What is the Paldea Evolved Pull Rate?

 

The pull rate of a set is one of the most important metrics for any fan of the game. The pull rate is the ratio of packs that have rare art cards to those that don’t. Sets that have a good pull rate tend to be more popular than those with a low pull rate.

Although a huge number of packs should be opened to get a truly definitive answer to this question, most people only buy two or three booster boxes at most and we wanted to emulate the experience of the average Pokémon fan by determining the Paldea Evolved Pull Rate of three random booster boxes. 

 

The Paldea Evolved Set

The Paldea Evolved Set is the second expansion set of the Scarlet and Violet Series.  It was released on 9th June  2023 with a presale price of around £120 ($120). We ordered our boxes from two different suppliers to ensure they were completely random boxes. 

New booster boxes are sealed a with clear film covering which has the Pokémon logo imprinted in white.

Each booster box contains 36 sealed booster packs. The booster packs for this set have five different artworks – Meowscarada, Skeledirge, Quaquaval, Chien-Pao and Ting-Lu.

 

How good is the Paldea Evolved pull rate?

The Scarlet and Violet Base Series introduced a revamping of rarity categories with each type of rare card having its own unique symbol. Non-holo rare cards were discontinued meaning all rare cards were holographic. For the purpose of our pull rate test we deemed a pull to be an art card – Double Rare, Ultra Rare, Illustration Rare, Special Illustration Rare or Hyper Rare.

The Paldea Evolved Set contains 279 cards and includes 17 Double Rare Cards, 36 Illustration Rare Cards, 15 Special Illustration Rare Cards, 26 Ultra Rare Cards and 9 Hyper Rare Gold Cards.

In addition to logging the overall Paldea Evolved pull rate we also logged the pull rate for each pack art design – Meowscarada, Skeledirge, Quaquaval, Chien-Pao and Ting-Lu. 

 

Paldea Evolved Pull Rate Results by Pack Art

Our three booster boxes contained 108 Booster Packs:

22 Meowscarada artwork, 21 Skeledirge, 21 Quaquaval, 23 Chien-Pao and 21 Ting-Lu artwork.

Meowscarada Artwork

Our 22 packs featuring Meowscarada included 17 that had no art cards. 

From the other 5 packs we pulled:

015/193 Meowscarada ex (Double Rare)
037/193 Skeledirge ex (Double Rare)
079/193 Bellibolt ex (Double Rare)

221/193 Paldean Wooper (Illustration Rare)

This represents a pull rate of 18%

 

Skeledirge Artwork

Out of the 21 packs featuring Skeledirge, 12 packs had no art cards. From the remaining 9 packs we pulled:

015/193 Meowscarada ex (Double Rare)
040/193 Chi-Yu ex (Double Rare)
086/193 Slowking ex (Double Rare)

206/193 Quaxly (Illustration Rare)
222/193 Tyranitar (Illustration Rare)

237/193 Bellibolt ex (Ultra Rare)
242/193 Annihilape ex (Ultra Rare)

258/193 Skeledirge ex (Special Illustration Rare)
264/193 Squawkabilly ex (Special Illustration Rare)

This represents a pull rate of 42.8%

 

Quaquaval Artwork

Out of our 21 packs, 16 packs contained no holo rare or art cards. From the other 5 packs we pulled:

130/193 Paldean Clodsire ex (Double Rare)

212/193 Mismagius (Illustration Rare)
213/193 Gothorita (Illustration Rare)

262/193 Tinkaton ex (Special Illustration Rare)
270/193 Saguaro (Special Illustration Rare)

This represents a pull rate of 23.8%

 

Chien-Pao Artwork

Our 23 packs featuring Chien-Pao included 12 that had no art cards. From the other 11 packs we pulled:

005/193 Forretress ex (Double Rare)
079/193 Bellibolt ex (Double Rare)
117/193 Lycanroc ex (Double Rare)
130/193 Paldean Clodsire ex (Double Rare)

221/193 Paldean Wooper (Illustration Rare)
226/193 Maushold (Illustration Rare)

232/193 Wo-Chien ex (Ultra Rare)
233/193 Skeledirge ex (Ultra Rare)
238/193 Slowking ex (Ultra Rare)
249/193 Clavell (Ultra Rare)
254/193 Iono (Ultra Rare)

This represents a pull rate of 47.8%

 

Ting-Lu Artwork

Our 21 packs featuring Chien-Pao included 13 that had no art cards. From the other 8 packs we pulled:

005/193 Forretress ex (Double Rare)
027/193 Wo-Chien ex (Double Rare)
127/193 Ting-Lu ex (Double Rare)
169/193 Squawkabilly ex (Double Rare)

208/193 Frigibax (Illustration Rare)
225/193 Rookidee (Illustration Rare)

261/193 Chien-Pao ex (Special Illustration Rare)

278/193 Basic Grass Energy (Gold Hyper Rare)

This represents a pull rate of 38%

 

Conclusion

From our 108 booster packs we pulled 15 Double Rare cards, 9 Illustration Rare, 7 Ultra Rare, 5 Special Illustration Rare and 1 Hyper Rare card. This represents an overall Paldea Evolved pull rate of 37/108 or 34.2%. When this is broken down by rarity the pull rate from 3 booster boxes is:

Double Rare – 13.8%
Illustration Rare – 8%
Ultra Rare – 6%
Special Illustration Rare – 5%
Hyper Rare – <1%

The results analysed by pack art showed that packs with Chien-Pao artwork had the best pull rate of 47.8%, Skeledirge artwork came out at 42.8%, Ting-Lu 38%, Quaquaval 23.8% while Meowscarada had the worst pull rate of just 18%.

It should be remembered that the Paldea Evolved pull rate results posted here were taken from a sample of three booster boxes. If the sample were larger with more booster boxes being analysed, the result could be different.