Move Rarity

This is the only component of rarity that is fully known. Basically, you can assume that the higher number of high-rarity moves on your pet, the more rare that pet is.

Moves are ordered on each pet card in order of rarity. So the move at the top of the movelist is always the highest rarity (or at least tied with highest rarity). Therefore, you can deduce move rarity by looking at many pets and identifying those always at the top of the list. Using this method, the following move rarity tiers were confirmed.

T5 moves are the most rare. T1 moves are the least rare.

Just to be clear, move rarity may not correlate with the "strength" of a move. In fact, I highly doubt this is the case because the deitys have a mixture of T5 and T4 moves.

Highlighted with move rarity. Note Thunder Slash is a deity-only version of the T5 move, Lightning Slash.

According to the game devs, T5 moves are highly specialized moves that are useful for certain playstyles in pet combat. T5 moves will be harder to pass on via breeding - this is partially what makes the deitys so good. Having T5 moves from multiple elements will be difficult to achieve via breeding. Collectors are aiming to collect pets with more T5 moves to help breed stronger pets. We have seen collectors paying a premium for pets with T5 moves as a result.

At the time of writing, 3,189 pets have at least one T5 move. With 9428 pets hatched, we can calculate that genesis pets have a 33.8% chance of hatching with at least one T5 move. This is fairly common. Pets with two or more T5 moves are considered rare for their moves (I estimate that this is only 4-5% of all pets). T4 moves are not currently factored in to price much unless they are deity moves and paired with T5 moves.

Ephi, one of the game developers, suggests all moves matter.

**Pets with 1 T5 move can sell for about 10% above the floor price, typically. Pets with two T5 moves generally are traded in a range 1.5 - 2x the price of a floor pet. Pets with three t5 moves have been trading for 1 eth and up.

So should you only buy pets with T5 moves? Not so fast. You will need four pixl pets in combat and your team will definitely need non-T5 moves to be viable. You have 16 move slots to work with, If you're running a team of four water pets, you probably don't need tidal wave and whirlpool on all of your pets. You might want to include moves with more utility like Bubble Shield, Cure/Curechain, Calm Mind, Harmony, etc. We know water pets will be good at reacting to and shutting down your opponents strategy and some of these moves will be important for that. (We don't actually know what most of these moves do, but we can be sure there are a mix of attacking, defensive, healing, and 'tricky' moves in there).

When considering where to spend your hard-earned Ethereum, remember that moves are only one component of rarity and you can build viable teams without having a ton of T5 moves. Also remember that until stats and other components of rarity are released, the lowest-risk option is to buy pets from the floor (they can only improve in relative value).