Poliwhirl #176 value & price
Reviewed by Mumbles · Updated 22 Oct 2026Related Poliwhirl & chase cards
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Poliwhirl is one of those illustration rares that quietly stops you mid-scroll, thanks to Gemi's artwork bringing a bit of personality to a Pokemon that usually gets overlooked. It comes from the Korean Scarlet & Violet 151 set released in 2023, and if you are trying to figure out Poliwhirl's value right now, the short answer is that a raw copy sits at $41 while graded versions tell a much more interesting story. Collectors love it precisely because it is affordable to own raw but still has real upside if you send it in for grading.
Price history
InteractiveRaw value is $8.98, up 62% over the past year, with an all-time high of $10 in May 2026.
Recent pulls of Poliwhirl
Real pulls of this card across the tracked pack-opening sites, data no price guide has.
$19CGC 9.5 MINT+Pokémon Starter PackCourtyard · 40m ago
$53PSA 9 MINTGengar's Game Night 3Courtyard · 42m ago$53PSA 9 MINTGengar's Game Night 3Courtyard · 1h ago
$250PSA 10Legendary Pokémon Gacha PackCollector Crypt · 1h ago
$35RawPokémon Starter PackPackz · 1h ago$35RawPokémon Trainer PackPackz · 2h ago
$19CGC 9.5 MINT+Pokémon Starter PackCourtyard · 2h ago
$353CGC 10 GEM MINTPokémon Platinum (Spicy)Courtyard · 2h ago
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Poliwhirl price at every grade
Market value at each grade. The population is hidden: PriceCharting shows the same counts for another card, so we cannot tell which card they belong to.
| Grade | Value | Population |
|---|---|---|
| PSA 10 (Gem Mint) | $310 | - |
| PSA 9 | $64 | - |
| PSA 8 | $44 | - |
| PSA 7 | $35 | - |
| PSA 6 | $31 | - |
| PSA 5 | $25 | - |
| PSA 4 | $21 | - |
| PSA 3 | $18 | - |
| PSA 2 | $16 | - |
| PSA 1 | - | - |
| Raw / Ungraded | $12 | - |
Prices & population from PriceCharting. Value shown is the PSA-grade market price; population is split by grading company.
Card details
- Card number
- 176
- Rarity
- Illustration rare
- Type
- Water
- HP
- 90
- Stage
- Stage1
- Weakness
- Lightning ×2
- Retreat cost
- 1
- Illustrator
- Gemi
Attacks
- Wave Splash20Water
- Frog Hop30+Water · Colorless
Flip a coin. If heads, this attack does 60 more damage.
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The collector's take on Poliwhirl
Is Poliwhirl worth grading?
So is Poliwhirl worth grading? Here is the honest breakdown. But that number only tells half the story, because Grade 9 copies are currently valued even higher at $8,000, which is a reminder that grading markets can shift and gem mint isn't automatically the top of the ladder. Hitting a true PSA 10 is genuinely hard since Poliwhirl's surface and edges need to be close to flawless, and grading costs money and time with no guarantee you'll land the grade you're hoping for. If you already have a clean copy sitting in a sleeve, it might be worth the gamble, but go in knowing it is a gamble either way.
Where can you pull Poliwhirl?
This is where PackSpy's own tracking comes in handy, because we log real pulls across pack sites rather than just guessing. Poliwhirl has been pulled 200 or more times across packs, courtyard, mnstr, and collector-crypt, with the biggest recorded pull value hitting $288, so it does show up if you're opening in the right places. We've specifically seen it land in XY Evolutions, Pokémon Master Pack, Pack 1, The Amazing Chase Encore, and Pokémon Pro Pack.
Questions people ask
Is Poliwhirl worth grading?+
It can be, since a PSA 10 sits at 111.6x the raw price of $41. That said, grading costs money and gem mint is genuinely tough to land, and interestingly Grade 9 is currently valued even higher than PSA 10, so it's worth weighing the numbers before you submit.
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