Piplup #85 value & price
Reviewed by Mumbles · Updated 18 Aug 2026Related Piplup & chase cards
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Piplup is the little water-type starter that turns up as card #85 in the 2009 Korean Inferno X set, a common card but one illustrated by the legendary Mitsuhiro Arita, whose artwork tends to stick with collectors long after the pack is opened. It's not a card that's going to fund a retirement, but there's something genuinely nice about owning a piece with that name attached to it. If you're here checking the Piplup value, the short answer is that a raw copy runs about $7, with graded versions worth quite a bit more.
Price history
InteractiveRaw value is $7.38, up 146% over the past year, with an all-time high of $7.38 in September 2026.
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Piplup price at every grade
Market value at each grade, with how many exist (population).
| Grade | Value | Population |
|---|---|---|
| PSA 10 (Gem Mint) | $50 | - |
| PSA 9 | $20 | - |
| PSA 8 | - | - |
| PSA 7 | - | - |
| PSA 6 | - | - |
| PSA 5 | - | - |
| PSA 4 | - | - |
| PSA 3 | - | - |
| PSA 2 | - | - |
| PSA 1 | - | - |
| Raw / Ungraded | $7.38 | - |
Prices & population from PriceCharting. Value shown is the PSA-grade market price; population is split by grading company.
Card details
- Card number
- 85
- Rarity
- Common
- Type
- Water
- HP
- 60
- Stage
- Basic
- Weakness
- Lightning +10
- Retreat cost
- 1
- Illustrator
- Mitsuhiro Arita
Attacks
- Muddy Water10Water
Does 10 damage to 1 of your opponent's Benched Pokémon. (Don't apply Weakness and Resistance for Benched Pokémon.)
- Pound20Water · Colorless
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The collector's take on Piplup
Is Piplup worth grading?
Grading Piplup is one of those decisions that comes down to math and patience. A raw copy sits at $7, a Grade 9 brings $19, and a PSA 10 sits at $50, which works out to roughly 7.2 times what the raw card sells for. That's a real jump, but gem mint is genuinely hard to land on a common from an older set like this, corners soften, edges wear, and centering issues creep in more than people expect. Between grading fees, shipping, and the wait, you can easily spend more than the card is worth chasing a 10, so it's worth being honest with yourself about the actual condition of your copy before you send it in.
How rare is Piplup?
Piplup is a common card, which means it was never printed to be scarce in the first place, plenty of copies came out of Inferno X packs back in 2009. Where the real scarcity shows up is at the top of the grading scale. Commons get overlooked and mishandled more than people think, so a clean PSA 10 is harder to find than the print run alone would suggest, and that gap between plentiful raw copies and a handful of gem mint ones is exactly what keeps the graded price meaningfully higher.
Where can you pull Piplup?
We track real pulls across collector-crypt, courtyard, packs, and tilt-rips, and Piplup has shown up 200 or more times across those platforms, which tells us it's not a card that's hiding, it's genuinely in circulation. The biggest recorded pull we've logged for it came in at $150, a nice reminder that even a common can occasionally pay off big if the grade lines up. If you want to try pulling one yourself, it's been seen most often in the Elite Pokémon Gacha Pack, Pokémon Starter Pack, Pokémon Basic Pack, Water Pack, and Starter Pokémon Gacha Pack. Just remember that opening packs is a gamble, most rips don't beat what you paid, so treat any pull as a bonus rather than a plan.
Questions people ask
How much is Piplup worth?+
A raw, ungraded Piplup from the 2009 Korean Inferno X set is worth about $7. Grading can push that higher, with a Grade 9 at $19 and a PSA 10 at $50, so the value really depends on condition and whether it's been graded.
Is Piplup worth grading?+
It can be, if your copy is genuinely clean, since a PSA 10 sells for about 7.2 times the raw price. But gem mint commons from this era aren't easy to pull off, and grading costs and shipping can eat into any profit, so it's worth weighing the risk before sending it in.
How much is a PSA 10 Piplup worth?+
A PSA 10 Piplup from Inferno X is worth $50, compared to $7 raw and $19 for a Grade 9. That gap shows just how much a perfect grade matters, even on a common card.
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