How the
game works

Who can be minted

Only the first form of an evolution line can be minted, and only when its base stat total is 400 or lower. That is 59 of the 151 Kanto species. Everything stronger is earned by evolving what you minted. Ponyta is the single exception above the cap, because nothing evolves into it.

Species marked Wild or Legendary in the Pokedex cannot be obtained yet.

Two transactions

Minting takes two steps. The first mints the Pokemon with its species, level 5 and its starting moves: up to four moves from its learnset that it knows at level 5 or below. The second, finalize, reveals its nature and IVs.

Finalize draws from a block hash that did not exist when you minted, so nobody, including you, can choose a Pokemon’s stats. Anyone may call finalize on any Pokemon, and the game runs a keeper that does it for you within a few minutes.

The fee

The mint fee is shown live on the Mint page. The game owner can change it, and it can never exceed 0.05 ETH.

The formulas

Every division rounds down.

Experience

Level N needs N³ total experience. Level 10 is 1,000 XP, level 50 is 125,000, level 100 is 1,000,000. Level-ups happen on their own when a battle pays out.

Effects

A Pokemon holds one status at a time. A status move still lands its effect even when it deals no damage, unless the target is immune to its type.

Moves that only raise or lower stats, such as Growl, Leer, Swords Dance and Agility, are not in the game. Neither are held items, abilities, or switching mid-battle.

PP and Struggle

Each use of a move spends one PP for that battle. When every slot is out of PP the Pokemon uses Struggle: a Normal-type, 50-power hit that costs the user a quarter of its max HP. If the slot in your plan is empty or out of PP while another slot still has PP, that turn is lost.

Choosing moves

Levelling up does not teach moves on its own. On the Team page you can set any four moves your Pokemon has qualified for: moves in its current species’ learnset whose learn level is at or below its level. A Pokemon keeps the moves it has until you change them.

Creating and joining

You need a team of three finalized Pokemon you own, no duplicates. A battle stays open for one hour. If nobody joins, it expires on its own. Any unjoined battle — casual or ranked — can be cancelled by its creator before then; a casual cancel has nothing to refund, a ranked cancel refunds the creator’s stake in full.

You cannot join your own battle.

Level bracket

A level 5 starter never meets a level 60 Charizard. To join, the average level of your team must be within a gap of the creator’s team average. The gap widens the longer the battle has been waiting, and never past 30.

Team average is the three levels added and divided by three, rounded down, read live at the moment you join. If the creator’s team has levelled up since they created the battle, the higher of the two numbers is used.

The plan

When you create or join, you choose a move slot for each of your three Pokemon, on turns 1, 2 and 3. Whichever Pokemon is in play uses its own plan for the turn the battle is on. From turn 4 on, the active Pokemon repeats slot 1. When a Pokemon faints the next one in your team order steps in. You cannot switch by choice.

Your plan is hashed together with a secret before it goes on-chain, so your opponent cannot read it. After the second trainer joins, both sides have one hour to reveal. Once both have revealed, anyone can resolve the battle.

Timeouts and forfeits

Your team is locked

When you commit, the contract fingerprints each Pokemon’s species, evolution stage and moves. If any of those change before the battle resolves, you forfeit. Levelling up or gaining EVs in another battle is fine.

Turn order

1. 01Priority. The move with the higher priority goes first.
2. 02Speed. Otherwise the faster Pokemon goes first. Paralysis halves speed.
3. 03Tie. Equal speed is a coin flip.

Damage

1. 01Category. Physical moves use Attack against Defense. Special moves use Sp. Atk against Sp. Def. Status moves deal no damage.
2. 02Type. The 18-type chart applies. Against two types the multipliers stack, so the range is ×0, ×¼, ×½, ×1, ×2 and ×4. An immune target takes nothing and no effect lands.
3. 03STAB. A move that matches one of the attacker’s types deals ×1.5.
4. 04Critical hit. 1 in 16 chance for ×1.5. High-crit moves roll 1 in 8.
5. 05Spread. A random factor between 85% and 100%.
6. 06Floor. A hit that connects always deals at least 1.

A burned attacker’s physical Attack is halved before the formula runs.

Each turn

A sleeping, frozen or paralysis-struck Pokemon loses its action. A confused one may hit itself. Then the move resolves, recoil or healing applies, and at the end of the turn burn and poison take their toll from both active Pokemon. Fainted Pokemon are replaced in team order.

How it ends

A draw pays nothing to either side.

Experience

Each Pokemon on the losing side contributes to a pool based on its species and level. The pool is split equally between the winning Pokemon that are still standing. A winner that fainted earns nothing.

Beating stronger, higher-level Pokemon pays more. Level-ups apply immediately.

EVs

Each defeated Pokemon grants 2 EVs in its own highest stat to every Pokemon on the winning team, up to 252 per stat and 510 in total.

Stone drops

Every fought-out win has a 25% chance to drop an evolution stone, one of the five kinds at random. The roll comes from the battle seed, so nobody can influence whether a stone drops or which one.

What changes

The species and its base stats, so every stat rises at once. Level, experience, IVs, EVs and nature carry over unchanged.

Moves are kept exactly as they were. Evolving never rewrites them, so visit the Team page afterwards to pick from the new species’ learnset.

Stakes and payout

The fee comes out of the pot only when the battle is actually decided by a win or a forfeit. A draw refunds both stakes in full, and a battle its creator cancels before anyone joins refunds the creator in full — neither one pays the fee.

Rating

Every wallet has a rating, starting from the same default the first time it finishes a ranked battle. A win moves it up, a loss moves it down, a draw leaves it where it was. The casual PvP/PvE record on your collection page is separate and unaffected — ranked keeps its own win/loss/draw count next to it.

Rating bracket

The same widening-band idea as the level bracket, applied to rating instead: a just-opened ranked battle only admits a close rating, and the gap widens the longer it sits unjoined. This is separate from the level bracket, which still applies too — both have to pass to join.

If a payout cannot be delivered

A resolve or a timeout tries to send the winner their payout directly. If that push fails — a wallet that cannot receive ETH, for instance — the amount is held for that wallet to claim instead of being lost, with its own claim button wherever it is owed.

Starting

1. 01Commit your team. The contract records the block your encounter started on.
2. 02Wait for the chain. The wild party is derived from a block that has not been mined yet, so there is a short wait — about half a minute — before it can be revealed.
3. 03See the party, then move. Once the wait clears, the wild party is shown before you commit your moves, so you are choosing moves against a party you have actually seen, not guessing.

Forfeiting

If you do not like the matchup, or you simply do not resolve in time, you can walk away. A forfeit closes the encounter as a loss — no experience, no stone, no catch — and starts a 10-minute cooldown before you can start another one.

Winning

Species you can already mint are never caught this way — only the wild-only ones.

Unlocking a fight

You need 25 trainer-battle wins that were actually fought out — a forfeit or a walkover does not count toward this. Once you qualify, you can challenge any legendary you have not already caught.

The fight

The legendary fights alone, at level 60, with its four strongest moves. Your team is the three Pokemon you bring, same as any battle.

One of each, forever

Once you catch a legendary, that species is closed to you permanently — even if you later sell or transfer it. There is no experience and no stone drop from a legendary fight; the legendary itself is the only reward.