Empoleon
- Number
- 81/131
- Rarity
- Holo Rare
- Released
- May 4, 2018
Sold price movement
- 12 months ago
- $2.61£1.96€2.30
- Today
- $1.19£0.90€1.05
- Change
- -$1.42-£1.07-€1.25 (-54.4%)
Market activity
| Price type | Pop share | PopulationPop | Sold 90d | Median | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Raw | – | 24 | $2£1.51€1.76 | $1.19£0.90€1.05 | |
| PSA 6 | 1 | – | – | – | |
| PSA 7 | 2 | – | – | $11.25£8.47€9.91 | |
| PSA 8 | 7 | – | – | $13.50£10.16€11.89 | |
| PSA 9 | 6 | – | – | $16.99£12.79€14.96 | |
| CGC/BGS 9.5modelled | – | – | – | $19£14.30€16.73 | |
| PSA 10 | 3 | – | – | $34.91£26.27€30.74 | |
About these prices
Sold and median are 90 days of PSA sales. The 9.5 is a CGC and BGS grade, so it carries no PSA population.
Priced from 126 completed sales, updated Sep 12, 2026.
Price history
Recent sales
126 completed listings on eBay
1x Empoleon - 81/131 - Holo Rare Forbidden Light Pokemon Near Mint 81/131$1.20£0.90€1.06Show 114 more
Empoleon 81/131 Holo Rare Forbidden Light Pokemon Lightly Played 81/131$1.49£1.12€1.31Pokemon Empoleon Forbidden Light SM06 #81/131 Holo Rare Holo LP BUY 2, 1 FREE! 81/131$1.98£1.49€1.749Empoleon 81/131 Sun Moon Forbidden Light Pokemon Card Graded PSA 9 MINT 81/131$23.55£17.72€20.74Empoleon 81/131 Holo Rare Forbidden Light Pokemon Card Near Mint 81/131$3.31£2.49€2.92Empoleon 81/131 - Holo Holo Rare - SM - Forbidden Light - HP - Pokemon 81/131$2.49£1.87€2.19Empoleon 81/131 – Forbidden Light – Lightly Played Holo Rare Pokémon 81/131$1.49£1.12€1.3110Pokémon FORBIDDEN LIGHT EMPOLEON 81/131 RARE HOLO Gem Mint Psa 10 #81$24.50£18.44€21.5810Cert 60462832Auction$24.50£18.44€21.587Cert 58551066Auction$4.69£3.53€4.139Cert 57874387Auction$11.50£8.66€10.1310Cert 41401848Best offer$74.98£56.43€66.039Cert 45862281Auction$17.90£13.47€15.768Cert 45521571Auction$8.98£6.76€7.918Cert 45521571Auction$3.25£2.45€2.8610Cert 40956465Auction$5.50£4.14€4.84More from SM - Forbidden Light
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PSA has graded 25 copies. Where they landed:
Why the verdict weights the odds
Only 16.0% 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 $17.65£13.28€15.54 on average against $101.18£76.15€89.11 for the card plus $79.99£60.20€70.44 at Regular, the cheapest level PSA will insure it at. That loses $83.53£62.87€73.56, 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
- 81/131
- Rarity
- Holo Rare
- Set released
- May 4, 2018
- PSA population, all printings
- 25
- Printings priced
- 2
SM - Forbidden Light146 cards- Set value
- $1.4k£1.1k€1.3k
- 7 day move
- +0.4%
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The same card in other sets
What moves the price of this card
The Empoleon on this page is the Holofoil printing from SM - Forbidden Light, and it trades at $1.01£0.76€0.89 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 $11.25£8.47€9.91, PSA 8 $13.50£10.16€11.89, PSA 9 $16.99£12.79€14.96, CGC/BGS 9.5 $19£14.30€16.73, PSA 10 $34.91£26.27€30.74. PSA has graded 25 copies of it. 126 completed sales are on file.
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 $34.91£26.27€30.74. 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.