Team Rocket · #45 · 2000
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. · Unlimited: The regular print run of an early set — no edition stamp, many more copies. The affordable way to own a vintage print.
$6.81
up4% · 28dvia TCGplayer, updated Oct 10, 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 $69.95 · PSA 9 $43.99 · PSA 8 $40.00
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 Team Rocket
What This Card Trades At
Raw: An ungraded card — no slab, no label, no official score. The market price is the raw benchmark. · Unlimited
$6.81 (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.
SGC: Sportscard Guaranty — a long-running grader with black-bordered slabs. Grades 1–10 in half steps; fewer Pokémon sales than the big three.
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
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Today's TCGplayer market price for Dark Vaporeon is $6.81 for the Unlimited printing.
Among the 83 priced cards in Team Rocket, it sits 38th. The set's top card is Dark Charizard at $382. We've logged its price daily since Feb 8, 2024: $1.44 then, $6.81 now (up 372.9%). A year ago it sat around $3.75; today's $6.81 is 81.6% higher. Over the last 90 days it's up 14.3%, from $5.96. Since February 2024 it's run as high as $7.18 (August 2026) and as low as $1.26 (June 2024). Its 30-day range runs from $6.27 up to $6.85. The Unlimited printing is the headline number here; the 1st Edition at $27.96 prices separately. Across the Atlantic, the European prints list around €6.11 on Cardmarket.
By Printing
By printing: Unlimited: The regular print run of an early set — no edition stamp, many more copies. The affordable way to own a vintage print. $6.81 · First edition: The very first print run, marked with a small “Edition 1” stamp on the card's left side. Far scarcer than the Unlimited run, and priced on its own. $27.96
TCGplayer prices each printing on its own — the Unlimited printing is the headline number on this page. Same card, same number — the print run or foil treatment is what changes.
Bite30
Cost: Colorless, Colorless, Colorless
Whirlpool20
Cost: Water, Water, Colorless
If the Defending Pokémon has any Energy cards attached to it, choose 1 of them and discard it.
“A Pokémon capable of controlling water, so it is capable of creating giant whirlpools.”
About $6.81 for an ungraded copy. That's the TCGplayer market price for the Unlimited printing, updated Oct 10, 2026. Graded copies in great shape usually sell for more. What grading means →
About $69.95 — the latest PSA 10 sold price we have, as of Oct 9, 2026. For comparison, an ungraded copy trades around $6.81 (TCGplayer market price). Sold data via Card Hedge.
Up about 14% over the last 3 months — from $5.96 to $6.81 (TCGplayer market price). Zoom out a whole year and it's up 82%. Prices move a little every day, so the chart on this page has the freshest line.
The highest market price we've logged is $7.18 — that was August 2026. We've been writing this card's price down since February 2024, so that's the record on our watch, not an all-time record.
The European printings list around €6.11 on Cardmarket — they share one price there, because Cardmarket prices the physical card across languages. This English print trades at $6.81 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 Dark Vaporeon (Team Rocket #45). Check the photos and the seller's rating first. That's the rule.
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