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Battle Palace バトルパレス Battle Palace

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Battles per round 7 Participating Pokémon Single 3 Double 3 Palace Maven Spenser Silver Spirits Symbol Gold Spirits Symbol Wins to obtain the Spirits Symbol Silver 21 Gold 42

The Battle Palace (Japanese: バトルパレス Battle Palace) is a facility located within the Hoenn Battle Frontier in Pokémon Emerald.

Challenges

In the Battle Palace, Pokémon battle on their own, without any commands from their Trainers. This is very similar to the rules at the Verdanturf Battle Tent. The style of the Pokémon's battle depends on its Nature, and this style may change when the Pokémon's HP falls low.

At a streak of 21 (three trips through) or 42 (six trips through), Palace Maven Spenser challenges the player. If defeated, he awards the Spirits Symbol.

Battle style

Depending on its Nature, a Pokémon may use different moves in the Battle Palace. All moves belong to one of three categories: Attack, Defense, or Support. The following is the list of attacks in each category:

• Attack: Any move not listed under Defense or Support.
• Defense: All moves that target the user, the user's side, or the entire field, but not moves that call other moves. These moves include Acid Armor, Agility, Amnesia, Aromatherapy, Barrier, Baton Pass, Belly Drum, Bide, Bulk Up, Calm Mind, Camouflage, Charge, Conversion 2, Conversion, Cosmic Power, Defense Curl, Destiny Bond, Detect, Double Team, Dragon Dance, Endure, Focus Energy, Follow Me, Growth, Grudge, Hail, Harden, Haze, Heal Bell, Helping Hand, Howl, Imprison, Ingrain, Iron Defense, Light Screen, Meditate, Milk Drink, Minimize, Mist, Moonlight, Morning Sun, Mud Sport, Perish Song, Protect, Rain Dance, Recover, Recycle, Reflect, Refresh, Rest, Safeguard, Sandstorm, Sharpen, Slack Off, Softboiled, Splash, Stockpile, Substitute, Sunny Day, Swallow, Swords Dance, Synthesis, Tail Glow, Teleport, Water Sport, Wish, and Withdraw.
• Support: All moves that do not deal damage and are not categorized under Defense, as well as Counter and Mirror Coat. These include Assist, Attract, Block, Charm, Confuse Ray, Cotton Spore, Counter, Curse, Disable, Encore, Fake Tears, FeatherDance, Flash, Flatter, Foresight, Glare, GrassWhistle, Growl, Hypnosis, Kinesis, Leech Seed, Leer, Lock-On, Lovely Kiss, Magic Coat, Mean Look, Memento, Metal Sound, Metronome, Mimic, Mind Reader, Mirror Coat, Mirror Move, Nature Power, Nightmare, Odor Sleuth, Pain Split, Poison Gas, PoisonPowder, Psych Up, Roar, Role Play, Sand-Attack, Scary Face, Screech, Sing, Sketch, Skill Swap, Sleep Powder, Sleep Talk, SmokeScreen, Snatch, Spider Web, Spikes, Spite, Spore, String Shot, Stun Spore, Supersonic, Swagger, Sweet Kiss, Sweet Scent, Tail Whip, Taunt, Teeter Dance, Thunder Wave, Tickle, Torment, Toxic, Transform, Trick, Whirlwind, Will-O-Wisp, and Yawn.

Each Nature has a set of ratios that determines how often a Pokémon with that Nature is likely to use Attack, Defense, or Support moves. These ratios change when the Pokémon's HP falls below 50%. During battle, a category is selected for a given turn, and a random attack in that category is chosen from the Pokémon's moveset; if no such attack exists, the Pokémon will "appear incapable of using its power" and skip its turn.

The following table lists each Nature and its move type preferences; it may be rearranged by clicking the boxes next to each column's heading.

Battle Points

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Palace Maven

Silver Symbol challenge

Palace Maven Spenser Battle Palace Emerald Reward: 15BP

Types: Poison Flying Ability: Inner Focus Held item: BrightPowder Crobat♂/♀ Lv.50, 60-100 Fly Flying   --       Confuse Ray Ghost   --       Toxic Poison   --       Double Team Normal   --       Type: Normal Unknown Ability: Truant Held item: Scope Lens Slaking♂/♀ Lv.50, 60-100 Brick Break Fighting   --       Shadow Ball Ghost   --       Earthquake Ground   --       Swagger Normal   --       Types: Water Ice Ability: Water Absorb or Shell Armor Held item: Quick Claw Lapras♂/♀ Lv.50, 60-100 Horn Drill Normal   --       Ice Beam Ice   --       Confuse Ray Ghost   --       Protect Normal   --

Gold Symbol challenge

Palace Maven Spenser Battle Palace Emerald Reward: 16BP

Type: Fire Unknown Ability: Intimidate or Flash Fire Held item: White Herb Arcanine♂/♀ Lv.50, 60-100 Overheat Fire   --       ExtremeSpeed Normal   --       Roar Normal   --       Protect Normal   --       Type: Normal Unknown Ability: Truant Held item: Scope Lens Slaking♂/♀ Lv.50, 60-100 Hyper Beam Normal   --       Shadow Ball Ghost   --       Earthquake Ground   --       Yawn Normal   --       Type: Water Unknown Ability: Pressure Held item: King's Rock Suicune Lv.50, 60-100 Surf Water   --       Bite Dark   --       Blizzard Ice   --       Calm Mind Psychic   --

Layout

Inside the Battle Palace	Hallway	Before battle in the Battle Palace

In the anime

The Battle Palace in the anime

The Battle Palace appeared in Ka Boom with a View!. In the anime, it is located on Metallica Island, near Seafoam Islands, and was the fifth Battle Frontier facility challenged by Ash. The group discovered its location in Queen of the Serpentine!, following Ash's victory against Lucy at the Battle Pike. It is run by Palace Maven Spenser and the battles are refereed by a hovering robot called Jamero.

The battle against the Palace Maven does not take place inside the Battle Palace itself, instead starting from a battlefield on a nearby plateau and then moving on into the surrounding jungle and beach. As a result, May, Max, and Brock watched the battle from a hot-air balloon alongside Scott. In contrast with Gyms, where challengers face Leaders in consecutive battles, Spenser may interrupt a match at any moment to rest.

After an eventful battle, in which Ash used his Sceptile, Heracross, and Swellow, he was able to defeat Spenser and earn himself the Spirits Symbol, his fifth Frontier Symbol overall.

Pokémon used in the Battle Palace

The following is a list of Pokémon used in the Battle Palace:

		Shiftry
		Shiftry first appeared in Ka Boom with a View!, where it was the first Pokémon to be sent against Ash, while he chose Sceptile. Before using any move, Shiftry dodged the Bullet Seed from Sceptile and was told to move to the jungle. It had immense speed, but Sceptile was just as fast, as it followed close behind. After the two Grass types reached a small waterfall, both continued their duel. Shiftry managed to push Sceptile into the pool of water, then used Rock Smash to send rocks down into the pool. However, Sceptile escaped up through the waterfall and landed a hit on Shiftry, knocking it out, and winning Ash the first victory. Shiftry's known moves are Shadow Ball, Quick Attack, Double Team, and Rock Smash.
Debut	Ka Boom with a View!

		Venusaur
		Main article: Spenser's Venusaur Spenser's Venusaur was the second Pokémon chosen by Spenser to go against Ash. It managed to defeat Ash's Heracross, but finally lost to Swellow. Vensaur's known moves are Sweet Scent, Vine Whip, Razor Leaf, Tackle and Solar Beam.
Debut	Cutting the Ties that Bind
Voice actors
Japanese	Kenta Miyake
English	Craig Blair

		Claydol
		Claydol appeared in the episode Ka Boom with a View!, where it was the third Pokémon to be sent out against Ash. Claydol had to face Ash's Swellow and Sceptile before being defeated by Sceptile's newly learned SolarBeam. Claydol is the powerhouse of Spenser's team. Claydol's known moves are Teleport, Rapid Spin, Sandstorm, Hyper Beam, and Psybeam.
Debut	Ka Boom with a View!
Voice actors
Japanese	Kōichi Sakaguchi
English	Kōichi Sakaguchi

In the manga

In the Pokémon Adventures manga

The Battle Palace in Pokémon Adventures

The Battle Palace first appeared in Sneaky Like Shedinja II, where Spenser retreated there to rest after the Frontier Brains' confrontation with Guile Hideout in Artisan Cave.

In A Cheeky Charizard Change-Up II, after having lost his battle against Tucker at the Battle Dome, Emerald immediately went to the Battle Palace, requesting Spenser to have a battle with him, so that he could also have time to rechallenge the Battle Dome before the Battle Frontier's seven-day opening ceremony ended. Spenser accepted the request, deciding that the battle would happen behind closed doors, without being observed by the press. He also allowed Emerald to skip the 41 virtual Trainers that a challenger would usually need to defeat in order to face him.

When Emerald asked what the facility's rules were in order to choose the proper Pokémon for the facility, Spenser surprised him by informing that in the Battle Palace, Trainers must use Pokémon they trust, since they're not allowed to give them any orders during the battle. He also noted how Emerald hadn't trusted in his own Pokémon at the Battle Dome and had chosen to use borrowed ones instead, which had led to his defeat by Tucker.

The two then received a message from Noland, informing them that Guile Hideout had succeded in catching Jirachi and was headed to the Battle Tower. Emerald asked if they could postpone their battle, but Spenser reminded him that in this battle, the Trainer's presence wasn't even required, so he could just go on ahead and leave his Pokémon behind to do the battling. As such, Emerald gave his Pokémon a motivational speech before heading to the Battle Tower. In Facing Gulpin Is Hard to Swallow, Latios delivered Emerald's Pokémon and a Spirits Symbol to the Battle Tower, informing Emerald that his Pokémon had won the battle against Spenser.

In other languages

Language Title Chinese Cantonese 對戰宮殿 Deuijin Gūngdihn Mandarin 對戰宮殿 / 对战宫殿 Duìzhàn Gōngdiàn Danish Kamppaladset Dutch Strijdpaleis Finnish Ottelupalatsi French Palace de Combat German Kampfpalast Indonesian Istana Pertarungan Italian Palazzo Lotta Korean 배틀팰리스 Battle Palace Brazilian Portuguese Palácio de Batalha Spanish Latin America Palacio de Batalla Spain Palacio Batalla Thai แบทเทิลพาเลส Battle Palace Vietnamese Cung điện giao đấu

Hoenn Battle Frontier
Battle Tower Salon Maiden Anabel	Battle Palace Palace Maven Spenser	Battle Factory Factory Head Noland	Battle Pyramid Pyramid King Brandon	Battle Dome Dome Ace Tucker	Battle Arena Arena Tycoon Greta	Battle Pike Pike Queen Lucy

Hoenn
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