Vaporeon · Skyridge, what to know.
About the Vaporeon card
Numbered 33 of 182 in Skyridge, released in May 2003, Vaporeon is a Rare, a Stage 1 Water-type carrying 70 HP.
It evolves from Eevee, so Vaporeon is a later-stage card that set-builders usually slot into a full evolution run rather than buy alone.
Illustrated by Naoyo Kimura.
About Vaporeon in the Pokémon world
The Water Eeveelution. Aquatic, mermaid-like silhouette. Jungle holo Vaporeon is one of the three Eeveelution chase cards in the set. Strong collector demand.
What is Vaporeon worth?
Vaporeon is a non-holo Rare. In Skyridge, value concentrates in the holo rares, so a Vaporeon trades modestly, though a clean, well-centered 1st Edition copy in PSA 10 is scarcer than the print run suggests and carries a real premium. Check the live price above for the figure by grade.
Print variants and how to spot them
Confirm the print and finish on Vaporeon before pricing it, since variant and rarity set the market more than the card name alone.
Grading and condition
Non-holo Rares like Vaporeon are easier on surface but no kinder on centering. Wizards-era cards were less protected than the holos, so high-grade Vaporeon survivors can be scarcer than expected, with edge whitening the usual cap.
If you are collecting Vaporeon
For Vaporeon, check centering by eye, edge whitening on all four sides, and surface under angled light. Non-holo Rares from this era are cheap enough that a PSA 10 submission on a clean Vaporeon can make sense.
