Empoleon
Sold price movement
- 12 months ago
- $7.23£5.44€6.37
- Today
- $6.18£4.65€5.44
- Change
- -$1.05-£0.79-€0.92 (-14.5%)
Market activity
| Price type | Pop share | PopulationPop | Sold 90d | Median | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Raw | – | – | – | $6.18£4.65€5.44 | |
| PSA 6 | 2 | – | – | – | |
| PSA 7 | 1 | – | – | $3.25£2.45€2.86 | |
| PSA 8 | 9 | – | – | $26.99£20.31€23.77 | |
| PSA 9 | 9 | – | – | $30£22.58€26.42 | |
| CGC/BGS 9.5modelled | – | – | – | $33£24.84€29.06 | |
| PSA 10 | – | – | – | $219.99£165.57€193.74 | |
About these prices
0.0% of copies sent to PSA come back a 10. The 9.5 is a CGC and BGS grade, so it carries no PSA population.
Priced from 141 completed sales, updated Sep 25, 2026.
Price history
Recent sales
141 completed listings on eBayShow 129 more
Pokémon Empoleon Platinum Rare Stage 2 Card 26/127 Regular 130 HP English 26/127$0.01£0.01€0.01102009 Pokemon Platinum # 26 Empoleon Non Holo PSA 10 Card! GEM MINT! Pop 2 #26$99.97£75.24€88.049Cert 91503483Auction$30£22.58€26.428Cert 74525526Auction$18.02£13.56€15.878Cert 74525526Auction$18.52£13.94€16.318Cert 75458767Auction$8.50£6.40€7.498Cert 73295966Auction$12.98£9.77€11.438Cert 73295966Auction$13.44£10.12€11.8482009 Platinum Base Set Empoleon 26/127 - PSA 8 - Non-Holo Rare Pokemon Card$12.96£9.75€11.419Cert 69004158Auction$47.11£35.46€41.49102009 Pokemon PSA 10 Empoleon - 26/127 Platinum Base GEM MINT POP 1$59.99£45.15€52.8382009 Pokemon Platinum Empoleon FB Holo Crosshatch League #27 PSA 8$29.99£22.57€26.41More from Platinum
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Shaymin Lv.X (Land Forme)Grading odds
CGC has graded 44 copies. Where they landed:
These are CGC grades. The prices above are for PSA slabs, and a CGC 10 is not the same grade as a PSA 10, so read the two as separate markets rather than one.
Why the verdict weights the odds
Only 5.7% of copies reach a 10, which is why the top price is the wrong number to plan around. Weighting each grade’s PSA price by these odds, a submission is worth $35.91£27.03€31.63 on average against $106.17£79.91€93.50 for the card plus $79.99£60.20€70.44 at Regular, the cheapest level PSA will insure it at. That loses $70.26£52.88€61.88, so a copy is worth more raw.
1 of the 5 grades priced above had no sales at that grade, so the figure is modelled from the grades that did rather than observed.
Card facts
- Card number
- 26/127
- Rarity
- Rare
- Illustrator
- Mitsuhiro Arita
- Set released
- Feb 11, 2009
- PSA population, all printings
- 35
- Printings priced
- 2
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The same card in other sets
Plasma Freeze117/116$293.33£220.77€258.33
Diamond and Pearl4/130$20.93£15.75€18.43
Majestic Dawn17/100$18£13.55€15.85
Stormfront2/100$16.86£12.69€14.85
Dark Explorers29/108$9.86£7.42€8.68
Black and White PromosBW56$9.27£6.98€8.16
Legendary Treasures35/113$8.39£6.31€7.39
World Championship Decks4/130$5.45£4.10€4.80What moves the price of this card
The Empoleon on this page is the Reverse Holofoil printing from Platinum, and it trades at $10.82£8.14€9.53 in near mint condition. The other 1 printing of the same card sits lower, which is normal: the scarcer print run always carries the premium.
Graded, it runs PSA 7 $3.25£2.45€2.86, PSA 8 $26.99£20.31€23.77, PSA 9 $30£22.58€26.42, CGC/BGS 9.5 $33£24.84€29.06, PSA 10 $219.99£165.57€193.74. PSA has graded 35 copies of it. 141 completed sales are on file.
What is a PSA 10 Empoleon worth?
A PSA 10 Empoleon from Platinum sells for $219.99. 0.0% of the copies PSA has graded came back a 10, so that price is the best case rather than the one a submission should expect.
Is Empoleon from Platinum worth grading?
On the numbers, no. The average submission is worth $25.17 with every grade weighted by how often this card comes back at it, against $6.18 for a raw copy plus $99.99 to send it through PSA Regular, so it loses $81.00.
Condition does most of the work below the surface. A copy with soft corners or a print line off centre trades well under the market price shown here, and a copy clean enough to grade trades well above it, which is why the PSA 10 sits at $219.99£165.57€193.74. Before you value your own copy, look at the corners under a light and check the centring on the back, where most cards give themselves away.
What Empoleon does
Stage2, evolves from Prinplup · 130 HP · retreat 2
Knock Off40Choose 1 card from your opponent's hand without looking and discard it.
Jet SmashChoose 1 of your opponent's Pokémon. This attack does 70 damage to that Pokémon. (Don't apply Weakness and Resistance for Benched Pokémon.) Empoleon can't use Jet Smash during your next turn.
Weak to Lightning +30. Tournament legal in neither standard nor expanded.