Machop #52 — Base Set
Machop (#52/102) is a Common Fighting-type Pokémon with 50 HP. 4 cards in the set share that cohort, and Mitsuhiro Arita drew this one.
CATALOGUED · NOT YET PRICED
We hold no verified sold lot for Machop 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
- 52 / 102
- Rarity
- Common
- Card type
- Pokémon · Fighting
- HP
- 50
- Holofoil
- No
- Illustrator
- Illustrated by Mitsuhiro Arita
39 Base Set cards print a higher HP than its 50. Its binder neighbours are Koffing (#51) and Magnemite (#53). Machop was printed without a holofoil panel; 16 of the 102 cards carry one. By checklist position it is 52 of 102, which puts it in the middle third of the binder.
Which printing you are holding
Which Machop you are holding is decided before grade is: the set ran in three printings. 1st Edition carries the edition stamp and a flat frame; Shadowless drops the stamp and keeps the flat frame; Unlimited restores the drop shadow. Priced, Machop would carry one cell per printing — blending three print runs into one median states a price no one paid.
Walk the set
Koffing (#51) before, Magnemite (#53) after.
Also in Base Set
Staryu, Pokémon Flute, Fighting Energy, Hitmonchan, Dragonair and Porygon — 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 Common Fighting-type Pokémon cards
4 in the cohort; nearest by number: