverse Holo] — Expedition #87 — $200

3. Metapod — Expedition #87 — $203

2. Metapod [1st Edition] — Base Set #54 — $510

1. Metapod [Reverse Holo] — Legendary Collection #54 — $3,228

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.

• Metapod — Base Set #54 — $86
• Metapod — Base Set 2 #81 — $83
• Metapod — Legendary Collection #54 — $75
• Metapod [1st Edition] — Neo Discovery #42 — $72
• Metapod — Great Encounters #47 — $63
• Metapod — Fusion Strike #2 — $50
• Metapod [Reverse Holo] — Hidden Fates #2 — $49
• Metapod [Reverse Holo] — Flashfire #2 — $43
• Metapod — Neo Discovery #42 — $41
• Metapod [Reverse Holo] — Generations #4 — $39
• Metapod — Rebel Clash #2 — $37
• Metapod — Flashfire #2 — $36
• Metapod — Generations #4 — $34
• Metapod [Reverse Holo] — Burning Shadows #2 — $33
• Metapod — Unbroken Bonds #3 — $32
• Metapod — Burning Shadows #2 — $32
• Metapod [Reverse Holo] — Journey Together #2 — $31
• Metapod — Journey Together #2 — $31
• Metapod [Reverse Holo] — Fusion Strike #2 — $31
• Metapod — Hidden Fates #2 — $16
• Metapod [Reverse Holo] — Unbroken Bonds #3 — $15

Where Metapod is printed, across the languages

Printing line	Cards	With a tracked value	Highest
Simplified Chinese — exclusive sets	1	1	$38
Japanese	14	14	$586
English	31	31	$3,228
All 3 lines	46	46	—

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	$38	100.0%
Ranked 5 – 10	0	$0	0.0%
Ranked 11 and below	0	$0	0.0%
Every priced Chinese-exclusive card	1	$38	100%

If you want one card

One card, no budget limit:

Metapod #11 — 151C #11. $38, and it is the card most lists for this character name first.

One card, under two hundred dollars:

Metapod #11 — 151C #11. $38. 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 Metapod card in Simplified Chinese?

Among the Chinese-exclusive numbered sets, Metapod #11 carries the highest tracked value at $38. Promos and other non-C numbered printings sit outside that comparison.

How many Metapod 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 Metapod card leads the Japanese list?

Metapod [No Rarity] #11 from Expansion Pack at $586. Japanese is the original printing line, so its top of the list reaches back further than either Chinese or English.

Which Metapod card leads the English list?

Metapod [Reverse Holo] #54 from Legendary Collection at $3,228.

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

Metapod 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 Metapod 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 Spearow cards printed in the Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines. Spearow [Reverse Holo] leads at $1,200 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.

Spearow appears on 1 Chinese-exclusive printings, 1 further Simplified Chinese printings, 9 Japanese, 1 Korean and 31 English numbered Pokémon cards, and this page covers every language the character was printed in — Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines.

Spearow carries 1 numbered Chinese-exclusive printings. The head of the list is Spearow #21 (151C) at $38. 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. Spearow — 151C #21 — $38

This line only yields 1 priced printings for Spearow. Another 2 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.

9. Spearow — Mega Brave #74 — $32

8. Spearow — Mega Brave #52 — $37

7. Spearow [1st Edition] — Phantom Gate #66 — $50

6. Spearow — HeartGold Collection #47 — $68

5. Spearow — Squirtle Deck #13 — $110

4. Spearow [1st Edition] — Expedition Expansion Pack #27 — $128

3. Spearow — Expedition Expansion Pack #27 — $175

2. Spearow — Jungle #21 — $193

1. Spearow [Series II] — Vending #21 — $660

This line only yields 9 priced printings for Spearow. Another 11 numbered printings in this line carry no graded sold record yet and are therefore not ranked.

The English list

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

10. Spearow — Expedition #130 — $104

9. Spearow — Legendary Collection #94 — $130

8. Spearow — Crystal Guardians #61 — $132

7. Spearow [Stamped Holo] — Crystal Guardians #61 — $150

6. Lt. Surge’s Spearow [1st Edition] — Gym Heroes #83 — $165

5. Spearow [1st Edition] — Jungle #62 — $190

4. Spearow — Base Set 2 #92 — $199

3. Spearow [Reverse Holo] — Sandstorm #81 — $526

2. Spearow [Reverse Holo] — Expedition #130 — $750

1. Spearow [Reverse Holo] — Legendary Collection #94 — $1,200

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.

• Spearow [Reverse Holo] — Unleashed #62 — $91
• Spearow [Reverse Holo] — Majestic Dawn #74 — $80
• Lt. Surge’s Spearow [1st Edition] — Gym Heroes #52 — $75
• Spearow [Stamped Reverse Holo] — Crystal Guardians #61 — $70
• Spearow — Sandstorm #81 — $69
• Lt. Surge’s Spearow — Gym Heroes #52 — $63
• Spearow [Reverse Holo] — Roaring Skies #65 — $60
• Spearow — Jungle #62 — $57
• Spearow — Mega Evolution #151 — $48
• Spearow — Unleashed #62 — $40
• Spearow — Mega Evolution #102 — $40
• Spearow — Majestic Dawn #74 — $37
• Spearow [Reverse Holo] — Phantom Forces #78 — $36
• Spearow — Battle Styles #111 — $35
• Spearow — Roaring Skies #65 — $35
• Spearow — Phantom Forces #78 — $33
• Spearow [Reverse Holo] — Unbroken Bonds #145 — $32
• Spearow — Unbroken Bonds #145 — $31
• Spearow [Reverse Holo] — Battle Styles #111 — $31
• Lt. Surge’s Spearow — Gym Heroes #83 — $27
• Spearow [Reverse Holo] — Mega Evolution #102 — $22

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

Where Spearow is printed, across the languages

Printing line	Cards	With a tracked value	Highest
Simplified Chinese — exclusive sets	1	1	$38
Japanese	9	9	$660
Korean	1	1	$43
English	31	31	$1,200
All 4 lines	42	42	—

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	$38	100.0%
Ranked 5 – 10	0	$0	0.0%
Ranked 11 and below	0	$0	0.0%
Every priced Chinese-exclusive card	1	$38	100%

If you want one card

One card, no budget limit:

Spearow #21 — 151C #21. $38, and it is the card most lists for this character name first.

One card, under two hundred dollars:

Spearow #21 — 151C #21. $38. 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 Spearow card in Simplified Chinese?

Among the Chinese-exclusive numbered sets, Spearow #21 carries the highest tracked value at $38. Promos and other non-C numbered printings sit outside that comparison.

How many Spearow 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 Spearow card leads the Japanese list?

Spearow [Series II] #21 from Vending at $660. Japanese is the original printing line, so its top of the list reaches back further than either Chinese or English.

Which Spearow card leads the English list?

Spearow [Reverse Holo] #94 from Legendary Collection at $1,200.

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

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

What do the marks next to some prices mean?

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

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

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

The other printing lines

Spearow 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.

• Spearow — Mega Brave #74 — $43

A further 2 Korean printings of Spearow 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 Spearow 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 Cloyster cards printed in the Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines. Cloyster leads at $1,975 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.

Cloyster appears on 1 Chinese-exclusive printings, 1 further Simplified Chinese printings, 10 Japanese, 1 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.

Cloyster carries 1 numbered Chinese-exclusive printings. The head of the list is Cloyster #91 (151C) at $38. 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. Cloyster — 151C #91 — $38

This line only yields 1 priced printings for Cloyster. Another 3 numbered printings in this line carry no graded sold record yet and are therefore not ranked.

The Japanese list

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

10. Cloyster — Starter Pack #76 — $22

9. Cloyster — Rage of the Broken Heavens #17 — $65

8. Cloyster — Offense and Defense (PCG7) #39 — $110

7. Pryce’s Cloyster — VS #40 — $139

6. Cloyster [1st Edition] — Expedition Expansion Pack #78 — $139

5. Cloyster — Flight of Legends #31 — $159

4. Cloyster — Expedition Expansion Pack #110 — $204

3. Cloyster — Mystery of the Fossils #91 — $305

2. Cloyster [1st Edition] — Expedition Expansion Pack #110 — $525

1. Cloyster [1st Edition] — Flight of Legends #31 — $575

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. Cloyster [Reverse Holo] — Secret Wonders #47 — $91

9. Cloyster — Expedition #42 — $122

8. Cloyster — Dragon Frontiers #14 — $124

7. Cloyster — Fossil #32 — $163

6. Cloyster [1st Edition] — Fossil #32 — $266

5. Misty’s Cloyster [1st Edition] — Gym Heroes #29 — $426

4. Cloyster [Reverse Holo] — Expedition #8 — $541

3. Cloyster [Reverse Holo] — Dragon Frontiers #14 — $648

2. Cloyster [Reverse Holo] — Expedition #42 — $800

1. Cloyster — Expedition #8 — $1,975

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.

• Cloyster — Secret Wonders #47 — $52
• Cloyster [Reverse Holo] — XY #32 — $49
• Misty’s Cloyster — Gym Heroes #29 — $47
• Cloyster [Reverse Holo] — BREAKpoint #24 — $43
• Cloyster [Reverse Holo] — Generations #20 — $36
• Cloyster — XY #32 — $36
• Cloyster — Generations #20 — $34
• Cloyster — BREAKpoint #24 — $34
• Cloyster [Reverse Holo] — Fusion Strike #51 — $31
• Cloyster — Fusion Strike #51 — $31

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

Where Cloyster is printed, across the languages

Printing line	Cards	With a tracked value	Highest
Simplified Chinese — exclusive sets	1	1	$38
Japanese	10	10	$575
English	20	20	$1,975
All 3 lines	31	31	—

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	$38	100.0%
Ranked 5 – 10	0	$0	0.0%
Ranked 11 and below	0	$0	0.0%
Every priced Chinese-exclusive card	1	$38	100%

If you want one card

One card, no budget limit:

Cloyster #91 — 151C #91. $38, and it is the card most lists for this character name first.

One card, under two hundred dollars:

Cloyster #91 — 151C #91. $38. 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 Cloyster card in Simplified Chinese?

Among the Chinese-exclusive numbered sets, Cloyster #91 carries the highest tracked value at $38. Promos and other non-C numbered printings sit outside that comparison.

How many Cloyster 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 Cloyster card leads the Japanese list?

Cloyster [1st Edition] #31 from Flight of Legends at $575. Japanese is the original printing line, so its top of the list reaches back further than either Chinese or English.

Which Cloyster card leads the English list?

Cloyster #8 from Expedition at $1,975.

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

Cloyster 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 Cloyster 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 Rattata cards printed in the Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines. Rattata [Reverse Holo] leads at $3,480 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.

Rattata appears on 1 Chinese-exclusive printings, 1 Traditional Chinese printings, 23 Japanese, 3 Korean and 48 English numbered Pokémon cards, and this page covers every language the character was printed in — Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines.

Rattata 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 Rattata #19 (151C) at $38. 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. Rattata — 151C #19 — $38

This line only yields 1 priced printings for Rattata. Another 3 numbered printings in this line carry no graded sold record yet and are therefore not ranked.

The Japanese list

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

10. Rattata — Split Earth #60 — $105

9. Rattata [1st Edition] — Expedition Expansion Pack #26 — $124

8. Rattata — Black Deck Kit #13 — $131

7. Rattata [1st Edition] — Reviving Legends #54 — $154

6. Rattata — Expedition Expansion Pack #26 — $159

5. Rattata — Expansion Pack #19 — $268

4. Rattata — Rocket Gang #19 — $275†

3. Rattata [Series 1] — Vending #19 — $565

2. Rattata [No Rarity] — Expansion Pack #19 — $990

1. Rattata — Melee Pokemon Scramble #15 — $1,200

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.

• Rattata [1st Edition] — Split Earth #60 — $90
• Rattata [1st Edition] — Advent of Arceus #66 — $81
• Rattata — Reviving Legends #54 — $77
• Rattata — Advent of Arceus #66 — $69
• Rattata — Freeze Bolt #46 — $60
• Rattata [1st Edition] — Freeze Bolt #46 — $53
• Rattata — Classic: Blastoise #15 — $46
• Rattata — Spiral Force #40 — $42
• Rattata — Night Unison #39 — $39
• Rattata — Rocket Gang Strikes Back #53 — $38
• Rattata — Nihil Zero #59 — $36
• Team Rocket’s Rattata — Glory of Team Rocket #76 — $35
• Rattata — Rage of the Broken Heavens #64 — $30

And 10 further printings below those, which carry no tracked value at all.

The English list

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

10. Rattata [Reverse Holo] — Undaunted #64 — $146

9. Team Rocket’s Rattata [Reverse Holo] — Destined Rivals #147 — $150

8. Rattata [Reverse Holo] — Expedition #128 — $205

7. Rattata [1st Edition Gray Stamp] — Base Set #61 — $240

6. Rattata [1st Edition] — Base Set #61 — $472

5. Rattata [Reverse Holo] — Legendary Collection #89 — $937

4. Rattata [Reverse Holo] — Team Rocket Returns #72 — $1,593

3. Rattata [Reverse Holo] — Skyridge #90 — $1,786

2. Rattata — Rumble #15 — $3,405

1. Rattata [Reverse Holo] — Team Rocket Returns #71 — $3,480

Ranks 11 and beyond

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

• Rattata [Shadowless] — Base Set #61 — $138
• Rattata — Legendary Collection #89 — $130
• Rattata — Skyridge #90 — $126
• Rattata [1st Edition] — Team Rocket #66 — $124
• Lt. Surge’s Rattata [1st Edition] — Gym Challenge #85 — $116
• Rattata [1999-2000] — Base Set #61 — $108
• Rattata — Base Set 2 #89 — $100
• Lt. Surge’s Rattata — Gym Heroes #82 — $91
• Rattata — Expedition #128 — $91
• Lt. Surge’s Rattata [1st Edition] — Gym Heroes #82 — $88
• Rattata — Base Set #61 — $85
• Rattata [Reverse Holo] — Secret Wonders #103 — $82
• Rattata — Team Rocket Returns #72 — $80
• Rattata [Reverse Holo] — Evolutions #66 — $75
• Rattata — Team Rocket Returns #71 — $68
• Rattata — Evolutions #66 — $60
• Rattata — Undaunted #64 — $54
• Rattata [Reverse Holo] — Plasma Freeze #87 — $51
• Rattata — Team Rocket #66 — $50
• Rattata — Arceus #73 — $46
• Rattata — Boundaries Crossed #104 — $41
• Rattata — Secret Wonders #103 — $40
• Alolan Rattata [Reverse Holo] — Celestial Storm #84 — $38
• Rattata — Plasma Freeze #87 — $37
• LT. Surge’s Rattata — TCG Classic: Blastoise Deck #15 — $35
• Rattata [Reverse Holo] — BREAKpoint #87 — $35
• Alolan Rattata [Reverse Holo] — Burning Shadows #81 — $33
• Rattata [Reverse Holo] — Perfect Order #60 — $33
• Alolan Rattata — Celestial Storm #84 — $33
• Rattata — BREAKpoint #87 — $32

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

Where Rattata is printed, across the languages

Printing line	Cards	With a tracked value	Highest
Simplified Chinese — exclusive sets	1	1	$38
Japanese	23	23	$1,200
English	48	48	$3,480
All 3 lines	72	72	—

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	$38	100.0%
Ranked 5 – 10	0	$0	0.0%
Ranked 11 and below	0	$0	0.0%
Every priced Chinese-exclusive card	1	$38	100%

If you want one card

One card, no budget limit:

Rattata #19 — 151C #19. $38, and it is the card most lists for this character name first.

One card, under two hundred dollars:

Rattata #19 — 151C #19. $38. 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 Rattata card in Simplified Chinese?

Among the Chinese-exclusive numbered sets, Rattata #19 carries the highest tracked value at $38. Promos and other non-C numbered printings sit outside that comparison.

How many Rattata 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 Rattata card leads the Japanese list?

Rattata #15 from Melee Pokemon Scramble at $1,200. Japanese is the original printing line, so its top of the list reaches back further than either Chinese or English.

Which Rattata card leads the English list?

Rattata [Reverse Holo] #71 from Team Rocket Returns at $3,480.

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

Rattata 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 Rattata 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 Diglett cards printed in the Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines. Diglett leads at $4,075 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.

Diglett appears on 1 Chinese-exclusive printings, 3 further Simplified Chinese printings, 1 Traditional Chinese printings, 27 Japanese, 8 Korean and 51 English numbered Pokémon cards, and this page covers every language the character was printed in — Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines.

Diglett 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 Diglett #50 (151C) at $38. 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. Diglett — 151C #50 — $38

This line only yields 1 priced printings for Diglett. Another 4 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. Diglett — Expedition Expansion Pack #20 — $176

9. Diglett [1st Edition] — Mysterious Mountains #48 — $181

8. Diglett — Starter Pack #28 — $208

7. Diglett [1st Edition] — Web #13 — $239

6. Diglett — Rocket Gang #50 — $274

5. Diglett — Expansion Pack #50 — $280

4. Diglett — Mysterious Mountains #48 — $288

3. Diglett — Promo #50 — $290

2. Diglett — Melee Pokemon Scramble #11 — $750

1. Diglett [No Rarity] — Expansion Pack #50 — $1,564

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.

• Diglett — Lost Link #23 — $174
• Diglett [1st Edition] — Expedition Expansion Pack #20 — $150
• Team Rocket’s Diglett — Mega Dream ex #82 — $100
• Diglett — Squirtle Deck #2 — $97
• Alolan Diglett — GX Ultra Shiny #76 — $85
• Diglett — Miracle Crystal #42 — $80
• Diglett — Web #13 — $79
• Diglett [1st Edition] — 20th Anniversary #53 — $61
• Diglett [1st Edition] — Collection Y #29 — $55
• Diglett — Collection Y #29 — $52
• Diglett — Flight of Legends #57 — $45
• Alolan Diglett [Reverse Holo] — Tag All Stars #84 — $43
• Alolan Diglett — Thunderclap Spark #35 — $40
• Diglett — Double Blaze #43 — $39
• Team Rocket’s Diglett [Energy] — Mega Dream ex #82 — $39
• Alolan Diglett — Tag All Stars #84 — $35
• Team Rocket’s Diglett [Reverse Holo] — Mega Dream ex #82 — $21

And 12 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. Diglett [1st Edition] — Team Rocket #52 — $185

9. Diglett [Reverse Holo] — Crystal Guardians #50 — $200

8. Diglett [Fight Symbol Error] — Base Set #47 — $225

7. Diglett — Skyridge #50 — $250

6. Diglett — Crystal Guardians #50 — $306

5. Diglett [1st Edition] — Base Set #47 — $483

4. Diglett [Reverse Holo] — Expedition #106 — $491

3. Diglett [Reverse Holo] — Generations #38 — $540†

2. Diglett [Reverse Holo] — Skyridge #50 — $624

1. Diglett — Rumble #11 — $4,075

Ranks 11 and beyond

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

• Brock’s Diglett [1st Edition] — Gym Challenge #67 — $165
• Diglett — Expedition #106 — $151
• Diglett [Shadowless] — Base Set #47 — $135
• Diglett [1999-2000] — Base Set #47 — $116
• Brock’s Diglett — Gym Challenge #67 — $110
• Diglett [Reverse Holo] — Triumphant #61 — $106
• Diglett [Reverse Holo] — Platinum #72 — $103
• Diglett [Reverse Holo] — Evolutions #55 — $102
• Diglett — Base Set #47 — $101
• Diglett — Evolutions #55 — $91
• Diglett [Reverse Holo] — Secret Wonders #85 — $91
• Diglett — XY #58 — $85
• Diglett — Team Rocket #52 — $72
• Diglett — Base Set 2 #71 — $66
• Alolan Diglett — McDonalds 2017 #9 — $55
• Diglett — Secret Wonders #85 — $50
• Diglett [Reverse Holo] — Fates Collide #36 — $50
• Diglett [Reverse Holo] — XY #58 — $48
• Diglett — Triumphant #61 — $44
• Diglett — Platinum #72 — $40
• Diglett — Generations #38 — $39
• Team Rocket’s Diglett [Reverse Holo] — Ascended Heroes #100 — $37
• Team Rocket’s Diglett [Energy] — Ascended Heroes #100 — $37
• Alolan Diglett — Surging Sparks #122 — $36
• Alolan Diglett [Reverse Holo] — Ultra Prism #78 — $33
• Diglett — Unbroken Bonds #85 — $33
• Alolan Diglett [Reverse Holo] — Lost Thunder #122 — $33
• Diglett — Fates Collide #36 — $33
• Alolan Diglett — Ultra Prism #78 — $33
• Diglett [Reverse Holo] — Unbroken Bonds #85 — $33

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

Where Diglett is printed, across the languages

Printing line	Cards	With a tracked value	Highest
Simplified Chinese — exclusive sets	1	1	$38
Japanese	27	27	$1,564
English	51	51	$4,075
All 3 lines	79	79	—

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	$38	100.0%
Ranked 5 – 10	0	$0	0.0%
Ranked 11 and below	0	$0	0.0%
Every priced Chinese-exclusive card	1	$38	100%

If you want one card

One card, no budget limit:

Diglett #50 — 151C #50. $38, and it is the card most lists for this character name first.

One card, under two hundred dollars:

Diglett #50 — 151C #50. $38. 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 Diglett card in Simplified Chinese?

Among the Chinese-exclusive numbered sets, Diglett #50 carries the highest tracked value at $38. Promos and other non-C numbered printings sit outside that comparison.

How many Diglett 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 Diglett card leads the Japanese list?

Diglett [No Rarity] #50 from Expansion Pack at $1,564. Japanese is the original printing line, so its top of the list reaches back further than either Chinese or English.

Which Diglett card leads the English list?

Diglett #11 from Rumble at $4,075.

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

Diglett 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 Diglett 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 Voltorb cards printed in the Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines. Voltorb [Reverse Holo] leads at $6,125 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.

Voltorb appears on 1 Chinese-exclusive printings, 4 further Simplified Chinese printings, 32 Japanese, 1 Korean and 71 English numbered Pokémon cards, and this page covers every language the character was printed in — Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines.

Voltorb 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 Voltorb #164 (151C) at $41. 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. Voltorb — 151C #164 — $41

This line only yields 1 priced printings for Voltorb. Another 8 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. Voltorb [1st Edition] — Undone Seal #40 — $130

9. Voltorb [1st Edition] — The Town on No Map #34 — $133

8. Voltorb [1st Edition] — Web #11 — $169

7. Voltorb — The Town on No Map #34 — $170

6. Voltorb [1st Edition] — Mysterious Mountains #39 — $170

5. Voltorb — Expansion Pack #100 — $240

4. Voltorb [No Rarity] — Expansion Pack #100 — $472

3. Voltorb — Intense Fight in the Destroyed Sky #28 — $549

2. Voltorb [1st Edition] — Intense Fight in the Destroyed Sky #28 — $742

1. Voltorb [Series II] — Vending #100 — $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.

• Voltorb — Mysterious Mountains #39 — $124
• Voltorb — Web #11 — $121
• Voltorb — Rocket Gang #100 — $109
• Voltorb [1st Edition] — The Town on No Map #33 — $99
• Voltorb — Undone Seal #40 — $96
• Voltorb — GX Ultra Shiny #173 — $60
• Voltorb [1st Edition] — Thunder Knuckle #17 — $56
• Voltorb — The Town on No Map #33 — $54
• Voltorb [1st Edition] — Clash at the Summit #25 — $53
• Voltorb — Rocket Gang Strikes Back #35 — $41
• Voltorb — Eevee Heroes #28 — $38
• Hisuian Voltorb — VSTAR Universe #3 — $36
• Hisuian Voltorb — VSTAR Universe #173 — $36
• Voltorb — VMAX Climax #47 — $36
• Voltorb — Classic: Charizard #10 — $36
• Voltorb ex — Start Deck 100 #233 — $35
• Iono’s Voltorb — Battle Partners #26 — $33
• Voltorb — Shiny Treasure ex #238 — $33
• Voltorb [1st Edition] — 20th Anniversary #37 — $29
• Voltorb — Champion Road #21 — $22
• Hisuian Voltorb [Reverse Holo] — VSTAR Universe #3 — $22
• Voltorb — Shiny Treasure ex #57 — $22

And 25 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. Voltorb [Reverse Holo] — Hidden Legends #80 — $325

9. Voltorb [Reverse Holo] — Legend Maker #68 — $335

8. Voltorb [Reverse Holo] — Roaring Skies #21 — $350†

7. Voltorb [Reverse Holo] — Aquapolis #115 — $412

6. Voltorb [1st Edition] — Base Set #67 — $474

5. Holon’s Voltorb [Reverse Holo] — Delta Species #71 — $483

4. Voltorb [Reverse Holo] — Aquapolis #64 — $760

3. Voltorb [Reverse Holo] — Emerald #71 — $1,436

2. Voltorb [Reverse Holo] — Team Rocket Returns #80 — $1,633

1. Voltorb [Reverse Holo] — Legendary Collection #97 — $6,125

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.

• Voltorb [Shadowless] — Base Set #67 — $290
• Voltorb — Aquapolis #64 — $202
• Voltorb — Base Set #67 — $200
• Voltorb — Paldean Fates #133 — $199
• Voltorb — Skyridge #113 — $180
• Voltorb [Reverse Holo] — Skyridge #113 — $164
• Voltorb [1999-2000] — Base Set #67 — $150
• Voltorb — Aquapolis #115 — $145
• Voltorb — Legendary Collection #97 — $145
• Voltorb — Base Set 2 #98 — $140
• Voltorb — Shining Legends #30 — $136
• Voltorb — Fusion Strike #87 — $125
• Lt. Surge’s Voltorb [1st Edition] — Gym Challenge #86 — $119
• Voltorb [1st Edition] — Team Rocket #69 — $114
• Iono’s Voltorb [Cosmos Holo Prize Pack] — Journey Together #47 — $110
• Voltorb — Team Rocket Returns #80 — $102
• Lt. Surge’s Voltorb — Gym Challenge #86 — $92
• Voltorb [Reverse Holo] — Evolutions #39 — $83
• Voltorb [Reverse Holo] — Stormfront #81 — $83
• Voltorb [Reverse Holo] — Triumphant #83 — $80
• Lt. Surge’s Voltorb [1st Edition] — Gym Heroes #84 — $77
• Voltorb [Reverse Holo] — Secret Wonders #117 — $77
• Voltorb [Reverse Holo] — Stormfront #80 — $77
• Lt. Surge’s Voltorb — Gym Heroes #84 — $76
• Voltorb [Reverse Holo] — Shining Legends #30 — $68
• Voltorb — Team Rocket #69 — $66
• Holon’s Voltorb — Delta Species #71 — $54
• Voltorb — Hidden Legends #80 — $54
• Voltorb — Vivid Voltage #45 — $50
• Voltorb — Secret Wonders #117 — $50

And 19 further printings below those, which carry no tracked value at all.

Where Voltorb is printed, across the languages

Printing line	Cards	With a tracked value	Highest
Simplified Chinese — exclusive sets	1	1	$41
Japanese	32	32	$750
Korean	1	1	$42
English	71	71	$6,125
All 4 lines	105	105	—

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	$41	100.0%
Ranked 5 – 10	0	$0	0.0%
Ranked 11 and below	0	$0	0.0%
Every priced Chinese-exclusive card	1	$41	100%

If you want one card

One card, no budget limit:

Voltorb #164 — 151C #164. $41, and it is the card most lists for this character name first.

One card, under two hundred dollars:

Voltorb #164 — 151C #164. $41. 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 Voltorb card in Simplified Chinese?

Among the Chinese-exclusive numbered sets, Voltorb #164 carries the highest tracked value at $41. Promos and other non-C numbered printings sit outside that comparison.

How many Voltorb 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 Voltorb card leads the Japanese list?

Voltorb [Series II] #100 from Vending at $750. Japanese is the original printing line, so its top of the list reaches back further than either Chinese or English.

Which Voltorb card leads the English list?

Voltorb [Reverse Holo] #97 from Legendary Collection at $6,125.

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

Voltorb 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.

• Hisuian Voltorb — VSTAR Universe #173 — $42

A further 5 Korean printings of Voltorb 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 Voltorb 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.