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Check your printing16 different Slowking printings exist — is this your card? Delta Species #28
Slowking Delta Species #28 Pokémon card
ViewingRaw / ungraded (this page)Reverse Holo price · 7 sold in 30 days
Rare

Slowking28/113 · Delta Species Price & Value

2005 · Illustrated by Kagemaru Himeno
80 HPWaterPokémonStage 1

Market value · Near Mint · Normal

$7.41
  • PSA 8$55modelled · pop 5
  • PSA 9$61modelled · pop 12
  • PSA 10$151modelled · pop 6
LiquidityOccasional sales
Confidence54 · medium8 raw sales in 90 days, prices spread across conditions, last sale 3 days ago.
Sales · 90 days8
Range$6$7
Sold prices, not asking. Near Mint estimate from 8 completed sales of this exact card, each adjusted for the condition it sold in. A typical copy fetches about $4 because most that trade are played, not mint. Updated 15 September 2026. Estimate, not an appraisalhow we price →

Why prices differ

TCGplayer market asking prices$6.28−15%
Recent sold median 8 completed sales$4.00−46%

TCGplayer's figure is what sellers are asking on their marketplace, not what copies sold for — an asking price sits above a completed sale because it is the start of a negotiation, not the end of one. Our price comes from those same completed sales, adjusted to Near Mint — the median below mixes every condition together, and most copies that change hands are played rather than mint. How we weigh them →

Make sure you have the right card

Every price on this page is for Delta Species #28/113, 2005. Check yours against the tells below before you buy, sell or grade.

Reverse Holo printing
Reverse Holo
The card body, not the picture

Everything except the illustration window is foiled — the mirror image of a normal holo, where only the picture shines.

Normalpriced on this page
The whole card

No foil anywhere — the non-holo printing.

Not this card?

The same name and number exists in other sets. The number printed on your card is what separates themthis page prices 28/113.

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Slowking is a Rare Pokémon card from Delta Species (#28, released 2005), illustrated by Kagemaru Himeno. It's a Stage 1 Water-type Pokémon with 80 HP, evolving from Slowpoke, weak to Lightning ×2. Prices below are aggregated across marketplaces — raw and graded, updated daily and shown in your local currency.

Prices last updated 15 September 2026.

5.2%
Played in 5.2% of competitive decks — 206 of 3,927 decklists across the last 45 Standard tournaments.

Slowking price history & recent sales

Price history · Raw

18 Jun 202615 Sept 2026
Latest
$7.41
Period high
$7.41
Period low
$3.83
Change
93.5% · 90d
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Verified sales history

Medium confidence

8 sales in 90 days, but prices vary widely. · LiquidSells regularly

Range$0.80$49.99Rawlowest to highest sale
Sales3 / 9last 30d / 90d, every grade
Sales rate1.8/mo12 recorded, every grade
Latest sale3d agoRaw8 in 90 days
Where it sells100% eBayRawlast 90 days
Demand68/100sales rate, trend & buzz
Last sold
$1
Raw · 13 Sep 2026
Typical Raw
$4
Sales · last 90 days
9
How often it sells
Sells regularly
every 6 days · 3 in last 30 days

Real completed eBay sales, refreshed periodically. Grade read from the listing title. Implausibly priced listings (lots, proxies, empty slabs) and wrong-variant sales are filtered out. Links to eBay are affiliate links — we may earn a commission.

Last sold price
$12
CGC 8.5 · 1 Jun 2026
Typical CGC 8.5
$12
Sales · last 90 days
0
How often it sells
No sales in the last 30 days
0 in last 30 days

Real completed sale prices from Fanatics Collect — weekly and premier auctions plus marketplace Buy It Now sales, refreshed periodically. Grade read from the listing title.

Recent Raw sales

From 12 completed sales recorded between Feb 18, 2026 and Sep 13, 2026. Sold prices only — asking prices are never counted. The range is wide because these sales span different printings and conditions — 1st Edition, Shadowless and Unlimited copies all carry this card's name, and they trade at very different levels. Each sale above is labelled with what its listing claimed, so you can see which ones describe the same object. Treat the median as the typical copy, not the range.

By grade

  • Raw$4.009 sales · 8 in 90d, occasional
  • PSA 9$24.991 sale
  • CGC 8.5$12.001 sale
  • CGC 10$50.001 sale · 1 in 90d, rare

Is Slowking worth grading?

Not worth grading

Most copies come back PSA 9worth $61 against the $78 you put in, a $17 loss. The money is in the 1 in 1 that reach PSA 9 or 10 and sell for $61$151. Averaged over every outcome that is $3 a card.

You put in$78card + fees
Most likelyPSA 9$61 ($17)
Break even atPSA 10or better
Best case1 in 4PSA 10 · $151
Average per card$3across every grade

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Compare graders, and the live market

The verdict above is PSA's — the grader the population report, the ROI table and the price ladder on this page all use. Trader prices all three graders against each other and adds what the asking market is doing right now.

  • PSA, CGC and Beckett side by side — each on its own population and its own fees, with Beckett scored on the 9.5 its market actually pays for.
  • Lightly and moderately played — the same expected return for a copy that cannot gem.
  • Ask vs sold — what the live listings want, against what copies have really closed at.
  • Momentum — the 30-day median against the 90-day, per grade.
  • Where it sells higher — the Fanatics-versus-eBay premium, with the sale counts behind it.
  • Population history — the weekly PSA census, so you can see how fast 10s are arriving before you post the card.
Trader plan and above

The odds

Slowking is a Rare in Delta Species — the pack's hit slot lands on Rare 67% of the time, split across 20 rare cards in the set, so pulling this exact card is roughly 1 in 30 packs.

Rare67%20 cards
PSA 10 (gem mint)23.1%6 of 26
PSA 946.2%12 of 26
PSA graded so far26
Gem Mint 106
Total graded26

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$151.44$72+$7320.4×
PSA 9$61.00$71$178.2×
PSA 8$55.04$71$237.4×

⚖️ Risk-adjusted return

Best case isn't the whole story. Weighting every grade by how often it actually happens, across 26 PSA-graded copies:

OutcomeChanceValue
PSA 1023.1%$151.44
PSA 9typical46.2%$61.00
PSA 819.2%$55.04
PSA 73.8%$25.00
PSA 63.8%$7.41
PSA 13.8%$7.41

Net = graded value − raw value − grading cost (tier fee + ~$20 round-trip shipping), using PSA fees as of 2026-08-26; 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 & TAG — every grade, with gem rates

6 of the 26 PSA-graded Slowking copies came back a gem-mint 10 — 23%. The rest graded lower.

PSA26 gradedPSA 10 · 6 · 23% gem

Bar length is relative to this grader's most common grade; the figure on the right is the share of all 26.

10623%
91246%
8519%
713.8%
613.8%
113.8%
CGC41 gradedCGC 10 · 18 · 44% gem

Bar length is relative to this grader's most common grade; the figure on the right is the share of all 41.

101844%
9.537.3%
9615%
8.549.8%
812.4%
7.524.9%
724.9%
5.512.4%
512.4%
BGS7 gradedBGS 10 · 0 · 0% gem

Bar length is relative to this grader's most common grade; the figure on the right is the share of all 7.

9.5229%
9343%
7114%
6114%

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

Copies for sale right now

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All grades & conditions

Every grade we pricePSA / CGC / BGS ladder with per-grade population
Graded prices
Ungraded (raw)$7.41
PSA graded price estimates by grade
GradeRelative valuePrice
PSA 10pop 6modelled$151$129$174
PSA 9pop 12modelled$61$52$70
PSA 8pop 5modelled$55$47$63
PSA 7pop 1modelled$25$21$29
“Sold” = median of real recent sold listings at that grade (eBay or Fanatics Collect — hover a badge to see which). “Modelled” = no verified graded sale behind the figure; it is derived from the raw price and reference guides, so treat it as a ceiling to check, not a price to quote. 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
Reverse Holofoil · NM = our estimate, lower conditions use TCGplayer condition ratios · how we price played copies
NMNear Mint$7.41
LPLightly Played$4.63
MPModerately Played$4.09
HPHeavily Played$2.26
DMGDamaged$1.17
7-dayflat
30-dayflat
90-day 8.3%
All-time high$7
All-time low$2
What NM / LP / MP actually mean — and how much they cost
Price by printingBase vs reverse holo vs 1st edition — priced separately

Price by variant

Reverse Holo$74
Normal$6

Priced per printing — some from our own completed sales, the rest from TCGplayer's market price. Reverse holo, 1st edition and unlimited often differ sharply.

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

Cross-market prices

6% spread
TCGplayer · cheapest$6
PriceCharting · dearest$7

Currently 6% cheaper on TCGplayer 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

Volatility · 90dVolatile ±17%
Cross-marketMarkets agree 6% gap
90d low $4near its high$6 high

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

🔥 Trending in the community

#23 on the radar
Mentions this week8

Slowking is one of the most-talked-about Pokémon right now across the Pokémon investing & TCG subreddits. See the hype radar →

What people are saying: Slowking Sold For $150k · 141↑

Card textAttacks, abilities, weakness / resistance / retreat

Evolves from Slowpoke.

Prize ShiftPoké-Power

Once during your turn (before your attack), you may choose a card from your hand and put it as a Prize card face up. If you do, choose 1 of your face-down Prize cards without looking and put it into your hand. This power can't be used if Slowking is affected by a Special Condition or if all of your Prize cards are face up.

Psychic Option20+
Colorless · Colorless

If Slowking has a Water Energy card attached to it, this attack does 20 damage plus 20 more damage. If Slowking has a Psychic Energy card attached to it, discard a Special Energy card attached to the Defending Pokémon, if any.

Weakness Lightning ×2Retreat 1
About the PokémonSpecies, generation, evolution line
Royal PokémonGEN IISlowpokeSlowbro

It has incredible intellect and in­ tuition. Whatever the situation, it remains calm and collected.

Card detailsSet, rarity, artist, Pokédex & specs
Number#28
RarityRare
Released2005
SupertypePokémon
SubtypesStage 1
TypeWater
HP80
Evolves fromSlowpoke
WeaknessLightning ×2
Retreat cost1
National Pokédex#199
Card IDex11-28
SourceAggregated marketplaces

Other Slowking cards

There are 16 different Slowking printings — make sure you're valuing the right one. This is Delta Species #28 (Rare). The most valuable 7 are below.

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Frequently asked questions

How much is Slowking (Delta Species #28) worth?

As of 15 September 2026, Slowking from Delta Species is worth approximately $7.41 ungraded (near-mint), and around $151 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 Slowking?

A PSA 10 (gem mint) Slowking from Delta Species is worth around $151 — roughly 20× the raw ungraded value of $7.41.

Should I grade my Slowking?

Grading is worth it when the PSA 10 premium comfortably beats the grading fee and the card is clean enough to have a real shot at a 10 — the "Should you grade it?" estimate above works that out per grade, net of the current fee.

Is Slowking rare?

Slowking is a Rare card from Delta Species (card #28).

How do I know if my Slowking is Reverse Holo?

The card body, not the picture: Everything except the illustration window is foiled — the mirror image of a normal holo, where only the picture shines.

How do I tell this Slowking apart from the Great Encounters one?

They share a name and a card number but come from different sets, and the number printed on the card tells them apart: this one is 28/113 (Delta Species, 2005) and the other is 28/106 (Great Encounters, 2008).

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