Permanent rules and dated rotations
Pokelike Challenge Rules & Rewards
Choose a permanent ruleset, today’s Monotype Daily, or the dated Weekly Challenge. This guide explains all 12 permanent rules, how to enter, first-clear and replay rewards, and the Mega Hoenn format observed on October 19, 2026. Daily Pokésort is a separate puzzle.
Jump to all 12 permanent rules, the Daily Monotype reset and rewards, or the Mega Hoenn Weekly snapshot reviewed October 19, 2026. Each format keeps its own conditions.
Rules reviewed October 19, 2026 · Pokelike v3.5
Choose the Challenge you actually want to play
Challenge Mode has a standard run, 12 permanent rule sets, a rotating type-based Daily Challenge and a Weekly Challenge. These are battle runs. The six-Pokémon DailyPokésort puzzle is a separate activity and does not clear a Challenge for you.
- Open Pokelike and choose Take Challenge.
- For a standard run, open Challenge Mode. If its permanent choices are still locked, clear the introductory run first. Existing accounts with the qualifying older Challenge/Kalos Tower record may already have this unlocked.
- Pick a starter from the choices your save has unlocked, then choose the starting passive offered by the game. Check its rule before committing: a Nuzlocke or no-evolution run changes what makes a useful starter.
- Use catch nodes to fill the party, order the actual team before the next boss, and choose a passive after a boss when offered. Finish the final gauntlet to record a clear.
- On the result screen, check the clear, reward and MVP. A standard Challenge clear pays 1,000 ₽. A loss uses 100 ₽ per completed map; Daily/Weekly loss rewards instead use a 50 ₽-per-map base, with special modes able to override it.
The three initially available starting choices are Power Bracer (+20% damage),Power Lens (stat boosts 30% more effective), andIron Thorns (enemies take 20% attack recoil). Star Piece, Hazard Lens and Shiny Hunter are achievement-locked choices; inspect the lock in your save before planning around them.Compare their effects in Items.
All 12 permanent Challenges
Choose the named rule in Challenge Mode. Monotype opens a second choice of 18 types; each type has its own clear.
| Challenge | What changes | Prepare before starting |
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| Monotype | Choose one of 18 types. Catch choices must have that type; clear each type separately. | Keep two useful attack types; a shared type does not remove every weakness. |
| Wish Upon a Star | Star Piece starts active. Every boss replaces the team with random Pokémon. | Save healing and plan replacements before each boss changes the roster. |
| Trick Room | The slower Pokémon attacks first. | Choose slow, durable attackers; extra Speed can work against this rule. |
| Nuzlocke | A Pokémon that faints is lost for the rest of this run. | Keep an answer in reserve; a fainted carry cannot return in this run. |
| Inverse World | Weakness and resistance matchups are inverted. | Recheck matchups under the inverted chart before ordering your team. |
| Legendary Opposition | Every opposing trainer has legendaries of the map’s type. | Prepare for the map type and a full opposing legendary roster. |
| Arena Floors | Catch and Shiny nodes offer the current boss map’s type. | Plan a replacement before entering a new boss-type map. |
| Ride or Die | Fill at most six slots; releasing and replacing are disabled. | Keep early slots flexible: a temporary catch can become permanent. |
| Little League | Pokémon cannot evolve. | Choose useful unevolved stats; do not budget around a later evolution. |
| Walk It Off | No Pokémon Centers or free healing between fights. | Preserve HP with recovery effects; do not plan around a Center reset. |
| Wanted | After the first layer, non-boss nodes are trainer battles; enemies have +50% level. | Budget HP for consecutive fights against enemies at 1.5× level. |
| Ultimate Challenge | Permadeath, no healing and no evolution apply together. | Combine the Nuzlocke, no-heal and no-evolution plans; none is optional. |
Monotype preparation: one type, several jobs
Choose the type, then keep secondary types and actual attacks in view. For example, Water/Ground can cover an Electric weakness but introduces a 4× Grass exposure; a second Water member that handles Grass is a different job from simply adding another Water point. Check those costs in the Team Analyzer, then enter the attacks you really obtained. The ordinary type checker does not apply Inverse World or simulate the Challenge's battles.
Daily Challenge: type, reward and reset
The Daily card starts a Monotype run for that day's type. The first clear of the game day pays 2,000 ₽; another clear of the same daily pays 500 ₽. This is a battle-run reward, not the Pokésort reward.
The shared reset is midnight Europe/Berlin, including daylight-saving changes. At the October 19, 2026 review the scheduled type is Flying. This is a dated snapshot: use the type and countdown on the official Daily card when you start a later run. A local midnight or another country's date may differ.
- Open Take Challenge → the Daily Challenge card and read its displayed type.
- Choose an available starter of that type; protect its worst matchup with secondary types and held items as the roster grows.
- Clear the run and check the Daily card's completed mark before replaying for the smaller reward.
The official cycle is Normal → Fire → Water → Electric → Grass → Ice → Fighting → Poison → Ground → Flying → Psychic → Bug → Rock → Ghost → Dragon → Dark → Steel → Fairy → Normal. The type is selected by the Berlin calendar-day number modulo 18, rather than your last run's result.
Weekly snapshot: Mega Hoenn
Observed October 19, 2026: the official v3.5 client selects Mega Hoenn, available from October 16, 2026. It is a Gen 3 Story Nuzlocke: one catch per map, and a fainted Pokémon is lost for the run. Your starter is one of three random Hoenn Pokémon that can Mega Evolve, carrying its Mega Stone from the start. The stone only works after it reaches the required form, and this Challenge's Mega has no signature Mega ability.
Choose Solo, play with Wally as the battle partner, or link a friend for Soul Link. A Soul Link pair is lost on both saves when either member faints. Enemies are two levels below the usual Hoenn curve, four below after the fifth gym. These variants disable achievement credit; they are not a shortcut to an ordinary Mega MVP unlock.
| Variant | First clear | Replay | How to prepare |
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| Solo | 2,000 ₽ | 2,000 ₽ | Protect the starter until its evolution makes the Mega Stone usable. |
| Partner | 5,000 ₽ | 5,000 ₽ | Account for Wally’s partner team before choosing your own coverage. |
| Co-op | 5,000 ₽ | 5,000 ₽ | Coordinate the same-map catch and avoid risking either linked partner. |
- Open the official Weekly card and confirm its name. A later update can replace this dated snapshot.
- Select the variant, inspect all three starter choices and the offered stone, and plan the route around that actual starter.
- Keep a usable backup before a gym. Nuzlocke losses cannot be repaired with a later heal or revive.
- Finish the run, then verify that variant's clear mark and reward. Weekly completion uses the required variants; optional variants do not block it.
See the Hoenn Story boss and route guide for the regional fights, while retaining this Weekly run's different catch, Mega and achievement rules.
Other documented formats and their rewards
These are definitions retained by the reviewed client, not a claim that every card is the active Weekly today. SpireMon is a permanent card-mode entry; the others are prior Weekly formats.
| Format | Rules | Variant: first clear / replay |
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| Endless Classic | Classic tournament, nine maps between Elite Four finales; weekly clear at map 25, then continue. Eight passives; 100 ₽ per map. |
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| SpireMon (permanent mode) | A separate Gen 1 card mode: four-card starter deck, three battle lanes, five-map runs. Clear Intro, then Challenge to unlock Celebi; optional Endless follows. |
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| Catch the Spire | Both teams fight on one field; play attack and block cards instead of automatic attacks. Victories add cards. |
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| Trick Room | Slower Pokémon act first. Speed EVs are removed for the run; enemy level multiplier rises from 1× to 1.15× to 1.35×. |
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| Soul Link | Co-op Kanto Nuzlocke, including Randomizer. Same-map catches are linked; either faint removes both and either wipe restarts both runs. |
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| Mega Johto | Gen 2 Story with a random Mega-capable starter and its stone. Solo or linked co-op; the Mega lacks its signature ability. |
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| TM Overdrive | Pokémon begin with their weakest move. Tutors and gym wins offer one of three type-relevant TMs; level multipliers 1× / 1.15× / 1.3×. |
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| Kanto Fusion | Kanto Tower with DNA Splicers. Head supplies HP/Sp.Atk/Sp.Def and first type; body supplies Atk/Def/Speed and second type. |
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| Unova Hidden Ability Challenge | Gen 5-only Tower with Abilities and Hidden Abilities. On Impossible, every opposing Pokémon has a Hidden Ability. |
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| Sinnoh Ability Challenge | Gen 4-only Tower with Abilities, Underground and Distortion World. Level multipliers 1× / 1.1× / 1.2×. |
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| Hoenn Ability Challenge | Gen 3-only Tower with Abilities. Norman / Wallace / Steven difficulties use 1× / 1.1× / 1.2× levels. |
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| Nuzlocke Randomizer | Permadeath; random species and evolution stages; one catch node per map and no legendary encounters. Difficulties use Gen 1 through 5. |
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| Baby Cup | Only base-stage Pokémon with a later evolution; evolution is disabled. Baby also reduces enemy rosters to base stages; Brutal keeps full enemy teams. |
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Sources and version
Rules, clear rewards, Berlin reset and dated Weekly selection were reviewed in theofficial Pokelike v3.5 clienton October 19, 2026. This is a rules review, not a claimed completed playthrough. Weekly formats can change; the game's current card controls a new run.Send a correction with the affected rule and version.
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