Defender 80/102

Over the last 30 days, an ungraded Defender has moved down 9.7% to $1.12. PSA 10 copies are up 24.7% over the same period.

Defender #80/102 appears roughly 1 in 10.7 packs, which works out at 9.3% per pack. That makes it one of the harder cards to pull from Base Set.

Defender #80/102 is a Uncommon, one of the higher rarity tiers in Base Set.

At $1.12 raw, you need a PSA 10 to profit. A PSA 10 sells for $485.06, giving a net return of +$392.88 after grading costs and selling fees. PSA 9 returns +$19.23 and PSA 8 returns +$3.04, so PSA 8, 9 and 10 can all return a profit on this card.

PSA have graded 779 copies of Defender #80/102, of which 126 came back as PSA 10. That is a gem rate of 16.2%, or roughly 1 in 6.2 graded copies.

Yes. At a 16.2% gem rate, Defender grades worse than the Base Set average by 1.5 points. Clean copies are harder to come by.

Defender #80/102 was illustrated by Keiji Kinebuchi, who has illustrated 406 Pokémon cards in total.

Defender #80/102 was released on 9 January 1999 as part of Base Set. It belongs to the Vintage era.