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Check your printing5 different Professor Oak printings exist — is this your card? Base Set 2 #116
Professor Oak Base Set 2 #116 Pokémon card
Uncommon

Professor Oak

Base Set 2 · 116/130 · Illustrated by Ken Sugimori
Trainer

Market value · ungraded

$1.31
Confidencehigh
Range$1$1
Cert-verified10 PSA sales
Sold prices, not asking. TCGplayer + Cardmarket. Updated 21 August 2026. Estimate, not an appraisalhow we price →

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Estimated value · Near Mint
$1.31

What this price is based on

Low confidence

Only 1 sale in the last 90 days.

Median · CGC 8.5$5.001 sale
Trimmed mean$5.00outliers removed
Range$5.00$5.00lowest to highest sale
Sales rate0.2/mo2 recorded

Recent CGC 8.5 sales

  • Jul 23, 2026Fanatics$5.00

By grade

  • CGC 8.5$5.001 sale
  • CGC 10$8.401 sale

From 2 completed sales recorded between Jun 9, 2025 and Jul 23, 2026. Sold prices only — asking prices are never counted.

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NOT WORTH IT

Based on 2 graded sales and 1,889,841 pop-report entries for a near-mint copy.

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Professor Oak is a Uncommon Pokémon card from Base Set 2 (#116), illustrated by Ken Sugimori. It's a Trainer card. Its current blended market value is $1.31 ungraded, with a PSA 10 worth around $32 — a gem-mint grading premium of roughly 24× the raw value. Prices are aggregated across marketplaces — raw and graded, updated daily and shown in your local currency.

Prices last updated 21 August 2026.

The receipts

Price history · Raw

1 Sept 202321 Aug 2026
Latest
$1.31
Period high
$2.62
Period low
$1.24
Change
27.6%
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Verified sales history10 in 90 daysreal completed listings

DateGradePriceCert
15 Aug 2026PSA 9$22.47#150072799
15 Aug 2026PSA 8$16.50#150072759
25 Jul 2026PSA 9$30.00#102261293
24 Jul 2026PSA 10$86.55#47452643
10 Apr 2026PSA 8$12.00#104664587
25 Jan 2026PSA 9$14.99#86017494
3 Dec 2025PSA 7$17.37#127080588
17 Oct 2025PSA 9$15.00#61150124
8 Sep 2025PSA 10$34.01#51597692
18 Jun 2025PSA 9$20.00#57663070

Should you grade it?

$53

Expected return across every likely grade, after fees — the realistic average, not the best case. Only 27.8% of copies gem (PSA 10 best case $40); most land at PSA 9 or below.

Gem rate (est.)27.8%
Expected return$53
PSA 10 best case$40
VerdictNot worth it

The odds

Professor Oak is a Uncommoncard — a guaranteed slot in every pack, not a rarity gamble, so there's no pull-odds figure for it.

PSA 10 (gem mint)27.8%27 of 97
PSA 944.3%43 of 97
PSA graded so far97
Gem Mint 1027
Total graded97

Estimates only. Pack odds come from CardTrack's pack model (the same one behind the pack simulator) — not an official rate. Grading odds are the real cumulative PSA population, which skews toward nicer, resubmitted copies, so it overstates the true first-submission gem rate. Full grade-by-grade breakdown below.

Grade-by-grade ROI & risk-adjusted outcomesNet vs raw per target grade, plus the probability-weighted distribution
Target gradeEst. valueGrading feeNet vs rawMultiple
PSA 10$32.01$70$4024.4×
PSA 9$22.00$70$5016.8×

⚖️ Risk-adjusted return

Best case isn't the whole story. Weighting every grade by how often it actually happens, across 97 PSA-graded copies:

Likely outcomeChanceValue
PSA 1027.8%$32.00
PSA 944.3%$22.00
PSA ≤827.8%$1.00

Net = graded value − raw value − grading cost (tier fee + ~$20 round-trip shipping), using PSA fees as of 2026-06-28; the paused PSA Value tier is excluded so this isn't overstated. Gem rate is estimated from cumulative PSA population, which skews toward nicer, resubmitted copies — so it overstates the true grade rate. Treat it as a guide, not a guarantee.

Population across gradersPSA, CGC & BGS — every grade, with gem rates

Only 28% of 97 PSA-graded Professor Oak copies are a gem-mint 10 (27 of 97) — the rest grade lower.

PSA97 gradedPSA 10 · 27 · 28% gem
1027
943
817
75
63
52
CGC222 gradedCGC 10 · 40 · 18% gem
1040
9.518
942
8.532
830

Real graded population from PSA, CGC & BGS — a lower gem rate means a Professor Oak 10 is harder to pull.

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All grades & conditions

Every grade we pricePSA / CGC / BGS ladder with per-grade population
Graded prices
Ungraded (raw)$1.26
PSA graded price estimates by grade
GradeRelative valuePrice
PSA 10pop 27$32$25$34
PSA 9pop 43✓ 5 cert-verified$22$10$22
PSA 6pop 3$2$2$2
“Sold” = median of real recent sold listings at that grade (eBay or Fanatics Collect — hover a badge to see which). Other figures are blended marketplace estimates. Confidence reflects source backing and price spread — not PSA-official values.
Raw condition ladderNM → damaged, with real sold medians where we have them
Raw price by condition
Normal · live market via TCGplayer
NMNear Mint$1.31
LPLightly Played$0.87
MPModerately Played$0.83
HPHeavily Played$0.75
DMGDamaged$0.51
7-day 2.3%
30-day 7.3%
90-day 3.8%
All-time high$2
All-time low$1
What NM / LP / MP actually mean — and how much they cost

For context: a graded PSA 7 slab of this card sells for about $17 (cert-verified) — a heavily-played raw copy shouldn't cost much more than that.

Market dataCross-market spread, EU price, momentum & community buzz

Cross-market prices

39% spread
Cardmarket · cheapest$1
TCGplayer$1
PriceCharting · dearest$1

Currently 39% cheaper on Cardmarket than PriceCharting. These are independent market prices for the same card — a wide gap can mean a buying opportunity. Informational only, not arbitrage advice.

Market signal

Momentum · 30dFlat 0%
Cross-marketMarkets disagree 39% gap

Derived from this card's 90-day price history, recent trend and cross-market price gap. Informational, not advice.

🇪🇺 Cardmarket price · Europe

21% cheaper than the US
Cardmarket · Europe's largest card market$1
Card textAttacks, abilities, weakness / resistance / retreat

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Card detailsSet, rarity, artist, Pokédex & specs
Number#116
RarityUncommon
SupertypeTrainer
Card IDbase4-116
SourceAggregated marketplaces

Other Professor Oak cards

There are 5 different Professor Oak printings — make sure you're valuing the right one. This is Base Set 2 #116 (Uncommon).

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Frequently asked questions

How much is Professor Oak (Base Set 2 #116) worth?

As of 21 August 2026, Professor Oak from Base Set 2 is worth approximately $1.31 ungraded (near-mint), and around $32 in PSA 10 gem mint. Values are blended from real Cardmarket, eBay sold and TCGplayer prices and update daily.

What is the PSA 10 price for Professor Oak?

A PSA 10 (gem mint) Professor Oak from Base Set 2 is worth around $32 — roughly 24× the raw ungraded value of $1.31.

Should I grade my Professor Oak?

A PSA 10 sells for about $32 versus $1.31 raw — roughly a 24× uplift. Grading is worth it when that premium comfortably beats the grading fee and the card is clean enough to have a real shot at a 10. See the "Should you grade it?" estimate above for net profit per grade.

Is Professor Oak rare?

Professor Oak is a Uncommon card from Base Set 2 (card #116), illustrated by Ken Sugimori. Its current blended market value is $1.31 ungraded.

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