Lt. Surge’s Pikachu 81/132

Over the last 30 days, an ungraded Lt. Surge’s Pikachu has moved up 6% to $32.27. PSA 10 copies are up 15.3% over the same period.

Lt. Surge’s Pikachu #81/132 appears roughly 1 in 7 packs, which works out at 14.3% per pack. That makes it one of the harder cards to pull from Gym Heroes.

Lt. Surge’s Pikachu #81/132 is a Common, one of the higher rarity tiers in Gym Heroes.

At $32.27 raw, you need a PSA 10 to profit. A PSA 10 sells for $2,454.87, giving a net return of +$2,075.47 after grading costs and selling fees. PSA 9 returns +$130.01 and PSA 8 returns +$15.63, so PSA 8, 9 and 10 can all return a profit on this card.

PSA have graded 1,967 copies of Lt. Surge’s Pikachu #81/132, of which 227 came back as PSA 10. That is a gem rate of 11.5%, or roughly 1 in 8.7 graded copies.

Yes. At a 11.5% gem rate, Lt. Surge’s Pikachu grades worse than the Gym Heroes average by 3.2 points. Clean copies are harder to come by.

Lt. Surge’s Pikachu #81/132 was illustrated by Ken Sugimori, who has illustrated 2072 Pokémon cards in total.

Lt. Surge’s Pikachu #81/132 was released on 14 August 2000 as part of Gym Heroes. It belongs to the Vintage era and features a Generation 1 Pokémon from the Kanto region.