The chase cards in Battle Styles include Tyranitar V, Rapid Strike Urshifu VMAX, Empoleon V and other Illustration/Hyper Rares.
The cards collectors chase in Battle Styles
Every set has a handful of cards everyone's hunting. In Battle Styles — a Sword & Shield-series set with 20 secret rares and 0 full-art cards — the headliners, in rough order of demand, are:
- Tyranitar V (#155) — Rare Ultra (~$268.08)
- Rapid Strike Urshifu VMAX (#170) — Rare Rainbow (~$73.56)
- Empoleon V (#146) — Rare Ultra (~$66.74)
- Mimikyu V (#148) — Rare Ultra (~$46.73)
- Single Strike Urshifu VMAX (#168) — Rare Rainbow (~$32.99)
- Houndoom (#179) — Rare Secret (~$25.61)
Which Battle Styles chase card leads?
Tyranitar V is the card most collectors open packs for, trading around $268.08. Prices on these range from about $25.61 to $268.08 on the secondary market.
Star Pokémon behind the Battle Styles chase
Most of these pulls belong to the set's headline Pokémon. Each marquee name and its prints in Battle Styles:
- Tyranitar — Tyranitar V (#154), Tyranitar V (#155)
- Rapid Strike Urshifu — Rapid Strike Urshifu V (#152), Rapid Strike Urshifu V (#153), Rapid Strike Urshifu VMAX (#169), Rapid Strike Urshifu VMAX (#170)
- Empoleon — Empoleon V (#145), Empoleon V (#146)
- Mimikyu — Mimikyu V (#148)
- Single Strike Urshifu — Single Strike Urshifu V (#150), Single Strike Urshifu V (#151), Single Strike Urshifu VMAX (#167), Single Strike Urshifu VMAX (#168)
Chasing them in Battle Styles
Battle Styles runs to 183 cards with 0 Illustration/Special Illustration Rares, but landing Tyranitar V, Rapid Strike Urshifu VMAX and Empoleon V covers most of what collectors actually want — a far quicker goal than the full 306-card master set. The rarest single pull, Corviknight VMAX (#171) (Rare Rainbow), rounds out the want-list.
Figures are from the pokemontcg.io dataset (TCGplayer pricing), as of June 2026.