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Quick answer

CardSpicy (cardspicy.com) ranks the most valuable Persian cards printed in the Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines. Rocket’s Persian ex leads at $10,700 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.

Persian appears on 2 Chinese-exclusive printings, 3 further Simplified Chinese printings, 35 Japanese, 2 Korean and 49 English numbered Pokémon cards, and this page covers every language the character was printed in — Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines.

Persian 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 Persian #207 (CBB6C) at $144. 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. Persian — 151C #53 — $38

1. Persian — CBB6C #207 — $144

This line only yields 2 priced printings for Persian. Another 12 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.

• Alolan Persian GX — CSM2.5C #88 — $47
• Alolan Persian GX — CSM2.5C #28 — $34
• Alolan Persian GX — CSM2.5C #70 — $34

A further 1 Simplified Chinese printings of Persian 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. Persian — Holon Phantom #39 — $194

9. Persian [1st Edition] — Holon Phantom #39 — $202

8. Persian [1st Edition] — Split Earth #63 — $202

7. Persian — Jungle #53 — $262

6. Persian — Split Earth #63 — $300†

5. Whitney’s Persian — VS #16 — $461

4. Rocket’s Persian ex — Promo #36/PCG-P — $568

3. Giovanni’s Persian — Challenge from the Darkness #53 — $620

2. Dark Persian [Pokemon Magazine] — Promo #53 — $1,050

1. Rocket’s Persian ex — Promo #53/PCG-P — $10,700

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 Persian — Rocket Gang #53 — $175
• Persian — SoulSilver Collection #54 — $99
• Persian — Starter Pack #43 — $89
• Persian [Reverse Holo] — Tag All Stars #106 — $86
• Alolan Persian GX — Remix Bout #77 — $83
• Persian GX — Double Blaze #113 — $81
• Alolan Persian — Super-Burst Impact #57 — $66
• Persian [1st Edition] — Cruel Traitor #45 — $64
• Persian — Psycho Drive #46 — $64
• Persian — Night Wanderer #75 — $64
• Persian [1st Edition] — Psycho Drive #46 — $61
• Persian GX — Double Blaze #104 — $58
• Persian [1st Edition] — Bandit Ring #62 — $55
• Persian — Cruel Traitor #45 — $51
• Alolan Persian GX — Remix Bout #71 — $50
• Persian — Bandit Ring #62 — $46
• Persian — Battle Rainbow #42 — $45
• Persian — Tag Bolt #72 — $40
• Persian — Tag All Stars #106 — $39
• Team Rocket’s Persian ex — Glory of Team Rocket #118 — $38
• Persian — Night Wanderer #49 — $36
• Persian GX — Double Blaze #69 — $34
• Team Rocket’s Persian ex — Glory of Team Rocket #79 — $32
• Persian — Double Blaze #68 — $27
• Alolan Persian GX — Remix Bout #40 — $25

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. Persian [Reverse Holo] — Holon Phantoms #48 — $398

9. Persian [Reverse Holo] — Skyridge #42 — $425

8. Persian [1st Edition] — Jungle #42 — $453

7. Persian [Reverse Holo] — Delta Species #50 — $709

6. Giovanni’s Persian — Gym Challenge #8 — $1,200

5. Dark Persian — Legendary Collection #6 — $2,242

4. Dark Persian [Reverse Holo] — Legendary Collection #6 — $4,032

3. Dark Persian — Promo #17 — $4,875

2. Rocket’s Persian EX — Unseen Forces #116 — $8,179

1. Giovanni’s Persian [1st Edition] — Gym Challenge #8 — $9,608

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.

• Persian — Shrouded Fable #78 — $310
• Dark Persian [1st Edition] — Team Rocket #42 — $301
• Persian — Skyridge #42 — $297
• Persian — Base Set 2 #56 — $220
• Persian GX — Unbroken Bonds #227 — $169
• Persian — Steam Siege #89 — $150
• Persian — Holon Phantoms #48 — $147
• Persian — Jungle #42 — $134
• Persian [Reverse Holo] — Legends Awakened #68 — $123
• Persian [Reverse Holo] — Steam Siege #89 — $120
• Alolan Persian GX — Cosmic Eclipse #257 — $119
• Persian GX — Unbroken Bonds #207 — $100
• Alolan Persian GX — Cosmic Eclipse #219 — $97
• Alolan Persian [Reverse Holo] — Lost Thunder #119 — $77
• Persian [Reverse Holo] — Next Destinies #81 — $67
• Persian GX — Unbroken Bonds #149 — $67
• Persian — Legends Awakened #68 — $61
• Persian [Reverse Holo] — Fusion Strike #200 — $59
• Persian — Next Destinies #81 — $57
• Persian [Reverse Holo] — Burning Shadows #102 — $55
• Alolan Persian GX — Cosmic Eclipse #129 — $54
• Team Rocket’s Persian ex — Destined Rivals #219 — $50
• Team Rocket’s Persian ex — Promo #218 — $49
• Alolan Persian — Lost Thunder #119 — $46
• Persian — Ancient Origins #62 — $42
• Team Rocket’s Persian ex — Destined Rivals #150 — $40
• Persian [Reverse Holo] — Ancient Origins #62 — $39
• Dark Persian — Team Rocket #42 — $37
• Persian [Reverse Holo] — Unbroken Bonds #148 — $36
• Persian [Reverse Holo] — Generations #54 — $36

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

Where Persian is printed, across the languages

Printing line	Cards	With a tracked value	Highest
Simplified Chinese — exclusive sets	2	2	$144
Simplified Chinese — other printings	3	3	$47
Japanese	35	35	$10,700
Korean	2	2	$25
English	49	49	$9,608
All 5 lines	91	91	—

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	$183	100.0%
Ranked 5 – 10	0	$0	0.0%
Ranked 11 and below	0	$0	0.0%
Every priced Chinese-exclusive card	2	$183	100%

If you want one card

One card, no budget limit:

Persian #207 — CBB6C #207. $144, and it is the card most lists for this character name first.

One card, under two hundred dollars:

Persian #53 — 151C #53. $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 Persian card in Simplified Chinese?

Among the Chinese-exclusive numbered sets, Persian #207 carries the highest tracked value at $144. Promos and other non-C numbered printings sit outside that comparison.

How many Persian 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 Persian card leads the Japanese list?

Rocket’s Persian Ex #53/PCG-P from Promo at $10,700. Japanese is the original printing line, so its top of the list reaches back further than either Chinese or English.

Which Persian card leads the English list?

Giovanni’s Persian [1st Edition] #8 from Gym Challenge at $9,608.

Why are the Korean (2 printings listed here) not in a top ten?

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

What do the marks next to some prices mean?

0 of the thirty ranked cards carry a mark. A double dagger (‡) means no PSA 10 copy of that card has sold in the last six months, so the graded price is a model output rather than a traded one. A single dagger (†) means the same thing, taken further: the model figure ran past the ceiling the card’s own lower grades support, so the ranking uses the capped number instead. 1 of them were reduced as well.

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

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

The other printing lines

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

Korean printings

2 printings

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

• Persian — Night Wanderer #75 — $25
• Team Rocket’s Persian ex — Glory Of Team Rocket #79 — $20

A further 5 Korean printings of Persian 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 Meowth PSA 10 (CBB3C 02/07), the card Persian 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.

Quick answer

CardSpicy (cardspicy.com) ranks the most valuable Ditto cards printed in the Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines. Ditto [Reverse Holo] leads at $8,500 as a PSA 10, and the rankings use tracked PSA 10 sales rather than raw prices. Simplified Chinese set codes end in C, the marker of a Chinese-exclusive print run.

Ditto appears on 3 Chinese-exclusive printings, 1 further Simplified Chinese printings, 1 Traditional Chinese printings, 42 Japanese, 3 Korean and 45 English numbered Pokémon cards, and this page covers every language the character was printed in — Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines.

Ditto carries 3 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 Ditto [Reverse] #132 (151C) at $38. Everything below is arranged by what each card actually trades for, so the page reads the same way whoever is reading it — the Chinese lines come first, and only the numbers change.

How this list was built

Four rules, applied in this order.

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

The Simplified Chinese list — Chinese-exclusive sets

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

3. Ditto — 151C #168 — $21

2. Ditto — 151C #132 — $38

1. Ditto [Reverse] — 151C #132 — $38

This line only yields 3 priced printings for Ditto. Another 1 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.

• Ditto — CSM1.5C #37 — $87

A further 3 Simplified Chinese printings of Ditto 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. Ditto [1st Edition] — Holon Research #3 — $1,299

9. Ditto [1st Edition] — Split Earth #64 — $1,375

8. Ditto [1st Edition] — Holon Research #7 — $1,442†

7. Ditto — Promo #77/XY-P — $1,875

6. Ditto [1st Edition] — Holon Research #46 — $1,925

5. Ditto — Mystery of the Fossils #132 — $1,935

4. Ditto [1st Edition] — Flight of Legends #72 — $2,099

3. Ditto [1st Edition] — Holon Research #24 — $2,616†

2. Ditto [Series II] — Vending #132 — $3,460†

1. Ditto [1st Edition] — Holon Research #33 — $6,328

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.

• Ditto — Holon Research #7 — $1,080
• Ditto [1st Edition] — Holon Research #2 — $1,080
• Ditto — Holon Research #46 — $1,042
• Ditto — Holon Research #33 — $914
• Koga’s Ditto — Challenge from the Darkness #132 — $878
• Ditto — Holon Research #3 — $817
• Ditto [1st Edition] — Cold Flare #42 — $609
• Ditto [1st Edition] — Holon Research #61 — $607
• Ditto — Clash at the Summit #64 — $495
• Ditto — Flight of Legends #72 — $490
• Ditto — Split Earth #64 — $480
• Ditto — Holon Research #2 — $445
• Ditto — Holon Research #24 — $408
• Ditto [Charmander] — Holon Research #3 — $364
• Ditto [1st Edition] — Clash at the Summit #64 — $350
• Ditto — Holon Research #12 — $312
• Ditto — Holon Research #61 — $299
• Ditto — Cold Flare #42 — $246
• Ditto — Promo #166/SV-P — $195
• Ditto — Holon Research #53 — $190
• Ditto [1st Edition] — Holon Research #53 — $161
• Ditto Prism Star — Thunderclap Spark #43 — $150
• Ditto — Shiny Treasure ex #309 — $149
• Ditto — Detective Pikachu #23 — $110
• Ditto — VSTAR Universe #117 — $103
• Ditto — Go #53 — $96
• Ditto — Shiny Treasure ex #144 — $82
• Ditto V — Shiny Star V #323 — $77
• Ditto — VSTAR Universe #197 — $77
• Ditto VMAX — Shiny Star V #324 — $72

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. Koga’s Ditto [1st Edition] — Gym Challenge #10 — $2,424

9. Ditto — Boundaries Crossed #108 — $2,754

8. Ditto Charmander [Reverse Holo] — Delta Species #61 — $3,815

7. Ditto (Pikachu) — Delta Species #63 — $3,935

6. Ditto (Squirtle) [Reverse Holo] — Delta Species #40 — $3,959

5. Ditto (Bulbasaur) [Reverse Holo] — Delta Species #36 — $4,050

4. Ditto [1st Edition] — Fossil #3 — $4,345

3. Ditto (Pikachu) [Reverse Holo] — Delta Species #63 — $7,000

2. Ditto (Pikachu) [Reverse Holo] — Delta Species #39 — $7,817

1. Ditto [Reverse Holo] — Skyridge #51 — $8,500

Ranks 11 and beyond

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

• Ditto Charmander — Delta Species #61 — $2,325
• Ditto (Pikachu) — Delta Species #39 — $2,276
• Ditto (Squirtle) — Delta Species #64 — $2,150
• Ditto (Squirtle) [Reverse Holo] — Delta Species #64 — $2,030
• Ditto (Charmander) — Delta Species #37 — $2,029
• Ditto — Fossil #3 — $1,993
• Ditto (Bulbasaur) — Delta Species #36 — $1,752
• Ditto — Delta Species #37 — $1,700
• Ditto (Charmander) [Reverse Holo] — Delta Species #37 — $1,700
• Ditto (Squirtle) — Delta Species #40 — $1,626
• Ditto (Mr. Mime) [Reverse Holo] — Delta Species #38 — $1,582
• Ditto [Reverse Holo] — Delta Species #35 — $1,575
• Ditto — Delta Species #35 — $1,503
• Ditto — Lost Thunder #154 — $1,500
• Ditto (Geodude) [Reverse Holo] — Delta Species #62 — $1,055
• Koga’s Ditto — Gym Challenge #10 — $936
• Ditto [Holo] — Go #53 — $848
• Ditto (Geodude) — Delta Species #62 — $797
• Ditto — Skyridge #51 — $725
• Ditto [1st Edition] — Fossil #18 — $700
• Ditto [Reverse Holo] — Boundaries Crossed #108 — $611
• Ditto [Reverse Holo] — Triumphant #17 — $542
• Ditto [Reverse Holo] — Legends Awakened #27 — $499
• Ditto — Paldean Fates #201 — $440
• Ditto — Legends Awakened #27 — $395
• Ditto — Detective Pikachu #17 — $358
• Ditto — Fossil #18 — $350
• Ditto — POP Series 3 #12 — $265
• Ditto (Mr. Mime) — Delta Species #38 — $232
• Ditto — Triumphant #17 — $152

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

Where Ditto is printed, across the languages

Printing line	Cards	With a tracked value	Highest
Simplified Chinese — exclusive sets	3	3	$38
Simplified Chinese — other printings	1	1	$87
Traditional Chinese (Taiwan, China / Hong Kong, China)	1	1	$45
Japanese	42	42	$6,328
Korean	3	3	$313
English	45	45	$8,500
All 6 lines	95	95	—

What the ranking shows

On the Chinese-exclusive line, 3 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	3	$98	100.0%
Ranked 5 – 10	0	$0	0.0%
Ranked 11 and below	0	$0	0.0%
Every priced Chinese-exclusive card	3	$98	100%

If you want one card

One card, no budget limit:

Ditto [Reverse] #132 — 151C #132. $38, and it is the card most lists for this character name first.

One card, under two hundred dollars:

Ditto #168 — 151C #168. $21. 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 Ditto card in Simplified Chinese?

Among the Chinese-exclusive numbered sets, Ditto [Reverse] #132 carries the highest tracked value at $38. Promos and other non-C numbered printings sit outside that comparison.

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

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

Which Ditto card leads the Japanese list?

Ditto [1st Edition] #33 from Holon Research at $6,328. Japanese is the original printing line, so its top of the list reaches back further than either Chinese or English.

Which Ditto card leads the English list?

Ditto [Reverse Holo] #51 from Skyridge at $8,500.

Why are the Traditional Chinese (1 printings listed here) and Korean (3 printings listed here) not in a top ten?

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

What do the marks next to some prices mean?

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

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

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

1 printings

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

• Ditto — 30th Celebration #93 — $45

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

Korean printings

3 printings

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

• Ditto — Promo #173/SV-P — $313
• Ditto — VSTAR Universe #197 — $82
• Ditto — VSTAR Universe #117 — $59

A further 2 Korean printings of Ditto 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 Ditto 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 Arbok cards printed in the Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines. Dark Arbok [1st Edition] leads at $1,523 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.

Arbok appears on 3 Chinese-exclusive printings, 13 Japanese, 1 Korean and 35 English numbered Pokémon cards, and this page covers every language the character was printed in — Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines.

Arbok carries 3 numbered Chinese-exclusive printings. The head of the list is Arbok #208 (csv7C) at $46. 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.

3. Arbok EX — 151C #24 — $22

2. Arbok EX — 151C #177 — $29

1. Arbok — csv7C #208 — $46

This line only yields 3 priced printings for Arbok. 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. Arbok — Wild Force #79 — $53

9. Dark Arbok — Rocket Gang Strikes Back #12 — $65

8. Arbok — Expedition Expansion Pack #99 — $88

7. Koga’s Arbok — Challenge from the Darkness #24 — $108

6. Janine’s Arbok — VS #62 — $150

5. Arbok [Series III] — Vending #24 — $284

4. Arbok [1st Edition] — Expedition Expansion Pack #67 — $298

3. Arbok — Mystery of the Fossils #24 — $313†

2. Dark Arbok — Rocket Gang #24 — $352

1. Arbok [1st Edition] — Expedition Expansion Pack #99 — $551

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.

• Arbok — Sky Legend #26 — $48
• Arbok — Expedition Expansion Pack #67 — $45
• Team Rocket’s Arbok — Glory of Team Rocket #57 — $36

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. Arbok [Reverse Holo] — Expedition #3 — $328

9. Arbok [Reverse Holo] — Sandstorm #29 — $393

8. Arbok [1999-2000] — Fossil #31 — $400

7. Dark Arbok — Team Rocket #19 — $442

6. Dark Arbok [Reverse Holo] — Team Rocket Returns #29 — $612

5. Arbok [Reverse Holo] — Expedition #35 — $699

4. Arbok [Reverse Holo] — Great Encounters #33 — $710

3. Arbok [Reverse Holo] — Dragon Frontiers #13 — $1,113

2. Arbok — Expedition #3 — $1,371

1. Dark Arbok [1st Edition] — Team Rocket #2 — $1,523

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.

• Arbok [1st Edition] — Fossil #31 — $308
• Dark Arbok — Team Rocket #2 — $268
• Dark Arbok [1st Edition] — Team Rocket #19 — $255
• Dark Arbok [W Stamp] — Team Rocket #19 — $234
• Arbok — Dragon Frontiers #13 — $233
• Koga’s Arbok [1st Edition] — Gym Challenge #25 — $195
• Arbok — Temporal Forces #176 — $156
• Arbok [Reverse Holo] — Temporal Forces #101 — $150
• Arbok [Reverse Holo] — Hidden Fates #27 — $141
• Dark Arbok — Team Rocket Returns #29 — $141
• Arbok — Great Encounters #33 — $128
• Arbok — Fossil #31 — $125
• Arbok — Expedition #35 — $109
• Team Rocket’s Arbok — Destined Rivals #113 — $55
• Arbok — Hidden Fates #27 — $52
• Arbok — Sandstorm #29 — $48
• Koga’s Arbok — Gym Challenge #25 — $45
• Arbok [Reverse Holo] — XY #48 — $40
• Arbok — XY #48 — $38
• Arbok [Reverse Holo] — Shining Legends #37 — $35
• Arbok [Reverse Holo] — Unbroken Bonds #63 — $33
• Arbok — Unbroken Bonds #63 — $33
• Arbok — Shining Legends #37 — $32
• Team Rocket’s Arbok [Reverse Holo] — Destined Rivals #113 — $32
• Arbok — Temporal Forces #101 — $26

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

Where Arbok is printed, across the languages

Printing line	Cards	With a tracked value	Highest
Simplified Chinese — exclusive sets	3	3	$46
Japanese	13	13	$551
Korean	1	1	$49
English	35	35	$1,523
All 4 lines	52	52	—

What the ranking shows

On the Chinese-exclusive line, 3 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	3	$97	100.0%
Ranked 5 – 10	0	$0	0.0%
Ranked 11 and below	0	$0	0.0%
Every priced Chinese-exclusive card	3	$97	100%

If you want one card

One card, no budget limit:

Arbok #208 — csv7C #208. $46, and it is the card most lists for this character name first.

One card, under two hundred dollars:

Arbok EX #24 — 151C #24. $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 Arbok card in Simplified Chinese?

Among the Chinese-exclusive numbered sets, Arbok #208 carries the highest tracked value at $46. Promos and other non-C numbered printings sit outside that comparison.

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

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

Which Arbok card leads the Japanese list?

Arbok [1st Edition] #99 from Expedition Expansion Pack at $551. Japanese is the original printing line, so its top of the list reaches back further than either Chinese or English.

Which Arbok card leads the English list?

Dark Arbok [1st Edition] #2 from Team Rocket at $1,523.

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

Arbok 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.

• Arbok — Wild Force #79 — $49

A further 3 Korean printings of Arbok 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 an Arbok 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 Lapras cards printed in the Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines. Lapras [1st Edition] leads at $15,750 as a PSA 10, and the rankings use tracked PSA 10 sales rather than raw prices. Simplified Chinese set codes end in C, the marker of a Chinese-exclusive print run.

Lapras appears on 3 Chinese-exclusive printings, 7 further Simplified Chinese printings, 1 Traditional Chinese printings, 53 Japanese, 1 Korean and 61 English numbered Pokémon cards, and this page covers every language the character was printed in — Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines.

Lapras carries 3 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 Lapras #23 (csv5C) at $50. 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.

3. Lapras [Reverse] — 151C #131 — $37

2. Lapras — 151C #131 — $38

1. Lapras — csv5C #23 — $50

This line only yields 3 priced printings for Lapras. Another 9 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. Lapras GX — Collection Sun #67 — $207

9. Lapras [1st Edition] — Mysterious Mountains #29 — $266

8. Pryce’s Lapras — VS #41 — $437

7. Misty’s Lapras — VS #57 — $540

6. Lapras — Mirage Forest #22 — $560

5. Lapras [1st Edition] — Mirage Forest #22 — $565

4. Lapras ex — Mudkip Starter Deck #1 — $600†

3. Lapras [Series II] — Vending #131 — $700

2. Pryce’s Lapras [Unlimited] — VS #41 — $848

1. Lapras — Mystery of the Fossils #131 — $1,131

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.

• Lapras — HeartGold Collection #21 — $178
• Lapras — Mysterious Mountains #29 — $149
• Lapras — Entry Pack DPt #1 — $131
• Lapras GX — Collection Sun #16 — $116
• Misty’s Lapras — Heat Wave Arena #27 — $115
• Lapras — Collection Y #18 — $112
• Lapras — Megalo Cannon #13 — $100
• Lapras [1st Edition] — Megalo Cannon #13 — $99
• Lapras [1st Edition] — Hail Blizzard #15 — $96
• Lapras GX — Collection Sun #61 — $89
• Misty’s Lapras — Heat Wave Arena #72 — $80
• Lapras — Reshiram EX Battle Strength Deck #5 — $77
• Lapras — Hail Blizzard #15 — $70
• Lapras VMAX — Sword #69 — $67
• Lapras — 30th Celebration #106 — $64
• Lapras — VSTAR Universe #177 — $61
• Misty’s Lapras — Start Deck 100 #160 — $59
• Lapras — Start Deck 100 #159 — $54
• Lapras — Family #16 — $52
• Lapras — Miracle Twins #12 — $50
• Lapras — Dragon Storm #17 — $50
• Lapras VMAX — Shiny Star V #312 — $47
• Lapras — Thunderclap Spark #17 — $46
• Lapras V — Shiny Star V #311 — $45
• Lapras ex — Stellar Miracle #117 — $44
• Lapras — Classic: Blastoise #8 — $43
• Lapras ex [Gym] — Promo #2/M-P — $42
• Lapras — Tag Bolt #29 — $41
• Lapras V — Sword #14 — $39
• Lapras [1st Edition] — Collection Y #18 — $38

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

The English list

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

10. Lapras — Great Encounters #21 — $287

9. Lapras — Skyridge #71 — $388

8. Lapras [Reverse Holo] — Great Encounters #21 — $500

7. Lapras — Southern Islands #12 — $550

6. Lapras [1st Edition] — Fossil #25 — $614

5. Lapras — Legend Maker #8 — $1,017

4. Lapras [Reverse Holo] — Legend Maker #8 — $1,818

3. Lapras [Reverse Holo] — Skyridge #71 — $2,481

2. Lapras — Fossil #10 — $4,250

1. Lapras [1st Edition] — Fossil #10 — $15,750†

Ranks 11 and beyond

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

• Misty’s Lapras — Destined Rivals #194 — $274
• Lapras [Reverse Holo] — Platinum #79 — $258
• Lapras — Unified Minds #36 — $204
• Lapras — McDonalds 2019 #5 — $150
• Lapras [7-11] — Stellar Crown #31 — $140
• Lapras — Stellar Crown #31 — $136
• Lapras — Next Destinies #26 — $134
• Lapras — Danone Stadium Tip #24 — $127
• Lapras — Obsidian Flames #45 — $125
• Lapras — Fossil #25 — $119
• Lapras ex — Promo #164 — $114
• Lapras [Reverse Holo] — XY #35 — $108
• Lapras — TCG Classic: Blastoise Deck #8 — $105
• Lapras — Team Up #31 — $103
• Lapras — 30th Celebration #131 — $99
• Lapras [Reverse Holo] — Next Destinies #25 — $91
• Lapras — XY #35 — $86
• Lapras — Chilling Reign #29 — $80
• Lapras [Reverse Holo] — Go #23 — $80
• Lapras [Reverse Holo] — Next Destinies #26 — $72
• Lapras [Reverse Holo] — BREAKpoint #28 — $71
• Lapras — Platinum #79 — $71
• Lapras ex — Stellar Crown #158 — $69
• Lapras [Reverse Holo] — Lost Thunder #56 — $68
• Lapras [Reverse Holo] — Obsidian Flames #45 — $67
• Lapras [Reverse Holo] — Dragon Majesty #21 — $62
• Lapras [Reverse Holo] — Plasma Blast #17 — $60
• Lapras — Brilliant Stars #31 — $53
• Lapras [Reverse Holo] — Stellar Crown #31 — $51
• Lapras [Reverse Holo] — Unified Minds #36 — $50

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

Where Lapras is printed, across the languages

Printing line	Cards	With a tracked value	Highest
Simplified Chinese — exclusive sets	3	3	$50
Traditional Chinese (Taiwan, China / Hong Kong, China)	1	1	$95
Japanese	53	53	$1,131
Korean	1	1	$53
English	61	61	$15,750
All 5 lines	119	119	—

What the ranking shows

On the Chinese-exclusive line, 3 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	3	$126	100.0%
Ranked 5 – 10	0	$0	0.0%
Ranked 11 and below	0	$0	0.0%
Every priced Chinese-exclusive card	3	$126	100%

If you want one card

One card, no budget limit:

Lapras #23 — csv5C #23. $50, and it is the card most lists for this character name first.

One card, under two hundred dollars:

Lapras [Reverse] #131 — 151C #131. $37. 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 Lapras card in Simplified Chinese?

Among the Chinese-exclusive numbered sets, Lapras #23 carries the highest tracked value at $50. Promos and other non-C numbered printings sit outside that comparison.

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

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

Which Lapras card leads the Japanese list?

Lapras #131 from Mystery of the Fossils at $1,131. Japanese is the original printing line, so its top of the list reaches back further than either Chinese or English.

Which Lapras card leads the English list?

Lapras [1st Edition] #10 from Fossil at $15,750.

Why are the Traditional Chinese (1 printings listed here) and 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

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

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

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.

• Lapras — 30th Celebration #106 — $95

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

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.

• Misty’s Lapras — Heat Wave Arena #72 — $53

A further 10 Korean printings of Lapras 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 Lapras 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 Gloom cards printed in the Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines. Gloom [Reverse Holo] leads at $1,260 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.

Gloom appears on 3 Chinese-exclusive printings, 3 further Simplified Chinese printings, 30 Japanese, 1 Korean and 49 English numbered Pokémon cards, and this page covers every language the character was printed in — Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines.

Gloom carries 3 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 Gloom #158 (151C) at $48. 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.

3. Gloom — csv5C #130 — $6

2. Gloom — 151C #44 — $36

1. Gloom — 151C #158 — $48

This line only yields 3 priced printings for Gloom. Another 5 numbered printings in this line carry no graded sold record yet and are therefore not ranked.

The Japanese list

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

10. Gloom — Gold, Silver, New World #44 — $89

9. Gloom [1st Edition] — Reviving Legends #2 — $108

8. Gloom — Holon Phantom #25 — $135

7. Dark Gloom — Rocket Gang #44 — $154

6. Gloom [1st Edition] — Wind from the Sea #2 — $180

5. Gloom — Jungle #44 — $204

4. Gloom — Undone Seal #4 — $210

3. Gloom [1st Edition] — Undone Seal #4 — $211

2. Gloom [1st Edition] — Expedition Expansion Pack #34 — $305

1. Gloom — Expedition Expansion Pack #34 — $348

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.

• Gloom — Best of XY #2 — $84
• Gloom [1st Edition] — Freeze Bolt #2 — $83
• Gloom [1st Edition] — Golden Sky, Silvery Ocean #2 — $80
• Gloom [1st Edition] — Holon Phantom #25 — $79
• Gloom — Battle Region #2 — $79
• Gloom — Battle Rainbow #2 — $76
• Gloom — Golden Sky, Silvery Ocean #2 — $64
• Gloom — Freeze Bolt #2 — $55
• Gloom — Wind from the Sea #2 — $50
• Gloom — Ruler of the Black Flame #109 — $46
• Gloom [1st Edition] — Bandit Ring #2 — $44
• Gloom — Reviving Legends #2 — $43
• Gloom — Dream League #2 — $39
• Gloom — Double Blaze #3 — $39
• Gloom — Paradigm Trigger #2 — $38
• Gloom — Shiny Treasure ex #192 — $37
• Gloom — Ruler of the Black Flame #2 — $35
• Gloom — Inferno X #2 — $34
• Gloom [Reverse Holo] — Battle Region #2 — $14
• Gloom [Reverse Holo] — Shiny Treasure ex #2 — $10

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. Gloom [1st Edition] — Neo Genesis #36 — $200

9. Dark Gloom [1st Edition] — Team Rocket #36 — $219

8. Gloom [1st Edition] — Jungle #37 — $267

7. Gloom — Hidden Legends #35 — $276

6. Gloom — Obsidian Flames #198 — $283

5. Gloom [Reverse Holo] — Ancient Origins #2 — $325

4. Gloom [Reverse Holo] — Unseen Forces #58 — $394

3. Gloom [Reverse Holo] — Aquapolis #49 — $404

2. Gloom [Reverse Holo] — Holon Phantoms #42 — $716

1. Gloom [Reverse Holo] — Expedition #78 — $1,260

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.

• Erika’s Gloom [1st Edition] — Gym Heroes #46 — $188
• Gloom — Paldean Fates #93 — $152
• Gloom — Expedition #78 — $152
• Gloom — Lost Origin #2 — $150
• Gloom [Reverse Holo] — Obsidian Flames #2 — $150
• Gloom [Reverse Holo] — Legends Awakened #96 — $142
• Gloom — Neo Genesis #36 — $142
• Erika’s Gloom [1st Edition] — Gym Heroes #45 — $139
• Gloom [Reverse Holo] — Hidden Legends #35 — $128
• Gloom — Jungle #37 — $120
• Gloom [Reverse Holo] — Legends Awakened #97 — $102
• Gloom — Aquapolis #49 — $100
• Gloom — Holon Phantoms #42 — $86
• Gloom — Cosmic Eclipse #3 — $83
• Erika’s Gloom — Gym Heroes #46 — $80
• Gloom [Reverse Holo] — Undaunted #27 — $73
• Gloom — Legends Awakened #96 — $68
• Gloom — Unseen Forces #58 — $66
• Gloom [Reverse Holo] — Boundaries Crossed #2 — $64
• Gloom — Legends Awakened #97 — $62
• Gloom [Reverse Holo] — Phantasmal Flames #2 — $60
• Dark Gloom — Team Rocket #36 — $56
• Gloom — Undaunted #27 — $54
• Gloom — Boundaries Crossed #2 — $46
• Erika’s Gloom — Gym Heroes #45 — $40
• Gloom [Reverse Holo] — Unbroken Bonds #7 — $39
• Gloom [Reverse Holo] — Burning Shadows #5 — $37
• Gloom [Reverse Holo] — Cosmic Eclipse #3 — $36
• Gloom — Unbroken Bonds #7 — $35
• Gloom [Reverse Holo] — Lost Origin #2 — $35

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

Where Gloom is printed, across the languages

Printing line	Cards	With a tracked value	Highest
Simplified Chinese — exclusive sets	3	3	$48
Japanese	30	30	$348
Korean	1	1	$65
English	49	49	$1,260
All 4 lines	83	83	—

What the ranking shows

On the Chinese-exclusive line, 3 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	3	$90	100.0%
Ranked 5 – 10	0	$0	0.0%
Ranked 11 and below	0	$0	0.0%
Every priced Chinese-exclusive card	3	$90	100%

If you want one card

One card, no budget limit:

Gloom #158 — 151C #158. $48, and it is the card most lists for this character name first.

One card, under two hundred dollars:

Gloom #130 — csv5C #130. $6. 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 Gloom card in Simplified Chinese?

Among the Chinese-exclusive numbered sets, Gloom #158 carries the highest tracked value at $48. Promos and other non-C numbered printings sit outside that comparison.

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

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

Which Gloom card leads the Japanese list?

Gloom #34 from Expedition Expansion Pack at $348. Japanese is the original printing line, so its top of the list reaches back further than either Chinese or English.

Which Gloom card leads the English list?

Gloom [Reverse Holo] #78 from Expedition at $1,260.

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

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

What do the marks next to some prices mean?

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

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

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

The other printing lines

Gloom 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.

• Gloom — Ruler of the Black Flame #109 — $65

A further 3 Korean printings of Gloom 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 Gloom 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 Charmeleon cards printed in the Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines. Charmeleon leads at $11,906 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.

Charmeleon appears on 3 Chinese-exclusive printings, 6 further Simplified Chinese printings, 43 Japanese, 2 Korean and 66 English numbered Pokémon cards, and this page covers every language the character was printed in — Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines.

Charmeleon carries 3 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 Charmeleon [Poke Ball] #15 (csv5C) at $45. Everything below is arranged by what each card actually trades for, so the page reads the same way whoever is reading it — the Chinese lines come first, and only the numbers change.

How this list was built

Four rules, applied in this order.

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

The Simplified Chinese list — Chinese-exclusive sets

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

3. Charmeleon — 151C #5 — $25

2. Charmeleon — csv5C #15 — $38

1. Charmeleon [Poke Ball] — csv5C #15 — $45

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

The Japanese list

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

10. Charmeleon [1st Edition] — Intense Fight in the Destroyed Sky #91 — $451

9. Charmeleon — Promo #53/ADV-P — $510

8. Dark Charmeleon — Rocket Gang #5 — $514

7. Charmeleon — Intense Fight in the Destroyed Sky #91 — $530

6. Dark Charmeleon — Web #22 — $550

5. Dark Charmeleon [1st Edition] — Web #22 — $671

4. Charmeleon — Expansion Pack #5 — $738†

3. Charmeleon — Trainers Magazine #11/T — $765

2. Charmeleon — E-Starter Deck #11 — $960

1. Charmeleon [No Rarity] — Expansion Pack #5 — $4,000

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.

• Charmeleon [1st Edition] — E-Starter Deck #11 — $450
• Blaine’s Charmeleon — Challenge from the Darkness #5 — $390
• Charmeleon — Groudon Constructed Starter Deck #5 — $341
• Charmeleon [1st Edition] — Web #7 — $282
• Charmeleon — PokeKyun Collection #4 — $242
• Charmeleon — Web #7 — $229
• Charmeleon [Reverse Holo] — EX Battle Boost #10 — $127
• Charmeleon — World Champions Pack #7 — $100
• Charmeleon — Advent of Arceus #16 — $96
• Charmeleon — EX Battle Boost #10 — $92
• Charmeleon [1st Edition] — 20th Anniversary #10 — $85
• Charmeleon — Miracle Crystal #12 — $78
• Charmeleon [1st Edition] — Advent of Arceus #16 — $78
• Charmeleon [1st Edition] — EX Battle Boost #10 — $70
• Charmeleon — Classic: Charizard #2 — $61
• Charmeleon — GX Ultra Shiny #167 — $61
• Charmeleon [1st Edition] — Freeze Bolt #11 — $56
• Charmeleon — Battle Rainbow #10 — $52
• Charmeleon — Family #8 — $51
• Charmeleon [Reverse Holo] — Shiny Treasure ex #26 — $48
• Charmeleon — Inferno X #12 — $47
• Charmeleon — Shiny Treasure ex #211 — $46
• Charmeleon — GX Starter Decks #12 — $45
• Charmeleon [Gym Promo] — Promo #45/M-P — $44
• Charmeleon — Dragon Storm #2 — $43
• Charmeleon — Freeze Bolt #11 — $40
• Charmeleon — Tag Bolt #12 — $32
• Charmeleon — Start Deck 100 #84 — $31
• Charmeleon — Go #9 — $30
• Charmeleon — VMAX Climax #16 — $25

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

The English list

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

10. Dark Charmeleon [W Stamp] — Team Rocket #32 — $1,110

9. Charmeleon — POP Series 5 #5 — $1,186

8. Charmeleon [Reverse Holo] — Power Keepers #28 — $1,864

7. Charmeleon [1st Edition] — Base Set #24 — $2,661

6. Charmeleon [Reverse Holo] — Expedition #73 — $2,794

5. Charmeleon — Dragon #99 — $2,945

4. Charmeleon — 25th Anniversary Creatures Deck #2004 — $3,598

3. Charmeleon [Reverse Holo] — Legendary Collection #37 — $5,666

2. Charmeleon — Team Rocket Returns #110 — $7,703

1. Charmeleon — Stormfront #102 — $11,906

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 Charmeleon [1st Edition] — Team Rocket #32 — $741
• Charmeleon — Legendary Collection #37 — $698
• Blaine’s Charmeleon [1st Edition] — Gym Challenge #31 — $586
• Charmeleon [Shadowless] — Base Set #24 — $472
• Charmeleon — Expedition #73 — $416
• Charmeleon [Reverse Holo] — Crystal Guardians #30 — $408
• Charmeleon [Reverse Holo] — Crystal Guardians #29 — $376
• Charmeleon [Reverse Holo] — Secret Wonders #46 — $307
• Charmeleon — Legendary Treasures #18 — $275
• Charmeleon [Reverse Holo] — Evolutions #10 — $253
• Charmeleon [Reverse Holo] — Legendary Treasures #18 — $241
• Charmeleon [Reverse Holo] — Arceus #35 — $213
• Charmeleon — Base Set #24 — $212
• Dark Charmeleon — Team Rocket #32 — $203
• Charmeleon [Reverse Holo] — Boundaries Crossed #19 — $200
• Charmeleon — Crystal Guardians #30 — $199
• Blaine’s Charmeleon — Gym Challenge #31 — $190
• Charmeleon [1999-2000] — Base Set #24 — $185
• Charmeleon [Reverse Holo] — Go #9 — $185
• Charmeleon — Paldean Fates #8 — $140
• Charmeleon [Cosmos Holo] — Paldean Fates #8 — $111
• Charmeleon — Paldean Fates #110 — $108
• Charmeleon — Base Set 2 #35 — $108
• Charmeleon — Crystal Guardians #29 — $90
• Charmeleon [Reverse Holo] — Burning Shadows #19 — $89
• Charmeleon — Secret Wonders #46 — $80
• Charmeleon — Evolutions #10 — $80
• Charmeleon — TCG Classic: Charizard Deck #2 — $80
• Charmeleon [Reverse Holo] — Hidden Fates #8 — $79
• Charmeleon — Power Keepers #28 — $77

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

Where Charmeleon is printed, across the languages

Printing line	Cards	With a tracked value	Highest
Simplified Chinese — exclusive sets	3	3	$45
Japanese	43	43	$4,000
English	66	66	$11,906
All 3 lines	112	112	—

What the ranking shows

On the Chinese-exclusive line, 3 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	3	$108	100.0%
Ranked 5 – 10	0	$0	0.0%
Ranked 11 and below	0	$0	0.0%
Every priced Chinese-exclusive card	3	$108	100%

If you want one card

One card, no budget limit:

Charmeleon [Poke Ball] #15 — csv5C #15. $45, and it is the card most lists for this character name first.

One card, under two hundred dollars:

Charmeleon #5 — 151C #5. $25. It is not the card anyone photographs, but it is the same Pokémon from the same line.

Frequently asked questions

What is the most valuable Charmeleon card in Simplified Chinese?

Among the Chinese-exclusive numbered sets, Charmeleon [Poke Ball] #15 carries the highest tracked value at $45. Promos and other non-C numbered printings sit outside that comparison.

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

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

Which Charmeleon card leads the Japanese list?

Charmeleon [No Rarity] #5 from Expansion Pack at $4,000. Japanese is the original printing line, so its top of the list reaches back further than either Chinese or English.

Which Charmeleon card leads the English list?

Charmeleon #102 from Stormfront at $11,906.

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

Charmeleon 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 Charmeleon 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 Dragonite cards printed in the Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines. Dark Dragonite [Reverse Holo] leads at $71,500 as a PSA 10, and the rankings use tracked PSA 10 sales rather than raw prices. Simplified Chinese set codes end in C, the marker of a Chinese-exclusive print run.

Dragonite appears on 3 Chinese-exclusive printings, 4 further Simplified Chinese printings, 1 Traditional Chinese printings, 69 Japanese, 5 Korean and 79 English numbered Pokémon cards, and this page covers every language the character was printed in — Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines.

Dragonite carries 3 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 Dragonite #111 (CSM2aC) at $125. 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.

3. Dragonite GX — CSM2aC #176 — $56

2. Dragonite — 151C #149 — $99†

1. Dragonite — CSM2aC #111 — $125

This line only yields 3 priced printings for Dragonite. Another 5 numbered printings in this line carry no graded sold record yet and are therefore not ranked.

Other Simplified Chinese printings

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

• Dragonite V — CS4.5C #69 — $380
• Dragonite — CSFC #5 — $67
• Dragonite GX — CSM1bC #103 — $53
• Dragonite VSTAR — CS6bC #106 — $46

A further 7 Simplified Chinese printings of Dragonite 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. Dragonite — Promo #149 — $3,010

9. Dragonite [1st Edition] — Holon Research #39 — $3,100

8. Dragonite ex — Rulers of the Heavens #38 — $4,405

7. Dragonite — Trainers Magazine #18/T — $4,515

6. Dragonite ex [1st Edition] — Rulers of the Heavens #38 — $4,541

5. Dragonite — Mystery of the Fossils #149 — $4,900

4. Dragonite [1st Edition] — Expedition Expansion Pack #126 — $5,333

3. Dragonite ex — Offense and Defense (PCG7) #4 — $8,250

2. Dark Dragonite [Holo 1st Edition] — Silver Deck Kit #14 — $10,050

1. Dark Dragonite — Silver Deck Kit #14 — $11,950

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 Dragonite — Rocket Gang #149 — $2,959
• Flying Dragonite [All Nippon Airways] — Promo #149 — $2,226
• Dragonite — Cry from the Mysterious #180 — $2,225
• Dragonite FB — Promo #18/DPt-P — $2,100
• Dragonite [1st Edition] — Cry from the Mysterious #180 — $2,095
• Light Dragonite — Darkness and to Light #149 — $1,850
• Dragonite [1st Edition] — Web #38 — $1,835
• Dragonite — Web #38 — $1,617
• Lance’s Dragonite — VS #100 — $1,600
• Dragonite EX [1st Edition] — 20th Anniversary #98 — $1,195
• Dragonite EX — Rising Fist #100 — $1,150
• Clair’s Dragonite — VS #49 — $1,125
• Dragonite EX [1st Edition] — Rising Fist #100 — $1,101
• Dark Dragonite [1st Edition] — Silver Deck Kit #13 — $848
• Dragonite ex [1st Edition] — Offense and Defense (PCG7) #4 — $831
• Dragonite — Expedition Expansion Pack #126 — $712
• Dragonite V — Blue Sky Stream #74 — $700
• Dragonite — Holon Research #39 — $588
• Dragonite — Thunder Knuckle #40 — $521
• Dragonite — Dragon Selection #5 — $520
• Dragonite [1st Edition] — Dragon Selection #5 — $496
• Dragonite — Lost Link #31 — $464
• Mega Dragonite ex — Mega Dream ex #250 — $450
• Dragonite [1st Edition] — Thunder Knuckle #40 — $402
• Dragonite [1st Edition] — Expedition Expansion Pack #94 — $400
• Dragonite [1st Edition] — Beat of the Frontier #73 — $389
• Dragonite [1st Edition] — Emerald Break #43 — $299
• Dragonite — Emerald Break #43 — $287
• Dark Dragonite — Silver Deck Kit #13 — $221
• Mega Dragonite ex — Mega Dream ex #246 — $212

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

The English list

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

10. Dragonite [Reverse Holo] — Delta Species #3 — $8,029

9. Dragonite — Fossil #4 — $12,800

8. Light Dragonite [1st Edition] — Neo Destiny #14 — $16,495

7. Dark Dragonite [Holo] — Team Rocket Returns #15 — $16,688

6. Dragonite EX — Dragon #90 — $17,080

5. Dark Dragonite [1st Edition] — Team Rocket #5 — $17,902

4. Dragonite [1st Edition] — Fossil #4 — $19,858

3. Dark Dragonite [Error] — Team Rocket #5 — $30,600

2. Dragonite — Expedition #9 — $55,244

1. Dark Dragonite [Reverse Holo] — Legendary Collection #5 — $71,500

Ranks 11 and beyond

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

• Dark Dragonite [Holo] — Team Rocket #5 — $7,600
• Dragonite [Reverse Holo] — Expedition #9 — $5,177
• Dark Dragonite [Reverse Holo] — Team Rocket Returns #15 — $4,437
• Dragonite — Delta Species #3 — $4,300
• Dragonite — Dragon Vault #5 — $4,050
• Dark Dragonite [1st Edition Error] — Team Rocket #5 — $3,203
• Dark Dragonite — Legendary Collection #5 — $2,787
• Dragonite EX — Dragon Frontiers #91 — $2,645
• Light Dragonite — Neo Destiny #14 — $2,618
• Dragonite [Reverse Holo] — Expedition #43 — $2,500
• Dragonite [National Championships Staff] — Legends Awakened #2 — $2,399
• Dragonite [1999-2000] — Fossil #19 — $2,354
• Dragonite — Roaring Skies #52 — $2,295
• Dragonite — Legends Awakened #2 — $1,934
• Dragonite [1st Edition] — Fossil #19 — $1,811
• Dragonite — Promo #5 — $1,738
• Dark Dragonite — Team Rocket Returns #15 — $1,576
• Dragonite FB — Supreme Victors #56 — $1,464
• Dragonite [Reverse Holo] — Legends Awakened #2 — $1,431
• Dragonite — Plasma Freeze #83 — $1,426
• Dark Dragonite [1st Edition] — Team Rocket #22 — $1,350
• Dragonite FB [Crosshatch Pokemon League] — Supreme Victors #56 — $1,325
• Dragonite EX — Furious Fists #108 — $1,210
• Dragonite — Fossil #19 — $1,095
• Mega Dragonite ex — Ascended Heroes #295 — $1,092
• Dragonite V — Evolving Skies #192 — $1,050
• Dragonite [Cosmos Holo] — Unified Minds #151 — $1,028
• Dragonite FB [Reverse Holo] — Supreme Victors #56 — $1,000
• Dragonite [Cracked Ice Holo] — Unified Minds #151 — $1,000
• Mega Dragonite ex — Ascended Heroes #290 — $999

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

Where Dragonite is printed, across the languages

Printing line	Cards	With a tracked value	Highest
Simplified Chinese — exclusive sets	3	3	$125
Simplified Chinese — other printings	4	4	$380
Traditional Chinese (Taiwan, China / Hong Kong, China)	1	1	$41
Japanese	69	69	$11,950
Korean	5	5	$804
English	79	79	$71,500
All 6 lines	161	161	—

What the ranking shows

On the Chinese-exclusive line, 3 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	3	$280	100.0%
Ranked 5 – 10	0	$0	0.0%
Ranked 11 and below	0	$0	0.0%
Every priced Chinese-exclusive card	3	$280	100%

If you want one card

One card, no budget limit:

Dragonite #111 — CSM2aC #111. $125, and it is the card most lists for this character name first.

One card, under two hundred dollars:

Dragonite GX #176 — CSM2aC #176. $56. 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 Dragonite card in Simplified Chinese?

Among the Chinese-exclusive numbered sets, Dragonite #111 carries the highest tracked value at $125. Promos and other non-C numbered printings sit outside that comparison.

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

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

Which Dragonite card leads the Japanese list?

Dark Dragonite #14 from Silver Deck Kit at $11,950. Japanese is the original printing line, so its top of the list reaches back further than either Chinese or English.

Which Dragonite card leads the English list?

Dark Dragonite [Reverse Holo] #5 from Legendary Collection at $71,500.

Why are the Traditional Chinese (1 printings listed here) and Korean (5 printings listed here) not in a top ten?

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

What do the marks next to some prices mean?

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

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

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

1 printings

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

• Mega Dragonite EX — Mega Dream ex #126 — $41

Korean printings

5 printings

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

• Mega Dragonite ex — Mega Dream ex #246 — $804
• Mega Dragonite ex — Mega Dream ex #250 — $707
• Dragonite V — Blue Sky Stream #74 — $248
• Mega Dragonite ex — Mega Dream ex #232 — $60
• Mega Dragonite ex — Mega Dream ex #126 — $26

A further 3 Korean printings of Dragonite 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 Dragonite 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 Machamp cards printed in the Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines. Machamp [Masaki Promo] leads at $15,500 as a PSA 10, and the rankings use tracked PSA 10 sales rather than raw prices. Simplified Chinese set codes end in C, the marker of a Chinese-exclusive print run.

Machamp appears on 3 Chinese-exclusive printings, 1 further Simplified Chinese printings, 60 Japanese, 1 Korean and 72 English numbered Pokémon cards, and this page covers every language the character was printed in — Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines.

Machamp carries 3 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 Machamp V #141 (cs5bC) at $80. 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.

3. Machamp — 151C #68 — $39

2. Marshadow & Machamp GX — CSM2bC #80 — $64

1. Machamp V — cs5bC #141 — $80

This line only yields 3 priced printings for Machamp. 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. Dark Machamp — Rocket Gang #68 — $606

9. Machamp [1st Edition] — Expedition Expansion Pack #121 — $651

8. Machamp — Mysterious Mountains #53 — $794

7. Machamp [1st Edition] — Clash at the Summit #45 — $925

6. Machamp [1st Edition] — Mysterious Mountains #53 — $926

5. Machamp — Expansion Pack #68 — $1,130

4. Machamp [1st Edition] — Web #48 — $1,488

3. Machamp — Web #48 — $1,688

2. Machamp [No Rarity] — Expansion Pack #68 — $3,077

1. Machamp [Masaki Promo] — Vending #68 — $15,500

Ranks 11 and beyond

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

• Bruno’s Machamp — VS #81 — $570
• Machamp LV.X [1st Edition] — Intense Fight in the Destroyed Sky #52 — $501
• Machamp LV.X — Intense Fight in the Destroyed Sky #52 — $481
• Machamp — Clash at the Summit #45 — $480
• Machamp — Mirage Forest #49 — $456
• Giovanni’s Machamp — Challenge from the Darkness #68 — $448
• Machamp [1st Edition] — Undone Seal #51 — $358
• Machamp [1st Edition] — Mirage Forest #49 — $356
• Marshadow & Machamp GX — Double Blaze #101 — $281
• Machamp EX [1st Edition] — Bandit Ring #88 — $246
• Machamp [1st Edition] — Expedition Expansion Pack #89 — $226
• Machamp — Undone Seal #51 — $218
• Machamp EX — Bandit Ring #88 — $203
• Machamp [1st Edition] — Mysterious Mountains #52 — $190
• Machamp — Expedition Expansion Pack #121 — $182
• Machamp [1st Edition] — Megalo Cannon #41 — $171
• Machamp — Intense Fight in the Destroyed Sky #51 — $122
• Machamp — Megalo Cannon #41 — $119
• Machamp V — Time Gazer #73 — $119
• Machamp GL — Bonds to the End of Time #48 — $112
• Marshadow & Machamp GX — Double Blaze #110 — $100
• Machamp GL [1st Edition] — Bonds to the End of Time #48 — $95
• Machamp [1st Edition] — 20th Anniversary #57 — $95
• Machamp EX [1st Edition] — Bandit Ring #37 — $94
• Machamp [1st Edition] — Clash at the Summit #44 — $94
• Marshadow & Machamp GX — Double Blaze #100 — $90
• Machamp — Clash at the Summit #44 — $84
• Machamp [1st Edition] — Intense Fight in the Destroyed Sky #51 — $80
• Machamp GX — Facing a New Trial #61 — $72
• Machamp GX — Facing a New Trial #53 — $66

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. Machamp [1999-2000] — Base Set #8 — $2,400

9. Machamp [Reverse Holo] — Legendary Collection #15 — $2,564

8. Dark Machamp [1st Edition] — Team Rocket #10 — $3,378

7. Machamp [Cosmos Holo] — 2-Player CD-Rom #8 — $3,400

6. Machamp — Triumphant #95 — $3,421

5. Machamp [Prerelease Staff] — Evolutions #59 — $4,550

4. Machamp [1st Edition] — Base Set #8 — $4,829

3. Machamp LV. X — Stormfront #98 — $6,289

2. Machamp — Expedition #16 — $7,883

1. Machamp [Shadowless] — Base Set #8 — $8,228

Ranks 11 and beyond

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

• Machamp [Reverse Holo] — Legend Maker #9 — $2,362
• Dark Machamp — Team Rocket #10 — $2,352
• Machamp [National Championships] — Hidden Legends #9 — $2,234
• Machamp [National Championships Staff] — Promo #9 — $2,000
• Giovanni’s Machamp [1st Edition] — Gym Challenge #6 — $1,972
• Machamp — Hidden Legends #9 — $1,600
• Giovanni’s Machamp — Gym Challenge #6 — $1,091
• Marshadow & Machamp GX — Unbroken Bonds #199 — $1,083
• Machamp EX — Ancient Origins #90 — $992
• Machamp [Reverse Holo] — Power Keepers #11 — $905
• Machamp [Reverse Holo] — Skyridge #16 — $880
• Machamp — Legend Maker #9 — $805
• Machamp [Reverse Holo] — Expedition #16 — $661
• Machamp — Power Keepers #11 — $655
• Machamp — Skyridge #16 — $607
• Machamp [Prerelease] — Evolutions #59 — $580
• Machamp [Holo] — Evolutions #59 — $580
• Machamp GX — Burning Shadows #135 — $572
• Light Machamp [1st Edition] — Neo Destiny #25 — $564
• Machamp — Promo #43 — $530
• Machamp GX — Burning Shadows #154 — $525
• Machamp [Reverse Holo] — Expedition #51 — $500
• Marshadow & Machamp GX — Unbroken Bonds #221 — $480
• Machamp — Legendary Collection #15 — $411
• Dark Machamp — Team Rocket #27 — $404
• Machamp V — Astral Radiance #172 — $396
• Dark Machamp [1st Edition] — Team Rocket #27 — $375
• Machamp [Reverse Holo] — Hidden Legends #9 — $345
• Machamp [Reverse Holo] — Evolutions #59 — $257
• Marshadow & Machamp GX — Unbroken Bonds #198 — $254

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

Where Machamp is printed, across the languages

Printing line	Cards	With a tracked value	Highest
Simplified Chinese — exclusive sets	3	3	$80
Japanese	60	60	$15,500
Korean	1	1	$4,034
English	72	72	$8,228
All 4 lines	136	136	—

What the ranking shows

On the Chinese-exclusive line, 3 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	3	$182	100.0%
Ranked 5 – 10	0	$0	0.0%
Ranked 11 and below	0	$0	0.0%
Every priced Chinese-exclusive card	3	$182	100%

If you want one card

One card, no budget limit:

Machamp V #141 — cs5bC #141. $80, and it is the card most lists for this character name first.

One card, under two hundred dollars:

Machamp #68 — 151C #68. $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 Machamp card in Simplified Chinese?

Among the Chinese-exclusive numbered sets, Machamp V #141 carries the highest tracked value at $80. Promos and other non-C numbered printings sit outside that comparison.

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

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

Which Machamp card leads the Japanese list?

Machamp [Masaki Promo] #68 from Vending at $15,500. Japanese is the original printing line, so its top of the list reaches back further than either Chinese or English.

Which Machamp card leads the English list?

Machamp [Shadowless] #8 from Base Set at $8,228.

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

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

What do the marks next to some prices mean?

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

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

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

The other printing lines

Machamp 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.

• Machamp [1st Edition] — Base Set #8 — $4,034

A further 2 Korean printings of Machamp 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 Machamp 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 Vulpix cards printed in the Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines. Vulpix [Reverse Holo] leads at $2,700 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.

Vulpix appears on 5 Chinese-exclusive printings, 2 further Simplified Chinese printings, 55 Japanese, 1 Korean and 87 English numbered Pokémon cards, and this page covers every language the character was printed in — Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines.

Vulpix carries 5 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 Vulpix [Stamped] #805 (CBB1C) at $39. 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.

5. Vulpix [Pokeball] — CBB1C #802 — $36

4. Vulpix — 151C #37 — $38

3. Vulpix [Masterball] — CBB1C #804 — $39

2. Vulpix — CBB1C #801 — $39

1. Vulpix [Stamped] — CBB1C #805 — $39

This line only yields 5 priced printings for Vulpix. Another 5 numbered printings in this line carry no graded sold record yet and are therefore not ranked.

The Japanese list

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

10. Vulpix — World Champions Pack #9 — $231

9. Alolan Vulpix — Promo #52/SM-P — $236

8. Vulpix — Darkness and to Light #37 — $250

7. Vulpix — Expansion Pack #37 — $271

6. Vulpix [Series III] — Vending #37 — $340

5. Vulpix — Expedition Expansion Pack #6 — $360†

4. Vulpix [1st Edition] — Web #8 — $395

3. Vulpix — Promo #146/SM-P — $743

2. Alolan Vulpix — Promo #147/SM-P — $760

1. Vulpix [No Rarity] — Expansion Pack #37 — $1,428†

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.

• Vulpix [1st Edition] — Wind from the Sea #21 — $222
• Blaine’s Vulpix — Challenge from the Darkness #37 — $222
• Vulpix [1st Edition] — Expedition Expansion Pack #6 — $222
• Alolan Vulpix — GX Battle Boost #22 — $203
• Vulpix [Reverse Holo] — SoulSilver Collection #12 — $190
• Alolan Vulpix — GX Ultra Shiny #22 — $158
• Vulpix — Wind from the Sea #21 — $138
• Vulpix [1st Edition] — EX Battle Boost #12 — $126
• Alolan Vulpix [Reverse Holo] — GX Ultra Shiny #22 — $125
• Alolan Vulpix — Promo #206/SM-P — $114
• Vulpix — Web #8 — $100
• Vulpix — Undone Seal #16 — $96
• Vulpix — SoulSilver Collection #12 — $89
• Vulpix — Battle Starter Decks #1 — $87
• Vulpix [1st Edition] — Dragon Blast #9 — $82
• Vulpix — EX Battle Boost #12 — $81
• Alolan Vulpix — GX Ultra Shiny #168 — $81
• Alolan Vulpix VSTAR — Incandescent Arcana #87 — $79
• Vulpix [1st Edition] — Undone Seal #16 — $76
• Vulpix — Dragon Blast #9 — $76
• Vulpix — Offense and Defense (PCG7) #29 — $76
• Vulpix [Reverse Holo] — Tag All Stars #17 — $62
• Alolan Vulpix — Facing a New Trial #13 — $60
• Vulpix — Tag Bolt #14 — $58
• Alolan Vulpix — Islands Await You #12 — $57
• Vulpix [1st Edition] — 20th Anniversary #14 — $51
• Alolan Vulpix [Reverse Holo] — Tag All Stars #32 — $50
• Vulpix — Gaia Volcano #12 — $46
• Vulpix [1st Edition] — Gaia Volcano #12 — $44
• Vulpix — Charizard Rayquaza #3 — $44

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. Vulpix [Reverse Holo] — Aquapolis #116 — $414

9. Vulpix [Build-a-Bear] — Primal Clash #20 — $415

8. Vulpix — McDonalds 2016 #1 — $439

7. Brock’s Vulpix — Gym Challenge #37 — $594

6. Vulpix [1st Edition] — Base Set #68 — $799

5. Vulpix [Reverse Holo] — Call of Legends #75 — $1,275

4. Vulpix [Reverse Holo] — Legendary Collection #98 — $1,350

3. Vulpix [Reverse Holo] — Dragon Frontiers #70 — $1,457

2. Vulpix [Reverse Holo] — Expedition #136 — $2,500

1. Vulpix [Reverse Holo] — Emerald #72 — $2,700

Ranks 11 and beyond

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

• Brock’s Vulpix [1st Edition] — Gym Challenge #37 — $345
• Vulpix [Reverse Holo] — Unleashed #68 — $314
• Vulpix [1st Edition] — Neo Destiny #91 — $275
• Vulpix [Reverse Holo] — Mysterious Treasures #107 — $239
• Brock’s Vulpix [1st Edition] — Gym Heroes #73 — $231
• Blaine’s Vulpix [1st Edition] — Gym Challenge #66 — $231
• Vulpix [Reverse Holo] — Evolutions #14 — $220
• Vulpix — Expedition #136 — $209
• Blaine’s Vulpix [1st Edition] — Gym Heroes #65 — $194
• Alolan Vulpix — World Championships 2017 #21 — $192
• Vulpix [Reverse Holo] — Platinum #102 — $184
• Vulpix [Shadowless] — Base Set #68 — $180
• Vulpix [Reverse Holo] — Hidden Legends #81 — $180
• Brock’s Vulpix — Gym Heroes #73 — $177
• Alolan Vulpix [Toys ‘R Us] — Guardians Rising #21 — $167
• Vulpix — Power Keepers #69 — $164
• Vulpix [Reverse Holo] — Dragons Exalted #18 — $150
• Vulpix [Reverse Holo] — Primal Clash #20 — $137
• Brock’s Vulpix [W Stamp] — Gym Challenge #37 — $136
• Vulpix [Reverse Holo] — Power Keepers #69 — $132
• Vulpix — Evolutions #14 — $128
• Alolan Vulpix [Reverse Holo] — Ultra Prism #30 — $124
• Vulpix — Base Set #68 — $121
• Vulpix — Emerald #72 — $118
• Vulpix — Base Set 2 #99 — $112
• Blaine’s Vulpix — Gym Heroes #65 — $109
• Alolan Vulpix [Reverse Holo] — Burning Shadows #27 — $102
• Vulpix — Platinum #102 — $100
• Vulpix — Twilight Masquerade #26 — $97
• Vulpix [1999-2000] — Base Set #68 — $90

And 39 further printings below those, which carry no tracked value at all.

Where Vulpix is printed, across the languages

Printing line	Cards	With a tracked value	Highest
Simplified Chinese — exclusive sets	5	5	$39
Japanese	55	55	$1,428
Korean	1	1	$52
English	87	87	$2,700
All 4 lines	148	148	—

What the ranking shows

On the Chinese-exclusive line, 5 cards carry a tracked value. The four at the top hold 80.9% of it.

Band	Cards	Combined value	Share of total
Ranked 1 – 4	4	$155	80.9%
Ranked 5 – 10	1	$36	19.1%
Ranked 11 and below	0	$0	0.0%
Every priced Chinese-exclusive card	5	$191	100%

If you want one card

One card, no budget limit:

Vulpix [Stamped] #805 — CBB1C #805. $39, and it is the card most lists for this character name first.

One card, under two hundred dollars:

Vulpix [Pokeball] #802 — CBB1C #802. $36. It is not the card anyone photographs, but it is the same Pokémon from the same line.

Frequently asked questions

What is the most valuable Vulpix card in Simplified Chinese?

Among the Chinese-exclusive numbered sets, Vulpix [Stamped] #805 carries the highest tracked value at $39. Promos and other non-C numbered printings sit outside that comparison.

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

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

Which Vulpix card leads the Japanese list?

Vulpix [No Rarity] #37 from Expansion Pack at $1,428. Japanese is the original printing line, so its top of the list reaches back further than either Chinese or English.

Which Vulpix card leads the English list?

Vulpix [Reverse Holo] #72 from Emerald at $2,700.

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

Vulpix 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.

• Vulpix — Mega Brave #67 — $52

A further 9 Korean printings of Vulpix 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 Vulpix 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 Magikarp cards printed in the Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines. Shining Magikarp [1st Edition] leads at $29,000 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.

Magikarp appears on 3 Chinese-exclusive printings, 1 further Simplified Chinese printings, 4 Traditional Chinese printings, 55 Japanese, 3 Korean and 75 English numbered Pokémon cards, and this page covers every language the character was printed in — Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines.

Magikarp carries 3 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 Magikarp & Wailord GX #161 (CSM2aC) at $394. 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.

3. Magikarp & Wailord GX — CSM2aC #5 — $82

2. Magikarp & Wailord GX — CSM2aC #160 — $114

1. Magikarp & Wailord GX — CSM2aC #161 — $394

This line only yields 3 priced printings for Magikarp. Another 5 numbered printings in this line carry no graded sold record yet and are therefore not ranked.

Other Simplified Chinese printings

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

• Magikarp — Promo #24/SV-P — $352

A further 3 Simplified Chinese printings of Magikarp 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. Magikarp [1st Edition] — Mysterious Mountains #26 — $759

9. Magikarp [1st Edition] — Expedition Expansion Pack #12 — $860

8. Magikarp [Reverse Holo] — EX Battle Boost #22 — $899

7. Magikarp — Expansion Pack #129 — $990†

6. Magikarp & Wailord GX — Tag Bolt #99 — $1,900

5. Magikarp — Web #35 — $3,000

4. Magikarp [1st Edition] — Web #35 — $3,038

3. Magikarp [No Rarity] — Expansion Pack #129 — $5,067

2. Shining Magikarp — Awakening Legends #129 — $6,600

1. Pretend Magikarp Pikachu — Promo #150/XY-P — $12,112

Ranks 11 and beyond

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

• Giovanni’s Magikarp — Challenge from the Darkness #129 — $575
• Magikarp — Rocket Gang #129 — $492
• Magikarp [1st Edition] — Rulers of the Heavens #13 — $475
• Magikarp [1st Edition] — Intense Fight in the Destroyed Sky #16 — $468
• Magikarp [Reverse Holo] — SoulSilver Collection #22 — $425
• Magikarp — Promo #210/BW-P — $389
• Magikarp [1st Edition] — Clash of the Blue Sky #23 — $388
• Magikarp — 30th Celebration #165 — $385
• Magikarp [1st Edition] — Holon Phantom #43 — $351
• Magikarp — EX Battle Boost #22 — $335
• Magikarp — SoulSilver Collection #22 — $315
• Magikarp [1st Edition] — Silver Deck Kit #2 — $310
• Magikarp [1st Edition] — EX Battle Boost #22 — $285
• Magikarp & Wailord GX — Tag Bolt #111 — $282
• Magikarp — Triplet Beat #80 — $266
• Magikarp & Wailord GX — Tag Bolt #98 — $250
• Magikarp — Mysterious Mountains #26 — $220
• Magikarp — Clash of the Blue Sky #23 — $200
• Magikarp — VMAX Rising #20 — $196
• Magikarp — Intense Fight in the Destroyed Sky #16 — $194
• Shining Magikarp — 25th Anniversary Promo #10 — $180
• Magikarp — Family #14 — $165
• Magikarp — Ultradimensional Beasts #7 — $161
• Magikarp — Flight of Legends #34 — $160
• Magikarp [1st Edition] — Bandit Ring #19 — $158
• Magikarp — Rulers of the Heavens #13 — $152
• Magikarp — Silver Deck Kit #2 — $143
• Magikarp — Starter Pack #15 — $140
• Magikarp — Garchomp Half Deck #1 — $135
• Magikarp [1st Edition] — Flight of Legends #34 — $133

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

The English list

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

10. Magikarp [Reverse Holo] — Team Rocket Returns #65 — $1,399

9. Magikarp [Reverse Holo] — Legendary Collection #52 — $1,834

8. Magikarp [Reverse Holo] — Skyridge #75 — $2,515

7. Magikarp [1st Edition] — Base Set #35 — $3,225

6. Magikarp — Paldea Evolved #203 — $3,950

5. Magikarp [Cosmos Holo] — Rebel Clash #39 — $4,000

4. Magikarp & Wailord GX — Team Up #161 — $4,050

3. Shining Magikarp — Neo Revelation #66 — $6,183

2. Magikarp [Reverse Holo] — Deoxys #64 — $7,900

1. Shining Magikarp [1st Edition] — Neo Revelation #66 — $29,000

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.

• Magikarp — World Championships 2010 #65 — $1,200
• Magikarp [Toys R Us] — Generations #22 — $966
• Magikarp [Reverse Holo] — Stormfront #65 — $945
• Magikarp — Expedition #118 — $921
• Magikarp [Reverse Holo] — Ancient Origins #19 — $880
• Magikarp [Reverse Holo] — Evolutions #33 — $880
• Magikarp [Reverse Holo] — Holon Phantoms #69 — $851
• Magikarp [Reverse Holo] — Supreme Victors #110 — $848
• Magikarp [Reverse Holo] — Expedition #118 — $765
• Magikarp — McDonalds 2016 #4 — $758
• Magikarp & Wailord GX — Team Up #160 — $686
• Magikarp [Reverse Holo] — Call of Legends #61 — $652
• Magikarp — 30th Celebration #203 — $599
• Magikarp & Wailord GX — Team Up #183 — $577
• Magikarp [Reverse Holo] — Burning Shadows #32 — $573
• Magikarp [Shadowless] — Base Set #35 — $572
• Giovanni’s Magikarp [1st Edition] — Gym Challenge #73 — $500
• Magikarp [Reverse Holo] — Go #21 — $500
• Magikarp — Stormfront #65 — $463
• Magikarp [Reverse Holo] — Generations #22 — $456
• Magikarp [Reverse Holo] — Crimson Invasion #17 — $435
• Misty’s Magikarp [1st Edition] — Gym Challenge #88 — $420
• Magikarp — Holon Phantoms #69 — $419
• Magikarp — Skyridge #75 — $408
• Magikarp [1st Edition] — Team Rocket #47 — $385
• Magikarp [Reverse Holo] — Mysterious Treasures #89 — $352
• Magikarp — Base Set #35 — $338
• Magikarp [Reverse Holo] — Dragon #60 — $321
• Magikarp [1999-2000] — Base Set #35 — $281
• Magikarp — Team Rocket Returns #65 — $275

And 20 further printings below those, which carry no tracked value at all.

Where Magikarp is printed, across the languages

Printing line	Cards	With a tracked value	Highest
Simplified Chinese — exclusive sets	3	3	$394
Simplified Chinese — other printings	1	1	$352
Traditional Chinese (Taiwan, China / Hong Kong, China)	4	4	$289
Japanese	55	55	$12,112
Korean	3	3	$387
English	75	75	$29,000
All 6 lines	141	141	—

What the ranking shows

On the Chinese-exclusive line, 3 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	3	$590	100.0%
Ranked 5 – 10	0	$0	0.0%
Ranked 11 and below	0	$0	0.0%
Every priced Chinese-exclusive card	3	$590	100%

If you want one card

One card, no budget limit:

Magikarp & Wailord GX #161 — CSM2aC #161. $394, and it is the card most lists for this character name first.

One card, a few hundred dollars:

Magikarp & Wailord GX #161 — CSM2aC #161. $394, which is the strongest card on the page that is still reachable without a vintage budget.

One card, under two hundred dollars:

Magikarp & Wailord GX #5 — CSM2aC #5. $82. 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 Magikarp card in Simplified Chinese?

Among the Chinese-exclusive numbered sets, Magikarp & Wailord GX #161 carries the highest tracked value at $394. Promos and other non-C numbered printings sit outside that comparison.

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

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

Which Magikarp card leads the Japanese list?

Pretend Magikarp Pikachu #150/XY-P from Promo at $12,112. Japanese is the original printing line, so its top of the list reaches back further than either Chinese or English.

Which Magikarp card leads the English list?

Shining Magikarp [1st Edition] #66 from Neo Revelation at $29,000.

Why are the Traditional Chinese (4 printings listed here) and Korean (3 printings listed here) not in a top ten?

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

What do the marks next to some prices mean?

0 of the thirty ranked cards carry a mark. A double dagger (‡) means no PSA 10 copy of that card has sold in the last six months, so the graded price is a model output rather than a traded one. A single dagger (†) means the same thing, taken further: the model figure ran past the ceiling the card’s own lower grades support, so the ranking uses the capped number instead. 1 of them were reduced as well.

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

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

The other printing lines

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

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

4 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.

• Magikarp — 30th Celebration #165 — $289
• Magikarp — Triple Beat #80 — $245
• Magikarp — 25th Anniversary #10 — $135
• Shining Magikarp — 25th Anniversary Golden Box #10 — $125

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

Korean printings

3 printings

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

• Magikarp — Promo #40/M-P — $387
• Magikarp — 30th Celebration #165 — $279
• Magikarp — Triple Beat #80 — $199

A further 3 Korean printings of Magikarp 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 Magikarp 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.