Is it worth grading Riolu?

JP: VSTAR Universe · 201

Yes — if it grades 10. A 9 loses money at current prices. You need the 10. 9s are pooled across graders here — PriceCharting has no PSA-9-only figure.
RAW NOW$21.68TCGplayer market
PSA 10 SOLD$59.009 completed sales
Grade 9 SOLD$29.998 completed sales · mixed graders
IF IT GRADES 10+$12after $25 fee

A raw Riolu from JP: VSTAR Universe currently sells for about $21.68. Across 9 completed eBay sales, a PSA 10 has a median price of $59.00. After a $25 grading fee, a 10 would net roughly $12.32. But a Grade 9 (mixed graders) has a median of $29.99 across 8 sales — which works out to −$16.69 after fees. A 9 loses money at current prices. You need the 10. 9s are pooled across graders here — PriceCharting has no PSA-9-only figure.

Every grade, with the sales behind it

GRADEMEDIANSALES ON RECORD
PSA10$59.009 sales
CGC10P$44.494 sales
CGC10$29.136 sales
TAG10$80.006 sales
GRADE9$29.998 sales
GRADE8$10.503 sales
GRADE7$7.563 sales

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Every figure on this page is an observed number. Raw prices come from TCGplayer; graded medians are completed eBay sales, shown with the sale count behind each one. We don't estimate, model, or fill in gaps — if a grade has no sales on record, it isn't listed. Grading outcomes are not guaranteed: most raw cards do not come back a 10, which is exactly why the 9-grade number is on this page. Where PriceCharting has no PSA-9-only figure we show its pooled 9 — PSA, BGS, CGC and SGC together — and label it as such rather than call it a PSA 9.