Professor's Research
Pokémon GO · #84 · Rare Rainbow · Modern · 2022
Pulling Professor's Research in a Pokémon GO pack is about 9.9% (Rare slot). Published, provably-fair odds you can verify.
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Professor's Research market value
Professor's Research (Pokémon GO #84) has a live market value of 853 Sparks, about $8.53 at the latest market price. That market price for Professor's Research was last updated on July 10, 2026. On PackLab one Spark equals one cent of card value, so 853 Sparks is the figure shown for Professor's Research in the set browser, on this page and in your vault after you pull it. If you pull Professor's Research, you can sell it back instantly at 85% of market value, which comes to 725 Sparks at the current price. Sparks have no cash value and are only used on PackLab. A Pokémon GO pack is 1,900 Sparks; this card's market value is 853 Sparks. Among the 88 priced cards in Pokémon GO, Professor's Research is the 11th most valuable. The median priced card in the set is 32 Sparks, and the most valuable card is Mewtwo V at 6,613 Sparks.
How to pull Professor's Research
In a Pokémon GO pack, the Rare slot shows a Rare Rainbow card about 9.9% of the time. In other words, about one Pokémon GO pack in 10 lands a Rare Rainbow card in that slot. Professor's Research is one of 7 priced Rare Rainbow cards in Pokémon GO that can fill that result, so landing this exact card is less likely than the rarity figure. These are the published odds for Pokémon GO: the full slot-by-slot table is on the Pokémon GO page, and the odds page explains how each set's rates are built. Every Pokémon GO box commits its card order before the first pack is sold, so each rip can be checked once the box sells out.
Rarity and era
Professor's Research is a Rare Rainbow card, number 84 in Pokémon GO. Pokémon GO lists 7 Rare Rainbow cards out of 96 cards in total, about 7% of the set list. Among the 7 priced Rare Rainbow cards, market values run from 788 Sparks to 5,461 Sparks, and Professor's Research ranks 5th of them. Pokémon GO is part of the Sword & Shield series and sits in the Modern era of the PackLab catalog. Modern-era sets are recent and widely opened, and their chase cards are usually the full-art and illustration rares.
About Pokémon GO
Pokémon GO was released on July 1, 2022 and lists 96 cards on PackLab, 88 of them with a live market price. Together, the priced cards in Pokémon GO carry a combined market value of 39,002 Sparks. By market value, Professor's Research sits just below Blanche (860 Sparks) and just above Spark (819 Sparks).
