Best POP Series 6 Cards to Grade
The POP Series 6 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: Piplup at an expected +$1,218.
Ranked by expected profit 6
| # | Card | Raw | PSA 9 | PSA 10 | Cost | Best case | Gem rate | Expected | Sample |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  PiplupPOP Series 6 #15 · Classic (2004–2010)Expected +$1,218 per submission: 2% of 100 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($50,000), and a PSA 9 ($1,700) still clears the $2,535 you have in it. Confidence high on that sample. | $16 | $1,700 | $50,000 | $2,519 | +$47,465 | 2% | +$1,218 | 100 high |
| 2 |  TurtwigPOP Series 6 #17 · Classic (2004–2010)Expected +$1,016 per submission: 2.7% of 113 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($43,200), and only a PSA 10 covers the $2,486 you have in it — a 9 loses money. Confidence high on that sample. | $35 | $70 | $43,200 | $2,451 | +$40,714 | 2.7% | +$1,016 | 113 high |
| 3 |  BidoofPOP Series 6 #11 · Classic (2004–2010)Expected +$54 per submission: 15.4% of 13 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($415), and a PSA 9 ($166) still clears the $109 you have in it. Confidence low on that sample. | $25 | $166 | $415 | $84 | +$306 | 15.4% | +$54 | 13 low |
| 4 |  LucarioPOP Series 6 #2 · Classic (2004–2010)Expected loss −$51 per submission: 4.2% of 24 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($543), and only a PSA 10 covers the $122 you have in it — a 9 loses money. Confidence low on that sample. | $37 | $90 | $543 | $85 | +$421 | 4.2% | −$51 | 24 low |
| 5 |  GiblePOP Series 6 #7 · Classic (2004–2010)Expected loss −$62 per submission: 0% of 44 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($236), and only a PSA 10 covers the $101 you have in it — a 9 loses money. Confidence medium on that sample. | $19 | $90 | $236 | $82 | +$134 | 0% | −$62 | 44 medium |
| 6 |  RioluPOP Series 6 #8 · Classic (2004–2010)Expected loss −$63 per submission: 0% of 37 graded copies came back PSA 10 ($442), and a PSA 9 ($177) still clears the $111 you have in it. Confidence medium on that sample. | $27 | $177 | $442 | $84 | +$331 | 0% | −$63 | 37 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 17
Every POP Series 6 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 22 Oct 2026. How population is measured.
Most graded 17
The most-submitted cards, by total PSA graded.
| # | Card | Graded | PSA 10s |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pikachu #9 | 232 | 6 |
| 2 | Turtwig #17 | 113 | 3 |
| 3 | Piplup #15 | 100 | 2 |
| 4 | Chimchar #14 | 93 | 4 |
| 5 | Gible #7 | 44 | 0 |
| 6 | Riolu #8 | 37 | 0 |
| 7 | Manaphy #3 | 36 | 0 |
| 8 | Lucario #2 | 24 | 1 |
| 9 | Bastiodon #1 | 20 | 0 |
| 10 | Pachirisu #4 | 17 | 2 |
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| # | Card | Graded | PSA 10s |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | Rampardos #5 | 15 | 0 |
| 12 | Bidoof #11 | 13 | 2 |
| 13 | Buneary #12 | 9 | 2 |
| 14 | Cherubi #13 | 8 | 3 |
| 15 | Starly #16 | 8 | 1 |
| 16 | Drifloon #6 | 5 | 0 |
| 17 | Staravia #10 | 5 | 0 |
Fewest PSA 10s 9
The smallest PSA 10 populations among cards with at least 20 graded.
| # | Card | PSA 10s | Graded |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gible #7 | 0 | 44 |
| 2 | Riolu #8 | 0 | 37 |
| 3 | Manaphy #3 | 0 | 36 |
| 4 | Bastiodon #1 | 0 | 20 |
| 5 | Lucario #2 | 1 | 24 |
| 6 | Piplup #15 | 2 | 100 |
| 7 | Turtwig #17 | 3 | 113 |
| 8 | Chimchar #14 | 4 | 93 |
| 9 | Pikachu #9 | 6 | 232 |
Most PSA 10s 9
The largest PSA 10 populations among cards with at least 20 graded.
| # | Card | PSA 10s | Graded |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pikachu #9 | 6 | 232 |
| 2 | Chimchar #14 | 4 | 93 |
| 3 | Turtwig #17 | 3 | 113 |
| 4 | Piplup #15 | 2 | 100 |
| 5 | Lucario #2 | 1 | 24 |
| 6 | Bastiodon #1 | 0 | 20 |
| 7 | Manaphy #3 | 0 | 36 |
| 8 | Riolu #8 | 0 | 37 |
| 9 | Gible #7 | 0 | 44 |
Hardest to gem 9
The lowest historical PSA 10 rates among cards with at least 20 graded.
| # | Card | Historical PSA 10 rate | Graded |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gible #7 | 0% | 44 |
| 2 | Riolu #8 | 0% | 37 |
| 3 | Manaphy #3 | 0% | 36 |
| 4 | Bastiodon #1 | 0% | 20 |
| 5 | Piplup #15 | 2.0% | 100 |
| 6 | Pikachu #9 | 2.6% | 232 |
| 7 | Turtwig #17 | 2.7% | 113 |
| 8 | Lucario #2 | 4.2% | 24 |
| 9 | Chimchar #14 | 4.3% | 93 |
Fastest growing 12
The most copies newly PSA graded over 30 days, between our readings of 14 Sept 2026 and 19 Oct 2026 — weekly readings, never interpolated between.
| # | Card | New graded | PSA 10s change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pikachu #9 | +10 | 0 |
| 2 | Chimchar #14 | +3 | 0 |
| 3 | Riolu #8 | +3 | 0 |
| 4 | Pachirisu #4 | +3 | 0 |
| 5 | Turtwig #17 | +2 | 0 |
| 6 | Piplup #15 | +2 | 0 |
| 7 | Gible #7 | +2 | 0 |
| 8 | Lucario #2 | +2 | 0 |
| 9 | Rampardos #5 | +2 | 0 |
| 10 | Bidoof #11 | +2 | 0 |
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| # | Card | New graded | PSA 10s change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | Manaphy #3 | +1 | 0 |
| 12 | Cherubi #13 | +1 | 0 |
How to read the POP Series 6 ranking
Every POP Series 6 card listed here clears one bar: its PSA 10 price beats its raw price by more than the cost of grading it. 6 cards from the set pass. 6 of them (100%) have a gem-rate sample of at least ten graded copies in the population reports, and 3 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 Piplup from POP Series 6, gems 2% of the time across 100 graded copies: +$1,218 is what a long run of submissions would average, $47,465 is what one lucky copy returns.
The median gem rate across the sampled POP Series 6 cards is 2.7%. Roughly one submitted copy in 37 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 6 ranked cards, 3 still cover raw price plus fee at PSA 9, 3 need a 10 to break even and 3 lose money on expectation. 2 rest on a hundred or more graded copies.
Before you submit a POP Series 6 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 POP Series 6 card list, or see how gem-mint premiums run across the whole catalogue on the PSA premium index.