The invention discloses a preparation method of a high-rate battery, which comprises the following steps: preparing positive electrode slurry, namely weighing a positive electrode conductive material,a positive electrode binder, a positive electrode conductive agent and a pore regulator in proportion, adding an auxiliary solvent, and mixing by a vacuum mixer to obtain the positive electrode slurry; preparing negative electrode slurry, namely weighing a negative electrode conductive material, a negative electrode conductive agent, a thickening agent, a negative electrode binder and a pore regulator in proportion, adding an auxiliary solvent, and mixing by virtue of a vacuum stirrer, so as to obtain the negative electrode slurry; preparing an electrolyte, namely weighing lithium salt, a solvent and an additive in proportion; and manufacturing a battery cell, namely preparing the lithium battery cell according to a specified design process flow; The preparation method has the advantagesof simple preparation conditions, no need of an ultrahigh temperature environment, low requirements on production conditions, and low production cost; and meanwhile, the lithium battery cell with thegap is prepared, the high-rate charging and discharging performance is excellent, and the high retention rate can be maintained during high-rate charging and discharging.