Battle Arcade FAQ

	Battle Arcade FAQ:

Basic Definition: The Battle Arcade is the game facility. You can not bring your own held items into the facility.
Before each fight, a game board will appear with 16 different possible 'events', and one is chosen to occur before that fight begins.

They are broken into 3 categories - Those that affect you are in Blue, those that affect your opponent are in Red, and those that are overall impacts are in Grey.
Examples of the first 2 are Paralysing the whole team, or reducing the HP remaining by -20% of each Pokemon. Note that because you are healed after each fight these all only last for a single battle, but an exception to this is if you manage to get an Item for your team it will last for the whole set until it is lost.
Example of overall impacts include setting weather for the next fight, or increasing the speed the game board runs at. There is also a rare tile that shows up in later sets that allows you to skip the fight entirely.

Difficulty: 3rd of 5 (Medium).
Note: Making an extra note here to say that while the difficulty of the fights is the 3rd hardest, in terms of execution the Arcade is definitely the hardest. This is because stopping the game board is purely execution, and missing the correct choice can mean an instant run over.

Manipulation: All Pokemon and Trainers, along with the events that appears on the game board are determined by calls to the Primary RNG. Almost all of the events do not call the Primary RNG and therefore have no impact, but there is one exception - Sleep.