ORAS Battle Tower: Teams and Preparation

Start here: ORAS Tower, not Story

ORAS is a second Hoenn-themed Tower stage, not Hoenn Story or Stage 3. Ordinary catches are again #252–386, but you can select your unlocked Hall of Fame starter from other generations. The opening immediately mixes Water, Fire, Ice and Normal; choose a developed generalist with a second matchup answer, then recruit around the next fixed opponent rather than waiting for one perfect team.

Clear Kalos Tower to unlock this stage. A Story clear with the same region name does not substitute for that Tower stage clear.

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All nine fixed opponents: teams, levels and Traits

These are the v3.5 ordinary Tower opponents in map order, including configured Shiny slots. Fixed enemies can keep evolved or special forms below their usual evolution levels. Levels include slot offsets and the trainer bonus; they are opponent reference levels, not required player levels. Special Challenge multipliers are excluded.

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Prepare for the final three maps

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• Steven: levels 84–88: Aurorus is 4× Fighting/Steel-weak and Tyrantrum has Ice/Fighting/Ground/Steel/Dragon/Fairy weaknesses. Later Mega Steelix, Mega Aggron and Mega Metagross need current-move coverage. Mega Metagross’s Adaptable Mind makes later super-effective hits of the same type neutral after the first, and later resisted hits of a type neutral after the first. Preserve a different useful attack or sufficient neutral damage rather than assuming repeated type advantage remains.
• Maxie & Archie: levels 94–99: Their six end with Primal Groudon and Primal Kyogre. Desolate Land makes Water attacks fail into Struggle while Groudon is active and adds 30% Fire/Ground damage. Primordial Sea makes Fire and Ground attacks fail into Struggle while Kyogre is active and adds 30% Water damage. Keep Grass or another valid neutral/super-effective role and re-read the current weather instead of following a Water-only/Ground-only plan.
• Zinnia: levels 117–122: Ice is 4× into Mega Salamence and Fairy helps the Dragon/Ice Kyurem variants and Dragon/Psychic Latios/Latias before the last member. Mega Rayquaza’s Earth’s Protector starts irreplaceable strong winds: everyone loses weaknesses, resistances and immunities, and Flying attacks deal 30% more. Your final plan must survive and deal enough neutral damage; a chart-only Ice counter is not an automatic win once that effect begins.

Choose a starter and spend for the next missing role

ORAS is a second Hoenn-themed Tower stage, not Hoenn Story or Stage 3. Ordinary catches are again #252–386, but you can select your unlocked Hall of Fame starter from other generations. The opening immediately mixes Water, Fire, Ice and Normal; choose a developed generalist with a second matchup answer, then recruit around the next fixed opponent rather than waiting for one perfect team.

Start with the unlocked evolution line you can develop and whose current move handles the opening. Permanent Vitamins cost 200₽ each and normally add 5% to the selected stat per point; Attack and Special Attack are paired in the budget. Compare one available replacement before investing, and keep the outgoing resistance or immunity visible.

• Choose an unlocked starter
• Plan Vitamins and the cap
• Check my exact attacks and swap

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Clear reward, next unlock and failure payout

An ordinary ORAS Tower clear pays 1,100₽. ORAS is the last configured ordinary Tower stage in this v3.5 snapshot.

A defeated ordinary Tower run pays round(10% × this stage’s clear reward × maps already completed), once for that loss. For example, five completed maps here pay 550₽. This is not a reward for abandoning a run or a claimed coins-per-minute test.

A recorded non-Challenge Tower clear also raises the Vitamin cap to min(10 × your highest cleared stage, 50). Kalos unlocks the Mega Bracelet; ORAS unlocks the extra ORAS stone set, while each stone still needs its own winning-Challenge MVP count.

• Eggs, shards and currency
• Mega unlocks and MVP troubleshooting

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Before the next fight: make a concrete check

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• Inspect the next opponent, its actual attack and current weather/ability effects; change the lead and held item for that fight.
• Keep enough HP and a backup for the last opponent rather than spending every answer on the previous trainer.
• Enter the moves you actually use in the Analyzer. It does not simulate these boss rosters, levels, weather, Mega abilities or battle outcomes.
• A caught Pokémon is not automatically a permanent Starter. Complete a run with a non-legendary evolution line; legendary egg/event unlocks follow their separate rules.