Board Thread:Plants vs. Zombies Heroes/@comment-5760976-20160422184712/@comment-25982947-20160514210022

Starfruity wrote:

Zombotanist wrote: I actually think that the rarity of teammates/heroes in packs is solely based on how many there are of each. Like, when a pack picks three things to give you, it obviously has way more options for teammates than heroes, with there being more common teammates than legendaries as well, so that's why those are more uncommon. So the best way to increase your odds for a hero/legendary is just to keep buying more packs and the game will eventually start to run out of common teammates to give you and will be forced to give you rarer things. Well yes, but in general the probability can still be calculated. Also, premium packs always give two Uncommons and one something better. Well yeah but I meant it as all possibilities being equally likely, just that there's more of one kind than the other. In other words, I believe that heroes and legendaries weren't made artificially rare, say by setting the chance of them showing up in a pack as lower than the other options, there's just fewer heroes and legendaries compared to the rest.

But if what you're saying is true about premium packs being guaranteed to give at least one thing better than an uncommon, than what I said couldn't be the case, since uncommon teammates would probably have to be in a separate list from the others, but what I thought could still apply to why rares and super rares are still more likely than legendaries and heroes, there's just fewer of the latter.