Ruby & Sapphire Pokémon-ex Pull Rate — 24.70% per pack (1 in 4)
24.70% of Ruby & Sapphire booster packs contain a Pokémon-ex card — roughly 1 in 4 packs. Ruby & Sapphire ships 8 Pokémon-ex cards in the pool, so the chance of pulling any specific Pokémon-ex is 0.0309 (≈1 in 32). 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.
Ruby & Sapphire Pokémon-ex pull-rate methodology
| Formula | Tier odds = 24.70% per pack; per-card odds = tier odds ÷ 8 Pokémon-ex cards = 1 in 32. |
|---|---|
| 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. |
Pokémon-ex cards in Ruby & Sapphire
| # | Card | TCGplayer market | Per-card odds |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mewtwo ex #101 | $439.98 | 1 in 32 |
| 2 | Scyther ex #102 | $169.99 | 1 in 32 |
| 3 | Lapras ex #99 | $161.64 | 1 in 32 |
| 4 | Hitmonchan ex #98 | $100.06 | 1 in 32 |
| 5 | Chansey ex #96 | $88.39 | 1 in 32 |
| 6 | Sneasel ex #103 | $86.08 | 1 in 32 |
| 7 | Electabuzz ex #97 | $85.48 | 1 in 32 |
| 8 | Magmar ex #100 | $71.75 | 1 in 32 |
How the 24.70% rate is computed
Every Ruby & Sapphire 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, Pokémon-ex, and the era's other chase rarities. The Pokémon-ex tier captures 24.70% of those rare-slot draws (= 24.70 packs out of every 100). Within the Pokémon-ex tier, all 8 cards share the slot uniformly, so per-card odds are 24.70% ÷ 8 = 0.0309 = 1 in 32.
This is the same math PackRip's live Ruby & Sapphire simulator uses to roll packs — open as many as you want for free, watch the empirical hit rate converge to the theoretical 24.70% 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 Pokémon-ex
Pokémon-ex pulls follow a geometric distribution with per-pack rate 0.247000. The expected number of packs until your first Pokémon-ex hit is 5; at 95% confidence you'll have one within 11 packs. Most experienced openers crack a sealed booster box (36 packs) and hit Pokémon-ex with probability 100.0% — so the average box yields just over 8.9 Pokémon-ex pulls.
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