Dark Charmeleon #32 value & price
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Dark Charmeleon #32 comes from the Team Rocket set, one of the earliest expansions to give Pokemon a shadowy, villain-themed makeover, and that novelty is a big part of why collectors still ask about Dark Charmeleon value years later. It's not the flashiest card in a binder, but a raw copy sitting around $5 makes it an easy one to pick up just to have, and the numbers climb fast once grading enters the picture. If you're trying to figure out how much Dark Charmeleon is worth right now, the short answer is: modest raw, surprisingly strong at the top end.
Price history
InteractiveRaw value is $5.24, up 9% over the past year, with an all-time high of $20 in December 2020.
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Dark Charmeleon price at every grade
Market value at each grade, with how many exist (population). 2,315 graded, only 127 are PSA 10.
| Grade | Value | Population | PSA / CGC |
|---|---|---|---|
| PSA 10 (Gem Mint) | $203 | 127 | 95 / 32 |
| PSA 9 | $68 | 473 | 371 / 102 |
| PSA 8 | $48 | 605 | 372 / 233 |
| PSA 7 | $32 | 434 | 292 / 142 |
| PSA 6 | $22 | 298 | 202 / 96 |
| PSA 5 | $22 | 215 | 165 / 50 |
| PSA 4 | $18 | 101 | 86 / 15 |
| PSA 3 | $15 | 38 | 31 / 7 |
| PSA 2 | $14 | 13 | 12 / 1 |
| PSA 1 | $11 | 11 | 11 / - |
| Raw / Ungraded | $5.24 | - | - |
Prices & population from PriceCharting. Value shown is the PSA-grade market price; population is split by grading company (PSA / CGC).
Card details
- Set
- Team Rocket
- Card number
- 32 of 83
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Type
- Fire
- HP
- 50
- Stage
- Stage1
- Weakness
- Water ×2
- Retreat cost
- 2
- Illustrator
- Kagemaru Himeno
- Released
- 2000
Attacks
- Tail Slap20Colorless · Colorless
- Fireball70Fire · Fire · Fire
Use this attack only if there are any Energy cards attached to Dark Charmeleon. Flip a coin. If heads, discard 1 of those Energy cards. If tails, this attack does nothing (not even damage).
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The collector's take on Dark Charmeleon
Is Dark Charmeleon worth grading?
Here's the honest math: a raw Dark Charmeleon runs about $5, a Grade 9 jumps to $62, and a PSA 10 sits at $216, which works out to 42.0x the raw price. That's a real gap, and it's tempting. But gem mint 10s are hard to hit on a card like this, centering and edge wear from the era can knock you down to a 9 without warning, and grading fees plus turnaround time eat into any profit if you're only sending in one card. If you've got a copy that looks sharp in hand, corners crisp, centering even, it's worth considering. If it's a beat up bulk copy, save your grading budget for a better candidate.
How rare is Dark Charmeleon?
Team Rocket cards from this era weren't printed with the same scale as modern sets, and Dark Charmeleon fits into that lower mass-production tier that makes older cards feel scarcer just by nature of time. We don't have a hard population count to point to here, but the price spread between raw, Grade 9, and PSA 10 tells its own story: gem mint copies are clearly the rare exception, not the rule, which is exactly why that top tier commands such a premium over the $5 raw price.
Where can you pull Dark Charmeleon?
PackSpy has tracked Dark Charmeleon being pulled 12 times across the sites we monitor, specifically courtyard and collector-crypt, and the biggest recorded pull came in at $675. It's shown up in a mix of pack types too, including the Pokemon Pro Pack, Elite Pokemon Gacha Pack, Starter Pokemon Gacha Pack, Grail Pokemon Gacha Pack, and Pokemon Starter Pack, so it's not locked to one product. That spread is the kind of detail a price guide won't show you, it's real pull data across real openings, which is the whole point of what we track here.
Questions people ask
How much is Dark Charmeleon worth?+
A raw, ungraded Dark Charmeleon is worth about $5. Grade it and the value climbs, with a Grade 9 sitting at $62 and a PSA 10 reaching $216.
Is Dark Charmeleon worth grading?+
It depends on the condition of your copy. A PSA 10 is worth 42.0x the raw price, which is a big jump, but gem mint copies are genuinely hard to land, and grading fees plus the risk of coming back a 9 mean it's not a guaranteed win.
What set is Dark Charmeleon from?+
Dark Charmeleon is card #32 from the Team Rocket set, one of the classic early expansions built around the villainous Team Rocket theme.
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