{
  "url": "https://www.moonstonehq.com/articles/which-pokemon-cards-are-worth-the-most",
  "slug": "which-pokemon-cards-are-worth-the-most",
  "title": "Which Pokémon Has the Most Valuable Cards?",
  "summary": "We priced every English printing of all 1,025 Pokémon. Charizard's twelve dearest come to $11,340.18. Pikachu has 226 printings and ranks eighth.",
  "section": "Market Structure",
  "published": "2026-09-22",
  "readMinutes": 8,
  "publisher": "moonstone",
  "findings": [
    {
      "value": "1,025",
      "measures": "Pokémon with at least one priced English card",
      "basis": "every species our indices table seeds"
    },
    {
      "value": "$11,340.18",
      "measures": "Charizard's twelve dearest printings combined",
      "basis": "the highest of any Pokémon"
    },
    {
      "value": "$42.07",
      "measures": "the median Pokémon's twelve dearest combined",
      "basis": "half of all Pokémon come to less than this"
    },
    {
      "value": "24.1%",
      "measures": "of all that value held by ten Pokémon",
      "basis": "out of 1,025"
    }
  ],
  "tables": [
    {
      "title": "Pokémon ranked by their twelve dearest English printings, September 22, 2026",
      "columns": [
        "#",
        "Pokémon",
        "Top twelve",
        "Printings priced",
        "Median printing",
        "Dearest card"
      ],
      "rows": [
        {
          "#": "1",
          "Pokémon": "Charizard",
          "Top twelve": "$11,340.18",
          "Printings priced": "114",
          "Median printing": "$72.18",
          "Dearest card": "[M Charizard EX](/card/xy2-108), $1,501.23"
        },
        {
          "#": "2",
          "Pokémon": "Lugia",
          "Top twelve": "$10,713.84",
          "Printings priced": "41",
          "Median printing": "$45.81",
          "Dearest card": "[Lugia](/card/ecard2-149), $4,500.00"
        },
        {
          "#": "3",
          "Pokémon": "Gengar",
          "Top twelve": "$10,432.16",
          "Printings priced": "55",
          "Median printing": "$57.22",
          "Dearest card": "[Gengar & Mimikyu GX](/card/sm9-165), $1,940.59"
        },
        {
          "#": "4",
          "Pokémon": "Rayquaza",
          "Top twelve": "$8,943.78",
          "Printings priced": "61",
          "Median printing": "$84.06",
          "Dearest card": "[Rayquaza VMAX](/card/swsh7-218), $1,255.44"
        },
        {
          "#": "5",
          "Pokémon": "Mew",
          "Top twelve": "$8,881.14",
          "Printings priced": "56",
          "Median printing": "$110.70",
          "Dearest card": "[Mew ☆ δ](/card/ex15-101), $3,500.00"
        },
        {
          "#": "6",
          "Pokémon": "Umbreon",
          "Top twelve": "$8,801.41",
          "Printings priced": "48",
          "Median printing": "$83.73",
          "Dearest card": "[Umbreon VMAX](/card/swsh7-215), $2,283.14"
        },
        {
          "#": "7",
          "Pokémon": "Mewtwo",
          "Top twelve": "$8,361.33",
          "Printings priced": "92",
          "Median printing": "$39.73",
          "Dearest card": "[Rocket’s Mewtwo](/card/bog-8), $2,400.00"
        },
        {
          "#": "8",
          "Pokémon": "Pikachu",
          "Top twelve": "$7,692.52",
          "Printings priced": "226",
          "Median printing": "$13.44",
          "Dearest card": "[Pikachu Star](/card/ex13-104), $1,899.99"
        },
        {
          "#": "9",
          "Pokémon": "Latios",
          "Top twelve": "$7,135.44",
          "Printings priced": "51",
          "Median printing": "$17.38",
          "Dearest card": "[Latias & Latios GX](/card/sm9-170), $3,910.42"
        },
        {
          "#": "10",
          "Pokémon": "Latias",
          "Top twelve": "$7,066.57",
          "Printings priced": "49",
          "Median printing": "$12.64",
          "Dearest card": "[Latias & Latios GX](/card/sm9-170), $3,910.42"
        },
        {
          "#": "11",
          "Pokémon": "Kyogre",
          "Top twelve": "$5,132.12",
          "Printings priced": "35",
          "Median printing": "$42.66",
          "Dearest card": "[Kyogre Star](/card/ex11-112), $1,602.99"
        },
        {
          "#": "12",
          "Pokémon": "Dragonite",
          "Top twelve": "$4,780.67",
          "Printings priced": "50",
          "Median printing": "$36.45",
          "Dearest card": "[Dragonite](/card/ecard1-9), $799.69"
        },
        {
          "#": "13",
          "Pokémon": "Torchic",
          "Top twelve": "$4,656.92",
          "Printings priced": "32",
          "Median printing": "$1.03",
          "Dearest card": "[Torchic ☆](/card/ex7-108), $4,500.00"
        },
        {
          "#": "14",
          "Pokémon": "Gyarados",
          "Top twelve": "$4,616.00",
          "Printings priced": "64",
          "Median printing": "$19.66",
          "Dearest card": "[Gyarados ☆ δ](/card/ex13-102), $1,333.56"
        },
        {
          "#": "15",
          "Pokémon": "Groudon",
          "Top twelve": "$4,380.47",
          "Printings priced": "35",
          "Median printing": "$47.89",
          "Dearest card": "[Groudon Star](/card/ex11-111), $1,010.00"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "title": "The Pokémon with the most priced English printings",
      "columns": [
        "Pokémon",
        "Printings",
        "Median printing",
        "Top twelve",
        "Rank on the ladder"
      ],
      "rows": [
        {
          "Pokémon": "Pikachu",
          "Printings": "226",
          "Median printing": "$13.44",
          "Top twelve": "$7,692.52",
          "Rank on the ladder": "8"
        },
        {
          "Pokémon": "Charizard",
          "Printings": "114",
          "Median printing": "$72.18",
          "Top twelve": "$11,340.18",
          "Rank on the ladder": "1"
        },
        {
          "Pokémon": "Eevee",
          "Printings": "92",
          "Median printing": "$5.05",
          "Top twelve": "$2,401.46",
          "Rank on the ladder": "43"
        },
        {
          "Pokémon": "Mewtwo",
          "Printings": "92",
          "Median printing": "$39.73",
          "Top twelve": "$8,361.33",
          "Rank on the ladder": "7"
        },
        {
          "Pokémon": "Raichu",
          "Printings": "86",
          "Median printing": "$7.15",
          "Top twelve": "$2,409.19",
          "Rank on the ladder": "42"
        },
        {
          "Pokémon": "Meowth",
          "Printings": "68",
          "Median printing": "$1.94",
          "Top twelve": "$702.10",
          "Rank on the ladder": "105"
        },
        {
          "Pokémon": "Unown",
          "Printings": "68",
          "Median printing": "$2.00",
          "Top twelve": "$218.99",
          "Rank on the ladder": "225"
        },
        {
          "Pokémon": "Lucario",
          "Printings": "67",
          "Median printing": "$11.56",
          "Top twelve": "$2,068.93",
          "Rank on the ladder": "48"
        },
        {
          "Pokémon": "Gyarados",
          "Printings": "64",
          "Median printing": "$19.66",
          "Top twelve": "$4,616.00",
          "Rank on the ladder": "14"
        },
        {
          "Pokémon": "Gardevoir",
          "Printings": "61",
          "Median printing": "$20.26",
          "Top twelve": "$3,344.73",
          "Rank on the ladder": "26"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "title": "Cost of one copy of every priced English printing, September 22, 2026",
      "columns": [
        "Pokémon",
        "Every printing",
        "Printings",
        "Rank on the top-twelve ladder"
      ],
      "rows": [
        {
          "Pokémon": "Charizard",
          "Every printing": "$22,651.26",
          "Printings": "114",
          "Rank on the top-twelve ladder": "1"
        },
        {
          "Pokémon": "Pikachu",
          "Every printing": "$14,971.21",
          "Printings": "226",
          "Rank on the top-twelve ladder": "8"
        },
        {
          "Pokémon": "Gengar",
          "Every printing": "$14,111.81",
          "Printings": "55",
          "Rank on the top-twelve ladder": "3"
        },
        {
          "Pokémon": "Rayquaza",
          "Every printing": "$13,838.46",
          "Printings": "61",
          "Rank on the top-twelve ladder": "4"
        },
        {
          "Pokémon": "Mewtwo",
          "Every printing": "$13,185.34",
          "Printings": "92",
          "Rank on the top-twelve ladder": "7"
        },
        {
          "Pokémon": "Mew",
          "Every printing": "$12,320.42",
          "Printings": "56",
          "Rank on the top-twelve ladder": "5"
        },
        {
          "Pokémon": "Lugia",
          "Every printing": "$11,996.53",
          "Printings": "41",
          "Rank on the top-twelve ladder": "2"
        },
        {
          "Pokémon": "Umbreon",
          "Every printing": "$10,965.24",
          "Printings": "48",
          "Rank on the top-twelve ladder": "6"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "charts": [],
  "sections": [
    "The fifteen most valuable Pokémon, by their top twelve cards",
    "Torchic is thirteenth and its median card costs a dollar",
    "Pikachu has twice as many cards as anyone and ranks eighth",
    "Buy every printing instead and Pikachu moves to second",
    "Half of all Pokémon are worth less than fifty dollars in total"
  ],
  "method": [
    "Universe: the 1,025 Pokémon species our indices table seeds, every one of which matches at least one priced English printing. A printing counts for a Pokémon when the card name carries that Pokémon's name as a whole word, matched after folding accents, apostrophes and the gender signs so that Flabébé, Farfetch'd and Nidoran ♀ count for their own species. Mewtwo never counts for Mew, Charizard Spirit Link counts for Charizard, and a card naming two Pokémon such as Latias & Latios GX counts for both. That double count is deliberate and disclosed: it is why Latios and Latias sit adjacent with nearly identical totals. Prices are the most recent daily market price recorded per TCGplayer product in our price_history table, dated September 22, 2026 for all but six of the 21,661 priced printings, whose last reading is a few days older, and they are asks rather than completed sales; the twelve-card sum is a cost-to-buy figure, not a valuation of a holding. Medians use the upper-middle value on even samples. Japanese-language printings are excluded throughout. Nothing here is financial advice."
  ],
  "terms": "Figures are moonstone's own recorded measurements, dated as published. Quote them with the population stated beside them. The article at `url` is the human form of this file."
}