Pikachu
FireRed & LeafGreen · #74 · Common · Mid-era · 2004
Pulling Pikachu in a FireRed & LeafGreen pack is about 100% (Common slot). Published, provably-fair odds you can verify.
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Pikachu market value
Pikachu (FireRed & LeafGreen #74) has a live market value of 1,238 Sparks, about $12.38 at the latest market price. That market price for Pikachu was last updated on October 19, 2026. On PackLab one Spark equals one cent of card value, so 1,238 Sparks is the figure shown for Pikachu in the set browser, on this page and in your vault after you pull it. If you pull Pikachu, you can sell it back instantly at 85% of market value, which comes to 1,052 Sparks at the current price. Sparks have no cash value and are only used on PackLab. A FireRed & LeafGreen pack is 9,525 Sparks; this card's market value is 1,238 Sparks. Among the 116 priced cards in FireRed & LeafGreen, Pikachu is the 37th most valuable. The median priced card in the set is 282 Sparks, and the most valuable card is Gengar ex at 139,999 Sparks.
How to pull Pikachu
In a FireRed & LeafGreen pack, the Common slot shows a Common card about 100% of the time. Pikachu is one of 36 priced Common cards in FireRed & LeafGreen that can fill that result, so landing this exact card is less likely than the rarity figure. These are the published odds for FireRed & LeafGreen: the full slot-by-slot table is on the FireRed & LeafGreen page, and the odds page explains how each set's rates are built. Every FireRed & LeafGreen box commits its card order before the first pack is sold, so each rip can be checked once the box sells out.
Rarity and era
Pikachu is a Common card, number 74 in FireRed & LeafGreen. FireRed & LeafGreen lists 36 Common cards out of 116 cards in total, about 31% of the set list. Among the 36 priced Common cards, market values run from 5 Sparks to 4,898 Sparks, and Pikachu ranks 6th of them. FireRed & LeafGreen is part of the EX series and sits in the Mid-era era of the PackLab catalog. Mid-era sets sit between the early classics and the current releases, and sealed packs from them are harder to find today.
About FireRed & LeafGreen
FireRed & LeafGreen was released on September 1, 2004 and lists 116 cards on PackLab, 116 of them with a live market price. Together, the priced cards in FireRed & LeafGreen carry a combined market value of 512,890 Sparks. By market value, Pikachu sits just below Exeggcute (1,249 Sparks) and just above Marowak (1,129 Sparks).
