Rules Explained

During the teacher's detailed explanation that followed, Yan Yang gained a clearer understanding of the league rules.

The three battle formats—Singles, Doubles, and Team Battles—were independent of one another and would proceed in parallel.

This meant that even if a contestant suffered a losing streak in one format, it would not affect the school's eligibility for the other two.

Each school could send a team of up to ten contestants.

Of these, Singles and Doubles each required three contestants, while Team Battles used a 4v4 format and required four contestants.

At first glance, the rules seemed to restrict a contestant from participating in multiple events.

However, after carefully reviewing them, Yan Yang realized that the regulations did not explicitly prohibit the same person from entering multiple events.

As long as the team coordinated internally, a contestant could absolutely take on several roles.

In that case, theoretically, only six contestants would be needed to meet the registration requirements for every event.

In fact, it was foreseeable that most schools, in order to maximize their chances of winning, would very likely have their strongest Trainers participate in all three events, ensuring that their most competitive contestants appeared on every battlefield.

The matches would follow the basic rules of traditional Pokémon battles, but there was one special restriction: no items could be brought into battle, except for recognized exclusive items used to activate special battle systems.

This rule gave Trainers capable of using special systems such as Mega Evolution, Z-Moves, Gigantamax, or Terastalization a significant advantage.

However, such power systems were quite rare in the Johto Region to begin with.

Z-Moves and Gigantamax had strict regional restrictions and could not be used in Johto at all. Terastalization had only recently emerged in the Paldea Region and had yet to become widespread even there,