The English Pokémon card rarity guide

Rising Rivals

Rising rivals continues to feature Pokémon LV.X and secret rare reprints (in this set Pikachu, Flying Pikachu and Surfing Pikachu), but instead of the Shining Pokémon there is a Rotom subset with six cards. Since these feature a cracked ice holofoil pattern, they will have been printed on a separate sheet.

The general rarity distribution is two Pokémon LV.X, two Rotom subset cards and one secret rare per box. My guess, just as for Stormfront and Platinum, is that the secret rares were printed on the holo sheet.

As to the reverses, they all fit on one sheet. In my Youtube sample, I observed a very high proportion of reverse uncommons:

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My guess (model) is most of the cards are printed once on the sheet, with 19 of the 32 reverse uncommons being printed twice. I would explain the difference between observed pulls and the model by the fact that there seems to be a cluster of reverse uncommons on the sheet, and a lot of the boxes I watched being opened happened to contain cards from this part of the sheet.

This shows that the method of trying to say something about reverse sheets based on observed samples has its limitations. However, it is still useful as the other sets I looked at so far didn’t have such a cluster where multiple packs in a row all contain reverse uncommons.

These things said, the rarity table looks as follows (“SP” denoting the Rotom subset):

As can be seen, the Pokémon LV.X from this set are the most difficult so far to pull.

The raw data for the holos, rares and Pokémon LV.X looks as follows (dashed lines indicating where the transition from H9 to H8, etc., would occur):



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As to the Rotom subset, the card I observed the most of was Wash Rotom.

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