
Poliwhirl

- Set
- Base Set 2
- Number
- 057/130
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Artist
- Ken Sugimori
- Released
- Feb 24, 2000
Sold price movement
- 12 months ago
- $1.92£1.45€1.69
- Today
- $1.39£1.05€1.22
- Change
- -$0.53-£0.40-€0.47 (-27.6%)
Market activity
| Price type | Pop share | PopulationPop | Sold 90d | Median | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Raw | – | 31 | $1.46£1.10€1.29 | $1.39£1.05€1.22 | |
| PSA 1 | 1 | – | – | – | |
| PSA 2 | 1 | – | – | – | |
| PSA 3 | 1 | – | – | – | |
| PSA 4 | 3 | – | – | – | |
| PSA 5 | 4 | – | – | – | |
| PSA 6 | 9 | – | – | – | |
| PSA 7 | 16 | – | – | $16£12.04€14.09 | |
| PSA 8 | 40 | 1 | – | $20£15.05€17.61 | |
| PSA 9 | 97 | 1 | – | $22£16.56€19.37 | |
| CGC/BGS 9.5modelled | – | – | – | $24£18.06€21.14 | |
| PSA 10 | 48 | – | – | $53.34£40.15€46.97 | |
About these prices
21.8% 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 233 completed sales, updated Sep 30, 2026.
Price history
Recent sales
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9Grading odds
CGC has graded 265 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 21.0% 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 $25.97£19.54€22.87 on average against $101.38£76.30€89.28 for the card plus $79.99£60.20€70.44 at Regular, the cheapest level PSA will insure it at. That loses $75.41£56.76€66.42, 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
- 057/130
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Illustrator
- Ken Sugimori
- Set released
- Feb 24, 2000
- PSA population, all printings
- 229
- Printings priced
- 1
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The same card in other sets
What moves the price of this card
The Poliwhirl on this page is the Normal printing from Base Set 2, and it trades at $1.79£1.35€1.58 in near mint condition. Only one printing of this card was produced, so there is no cheaper version to confuse it with.
Graded, it runs PSA 7 $16£12.04€14.09, PSA 8 $20£15.05€17.61, PSA 9 $22£16.56€19.37, CGC/BGS 9.5 $24£18.06€21.14, PSA 10 $53.34£40.15€46.97. PSA has graded 229 copies of it. 233 completed sales are on file.
What is a PSA 10 Poliwhirl worth?
A PSA 10 Poliwhirl from Base Set 2 sells for $53.34. 21.8% 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 Poliwhirl from Base Set 2 worth grading?
On the numbers, no. The average submission is worth $26.26 with every grade weighted by how often this card comes back at it, against $1.39 for a raw copy plus $99.99 to send it through PSA Regular, so it loses $75.12.
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 $53.34£40.15€46.97. 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 Poliwhirl does
Stage1, evolves from Poliwag · 60 HP · retreat 1
Choose 1 of defenders attacks. Defender cannot use that attack next turn.
Flip 2 coins. This attack does 30 damage times number of heads.
Weak to Grass ×2. Tournament legal in neither standard nor expanded.
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