Question 1

Is Poliwrath worth grading?

Accepted Answer

Here's the honest math: a raw Poliwrath sits at $359, a Grade 9 jumps to $2,250, and a PSA 10 sits at $17,700, which works out to roughly 49.4 times the raw price. That's a serious gap, and it's tempting to think every copy in your binder is a lottery ticket. But gem mint is genuinely hard to hit on a 1999 card like this, corners soften, edges wear, centering drifts, and grading costs money and time whether you pull a 10 or a 7. If you've got a copy that looks sharp under a light with clean corners and solid centering, grading can make sense. If it's got visible wear, you're often better off enjoying it raw or selling it as is rather than gambling on a submission fee.

Question 2

How rare is Poliwrath?

Accepted Answer

Across all the copies that have ever been sent in, there are 2,632 graded examples of this Poliwrath on record, and of those, only 115 have come back as a PSA 10. That tells you most of the surviving population lands somewhere in the middle, not pristine, but not beat up either. When you consider how few reach that top gem mint tier out of thousands graded, it makes sense why the PSA 10 price sits so far above everything else. Scarcity at the top is really what's driving that $17,700 figure.

Question 3

Where can you pull Poliwrath?

Accepted Answer

We've tracked 67 recorded pulls of this Poliwrath across collector-crypt, lastpack, courtyard, and packs, with the biggest recorded pull coming in at $450. It's shown up in a mix of products, from Elite Pokémon Gacha Pack and Starter Pokémon Gacha Pack to more casual mixes like trainer, noobie, and vintage breaks. That spread tells you it's not locked to one specific product, it turns up here and there across different pack types, though it's far from a guaranteed hit. Worth remembering too that opening packs chasing a card like this is a gamble, most rips don't come close to covering their cost, so treat any pull as a nice surprise rather than a plan.

Question 4

How much is Poliwrath worth?

Accepted Answer

A raw, ungraded Poliwrath 1st Edition #13 is currently valued around $359. Once graded, that number moves quite a bit, sitting near $2,250 for a Grade 9 and reaching $17,700 for a PSA 10. Condition really is everything with this card.

Question 5

Is Poliwrath worth grading?

Accepted Answer

It can be, especially since a PSA 10 is worth about 49.4 times the raw price. But only 115 out of 2,632 graded copies have hit that top grade, so gem mint is rare, not guaranteed. If your copy has clean edges and centering, grading is worth considering, but if it shows wear, the fees may not pay off.

Question 6

Why is the Poliwrath 1st Edition #13 print worth more than the standard one?

Accepted Answer

The 1st Edition stamp marks this as part of an earlier, more limited print run from 1999, and collectors have always placed a premium on those early copies over later reprints. That extra demand is a big part of why this Poliwrath commands $359 raw and up to $17,700 in PSA 10, values you simply don't see on later, unstamped prints of the same card.

Grade	Value	Population	PSA / CGC
PSA 10 (Gem Mint)	$18k	115	100 / 15
PSA 9	$2.3k	585	550 / 35
PSA 8	$1.1k	566	470 / 96
PSA 7	$699	411	346 / 65
PSA 6	$510	369	320 / 49
PSA 5	$433	331	293 / 38
PSA 4	$359	146	116 / 30
PSA 3	$320	61	55 / 6
PSA 2	$288	26	26 / -
PSA 1	$293	22	21 / 1
Raw / Ungraded	$360	-	-

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