Top Selling Pokémon Cards on TCGplayer: October 2025

The first step to serving customer demand is to understand it. So to help you follow what’s currently popular with players and collectors, we’ve put together a pair of downloadable CSV reports of the top-selling Pokémon cards of the past month.

These reports show the name and set of the Pokémon cards with the highest total number of copies sold on the TCGplayer Marketplace between October 1 and 31, 2025. The reports consider cards from different sets to be distinct (even if they have the same name), but do not distinguish copies sold by condition (Near Mint, Lightly Played, etc.) or by printing (Foil, etc.).

The two reports cover cards that had an average sale price in October within two ranges: $50.00 or more, and $1.00 to $49.99.

• Download Top Selling Report: PKMN Cards $50 or More
• Download Top Selling Report: PKMN Cards $1 to $50

Here are five highlights from each report.

Top Selling Pokémon Cards: $50 or More

#1 Mew ex - 053
Set: Scarlet & Violet Promo Cards
Average Sale Price: $56.40

After a small buyout in August pushed this promo card from the 151 Ultra-Premium Collection over the $50 threshold, a series of further mini-buyouts rocketted it to just shy of $90. It has since fallen back down to $60, but this continued interest from speculators has helped Mew ex outsell the other Pokémon cards in this price bracket.

Conventional wisdom holds that the 151 Ultra-Premium Collection is the best sealed product to invest in from the Scarlet & Violet Series, so many amateur flippers have an interest in seeing that theory borne out.

#2 Charizard VSTAR - SWSH262
Set: Sword & Shield Promo Cards
Average Sale Price: $56.49

This promo from the Sword & Shield Ultra-Premium Collection: Charizard—and its mirror, the Mewtwo VSTAR from the Crown Zenith Galarian Gallery—both rose drastically in September. Their gains appeared to be thanks to persistent, small-scale buyouts where a broad group of buyers each purchase multiple copies, counting on them to keep going up in value.

Most of those gains reversed in October, but the mini-buyouts continued.

#3 Solosis - 118/086
Set: Black Bolt
Average Sale Price: $52.96

At the end of September, sales for Solosis spiked massively and stayed elevated every day for a whole week. While the average number of copies per buyer never rose above 2.3, this behavior still looks like a coordinated buyout—possibly involving a large group of speculators instead of a handful of individuals.

The buyout appears to have been motivated by the realization that this card was illustrated by USGMEN, the artist behind the wildly popular “Bubble Mew” card, because USGMEN’s other card Tandemaus was also bought out at the same time.

The buyout successfully spiked Solosis from $11 to $67, but the card has been sinking back to earth ever since.

#4 Greninja ex - 132
Set: Scarlet & Violet Promo Cards
Average Sale Price: $60.13

The 2025 sales history of this promo card from the Greninja ex Special Illustration Collection is filled with slow weeks punctuated by single-day spikes in sales. For just one example, only a handful of copies sold the week before October 20, when the average number of copies per buyer suddenly rocketed to 34.0… before dropping back to 1.0 on the 31st.

In short, the demand for this card appears to be entirely speculative, at least for now. Granted, the ukiyo-e-style art by SIE NANAHARA looks gorgeous and unique among Pokémon cards, and Greninja is surprisingly popular for a Gen VI Pokémon, so it’s possible that all these bets speculators have placed will pay off some day.

#5 Charmander - 168/165
Set: Scarlet & Violet 151
Average Sale Price: $53.86

All the chase Illustration Rare and Special Illustration Rare cards from Scarlet & Violet—151 are up compared to where they were in July. That includes IR Charmander (now the 5th most expensive card in the set), which spent all of October above $50 and thus qualifies for this report’s price bracket.

Top Selling Pokémon Cards: $1.00 to $49.99

#1 Lillie's Determination - 119/132
Set: Mega Evolution
Average Sale Price: $1.61

Lillie’s Determination is the second coming of Cynthia, with extra upside: an instant competitive staple that all players need a full playset of going forward.

#2 Mega Kangaskhan ex - 104/132
Set: Mega Evolution
Average Sale Price: $1.86

Pokémon players at the Milwaukee Regional Championships on October 11 were caught off-guard by a Mega Absol/Mega Kanghaskan deck brewed up by Tord Reklev. After the event, sales of both cards took off as players raced to make sense of the new competitive archetype.

#3 Mega Absol ex - 086/132
Set: Mega Evolution
Average Sale Price: $1.41

Mega Absol ex was the other half of Reklev’s key attacking team, and the face of this new deck.

#4 Night Stretcher
Set: Shrouded Fable
Average Sale Price: $2.89

Night Stretcher is just a simple competitive staple that’s never been reprinted at base rarity since its original appearance in Shrouded Fable.

#5 Eevee - 200 (Cosmos Holo)
Set: Scarlet & Violet Promo Cards
Average Sale Price: $2.43

This promo comes with one of the Destined Rivals Single Pack Blisters, which cost around $15 until a new influx of supply in early October drove their prices down to $10. On October 2, as the new supply was arriving, speculators bought enough copies of this promo to raise the average number of copies per buyer to 40.4 for the day—though this buyout and several more which followed throughout the month didn’t halt the card’s price descent.

Selling cards that have high “velocity” keeps your cash flow healthy so you can take advantage of new opportunities. Check out our reports on the top-selling cards in Yu-Gi-Oh! and Magic, and be sure to list these cards on TCGplayer to unlock value you can reinvest in your business.