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Pokéxel (Japanese: ポクセル Poxel) are cube-shaped Pokémon that live on Tumblecube Island in Pokémon Quest.

Terminology

The term "Pokéxel" is used to describe Pokémon as they appear in Pokémon Quest in promotional contexts, such as in press releases, announcements, and conferences. ^{[1] [2]} However, the term does not appear in the game itself. Instead, the game simply refers to them as "Pokémon", or "Pokémon on Tumblecube Island" in the one case of text where a distinction is made. Combined with the entire game rendering everything in a voxel art style and a lack of description by the characters, it is difficult to determine if the Pokémon that appear in the game are meant to have an in-universe visual difference from how Pokémon normally look.

In Pokémon Quest

In Pokémon Quest, each Pokémon on Tumblecube Island knows one or two moves as well as a standard attack. The kind of standard attack is determined by the species of Pokémon. A species that is a long range Pokémon has a projectile launching standard attack, and tries to keep distance between itself and opponents. A species that is a close range Pokémon has a melee range standard attack and prefers approaching opponents in order to use it.

Pokémon have HP and Attack stats. They can increase those stats by leveling up (to a maximum of level 100), but those increases are minuscule compared to the power granted Power Stones. Each Pokémon has a Power Charm, which have sockets for Power Stones. Each Power Stone equipped either increases those stats if it is a Support Stone, or modifies the nature of the Pokémon's moves if it is a Move Stone. Support Stones can additionally grant various beneficial effects, and having a Power Charm with a full row or column of Power Stones activates a Bingo Bonus of the Pokémon which can grant even more effects. There are nine sockets for Support Stones total, though all but the first require being at a certain level to unlock and use. There are zero to three sockets for Move Stones, each being associated with a move. Having more moves reduces the number of available space for sockets. Pokémon glow in the presence of a Power Stone.

Upon reaching a certain level, a Pokémon can also evolve, allowing them to learn stronger attacks, as well as changing their Bingo Bonuses.

Notably, Pokémon are never "captured". They are instead "befriended", although each one that is befriended still has an associated Poké Ball they retreat to upon being knocked out, which they appear from after Recovering. The recovery process takes some time. Pokémon under the player's ownership navigate and attack on their own, taking commands to use one of their moves or Scatter.

Some Pokémon are larger than others, all boss Pokémon having this increased size as well. Additionally, there is a Bingo Bonus effect that allows the player to have larger Pokémon as well.

Wild Pokémon use different moves depending on their remaining HP, emulating what would be referred to as a "phase change" in other video games.

In other languages

References

This article is part of Project Sidegames, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on the Pokémon Sidegames.