TheBattle Agency (Japanese:バトルエージェントBattle Agent) is abattle facility located onFestival Plaza. It was introduced inPokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon and is made available upon clearingSophocles'strial.

Challenge

The Battle Agency is a facility where a challenger uses arental Pokémon and battles along with visitors in the Festival Plaza. During a challenge, the player is an agent and has a grade that determines the level and strength of their Pokémon. An agent's grade increases with the number of successful challenges.

Battles will be three-on-three in Single Battle format. Before beginning, the player can borrow one Pokémon from a selection of three possibilities shown on the screen behind the reception desk. The other two Pokémon come from other Trainers in the Festival Plaza and are based on the Pokémon they are currently borrowing. The player must invite two Trainers to form a team of three. In the instance when there are no more available Trainers in the player's Festival Plaza to choose from, or if the player decides not to select two of them, nameless Festival Fans will be generated to be fill up the remaining one or two spaces on the player's team. They will each have a randomly chosen Pokémon, at grade 0.

Trainers can only selected as teammates if both players have seen each other connected to Festival Plaza together at some point in the previous 72 hours, and if the other Trainer has chosen a Pokemon to borrow more recently than the latest instance of their grade increasing. If a player's most recent active sighting in Festival Plaza was longer ago than that, that player will still be shown in the menu, and their selected rental Pokémon (if any) will also be visible, but their name will be faded to gray and unselectable for Battle Agency. Nintendo Network services for 3DS shut down on April 9, 2024, so as of April 12 of that year, the only way to select partners that aren't nameless Festival Fans is by meeting up with other players locally and entering Festival Plaza together in close enough physical proximity to trigger local wireless communication.

Each challenge consists of three battles against programs simulatingBattle Tree Trainers. The Trainers that can appear are the same ones who would be eligible to appear with a consecutive Battle Tree win streak equal to the agent's current grade, except that Battle Legends and other famous Trainers will never appear in the Battle Agency, apart from its own unique bosses. Agents are awarded Festival Coins (abbreviated as FC) based on the number of wins, with a minimum participation prize of 5 FC. The agent is allowed to borrow new Pokémon or switch teammates in the middle of a challenge. If the agent loses and restarts the challenge within the same day, they will battle against the exact same Trainers and teams as before. However, the Trainers in the Battle Agency are reset once midnight has passed. Additionally, if the agent loses againstSophocles prior to the interlude that introducesEpisode RR, but proceeds to view that interlude and restarts the challenge within the same day, the battle against Sophocles is replaced by a battle against a replica ofGiovanni, and a different team, once the agent reaches that point.

The three Pokémon that may be borrowed from the screen are shuffled after each successful challenge, at the start of the next day, or if agent uses a Switcheroo facility in Festival Plaza. If the agent has already borrowed a Pokémon, they can continue to use it even after the Pokémon have been shuffled for one of these reasons, but if a successful challenge causes their grade to increase, they lose access to the previously selected rental Pokémon and are required to borrow a new one from the reshuffled screen, and choose their two teammates again. If the screen is shuffled by using the Switcheroo facility, certain Pokémon sets are guaranteed not to appear in the selection: if the player's grade is less than 50 and there is a weather or terrain condition in effect for the day, a curated list of Pokémon that do not synergize well with that condition are removed from the random drawing. If the field is clear, or if the player's grade has already reached 50 regardless of condition, then the excluded sets are mostly defensive-minded sets, such as those that rely onToxic to deal damage.

If the player has not yet obtained the Key Stone supplement to theirZ-Power Ring by beatingDexio inPoni Plains, then any Pokémon on the screen that would normally hold its Mega Stone will be shown without an item instead, and if the agent chooses to borrow that Pokémon, it will not be able toMega Evolve in battle. The agent's teammates, including nameless Festival Fans, can have Pokémon equipped with their Mega Stones even if the player doesn't have the Key Stone, and those Pokémon will still be able to Mega Evolve.

See also:

List of Battle Agency Pokémon

List of Battle Agency Trainers

Starting at grade 10, a battle setting may appear to further test an agent's ability. At the beginning of a battle, a certain weather effect or field effect may be added; if so, it will last for 8 turns instead of the usual 5, as though it were backed by the appropriate weather rock (such asHeat Rock) orTerrain Extender. As the agent's grade increases, the set of possible battle settings expands. The battle setting will change at the beginning of each day or when new battle settings are unlocked.

Grades

An agent's grade directly determines the level of their borrowed Pokémon and the level of their opponents' Pokémon.

Bosses

At every 10 grades, starting from grade 9, a boss battle program will be loaded during the third battle of the last challenge before their grade is scheduled to increase. Once the player has advanced to grade 50, they will get to play four successful challenges without a boss, then the boss will be the third battle of the fifth challenge, and this cycle will repeat if the player chooses to continue playing (though their grade can no longer increase any further at this point). When a boss is defeated, the agent will receive aGold Bottle Cap at the reception desk.

Before startingEpisode RR

Pokémon Trainer

Sophocles

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Battle Agency

Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon

Reward:
180-380 FC

#	Pokémon		Item	Moves				Nature	EVs
									HP	Attack	Defense	Sp. Atk	Sp. Def	Speed
0738		Vikavolt	Electrium Z	Thunderbolt	Mud Shot	Flash Cannon	Volt Switch	Modest	252	-	-	252	-	-
0777		Togedemaru	Red Card	Zing Zap	Nuzzle	Fell Stinger	Poison Jab	Adamant	252	252	-	-	-	-
0466		Electivire	Expert Belt	Wild Charge	Earthquake	Fire Punch	Ice Punch	Adamant	252	252	-	-	-	-
0738		Vikavolt	Groundium Z	Mud Shot	Thunder	Bug Buzz	Guillotine	Modest	252	-	-	252	-	-
0777		Togedemaru	Electrium Z	Endeavor	Zing Zap	U-turn	Spiky Shield	Jolly	-	252	-	-	-	252
0076		Golem	Air Balloon	Wild Charge	Double-Edge	Rock Blast	Earthquake	Brave	252	252	-	-	-	-
0462		Magnezone	Bright Powder	Thunder	Flash Cannon	Magnet Rise	Thunder Wave	Timid	-	-	-	252	-	252
0076		Golem	Weakness Policy	Rock Slide	Earthquake	Explosion	Rock Polish	Jolly	-	252	-	-	-	252
0462		Magnezone	Assault Vest	Thunderbolt	Flash Cannon	Tri Attack	Volt Switch	Modest	252	-	-	252	-	-
0466		Electivire	Life Orb	Wild Charge	Feint	Ice Punch	Cross Chop	Adamant	252	252	-	-	-	-

After starting Episode RR

Pokémon Trainer

Giovanni

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Battle Agency

Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon

Reward:
180-380 FC

#	Pokémon		Item	Moves				Nature	EVs
									HP	Attack	Defense	Sp. Atk	Sp. Def	Speed
0105		Marowak	Red Card	Bone Rush	Double Kick	Endeavor	Smack Down	Sassy	252	-	-	-	252	-
0103		Exeggutor	Petaya Berry	Psyshock	Grass Knot	Light Screen	Synthesis	Mild	-	-	-	170	170	170
0051		Dugtrio	Bright Powder	Fissure	Toxic	Substitute	Sandstorm	Timid	252	-	-	-	-	252
0105		Marowak	Thick Club	Earthquake	Stone Edge	Brick Break	Brutal Swing	Jolly	-	252	-	-	-	252
0115		Kangaskhan	Kangaskhanite	Fake Out	Facade	Rock Slide	Sucker Punch	Jolly	-	252	-	-	-	252
0103		Exeggutor	Grassium Z	Leaf Storm	Psychic	Sludge Bomb	Grassy Terrain	Modest	252	-	-	252	-	-
0130		Gyarados	Wacan Berry	Dragon Dance	Waterfall	Ice Fang	Earthquake	Jolly	-	252	-	-	-	252
0059		Arcanine	White Herb	Overheat	Sunny Day	Solar Beam	Extreme Speed	Timid	-	-	-	252	-	252
0115		Kangaskhan	Kangaskhanite	Fake Out	Double-Edge	Earthquake	Sucker Punch	Jolly	-	252	-	-	-	252
0130		Gyarados	Gyaradosite	Dragon Dance	Waterfall	Stone Edge	Crunch	Jolly	-	252	-	-	-	252
0059		Arcanine	Fightinium Z	Close Combat	Flare Blitz	Crunch	Extreme Speed	Jolly	-	252	-	-	-	252

Items

Item		Location	Games
	Rare Candy	From the receptionist each time after going up a grade, until grade 9	US  UM
	Gold Bottle Cap	From the receptionist each time after defeating a boss	US  UM
	Rare Candy ×2	From the receptionist each time after going up a grade, until grade 49	US  UM
	Agent Sunglasses	From the receptionist after going up to grade 30	US  UM
	Rare Candy ×5	From the receptionist after going up to grade 50	US  UM
	Rare Candy	From the receptionist each time after successfully completing a challenge at grade 50	US  UM

Episode RR

DuringTeam Rainbow Rocket's takeover ofFestival Plaza during the prologue toEpisode RR, the player is forced to battle aTeam Rainbow Rocket Grunt at the Battle Agency. In this battle, the player and their teammates will be treated as having a grade of 0 regardless of what they would normally be, hence all Pokémon in this battle will be level 50. The Grunt always uses the same three Pokémon, which otherwise don't appear anywhere in the Battle Tree or Battle Agency, but they may be sent out in a random order.

Team Rainbow Rocket

Grunt

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Battle Agency

Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon

#	Pokémon		Item	Moves				Nature	EVs
									HP	Attack	Defense	Sp. Atk	Sp. Def	Speed
0020		Raticate	Oran Berry	Super Fang	Quick Attack	Bite	Focus Energy	Modest	-	-	252	252	-	-
0024		Arbok	Lum Berry	Poison Sting	Bite	Glare	Wrap	Mild	-	-	252	252	-	-
0042		Golbat	Rocky Helmet	Screech	Bite	Wing Attack	Toxic	Quiet	-	-	-	252	252	-

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