Pokémon · Platinum
Piplup
Platinum · #85 · Common · 2009
Listings
No active listings
From
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Market reference
$4.04
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Current listings on The Game Traders
No active listings for this card right now.
Card facts
Quick reference for collectors and graders.
- Set position
- 85 / 133
- Release year
- 2009
- Rarity
- Common
- HP
- 60
- Subtype
- Basic
- Evolves to
- Prinplup
- Retreat cost
- 1 energy
- Illustrator
- Mitsuhiro Arita
- Pokédex #
- 393
- Series
- Platinum
Card analysis
Computed from this card's stats and text — not a reposted price.
- Primary role
- Bench Damage
- Damage efficiency
- 20 damage
- 10 per Energy
- Prize liability
- 1 Prize given up
- Single-prize attacker — favourable prize trades
- Setup
- Basic
- Plays straight down — no evolution needed
Also does
Strategy & play
How Piplup plays — derived from its stats and the rules of the game, not an opinion.
- A Basic — hits the board turn 1 with no evolution tax.
- Its main attack (Pound) needs 2 Energy — a turn-2 swing on manual attachment.
- Needs Water Energy to attack — your line must supply that color.
- Water type, weak to Lightning ×2 — a Lightning attacker doing ≥30 effectively one-shots it.
- A single-prize attacker — prize-trade-positive against ex / V decks that give up two at a time.
- Seen in 0% of recent tournament decks that can run it, usually 2 copies.
How to beat Piplup
- Exploit its Lightning weakness — ≥30 damage one-shots it.
Competitive performance
From real Standard tournament decks over the last 180 days.
- Meta inclusion
- 0% of decks
- 1.56 copies on average · 281 decks
- Match win rate
- 45.7%
- -1.6 pts vs the 47.2% field average
Plays well with
Cards most often run alongside this one in tournament decks over the last 180 days — ranked by how distinctive the pairing is.
Prinplup
in 21% of decks · 58 seen
Empoleon ex
in 100% of decks · 278 seen
Steven's Metang
in 70% of decks · 195 seen
Steven's Beldum
in 71% of decks · 196 seen
Steven's Metagross ex
in 71% of decks · 196 seen
Deoxys
in 19% of decks · 53 seen
Dialga
in 38% of decks · 105 seen
Mega Mawile ex
in 54% of decks · 150 seen
More by Mitsuhiro Arita
This card was illustrated by Mitsuhiro Arita.
Building around Piplup?
Drop it into the deck builder for a live consistency score, synergy suggestions, and Standard legality checks.
About this card
"A poor walker, it often falls down. However, its strong pride makes it puff up its chest without a care."
WMuddy Water — 10
Does 10 damage to 1 of your opponent's Benched Pokémon. (Don't apply Weakness and Resistance for Benched Pokémon.)
WCPound — 20
Weakness:L+10
Retreat cost:C
Tournament legality
Current legal status across competitive formats.
Tournament play
This printing of Piplup has no recent tournament appearances, but a different printing is currently a meta staple.
Piplup — Phantasmal Flames
Played in 68 recent decks
Pricing reference
Latest snapshot from the upstream catalog. Actual marketplace prices fluctuate by condition, edition, and grade — use this as a reference, not a quote.
TCGPlayer (USD)
Updated 2026/07/01| Variant | Low | Mid | High | Market | Direct Low |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Normal | $0.75 | $4.24 | $39.30 | $4.04 | — |
| Reverse Holofoil | $29.99 | $199.99 | $999.90 | $21.42 | — |
Cardmarket (EUR)
Updated 2026/01/16| Variant | Price |
|---|---|
| 1-day average | €0.05 |
| 7-day average | €0.39 |
| 30-day average | €0.36 |
| Low | €0.02 |
| Trend price | €0.27 |
| Low (excellent+) | €0.05 |
| Reverse holo low | €0.20 |
| reverseHoloAvg1 | €4.90 |
| Reverse holo 7-day | €2.67 |
| reverseHoloSell | €2.66 |
| averageSellPrice | €0.32 |
| Reverse holo 30-day | €2.13 |
| Reverse holo trend | €2.72 |
Frequently asked
How can I tell if my Piplup is real?
Piplup is not on our list of commonly-counterfeited cards, but counterfeits exist across every set. Check the back-light test (real cards have a black inner layer that blocks light; counterfeits glow through), the rosette dot pattern on the back under magnification, font weight and kerning on the card name, and the holofoil pattern if applicable. For high-value copies we recommend submitting to a professional grader (PSA, BGS, CGC) for tamper-evident authentication.
What is Piplup worth?
As of the latest data, the current market reference price for Piplup is $4.04; there are no active listings on The Game Traders right now. Actual value depends on condition, grading, edition and printing variant — graded high-condition copies (PSA 9–10) trade at a substantial premium over raw copies.
What set is Piplup from?
Piplup is from the Pokémon set "Platinum" in the Platinum series, released in 2009.
What rarity is Piplup?
Piplup is a Common card in the Platinum set.
Other Piplup printings
Same Pokémon card across other sets and rarities.
