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Capture Arena

Access to:
Initially accessible from: Haruba Village
Afterward, this area must be accessed with Staraptor's Fly.

After completing Mission 16: Execute Operation Brighton!

Wild Pokémon

Staraptor

Capture Arena Challenges

In the Capture Arena, the player is able to take on a series of 12 capture challenges that unlock in a specific order. In each challenge, the player will be tasked with capturing certain species of Pokémon. All Pokémon that are fought in the Capture Arena have a much higher Friendship Gauge than normal and tend to attack more frequently, making them more difficult to capture. However, the Capture Arena is the only place where the player can find certain Pokémon after they are caught during the story, meaning that a player wishing to get a higher capture rank on a Pokémon will need to use the Capture Arena to encounter them.

The player cannot bring any Pokémon to the challenges except for their Partner Pokémon. Any Pokémon captured during the challenge can be used for their Poké Assist against other Pokémon in the challenge, except for bosses (which end the challenge; therefore they cannot be used for their Poké Assist).

The twelve challenges are shown below.

First floor - Room 1

Gardevoir

Toxicroak (Boss)

First floor - Room 2

Shiftry

Spiritomb (Boss)

First floor - Room 3

Crobat

Alakazam

Lucario (Boss)

First floor - Room 4

Gabite

Absol

Heatran (Boss)

First floor - Room 5

Gengar

Bellossom

Blaziken

Cresselia (Boss)

Second floor - Room 1

The second floor introduces multiple bosses that must be fought at the same time, and more Pokémon must be captured before being able to face the bosses.

Honchkrow

Drifblim

Fearow

Swellow

Yanmega (Boss)

Gliscor (Boss)

Second floor - Room 2

	Tyranitar		Abomasnow		Kangaskhan		Aggron		Tangrowth (Boss)		Mamoswine (Boss)
	Rhyperior (Boss)

Second floor - Room 3

	Vaporeon		Flareon		Eevee		Jolteon		Espeon		Glaceon (Boss)
	Umbreon (Boss)		Leafeon (Boss)

Second floor - Room 4

The boss fight here is against one Drapion and four Weavile.

	Houndoom		Garchomp		Banette		Ariados		Cacturne		Weavile (Boss)
	Drapion (Boss)

Third floor - Room 1

The third and fourth floor fights are only boss fights. This means the player does not have the opportunity to capture any Pokémon for its Poké Assist, and therefore the only Poké Assist that can be used is that of the player's Partner Pokémon.

Magmortar (Boss)

Electivire (Boss)

Third floor - Room 2

Infernape (Boss)

Torterra (Boss)

Empoleon (Boss)

Fourth floor

Charizard (Boss)

Flygon (Boss)

Salamence (Boss)