Best Primeape Cards to Grade
The Primeape 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: Primeape (Southern Islands) at an expected +$158.
Ranked by expected profit 2
| # | Card | Raw | PSA 9 | PSA 10 | Cost | Best case | Gem rate | Expected | Sample |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  PrimeapeSouthern Islands #18 · Vintage (1999–2003)Expected +$158 per submission: 26.7% of 1,027 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($870), and only a PSA 10 covers the $134 you have in it — a 9 loses money. Confidence high on that sample. | $45 | $90 | $870 | $89 | +$736 | 26.7% | +$158 | 1,027 high |
| 2 |  PrimeapeAquapolis #29 · Vintage (1999–2003)Expected loss −$60 per submission: 41% of 78 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($191), and only a PSA 10 covers the $173 you have in it — a 9 loses money. Confidence medium on that sample. | $91 | $75 | $191 | $82 | +$18 | 41% | −$60 | 78 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.
PSA population 23
Every Primeape 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 23
The most-submitted cards, by total PSA graded.
| # | Card | Graded | PSA 10s |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Primeape Southern Islands #18 | 1,027 | 274 |
| 2 | Primeape Jungle #43 | 411 | 45 |
| 3 | Dark Primeape Team Rocket #43 | 178 | 11 |
| 4 | Primeape Paldean Fates #170 | 161 | 88 |
| 5 | Primeape Legendary Collection #59 | 85 | 24 |
| 6 | Primeape Aquapolis #29 | 78 | 32 |
| 7 | Brock's Primeape Gym Challenge #35 | 46 | 6 |
| 8 | Primeape δ Holon Phantoms #50 | 32 | 12 |
| 9 | Primeape FireRed & LeafGreen #28 | 28 | 5 |
| 10 | Primeape Paldea Evolved #107 | 8 | 1 |
Show the next 13
| # | Card | Graded | PSA 10s |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | Primeape HS—Unleashed #22 | 7 | 0 |
| 12 | Primeape Paldean Fates #46 | 5 | 0 |
| 13 | Primeape Great Encounters #27 | 4 | 0 |
| 14 | Primeape Crimson Invasion #51 | 4 | 2 |
| 15 | Primeape Fusion Strike #134 | 4 | 2 |
| 16 | Primeape Plasma Freeze #60 | 3 | 0 |
| 17 | Primeape Team Up #72 | 3 | 1 |
| 18 | Primeape Steam Siege #53 | 3 | 1 |
| 19 | Primeape Battle Styles #67 | 3 | 0 |
| 20 | Primeape 151 #57 | 3 | 1 |
| 21 | Primeape Supreme Victors #39 | 2 | 0 |
| 22 | Primeape Surging Sparks #99 | 2 | 0 |
| 23 | Primeape Scarlet & Violet #108 | 2 | 0 |
Fewest PSA 10s 9
The smallest PSA 10 populations among cards with at least 20 graded.
| # | Card | PSA 10s | Graded |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Primeape FireRed & LeafGreen #28 | 5 | 28 |
| 2 | Brock's Primeape Gym Challenge #35 | 6 | 46 |
| 3 | Dark Primeape Team Rocket #43 | 11 | 178 |
| 4 | Primeape δ Holon Phantoms #50 | 12 | 32 |
| 5 | Primeape Legendary Collection #59 | 24 | 85 |
| 6 | Primeape Aquapolis #29 | 32 | 78 |
| 7 | Primeape Jungle #43 | 45 | 411 |
| 8 | Primeape Paldean Fates #170 | 88 | 161 |
| 9 | Primeape Southern Islands #18 | 274 | 1,027 |
Most PSA 10s 9
The largest PSA 10 populations among cards with at least 20 graded.
| # | Card | PSA 10s | Graded |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Primeape Southern Islands #18 | 274 | 1,027 |
| 2 | Primeape Paldean Fates #170 | 88 | 161 |
| 3 | Primeape Jungle #43 | 45 | 411 |
| 4 | Primeape Aquapolis #29 | 32 | 78 |
| 5 | Primeape Legendary Collection #59 | 24 | 85 |
| 6 | Primeape δ Holon Phantoms #50 | 12 | 32 |
| 7 | Dark Primeape Team Rocket #43 | 11 | 178 |
| 8 | Brock's Primeape Gym Challenge #35 | 6 | 46 |
| 9 | Primeape FireRed & LeafGreen #28 | 5 | 28 |
Hardest to gem 9
The lowest historical PSA 10 rates among cards with at least 20 graded.
| # | Card | Historical PSA 10 rate | Graded |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dark Primeape Team Rocket #43 | 6.2% | 178 |
| 2 | Primeape Jungle #43 | 11% | 411 |
| 3 | Brock's Primeape Gym Challenge #35 | 13% | 46 |
| 4 | Primeape FireRed & LeafGreen #28 | 18% | 28 |
| 5 | Primeape Southern Islands #18 | 27% | 1,027 |
| 6 | Primeape Legendary Collection #59 | 28% | 85 |
| 7 | Primeape δ Holon Phantoms #50 | 38% | 32 |
| 8 | Primeape Aquapolis #29 | 41% | 78 |
| 9 | Primeape Paldean Fates #170 | 55% | 161 |
Fastest growing 7
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.
| # | Card | New graded | PSA 10s change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Primeape Southern Islands #18 | +27 | 0 |
| 2 | Primeape Jungle #43 | +5 | 0 |
| 3 | Dark Primeape Team Rocket #43 | +5 | 0 |
| 4 | Primeape Paldean Fates #170 | +4 | +4 |
| 5 | Brock's Primeape Gym Challenge #35 | +2 | 0 |
| 6 | Primeape δ Holon Phantoms #50 | +2 | 0 |
| 7 | Primeape Aquapolis #29 | +1 | 0 |
How to read the Primeape ranking
Every Primeape card listed here clears one bar: its PSA 10 price beats its raw price by more than the cost of grading it. 2 Primeape printings pass. 2 of them (100%) have a gem-rate sample of at least ten graded copies in the population reports, and 1 of those keeps 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 Primeape from Southern Islands, gems 26.7% of the time across 1,027 graded copies: +$158 is what a long run of submissions would average, $736 is what one lucky copy returns.
The median gem rate across the sampled Primeape cards is 41%. Roughly one submitted copy in 2 came back PSA 10, and no row here covers raw price plus fee at PSA 9, so the gem rate decides whether a submission pays. Of the 2 ranked cards, 2 need a 10 to break even and 1 loses money on expectation. 1 rests on a hundred or more graded copies.
Before you submit a Primeape 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 Primeape card list, or see how gem-mint premiums run across the whole catalogue on the PSA premium index.