Brilliant Stars Pokémon V Pull Rate — 16.70% per pack (1 in 6)
16.70% of Brilliant Stars booster packs contain a Pokémon V card — roughly 1 in 6 packs. Brilliant Stars ships 20 Pokémon V cards in the pool, so the chance of pulling any specific Pokémon V is 0.0083 (≈1 in 120). 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.
Brilliant Stars Pokémon V pull-rate methodology
| Formula | Tier odds = 16.70% per pack; per-card odds = tier odds ÷ 20 Pokémon V cards = 1 in 120. |
|---|---|
| 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 V cards in Brilliant Stars
| # | Card | TCGplayer market | Per-card odds |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Charizard V #17 | $8.66 | 1 in 120 |
| 2 | Mimikyu V #68 | $3.52 | 1 in 120 |
| 3 | Arceus V #122 | $3.09 | 1 in 120 |
| 4 | Raichu V #45 | $1.75 | 1 in 120 |
| 5 | Entei V #22 | $1.73 | 1 in 120 |
| 6 | Raikou V #48 | $1.60 | 1 in 120 |
| 7 | Morpeko V #95 | $1.13 | 1 in 120 |
| 8 | Kingler V #28 | $1.08 | 1 in 120 |
| 9 | Dracovish V #114 | $1.02 | 1 in 120 |
| 10 | Aggron V #96 | $1.00 | 1 in 120 |
| 11 | Drampa V #128 | $0.96 | 1 in 120 |
| 12 | Flygon V #106 | $0.95 | 1 in 120 |
| 13 | Whimsicott V #64 | $0.92 | 1 in 120 |
| 14 | Zamazenta V #105 | $0.90 | 1 in 120 |
| 15 | Honchkrow V #88 | $0.89 | 1 in 120 |
| 16 | Shaymin V #13 | $0.83 | 1 in 120 |
| 17 | Zarude V #16 | $0.81 | 1 in 120 |
| 18 | Lumineon V #40 | $0.81 | 1 in 120 |
| 19 | Granbull V #57 | $0.80 | 1 in 120 |
| 20 | Simisear V #27 | $0.69 | 1 in 120 |
How the 16.70% rate is computed
Every Brilliant Stars 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 8 tiers — Rare, Holo Rare, Pokémon V, and the era's other chase rarities. The Pokémon V tier captures 16.70% of those rare-slot draws (= 16.70 packs out of every 100). Within the Pokémon V tier, all 20 cards share the slot uniformly, so per-card odds are 16.70% ÷ 20 = 0.0083 = 1 in 120.
This is the same math PackRip's live Brilliant Stars simulator uses to roll packs — open as many as you want for free, watch the empirical hit rate converge to the theoretical 16.70% 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 V
Pokémon V pulls follow a geometric distribution with per-pack rate 0.167000. The expected number of packs until your first Pokémon V hit is 6; at 95% confidence you'll have one within 17 packs. Most experienced openers crack a sealed booster box (36 packs) and hit Pokémon V with probability 99.9% — so the average box yields just over 6.0 Pokémon V pulls.
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