{"id":17442,"date":"2023-01-06T16:55:58","date_gmt":"2023-01-06T07:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=17442"},"modified":"2023-01-06T16:55:59","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T07:55:59","slug":"20220106-17442","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20220106-17442\/","title":{"rendered":"Pok\u00e9mon Scarlet and Violet to allow Paradox Pok\u00e9mon in Ranked Battle Series 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><br><br>It has been revealed that Paradox Pok\u00e9mon will be usable in <strong><em>Pok\u00e9mon Scarlet<\/em> and <em>Violet<\/em>\u2019s Ranked Battle Series 2<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Pok\u00e9mon Scarlet<\/em> and <em>Violet<\/em> saw the opening of Ranked Battle Series 1 in December, with Series 1 Season 2 currently ongoing. However, when Series 2 becomes available on February 1, the number of Pok\u00e9mon allowed in Ranked Battle will be increasing. More specifically, Paldea Pok\u00e9dex No.001 &#8211; 392 and No.397 &#8211; 398 will be usable. This also includes the Paradox Pok\u00e9mon found in Area Zero, the final area of the games.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"964\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" src=\"http:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/20230106-232964-001a.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17444\" srcset=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/20230106-232964-001a.jpg 750w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/20230106-232964-001a-600x771.jpg 600w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/20230106-232964-001a-296x380.jpg 296w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/20230106-232964-001a-150x193.jpg 150w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/20230106-232964-001a-300x386.jpg 300w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/20230106-232964-001a-696x895.jpg 696w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/20230106-232964-001a-327x420.jpg 327w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Paradox Pok\u00e9mon boast high base stats and many players use them in Casual Battle. With these powerful Pok\u00e9mon soon becoming usable in Ranked Battle, we\u2019ll likely see big changes in the competitive environment. It\u2019s also worth noting that Legendary Pok\u00e9mon will still not be usable in Series 2, but the ban on them will probably be lifted later down the road.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The online Pok\u00e9mon storage service <em>Pok\u00e9mon HOME<\/em> is scheduled to include support for <em>Pok\u00e9mon Scarlet<\/em> and <em>Violet<\/em> in the spring of 2023, so we\u2019re looking forward to hearing more about that as well.<br><br><br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:12px\"><em>Written by. Nick Mosier based on the <a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/articles\/newsjp\/20230106-232964\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">original Japanese article<\/a> (original article&#8217;s publication date: 2023-01-06 15:00 JST)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paradox Pok\u00e9mon will be usable in Pok\u00e9mon Scarlet and Violet\u2019s Ranked Battle Series 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":17445,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[70],"class_list":["post-17442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-pokemon-series"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Pok\u00e9mon Scarlet and Violet to allow Paradox Pok\u00e9mon in Ranked Battle Series 2 - 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