Pokemon Rules
1. The Pokemon you are allowed to own and catch depends on your rank in Team Aqua. During missions or regular RPs, you're usually provided with an opportunity to catch Pokemon. Only Pokemon allowed at your designated rank can be captured. Training RPs (TRPs, for short) have a different set of guidelines for capturing Pokemon and those rules can be viewed here. If you don't know your rank, refer to the Rank and Pokemon List and find your character's name.
.....Tier 4 and up: All Pokemon are allowed, except Legendaries.
.....Tier 5: Pokemon up to 1st-stage are allowed.
.....Tier 6: Only basic- and baby-stage Pokemomn are allowed.
.....Violation: If you catch a Pokemon not allowed at your rank, it will be taken away from you. Depending on the situation, you may be banned or demoted.
2. All Pokemon require 5 days of being owned and evolution points outlined in the post below before becoming eligible for evolution by any means. Evolution points, or evo points, are accumulated every time a Pokemon battles/is used in a mission, RP, or TRP. They may also earn evo points through participating in reffed battles in the [Stadium] and by eating a Rare Candy. In addition to this rule, only one evo point may be earned per mission/RP/TRP/battle. No exceptions. Always ask permission from a Crew member before evolving a Pokémon. For details involving how to evolve Pokemon, refer to the next post in this topic.
.....Violation: Warnings will be issued to those who evolve their Pokemon without having enough evo points or without owning the Pokemon for the correct amount of days. More serious action will result if the issue should continue.
3. Whenever you obtain a new Pokemon, PM a Tier 1 member so they can add it to the record. Otherwise, your new Pokemon will not be recorded and thus will not be eligible for evo points, evolution, or being used in general.
..... Violation: Failing to this will result in the Pokemon not being obtained until the correct person is informed.
4. Eggs are only obtainable as special gifts from Crew-hosted RPs. They have their own special rules for hatching and generally a list is provided from the Tier 1 who hands out the egg stating what can be hatched from it.
- Bug, Flying, Normal, and Poison types take 4 days to hatch
Electric, Fire, Ghost, Grass, Ground, and Rock types take 5 days to hatch
Dark, Fighting, Ice, Psychic, Water, and Steel types take 6 days to hatch.
Dragon types take 7 days to hatch.
Eggs of Pokemon that are or evolve into Mini-Legends take 8 days to hatch.
Dual typed Pokemon take the first type's number of days plus 1 day. Example, a Skarmory (Steel/Flying) egg takes 7 days to hatch.
After your egg hatches, please message a Tier 1 to update the list with your new Pokemon.
5. In the case of a Horde Battle, if you use one Pokemon for the entire battle, said Pokemon will accumulate 2 evo points. However, using multiple Pokemon for the battle will only earn each participating Pokemon 1 evo point.
As of right now, Horde Battles can only occur in certain places in the Kalos Region.
