Unova Battle Tower

Start here: Unova Tower, not Story

The opening shifts Rock → Fighting → Ground. Use Water/Grass/Fighting attacks for Roark, an available Flying/Psychic/Fairy role for Marshal, and Grass/Ice/Water coverage for Clay’s mixed Ground team. Your starting collection is not limited to Gen 5; the ordinary catch pool is #494–649 and does not describe the fixed enemy roster.

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

Sources: Pokelike official v3.5 client — Tower, permanent investment, eggs and Mega unlocks

Plan from the collection you actually have

First list which Gen 5 Pokémon you already own, then choose the slot you want to improve. The comparison below holds five members fixed while swapping Excadrill for Swanna, so you can see a concrete defensive gain alongside the two Trait Tiers it costs.

Use community examples as examples

The thread includes a community example built around a Dratini-to-Dragonite route.

That route can illustrate a possibility, but it does not prove that the same choice is best for every collection or version.

Pre-run checklist

• Enter the current team and order.
• Check whether a strict majority shares one weakness.
• Confirm which attack types are actually available.
• Review Trait progress in Battle Tower mode.
• Compare a replacement before committing levels or upgrades.
• Keep the community source open for the conditions behind its example.

All nine fixed opponents: teams, levels and Traits

These are the v3.5 ordinary Tower fight configurations, in map order. Names follow the original fetchSpeciesForLevel rule without de-evolving fixed enemies. Levels include each slot offset and the trainer bonus; they are opponent reference levels, not required player levels. Special Challenge multipliers are excluded.

Sources: Pokelike official v3.5 client — Tower, permanent investment, eggs and Mega unlocks

Prepare for the final three maps

Sources: Pokelike official v3.5 client — Tower, permanent investment, eggs and Mega unlocks · Pokémon types & type chart

• Benga: levels 72–77: Water/Rock/Ground cover different Fire members. Ho-Oh and Volcarona are 4× Rock-weak, while Chandelure also offers a Ghost threat. Ground fails against Ho-Oh; do not use one attack label as a full six-opponent answer.
• Ghetsis: levels 79–94: Dragon T5 and three Kyurem variants make this different from Benga. Fairy is 4× into Hydreigon and hits the other Dragons; Ice is only neutral against Dragon/Ice Kyurem. Preserve a Fairy/Fighting/Rock/Steel role where its actual move helps, and budget for the final level-94 Black Kyurem.
• N: levels 102–116 and mirrored Traits: The current client unions your active types with N’s own computed types and sets each to max(yours, his own) + 2, capped at T12. Your Flying T2 with no higher native Flying therefore becomes at least Flying T4 for N; his native active types also receive the bonus. This is not exactly 2×. Do not assume stacking speed Traits secures first action. N has Zoroark, Carracosta, Archeops, Chandelure, Zekrom and Reshiram: Grass is 4× into Carracosta, Rock is 4× into Archeops, Ground helps Chandelure/Zekrom/Reshiram but misses Archeops.

Choose a starter and spend for the next missing role

The opening shifts Rock → Fighting → Ground. Use Water/Grass/Fighting attacks for Roark, an available Flying/Psychic/Fairy role for Marshal, and Grass/Ice/Water coverage for Clay’s mixed Ground team. Your starting collection is not limited to Gen 5; the ordinary catch pool is #494–649 and does not describe the fixed enemy roster.

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

Sources: Pokelike official v3.5 client — Tower, permanent investment, eggs and Mega unlocks

Clear reward, next unlock and failure payout

An ordinary Unova Tower clear pays 800₽. It opens Kalos Tower.

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 400₽. 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

Sources: Pokelike official v3.5 client — Tower, permanent investment, eggs and Mega unlocks

Before the next fight: make a concrete check

Sources: Pokelike official v3.5 client — Tower, permanent investment, eggs and Mega unlocks

• 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.

A comparison you can reproduce

Unova example: Swanna adds an immunity but costs two Tiers

For a collection containing these Gen 5 Pokémon, compare Excadrill → Swanna alongside Seismitoad, Galvantula, Ferrothorn, Chandelure and Scrafty. This is a conditional collection example, not a recorded Stage 5 clear.

Swanna adds a Ground immunity and reduces the number of Ground-weak members. Water reaches two points and T1. You lose Ground T1 and Steel T1 when Excadrill leaves, and introduce a 4× Electric weakness. Seismitoad still provides an Electric immunity. Decide whether the Ground protection is worth losing both active Tiers before investing in the replacement.

All six members are normal, with no Shiny, Mutant or passive bonuses. These are type-chart and Trait calculations, not a battle simulation or a claim that you own the roster. No attacks are prefilled: add the moves you actually have after loading. For Story, switch the tool’s mode; these Trait Tiers describe its Battle Tower calculation.

Sources: type chart and v3.1 Trait point rules. Read the active Tier effects.