日本語 · Coming to Set Hunter

Japanese Poliwrath

Set Hunter already tracks 42 English Poliwrath variants across 17 sets, going back to 1999 — and that’s only part of the master set. Every Japanese printing belongs in the same binder: same checklist, same completion, more rows. Different sets, different print runs, and a pile of cards that never got an English printing at all. Not in Set Hunter yet. Next.

42
EN variants: 20
EN cards: 17
EN sets: 1999
first print

Not built yet

Japanese Poliwrath is coming

The Japanese printings aren't in Set Hunter yet. Join the waitlist and you'll be first in when they land in the Poliwrath binder — Japanese first, the other languages after it.

Set Hunter members only. Free account, no card. One email when it drops.

Why your Poliwrath master set isn't finished in English

It isn't the English set in Japanese

The English releases were assembled out of the Japanese ones, not translated one for one. Set lists don't line up, print runs don't line up, and a card that took one slot in English can sit across two Japanese releases. So the Japanese printings aren't duplicates of what's already in your binder — they're the rows missing from it.

The first prints are marked differently

There's no straight Japanese equivalent of the English 1st Edition stamp running through the eras. Early Japanese prints get separated by their own tells — the earliest Base Set run famously carries no rarity symbol at all — so "the first one" means something different, and costs something different.

Some cards never crossed over

Magazine inserts, tournament and campaign prizes, regional and shop promos: a large slice of Japanese print history has no English counterpart at all. Those are usually the cards that finish a master set, and the ones a checklist built on English data will never tell you about.

What Set Hunter will track

Every Japanese Poliwrath printing, dropped into the master set you already have — same chronological spine, more pockets.
Variant-level pockets, not one row per card: separate prints get separate targets.
Japanese-only promos and inserts, which is where most English-built checklists quietly stop.
The same colour-vs-proxy binder: colour for what you own, a marked placeholder for what you don't.
Your completion re-based on the full set — the honest number, not the English-only one.

Start the set now

The English side is live — all 42 Poliwrath variants, free, today. Japanese slots into the same binder later.

See the Poliwrath master set →

The rest of the line

A master set covers the whole evolution line — in every language.

Japanese Poliwag Japanese Poliwhirl Japanese Politoed