Big Air Balloon
About Big Air Balloon — Strengths
+ It's a Tool card — attaches to one Pokémon and stays until that Pokémon leaves play.
Big Air Balloon is a Uncommon card from the Paldean Wonders set — a Trainer card. Check its effect and which pack it drops from below.
Card effect
The Stage 2 Pokémon this card is attached to has no Retreat Cost.
Which pack does this card drop from?
Three ways to get this card
Odds recalculated from the official per-slot pull-rate table for pack Paldean: the chance of this rarity in each slot divided by the 33 cards of this rarity in that pack.
Want to know exactly how many packs you need to open to get Big Air Balloon?
Is Big Air Balloon played in any meta deck?
Big Air Balloon is not a core card in any of the 50 meta decks currently tracked. It is a filler card: Pack Points cost only 70, so do not burn packs hunting it — open packs for the rare slots and this one arrives on its own.
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Reading Big Air Balloon's stat block
Big Air Balloon is a Uncommon card from the Paldean Wonders set — a Trainer card of the Tool kind: no HP, no evolution, no attacks of its own. It hits the table, fires its effect, and steps aside.
What it does: The Stage 2 Pokémon this card is attached to has no Retreat Cost.
Trainer cards are balanced by how often you may play them in a turn, not by damage. Read the effect against what your deck is short of — energy acceleration, draw, healing, or forcing a switch — because a Trainer is only strong when it solves the exact bottleneck your deck actually has.
Which pack actually drops it
Rare cards are not spread evenly across a set. Each one is locked to specific packs, and opening the wrong pack from the right set means this card never shows up no matter how many you buy. Big Air Balloon drops from Paldean.
Odds are set per slot, not per card — and the slot layout differs from one pack type to another, so never carry one pack's formula over to another. The Paldean pack gives 5 cards per opening — slot 1 is always Common · slot 2 is always Common · slot 3 is always Common · slot 4: 90.00% is Uncommon · slot 5: 60.00% is Uncommon. For Big Air Balloon that works out to 2.73% in slot 4 · 1.82% in slot 5, which is 4.49% for any single pack, or about 22 packs before you can expect to see one.
Three ways to own it
Pulling is only the first path, and it is the one that can betray you: 4.49% per pack means the expected 22 packs is an average, not a promise.
The second path removes luck entirely. Every pack you open awards 5 Pack Points (an official in-game mechanic, not part of the drop-rate table) regardless of what comes out of it, and those points accumulate until you can redeem this exact card outright. Big Air Balloon costs 70 PP — no pulls, no gambling, just the count.
The third path is trading, which spends Shinedust rather than Pack Points, and whether it is open to you depends entirely on the card's rarity. For Big Air Balloon: It can be traded, and it costs 0 Shinedust.
Evolution line and other printings
Big Air Balloon does not evolve from or into anything — it stands alone.
Some Pokémon are also printed more than once — across different sets or promo drops, with different art, different rarity, and sometimes different attacks under the same name. Where other printings of this card exist, they are linked on this page, because the stats can differ even when the name matches.
Where this card stands on the ladder
Big Air Balloon is not a core card in any of the 50 meta decks currently tracked. It is a filler card: Pack Points cost only 70, so do not burn packs hunting it — open packs for the rare slots and this one arrives on its own.
The meta deck table is recomputed from tournament data (play rate plus win/loss/tie record), not from anyone's opinion. A card missing from that table can still be beautiful and still be expensive to trade for, but it will not win games on its own — those are two different questions and this page answers them separately.
Frequently asked questions
Which pack should I open to get Big Air Balloon?
Big Air Balloon drops from Paldean. Opening a different pack from the same set will not produce it, because pack variants inside one set carry completely different rare-card pools.
Roughly how many packs does it take to pull Big Air Balloon?
About 22 packs on average. That comes from the per-slot pull table rather than a single blended number: 2.73% in slot 4 · 1.82% in slot 5, which is 4.49% for any one pack. It is an expected value — a statistical estimate, not a guarantee: half of all players will need more.
Can I trade for Big Air Balloon instead of pulling it?
It can be traded, and it costs 0 Shinedust. Trading uses Shinedust, and whether a card is tradeable at all is fixed by its rarity tier — Immersive Rare and Crown Rare cards can never be traded under any circumstance, so for those two tiers Pack Points or a direct pull are the only ways in.