LT. SURGE'S PIKACHU #81/132 - GYM HEROES
- Set
- Pokemon Gym Heroes (Gym series)
- Number
- 81/132
- Rarity
- Common
- Card type
- Pokémon - Basic (Lightning)
- Artist
- Ken Sugimori
- Released
- (2000-08-14)
- Raw card reference RAW / UNGRADED
- $28.35 USD (TCGplayer market, 1stEdition, as of 2026-09-11)Loose, ungraded copy. Not a graded slab - graded values are charted below.
- Graded slab data GRADED SLAB
- 2 Rip Station marks - per grader and grade, see the chart.
- In our machines
- 1 in the $50.00 machine, 1 in the $100.00 machine
RIP IT
Lt. Surge's Pikachu is in the $50.00 machine right now - PSA 9 loaded. A pack reveals one random card from that machine.
Rip the $50.00 machineABOUT THIS CARD
Lt. Surge's Pikachu is a common Pokemon card from Pokemon Gym Heroes, card 81 of 132, released August 14, 2000 in the Gym series. The illustration is by Ken Sugimori.
VALUE
What is Lt. Surge's Pikachu #81 from Gym Heroes worth?
Two different numbers answer this, and they are not interchangeable. Raw/ungraded: a loose, ungraded copy of Lt. Surge's Pikachu #81 (Gym Heroes) carries a market reference of $28.35 USD for the 1stEdition 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 $90.20 (PSA 9).
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) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-03 | PSA | 7 | $53.00 |
| 2026-06-03 | PSA | 9 | $64.00 |
PULL RATE
What are the odds of pulling Lt. Surge's Pikachu #81?
No published per-card pack odds are documented for Gym Heroes. Rip Station's machine composition is measurable, though: 1 of 1632 cards loaded in the $50.00 machine is this card - about 0.06% per rip.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| PSA | 9 | 1 |
| PSA | 7 | 2 |
| Total | 3 | |
IN OUR MACHINES
Is Lt. Surge's Pikachu #81 in a Rip Station machine?
Yes. 1 graded copy of Lt. Surge's Pikachu is loaded in the $50.00 machine; 1 graded copy of Lt. Surge's Pikachu is loaded in the $100.00 machine. A pack from that machine reveals one random card from everything loaded in it.
- $50.00 machine: 1 of 1632 loaded cards (0.06% per rip). Rip this machine
- $100.00 machine: 1 of 920 loaded cards (0.11% 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.
- Machine availability, composition odds, graded vault population and graded price marks: Rip Station first-party data.