Salamence 8/99

Over the last 30 days, an ungraded Salamence has moved up 3.1% to $18.40. PSA 10 copies are unchanged over the same period.

Salamence #8/99 appears roughly 1 in 48 packs, which works out at 2.1% per pack. That makes it one of the harder cards to pull from Arceus.

Salamence #8/99 is a Rare, one of the higher rarity tiers in Arceus.

At $18.40 raw, you need a PSA 10 to profit. A PSA 10 sells for $634.81, giving a net return of +$505.88 after grading costs and selling fees. PSA 9 returns +$508.83 and PSA 8 returns +$19.72, so PSA 8, 9 and 10 can all return a profit on this card.

PSA have graded 246 copies of Salamence #8/99, of which 12 came back as PSA 10. That is a gem rate of 4.9%, or roughly 1 in 21 graded copies.

Yes. At a 4.9% gem rate, Salamence grades worse than the Arceus average by 5.4 points. Clean copies are harder to come by.

Salamence #8/99 was illustrated by Shin Nagasawa, who has illustrated 611 Pokémon cards in total.

Salamence #8/99 was released on 4 November 2009 as part of Arceus. It belongs to the Vintage era and features a Generation 3 Pokémon from the Hoenn region.