Team battles

The first win against the toughest leaders isn't about raw power. You pick 6 Pokémon, and how well they work together decides the battle.

The rules

• Only the first win is a team battle. Win it and you get the usual rewards: the badge, money and everything else. Rematches are normal battles.
• Tapping does nothing here. Your 6 Pokémon fight by themselves until the timer ends.
• Only each Pokémon's base Attack and its types count. Levels, items, shiny bonuses, card bonuses and talents don't. Two trainers with the same six always do exactly the same damage.
• You need 6 Pokémon you own, and no species twice. A form counts as its species.
• Only species from the boss's region or an earlier one can join. A Kanto boss only takes Kanto species, however far you have played.
• A boss can have its own rules, such as a banned type. The list is on the team screen, and below.
• Losing costs nothing: change your team and try again as often as you like. The game remembers the last team you used against each boss.
• You can plan teams anywhere, without a fight: open PARTY and then TEAMS.

The three lessons

A coach teaches each part with a short story quest. Each lesson is a team battle, so it is a safe place to try things out.

Type synergies

Have at least 2 members of a type and that type's synergy is on. It grows at 4, and again at 6. A Pokémon with two types counts for both.

Combos

Two type synergies that work together. Each needs both synergies on, so at least 2 + 2 members, and adds +20% damage for the whole team.

Two more combos ask for particular Pokémon instead of types:

• Legendary Trio (+50%): Articuno, Zapdos, Moltres.
• Origin (+30%): Mewtwo and Mew. It opens at the very end of Project M2.

Evolution lines

Put every stage of an evolution line in your team and those members hit harder: +25% each for a line of 2, +50% each for a line of 3. Only the stages that exist in the boss's region count, so for a Kanto boss Pikachu and Raichu are a complete line. If a line branches, one branch is enough.

How the damage works

• Each member deals its base Attack per second, multiplied by how its best type does against the boss: ×2 on a weakness, less on a resistance, nothing if the boss is immune.
• Bonuses from synergies, combos and lines are added together, then applied to that damage.
• Every team starts with a 5% chance of a critical hit that deals ×2.
• Critical and huge hits count at their average, so the same six always get the same result. Nothing depends on luck.
• The timer starts at 30 seconds. Grass and Poison together can take away at most 15% of the boss's HP.
• You win if your damage per second × the timer is enough for the HP that is left.

An example

CharizardArcanineBlastoiseGyaradosJolteonAlakazam

Against Coach Mira, this team has these synergies: fire, water, flying. That makes 654 damage per second for 34 seconds: 22,236 in all against 18,000 HP, so it wins.

Every boss

Damage against a type listed under "resists" is multiplied by the number shown. Follow a boss's name to see where it is and what its battle needs.

Kanto

Sevii Islands 4–7 & Orange Islands

Johto

Hoenn