Aquapolis Crystal Pull Rate — 1.00% per pack (1 in 100)
1.00% of Aquapolis booster packs contain a Crystal card — roughly 1 in 100 packs. Aquapolis ships 3 Crystal cards in the pool, so the chance of pulling any specific Crystal is 0.0033 (≈1 in 300). 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.
Aquapolis Crystal pull-rate methodology
| Formula | Tier odds = 1.00% per pack; per-card odds = tier odds ÷ 3 Crystal cards = 1 in 300. |
|---|---|
| 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. |
Crystal cards in Aquapolis
| # | Card | TCGplayer market | Per-card odds |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lugia #149 | $2225.00 | 1 in 300 |
| 2 | Nidoking #150 | $600.00 | 1 in 300 |
| 3 | Kingdra #148 | $599.99 | 1 in 300 |
How the 1.00% rate is computed
Every Aquapolis 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, Crystal, and the era's other chase rarities. The Crystal tier captures 1.00% of those rare-slot draws (= 1.00 packs out of every 100). Within the Crystal tier, all 3 cards share the slot uniformly, so per-card odds are 1.00% ÷ 3 = 0.0033 = 1 in 300.
This is the same math PackRip's live Aquapolis simulator uses to roll packs — open as many as you want for free, watch the empirical hit rate converge to the theoretical 1.00% 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 Crystal
Crystal pulls follow a geometric distribution with per-pack rate 0.010000. The expected number of packs until your first Crystal hit is 100; at 95% confidence you'll have one within 299 packs. Most experienced openers crack a sealed booster box (36 packs) and hit Crystal with probability 30.4% — so the average box yields just over 0.4 Crystal pulls.
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