The Basics of the Battledome

As you watch that Grarrl come out of the stadium, you feel as though you want to be as strong as him. But is that possible? Ever wanted your pet to be as strong as any of the others? This guide will show you an easy way to get started.

The Battledome - What is it?

The Battledome is a place for pets to fight other pets, whether they are computers or other players that wants to fight you. You can find computer challengers around the site, through random events, visiting certain places, or through certain items. You have a few default challengers, but soon you might want a variety of challengers to fight.

The Five Basic Cores of Fighting

The five basic cores of fighting are strength, hit points, defense, agility, and level. Each of these will do a specific thing in battle. If you train your pets in these areas (We’ll talk about training later), their effect will be better.

Strength	Level of strength determines the level of damage by your weapons
Hit Points	Numbered measure of pet health. If hit points reach zero, you lose the battle
Defense	Minimizes opponents attack. Defensive weapons are also available
Agility	Assists with various weapons
Level	Determines pet's attack abilities

Training Basics

Training is what raises your pets’ stats. There are quite a few ways to train, and a few will be mentioned in this guide.

Dubloon Training	Krawk Island Pirate Academy: You pay for courses in Dubloons, the currency of Krawk Island, which can be bought or obtained via Coltzan’s Shrine or other games. This is a good place to train your pet’s level, since it only costs about 3,000 neopoints per dubloon. As the level goes up, the training costs more.
Codestone Training	Codestone Training at the Mystery Island Training School: Courses are paid with one codestone, which sell for about 2,000-5,000 NP. This is a good place to train when your pets level is more advanced. It costs more when your level is higher.
Quest Training	To quest train, you have to receive a faerie quest and complete it. You can also do quests such as Kitchen Quests. The quests reward a pet at random though, so this may not be the best method if you have more than one pet.
Lab Ray Training	Lab Ray Training: You can access the Lab Ray once every day after completing the Lab Map (55,000 per piece, nine pieces in all). This is costly, but very nice as it can raise and lower your strength points, defense points, level, and agility points, and raise HP permanently.

Training In-depth

You go to an academy; ready to spend your dubloons or codestones when you get a message that you cannot train your pet in that area. Why not? There are certain rules and limits.

1. You cannot train a stat any higher than two times its level, not counting Hit Points, which is three times your level. For example, if your level is three and your strength is seven, you cannot train in strength until you increase your level by one.
2. You can only train a pet until a certain level at each training school. For Mystery Island it's level 250, for Pirate Academy, it’s 40.
3. You can only train at one academy at a time. Your pet can’t be in two places at once, or train in two places at once for that matter.

Battles

In a battle, you will see a picture of your pet, and to the right of it, a picture of your opponent. Your pets’ hit points are below the picture, followed by a scroll box with the text 'Select Ability for Name' which are the default abilities that your pet has. When your pet reaches higher levels it will receive species specific abilities.

Fierce Attack	Fierce Attack increases the amount of damage your weapons will do by 40%. Does the same for your opponent.
Jump Attack	Jump Attack increases the amount of damage your weapons will do by 30%. Does the same for your opponent.
Normal Attack	Normal Attack increases the amount of damage your weapons will do by 20%. Does the same for your opponent.
Defend	Defend will decrease the amount of damage your weapons will do by 20%. Does the same for your opponent.
Cautious Attack	Cautious Attack doesn’t have any effect. Don’t use this ability.

In a fight, you and your opponent will both be able to choose two weapons and one ability. If your weapons do damage, then icons will appear above the amount of damage you make. The middle of the fight box (where it shows the damage and other things) will have text saying what happened. If your weapons block some damage from your opponent, then icons will be crossed out. If your opponent heals, the damage will be taken from the amount of HP he or she recovers.

When you or your opponents HP reach zero, the fight is over. If you both deplete your HP to zero on the same turn, then it’s a tie. You can also shout messages to your opponent, but it doesn’t do anything in one-player fights. In two-player fights however, your friend will receive the message.

Overall, if you train hard, have patience, and are able to easily understand how to battle, you will soon be on your way to being one of the best battlers out there.

Credit:
This guide has been written exclusively for NeoLodge.com by Forte.
This guide was edited by Georgie.

02/2006