Zapdos #16 — Base Set
Ken Sugimori illustrated 44 of the 102 Base Set cards. Zapdos, at number 16, is one of them: Rare Holo, Lightning-type Pokémon with 90 HP.
CATALOGUED · NOT YET PRICED
We hold no verified sold lot for Zapdos at any grade. The number that fills this space is a median of verified completed sales for one printing and one grade, and it does not render until eight of them exist. 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
- 16 / 102
- Rarity
- Rare Holo
- Card type
- Pokémon · Lightning
- HP
- 90
- Holofoil
- Yes
- Illustrator
- Illustrated by Ken Sugimori
Zapdos is one of 16 cards printed with a holofoil panel in this set. By checklist position it is 16 of 102, which puts it in the first third of the binder. Its binder neighbours are Venusaur (#15) and Beedrill (#17). 7 Base Set cards print a higher HP than its 90.
Which printing you are holding
Zapdos was printed three times over, and the three do not trade alike. 1st Edition carries the edition stamp and a flat frame; Shadowless drops the stamp and keeps the flat frame; Unlimited restores the drop shadow. So Zapdos will be priced three times over, not once: a blended median across the three would be a figure nobody paid.
Walk the set
Venusaur (#15) before, Beedrill (#17) after.
Also in Base Set
Haunter, Gastly, Rattata, Impostor Professor Oak, PlusPower and Chansey — six cards drawn across the checklist by a fixed offset ring, each of which links back.
Also illustrated by Ken Sugimori
Ken Sugimori is credited on 44 cards here; these 4 come off that list by the same offset rule.
Other Rare Holo Lightning-type Pokémon cards
3 in the cohort; nearest by number: