Diamond & Pearl Rare Holo Pull Rate — 33.00% per pack (1 in 3)
33.00% of Diamond & Pearl booster packs contain a Rare Holo card — roughly 1 in 3 packs. Diamond & Pearl ships 17 Rare Holo cards in the pool, so the chance of pulling any specific Rare Holo is 0.0194 (≈1 in 52). These percentages come from PackRip's own rate table (the same constants the simulator runs on) — they are a model of the product, not a measurement of it. The Pokemon Company has never published pull rates.
Diamond & Pearl Rare Holo pull-rate methodology
| Formula | Tier odds = 33.00% per pack; per-card odds = tier odds ÷ 17 Rare Holo cards = 1 in 52. |
|---|---|
| Assumptions | One independent rare-slot roll per pack; uniform selection within the tier; no pity timers, box mapping, short-print correction, or edition/condition split. |
| Data source | Set checklist and rarity labels from the bundled Pokemon TCG API catalog; tier rates from rareSlotRates(), mirrored from the live pack opener. |
| Update cadence | Regenerated by prerender whenever set metadata, catalog data, or pull-rate constants change. |
| Limitations | This is a theoretical per-pack rate. Real sealed product can show print-run variance, collation quirks, and market-specific edition differences. |
Rare Holo cards in Diamond & Pearl
| # | Card | TCGplayer market | Per-card odds |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lucario #6 | $64.57 | 1 in 52 |
| 2 | Dialga #1 | $42.93 | 1 in 52 |
| 3 | Infernape #5 | $28.74 | 1 in 52 |
| 4 | Palkia #11 | $26.76 | 1 in 52 |
| 5 | Luxray #7 | $23.83 | 1 in 52 |
| 6 | Empoleon #4 | $21.68 | 1 in 52 |
| 7 | Staraptor #16 | $19.99 | 1 in 52 |
| 8 | Manaphy #9 | $18.00 | 1 in 52 |
| 9 | Electivire #3 | $17.68 | 1 in 52 |
| 10 | Torterra #17 | $17.14 | 1 in 52 |
| 11 | Roserade #13 | $15.60 | 1 in 52 |
| 12 | Mismagius #10 | $15.50 | 1 in 52 |
| 13 | Magnezone #8 | $13.80 | 1 in 52 |
| 14 | Dusknoir #2 | $13.76 | 1 in 52 |
| 15 | Rhyperior #12 | $8.95 | 1 in 52 |
| 16 | Shiftry #14 | $8.11 | 1 in 52 |
| 17 | Skuntank #15 | $4.91 | 1 in 52 |
How the 33.00% rate is computed
Every Diamond & Pearl booster pack rolls one rare-slot card (plus uncommons, commons, and energy in fixed slots). The rare slot is itself a weighted random draw across 3 tiers — Rare, Holo Rare, Rare Holo, and the era's other chase rarities. The Rare Holo tier captures 33.00% of those rare-slot draws (= 33.00 packs out of every 100). Within the Rare Holo tier, all 17 cards share the slot uniformly, so per-card odds are 33.00% ÷ 17 = 0.0194 = 1 in 52.
This is the same math PackRip's live Diamond & Pearl simulator uses to roll packs — open as many as you want for free, watch the empirical hit rate converge to the theoretical 33.00% over a large enough sample. Source code lives in src/utils/packGenerator.ts and the per-rarity drift is build-time-asserted against the published rates so the simulator and this landing page can never disagree.
Cumulative probability — how many packs to hit Rare Holo
Rare Holo pulls follow a geometric distribution with per-pack rate 0.330000. The expected number of packs until your first Rare Holo hit is 4; at 95% confidence you'll have one within 8 packs. Most experienced openers crack a sealed booster box (36 packs) and hit Rare Holo with probability 100.0% — so the average box yields just over 11.9 Rare Holo pulls.
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