Venusaur #15 — Base Set

Binder slot 15 belongs to Venusaur: Rare Holo, Grass-type Pokémon with 100 HP. The credit on the card reads Mitsuhiro Arita.

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The sold-comp ledger contains zero rows for Venusaur. A price appears here when at least eight verified sold lots for one exact printing and grade are in the ledger — that is the sample size the median is allowed to be computed from. No estimate, no range, no placeholder.

Identity fetched 2026-09-01 from the pokemontcg.io Base Set checklist; prices and populations are not in that record.

The record we hold

Set
Base Set (1999)
Card number
15 / 102
Rarity
Rare Holo
Card type
Pokémon · Grass
HP
100
Holofoil
Yes
Illustrator
Illustrated by Mitsuhiro Arita

By checklist position it is 15 of 102, which puts it in the first third of the binder. Its binder neighbours are Raichu (#14) and Zapdos (#16). 2 Base Set cards print a higher HP than its 100. Venusaur is one of 16 cards printed with a holofoil panel in this set.

Which printing you are holding

Three Base Set printings exist, and a Venusaur from each is a different card to price. 1st Edition carries the edition stamp and a flat frame; Shadowless drops the stamp and keeps the flat frame; Unlimited restores the drop shadow. Each printing of Venusaur therefore gets its own cell here, never one blended number.

Walk the set

Raichu (#14) before, Zapdos (#16) after.

Also in Base Set

Growlithe, Drowzee, Ponyta, Devolution Spray, Maintenance and Blastoise — six cards drawn across the checklist by a fixed offset ring, each of which links back.

Also illustrated by Mitsuhiro Arita

Mitsuhiro Arita is credited on 19 cards here; these 4 come off that list by the same offset rule.

Other Rare Holo Grass-type Pokémon cards

2 in the cohort; nearest by number:

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