Let me take you back to the days of Pokémon Emerald:
So you are on your journey through the Hoenn region and you make it to Slateport. You’re about to go to Route 110 when you notice something: the Contest Hall has been replaced with a strange new building. You go in and discover that this is a Battle Tent. In this particular Battle Tent, you fight with random rental Pokémon. After you become Champion, you learn about the new Battle Frontier, which has seven different battle facilities, some of which were hinted at in the Battle Tents. This includes the Slateport Battle Tent, which was a small version of the brand new Battle Factory!
The Battle Factory is a very unique facility in the main series Pokémon games as it is the only area where you use Pokémon that aren't yours (well, not counting that one Shuckle in the Johto games). The basic mechanic in the Factory is that when you start your run, you are given six Pokémon and you choose three of them to use in your run. As you defeat opponents, you are given clues about your next fight and then are able to trade one of your rental Pokémon for one of the trainer you just defeated. This allows you to improve your team or change it to better suit the next match.
The Battle Factory made a return in Pokémon Platinum in the Sinnoh Battle Frontier, where the basic rules are the same as the Hoenn incarnation. This facility (along with the rest of Sinnoh's Frontier) was copied and pasted into HeartGold and SoulSilver.
Due to the unique nature of the Battle Factory, I thought it would be good to have a place to discuss our experiences since there isn't any topics that it fits into other than perhaps bad luck and dumb AI, and even then, that's limiting.
So, discuss your experiences with both incarnations of the Battle Factory along with Slateport's Battle Tent. Cool teams, odd choices in movesets, and so on.
So you are on your journey through the Hoenn region and you make it to Slateport. You’re about to go to Route 110 when you notice something: the Contest Hall has been replaced with a strange new building. You go in and discover that this is a Battle Tent. In this particular Battle Tent, you fight with random rental Pokémon. After you become Champion, you learn about the new Battle Frontier, which has seven different battle facilities, some of which were hinted at in the Battle Tents. This includes the Slateport Battle Tent, which was a small version of the brand new Battle Factory!
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The Battle Factory made a return in Pokémon Platinum in the Sinnoh Battle Frontier, where the basic rules are the same as the Hoenn incarnation. This facility (along with the rest of Sinnoh's Frontier) was copied and pasted into HeartGold and SoulSilver.
Due to the unique nature of the Battle Factory, I thought it would be good to have a place to discuss our experiences since there isn't any topics that it fits into other than perhaps bad luck and dumb AI, and even then, that's limiting.
So, discuss your experiences with both incarnations of the Battle Factory along with Slateport's Battle Tent. Cool teams, odd choices in movesets, and so on.
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In a recent run on my copy of SoulSilver, I managed to get an Adamant Dragonite with Dragon Claw, Aerial Ace, Thunder Wave (would have preferred Earthquake, especially since I never used Thunder Wave), and Dragon Dance holding a Lum Berry. This thing wrecked many opponents.
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