Poliwag cards
Every Poliwag card we could find. The priciest one we price is the one from 151 at $0.40, and the cheapest is $0.36.
- The Tadpole Pokemon. Poliwag is #60 in the National Pokedex.
- First English card. Base, January 9, 1999.
- Type. Water in the video games, which is printed as Water on a card. The eleven card types.
- Generation 1, Kanto. One of the 151 species that generation introduced.
- Size. 0.6m (2ft 0in) and 12.4kg (27lb).
- Capture rate 255 of 255. Higher is easier to catch. This is about as easy to catch as the games get.
Artwork and Pokedex data from pokeapi.co, read August 13, 2026. Pokemon and Pokemon character names are trademarks of Nintendo, Creatures Inc. and GAME FREAK inc.
Priciest first
Every Poliwag we price
2 of the 36 printings we can name are in sets we hold prices for. Tap a card to see it full size.
Prices are pricecharting.com's price guide value for an ungraded copy, read August 31, 2026. A guide value is computed across the sales PriceCharting tracks, which is a wider set of venues than any one marketplace. 2 cards of the 5,396 priced here are not listed by PriceCharting and keep their TCGplayer market price via TCGdex instead. Where a card comes as a normal, holo and reverse holo at different prices, the figure is the priciest of them. Prices move daily, so treat these as a ballpark. Search every card.
Evolution
The Poliwag line
Poliwag, which becomes Poliwhirl, which becomes Poliwrath and Politoed. Each one has its own page and its own cards. The evolution chart draws every line in the Pokedex.
- Poliwag#60 • 36 cards
Poliwhirl#61 • 35 cards
Poliwrath#62 • 38 cards
Politoed#186 • 17 cards
Evolution line from the National Pokedex, pokeapi.co, read August 13, 2026. What each evolution actually takes differs between generations, so it is not stated here. Card counts are every printing we can name, in every language.
See these packs opened
We have filmed 7 rips of the 3 sets that print Poliwag
Garbage Rips 585 is a Pokemon card pack opening channel out of Rochester, New York. We film every pack we open, hit or no hit.
Everywhere else
Every other Poliwag printing we could name
34 more from sets we do not price, English and Japanese. 25 have a scan and are pictured below. The other 9 we can name but not show. No price on these: we only quote what we can source. Printings whose name we could not translate are left out rather than shown under a name we guessed at.
Named, with no scan to show
- Poliwag Mega Rising • 295 One Shiny
- Poliwag My First Battle • 27
- Poliwag サン＆ムーン • 011 Japanese
- Poliwag リーダーズスタジアム • 022 Common • Japanese
- Poliwag 基本拡張パック • 008 Common • Japanese
- Poliwag 拡張パック • 024 Common • Japanese
- Poliwag 裂けた大地 • 021 Common • Japanese
- Poliwag 遺跡をこえて... • 013 Common • Japanese
- Poliwag 金の空、銀の海 • 021 Common • Japanese
Card list from the TCGdex card database, read September 1, 2026. A snapshot, not a live feed.
In the video games
What beats Poliwag
Damage taken by a Water Pokemon, computed from the type chart. Everything not listed does normal damage.
- x2Electric and Grass
- ½xFire, Water, Ice and Steel
This is the video game chart, not the card game. The Pokemon TCG has eleven types and no type chart at all: Weakness and Resistance are printed on each individual card, and two cards of the same Pokemon can print different ones. What the card actually says. Type relations from pokeapi.co, read August 17, 2026.