What this is
All-time PSA-graded card counts by Pokémon character, to January 2026: Pikachu about 2.47m, Charizard about 2.34m; together 56% of the top ten.
How it’s built
- Taken from a top-ten table on PokéWallet, a collector blog, citing GemRate data; ratios computed from it (Pikachu 1.06× Charizard, 3.7× Mew in third place).
What we assumed
- The blog’s table reflects GemRate’s data correctly.GemRate’s site could not be fetched, so the table is unverified at source.
- A 2023 claim that Charizard had twice Pikachu’s count could still have been true then.Only if Pikachu was graded about 1.5 times faster since; plausible given heavy grading of Pikachu promos, but untested.
Sanity check
2,468,834 ÷ 2,340,040 = 1.055, so Pikachu is only slightly ahead. Counts measure cards sent for grading, not prices or how many cards were printed.
Where it comes from
Our calculation from other figures in the trainer’s notes:
- EstimateCumulative graded cards, Charizard against Pikachu (PSA data via pokemetrics EX), as of May 2023
- EstimateCumulative graded cards pokemetrics 2023, to May 20231,000,000 cards (almost)
- ReportedGemrate single card graded dec 2025 mcdonalds pikachu, December 2025 (PSA)58,000 cards
- ReportedHow much more a PSA 10 1st Edition Base Set Charizard fetched than its fellow starters at one February 2026 Goldin auction6.9×
Show the working
- Pikachu: 2,468,834
- Charizard: 2,340,040
- Pikachu over Charizard times: 1.06
- Top10 sum: 8,544,378
- Pikachu plus Charizard share of top10: 56.3%
- Pikachu over Mew rank3 times: 3.73
- 2,468,834 / 2,340,040 = 1.055
- top 10 = 2,468,834 + 2,340,040 + 661,606 + 592,782 + 526,682 + 459,007 + 430,144 + 383,953 + 341,395 + 339,935 = 8,544,378
- (2,468,834 + 2,340,040) / 8,544,378 = 56.3%
- 2,468,834 / 661,606 = 3.73
- 526,682 + 459,007 = 985,689, / 661,606 = 1.49
- 2,340,040 / 430,144 = 5.44
- / 383,953 = 6.09
- 2,468,834 − ~500,000 = ~1,968,834
- 2,340,040 − ~1,000,000 = ~1,340,040
- ratio 1.47
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