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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.

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:

• Two Pokémon of the same species cannot be entered.
• Two Pokémon holding the same item cannot be entered, except in Multi Battles (where they must be selected by different Trainers).
• 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 holding the same item.
• The player's Pokémon will be automatically healed after every battle.
• Battles are conducted in rounds of 7. The player can save between battles in a round, 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.
• Items used or swapped (via Trick, Thief, or Switcheroo) during the battle will be given back to the Pokémon after the battle.

Resources

• Speed stats for opposing Pokémon
• Guide to Multi battles using in-game partners, by QuentinQuonce

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		Nature	Item	Moves								HP	Atk	Def	SpA	SpD	Spe
	Milotic	Modest	Shell Bell	Surf		Ice Beam		Attract		Hypnosis		202	72	99	167	145	101
	Rhyperior	Adamant	Focus Band	Rock Wrecker		Earthquake		Crunch		Roar		190	211	182	67	75	60
	Dragonite	Adamant	Lum Berry	Dragon Claw		Aerial Ace		Thunder Wave		Dragon Dance		166	204	115	108	152	100

Gold Print

Palmer Battle (2nd)

Pokémon		Nature	Item	Moves								HP	Atk	Def	SpA	SpD	Spe
	Regigigas	Adamant	BrightPowder	Crush Grip		Earthquake		Stone Edge		Drain Punch		217	233	130	90	130	120
	Heatran	Quiet	Focus Sash	Magma Storm		Flash Cannon		Earth Power		Explosion		166	142	126	200	126	87
	Cresselia	Modest	Leftovers	Psychic		Ice Beam		Signal Beam		Moonlight		216	81	161	104	171	105

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.