
Nidoking

- Number
- 011/102
- Rarity
- Holo Rare
- Artist
- Ken Sugimori
- Released
- Jan 9, 1999
Sold price movement
- 12 months ago
- $244.76£184.22€215.55
- Today
- $396.29£298.27€349
- Change
- +$151.53+£114.05+€133.45 (+61.9%)
Market activity
| Price type | Pop share | PopulationPop | Sold 90d | Median | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Raw | – | 15 | $380£286.01€334.65 | $396.29£298.27€349 | |
| PSA 1 | 40 | 1 | – | – | |
| PSA 2 | 45 | – | – | – | |
| PSA 3 | 60 | 2 | – | $265.25£199.64€233.60 | |
| PSA 4 | 159 | 4 | – | $348£261.92€306.47 | |
| PSA 5 | 272 | 6 | $423£318.37€372.52 | $423£318.37€372.52 | |
| PSA 6 | 350 | 7 | $549.99£413.95€484.36 | $549.99£413.95€484.36 | |
| PSA 7 | 381 | 5 | $780£587.06€686.92 | $781£587.82€687.80 | |
| PSA 8 | 466 | 6 | $1,030£775.23€907.09 | $1,005£756.47€885.14 | |
| PSA 9 | 606 | 9 | $2,202£1,657€1,939 | $2,025£1,524€1,783 | |
| CGC/BGS 9.5 | – | – | – | $5,000£3,763€4,403 | |
| PSA 10 | 91 | 3 | – | $14,502£10,915€12,771 | |
About these prices
3.7% of copies sent to PSA come back a 10. 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 3,469 completed sales, updated Sep 17, 2026.
Price history
Recent sales
3,469 completed listings on eBay, Fanatics Collect, Alt
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PSA has graded 6,480 copies. Where they landed:
Why the verdict weights the odds
Only 2.2% 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 $1,211£911.47€1,067 on average against $1,415£1,065€1,246 for the card plus $999£751.89€879.79 at Premium 1, the cheapest level PSA will insure it at. That loses $204.27£153.75€179.90, so a copy is worth more raw.
Card facts
- Card number
- 011/102
- Rarity
- Holo Rare
- Illustrator
- Ken Sugimori
- Set released
- Jan 9, 1999
- PSA population, all printings
- 6,480
- Printings priced
- 2
- Set value
- $15k£11k€13k
- 7 day move
- +0.5%
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The same card in other sets
What moves the price of this card
The Nidoking on this page is the 1st Edition Holofoil printing from Base Set (Shadowless), and it trades at $349.98£263.41€308.22 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 1 $119.99£90.31€105.67, PSA 2 $59.99£45.15€52.83, PSA 3 $51£38.38€44.91, PSA 4 $255.81£192.53€225.28, PSA 5 $65£48.92€57.24, PSA 6 $128.05£96.38€112.77, PSA 7 $781£587.82€687.80, PSA 8 $1,005£756.47€885.14, PSA 9 $2,025£1,524€1,783, CGC/BGS 9.5 $5,000£3,763€4,403, PSA 10 $14,502£10,915€12,771. PSA has graded 6,480 copies of it. 3,469 completed sales are on file.
What is a PSA 10 Nidoking worth?
A PSA 10 Nidoking from Base Set (Shadowless) sells for $14,502. 3.7% 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 Nidoking from Base Set (Shadowless) worth grading?
On the numbers, yes. The average submission is worth $1,490 with every grade weighted by how often this card comes back at it, against $396.29 for a raw copy plus $1,019 to send it through PSA Premium 1, so it clears $74.48.
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 $14,502£10,915€12,771. 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 Nidoking does
Stage2, evolves from Nidorino · 90 HP · retreat 3
Flip a coin. If heads, this attack does 30 damage plus 10 more damage; if tails, this attack does 30 damage and Nidoking does 10 damage to itself.
The Defending Pokémon is now Poisoned. It now takes 20 Poison damage instead of 10 after each player's turn (even if it was already Poisoned).
Weak to Psychic ×2. Tournament legal in neither standard nor expanded.
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