Data ASB Raid Zone - General Thread (NEW REF PAYMENT)

1. User Interaction
2. Battle Details
3. Raid Mechanics
4. AI Mechanics
5. Threat Mechanics
6. Mechanics Working Differently in Raid Zone
7. Substitution Commands in the Raid Zone
8. Hotfixes

1. Reward System​
2. Reward List​

1. Stormrage Mountain
2. Isle of Lost Relics

1. Stormrage Mountain Achievements
2. Isle of Lost Relics Achievements

1. Battle Format
2. Challenge Format
3. Queue

1. What are Heirlooms?
2. Available Heirlooms

• • A player can only enter one challenge at a time. Challenging the Raid Zone does not take up a slot of your allowed simultaneous battles.

• I will be the referee for this matches if they have never been completed before. Otherwise, one of my co-referees could referee as well.
  
• Each Raid will see challengers squaring off against several encounters (from 1 to 3 generally). Their Pokémon will be healed between encounters - even fainted ones.
• Challenges will involve existing Pokémon, but their stats will be buffed up to make them more challenging.
• Players do not earn KO Counters from their Raid challenges as they normally would, but their Pokémon do earn one Evolution Counter, one Ability Counter, and two Move Counters for each encounter completed successfully. Moreover, defeating an encounter grant to each player two Currency Counters, and a variable amount of KO Counters (to be distributed freely among any Pokémon in their possession).
• Consumable items consumed in an encounter are returned to the Pokemon at the end of that encounter. No item is permanently lost in any way in the Raid challenge.
• Certain moves do not work or work differently in the Raid Zone. The detailed list is showed later.
• Substitution commands are allowed, but with several differences (see below for details)
• Ties in the Raid Challenge, if they ever happen, will count as a victory for the raid challengers.

• Bosses are immune to the following effects: Sleep, Freeze, Confusion, Flinch, Attract, Disabling, Stat lowering, any move which copies, transfers or alters in any way stat ups (like Heart Swap and Psych Up) and the trapping effect from Fire Spin/Whirpool/Clamp/etc. have no effect on bosses. Paralysis still works, but can't cause the boss to get fully paralyzed. Leech Seed also works, but it only leeches 3 flat HP each action instead of 1/30 of the target's max HP. Moreover, each status affecting a boss only lasts for (6) actions before being removed.
• Bosses do incur in the sluggish condition, but this will simply prevent them from using such a move twice in a row. So, for example, a Dialga boss couldn't use Roar of Time after a Hyper Beam or a Giga Impact, but he could still use Fire Blast or Outrage instead.
• Bosses do not get their evasion reduced while under the effects of Trick Room. Any -Spe Pokémon will still get the +Accuracy boost, but not the +Dodge boost. Aside from that, Trick Room will work as usual in raids.
• Water Gun has its effects reduced when used on Bosses - it won't make them 2X weaker to electric attacks, but instead it will raise the base power of Electric attacks against them by (3).
• Bosses do not get locked in moves like Outrage or Petal Dance when they use them.
• Bosses always break through Mat Block, Wide Guard, Quick Guard. On Normal mode,
  
• All bosses are immune to the following moves: Bestow, Block, Crush Grip, Curse (the Ghost-type effect), Electrify, Encore, Endeavor, Entrainment, Fairy Lock, Forest's Curse, Gastro Acid, Gravity (the effect preventing Fly and similar moves from being used), Grudge, Guard Split, Haze (the vision reducing effect), Heal Block, Imprison, Ion Deluge, Mean Look, Mist (the vision reducing effect), Pain Split, Perish Song, Power Split, Psycho Shift, Quash, Skill Swap, Sky Drop, Smack Down (the effect preventing Fly and similar moves from being used), Soak, Spider Web, Super Fang, Switcheroo, Telekinesis, Torment, Transform, Trick, Trick-or-Treat and Wring Out. Other moves are viable with no restriction or limitation.
• The following abilities have no effect in raid zones: Air Lock, Arena Trap, Forewarn, Friend Guard, Imposter, Magnet Pull, Mummy, Rivalry, Shadow Tag, Unaware.
• The following items are banned from raids: Focus Band, Ring Target, any evasion enhancing item.
• Bosses ignore the effects of the following commands: Bodyblock, Dodge, Take Cover.
• Bosses ignore any negative effect (including damage) from another boss using Earthquake, Surf or a similar move.
• Weather effects summoned by bosses cannot be influenced at all by Pokémon's weather moves/abilities (not even if they hold a weather stone)
• Bosses have infinite energy. It's pointless to attempt to stall them.
• Bosses sometimes have other Pokemon assisting them or joining them during the fight. If these Pokemon are labeled as (Add), it is not strictly necessary to kill them in order to win the encounter (killing them may still be necessary to not be overcome, though).
  Seldomly, some Bosses may have immunities in addition to the ones listed here. Moreover, if a move proves to be particularly unbalanced or may be "cheaply" abused in Raids, I may intervene with a Hotfix to add it to the banlist. a list of all the Hotfix is showed later.
• Substitute can't be used in Raids

• Bosses do not behave like common trainer-owned Pokémon. They generally won't use most non-attacking moves, like status moves, Substitute, Explosion, Destiny Bond and many others (although some bosses may use some of them, they'll be the exception rather than the rule).
• More commonly, they'll assault their current target with the some of the most effective moves they may use against it (so, for example, a Golem boss against a Flareon could randomly use Rock Slide, Stone Edge, Earthquake, but he'll never use Brick Break for example).
• Keep in mind that most bosses also can perform special actions, generally with a precise schedule (for example, when they get to a certain % of their max health, after a certain number of actions/rounds, or when some kind of other event happens). They often have relevant effects on the battle, so watch out for them. Also note that these special actions cannot be avoided with Protect/Detect (they could still be avoided by other means, though). Moreover, the damage reduction provided by Light Screen and Reflect against specials is capped at 8, no matter how high the BP of such specials is. Additionally, Mud Sport and Water Sport reduce their damage only by 25% instead of 50%.

• Bosses decide the targets of their assaults based on the amount of threat generated by the Pokémon's attacks. Threat is a stat associated with every Pokémon in battle, and is raised by the use of damaging and healing moves. Each point of damage translates in 1 point of threat against the damaged foe. Each point of healing translates in 1 point of threat against all targettable foes. The Pokémon which has the highest threat become the target of the boss for that action. If the boss was already targetting another Pokémon, the Pokémon needs to reach a threat equal or above 130% of the current target.
• If more than one boss is present, each boss will have a specific threat list, and a Pokémon could easily be really high in the threat against one boss, but very low against the other one. Keep in mind that some special actions made by bosses could affect their threat list, sometimes completely wiping it.
• Several moves and abilities affect threat generation:
  • The following abilities can be toggled ON to raise the threat generated by damage and healing done by 50% (this effect will replace their standard effects). These abilities can't be toggled ON if copied or transferred and don't stack with other threat multipliers:
    • Big Pecks
    • Cute Charm
    • Intimidate
    • Own Tempo
    • Pressure
    • Rivalry.
  • The following ability can be toggled ON to raise the threat generated by damage done against poisoned targets by 50% (this effect will replace its standard effects).This ability can't be toggled ON if copied or transferred and doesn't stack with other threat multipliers:
    • Poison Touch
  • The following abilities can be toggled ON to raise the threat generated by Fairy-type damaging and healing moves by 50% (this effect will replace their standard effects). These abilities can't be toggled ON if copied or transferred and don't stack with other threat multipliers:
    • Magician
    • Serene Grace
  • The following abilities reduce the user's threat generation by 20% when active:
    • Sand Veil
    • Snow Cloak
  • The following damaging moves will now generate a high amount of threat, which means they will cause a flat additional threat equal to the damage caused. For example, a Pokemon that causes 20 damage with such a move will cause 40 threat overall. A Pokemon with Pressure Toggled On that causes 20 damage with such a move will cause 20*1.5+20 = 50 threat overall, instead. The list includes:
    • Attack Order, Avalanche, Bug Bite, Bulldoze, Circle Throw, Dragon Tail, Metal Burst, Payback, Pluck, Power Gem, Retaliate, Revenge, Rock Tomb, Skull Bash, Vital Throw
      
    • Cross Poison (only against poisoned targets)
    • Energy Ball (only if the user's Sp. Attack stage is +1 or higher)
    • Flame Burst (only on the primary target and only if the primary target is burned)
    • Play Rough (only if the user's Attack stage is +1 or higher)
    • Seed Bomb (only if the target is affected by the user's Leech Seed)
  • The following moves had their old effects replaced by new ones:
    • Camouflage: reduces threat against all enemies by 100%. Energy Cost: 12.
      
    • Celebrate: raises the user's threat generation by 100% for the next 6 actions. This effect doesn't stack with other threat multipliers. Energy Cost: 6.
    • Double Team: reduces threat against all enemies by 15%. Energy Cost: 6.
    • Follow Me: puts the user at a threat level equal to 130% for each targettable enemy, forcing them to attack the user. Each affected enemy will be immune to the effects of taunting moves for the next 3 actions. Energy Cost: 10.
      
    • Happy Hour: raises the user's threat generation by 100% for the next 6 actions. This effect doesn't stack with other threat multipliers. Energy Cost: 6.
    • Minimize: reduces threat against all enemies by 30%. Energy Cost: 9.
    • Rage Powder: puts the user at a threat level equal to 130% for each targettable enemy, forcing them to attack the user. Each affected enemy will be immune to the effects of taunting moves for the next 3 actions. Energy Cost: 10.
      
    • Spite: raises the user's threat generation by 100% for the next 6 actions. This effect doesn't stack with other threat multipliers. Energy Cost: 6.
    • Taunt: puts the user at a threat level equal to 130% for the current target, forcing the target to attack the user. The target will be immune to the effects of taunting moves for the next 3 actions. Energy Cost: 7.
  • The following move will have a new effect in addition to its old one:
    • Disarming Voice: puts the user at a threat level equal to 130% for the current target, forcing the target to attack the user. The target will be immune to the effects of taunting moves for the next 3 actions. Energy Cost: 7.

• As explained before, Leech Seed only leeches 3 flat HP each action instead of 1/30 of the target's max HP.
• Combo moves and the commands Bodyblock and Take Cover are not allowed within Raids
• Endure won't prevent going KO from direct damage if the Pokemon is at 1 HP before taking damage.
• Some artifacts will have Threshold as a stat bonus in their effects. Threshold increases the power of the holder's attacks depending on the move's base power (factoring in Technician and multi-hit strikes):
  • BP 5 or less: +0
  • BP 6-7: +0.5 per Threshold point
  • BP 8-10: +1 per Threshold point
  • BP 11-13: +1.5 per Threshold point
  • BP 14 or higher: +2 per Threshold point

• Standard substitutions are disallowed in the Raid Zone, because they would conflict with the boss's AI. Instead, you may use any of the following substitution templates:
  • Condition Substitution: A condition substitution is based on a certain statistic of the user or a friendly Pokémon. Examples: "If one of the team mates drops below 30 HP, replace Sludge Bomb with Heal Pulse";"If you're at the top of threat list when it's your turn, replace Stone Edge with Substitute".[/SIZE]
  • Move Substitution: A move substitution can be used only after the intended effect happens, and allow the user to change course of action depending on the outcome of a move he or one of his allies use. Examples: "If the first Scald burns the boss, replace the second one with Chill" ; "If my team mate Lucario gets a critical hit with Close Combat, replace Fire Blast with Taunt".
  • Target Substitution: A target substitution allows its user to replace a certain move if, when the time to use it comes, the boss is untargettable for some reason. Example: "If the boss is untargettable on either action, replace your current action with Chill".
  • KO Substitution: Works exactly like it does in standard ASB. Check below for more details.
• Any other substitution template is disallowed.
• Substitutions on the same action can happen only if both the substituted move and the substituting one are on the same tier. For example, if a Fidgit with Prankster was ordered "Chill - Sludge Bomb. If Camerupt drops below 30 HP, replace Chill with Heal Pulse", the substitution would be illegal as it would mess with the boss's AI. Note that it's easy to circumvent this problem, for example saying "Light Screen-Sludge Bomb. If Camerupt drops below 30 HP, replace Light Screen with Heal Pulse" or "Chill - Sludge Bomb. If Camerupt drops below 30 HP on action1, replace Sludge Bomb with Heal Pulse".
• Each Pokémon gets up to two substitutions each round, regardless of the amount of bosses involved.
• KO substitutions work like usual and do not count towards the max number of substitution for each round.

• 6/13/2011: Bosses are now immune to Pain Split and Ring Target. Raids no longer count towards the number of battles available at the same time
• 6/15/2011: Aerodactyl's Defeaning Screech now will only affect 2 random Pokémon (4 on Hard mode). The schedule of Wing Buffet has also been tweaked.
• 6/28/2011: Rivalry no longer has effect during a Raid, energy costs for Double Team, Camouflage and Follow Me/Rage Powder have been revised.
• 7/2/2011: Bosses can now use Fly and similar moves while under the effects of Smack Down and Gravity (they will still be vulnerable to Ground-type moves during these effects, though). Moreover, since ASB lacks so far a clear cut policy for stat up moves in 2-action-per-round battles, I decided to make +1/+1 boosts and +1 boosts (if gotten from moves like Fiery Dance) last for 4 actions (not counting the action used to get them), and +2 or +3 boosts decay by 1 every 3 actions (again, not counting the action used to get them)
• 7/4/2011: Threat reduction for Glyph of Flamethrower has been raised to 50%
• 7/8/2011: From now on, if you are disqualified, you must wait ten days before being able to join the raid zone again
• 7/9/2011: Smack Down will now be included in the list of moves required to throw a charged stone at Magneton/Magnezone in Cliff of Thunder
• 7/10/2011: You are no longed required to have completed a Raid in Normal mode in order to challenge it in Hard mode
• 7/11/2011: Combo moves are no longed allowed in Raids. That's not because I hate them or something, but because they would interfere with Glyphs in particular.
• 7/13/2011: Now bosses are immune to Heart Swap, Psych Up and all moves which copy, transfer or alter stat ups in any way
• 7/15/2011: Magnemite, Magneton and Magnezone will no longer use Magnet Pull against Steel-types. The number of charged rocks available in the first encounter of Cliff of Thunder will be reduced to two. When Mountaineer allows a Pokémon to avoid a Rock-type attack, Mountaineer won't trigger again for the following (2) actions. Moves whose charging phase has normally +1 priority will have 0 priority when used by bosses. The Raid Shop will be temporarily closed until next expansion.
• 7/18/2011: Zapdos is no longer vulnerable to the secondary effect of Smack Down while under the effects of Lightning Shield.
• 7/20/2011: the command Bodyblock is now banned entirely. Differently from other hotfixes, this will be enforced immediately, also to ongoing battles.
• 7/28/2011: Lightningrod will no longer generate threat like it used to do. It will instead generate an effect similar to Taunt on the opponent whose attack was nullified by Lightningrod, putting the Lightningrod Pokémon at a threat level equal to the current target of the opponent and making him the new target of said opponent. In addition to this, though, the added threat for stage boosts from Lightningrod/Motor Drive and the HP healed via Volt Absorb will be factored in. Bosses will now be immune to stat drops caused by their own moves. This also means moves like Close Combat, Superpower, V-Create, Hammer Arm and Psycho Boost will be used by bosses from now on, with no drawbacks.
• 7/30/2011: Water Gun's drenched effect no longer causes bosses to be x2 weaker to electric attacks until the end of the round. Instead, Water Gun will raise the base power of Electric attacks against the boss by 3 until the end of the round.
• 8/1/2011: Bosses which are targetted successfully by Taunt, Rage Powder or Follow Me will now become immune to the effect of those moves for the following (3) actions. This does not count the taunting effect of Lightningrod and Storm Drain. Moreover, Rage Powder and Follow Me will not reduce the incoming damage from attacks. Pain Split will also have its energy cost increased by 6+(HP difference/3) even when the user's HP is higher than the target's HP.
• 8/2/2011: If a player loses against a raid which was unchallenged until then, he does not suffer the penalty of 5 days before being able to challenge it again.
• 8/3/2011: Weather effects summoned by bosses (such as Articuno or Volcarona) can no longer be influenced at all by Pokémon's weather moves/abilities (not even if they hold a weather stone)
• 8/12/2011: Raiding Pokémon are no longer forbidden to be used in other places. This applies to current raids as well. KO counters gained from raids no longer must be applied to participating Pokémon only. This applies to any raid finished on Aug 13th or later. There will be one-time rewards in KO for specific Achievements. Their entity will be listed in the Achievements page.
• 8/19/2011: The command Take Cover is banned from all raids. Bosses no longer suffer the effects of the sluggish conditions and won't be locked in moves like Outrage and Petal Dance. Bosses break always through Protect, Detect and Wide Guard on Hard mode.
• 8/21/2011: Bosses will ignore weight based restrictions on throwing/grappling moves and will retain their dodge value even under the effects of Trick Room. Moreover, they are now able to use Sky Drop properly.
• 8/23/2011: Residual damage from poison, burn, weather and Leech Seed will now be factored in at the end of everyone's actions instead of at the end of the single Pokémon's action like it is supposed to be (I apologize for this sort of "glitch", although it rarely mattered, it has the potential to do, especially in the case of Leech Seed)
• 9/20/2011: Rewards for Achievements are now handed in TC instead of KOC. Each boss now awards a fixed 4 KOC, which once again will be usable only among participating Pokémon. NOTE: Raids which started before 9/20 are excluded from this fix.
• 9/24/2011: Species Clause has been added as intended to the Challenge section
• 9/26/2011: Wring Out and Crush Grip no longer have any effect on the bosses. This hotfix takes place immediately.
• 10/15/2011: The effect of Polarity in Cliff of Thunder Hard Mode now depends on the type of charge (positive or negative). Plus the damage from Deep Freeze in Frozen Vault Hard Mode will be raised to 5 from 3.
• 10/16/2011: Forewarn no longer has any effect in Raids. Evasion enhancing items have been banned as well.
• 10/18/2011: Bosses are no longer immune to Destiny Bond. Adds now share the same move and ability immunities of the bosses, but they are vulnerable to all status conditions (including all the major ones, Attract, Confusion etc, excluding Freeze). They can be fully paralyzed. However, status moves only last up to (6) actions on them, and Leech Seed still has its damage fixed at 3 per action. Adds are still immune to stat lowering moves and to any move which copies, transfers or alters in any way stat ups (like Heart Swap and Psych Up), as well as the trapping effect from Fire Spin/Whirpool/Clamp/etc.
• 10/21/2011: Bosses are no longer hurt by other bosses' wide range attacks (like Surf, Earthquake etc)
• 10/25/2011: Agility won't work anymore in raids as a means to dodge attacks. Differently from other hotfixes, this will be enforced immediately, also to ongoing battles.
• 10/31/2011: Bosses no longer hurt each other when using Earthquake, Surf and similar attacks.
• 11/8/2011: Metagross's Hammer Drop has been slightly revamped. Bosses are immune to Heal Block as intended.
• 11/12/2011: Volcarona will now use Sunfury Dance on the second action of each round in addition to its standard action, and the special will have a 100% chance to Burn any non-Fire Pokémon it hits. If a Pokémon is hit with Living Flame and passes it to another team mate, it will get burned upon passing the Living Flame. This burn can't be healed by any means and will affect even Fire-type Pokémon.
• 11/13/2011: Teleport has been added to the list of banned moves.
• 11/23/2011: Bosses from Tidefury Strand and Windburn Gulch had their HP totals significantly lowered. Note that this means that any ongoing raid won't cause their challengers to take the 5-10 days hold should they lose/forfeit (they will, though, if they get a DQ)
• 11/24/2011: Pokémon no longer cause threat against Manaphy when it is under the effects of Evocation
• 11/25/2011: Rep rewards for Isle of Lost Relics quests have been significantly improved. Tainted Ash now rewards 200 rep with Bright Hope Expedition as well.
• 12/4/2011: For all the future raids, the mechanics of stage boosts will now be tuned to the ones of the rest of CAP ASB
• 12/6/2011: The substitution system has been revised.
• 12/19/2011: If a boss uses a move which would normally make him sluggish (such as Giga Impact or Hyper Beam), he won't be able to use another one on the following action anymore. Note, though, that this hotfix does not prevent any people who were to lose in an ongoing raid from incurring their DQ time. Also, Eggant Berry's threat reduction has been raised to 100%.
• 12/22/2011: The HP values of several expansion bosses have been further cut down.
• 12/29/2011: Several glyphs from Isle of the Lost Relics have been slightly revamped
• 1/2/2012: Removing hotfix 10/15 about stacking effects. Also, the Glyph of Rock Slide now increases the base power of Rock Slide by (1) in addition to its other effects.
• 1/14/2012: Helping Hand can no longer be stacked on a single Pokémon in the same action. This hotfix takes place immediately.
• 3/21/2012: Light Screen and Reflect now only grant a maximum 5 BP reduction against specials.
• 4/20/2012: Central Processing: Float Defense's explaination will now mention Bulldoze and Fissure as well, as intended.
• 5/12/2012: Glyphs can now be used indefinitely. Just like BW TMs, you will be able to use a Glyph on multiple Pokemon instead of on one only.
• 5/14/2012: Syclant's HP for Raging Shore (Normal Mode) will be raised to 1800.
• 5/27/2012: The (Add) category has been majorly revamped. From now on, an Add is a Pokémon which is not necessary to kill in order to win the encounter (naturally, killing it may still be the best choice in the long run, depending on the fight). A description of the (Add) category will be added to this thread. Moreover, as a result of this fix, the following raids get fixes as well:
  • Frozen Vault: Cryogonals are no longer considered Adds
  • Central Processing: Upon shutting down LeftBattery and RightBattery, Metagross becomes an Add
  • Windburn Gulch: The Magmortar become Adds
  • Tidefury Strand: The Phione become Adds
• 5/27/2012: A description of Glyphs will be added to this thread
• 6/12/2012: Molten Core now deals only 7 damage per action, down from 9
• 6/12/2012: Damage coming from Specials now goes through Substitutes. This hotfix takes place immediately.
• 6/28/2012: Mollux and other CAP pre-evos can now learn the Raid tutor move, Dispel
• 7/17/2012: Stormrage Mountain bosses got their movepool updated as of the Black 2 / White 2 release. Also, Psychic will now work as intended in Raids.
• 8/8/2012: From now on, if both the challengers already faced Raikou, Entei, or Suicune (whether they won or lost) in the chosen level of difficulty, they can rechallenge Cliff of Thunder, Wildfire Plateau, or Frozen Vault without having to do the first two bosses.
• 8/23/2012: Raikou's Thunder Shield had its HP reduced to 175 in Normal Mode. Entei now will perform Fire Nova at random intervals.
• 9/20/2012: Valaun and Bisharp have been slightly weakened in Shrine of the Old God (Halls of Ages, Normal). From now on, if both the challengers already faced Raikou, Entei, or Suicune (whether they won or lost) in the chosen level of difficulty, they can rechallenge Cliff of Thunder, Wildfire Plateau, or Frozen Vault without having to do the first boss. This hotfix replaces the previous one about this matter.
• 11/1/2012: Hidden Power can't be Light-type
• 11/18/2012: Challengers can't bring any longer traded Pokemon to their Raid Zone challenge if the trade happened three months ago or less.
• 11/30/2012: Glyph of Tail Glow and Glyph of Quiver Dance have been majorly revamped. The new description of the former can be found on the Isle of Lost Relics General Thread. As for the latter, here it is: Glyph of Quiver Dance: Causes Quiver Dance to grant the user's Special Bug-type attacks a 100% chance to cause Insect Swarm on the foe. Lasts for (6) actions. Insect Swarm reduces the target's evasion by a flat 3% for the next (3) actions, stacks up to (3) times.
• 1/17/2013: Big Patch
• 1/31/2013: Friend Guard no longer works in the Raid Zone. Counter, Mirror Coat, and other retaliating moves/effects/abilities no longer reflect damage from special effects.
• 5/19/2013: In Cliff of Thunder, Magneton/Magnezone charges can't be erased via Charged Stone anymore. Moreover, Magnezone will retain the charges of Magneton upon transformation. In Cliff of Thunder (HM), Puddles will no longer despawn once Zapdos loses its shield.
• 1/19/2014: Tank patch is live! (post #199)
• 1/20/2014: Hyper Beam and Giga Impact have been removed from the movesets of all the enemies that can be encountered in the Raid Zone. This hotfix takes place immediately.
• 1/21/2014: If a stat boost happens on the first action of a round consisting of just one action, the stat boost won't decay at the end of that round.
• 2/5/2014: If a Pokemon under the effect of Endure is at 1 HP when a boss damages it, the Pokemon faints regardless of Endure. This hotfix takes place immediately
• 3/22/2014: Water Sport and Mud Sport will now reduce the damage of specials only by 25%, as opposed to 50%.
• 4/13/2014: Substitute has been added to the list of banned moves. This hotfix takes place immediately
• 4/13/2014: On Hard Mode, Moltres's HP has been increased to 3000. Moreover, Living Blaze will also increase Moltres's Attack, Defense, Sp. Attack and Sp. Defense ranks by 1 for every Living Flame extinguished by Living Blaze. Enraged bosses will now ignore Endure and protective/evasive moves, regardless of difficulty
• 4/14/2014: Articuno's HP has been increased to 1200 in Hard Mode.
• 9/21/2014: Pre-expansion patch is live.
• 9/26/2014: Shrine of the Old Gods: Heart of Madness can now be challenged even if the challengers haven't completed Shrine of the Old Gods: Halls of Ages first.
• 10/13/2014: Fixing a typo with the item "Blessed Beacon of the Argent Night": "Raises the power of Psychic-type attacks by (7), and reduces the energy cost of Heal Pulse by (2). If it is a Psychic-type, the holder grants Aura of the Argent Night to its raid mates, causing all Heal Pulses to restore an additional amount of HP equal to half the holder's Special Defense, rounded down". This hotfix takes place immediately.
• 10/18/2014: Rotom can now learn Shadow Mend
• 11/29/2014: Focus Band is now banned from raids. This hotfix takes place immediately.
• 3/5/2015: Light-type is no longer weak to Fairy-type attacks. Fairy-type is no longer resistant to Light-type attacks. This means that, just like Flying-types, Fairy-type is neutral to Light-type in both ways.
• 3/18/2015: Central Processing: Metagross now takes +200% damage from direct damaging moves and effects once it becomes an Add.
• 4/21/2015: The Protect-breaking clause of bosses on Hard Mode has been reworded to include extra moves. This hotfix takes place immediately
• 8/26/2015: Bosses under the effects of Enrage will no longer use damaging evasive moves. This hotfix takes place immediately
• 2/18/2016: Central Processing (Hard Mode): Metagross will no longer delay Hammer Drop during Psycho Room (Trick Room).
• 2/19/2016: Transform is now banned from raids. This does not affect ongoing raids.
• 3/14/2016: Threat-based extra effects of moves do not apply when they are performed by non-player Pokemon. Actually they've always been reffed this way, so consider it more of a clarification than an actual hotfix.
• 5/28/2016: Traded Pokemon which know raid-only moves requiring a certain reputation standing can use them only if the new owner meets the required reputation level. Note that this means there are no penalty for moves taught by tomes (such as Comet and Chimaera Strike)
• 11/4/2016: Various item fixes.
• 11/8/2016: Bosses are now immune to Gastro Acid. This hotfix takes place immediately
• 11/10/2016: Sol Ring has been revamped
• 12/10/2016: Bosses now always break through P/E effects which do not result from a move used by the P/E effect beneficiary. This means spread protective moves such as Mat Block and Wide Guard will always be broken through. This hotfix takes place immediately
• 1/23/2017: Purple Lotus and Black Lotus have been revamped
• 2/2/2017: Claw of Molten Fury, Icicle Edge, Painful Pincers, and Sunflare have been revamped
• 2/19/2017: New Ref payment approved. Assault on Mt. Coronet (Gunship Battle): Thundurus's Storm Nova will now round up, instead of down (with 1 damage minimum inflicted).
• 5/3/2017: Signature artifacts now only work on FE Pokemon, rather than the entire evolutionary line, unless otherwise specified.
• 8/28/2017: Plasmanta's Eerie Flux automatically toggles Contrary on the target, and prevents it from being untoggled for the duration of Eerie Flux. This hotfix takes place immediately
• 9/3/2017: Bruxish can now learn Bloodlust

• At the end of each successful encounter, each involved Pokémon gets 1 Evolution Counter, 1 Ability Counter and 2 Move Counters.
• Each trainer gets 2 CC and 4 or 8 KO Counters (8 or 16 on Hard Mode) to distribute freely among the Pokémon they brought for the raid challenge.
• Counters are only awarded once the raid is over, and the trainers may claim them in this thread.
• In addition to counters, each boss drops one or more Glyphs.
  • Glyphs are peculiar items which can be used only within the Raid Zone.
  • A Glyph can be used to alter the properties of a specific move for the Pokemon. The Pokemon doesn't need to know the move in order to use the Glyph, but unless the Glyph states otherwise, having Glyph of *move* won't allow the Pokemon to use that move if it's not in its list of known moves.
  • Similarly to BW TMs and HMs, the same Glyph can be used on multiple Pokemon, without having to own multiple occurrences of that Glyph. However, a Pokemon can't have more than one move altered by a Glyph at any given time.
• Items in green, blue, or purple, are special items which can be used only within the Raid zones. Aside from that, they work like other held items.
• Other methods of getting rewards are quests.
  • Quests are specific missions which you can either get from items or from characters within raids or at the main zones.
  • They can have a requirement of some sort (for example, they could be available only to those who managed to complete a previous quest), and they will generally offer you a reward of some sort (from a couple counters to very powerful items).
  • Quests can only be done once for every person, so if you already completed a quest you can't do it again.

Isle of Lost Relics Heirloom Keeper (currency:

Badge of Valor):

Raises the power of Grass-type moves by (5), and the HP obtained from HP draining moves by 100%. Reduces the energy cost of Heal Pulse by (2). | Cost: 5X Badge of Valor

Shadow Spike: Raises the power of Ghost-type moves by (7) and reduces the energy cost of Phantom Force by (2). | Cost: 5X Badge of Valor.

• Raids come in two formats: Normal mode and Hard mode. In Normal mode, two trainers with two Pokémon each are involved. In Hard mode, two trainers with four Pokémon each will be required
• Players can sign up for any Raid in Normal or Hard mode, save for some exceptions.
• Each player will send out all his available Pokémon, as if it were a Street Brawl
• The following clauses are also enforced: All Abilities, Items Enabled, Species Clause, no restriction on Recovery moves and Chills
• Each player may activate up to one Mega-evolution per battle, regardless of the mode.
  
• The Disqualification Time for each player is 2 days. If any of the players are disqualified for inactivity, they must wait at least ten days before being able to sign in for a Raid again (only the inactive player if the other one was active)
• If the players are defeated during a Raid, they must wait at least five days before being able to sign in for a Raid again

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Inviting Deck Knight to Wildfire Plateau (Normal)

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Originally Posted by Fat Zarator

Inviting Deck Knight to Wildfire Plateau (Normal)

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Accepting

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Looking for a partner to Wildfire Plateau (Normal)

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• Tier 0: The stats listed as tier 0 are the ones your heirloom has if you never defeated any raid before. If you are new to the Raid Zone at all, all your heirlooms will have their Tier 0 stats.
• Tier 1: The stats listed as tier 1 are the ones your heirloom has if you have defeated at least one raid from the Stormrage Mountain zone, on any difficulty, unless your heirloom qualifies for a higher tier as well.
• Tier 2: The stats listed as tier 2 are the ones your heirloom has if you have defeated at least one raid from the Isle of Lost Relics zone, on any difficulty, unless your heirloom qualifies for a higher tier as well. Important: Central Processing counts only if you have defeated Porygon 2 on Normal or PorygonZ on Hard difficulty.
• Tier 3: The stats listed as tier 3 are the ones your heirloom has if you have defeated at least one raid from the Hour of Twilight zone, on any difficulty, unless your heirloom qualifies for a higher tier as well.

If the challenger already knows which partner he wants to go into a Raid with and has contacted him in some way, he simply needs to go to the Raid Zone threads which features the raid you want to participate in

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Glyph of Flamethrower: Lowers the threat generated by Flamethrower by 30%
Glyph of Fiery Dance: Raises the secondary effect chance of Fiery Dance to 100%


All the involved Pokémon receive 2 Evolution Counters, 2 Dream Counters and 4 Move Counters.

GoldenKnight and DarkSlay receive 4 Trainer Counters each, 3 Valor Counters each, and 8 KO Counters each to distribute freely between the Pokémon they brought to this raid.

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shadowbone66 said:

Just confirming for everyone else...we are allowed to give our pokemon items, right?

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Venser said:

No, KO counters can be TC.

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Glyph of Flamethrower: Lowers the threat generated by Flamethrower by 30%
Glyph of Fiery Dance: Raises the secondary effect chance of Fiery Dance to 100%


All the involved Pokémon receive 2 Evolution Counters, 2 Dream Counters and 4 Move Counters.

GoldenKnight and DarkSlay receive 4 Trainer Counters each, 3 Valor Counters each, and 8 KO Counters each to distribute freely between the Pokémon they brought to this raid.

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Spenstar said:

the wording of the Glyph of Flamethrower confuses me. What's the "threat generated by flamethrower", how you you lower it, and what good does it do? o.O

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zarator said:

Each of your Pokémon receives in total (factoring also the encounter with Aerodactyl) 2 EC/4 MC/2 DC. Moreover, each of you get 3 KO counters to distribute freely between the Pokémon you brought here or to use as TC. And finally, each of you gets 3 VC (Valor Counters), in addition to the Glyph of Ancientpower.

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Zarator said:

Each of your Pokémon receives in total (factoring also the encounter with Aerodactyl) 2 EC/4 MC/2 DC. Moreover, each of you get 3 KO counters to distribute freely between the Pokémon you brought here or to use as TC. And finally, each of you gets 3 VC (Valor Counters), in addition to the Glyph of Ancientpower.

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