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Battle Castle

The Battle Castle is one of five facilities located in the Battle Frontier, accessible in Platinum, HeartGold, and SoulSilver. The Frontier Brain here is Caitlin, who is accompanied by her butler Darach.

Modes

As with all Facilities, the Battle Castle has options for Single Battles, Double Battles, and Multi Battles. Multi Battles are conducted with a second player with their own copy of Platinum, HeartGold, or SoulSilver.

The player can enter three Pokémon in Singles, three in Doubles, and two in Multi (with the other player providing another two).

Mechanics

Gimmick

The player will win Castle Points, or CP, for completing battles. Before every battle, the player may choose to spend CP to do things such as recover their Pokémon, view details about the opponents' Pokémon, level the opponents' Pokémon up or down, gain items for their Pokémon, or skip the following battle.

Items that are obtained on a Pokémon will be kept until either a) the player completes the current round of seven battles; b) the item is used, stolen by the opponent, or swapped with the opponent; or c) the player chooses to purchase a new item for their Pokémon, at which point the old item is replaced with the new one.

General

Mechanics that apply to every Facility are on the Battle Frontier page. Here are mechanics specific to the Battle Castle:

• Two Pokémon of the same species cannot be entered.
• Held items held by Pokémon in the party will be removed before the beginning of a round.
• The player's Pokémon will be set to level 50 if they are higher than 50. Pokémon lower than level 50 will not be leveled up to 50. The opponent's Pokémon will always be level 50.
• The opponent's team will never have two of the same Pokémon or two Pokémon with the same held item.
• Any of the player's Pokémon that are fainted at the end of the battle will be revived to 1 HP after the battle. Any other statuses will additionally be healed. However, HP and PP will not be healed.
• Battles are conducted in rounds of 7. The player can save between battles in a rounds, but will not be able to do anything except complete the rest of the round when they load the game. The player can do anything between rounds without it affecting their streak.

Resources

• Castle Points Mechanics (also presented below)
• Speed stats for opposing Pokémon

Frontier Brain

The Frontier Brain, Caitlin, will ask her butler Darach to battle in her place. Darach's team will always have the same three species, but the moveset of each species is randomly selected from two possible options that share the same held item, Nature, and stats. The order of his Pokémon is random as well. His Pokémon have 31 IVs in both battles. The gender and Ability of his Pokémon are random. His teams are as follows:

Silver Print

Caitlin & Darach Battle (1st)

Pokémon		Nature	Item	Moves								HP	Atk	Def	SpA	SpD	Spe
	Houndoom	Jolly	Focus Sash	Fire Fang		Crunch		Roar		Counter		150	142	70	117	100	161
				Fire Fang		Thunder Fang		Reversal		Endure
	Empoleon	Adamant	Razor Claw	Waterfall		Metal Claw		Brick Break		Knock Off		159	151	108	117	153	80
				Drill Peck		Aqua Jet		Shadow Claw		Rock Slide
	Staraptor	Jolly	King's Rock	Return		Aerial Ace		Double Team		Roost		160	172	90	63	70	167
				Endeavor		Aerial Ace		Endure		Quick Attack

Gold Print

Caitlin & Darach Battle (2nd)

Pokémon		Nature	Item	Moves								HP	Atk	Def	SpA	SpD	Spe
	Entei	Modest	Shuca Berry	Fire Blast		SolarBeam		Hyper Beam		Sunny Day		190	121	105	156	95	152
				Overheat		Extrasensory		Shadow Ball		Calm Mind
	Empoleon	Brave	Quick Claw	Surf		Earthquake		Blizzard		Signal Beam		159	151	108	163	121	72
				Hydro Cannon		Flash Cannon		Drill Peck		Earthquake
	Gallade	Adamant	Scope Lens	Psycho Cut		Stone Edge		Aerial Ace		X-Scissor		143	194	85	76	167	100
				Psycho Cut		Close Combat		Leaf Blade		Night Slash

Trainers and Pokémon

The list of Trainers that can be encountered is located here. The list of Pokémon that can be encountered is located here.

Battle Points

The following table contains the amount of Battle Points the player will receive for finishing each round of seven battles. Defeating the Frontier Brain will always give the player 20 Points for that round.

Castle Points

When the player begins a round, they will be given 10 Castle Points. They can spend CP to affect the upcoming battles, and will receive CP for completing battles. For as long as the player maintains an active streak, their CP count will reflect the cumulative amount the player has gained across the entire streak. If the player loses their streak, when they restart, they will be given the base 10 again.

CP can be spent for the following purposes (categories):

• Info: for each of the opponent's Pokémon, the player can choose to identify their species, stats, or moves, or raise or lower the Pokémon's level by 5.
• Recovery: for each of the player's Pokémon, the player can choose to restore their HP, PP, or both.
• Items: for each of the player's Pokémon, the player can choose to purchase an item for that Pokémon to hold.
• Pass: The 'Pass' option is unlocked after 21 battles and allows the player to skip the next battle.

Some of these options are not available to the player immediately. The player also has the ability to choose to rank up one of the above categories (except for Pass), which will increase the options available to the player for that category. Once a category has been ranked up, the category will remain at that rank until the player loses their streak, at which point the ranks will all be reset to 1.

Purchase Options

The purchasable options for each category are shown in the tables below.

Info Options can be purchased separately for each of the opponent's Pokémon. Ranking up costs 50 CP.

Recovery Options can be purchased separately for each of the player's Pokémon. Ranking up costs 100 for each rank.

Item Options can be purchased separately for each of the player's Pokémon. Ranking up costs 100 CP for rank 2 and 150 CP for rank 3.
Ranking up increases the number of items available to the player for purchase. The groups of items available at each rank are shown below.

The 'Pass' option always costs 50 CP and cannot be ranked up.

Receiving CP

The amount of CP the player receives after a battle is determined by their performance in the preceding battle. The factors that contribute are shown in the below table.

As outlined by Magpie, the calculation to determine how many PP were used in the battle is to compare the value of PP at the end of the previous battle with the value of PP at the end of the current battle. This means that the game does not take into account the possibility that the player restored PP before the current battle. If the player ended the previous battle with 5 PP on a move, restored their PP to 10, and then ended the current battle with 3 PP, the game will calculated the PP used as (5 - 3) = 2, rather than (10 - 3) = 7.