In league mode, you have to battle through various leagues, defeating trainers to increase your rank and level up your Pokemon. As the famous song declares, it’s about being the very best, like no-one ever was. There is a vague story mode in the game via the Ferrum League. Pressing an opponent against a wall is essential for victory as you can control their movement and bounce them off it.Įach level has power ups that appear in certain places at certain times, and learning where these are will give you an advantage over opponents. Stages vary from various lengths of perfect and oblong circles.
They span across the multiple generations of the Pokemon series and are broken down into fighting styles of standard, technical, speed and power. There are fourteen Pokemon that you can select to fight with, and also two secret characters. I strongly suggest investing time in the tutorial mode as it educates you in this mechanic. Grabs beat counters, counters beat normal attacks and normal attacks beat grabs. There is a defense triangle that is critical to learn. Once you’re in Synergy Burst mode you can press L+ R again to activate your Pokemon’s ultimate attack which is tremendously powerful and could finish the match. This mode will increase all your Pokemon’s stats and change your normal attacks to powered up versions of the original. When the gauge is full, press L + R to activate your Pokémon’s Synergy Burst. The changing of the phases will allow your Synergy Gauge to rise. You can also call in a support Pokemon during a match that, depending on its class, will perform an instant attack move, increase your stats or disrupt your opponent.
Furthermore, you can cancel out moves during an attack to feint an opponent to block. Moves are strung together by simply pressing an attack with a certain direction.Īlbeit, flashy moves are easier to execute, there comes complexity in being able to string these together into crippling combos. Calling them “challenges” is a bit of a stretch.You have the standard strong attack, weak attack, jump and block controls available to you, along with a specific Pokemon move for your respective character. I’ve only gotten to experience a couple of these so far, but none have offered any interesting twists outside of having to win a fight using a character that I don’t normally use against easy AI bots that don’t require any sort of deep knowledge of a character to beat. Every day you get a new challenge that gives you a specific Pokémon, with a specific assist team, in a specific mode, with the promise of rewards in the form of skill points. The Daily Challenge mode, on the other hand, feels tacked on without any real vision to it. I’m a big fan of air combos too, and he’s got a great launcher that pops the enemy into the air for a follow-up air combo. My personal favorite is Scizor, who has the unique mechanic of creating swords that float behind him and can either be called upon to enhance basic combos or used as tricky projectiles. “The five new Pokémon that Pokkén Tournament DX adds are Croagunk, Darkrai, Empoleon, Scizor, and Decidueye, and it’s great that all of these characters and the originally unlockable Mewtwo and Shadow Mewtwo are playable right at the start.