GYARADOS #6/102 - BASE SET
- Set
- Pokemon Base Set (Base series)
- Number
- 6/102
- Rarity
- Rare Holo
- Card type
- Pokémon - Stage 1 (Water)
- Artist
- Mitsuhiro Arita
- Released
- (1999-01-09)
- Raw card reference RAW / UNGRADED
- $46.18 USD (TCGplayer market, holofoil, as of 2026-09-11)Loose, ungraded copy. Not a graded slab - graded values are charted below.
- Graded slab data GRADED SLAB
- 17 Rip Station marks - per grader and grade, see the chart.
- In our machines
- 2 in the $50.00 machine, 1 in the $100.00 machine, 4 in the $150.00 machine, 2 in the $200.00 machine, 1 in the $500.00 machine
Rarely seen in the wild. Huge and vicious, it is capable of destroying entire cities in a rage.
RIP IT
Gyarados is in the $50.00 machine right now - CGC 8.5, PSA 7 loaded. A pack reveals one random card from that machine.
Rip the $50.00 machineABOUT THIS CARD
Gyarados is a rare holo Pokemon card from Pokemon Base Set, card 6 of 102, released January 9, 1999 in the Base series. The illustration is by Mitsuhiro Arita.
Gyarados was one of the most played big attackers of the first year of the game and remains a favorite of Base Set collectors for its art. It is one of the sixteen original holofoil rares.
VALUE
What is Gyarados #6 from Base Set worth?
Two different numbers answer this, and they are not interchangeable. Raw/ungraded: a loose, ungraded copy of Gyarados #6 (Base Set) carries a market reference of $46.18 USD for the holofoil printing (TCGplayer market price, as of 2026-09-11). Graded slabs: a graded example is priced per grading company and per grade and can sit far above that raw figure - our own graded marks for this card are charted and tabled below, per grader and grade. Both are references, not offers. The graded copy in our machine carries a Rip Station estimated slab value of $371.00 (PSA 8).
Graded slab values over time GRADED SLAB
Slab values, per grading company and grade. These are a different market from the raw/ungraded reference in the facts block above - do not read one as the other.
| Date | Grader | Grade | Estimated slab value (USD) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-05 | PSA | 7 | $72.77 |
| 2026-06-12 | CGC | 9 | $165.00 |
| 2026-06-12 | PSA | 6 | $93.60 |
| 2026-06-12 | PSA | 8 | $122.20 |
| 2026-06-27 | PSA | 8 | $115.00 |
| 2026-07-09 | PSA | 9 | $700.00 |
| 2026-07-28 | PSA | 6 | $110.00 |
| 2026-07-28 | PSA | 7 | $90.00 |
| 2026-07-28 | PSA | 8 | $302.00 |
| 2026-08-07 | CGC | 10 | $699.99 |
| 2026-08-07 | CGC | 8.5 | $87.00 |
| 2026-08-07 | PSA | 9 | $277.88 |
| 2026-08-10 | PSA | 7 | $90.00 |
| 2026-08-15 | CGC | 8.5 | $87.00 |
| 2026-08-17 | PSA | 9 | $265.00 |
| 2026-08-18 | PSA | 9 | $277.88 |
| 2026-08-19 | PSA | 9 | $277.88 |
PULL RATE
What are the odds of pulling Gyarados #6?
From published pack odds, any holofoil rare appeared about 1 in 3 packs in Base Set boosters. With 16 cards sharing that slot, pulling Gyarados specifically works out to roughly 1 in 48 packs, assuming equal seeding. In the Rip Station $50.00 machine right now, 2 of 1633 loaded cards are this card - about 0.12% per rip.
Source: Bulbapedia: Booster pack (TCG). Per-card figure derived as slot odds x 16 eligible cards.
POP REPORT
Rip Station vault population - graded slabs GRADED SLAB
Counts of GRADED copies, by grading company and grade, that have passed through our machines. Raw/ungraded copies are counted separately in the Raw row.
| Grader | Grade | Copies |
|---|---|---|
| CGC | 10 | 1 |
| CGC | 9 | 1 |
| CGC | 8.5 | 2 |
| PSA | 9 | 6 |
| PSA | 8 | 4 |
| PSA | 7 | 5 |
| PSA | 6 | 2 |
| Total | 21 | |
IN OUR MACHINES
Is Gyarados #6 in a Rip Station machine?
Yes. 2 graded copies of Gyarados are loaded in the $50.00 machine; 1 graded copy of Gyarados is loaded in the $100.00 machine; 4 graded copies of Gyarados are loaded in the $150.00 machine; 2 graded copies of Gyarados are loaded in the $200.00 machine; 1 graded copy of Gyarados is loaded in the $500.00 machine. A pack from that machine reveals one random card from everything loaded in it.
- $50.00 machine: 2 of 1633 loaded cards (0.12% per rip). Rip this machine
- $100.00 machine: 1 of 920 loaded cards (0.11% per rip). Rip this machine
- $150.00 machine: 4 of 678 loaded cards (0.59% per rip). Rip this machine
- $200.00 machine: 2 of 900 loaded cards (0.22% per rip). Rip this machine
- $500.00 machine: 1 of 519 loaded cards (0.19% per rip). Rip this machine
SOURCES
- Card metadata and image: the open pokemontcg.io dataset.
- Raw/ungraded reference value: pokemontcg.io market snapshot (tcgplayer), as of 2026-09-11. An ungraded single, an estimate, not an offer - and not a graded slab value.
- Pack odds: cited above per slot.
- Machine availability, composition odds, graded vault population and graded price marks: Rip Station first-party data.