Pokespective

Tentacruel

Aquapolis · Rare

Forecast: ahead · 72%NormalVintage
Price
$14.38
Interest score
95/100 — Not trustworthy
Pricing
Only one listing

Pricier than 29% of the cards we track in this set · at the top of its 12-month range ($5.57–$14.38)

Tentacruel — price history
$4.00$6.00$8.00$10.00$12.00$14.00 2024-022024-072024-122025-052025-112026-042026-09

Why it scores where it does

What's driving the score
Unusual move: +0.206Unusual move+0.206Seller confidence: +0.163Seller confidence+0.163Listing tightness: +0.145Listing tightness+0.1451-month trend: +0.1411-month trend+0.141Price steadiness: +0.081Price steadiness+0.0812-month trend: +0.0462-month trend+0.046Near its high: +0.042Near its high+0.0424-month trend: +0.0324-month trend+0.032

Its interest score of 95 out of 100 is driven most by unusual move — sudden jump. Blue bars pushed the score up, red bars pulled it down. The ingredients are weighted by how well each one has actually predicted price moves in this market, measured on your own price history rather than assumed.

What the numbers say

Is this card interesting right now?

Scores 95, but do not trust it

The cheapest listing and the middle of the listings are the same price ($17.99), which means there is effectively one copy for sale. One optimistic seller is not a market. Ignore the interest score here and go look at the actual listings. The score is computed the same way as for every other card, and on this one the ingredients are being fed by a listing that does not represent a real market. Treat the ranking as unreliable until the listings look normal again.

Why is it interesting?

Sudden jump and sellers holding firm

The recent move is far larger than this card's normal week-to-week wobble - something happened. People selling this card are asking more than it has recently sold for. In this market that has been the single most reliable sign that supply is tight.

Is it becoming more popular?

Yes - consistently

Compared with the Pokemon market as a whole, so a rising tide does not count as popularity. In this market these trends have tended to keep going rather than reverse.

Past month+7.7%
Past 2 months+4.0%
Past 4 months+35.1%

Is it expensive or cheap?

$14.38 - cheap for its set

At $14.38 it is one of the cheaper cards in its set - number 240 of 337 by price. Against other Rare cards it sits at the 83th percentile - toward the top. It is at or near its highest price of the past year.

What makes this card unusual?

An ordinary Rare from a 24-year-old set

Rare is a common tier - 6,033 tracked cards share it. The set is about 24 years old, so surviving copies in good condition get scarcer over time.

Could you actually buy or sell it?

Slowly - it rarely trades

The price changed in 10% of our checks over the past year across 365 observations. TCGplayer's market price only updates when a copy sells, so a low figure means the price shown may be stale and any trend reading is built on very few real sales.

Is grading worth considering?

No

At $14.38 raw, grading costs roughly $22.00 - more than the card itself. Only worth it for sentimental reasons. This is a vintage set, where condition varies far more between copies and grading matters correspondingly more. This is a rule of thumb from the card's raw price, age and price stability. We track raw ungraded prices only - no graded sales and no population data - so this cannot tell you what a PSA 10 of this card is worth. Check a graded price guide before spending money.

What happens next (60 days)

Expected to outpace the market

An estimated 72% chance of beating the typical tracked card over the next 60 days, by around +6.0% on a middling outcome.

Only one listing: treat this forecast as unusable. The model's heaviest input is seller confidence, and that is the exact figure this card's listings distort.

Chance of beating market
72%
not meaningful here
Expected vs market
+6.0%
not meaningful here
Forecast confidence
74
higher = tighter, better-grounded

$14.09 – $19.05 — 80% likely. The middle half lands between $14.95 and $17.11. Today it is $14.38.

Assumes the market as a whole drifts +4.0% over 60 days, its recent average. That part is an assumption carried forward, not a prediction — the 'vs market' figure above does not depend on it.

Prices here are TCGplayer's market price, which is an average of recent sales and lags a real move by a few weeks. Part of any short-term forecast is that lag catching up — visible in the chart, but not something you can buy at.

Every number behind this page

Market price$14.38What copies have recently sold for
Cheapest listing$17.99The lowest price anyone is currently asking
Middle of listings$17.99The midpoint of what sellers are asking
Seller confidence+25.1%Asking prices are above recent sales — sellers are in no hurry
1-month trend vs market+7.7%Outpacing the market
2-month trend vs market+4.0%Outpacing the market
4-month trend vs market+35.1%Outpacing the market
Versus same-set, same-rarity cards+19.5%Shown for interest only — this one is not part of the score
Unusual move+1.5Within its normal range of movement
Below its 12-month high-0.0%At or near its high
Day-to-day price movement0.0105Calm and steady
How often it trades10%Rarely trades — the price shown may be stale
Price checks on record365Observations in the past year
Times the price changed38How many of those were real moves
Actively tradedYesWhether there is enough activity for the trend figures to mean anything
Set age23.7 yearsVintage
Interest score95 / 100Ranks above 95% of tracked cards
TCGplayer product ID89,872For looking it up elsewhere

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