Best Golbat Cards to Grade

The Golbat 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: Dark Golbat (Team Rocket) at an expected −$3.

Worth grading2

With a gem-rate sample2100%

Positive expected value0

Median gem rate15.3%

PSA fees as of2026-09-26

Ranked by expected profit 2

Golbat cards worth grading, ranked by expected grading profit
#	Card	Raw	PSA 9	PSA 10	Cost	Best case	Gem rate	Expected	Sample
1	Dark GolbatTeam Rocket #7 · Vintage (1999–2003) Expected loss −$3 per submission: 1.4% of 2,534 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($2,000), and a PSA 9 ($179) still clears the $269 you have in it. Confidence high on that sample.	$30	$179	$2,000	$239	+$1,731	1.4%	−$3	2,534 high
2	Dark GolbatTeam Rocket #24 · Vintage (1999–2003) Expected loss −$35 per submission: 15.3% of 294 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($191), and only a PSA 10 covers the $89 you have in it — a 9 loses money. Confidence high on that sample.	$7	$50	$191	$82	+$103	15.3%	−$35	294 high

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.

PSA population 24

Every Golbat card with a PSA population reading, ranked five ways. A historical PSA 10 rate is the share of graded copies that came back a 10 — how hard a 10 has been to earn, not the chance your copy earns one — and it is only quoted on cards with at least 20 graded copies; the PSA 10 tables use the same floor. PSA counts as of 15 Oct 2026. How population is measured.

Most graded 24

The most-submitted cards, by total PSA graded.

Golbat cards by total PSA graded
#	Card	Graded	PSA 10s
1	Dark Golbat Team Rocket #7	2,534	36
2	Golbat Fossil #34	473	90
3	Dark Golbat Team Rocket #24	294	45
4	Golbat Skyridge #60	92	37
5	Dark Golbat Team Rocket Returns #34	75	27
6	Brock's Golbat Gym Heroes #39	51	6
7	Koga's Golbat Gym Challenge #46	43	8
8	Golbat Neo Revelation #29	36	17
9	Golbat Delta Species #43	31	6
10	Golbat Deoxys #31	14	5

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Golbat cards by total PSA graded
#	Card	Graded	PSA 10s
11	Golbat Hidden Legends #36	9	4
12	Golbat Paradox Rift #111	6	3
13	Golbat Sun & Moon #55	6	2
14	Golbat 151 #42	6	4
15	Golbat HS—Unleashed #30	5	1
16	Golbat Generations #31	4	1
17	Team Rocket's Golbat Destined Rivals #121	4	0
18	Golbat Silver Tempest #104	4	2
19	Golbat Mysterious Treasures #50	2	0
20	Golbat Plasma Storm #54	2	0
21	Golbat Unbroken Bonds #65	2	0
22	Golbat Phantom Forces #32	1	0
23	Golbat Battle Styles #90	1	1
24	Golbat Shrouded Fable #28	1	0

Fewest PSA 10s 9

The smallest PSA 10 populations among cards with at least 20 graded.

Golbat cards with the fewest PSA 10s
#	Card	PSA 10s	Graded
1	Brock's Golbat Gym Heroes #39	6	51
2	Golbat Delta Species #43	6	31
3	Koga's Golbat Gym Challenge #46	8	43
4	Golbat Neo Revelation #29	17	36
5	Dark Golbat Team Rocket Returns #34	27	75
6	Dark Golbat Team Rocket #7	36	2,534
7	Golbat Skyridge #60	37	92
8	Dark Golbat Team Rocket #24	45	294
9	Golbat Fossil #34	90	473

Most PSA 10s 9

The largest PSA 10 populations among cards with at least 20 graded.

Golbat cards with the most PSA 10s
#	Card	PSA 10s	Graded
1	Golbat Fossil #34	90	473
2	Dark Golbat Team Rocket #24	45	294
3	Golbat Skyridge #60	37	92
4	Dark Golbat Team Rocket #7	36	2,534
5	Dark Golbat Team Rocket Returns #34	27	75
6	Golbat Neo Revelation #29	17	36
7	Koga's Golbat Gym Challenge #46	8	43
8	Golbat Delta Species #43	6	31
9	Brock's Golbat Gym Heroes #39	6	51

Hardest to gem 9

The lowest historical PSA 10 rates among cards with at least 20 graded.

Golbat cards with the lowest historical PSA 10 rate
#	Card	Historical PSA 10 rate	Graded
1	Dark Golbat Team Rocket #7	1.4%	2,534
2	Brock's Golbat Gym Heroes #39	12%	51
3	Dark Golbat Team Rocket #24	15%	294
4	Koga's Golbat Gym Challenge #46	19%	43
5	Golbat Fossil #34	19%	473
6	Golbat Delta Species #43	19%	31
7	Dark Golbat Team Rocket Returns #34	36%	75
8	Golbat Skyridge #60	40%	92
9	Golbat Neo Revelation #29	47%	36

Fastest growing 8

The most copies newly PSA graded over 30 days, between our readings of 24 Aug 2026 and 28 Sept 2026 — weekly readings, never interpolated between.

Golbat cards by PSA copies graded over 30 days
#	Card	New graded
1	Dark Golbat Team Rocket #7	+29
2	Golbat Fossil #34	+12
3	Dark Golbat Team Rocket #24	+3
4	Dark Golbat Team Rocket Returns #34	+3
5	Brock's Golbat Gym Heroes #39	+2
6	Koga's Golbat Gym Challenge #46	+1
7	Golbat Neo Revelation #29	+1
8	Golbat Deoxys #31	+1

How to read the Golbat ranking

Every Golbat card listed here clears one bar: its PSA 10 price beats its raw price by more than the cost of grading it. 2 Golbat printings pass. 2 of them (100%) have a gem-rate sample of at least ten graded copies in the population reports, and 0 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 Dark Golbat from Team Rocket, gems 1.4% of the time across 2,534 graded copies: −$3 is what a long run of submissions would average, $1,731 is what one lucky copy returns.

The median gem rate across the sampled Golbat cards is 15.3%. Roughly one submitted copy in 7 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 2 ranked cards, 1 still covers raw price plus fee at PSA 9, 1 needs a 10 to break even and 2 lose money on expectation. 2 rest on a hundred or more graded copies.

Before you submit a Golbat 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 Golbat card list, or see how gem-mint premiums run across the whole catalogue on the PSA premium index.

Golbat grading questions

Which Golbat card is the best to grade?

On current numbers the Dark Golbat (Team Rocket #7): 1.4% of 2,534 graded copies came back PSA 10, an expected loss of $3 per submission after the $239 grading cost, against a best case of $1,731 if it gems.

How many Golbat cards are worth grading?

0 keep a positive expected value after the fee, out of the 2 with a gem-rate sample of at least ten graded copies. 2 cards on this page have a PSA 10 price that beats the raw price by more than the grading fee.

What gem rate do Golbat cards get at PSA?

The median across the 2 sampled Golbat cards is 15.3%, so about one in 7 of the copies collectors chose to submit came back PSA 10. The strongest rate with a sample of thirty or more is the Dark Golbat (Team Rocket #24) at 15.3% of 294.

Does the Golbat 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.

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