Tentacruel · Aquapolis, what to know.
About the Tentacruel card
Tentacruel is card 38 of 182 in Aquapolis, released in January 2003, a Rare. It is a Stage 1 Water-type with 70 HP.
As a Stage 1, it evolves from Tentacool, which places Tentacruel deeper in its line and means most collectors hold it alongside the cards it evolves from.
Illustrated by Hajime Kusajima.
About Tentacruel in the Pokémon world
The fully evolved Tentacool. Larger, with more visible tentacles. Fossil Rare with thin standalone demand.
What is Tentacruel worth?
Tentacruel is a non-holo Rare. In Aquapolis, value concentrates in the holo rares, so a Tentacruel trades modestly, though a clean, well-centered 1st Edition copy in PSA 10 is scarcer than the print run suggests and carries a real premium. Check the live price above for the figure by grade.
Print variants and how to spot them
Confirm the print and finish on Tentacruel before pricing it, since variant and rarity set the market more than the card name alone.
Grading and condition
On Tentacruel, look at the corners and the framed border first. Non-holo Rares took more handling than the chase holos, so a sharp, centered copy of Tentacruel in a true PSA 10 is harder to find than the print run suggests.
If you are collecting Tentacruel
For Tentacruel, check centering by eye, edge whitening on all four sides, and surface under angled light. Non-holo Rares from this era are cheap enough that a PSA 10 submission on a clean Tentacruel can make sense.
