Pokémon Sword - Tower of Two Fists (Get Urshifu) F.A.Q.

Pokémon Sword - Tower of Two Fists (Get Urshifu) F.A.Q.

Q: What are you trying to do?
A: I am trying to receive Urshifu from the Tower of Two Fists as fast as possible

Q: What is your best time?
A: My best time is 1:30:29

Q: What is the World Record?
A: The World Record time is 1:27:53 by GarfieldTheLightning

Q: That's not you!
A: I know :(

Q: Where can you save time?
A: Almost all of my timesave is on the first three splits, or the last three

Q: What Pokémon do you use in the run?
A: I start with Sobble, which I use until I am gifted a Kubfu by Dojo Master Mustard. After that, I use Kubfu until the end of the run

Q: What the heck is the Tower of Two Fists?
A: The Tower of Two Fists is the name of the two towers in the Isle of Armor (DLC) where Kubfu can be evolved into Urshifu. In order to gain access to the towers, we must complete three trials for the Master Dojo and befriend our Kubfu

Q: How quickly can you make it to the Isle of Armor area?
A: You can access the Isle of Armor as soon as you have access to the Wild Area, so roughly 30min into the run. We go slightly further in order to get a bit of experience on Sobble and to buy X Items, but then we backtrack to Wedgehurst to travel to the Isle of Armor

Q: What are the three trials?
A: The three trials are all fairly straightforward:
- Trial 1: Three Galarian Slowpoke have stolen the uniform from your rival in the Isle of Armor (Klara/Avery). You must defeat the three Slowpoke to get it back
- Trial 2: The Dojo Master requests Max Mushrooms, so you must retrieve them. Upon reaching the Max Mushrooms, you are ambushed by your rival (Klara/Avery) and must defeat them
- Trial 3: You must defeat your rival (Klara/Avery) yet again

Q: How do you befriend Kubfu?
A: There are various "sightseeing" areas that you can take Kubfu to increase your friendship with them. Typically, three of the four locations are all that are needed

Q: Do you take on the Tower of Waters or the Tower of Darkness?
A: The Tower of Darkness. Since we have to use the Kubfu that is given to us (and only them), Dark is easier to deal with due to type advantages

Q: How are you going to level up your Kubfu to take on the Tower?
A: Kubfu comes in at Level 10 and at the top of the Tower is an opponent who is Level 30, however we only need to get to around Level 20. Chansey has a 2% chance to appear pretty much everywhere in the wild, however in Fog that Chansey slot changes into Blissey. We change are date appropriately and then defeat 1-4 Blissey in order to get high enough level to take on the Tower. It sounds slow, but it ends up being pretty quick overall

Q: Can you do this run on Shield!?
A: You can! The runs are almost identical, with the only difference being the three Rival fights. On those fights, the strategies are (generally) the same, so the main difference comes in the form of smaller details like opponent stats and damage ranges

Q: Which game is faster?
A: They're probably about the same speed

Q: What are those numbers at the bottom of the screen?
A: Those are Sobble's IVs. As I see their stats during level ups, I will input them into an IV Calculator. This will output the possible IV Ranges to let me (and you) know how good my Pokémon are. The IV Calculator was made by https://www.twitch.tv/wartab

Q: What is your goal time?
A: Dunno! I only really ran this category for the first week that the DLC was out, so I'm not too sure how far it can be pushed