FireRed & LeafGreen · #8 · 2004
Market price: The going rate for an ungraded copy of this exact printing, from actual sales data — TCGplayer for USD, Cardmarket for EUR. Updated daily. · Normal (non-holo): The plain printing — no foil anywhere. Price trackers say “Normal,” collectors say “non-holo”; usually the cheapest version of the card.
$28.78
Steady · 27dvia TCGplayer, updated Oct 16, 2026
Graded: Examined by a professional company, scored 1–10, and sealed in a labeled case. Graded copies trade at their own prices, grade by grade. PSA 10 $3,000 · PSA 9 $375 · CGC 10 $615
Set rank: Where this card's market price ranks among the priced cards in its set — #1 is the set's most valuable card. in FireRed & LeafGreen
What This Card Trades At
Raw: An ungraded card — no slab, no label, no official score. The market price is the raw benchmark. · Normal
$28.78 (TCGplayer Market price: The going rate for an ungraded copy of this exact printing, from actual sales data — TCGplayer for USD, Cardmarket for EUR. Updated daily.)
PSA: Professional Sports Authenticator, the biggest grading company. Grades 1–10; PSA 10 is Gem Mint, and PSA slabs are the easiest to price and sell.
CGC: Certified Guaranty Company, one of the big three graders. Grades 1–10, with a Pristine 10 above Gem Mint 10; CGC slabs often sell a little below PSA.
Latest sold prices As of (a date): The price in force on the day we last checked — not a sale that closed that day. Rows marked “sold” carry the real sale day.. PSA and CGC grade on the same 1–10 scale, but the market prices them differently — what grades mean →
Sold data via Card Hedge
We're checking eBay for live listings of this card — counts and asking prices land here within a day.
Browse eBay now →What it actually sells for
Our chart tracks TCGplayer's market price and the asking prices of live eBay listings — what sellers want, not what buyers paid. Completed sale prices live on eBay itself: see recent sold listings for this card →
Nidoking sits at $28.78 on TCGplayer today for the Normal printing.
Inside FireRed & LeafGreen, that ranks 26th out of 116 priced cards. The set's top card is Gengar ex at $1,400. We've logged its price daily since Sep 21, 2025: $7.50 then, $28.78 now (up 283.7%). The last 90 days have been quiet — it's held near $28.78. Since September 2025 it's run as high as $39.39 (October 2026) and as low as $7.50 (September 2025). Its 30-day range runs from $28.78 up to $39.39. The Normal printing is the headline number here; the Holofoil at $81.32 and the Reverse Holofoil at $58.99 price separately. Across the Atlantic, the European prints list around €20.50 on Cardmarket.
By Printing
By printing: Normal (non-holo): The plain printing — no foil anywhere. Price trackers say “Normal,” collectors say “non-holo”; usually the cheapest version of the card. $28.78 · Holo: The artwork shines with a foil pattern. A separate printing from the plain card, and in vintage sets often worth many times more. $81.32 · Reverse holo: Everything except the artwork is foil — the reverse of a normal holo. It's a separate printing and prices on its own. $58.99
TCGplayer prices each printing on its own — the Normal printing is the headline number on this page. Same card, same number — the print run or foil treatment is what changes.
Poké-Body Power Gene
As long as Nidoking is in play, your attacks by Nidoran ♀, Nidorina, Nidoqueen, Nidoran ♂, and Nidorino do 10 more damage to the Defending Pokémon.
Earth Poison40
Cost: Fighting, Colorless
If the Defending Pokémon already has any damage counters on it, the Defending Pokémon is now Poisoned.
Bound Crush
Cost: Fighting, Fighting, Colorless, Colorless
Choose 1 of your opponent's Pokémon. This attack does 60 damage to that Pokémon. (Don't apply Weakness and Resistance for Benched Pokémon.) Nidoking can't use Bound Crush during your next turn.
About $28.78 for an ungraded copy. That's the TCGplayer market price for the Normal printing, updated Oct 16, 2026. Graded copies in great shape usually sell for more. What grading means →
About $3,000 — the latest PSA 10 sold price we have, as of Oct 16, 2026. For comparison, an ungraded copy trades around $28.78 (TCGplayer market price). Sold data via Card Hedge.
Pretty flat over the last 3 months — it's held around $28.78 (TCGplayer market price). Zoom out a whole year and it's up 60%. Prices move a little every day, so the chart on this page has the freshest line.
The highest market price we've logged is $39.39 — that was October 2026. We've been writing this card's price down since September 2025, so that's the record on our watch, not an all-time record.
The European printings list around €20.50 on Cardmarket — they share one price there, because Cardmarket prices the physical card across languages. This English print trades at $28.78 on TCGplayer. Two marketplaces, two currencies — so watch both numbers instead of converting one into the other.
eBay is the easiest place — this page links straight to the live listings for Nidoking (FireRed & LeafGreen #8). Check the photos and the seller's rating first. That's the rule.
Cards trading near $28.78 today.
FireRed & LeafGreen
