Handicaps

Handicaps and Randomizers

Handicap changes apply only during the current battle. The Players keep their normal Pokemon after the battle.

Team clauses treat both Players as one combined team. A choice made by one Player can block a conflicting Pokemon for the other Player.

Player and team restrictions

Handicap	Result
Reduced team size	Removes available team slots from each Player.
Lower Player Pokemon levels	Lowers battle levels or matches the strongest enemy.
Base-stat total limit	Blocks Pokemon above the selected BST.
Moves per Pokemon	Limits how many current moves enter the battle.
Starting health percentage	Starts allied Pokemon with reduced health.
Starting PP percentage	Starts allied moves with reduced PP.
No status moves	Removes status-category moves for this battle.
No bag items	Blocks bag item use.
No held items	Disables held items.
No legendaries / mythicals / Ultra Beasts	Blocks those groups during selection.
Only Pokemon from	Allows exactly one selected generation.
Only Pokemon through	Allows generations up to the selected generation.

Combined-team clauses

Clause	Result
No duplicate Pokemon	The same species may appear only once across both Players.
No duplicate type sets	The same complete type combination may appear only once. Sharing one type is allowed.
No repeated types	Every individual type may appear only once. Dual-type Pokemon reserve both types.

Trainer improvements

• Trainer level increase
• Perfect Trainer IVs
• Maximum Trainer EVs (252/252/6)
• Illegal Trainer EVs (252 in every stat, battle-safe)
• Player IVs set to 0
• Player EVs set to 0
• Trainer Pokemon, move, ability and held item randomizers
• AI Difficulty

Pokemon Randomizer

Mode	Result
Off	Keeps the normal Trainer team and hides the dependent randomizers.
Partial	Keeps each species but allows moves, abilities and items to be randomized.
On	Randomizes the species and allows moves, abilities and items to be randomized.

Move Randomizer

Mode	Result
Off	Keeps the moves.
Only Legal	Uses unique moves the final species can legally obtain.
Any Standard	Uses moves found in normal learnsets and excludes gimmick-only moves.
Unrestricted	May use any registered move, including special-mechanic moves.

Ability Randomizer

• Only Legal: chooses an ability available to that species and form.
• On: chooses any registered ability, even if the result is normally illegal.

Held Item Randomizer

• Random: chooses a random standard battle item.
• Competitive: chooses an item suited to the final species, moves and ability.

AI Difficulty

Mode	Result
Standard	Uses the original Trainer choice with basic protection against obvious allied waste.
Strategic	Keeps the original move but improves targeting, damage estimates, status use and team coordination.
Competitive	May choose another move from the current moveset when it predicts a clearly better action.

Competitive AI never rerolls or replaces the Pokemon's moveset during the battle. It chooses only from the moves already available when the battle started.