In my quest to complete a full PSA 10 Skyridge holo set, I regularly checked the PSA pop report to get an idea of which cards were harder to pick up than others. A slow day at the office later I ended up assembling a spreadsheet so I could easily refer to this information. It has now been a full year since I originally made the sheet, so I decided it would be fun to share how the Skyridge PSA 9 & 10 pops for the holos had grown.
To spice things up, I decided to rank all 38 Skyridge holos from highest to lowest PSA 10 / PSA 9 + PSA 10 percentage and then tracked how each card’s position changed from June 2022 to June 2023.
My observations
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Machamp is no longer the easiest holo to achieve in a PSA 10. That dubious honor belongs to Rhydon now!
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With the exception of Umbreon, every single holo decreased in PSA 10% from June 2022 → June 2023. Lots of people chasing one of the OG Moonbreons or cracking 9s to try for 10s?
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Crystal Charizard saw the largest position drop out of any card from 27 → 34. This is less due to PSA handing out a ton of 10s and more because all the cards around it received fewer 10s proportionately.
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Forretress saw the largest rise out of any card from 14 → 6. This is due to its PSA 10 pop going from 62 → 67 while its PSA 9 pop rose from 107 → 153.
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Houndoom still remains the hardest card in the set to achieve a perfect grade by a large margin. Although relative to many earlier WOTC sets, it still isn’t that difficult.
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From June 22, 2022 → June 22, 2023, 527 new PSA 10 Skyridge holos were graded (an increase of roughly 13%). The cards are still relatively easy to get high grades in so it will be interesting to see if things slow down next year as the perceived RAW supply dwindles.
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Raichu is still the ugliest holo in the set
