Category: Pokémon

Quick answer

CardSpicy (cardspicy.com) ranks the most valuable Golem cards printed in the Simplified Chinese, Japanese and English lines. Golem leads at $8,070 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.

Golem appears on 2 Chinese-exclusive printings, 21 Japanese and 43 English numbered Pokémon cards, and this page covers every language the character was printed in — Simplified Chinese, Japanese and English lines.

Golem carries 2 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 Golem EX #76 (151C) at $55. Everything below is arranged by what each card actually trades for, so the page reads the same way whoever is reading it — the Chinese lines come first, and only the numbers change.

How this list was built

Four rules, applied in this order.

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

The Simplified Chinese list — Chinese-exclusive sets

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

2. Golem EX — 151C #181 — $42

1. Golem EX — 151C #76 — $55

This line only yields 2 priced printings for Golem. 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.

10. Golem — Expedition Expansion Pack #122 — $134

9. Golem [1st Edition] — Rulers of the Heavens #34 — $194

8. Golem [1st Edition] — Expedition Expansion Pack #90 — $226

7. Golem — Mystery of the Fossils #76 — $247

6. Golem [1st Edition] — Expedition Expansion Pack #122 — $520

5. Golem — Vending #76 — $948†

4. Golem ex [1st Edition] — Magma vs Aqua #48 — $1,305†

3. Golem — Split Earth #89 — $2,613

2. Golem [Masaki] — Vending #76 — $3,501

1. Golem [1st Edition] — Split Earth #89 — $5,249

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.

• Golem [1st Edition] — Mirage Forest #52 — $117
• Golem ex — Magma vs Aqua #48 — $105
• Golem EX — Promo #197/XY-P — $104
• Golem — Rulers of the Heavens #34 — $100
• Golem — Advent of Arceus #48 — $77
• Golem — Mirage Forest #52 — $74
• Golem — Starter Pack #35 — $69
• Golem — Expedition Expansion Pack #90 — $45
• Alolan Golem GX — Awakened Heroes #51 — $39
• Golem — Full Metal Wall #25 — $35
• Alolan Golem GX — Awakened Heroes #18 — $29

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. Brock’s Golem [1st Edition] — Gym Heroes #20 — $468

9. Golem [Reverse Holo] — Dragon #5 — $531

8. Golem [Reverse Holo] — Expedition #14 — $720

7. Golem — Dragon #5 — $878

6. Golem [Reverse Holo] — Legendary Collection #24 — $993

5. Golem EX — Dragon #91 — $1,429

4. Golem [Reverse Holo] — Legend Maker #6 — $1,500

3. Golem — Expedition #14 — $2,449

2. Golem [Reverse Holo] — Skyridge #148 — $2,464

1. Golem — Skyridge #148 — $8,070

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.

• Golem [1st Edition] — Fossil #36 — $412
• Golem — Arceus #19 — $300
• Golem — Fossil #36 — $237
• Golem — Legend Maker #6 — $235
• Golem — Expedition #49 — $179
• Golem [Reverse Holo] — Expedition #49 — $159
• Golem [Reverse Holo] — Secret Wonders #29 — $156
• Golem EX — Generations #46 — $154
• Alolan Golem GX — Crimson Invasion #113 — $135
• Golem [Reverse Holo] — Rising Rivals #23 — $127
• Golem [Reverse Holo] — Arceus #19 — $110
• Golem — Legendary Collection #24 — $98
• Golem — Rising Rivals #23 — $90
• Brock’s Golem — Gym Heroes #20 — $90
• Golem [Reverse Holo] — Hidden Fates #35 — $78
• Alolan Golem GX — Crimson Invasion #102 — $73
• Golem — Secret Wonders #29 — $70
• Alolan Golem — Guardians Rising #42 — $62
• Alolan Golem GX — Crimson Invasion #34 — $57
• Golem — Generations #45 — $45
• Golem [Reverse Holo] — Generations #45 — $44
• Alolan Golem [Reverse Holo] — Team Up #37 — $37
• Golem — Flashfire #47 — $37
• Alolan Golem — Team Up #37 — $34
• Golem — Unbroken Bonds #89 — $34
• Golem [Reverse Holo] — Fusion Strike #137 — $32
• Alolan Golem [Reverse Holo] — Journey Together #46 — $32
• Golem — Fusion Strike #137 — $31
• Alolan Golem — Journey Together #46 — $31
• Alolan Golem [Reverse Holo] — Guardians Rising #42 — $30

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

Where Golem is printed, across the languages

Printing line	Cards	With a tracked value	Highest
Simplified Chinese — exclusive sets	2	2	$55
Japanese	21	21	$5,249
English	43	43	$8,070
All 3 lines	66	66	—

What the ranking shows

On the Chinese-exclusive line, 2 cards carry a tracked value. The four at the top hold 100.0% of it.

Band	Cards	Combined value	Share of total
Ranked 1 – 4	2	$97	100.0%
Ranked 5 – 10	0	$0	0.0%
Ranked 11 and below	0	$0	0.0%
Every priced Chinese-exclusive card	2	$97	100%

If you want one card

One card, no budget limit:

Golem EX #76 — 151C #76. $55, and it is the card most lists for this character name first.

One card, under two hundred dollars:

Golem EX #181 — 151C #181. $42. 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 Golem card in Simplified Chinese?

Among the Chinese-exclusive numbered sets, Golem EX #76 carries the highest tracked value at $55. Promos and other non-C numbered printings sit outside that comparison.

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

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

Which Golem card leads the Japanese list?

Golem [1st Edition] #89 from Split Earth at $5,249. Japanese is the original printing line, so its top of the list reaches back further than either Chinese or English.

Which Golem card leads the English list?

Golem #148 from Skyridge at $8,070.

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

Golem 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 Golem 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 Haunter cards printed in the Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines. Haunter [Reverse Holo] leads at $9,000 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.

Haunter appears on 2 Chinese-exclusive printings, 1 further Simplified Chinese printings, 1 Traditional Chinese printings, 40 Japanese, 1 Korean and 62 English numbered Pokémon cards, and this page covers every language the character was printed in — Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines.

Haunter carries 2 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 Haunter #77 (csv5C) at $51. Everything below is arranged by what each card actually trades for, so the page reads the same way whoever is reading it — the Chinese lines come first, and only the numbers change.

How this list was built

Four rules, applied in this order.

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

The Simplified Chinese list — Chinese-exclusive sets

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

2. Haunter — 151C #93 — $39

1. Haunter — csv5C #77 — $51

This line only yields 2 priced printings for Haunter. Another 6 numbered printings in this line carry no graded sold record yet and are therefore not ranked.

The Japanese list

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

10. Sabrina’s Haunter — Yamabuki City Gym #93 — $349

9. Haunter [1st Edition] — Mirage Forest #39 — $363

8. Sabrina’s Haunter — Challenge from the Darkness #93 — $388

7. Haunter — Expansion Pack #93 — $487

6. Haunter [1st Edition] — Mysterious Mountains #42 — $533

5. Haunter [1st Edition] — Expedition Expansion Pack #41 — $549

4. Haunter — Mystery of the Fossils #93 — $1,357

3. Haunter [Series III] — Vending #93 — $1,419

2. Haunter [No Rarity] — Expansion Pack #93 — $1,758

1. Haunter [Series III Kizuki] — Vending #93 — $2,725

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.

• Haunter — Lost Link #14 — $305
• Haunter — Advent of Arceus #41 — $278
• Haunter [1st Edition] — Advent of Arceus #41 — $241
• Haunter — Mysterious Mountains #42 — $213
• Haunter [1st Edition] — Intense Fight in the Destroyed Sky #31 — $175
• Haunter [1st Edition] — Arceus LV.X Deck #5 — $174
• Haunter — Mirage Forest #39 — $150
• Haunter — Intense Fight in the Destroyed Sky #31 — $144
• Haunter [1st Edition] — Blue Shock #23 — $125
• Haunter — Starter Pack #25 — $102
• Haunter — Double Blaze #32 — $101
• Haunter — Flight of Legends #47 — $90
• Haunter — Expedition Expansion Pack #41 — $90
• Haunter [1st Edition] — 20th Anniversary #46 — $72
• Haunter — Shiny Star V #70 — $60
• Haunter — Mega Starter Deck Gengar Ex #22 — $56
• Haunter — Awakened Heroes #21 — $50
• Haunter — Blue Shock #23 — $47
• Haunter [Reverse Holo] — VSTAR Universe #47 — $40
• Haunter — Sword #24 — $39
• Haunter — Start Deck 100 #444 — $38
• Haunter — Start Deck 100 #443 — $38
• Haunter — Jet-Black Spirit #26 — $37
• Haunter — Nihil Zero #48 — $37
• Haunter — Raging Surf #34 — $36
• Haunter — Mega Starter Deck Gengar Ex #2 — $35
• Haunter — Dark Phantasma #22 — $31
• Haunter — Wild Force #46 — $27
• Haunter [Reverse Holo] — Dark Phantasma #22 — $24
• Haunter — VSTAR Universe #47 — $23

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

The English list

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

10. Sabrina’s Haunter [1st Edition] — Gym Heroes #58 — $1,480

9. Haunter [1st Edition] — Base Set #29 — $1,499

8. Dark Haunter [1st Edition] — Neo Destiny #36 — $1,550

7. Haunter [Reverse Holo] — Arceus #41 — $1,800†

6. Haunter [Reverse Holo] — Expedition #80 — $2,137

5. Haunter — Legendary Collection #46 — $2,793

4. Haunter [1st Edition] — Fossil #6 — $3,210

3. Haunter [Reverse Holo] — Legend Maker #35 — $4,849

2. Haunter [Incomplete Holo Error] — Fossil #6 — $6,714

1. Haunter [Reverse Holo] — Legendary Collection #46 — $9,000

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.

• Haunter — Fossil #6 — $1,426
• Haunter — Promo #27 — $1,096
• Haunter [Reverse Holo] — Skyridge #63 — $905
• Haunter [1st Edition] — Fossil #21 — $900
• Sabrina’s Haunter [1st Edition] — Gym Challenge #55 — $900
• Haunter [Reverse Holo] — Triumphant #35 — $650
• Haunter [Shadowless] — Base Set #29 — $443
• Haunter — Skyridge #63 — $441
• Haunter [Reverse Holo] — Evolutions #48 — $412
• Dark Haunter — Neo Destiny #36 — $310
• Haunter — Arceus #42 — $306
• Haunter — Fossil #21 — $305
• Haunter [Reverse Holo] — Stormfront #40 — $301
• Haunter — Expedition #80 — $286
• Haunter [Reverse Holo] — Arceus #42 — $284
• Haunter — Triumphant #35 — $231
• Haunter [Reverse Holo] — BREAKthrough #59 — $210
• Haunter — Stormfront #40 — $197
• Haunter — Base Set #29 — $180
• Haunter [Reverse Holo] — Generations #34 — $175
• Haunter — Generations #34 — $164
• Haunter — Arceus #41 — $161
• Haunter — Legend Maker #35 — $142
• Haunter — Trick or Trade 2022 #56 — $139
• Haunter — Trick or Trade 2024 #103 — $125
• Haunter [1999-2000] — Base Set #29 — $100
• Haunter — Base Set 2 #43 — $100
• Sabrina’s Haunter — Gym Heroes #58 — $94
• Haunter [Reverse Holo] — Unbroken Bonds #69 — $89
• Haunter [Reverse Holo] — Chilling Reign #56 — $85

And 8 further printings below those, which carry no tracked value at all.

Where Haunter is printed, across the languages

Printing line	Cards	With a tracked value	Highest
Simplified Chinese — exclusive sets	2	2	$51
Japanese	40	40	$2,725
Korean	1	1	$68
English	62	62	$9,000
All 4 lines	105	105	—

What the ranking shows

On the Chinese-exclusive line, 2 cards carry a tracked value. The four at the top hold 100.0% of it.

Band	Cards	Combined value	Share of total
Ranked 1 – 4	2	$90	100.0%
Ranked 5 – 10	0	$0	0.0%
Ranked 11 and below	0	$0	0.0%
Every priced Chinese-exclusive card	2	$90	100%

If you want one card

One card, no budget limit:

Haunter #77 — csv5C #77. $51, and it is the card most lists for this character name first.

One card, under two hundred dollars:

Haunter #93 — 151C #93. $39. 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 Haunter card in Simplified Chinese?

Among the Chinese-exclusive numbered sets, Haunter #77 carries the highest tracked value at $51. Promos and other non-C numbered printings sit outside that comparison.

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

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

Which Haunter card leads the Japanese list?

Haunter [Series III Kizuki] #93 from Vending at $2,725. Japanese is the original printing line, so its top of the list reaches back further than either Chinese or English.

Which Haunter card leads the English list?

Haunter [Reverse Holo] #46 from Legendary Collection at $9,000.

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

Haunter 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.

• Haunter [Reverse Holo] — VSTAR Universe #47 — $68

A further 5 Korean printings of Haunter 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.

Our own stock covers the other end of this line — the Gengar PSA 10 (CBB3C 03/07), the card Haunter evolves into. Our Simplified Chinese slabs 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 Wigglytuff cards printed in the Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines. Wigglytuff EX leads at $5,550 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.

Wigglytuff appears on 2 Chinese-exclusive printings, 8 further Simplified Chinese printings, 26 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.

Wigglytuff carries 2 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 Wigglytuff EX #40 (151C) at $55. Everything below is arranged by what each card actually trades for, so the page reads the same way whoever is reading it — the Chinese lines come first, and only the numbers change.

How this list was built

Four rules, applied in this order.

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

The Simplified Chinese list — Chinese-exclusive sets

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

2. Wigglytuff EX — 151C #179 — $47

1. Wigglytuff EX — 151C #40 — $55

This line only yields 2 priced printings for Wigglytuff. Another 1 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. Wigglytuff — SoulSilver Collection #52 — $178

9. Wigglytuff [1st Edition] — Miracle Crystal #52 — $191

8. Wigglytuff ex — Undone Seal #58 — $214

7. Wigglytuff — Miracle Crystal #52 — $267

6. Whitney’s Wigglytuff — VS #15 — $298

5. Light Wigglytuff — Darkness and to Light #40 — $300

4. Dark Wigglytuff — Darkness and to Light #40 — $414†

3. Wigglytuff ex [1st Edition] — Undone Seal #58 — $490

2. Wigglytuff — Jungle #40 — $605

1. Wigglytuff [Series 1] — Vending #40 — $630

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.

• Wigglytuff [1st Edition] — Mysterious Mountains #60 — $150
• Wigglytuff — Mysterious Mountains #60 — $124
• Wigglytuff — Ultradimensional Beasts #35 — $80
• Wigglytuff — Shiny Treasure ex #252 — $66
• Wigglytuff — Shiny Treasure ex #72 — $66
• Wigglytuff — Double Blaze #63 — $65
• Wigglytuff [1st Edition] — Hail Blizzard #44 — $62
• Wigglytuff [1st Edition] — Awakening Psychic King #53 — $61
• Wigglytuff — Clay Burst #27 — $60
• Wigglytuff — Collection Y #43 — $57
• Wigglytuff GX — Family #32 — $45
• Wigglytuff — Skyscraping Perfection #11 — $39
• Wigglytuff — Inferno X #65 — $37
• Wigglytuff ex — Shiny Treasure ex #141 — $37
• Wigglytuff — Inferno X #91 — $36
• Wigglytuff ex — Shiny Treasure ex #336 — $29

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

The English list

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

10. Light Wigglytuff [1st Edition] — Neo Destiny #54 — $525

9. Wigglytuff [Reverse Holo] — Great Encounters #32 — $565

8. Wigglytuff — Crystal Guardians #13 — $685

7. Wigglytuff [No Symbol] — Jungle #16 — $797

6. Wigglytuff [Reverse Holo] — Skyridge #34 — $1,396

5. Wigglytuff — Next Destinies #79 — $2,617

4. Wigglytuff [Reverse Holo] — Crystal Guardians #13 — $2,905

3. Wigglytuff — Jungle #16 — $3,000

2. Wigglytuff [1st Edition] — Jungle #16 — $3,469

1. Wigglytuff EX — Hidden Legends #101 — $5,550

Ranks 11 and beyond

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

• Dark Wigglytuff [1st Edition] — Neo Destiny #40 — $408
• Wigglytuff [1st Edition] — Jungle #32 — $398
• Wigglytuff — Jungle #32 — $164
• Light Wigglytuff — Neo Destiny #54 — $161
• Wigglytuff — Base Set 2 #19 — $150
• Wigglytuff [Reverse Holo] — Phantasmal Flames #77 — $150
• Wigglytuff — Skyridge #34 — $135
• Wigglytuff — Paldean Fates #147 — $83
• Wigglytuff — Great Encounters #32 — $79
• Wigglytuff ex — Paldean Fates #222 — $70
• Wigglytuff [Reverse Holo] — XY #90 — $69
• Wigglytuff [Reverse Holo] — XY #89 — $67
• Wigglytuff [Reverse Holo] — Next Destinies #79 — $67
• Wigglytuff — Phantasmal Flames #105 — $66
• Wigglytuff [Reverse Holo] — Crimson Invasion #72 — $61
• Wigglytuff GX — Hidden Fates #42 — $61
• Wigglytuff — XY #90 — $60
• Wigglytuff [Reverse Holo] — Fates Collide #66 — $58
• Wigglytuff [Reverse Holo] — Unbroken Bonds #135 — $56
• Wigglytuff — Unbroken Bonds #135 — $54
• Wigglytuff [Reverse Holo] — Lost Thunder #134 — $50
• Wigglytuff — XY #89 — $49
• Dark Wigglytuff — Neo Destiny #40 — $47
• Wigglytuff — Crimson Invasion #72 — $43
• Wigglytuff — Fates Collide #66 — $42
• Wigglytuff [Reverse Holo] — Fusion Strike #111 — $42
• Wigglytuff — Lost Thunder #134 — $37
• Wigglytuff — Fusion Strike #111 — $35
• Wigglytuff — Paldea Evolved #84 — $33
• Wigglytuff — Phantasmal Flames #77 — $31

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

Where Wigglytuff is printed, across the languages

Printing line	Cards	With a tracked value	Highest
Simplified Chinese — exclusive sets	2	2	$55
Japanese	26	26	$630
Korean	1	1	$42
English	43	43	$5,550
All 4 lines	72	72	—

What the ranking shows

On the Chinese-exclusive line, 2 cards carry a tracked value. The four at the top hold 100.0% of it.

Band	Cards	Combined value	Share of total
Ranked 1 – 4	2	$102	100.0%
Ranked 5 – 10	0	$0	0.0%
Ranked 11 and below	0	$0	0.0%
Every priced Chinese-exclusive card	2	$102	100%

If you want one card

One card, no budget limit:

Wigglytuff EX #40 — 151C #40. $55, and it is the card most lists for this character name first.

One card, under two hundred dollars:

Wigglytuff EX #179 — 151C #179. $47. 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 Wigglytuff card in Simplified Chinese?

Among the Chinese-exclusive numbered sets, Wigglytuff EX #40 carries the highest tracked value at $55. Promos and other non-C numbered printings sit outside that comparison.

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

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

Which Wigglytuff card leads the Japanese list?

Wigglytuff [Series 1] #40 from Vending at $630. Japanese is the original printing line, so its top of the list reaches back further than either Chinese or English.

Which Wigglytuff card leads the English list?

Wigglytuff EX #101 from Hidden Legends at $5,550.

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

Wigglytuff 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.

• Wigglytuff — Inferno X #91 — $42

A further 3 Korean printings of Wigglytuff 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 Wigglytuff 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 Ninetales cards printed in the Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines. Ninetales [1st Edition] leads at $22,172 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.

Ninetales appears on 2 Chinese-exclusive printings, 1 further Simplified Chinese printings, 63 Japanese, 1 Korean and 84 English numbered Pokémon cards, and this page covers every language the character was printed in — Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines.

Ninetales carries 2 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 Ninetales EX #38 (151C) at $60. Everything below is arranged by what each card actually trades for, so the page reads the same way whoever is reading it — the Chinese lines come first, and only the numbers change.

How this list was built

Four rules, applied in this order.

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

The Simplified Chinese list — Chinese-exclusive sets

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

2. Ninetales EX — 151C #178 — $50

1. Ninetales EX — 151C #38 — $60

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

Other Simplified Chinese printings

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

• Ninetales — Promo #21/SV-P — $132

A further 2 Simplified Chinese printings of Ninetales 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. Ninetales [1st Edition] — Undone Seal #17 — $1,066

9. Ninetales [1st Edition] — Wind from the Sea #23 — $1,100

8. Ninetales — Expansion Pack #38 — $1,120

7. Ninetales ex [1st Edition] — Undone Seal #18 — $1,289

6. Ninetales — Wind from the Sea #23 — $1,378

5. Ninetales — Melee Pokemon Scramble #3 — $1,690

4. Ninetales ex — Undone Seal #18 — $2,025

3. Ninetales — Offense and Defense (PCG7) #30 — $2,088

2. Ninetales [1st Edition] — Offense and Defense (PCG7) #30 — $3,372†

1. Ninetales [No Rarity] — Expansion Pack #38 — $11,256

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.

• Ninetales [1st Edition] — Expedition Expansion Pack #104 — $715
• Ninetales [1st Edition] — World Champions Pack #10 — $680
• Ninetales — Undone Seal #17 — $570
• Ninetales — Web #34 — $450
• Ninetales — SoulSilver Collection #13 — $422
• Morty’s Ninetales — VS #20 — $399
• Ninetales — World Champions Pack #10 — $355
• Ninetales [1st Edition] — Wind from the Sea #22 — $294
• Ninetales [1st Edition] — Expedition Expansion Pack #72 — $245
• Ninetales [1st Edition] — Web #34 — $230
• Alolan Ninetales GX — Fairy Rise #59 — $193
• Alolan Ninetales [Gym] — Promo #218/SM-P — $190
• Alolan Ninetales [Reverse Holo] — GX Ultra Shiny #89 — $170
• Ninetales [1st Edition] — EX Battle Boost #13 — $164
• Alolan Ninetales GX — Islands Await You #52 — $160
• Ninetales — Wind from the Sea #22 — $154
• Ninetales BREAK [1st Edition] — 20th Anniversary #16 — $139
• Ninetales [1st Edition] — Dragon Blast #10 — $130
• Alolan Ninetales — Promo #389/SM-P — $126
• Ninetales — Battle Starter Decks #2 — $123
• Blaine’s Ninetales — Challenge from the Darkness #38 — $115
• Ninetales — Expedition Expansion Pack #104 — $103
• Alolan Ninetales GX — Islands Await You #57 — $100
• Ninetales [1st Edition] — 20th Anniversary #15 — $99
• Alolan Ninetales GX — GX Ultra Shiny #213 — $95
• Ninetales [1st Edition] — Gaia Volcano #13 — $88
• Ninetales — Gaia Volcano #13 — $87
• Alolan Ninetales — GX Battle Boost #23 — $85
• Alolan Ninetales — GX Ultra Shiny #89 — $82
• Alolan Ninetales GX — Fairy Rise #53 — $77

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. Ninetales [Shadowless] — Base Set #12 — $2,047

9. Ninetales — Dragon Frontiers #8 — $2,168

8. Brock’s Ninetales [1st Edition] — Gym Challenge #3 — $2,202

7. Ninetales — Base Set 2 #13 — $2,329

6. Ninetales [Reverse Holo] — Dragon Frontiers #8 — $2,922

5. Ninetales — Rumble #3 — $3,458

4. Ninetales — Expedition #21 — $5,494

3. Ninetales EX — Hidden Legends #96 — $6,444

2. Ninetales [Reverse Holo] — Legendary Collection #17 — $13,999

1. Ninetales [1st Edition] — Base Set #12 — $22,172

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.

• Ninetales — Base Set #12 — $1,700
• Ninetales — Dragons Exalted #19 — $1,515
• Ninetales [Reverse Holo] — Power Keepers #19 — $1,190
• Ninetales [Holo] — Call of Legends #17 — $1,108
• Ninetales — Emerald #38 — $990
• Brock’s Ninetales — Gym Challenge #3 — $983
• Ninetales [Reverse Holo] — Expedition #21 — $875
• Ninetales — Legendary Collection #17 — $748
• Ninetales [Reverse Holo] — Emerald #38 — $651
• Ninetales — Evolutions #15 — $575
• Light Ninetales [1st Edition] — Neo Destiny #50 — $574
• Alolan Ninetales GX — Guardians Rising #150 — $550
• Ninetales [Reverse Holo] — Platinum #36 — $522
• Ninetales [Reverse Holo] — Expedition #57 — $500
• Blaine’s Ninetales [1st Edition] — Gym Challenge #21 — $500
• Alolan Ninetales GX — Lost Thunder #225 — $487
• Ninetales [Reverse Holo] — Call of Legends #17 — $389
• Ninetales [Reverse Holo] — Unleashed #20 — $387
• Alolan Ninetales [Cracked Ice] — Burning Shadows #28 — $350
• Ninetales — Obsidian Flames #199 — $345
• Ninetales [Reverse Holo] — Evolutions #15 — $330
• Alolan Ninetales GX — Guardians Rising #132 — $328
• Ninetales — Aquapolis #25 — $315
• Light Ninetales — Neo Destiny #50 — $306
• Alolan Ninetales GX — Lost Thunder #205 — $297
• Ninetales EX — Generations #13 — $265
• Ninetales [Reverse Holo] — Aquapolis #25 — $250
• Ninetales [Reverse Holo] — Hidden Legends #22 — $242
• Blaine’s Ninetales — Gym Challenge #21 — $232
• Alolan Ninetales [Reverse Holo] — Burning Shadows #28 — $223

And 32 further printings below those, which carry no tracked value at all.

Where Ninetales is printed, across the languages

Printing line	Cards	With a tracked value	Highest
Simplified Chinese — exclusive sets	2	2	$60
Simplified Chinese — other printings	1	1	$132
Japanese	63	63	$11,256
Korean	1	1	$76
English	84	84	$22,172
All 5 lines	151	151	—

What the ranking shows

On the Chinese-exclusive line, 2 cards carry a tracked value. The four at the top hold 100.0% of it.

Band	Cards	Combined value	Share of total
Ranked 1 – 4	2	$110	100.0%
Ranked 5 – 10	0	$0	0.0%
Ranked 11 and below	0	$0	0.0%
Every priced Chinese-exclusive card	2	$110	100%

If you want one card

One card, no budget limit:

Ninetales EX #38 — 151C #38. $60, and it is the card most lists for this character name first.

One card, under two hundred dollars:

Ninetales EX #178 — 151C #178. $50. 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 Ninetales card in Simplified Chinese?

Among the Chinese-exclusive numbered sets, Ninetales EX #38 carries the highest tracked value at $60. Promos and other non-C numbered printings sit outside that comparison.

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

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

Which Ninetales card leads the Japanese list?

Ninetales [No Rarity] #38 from Expansion Pack at $11,256. Japanese is the original printing line, so its top of the list reaches back further than either Chinese or English.

Which Ninetales card leads the English list?

Ninetales [1st Edition] #12 from Base Set at $22,172.

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

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

Korean printings

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.

• Ninetales — Ruler of the Black Flame #110 — $76

A further 11 Korean printings of Ninetales 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 Ninetales 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 Venonat cards printed in the Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines. Venonat [Reverse Holo] leads at $852 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.

Venonat appears on 2 Chinese-exclusive printings, 8 Japanese, 1 Korean and 21 English numbered Pokémon cards, and this page covers every language the character was printed in — Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines.

Venonat carries 2 numbered Chinese-exclusive printings. The head of the list is Venonat [Reverse] #48 (151C) at $60. Everything below is arranged by what each card actually trades for, so the page reads the same way whoever is reading it — the Chinese lines come first, and only the numbers change.

How this list was built

Four rules, applied in this order.

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

The Simplified Chinese list — Chinese-exclusive sets

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

2. Venonat — 151C #48 — $52

1. Venonat [Reverse] — 151C #48 — $60

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

8. Venonat — Double Blaze #5 — $39

7. Venonat — Web #3 — $62

6. Venonat — Jungle #48 — $85

5. Sabrina’s Venonat — Challenge from the Darkness #48 — $118

4. Venonat [1st Edition] — Web #3 — $135

3. Venonat — Mysterious Mountains #11 — $157

2. Venonat [1st Edition] — Mysterious Mountains #11 — $229

1. Venonat [Series III] — Vending #48 — $272

This line only yields 8 priced printings for Venonat. Another 7 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. Venonat — Jungle #63 — $60

9. Venonat [Reverse Holo] — Triumphant #81 — $69

8. Venonat — Neo Destiny #90 — $71

7. Venonat [Reverse Holo] — Secret Wonders #116 — $81

6. Venonat — Skyridge #112 — $134

5. Venonat [1st Edition] — Neo Destiny #90 — $137

4. Sabrina’s Venonat — Gym Heroes #96 — $180

3. Venonat [1st Edition] — Jungle #63 — $183

2. Sabrina’s Venonat [1st Edition] — Gym Heroes #96 — $216

1. Venonat [Reverse Holo] — Skyridge #112 — $852

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.

• Venonat — Secret Wonders #116 — $53
• Venonat — Triumphant #81 — $41
• Venonat [Reverse Holo] — Phantom Forces #1 — $40
• Venonat [Reverse Holo] — Unbroken Bonds #10 — $39
• Venonat — Unbroken Bonds #10 — $39
• Venonat — Phantom Forces #1 — $34
• Venonat — Base Set 2 #97 — $34
• Venonat [Reverse Holo] — Unbroken Bonds #9 — $32
• Venonat — Unbroken Bonds #9 — $32
• Venonat [Reverse Holo] — Silver Tempest #1 — $31
• Venonat — Silver Tempest #1 — $31

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

Where Venonat is printed, across the languages

Printing line	Cards	With a tracked value	Highest
Simplified Chinese — exclusive sets	2	2	$60
Japanese	8	8	$272
English	21	21	$852
All 3 lines	31	31	—

What the ranking shows

On the Chinese-exclusive line, 2 cards carry a tracked value. The four at the top hold 100.0% of it.

Band	Cards	Combined value	Share of total
Ranked 1 – 4	2	$112	100.0%
Ranked 5 – 10	0	$0	0.0%
Ranked 11 and below	0	$0	0.0%
Every priced Chinese-exclusive card	2	$112	100%

If you want one card

One card, no budget limit:

Venonat [Reverse] #48 — 151C #48. $60, and it is the card most lists for this character name first.

One card, under two hundred dollars:

Venonat #48 — 151C #48. $52. 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 Venonat card in Simplified Chinese?

Among the Chinese-exclusive numbered sets, Venonat [Reverse] #48 carries the highest tracked value at $60. Promos and other non-C numbered printings sit outside that comparison.

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

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

Which Venonat card leads the Japanese list?

Venonat [Series III] #48 from Vending at $272. Japanese is the original printing line, so its top of the list reaches back further than either Chinese or English.

Which Venonat card leads the English list?

Venonat [Reverse Holo] #112 from Skyridge at $852.

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

Venonat 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 Venonat 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 Jigglypuff cards printed in the Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines. Jigglypuff [CoroCoro] leads at $96,424 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.

Jigglypuff appears on 2 Chinese-exclusive printings, 4 further Simplified Chinese printings, 1 Traditional Chinese printings, 31 Japanese, 5 Korean and 50 English numbered Pokémon cards, and this page covers every language the character was printed in — Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines.

Jigglypuff carries 2 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 Jigglypuff #156 (151C) at $110. Everything below is arranged by what each card actually trades for, so the page reads the same way whoever is reading it — the Chinese lines come first, and only the numbers change.

How this list was built

Four rules, applied in this order.

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

The Simplified Chinese list — Chinese-exclusive sets

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

2. Jigglypuff — 151C #39 — $38

1. Jigglypuff — 151C #156 — $110

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

Other Simplified Chinese printings

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

• Mega Lopunny & Jigglypuff GX — CSM2.5C #77 — $214
• Mega Lopunny & Jigglypuff GX — CSM2.5C #76 — $110
• Mega Lopunny & Jigglypuff GX — CSM2.5C #93 — $110
• Mega Lopunny & Jigglypuff GX — CSM2.5C #39 — $63

A further 6 Simplified Chinese printings of Jigglypuff 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. Jigglypuff [1st Edition] — Awakening Psychic King #52 — $145

9. Jigglypuff — Squirtle Deck #14 — $199

8. Jigglypuff — Jungle #39 — $244

7. Mega Lopunny & Jigglypuff GX — Alter Genesis #104 — $295

6. Jigglypuff [1st Edition] — Mysterious Mountains #59 — $370

5. Jigglypuff — Mysterious Mountains #59 — $411

4. Jigglypuff — Miracle Crystal #51 — $411†

3. Jigglypuff — Southern Islands #39 — $487

2. Jigglypuff — SoulSilver Collection #51 — $535†

1. Jigglypuff [CoroCoro] — Promo #39 — $96,424

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.

• Jigglypuff [1st Edition] — Collection Y #42 — $134
• Mega Lopunny & Jigglypuff GX — Alter Genesis #114 — $115
• Jigglypuff — Awakening Psychic King #52 — $100
• Mega Lopunny & Jigglypuff GX — Alter Genesis #103 — $93
• Jigglypuff — Fairy Rise #26 — $91
• Jigglypuff — Double Blaze #62 — $87
• Erika’s Jigglypuff — 30th Celebration #139 — $77
• Jigglypuff — Detective Pikachu #19 — $76
• Mega Lopunny & Jigglypuff GX — Alter Genesis #73 — $75
• Jigglypuff — Family #31 — $72
• Jigglypuff — Collection Y #42 — $72
• Jigglypuff [1st Edition] — Miracle Crystal #51 — $66
• Jigglypuff — Undone Seal #57 — $58
• Jigglypuff — Ultradimensional Beasts #34 — $55
• Jigglypuff [1st Edition] — Hail Blizzard #43 — $50
• Jigglypuff — Inferno X #64 — $38
• Jigglypuff — Shiny Treasure ex #140 — $38
• Jigglypuff — Shiny Treasure ex #306 — $37
• Jigglypuff — Clay Burst #26 — $37
• Jigglypuff — Hail Blizzard #43 — $28
• Jigglypuff [Reverse Holo] — Shiny Treasure ex #140 — $18

And 7 further printings below those, which carry no tracked value at all.

The English list

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

10. Mega Lopunny & Jigglypuff GX — Cosmic Eclipse #261 — $320

9. Jigglypuff — Promo #7 — $356

8. Jigglypuff — Skyridge #68 — $370

7. Jigglypuff [Reverse Holo] — Skyridge #68 — $416

6. Jigglypuff [1st Edition] — Jungle #54 — $475

5. Erika’s Jigglypuff [1st Edition] — Gym Challenge #69 — $508

4. Jigglypuff [Reverse Holo] — Crystal Guardians #53 — $792

3. Jigglypuff — Southern Islands #8 — $901

2. Jigglypuff [Reverse Holo] — Hidden Legends #63 — $1,400

1. Mega Lopunny & Jigglypuff GX — Cosmic Eclipse #226 — $1,425

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.

• Jigglypuff — McDonalds 2016 #8 — $306
• Jigglypuff — Jungle #54 — $268
• Mega Lopunny & Jigglypuff GX — Cosmic Eclipse #225 — $248
• Mega Lopunny & Jigglypuff GX — Cosmic Eclipse #165 — $240
• Jigglypuff [Reverse Holo] — Next Destinies #78 — $240
• Erika’s Jigglypuff — Gym Challenge #69 — $200
• Jigglypuff — Paldean Fates #198 — $197
• Jigglypuff [Reverse Holo] — Paldea Evolved #83 — $194
• Jigglypuff [1st Edition] — Neo Destiny #44 — $193
• Jigglypuff — Crystal Guardians #53 — $175
• Jigglypuff — Hidden Legends #63 — $169
• Jigglypuff [Reverse Holo] — Darkness Ablaze #67 — $128
• Jigglypuff [Reverse Holo] — Phantasmal Flames #76 — $112
• Jigglypuff [Reverse Holo] — XY #87 — $112
• Erika’s Jigglypuff — 30th Celebration #69 — $111
• Jigglypuff — Crimson Invasion #71 — $110
• Jigglypuff — Base Set 2 #77 — $105
• Jigglypuff [Reverse Holo] — Great Encounters #72 — $100
• Jigglypuff [Reverse Holo] — XY #88 — $86
• Jigglypuff — Fates Collide #65 — $81
• Jigglypuff — Hidden Fates #41 — $70
• Jigglypuff [Reverse Holo] — Lost Thunder #133 — $70
• Jigglypuff [Reverse Holo] — Crimson Invasion #71 — $60
• Jigglypuff — Neo Destiny #44 — $56
• Jigglypuff — XY #87 — $54
• Jigglypuff [Reverse Holo] — Unbroken Bonds #134 — $51
• Jigglypuff [Reverse Holo] — Hidden Fates #41 — $48
• Jigglypuff — Great Encounters #72 — $48
• Jigglypuff — Fusion Strike #110 — $47
• Jigglypuff — Next Destinies #78 — $45

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

Where Jigglypuff is printed, across the languages

Printing line	Cards	With a tracked value	Highest
Simplified Chinese — exclusive sets	2	2	$110
Simplified Chinese — other printings	4	4	$214
Traditional Chinese (Taiwan, China / Hong Kong, China)	1	1	$89
Japanese	31	31	$96,424
English	50	50	$1,425
All 5 lines	88	88	—

What the ranking shows

On the Chinese-exclusive line, 2 cards carry a tracked value. The four at the top hold 100.0% of it.

Band	Cards	Combined value	Share of total
Ranked 1 – 4	2	$148	100.0%
Ranked 5 – 10	0	$0	0.0%
Ranked 11 and below	0	$0	0.0%
Every priced Chinese-exclusive card	2	$148	100%

If you want one card

One card, no budget limit:

Jigglypuff #156 — 151C #156. $110, and it is the card most lists for this character name first.

One card, under two hundred dollars:

Jigglypuff #39 — 151C #39. $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 Jigglypuff card in Simplified Chinese?

Among the Chinese-exclusive numbered sets, Jigglypuff #156 carries the highest tracked value at $110. Promos and other non-C numbered printings sit outside that comparison.

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

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

Which Jigglypuff card leads the Japanese list?

Jigglypuff [CoroCoro] #39 from Promo at $96,424. Japanese is the original printing line, so its top of the list reaches back further than either Chinese or English.

Which Jigglypuff card leads the English list?

Mega Lopunny & Jigglypuff GX #226 from Cosmic Eclipse at $1,425.

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

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

What do the marks next to some prices mean?

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

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

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

1 printings

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

• Erika’s Jigglypuff — 30th Celebration #139 — $89

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.

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 Pidgeotto cards printed in the Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines. Pidgeotto [Reverse Holo] leads at $8,250 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.

Pidgeotto appears on 2 Chinese-exclusive printings, 3 further Simplified Chinese printings, 15 Japanese, 1 Korean and 27 English numbered Pokémon cards, and this page covers every language the character was printed in — Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines.

Pidgeotto carries 2 numbered Chinese-exclusive printings. The head of the list is Pidgeotto #154 (151C) at $36. Everything below is arranged by what each card actually trades for, so the page reads the same way whoever is reading it — the Chinese lines come first, and only the numbers change.

How this list was built

Four rules, applied in this order.

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

The Simplified Chinese list — Chinese-exclusive sets

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

2. Pidgeotto — csv4C #137 — $3

1. Pidgeotto — 151C #154 — $36†

This line only yields 2 priced printings for Pidgeotto. Another 6 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. Pidgeotto — Ruler of the Black Flame #119 — $54

9. Pidgeotto [1st Edition] — Expedition Expansion Pack #46 — $72

8. Pidgeotto — Clash at the Summit #59 — $90

7. Pidgeotto [1st Edition] — Clash at the Summit #59 — $90

6. Alto Mare’s Pidgeotto — Limited VS #010 — $180

5. Koga’s Pidgeotto — Challenge from the Darkness #17 — $182

4. Pidgeotto — Expedition Expansion Pack #46 — $255

3. Pidgeotto [Series III] — Vending #17 — $286

2. Pidgeotto — Expansion Pack #17 — $744†

1. Pidgeotto [No Rarity] — Expansion Pack #17 — $3,828†

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.

• Pidgeotto — Shiny Treasure ex #305 — $39
• Pidgeotto — Shiny Treasure ex #138 — $36
• Pidgeotto [1st Edition] — Wild Blaze #62 — $33
• Pidgeotto [Reverse Holo] — Shiny Treasure ex #138 — $23
• Pidgeotto — Tag All Stars #104 — $16

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

The English list

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

10. Koga’s Pidgeotto [1st Edition] — Gym Challenge #27 — $200

9. Pidgeotto [Reverse Holo] — Expedition #88 — $227

8. Pidgeotto — Obsidian Flames #208 — $236

7. Pidgeotto — Base Set #22 — $252

6. Pidgeotto [Reverse Holo] — Call of Legends #48 — $270

5. Pidgeotto [Shadowless] — Base Set #22 — $274

4. Pidgeotto [1999-2000] — Base Set #22 — $537

3. Pidgeotto [Reverse Holo] — Holon Phantoms #49 — $1,393

2. Pidgeotto [1st Edition] — Base Set #22 — $1,724

1. Pidgeotto [Reverse Holo] — Legendary Collection #34 — $8,250

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.

• Pidgeotto [Reverse Holo] — Triumphant #47 — $174
• Pidgeotto — Legendary Collection #34 — $143
• Pidgeotto — Expedition #88 — $135
• Pidgeotto [Reverse Holo] — Secret Wonders #58 — $104
• Koga’s Pidgeotto — Gym Challenge #27 — $102
• Pidgeotto — Paldean Fates #197 — $68
• Pidgeotto — Secret Wonders #58 — $65
• Pidgeotto — Call of Legends #48 — $54
• Pidgeotto — Triumphant #47 — $53
• Pidgeotto [Reverse Holo] — Flashfire #76 — $49
• Pidgeotto — Team Up #123 — $48
• Pidgeotto — Holon Phantoms #49 — $45
• Pidgeotto — Flashfire #76 — $42
• Pidgeotto [Reverse Holo] — Team Up #123 — $38
• Pidgeotto — Base Set 2 #28 — $36
• Pidgeotto [Reverse Holo] — Obsidian Flames #163 — $33
• Pidgeotto — Obsidian Flames #163 — $13

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

Where Pidgeotto is printed, across the languages

Printing line	Cards	With a tracked value	Highest
Simplified Chinese — exclusive sets	2	2	$36
Japanese	15	15	$3,828
Korean	1	1	$42
English	27	27	$8,250
All 4 lines	45	45	—

What the ranking shows

On the Chinese-exclusive line, 2 cards carry a tracked value. The four at the top hold 100.0% of it.

Band	Cards	Combined value	Share of total
Ranked 1 – 4	2	$39	100.0%
Ranked 5 – 10	0	$0	0.0%
Ranked 11 and below	0	$0	0.0%
Every priced Chinese-exclusive card	2	$39	100%

If you want one card

One card, no budget limit:

Pidgeotto #154 — 151C #154. $36, and it is the card most lists for this character name first.

One card, under two hundred dollars:

Pidgeotto #137 — csv4C #137. $3. 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 Pidgeotto card in Simplified Chinese?

Among the Chinese-exclusive numbered sets, Pidgeotto #154 carries the highest tracked value at $36. Promos and other non-C numbered printings sit outside that comparison.

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

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

Which Pidgeotto card leads the Japanese list?

Pidgeotto [No Rarity] #17 from Expansion Pack at $3,828. Japanese is the original printing line, so its top of the list reaches back further than either Chinese or English.

Which Pidgeotto card leads the English list?

Pidgeotto [Reverse Holo] #34 from Legendary Collection at $8,250.

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. 3 of them were reduced as well.

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

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

The other printing lines

Pidgeotto 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.

• Pidgeotto — Ruler of the Black Flame #119 — $42

A further 1 Korean printings of Pidgeotto 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 Pidgeotto 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 Pidgey cards printed in the Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines. Pidgey [Reverse Holo] leads at $9,986 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.

Pidgey appears on 2 Chinese-exclusive printings, 3 further Simplified Chinese printings, 14 Japanese, 1 Korean and 33 English numbered Pokémon cards, and this page covers every language the character was printed in — Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines.

Pidgey carries 2 numbered Chinese-exclusive printings. The head of the list is Pidgey #153 (151C) at $60. Everything below is arranged by what each card actually trades for, so the page reads the same way whoever is reading it — the Chinese lines come first, and only the numbers change.

How this list was built

Four rules, applied in this order.

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

The Simplified Chinese list — Chinese-exclusive sets

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

2. Pidgey — csv4C #136 — $22

1. Pidgey — 151C #153 — $60

This line only yields 2 priced printings for Pidgey. Another 6 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. Pidgey — Ruler of the Black Flame #118 — $47

9. Pidgey [1st Edition] — Wild Blaze #61 — $55

8. Pidgey — Clash at the Summit #58 — $87

7. Pidgey [1st Edition] — Holon Phantom #16 — $122

6. Koga’s Pidgey — Challenge from the Darkness #16 — $135

5. Pidgey [1st Edition] — Expedition Expansion Pack #25 — $174

4. Pidgey — Expansion Pack #16 — $332†

3. Pidgey [Series 1] — Vending #16 — $553

2. Pidgey — Promo #126/PCG-P — $910

1. Pidgey [No Rarity] — Expansion Pack #16 — $1,325

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.

• Pidgey — Holon Phantom #16 — $41
• Pidgey — Expedition Expansion Pack #25 — $34
• Pidgey — Shiny Treasure ex #304 — $28
• Pidgey — Tag All Stars #103 — $11

And 14 further printings below those, which carry no tracked value at all.

The English list

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

10. Koga’s Pidgey [1st Edition] — Gym Challenge #80 — $175

9. Pidgey [Reverse Holo] — Expedition #123 — $207

8. Pidgey [Shadowless] — Base Set #57 — $213

7. Pidgey — Obsidian Flames #207 — $217

6. Koga’s Pidgey [1st Edition] — Gym Challenge #49 — $234

5. Pidgey [Reverse Holo] — Call of Legends #67 — $270

4. Pidgey [Trainer Deck B] — Base Set #57 — $349

3. Pidgey [1st Edition] — Base Set #57 — $704

2. Pidgey [Reverse Holo] — Holon Phantoms #77 — $1,188

1. Pidgey [Reverse Holo] — Legendary Collection #85 — $9,986†

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.

• Pidgey — Holon Phantoms #77 — $132
• Pidgey [Reverse Holo] — Triumphant #71 — $115
• Pidgey — Base Set #57 — $104
• Pidgey [Reverse Holo] — Secret Wonders #99 — $100
• Pidgey — Expedition #123 — $96
• Pidgey [1999-2000] — Base Set #57 — $92
• Pidgey — Paldean Fates #196 — $89
• Pidgey — Legendary Collection #85 — $71
• Pidgey — Call of Legends #67 — $67
• Pidgey — Triumphant #71 — $47
• Pidgey — Base Set 2 #86 — $42
• Koga’s Pidgey — Gym Challenge #49 — $41
• Pidgey [Reverse Holo] — Flashfire #75 — $40
• Pidgey — Flashfire #75 — $39
• Pidgey [Reverse Holo] — Team Up #121 — $35
• Pidgey — Team Up #121 — $33
• Pidgey [Reverse Holo] — Obsidian Flames #162 — $33
• Pidgey — Team Up #122 — $32
• Pidgey [Reverse Holo] — Team Up #122 — $32
• Koga’s Pidgey — Gym Challenge #80 — $31
• Pidgey — Secret Wonders #99 — $30
• Pidgey — POP Series 4 #12 — $30
• Pidgey — Obsidian Flames #162 — $26

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

Where Pidgey is printed, across the languages

Printing line	Cards	With a tracked value	Highest
Simplified Chinese — exclusive sets	2	2	$60
Japanese	14	14	$1,325
Korean	1	1	$39
English	33	33	$9,986
All 4 lines	50	50	—

What the ranking shows

On the Chinese-exclusive line, 2 cards carry a tracked value. The four at the top hold 100.0% of it.

Band	Cards	Combined value	Share of total
Ranked 1 – 4	2	$82	100.0%
Ranked 5 – 10	0	$0	0.0%
Ranked 11 and below	0	$0	0.0%
Every priced Chinese-exclusive card	2	$82	100%

If you want one card

One card, no budget limit:

Pidgey #153 — 151C #153. $60, and it is the card most lists for this character name first.

One card, under two hundred dollars:

Pidgey #136 — csv4C #136. $22. It is not the card anyone photographs, but it is the same Pokémon from the same line.

Frequently asked questions

What is the most valuable Pidgey card in Simplified Chinese?

Among the Chinese-exclusive numbered sets, Pidgey #153 carries the highest tracked value at $60. Promos and other non-C numbered printings sit outside that comparison.

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

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

Which Pidgey card leads the Japanese list?

Pidgey [No Rarity] #16 from Expansion Pack at $1,325. Japanese is the original printing line, so its top of the list reaches back further than either Chinese or English.

Which Pidgey card leads the English list?

Pidgey [Reverse Holo] #85 from Legendary Collection at $9,986.

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. 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

Pidgey 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.

• Pidgey — Ruler of the Black Flame #118 — $39

A further 1 Korean printings of Pidgey 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 Pidgey 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 Gyarados cards printed in the Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines. Shining Gyarados [1st Edition] leads at $80,114 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.

Gyarados appears on 2 Chinese-exclusive printings, 2 Traditional Chinese printings, 63 Japanese, 4 Korean and 91 English numbered Pokémon cards, and this page covers every language the character was printed in — Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines.

Gyarados carries 2 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 Gyarados #25 (CSM2aC) at $340. Everything below is arranged by what each card actually trades for, so the page reads the same way whoever is reading it — the Chinese lines come first, and only the numbers change.

How this list was built

Four rules, applied in this order.

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

The Simplified Chinese list — Chinese-exclusive sets

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

2. Gyarados — 151C #130 — $38

1. Gyarados — CSM2aC #25 — $340

This line only yields 2 priced printings for Gyarados. Another 7 numbered printings in this line carry no graded sold record yet and are therefore not ranked.

The Japanese list

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

10. Gyarados ex [1st Edition] — Flight of Legends #35 — $2,600

9. Gyarados — Holon Phantom #24 — $2,700

8. Gyarados — Melee Pokemon Scramble #6 — $4,353†

7. Gyarados [1st Edition] — Mysterious Mountains #28 — $4,948

6. Gyarados — Mysterious Mountains #28 — $5,500

5. Gyarados [Gold Star] — Holon Phantom #8 — $5,980

4. Pretend Gyarados Pikachu — Promo #151/XY-P — $13,407

3. Gyarados [No Rarity] — Expansion Pack #130 — $15,301

2. Gyarados [Gold Star 1st Edition] — Holon Phantom #8 — $18,101

1. Shining Gyarados — Awakening Legends #130 — $48,815

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.

• Gyarados [1st Edition] — Holon Phantom #24 — $2,225
• Gyarados ex — Flight of Legends #35 — $2,202
• Gyarados EX — Rage of the Broken Heavens #89 — $2,200
• Gyarados — Expansion Pack #130 — $2,153
• Dark Gyarados — Rocket Gang #130 — $1,845
• Lance’s Gyarados — VS #98 — $1,735
• Giovanni’s Gyarados — Challenge from the Darkness #130 — $1,350
• Mega Gyarados EX — Rage of the Broken Heavens #82 — $1,169
• Gyarados [1st Edition] — Mysterious Mountains #27 — $1,118
• Gyarados EX — Rage of the Broken Heavens #81 — $1,026
• Clair’s Gyarados — VS #48 — $920
• Gyarados [1st Edition] — Clash of the Blue Sky #24 — $836
• Gyarados — Bandit Ring #21 — $733
• Gyarados [1st Edition] — Bandit Ring #21 — $613
• Gyarados — SoulSilver Collection #23 — $610
• Gyarados — Clash of the Blue Sky #24 — $562
• Gyarados [1st Edition] — Intense Fight in the Destroyed Sky #17 — $554
• Gyarados — Garchomp Half Deck #2 — $534
• Dark Gyarados — Silver Deck Kit #4 — $500
• Gyarados GX — Ultradimensional Beasts #56 — $354
• Dark Gyarados [1st Edition] — Silver Deck Kit #4 — $333
• Mega Gyarados EX — Rage of the Broken Heavens #19 — $325
• Gyarados — Intense Fight in the Destroyed Sky #17 — $320
• Gyarados — EX Battle Boost #23 — $213
• Gyarados — Mysterious Mountains #27 — $211
• Gyarados GX — Ultradimensional Beasts #51 — $199
• Gyarados [1st Edition] — 20th Anniversary #32 — $183
• Gyarados EX — Rage of the Broken Heavens #18 — $176
• Gyarados Spirit Link — Rage of the Broken Heavens #75 — $141
• Gyarados — Darkness that Consumes Light #9 — $138

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. Gyarados [Prerelease Staff] — Evolutions #34 — $6,500

9. Dark Gyarados [Reverse Holo] — Team Rocket Returns #36 — $6,893

8. Gyarados — Holon Phantoms #8 — $7,021

7. Gyarados [Reverse Holo] — Holon Phantoms #8 — $14,150

6. Gyarados [Gold Star] — Holon Phantoms #102 — $18,124

5. Shining Gyarados [Double Holo Error] — Neo Revelation #65 — $19,689

4. Shining Gyarados — Neo Revelation #65 — $19,730

3. Gyarados [1st Edition] — Base Set #6 — $25,580

2. Gyarados [Reverse Holo] — Legendary Collection #12 — $35,836

1. Shining Gyarados [1st Edition] — Neo Revelation #65 — $80,114

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.

• Gyarados G [Reverse Holo] — Platinum #30 — $6,100
• Giovanni’s Gyarados [1st Edition] — Gym Challenge #5 — $5,797
• Gyarados [Reverse Holo] — Skyridge #11 — $5,591
• Gyarados — Legendary Collection #12 — $5,490
• Gyarados [Shadowless] — Base Set #6 — $5,216
• Gyarados — Deoxys #8 — $5,106
• Misty’s Gyarados [1st Edition] — Gym Challenge #13 — $5,060
• Dark Gyarados [1st Edition] — Team Rocket #8 — $4,400
• Gyarados [Cosmos Holo] — Ancient Origins #21 — $4,331
• Gyarados EX — BREAKpoint #123 — $4,047
• Gyarados [Reverse Holo] — Deoxys #8 — $4,026
• Gyarados [Reverse Holo] — Mysterious Treasures #26 — $3,618
• Gyarados — Rumble #6 — $3,524
• Misty’s Gyarados — Gym Challenge #13 — $3,031
• Gyarados — Ancient Origins #21 — $2,975
• Gyarados — Call of Legends #7 — $2,850
• Gyarados — Base Set #6 — $2,611
• Giovanni’s Gyarados — Gym Challenge #5 — $2,562
• Gyarados [Reverse Holo] — Ancient Origins #21 — $2,300
• Gyarados EX — BREAKpoint #114 — $1,881
• Gyarados [Reverse Holo] — Dragon #32 — $1,751
• M Gyarados EX — BREAKpoint #115 — $1,700
• Gyarados [Cosmos Holo] — Dragons Exalted #24 — $1,613
• Gyarados [Prerelease] — Evolutions #34 — $1,610
• Dark Gyarados — Team Rocket #8 — $1,547
• Gyarados [Reverse Holo] — Call of Legends #7 — $1,525
• Dark Gyarados [Prerelease] — Team Rocket #8 — $1,400
• Gyarados — Base Set 2 #7 — $1,139
• Gyarados — Mysterious Treasures #26 — $1,061
• Gyarados [Prerelease] — Dragon #32 — $1,002

And 37 further printings below those, which carry no tracked value at all.

Where Gyarados is printed, across the languages

Printing line	Cards	With a tracked value	Highest
Simplified Chinese — exclusive sets	2	2	$340
Japanese	63	63	$48,815
Korean	4	4	$59
English	91	91	$80,114
All 4 lines	160	160	—

What the ranking shows

On the Chinese-exclusive line, 2 cards carry a tracked value. The four at the top hold 100.0% of it.

Band	Cards	Combined value	Share of total
Ranked 1 – 4	2	$378	100.0%
Ranked 5 – 10	0	$0	0.0%
Ranked 11 and below	0	$0	0.0%
Every priced Chinese-exclusive card	2	$378	100%

If you want one card

One card, no budget limit:

Gyarados #25 — CSM2aC #25. $340, and it is the card most lists for this character name first.

One card, a few hundred dollars:

Gyarados #25 — CSM2aC #25. $340, which is the strongest card on the page that is still reachable without a vintage budget.

One card, under two hundred dollars:

Gyarados #130 — 151C #130. $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 Gyarados card in Simplified Chinese?

Among the Chinese-exclusive numbered sets, Gyarados #25 carries the highest tracked value at $340. Promos and other non-C numbered printings sit outside that comparison.

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

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

Which Gyarados card leads the Japanese list?

Shining Gyarados #130 from Awakening Legends at $48,815. Japanese is the original printing line, so its top of the list reaches back further than either Chinese or English.

Which Gyarados card leads the English list?

Shining Gyarados [1st Edition] #65 from Neo Revelation at $80,114.

Why are the Korean (4 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

Gyarados 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

4 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.

• Gyarados EX — Scarlet Ex #91 — $59
• Misty’s Gyarados — Heat Wave Arena #26 — $52
• Gyarados VMAX — Blue Sky Stream #21 — $50
• Gyarados — Triple Beat #23 — $40

A further 4 Korean printings of Gyarados 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 Gyarados 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 Rapidash cards printed in the Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines. Rapidash [Reverse Holo] leads at $3,918 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.

Rapidash appears on 2 Chinese-exclusive printings, 1 further Simplified Chinese printings, 34 Japanese, 1 Korean and 53 English numbered Pokémon cards, and this page covers every language the character was printed in — Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines.

Rapidash carries 2 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 Rapidash #78 (151C) at $142. Everything below is arranged by what each card actually trades for, so the page reads the same way whoever is reading it — the Chinese lines come first, and only the numbers change.

How this list was built

Four rules, applied in this order.

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

The Simplified Chinese list — Chinese-exclusive sets

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

2. Rapidash V — cs3aC #135 — $135

1. Rapidash — 151C #78 — $142†

This line only yields 2 priced printings for Rapidash. 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. Rapidash — Jungle #78 — $250

9. Rapidash — Flight of Legends #23 — $252

8. Dark Rapidash — Rocket Gang #78 — $262

7. Rapidash [1st Edition] — Clash at the Summit #11 — $265

6. Rapidash — Clash at the Summit #11 — $324

5. Rapidash [1st Edition] — Expedition Expansion Pack #73 — $330

4. Rapidash [1st Edition] — Flight of Legends #23 — $418

3. Rapidash [Series 1] — Vending #78 — $484

2. Rapidash [1st Edition] — Expedition Expansion Pack #105 — $565

1. Rapidash — Promo #11/P — $1,800

Ranks 11 and beyond

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

• Karen’s Rapidash — VS #87 — $203
• Rapidash — Expedition Expansion Pack #105 — $172
• Blaine’s Rapidash — Challenge from the Darkness #78 — $161
• Rapidash [1st Edition] — Intense Fight in the Destroyed Sky #14 — $125
• Rapidash — Expedition Expansion Pack #73 — $115
• Rapidash [1st Edition] — Wind from the Sea #25 — $110
• Rapidash — Wind from the Sea #25 — $103
• Rapidash — Intense Fight in the Destroyed Sky #14 — $100
• Rapidash — Starter Pack #13 — $89
• Galarian Rapidash V — Silver Lance #75 — $86
• Rapidash — Advent of Arceus #20 — $72
• Galarian Rapidash V — Silver Lance #74 — $65
• Rapidash [1st Edition] — Fever-Burst Fighter #7 — $62
• Rapidash — Fever-Burst Fighter #7 — $52
• Rapidash — Tag Bolt #17 — $51
• Rapidash [1st Edition] — Wild Blaze #13 — $50
• Rapidash — Heat Wave Arena #69 — $46
• Galarian Rapidash — Shield #22 — $45
• Galarian Rapidash V — Silver Lance #29 — $42
• Galarian Rapidash — Shiny Star V #68 — $39
• Galarian Rapidash — Shiny Star V #247 — $39
• Rapidash — Heat Wave Arena #14 — $36
• Rapidash — Classic: Charizard #5 — $32
• Rapidash — Paradigm Trigger #11 — $17

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

The English list

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

10. Dark Rapidash [1st Edition] — Team Rocket #44 — $321

9. Rapidash [1st Edition] — Jungle #44 — $325

8. Rapidash [Pokemon Center NY] — Promo #51 — $416

7. Rapidash — Promo #51 — $430

6. Rapidash [Reverse Holo] — Expedition #62 — $500

5. Rapidash — Triumphant #8 — $500

4. Rapidash [Reverse Holo] — Expedition #26 — $619

3. Rapidash [Reverse Holo] — Delta Species #52 — $712

2. Rapidash — Expedition #26 — $1,761

1. Rapidash [Reverse Holo] — Legendary Collection #60 — $3,918

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.

• Rapidash [Reverse Holo] — Aquapolis #31 — $225
• Rapidash [Reverse Holo] — Triumphant #8 — $218
• Rapidash — Aquapolis #31 — $198
• Rapidash [Reverse Holo] — Stormfront #22 — $196
• Blaine’s Rapidash [1st Edition] — Gym Challenge #33 — $187
• Galarian Rapidash V — Chilling Reign #168 — $175
• Rapidash — Jungle #44 — $156
• Rapidash — Legendary Collection #60 — $144
• Rapidash — Destined Rivals #189 — $144
• Rapidash [Reverse Holo] — Arceus #28 — $140
• Rapidash [Reverse Holo] — Rising Rivals #47 — $135
• Rapidash — Delta Species #52 — $97
• Rapidash — Expedition #62 — $94
• Rapidash [Reverse Holo] — Arceus #47 — $91
• Galarian Rapidash V — Chilling Reign #167 — $85
• Rapidash — Stormfront #22 — $78
• Rapidash [Reverse Holo] — Cosmic Eclipse #24 — $77
• Rapidash — Rising Rivals #47 — $76
• Rapidash — Cosmic Eclipse #24 — $75
• Rapidash [Reverse Holo] — Destined Rivals #30 — $70
• Rapidash [Reverse Holo] — Steam Siege #17 — $67
• Rapidash — TCG Classic: Charizard Deck #5 — $60
• Rapidash — Destined Rivals #30 — $60
• Blaine’s Rapidash — Gym Challenge #33 — $53
• Rapidash [Reverse Holo] — Temporal Forces #27 — $50
• Rapidash — Stellar Crown #20 — $50
• Rapidash — Team Up #18 — $48
• Rapidash [Holo] — Silver Tempest #22 — $47
• Rapidash [Reverse Holo] — Flashfire #15 — $47
• Rapidash — Arceus #47 — $46

Where Rapidash is printed, across the languages

Printing line	Cards	With a tracked value	Highest
Simplified Chinese — exclusive sets	2	2	$142
Japanese	34	34	$1,800
Korean	1	1	$60
English	53	53	$3,918
All 4 lines	90	90	—

What the ranking shows

On the Chinese-exclusive line, 2 cards carry a tracked value. The four at the top hold 100.0% of it.

Band	Cards	Combined value	Share of total
Ranked 1 – 4	2	$277	100.0%
Ranked 5 – 10	0	$0	0.0%
Ranked 11 and below	0	$0	0.0%
Every priced Chinese-exclusive card	2	$277	100%

If you want one card

One card, no budget limit:

Rapidash #78 — 151C #78. $142, and it is the card most lists for this character name first.

One card, under two hundred dollars:

Rapidash V #135 — cs3aC #135. $135. 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 Rapidash card in Simplified Chinese?

Among the Chinese-exclusive numbered sets, Rapidash #78 carries the highest tracked value at $142. Promos and other non-C numbered printings sit outside that comparison.

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

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

Which Rapidash card leads the Japanese list?

Rapidash #11/P from Promo at $1,800. Japanese is the original printing line, so its top of the list reaches back further than either Chinese or English.

Which Rapidash card leads the English list?

Rapidash [Reverse Holo] #60 from Legendary Collection at $3,918.

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

Rapidash 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.

• Rapidash — Heat Wave Arena #69 — $60

A further 5 Korean printings of Rapidash 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.

Our own stock covers the other end of this line — the Ponyta PSA 10 (CBB4C 01/07), the card Rapidash evolves from. Our Simplified Chinese slabs 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.