S8B · #189 · 2021 · Japanese

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. · Holo: The artwork shines with a foil pattern. A separate printing from the plain card, and in vintage sets often worth many times more.
$19.17
down4% · 29dvia TCGplayer, updated Oct 14, 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 $52.50 · PSA 9 $39.25 · CGC 10 $56.26
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 VMAXクライマックス (S8B)
What This Card Trades At
Raw: An ungraded card — no slab, no label, no official score. The market price is the raw benchmark. · Holofoil
$19.17 (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.
BGS: Beckett Grading Services, one of the big three graders. Grades 1–10 in half steps; a Black Label 10 is perfect on all four subgrades.
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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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 →
Today's TCGplayer market price for シャワーズ (Vaporeon) is $19.17 for the Holofoil printing.
Among the 269 priced cards in S8B, it sits 15th. The set's top card is レックウザVMAX at $110. We've logged its price daily since Dec 11, 2024: $3.72 then, $19.17 now (up 415.3%). A year ago it sat around $11.80; today's $19.17 is 62.5% higher. Over the last 90 days it's down 9.1%, from $21.10. Since December 2024 it's run as high as $21.12 (July 2026) and as low as $3.72 (December 2024). Its 30-day range runs from $19.17 up to $19.88.
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Ability げきりゅうのめざめ
このポケモンに「メモリーカプセル」がついているなら、おたがいの場の[炎]ポケモンの特性は、すべてなくなる。
オーロラビーム70
Cost: Water, Colorless
“シャワーズの 全身の ひれが 小刻みに 震えはじめるのは 数時間後に 雨が降る しるし。”
About $19.17 for an ungraded copy. That's the TCGplayer market price for the Holofoil printing, updated Oct 14, 2026. Graded copies in great shape usually sell for more. What grading means →
About $52.50 — the latest PSA 10 sold price we have, as of Oct 13, 2026. For comparison, an ungraded copy trades around $19.17 (TCGplayer market price). Sold data via Card Hedge.
Down about 9% over the last 3 months — from $21.10 to $19.17 (TCGplayer market price). Zoom out a whole year and it's up 63%. Prices move a little every day, so the chart on this page has the freshest line.
The highest market price we've logged is $21.12 — that was July 2026. We've been writing this card's price down since December 2024, so that's the record on our watch, not an all-time record.
eBay is the easiest place — this page links straight to the live listings for シャワーズ (Vaporeon) (VMAXクライマックス (S8B) #189). Check the photos and the seller's rating first. That's the rule.
Cards trading near $19.17 today.