Prinplup cards
Every Prinplup card we could find. The priciest one we price is the Phantasmal Flames one at $0.66.
- The Penguin Pokemon. Prinplup is #394 in the National Pokedex.
- First English card. Diamond & Pearl, May 1, 2007.
- Type. Water in the video games, which is printed as Water on a card. The eleven card types.
- Generation 4, Sinnoh. One of the 107 species that generation introduced.
- Size. 0.8m (2ft 7in) and 23.0kg (51lb).
- Capture rate 45 of 255. Higher is easier to catch. This one sits in the middle.
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 Prinplup we price
1 of the 17 printings we can name is in a set 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 Piplup line
Piplup, which becomes Prinplup, which becomes Empoleon. Each one has its own page and its own cards. The evolution chart draws every line in the Pokedex.
Piplup#393 • 35 cards- Prinplup#394 • 17 cards
Empoleon#395 • 31 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 24 rips of the set that prints Prinplup
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 Prinplup printing we could name
16 more from sets we do not price, English and Japanese. 13 have a scan and are pictured below. The other 3 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
- Prinplup DP trainer Kit (Manaphy) • 6
- Prinplup インフェルノX • 028 Common • Japanese
- Prinplup ウルトラフォース • 009 Japanese
Card list from the TCGdex card database, read September 1, 2026. A snapshot, not a live feed.
In the video games
What beats Prinplup
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.