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Battle Tower (Battle Frontier)

The Battle Tower is one of five facilities located in the Battle Frontier, accessible in Platinum, HeartGold, and SoulSilver. The Frontier Brain here is Palmer.

Rewards

The player can get the following rewards for victories here. Trophies can be displayed in the player's bedroom in New Bark Town.

Battle Tower Rewards
Wins Required Reward Notes
20 Bronze Trophy Single Battles only.
21 Silver Print & Ability Ribbon Single Battles only. The Ability Ribbon is only given to the three Pokémon entered.
49 Gold Print & Great Ability Ribbon Single Battles only. The Great Ability Ribbon is only given to the three Pokémon entered.
50 Silver Trophy Single Battles only.
50 Double Ability Ribbon Double Battles only. The Double Ability Ribbon is only given to the four Pokémon entered.
50 Multi Ability Ribbon Multi Battles only. The Multi Ability Ribbon is only given to the two Pokémon entered.
50 Pair Ability Ribbon Multi Battles with a human player only. The Pair Ability Ribbon is only given to the two Pokémon entered.
100 Gold Trophy & Trainer Card star Single Battles only.

Additionally, attaining Rank 5 in the Wi-Fi Battle Room will confer the World Ability Ribbon on the Pokémon entered.

Modes

As with all Facilities, the Battle Tower has options for Single Battles, Double Battles, and Multi Battles. Multi Battles can be conducted with either an AI-controlled partner Trainer or a second player with their own copy of Platinum, HeartGold, or SoulSilver.

The player can also choose to challenge the Wi-Fi Battle Room. Between the games' release and 20 May 2014 (when the servers were shut down), players could connect to the Internet, download the teams of other players that had already challenged the Wi-Fi Battle Room, and battle those teams (controlled by the AI). If the player won many consecutive battles, they would be able to rank up (from rank 1 through 10) and upload their own team's data for other Trainers to fight. Despite the shutdown of the official servers, fan-run servers have been created that allow players to access this feature again. The Wi-Fi Battle Room seems to have been poorly researched; a lot of players in the games' early days reported running into hacked teams (as there were no checks on what the player could upload beyond what was forbidden to be entered in the first place), so interest seems to have never been as high for this as it was for the AI challenges.

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

Mechanics

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

Resources

Frontier Brain

The Frontier Brain, Palmer, will always use the same three Pokémon in each of his battles, but they can be in any order. His Pokémon have 31 IVs in both battles. The gender and Ability of his Pokémon are random. His teams are as follows:

Silver Print

Palmer Battle (1st)
Pokémon Item Nature Moves HP Atk Def SpA SpD Spe
Milotic
Milotic Shell Bell Modest Surf Ice Beam Attract Hypnosis 202 72 99 167 145 101
Water
Special
Ice
Special
Normal
Status
Psychic
Status
Rhyperior
Rhyperior Focus Band Adamant Rock Wrecker Earthquake Crunch Roar 190 211 182 67 75 60
Rock
Physical
Ground
Physical
Dark
Physical
Normal
Status
Dragonite
Dragonite Lum Berry Adamant Dragon Claw Aerial Ace Thunder Wave Dragon Dance 166 204 115 108 152 100
Dragon
Physical
Flying
Physical
Electric
Status
Dragon
Status

Gold Print

Palmer Battle (2nd)
Pokémon Item Nature Moves HP Atk Def SpA SpD Spe
Regigigas
Regigigas BrightPowder Adamant Crush Grip Earthquake Stone Edge Drain Punch 217 233 130 90 130 120
Normal
Physical
Ground
Physical
Rock
Physical
Fighting
Physical
Heatran
Heatran Focus Sash Quiet Magma Storm Flash Cannon Earth Power Explosion 166 142 126 200 126 87
Fire
Special
Steel
Special
Ground
Special
Normal
Physical
Cresselia
Cresselia Leftovers Modest Psychic Ice Beam Signal Beam Moonlight 216 81 161 104 171 105
Psychic
Special
Ice
Special
Bug
Special
Normal
Status

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.

Battle Points
Battle(s) Singles,
Doubles,
Multi w/ AI
Multi w/ Link
1-7 3 8
8-14 3 9
15-21 4 11
22-28 4 12
29-35 5 14
36-42 5 15
43-49 7 18
50+ 7 18