Giovanni's Nidoqueen
Gym Challenge · #23 · Rare · Vintage · 2000
Pulling Giovanni's Nidoqueen in a Gym Challenge pack is about 66.7% (Rare slot). Published, provably-fair odds you can verify.
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Giovanni's Nidoqueen market value
Giovanni's Nidoqueen (Gym Challenge #23) has a live market value of 3,038 Sparks, about $30.38 at the latest market price. That market price for Giovanni's Nidoqueen was last updated on October 19, 2026. On PackLab one Spark equals one cent of card value, so 3,038 Sparks is the figure shown for Giovanni's Nidoqueen in the set browser, on this page and in your vault after you pull it. If you pull Giovanni's Nidoqueen, you can sell it back instantly at 85% of market value, which comes to 2,582 Sparks at the current price. Sparks have no cash value and are only used on PackLab. A Gym Challenge pack is 21,300 Sparks; this card's market value is 3,038 Sparks. Among the 132 priced cards in Gym Challenge, Giovanni's Nidoqueen is the 33rd most valuable. The median priced card in the set is 665 Sparks, and the most valuable card is Erika's Venusaur at 77,945 Sparks.
How to pull Giovanni's Nidoqueen
In a Gym Challenge pack, the Rare slot shows a Rare card about 66.7% of the time. Giovanni's Nidoqueen is one of 21 priced Rare cards in Gym Challenge that can fill that result, so landing this exact card is less likely than the rarity figure. These are the published odds for Gym Challenge: the full slot-by-slot table is on the Gym Challenge page, and the odds page explains how each set's rates are built. Every Gym Challenge 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
Giovanni's Nidoqueen is a Rare card, number 23 in Gym Challenge. Gym Challenge lists 21 Rare cards out of 132 cards in total, about 16% of the set list. Among the 21 priced Rare cards, market values run from 754 Sparks to 46,375 Sparks, and Giovanni's Nidoqueen ranks 7th of them. Gym Challenge is part of the Gym series and sits in the Vintage era of the PackLab catalog. Vintage sets come from the early years of the hobby, when holographic rares were the main chase and sealed packs were far fewer.
About Gym Challenge
Gym Challenge was released on October 16, 2000 and lists 132 cards on PackLab, 132 of them with a live market price. Together, the priced cards in Gym Challenge carry a combined market value of 733,069 Sparks. By market value, Giovanni's Nidoqueen sits just below Erika's Ivysaur (3,286 Sparks) and just above Lt. Surge's Pikachu (2,762 Sparks).
