Zone (Masters)

Activating a Steel Zone

Zone (Japanese: ゾーン Zone) is a type of field effect in the Pokémon games that affects all Pokémon on the field. The mechanic was introduced in Pokémon Masters EX. Only one type of zone may be present at a time, with any new zone put in place overwriting the previous zone. Zones can run concurrently alongside weather and terrain. Similar to these field effects, zones will last for 45 seconds (not including sync moves or Max Moves), unless the same type of zone is summoned again or a Pokémon on the field has a certain skill that extends the duration of zones.

There are so far twelve types of zones (in order of release): Ghost Zone, Dragon Zone, Steel Zone, Dark Zone, Flying Zone, Bug Zone, Ground Zone, Fighting Zone, Fairy Zone, Poison Zone, Rock Zone, and Ice Zone. Each zone powers up attacks of the corresponding type (e.g., Ghost Zone powers up Ghost-type moves).

Creating zones

Zone effects may be applied through item moves, Trainer moves, buddy moves, and Skills.

By item move

Item move	Zone	Playable users
Bug Wish	Bug Zone	Ingo (Special Costume) & Accelgor
Dark Wish	Dark Zone	Sygna Suit Cyrus & Darkrai
Dragon Wish	Dragon Zone	Lucas & Dialga
Fairy Wish	Fairy Zone	Sygna Suit Wally & Gardevoir Sygna Suit Hau and Tapu Koko
Flying Wish	Flying Zone	Skyla (Anniversary 2022) & Tornadus
Ghost Wish	Ghost Zone	Sygna Suit Cynthia (Renegade) & Giratina
Ground Wish	Ground Zone	Courtney & Camerupt Courtney & Mega Camerupt
Ice Wish	Ice Zone	Irida and Glaceon
Poison Wish	Poison Zone	Iris (Fall 2022) & Naganadel
Rock Wish	Rock Zone	Sygna Suit Diantha & Diancie Sygna Suit Diantha & Mega Diancie
Steel Wish	Steel Zone	Marnie (Palentine's 2022) and Mawile

By Trainer move

Name	Zone	Effect		Trainer
It's Teatime!	Ghost Zone	Activates one of several additional effects at random. Raises the Sp. Atk of all allied sync pairs by 2 stat ranks. Applies the Gradual Healing effect to all allied sync pairs.	Possible additional effects: 19% chance each: Status Condition Shield Special Damage Reduction Physical Damage Reduction Move Gauge Acceleration Critical-Hit Defense 5% chance: Ghost Zone	Lillie (Special Costume) & Polteageist
Triumphant Research!	Fighting Zone	Turns the field of play’s zone into a Fighting Zone. (A Fighting Zone powers up Fighting-type attacks.) Raises the user’s Speed by 3 stat ranks. Lowers the user’s Sp. Def by 1 stat rank.		Hop (Champion) & Zapdos

By buddy move

Buddy Move	Type	Category	Zone	Effect	Trainer
B Double Team	Normal	Status	Dark Zone	Activation Condition: When any allies’ attack moves hit a total of 10 times while this move is deactivated. Deactivation Condition: When this move is used. Raises the evasiveness of all allied sync pairs by 2 stat ranks. Increases the Physical Moves ↑ Next effect of all allied sync pairs by 2 ranks when the user’s sync move is Dark type. Turns the field of play’s zone into a Dark Zone when the user’s sync move is Dark type. (A Dark Zone powers up Dark-type attacks.) Increases the Special Moves ↑ Next effect of all allied sync pairs by 2 ranks when the user’s sync move is Water type. Makes the weather rainy when the user’s sync move is Water type.	Calem (Champion) & Greninja

By Skill

Removing zones

Except in certain circumstances, such as a battle where all field effects are permanent, zones will automatically disappear after a certain amount of time. The only way to remove a zone before the end of this timer is by setting up a new zone, which will override the previous one, or using the move Defog.

Effects on skills

There are skills that are active only under certain zones:

In other languages

Language Title Chinese Cantonese 領域 Líhngwihk Mandarin 領域 Lǐngyù French Zone German Zone Italian Zone Korean 존 Zone Spanish Zona

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