Froakie is the Bubble Frog Pokémon — the Water-type Kalos starter and the first stage of arguably the franchise's single most-popular starter line, Greninja. Froakie's quiet first-stage cards earn their value purely on the back of what's coming.
Froakie's chart is exactly what you'd expect from a beloved first-stage starter: nothing fancy, but the XY-Promo prints and the Hidden Fates shiny lead the list comfortably. The Greninja grail is two stages away.
The XY03 Black Star promo Froakie is the line's vintage flagship — an early XY-era league/event promo with the small-orange-foil stamp, distributed during the original XY-block launch in 2013-14. XY-launch promos like XY01-XY03 (the three Kalos starters) have always commanded a premium as the era's introductory print.
View full card data →The Hidden Fates Shiny Vault #SV11 print is the shiny-foil chase pull from the August-2019 Hidden Fates set — the same set that produced the Charizard-GX Shiny Vault grail. Every Pokémon in the Shiny Vault subset gets a recolored shiny illustration on a special foil pattern, and Froakie's SV11 slot ties it to one of the most-opened SM-era sets.
View full card data →The XY138 Black Star promo is a later-era XY-block Froakie promo, distributed deeper into the XY rotation. XY-promo numbering ran sequentially through the entire block, so XY138 sits much later than XY03 and represents a different distribution window.
View full card data →The Kalos Starter Set #12 Froakie is the November-2013 pre-launch print from the Froakie-themed deck — Froakie's first TCG appearance ahead of the XY base set. The Kalos Starter Set's three starter decks gave each Kalos starter its earliest TCG print.
View full card data →The McDonald's Collection 2021 #22 Froakie is the holo-foil Happy Meal promo from the 2021 distribution wave — one of the most accessible holo prints any kid could pull. McDonald's collections have built a steady collector following thanks to the foil patterns being exclusive to that promo wave.
View full card data →Forbidden Light #22 is the May-2018 SM-block reprint of Froakie, with a cleaner illustration and the standard Sun & Moon card frame. Forbidden Light leaned heavily on starter-line reprints alongside its Ultra Necrozma chase.
View full card data →Forbidden Light #21 is the parallel common Froakie print from the same May-2018 set — sets occasionally carry two different illustrations for the same first-stage starter, and Froakie got both slots.
View full card data →The XY base set Froakie #39 is the February-2014 dex-position common — Froakie's original TCG release in the main XY base set, alongside Fennekin and Chespin. Base-XY commons remain the cleanest representations of the Kalos starters.
View full card data →Twilight Masquerade #56 is the May-2024 Scarlet & Violet-block reprint of Froakie, released as part of the set whose Greninja ex SAR is the line's modern $380 grail. Pulling Froakie alongside the Greninja ex chase from the same set is a satisfying full-circle moment.
View full card data →BREAKpoint #38 is the February-2016 XY-block reprint of Froakie — from the set whose marquee chase was the original Greninja BREAK. Pairing a base Froakie with the Greninja BREAK from the same set let players run the full BREAK Evolution chain in Expanded.
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