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Best Azumarill Cards to Grade

The Azumarill cards worth grading, ranked by expected profit per submission — every grade outcome weighted by how often the card actually receives it — after current grading fees. The PSA 10 best case is shown on every row but does not decide the order. Top pick: Azumarill (Aquapolis) at an expected +$2,368.

Worth grading9
With a gem-rate sample9100%
Positive expected value6
Median gem rate5.6%
PSA fees as of2026-09-26

Ranked by expected profit 9

Azumarill cards worth grading, ranked by expected grading profit
#CardRawPSA 9PSA 10CostBest caseGem rateExpectedSample
1AzumarillAzumarillAquapolis #H4 · Vintage (1999–2003)
Expected +$2,368 per submission: 13.6% of 575 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($16,999), and a PSA 9 ($1,050) still clears the $1,364 you have in it. Confidence high on that sample.
$175$1,050$16,999$1,189+$15,63513.6%+$2,368575
high
2AzumarillAzumarillTeam Rocket Returns #1 · Classic (2004–2010)
Expected +$157 per submission: 5.6% of 288 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($3,400), and a PSA 9 ($147) still clears the $444 you have in it. Confidence high on that sample.
$41$147$3,400$403+$2,9565.6%+$157288
high
3Light AzumarillLight AzumarillNeo Destiny #13 · Vintage (1999–2003)
Expected +$128 per submission: 4.3% of 1,204 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($4,100), and a PSA 9 ($150) still clears the $440 you have in it. Confidence high on that sample.
$30$150$4,100$410+$3,6604.3%+$1281,204
high
4Azumarill δAzumarill δDelta Species #19 · Classic (2004–2010)
Expected +$111 per submission: 52.2% of 23 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($375), and only a PSA 10 covers the $93 you have in it — a 9 loses money. Confidence low on that sample.
$9$16$375$84+$28252.2%+$11123
low
5AzumarillAzumarillAquapolis #4 · Vintage (1999–2003)
Expected +$94 per submission: 38.9% of 95 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($400), and only a PSA 10 covers the $111 you have in it — a 9 loses money. Confidence medium on that sample.
$27$100$400$84+$28938.9%+$9495
medium
6AzumarillAzumarillDelta Species #114 · Classic (2004–2010)
Expected +$81 per submission: 2% of 295 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($2,500), and a PSA 9 ($397) still clears the $321 you have in it. Confidence high on that sample.
$77$397$2,500$244+$2,1792%+$81295
high
7AzumarillAzumarillNeo Genesis #2 · Vintage (1999–2003)
Expected loss −$22 per submission: 0.9% of 1,722 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($4,200), and a PSA 9 ($155) still clears the $441 you have in it. Confidence high on that sample.
$30$155$4,200$411+$3,7590.9%−$221,722
high
8AzumarillAzumarillHeartGold & SoulSilver #2 · Classic (2004–2010)
Expected loss −$35 per submission: 0% of 72 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($163), and only a PSA 10 covers the $90 you have in it — a 9 loses money. Confidence medium on that sample.
$8$65$163$82+$730%−$3572
medium
9AzumarillAzumarillPrimal Clash #104 · Modern (2011–2019)
Expected loss −$61 per submission: 16.9% of 59 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($98), and only a PSA 10 covers the $94 you have in it — a 9 loses money. Confidence medium on that sample.
$13$25$98$81+$416.9%−$6159
medium

Expected = every grade outcome weighted by its share of the card's graded population, minus the raw price and the grading cost (PSA tier fee for the graded value plus ~$20 round-trip shipping, fees as of 2026-09-26). Best case is the PSA 10 leg alone. Gem rates come from a self-selected population — collectors grade their cleanest copies — so read them as an upper bound. Raw is a blended market price, not a sale of your copy. Full method and filters on the grading index.

How to read the Azumarill ranking

Every Azumarill card listed here clears one bar: its PSA 10 price beats its raw price by more than the cost of grading it. 9 Azumarill printings pass. 9 of them (100%) have a gem-rate sample of at least ten graded copies in the population reports, and 6 of those keep a positive expected value once every grade outcome is weighted by how often the card actually receives it.

The order is expected profit, not the PSA 10 best case, which rewards the widest raw-to-gem gap whether the card gems one time in two or one in fifty. Here the top row, the Azumarill from Aquapolis, gems 13.6% of the time across 575 graded copies: +$2,368 is what a long run of submissions would average, $15,635 is what one lucky copy returns.

The median gem rate across the sampled Azumarill cards is 5.6%. Roughly one submitted copy in 18 came back PSA 10, and most rows here still cover raw price plus fee at PSA 9, so the PSA 9 price does most of the work. Of the 9 ranked cards, 5 still cover raw price plus fee at PSA 9, 4 need a 10 to break even and 3 lose money on expectation. 5 rest on a hundred or more graded copies.

Before you submit a Azumarill card

Grading pays on condition. The four things every grader scores — centering, corners, edges and surface — can be checked at home before paying a fee, and a copy that is visibly off-centre or has a whitened corner will not gem whatever the population says. Those gem rates come from a self-selected population of clean copies, so a random copy does worse.

The cost column assumes a PSA submission at the tier covering the card's PSA 10 value, fees as of 2026-09-26, and raw is CardTrack's blended near-mint price, not a sale of your copy: pay more, or hold a lighter copy, and the break-even moves against you. Test a card with your own numbers in the ROI calculator, see the printings that fail the bar on the Azumarill card list, or see how gem-mint premiums run across the whole catalogue on the PSA premium index.

Azumarill grading questions

Which Azumarill card is the best to grade?
On current numbers the Azumarill (Aquapolis #H4): 13.6% of 575 graded copies came back PSA 10, an expected profit of $2,368 per submission after the $1,189 grading cost, against a best case of $15,635 if it gems.
How many Azumarill cards are worth grading?
6 keep a positive expected value after the fee, out of the 9 with a gem-rate sample of at least ten graded copies. 9 cards on this page have a PSA 10 price that beats the raw price by more than the grading fee.
What gem rate do Azumarill cards get at PSA?
The median across the 9 sampled Azumarill cards is 5.6%, so about one in 18 of the copies collectors chose to submit came back PSA 10. The strongest rate with a sample of thirty or more is the Azumarill (Aquapolis #4) at 38.9% of 95.
Does the Azumarill ranking apply to CGC or Beckett?
Not directly. The cost column is PSA's fee as of 2026-09-26 and the graded columns are PSA slab prices; the gem-rate sample falls back to CGC's population only when PSA has fewer than ten copies. A CGC or Beckett submission has its own fee and resale price.