Chikorita 99/165

Over the last 30 days, an ungraded Chikorita has moved up 9.2% to $8.28. PSA 10 copies are up 234.5% over the same period.

Chikorita #99/165 appears roughly 1 in 10.5 packs, which works out at 9.5% per pack. That makes it one of the harder cards to pull from Expedition Base Set.

Chikorita #99/165 is a Common, one of the higher rarity tiers in Expedition Base Set.

At $8.28 raw, you need a PSA 10 to profit. A PSA 10 sells for $500.00, giving a net return of +$398.72 after grading costs and selling fees. PSA 9 returns −$1.71 and PSA 8 returns −$19.48, so anything below a 10 loses money on this card.

PSA have graded 178 copies of Chikorita #99/165, of which 71 came back as PSA 10. That is a gem rate of 39.9%, or roughly 1 in 2.5 graded copies.

No. At a 39.9% gem rate, Chikorita grades better than the Expedition Base Set average by 22.3 points. Most submitted copies come back clean.

Chikorita #99/165 was illustrated by Miki Tanaka, who has illustrated 398 Pokémon cards in total.

Chikorita #99/165 was released on 15 September 2002 as part of Expedition Base Set. It belongs to the Vintage era and features a Generation 2 Pokémon from the Johto region.