Brock's Rhydon

Brock's Rhydon is card 2 of 132 in Gym Heroes, released in August 2000, a Rare Holo. It is a Stage 1 Fighting-type with 80 HP.

As a Stage 1, it evolves from Brock's Rhyhorn, which places Brock's Rhydon deeper in its line and means most collectors hold it alongside the cards it evolves from.

Brock is the Rock-type Gym Leader of Pewter City and Ash's longtime traveling companion. Brock's Rhydon is part of that themed lineup.

Illustrated by Ken Sugimori. Sugimori is the lead character designer of Pokémon itself, so his card art carries the tight, on-model look that defined how the creatures appear in the games.

The fully evolved Rhyhorn. The famous "first Pokémon ever created" in design lore. Standard Rare with steady demand thanks to design lore.

Brock's Rhydon is a holo rare, one of the cards that holds Gym Heroes's value. The print variant decides most of it: a 1st Edition copy in high grade commands a large premium over a Shadowless or Unlimited one. In top-grade 1st Edition, Gym Heroes holos range from the mid hundreds for the lesser cards up to Sabrina's Gengar at the top; raw and Unlimited copies trade for a fraction of that. The live market price above shows the current figure by grade.

Gym Heroes shipped in 1st Edition and Unlimited, with no Shadowless print. The trainer-prefix naming runs across the set, and the 1st Edition Brock's Rhydon carries the Edition 1 stamp and a premium over Unlimited in matching grade.

Brock's Rhydon lives and dies on its holo surface in grading. The fighting foil catches light at angles that hide hairlines in a flat photo, so tilt it under a lamp, then measure the borders, where Wizards-era centering is the second-most-common grade cap.

If you are buying Brock's Rhydon, work in order: confirm the print variant first, then the grade, then price against recent sales for that exact variant and grade. For a raw Brock's Rhydon above a few hundred dollars, insist on angled-light photos of the holo so you can spot hairlines.