How to unlock Staraptor
Getting Staraptor means pulling the Sinnoh banner and hitting its 3★ slot. The 3★ band takes 17% of all pulls and holds 248 partners, so one specific Staraptor works out to about 0.0685% per draw. The 70-pull pity counter only applies to 5★ results, so Staraptor has no floor of its own and no targeted pull. A duplicate Staraptor refunds 60 coins at the 3★ rate.
Staraptor stats and rank
Staraptor carries 108 HP, 120 speed, a ×1.36 attack multiplier, ×1.36 physical, ×0.97 special, 70 defense and 60 special defense, 485 in total. On the three-stat percentile this is 80.6 out of 100, which puts Staraptor at rank 71 of 966 and in tier S. What separates it from its neighbours is shape, not size: its strongest slot is physical multiplier (89th percentile) and its weakest is special multiplier (26th percentile), so it is a specialist rather than an all-rounder.
Best moves in Staraptor's pool
At move level 5 the pool is led by Body Slam at 75.6 damage per 0.71s (144.3 effective DPS, ×1.36 multiplier), then Tackle at 33.6 damage per 0.38s (121.9 effective DPS, ×1.36 multiplier), then Wing Attack at 35.7 damage per 0.41s (117.7 effective DPS, ×1.36 multiplier). 7 of its 12 damaging moves scale with the physical multiplier and 5 with the special one, alongside 4 support moves. Its physical multiplier is the higher of the two (×1.36 against ×0.97), so physical moves convert better. The top option beats the second by 22.4 DPS, which decides slot one and leaves slot two as a judgement call.
Evolution cards for Staraptor
Its starting move, Tackle, evolves into Take Down once the move is at level 5 and you hold the Vigor card, which boosts HP for that run. A level 5 move without Vigor in the run is still just a level 5 move. 12 of its 16 moves carry an evolution card, across 5 distinct cards (Vigor, Sprint, Power, Reflexes and Armor). The strongest of them is Body Slam at 144.3 effective DPS, so that is the one worth holding a card for first.
Staraptor compared to similar partners
The two closest stat lines in the roster are Lycanroc (-4 HP, +5 speed, -0.03 attack, +2 total) and Zangoose (-5 HP, -4 speed, -0.03 attack, -27 total). Against Lycanroc, Lycanroc is 5 speed faster and Staraptor hits harder by ×0.03, and the rank gap is 27 places. The exchange rate is the point: nothing here improves on both lines at once, so neither side is a strict upgrade and the move pools have to break the tie.