
Piplup

- Number
- 121
- Rarity
- Common
- Artist
- Hajime Kusajima
- Released
- Aug 19, 2009
Sold price movement
- 12 months ago
- $6.49£4.88€5.72
- Today
- $17.99£13.54€15.84
- Change
- +$11.50+£8.66+€10.13 (+177%)
Market activity
| Price type | Pop share | PopulationPop | Sold 90d | Median | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Raw | – | – | – | $17.99£13.54€15.84 | |
| PSA 5 | 1 | – | – | – | |
| PSA 8 | 4 | – | – | $35.28£26.55€31.07 | |
| PSA 9modelled | 1 | – | – | $124.58£93.76€109.71 | |
| CGC/BGS 9.5modelled | – | – | – | $137£103.11€120.65 | |
| PSA 10modelled | – | – | – | $327.88£246.78€288.75 | |
About these prices
The 9.5 is a CGC and BGS grade, so it carries no PSA population.
Priced from 203 completed sales, updated Sep 12, 2026.
Price history
Recent sales
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8
9Grading odds
CGC has graded 31 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 12.5% 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 $106.87£80.44€94.12 on average against $117.98£88.80€103.90 for the card plus $79.99£60.20€70.44 at Regular, the cheapest level PSA will insure it at. That loses $11.11£8.36€9.78, so a copy is worth more raw.
3 of the 4 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
- 121
- Rarity
- Common
- Illustrator
- Hajime Kusajima
- Set released
- Aug 19, 2009
- PSA population, all printings
- 24
- Printings priced
- 2
- Set value
- $4.9k£3.7k€4.3k
- 7 day move
- +1.0%
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The same card in other sets
What moves the price of this card
The Piplup on this page is the Reverse Holofoil printing from Supreme Victors, and it trades at $19.95£15.02€17.57 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 8 $35.28£26.55€31.07, PSA 9 $124.58£93.76€109.71, CGC/BGS 9.5 $137£103.11€120.65, PSA 10 $327.88£246.78€288.75. PSA has graded 24 copies of it. 203 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 $327.88£246.78€288.75. 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 Piplup does
Basic · 60 HP · retreat 1
Weak to Lightning +10. Tournament legal in neither standard nor expanded.
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