Uploaded March 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
There is still one more type of Hyperspace distortion I hadn’t yet covered: the Battle Zone. Like the Hyperspace Wild Zones, these are also themed on 1 to 3 types, and they can go from 1-star to 5-star with the level of the Pokémon you face being the main difference. Since you won’t be catching any Pokémon to take into regular space, Hyperspace Battle Zones provide more survey points, more sparkling bits on the floor, and more floating Poké Balls, so if what you’re really after are the Berries, Gimmighoul Coins, and various other rewards, you should go for the Battle Zones. (I know some people are confused by it—this is their purpose.)
In a Hyperspace Battle Zone, you look for opposing trainers to fight, just like in Lumiose City’s nighttime Battle Zones. The various NPCs here have wound up in Hyperspace and are confused how they got there, but they understand the Battle Zone rules and will fight you as if it’s a regular Battle Zone. New to this kind are Alpha Trainers, who turn up as red holograms and carry a team of 3 Alpha Pokémon, the last of whom will Mega Evolve. Defeating them rewards you with Seeds of Mastery and Bottle Caps. Before online battling flooded players with Bottle Caps, this was your most reliable source for large amounts of Bottle Caps. Here, as it’s a 4-star distortion, they give out 7 of them for defeating them.
The same trainer types who heal you after defeating them—Pokémon Center Ladies and Nouveau Café staff—do the same in Hyperspace. The package delivery people, who normally give items when defeated, give out Hyper Berries and Apricorn Balls here.
You do not gain EXP when defeating Pokémon in a Hyperspace Battle Zone. Instead, the purpose of doing so is to log them towards the Hyperspace Survey, as seen on the top right. As usual, completing all three tasks rewards you with a golden floating Poké Ball somewhere, which has a lot of rewards once found and broken open. This Battle Zone is a large one, set in a replica of the sewers, so I would usually have a hard time finding it once the golden Poké Ball appears, but I got lucky this time and found it promptly.
The last Mega Evolution to be given out through online battles is Mega Blaziken. Appropriate considering Mega Blaziken was the first Mega Evolution to be made available online back in Generation VI. I used Blaziken as much as possible in this run, making sure to keep it in its Mega form for most of it. Ordinarily, Mega Blaziken would have Speed Boost, but it doesn’t have it here. Not that it would matter much, as this moveset of Blaze Kick, Drain Punch, Brave Bird, and Earthquake is enough to handle almost anything this Hyperspace Battle Zone had to offer.
There is still one more type of Hyperspace distortion I hadn’t yet covered: the Battle Zone. Like the Hyperspace Wild Zones, these are also themed on 1 to 3 types, and they can go from 1-star to 5-star with the level of the Pokémon you face being the main difference. Since you won’t be catching any Pokémon to take into regular space, Hyperspace Battle Zones provide more survey points, more sparkling bits on the floor, and more floating Poké Balls, so if what you’re really after are the Berries, Gimmighoul Coins, and various other rewards, you should go for the Battle Zones. (I know some people are confused by it—this is their purpose.)
In a Hyperspace Battle Zone, you look for opposing trainers to fight, just like in Lumiose City’s nighttime Battle Zones. The various NPCs here have wound up in Hyperspace and are confused how they got there, but they understand the Battle Zone rules and will fight you as if it’s a regular Battle Zone. New to this kind are Alpha Trainers, who turn up as red holograms and carry a team of 3 Alpha Pokémon, the last of whom will Mega Evolve. Defeating them rewards you with Seeds of Mastery and Bottle Caps. Before online battling flooded players with Bottle Caps, this was your most reliable source for large amounts of Bottle Caps. Here, as it’s a 4-star distortion, they give out 7 of them for defeating them.
The same trainer types who heal you after defeating them—Pokémon Center Ladies and Nouveau Café staff—do the same in Hyperspace. The package delivery people, who normally give items when defeated, give out Hyper Berries and Apricorn Balls here.
You do not gain EXP when defeating Pokémon in a Hyperspace Battle Zone. Instead, the purpose of doing so is to log them towards the Hyperspace Survey, as seen on the top right. As usual, completing all three tasks rewards you with a golden floating Poké Ball somewhere, which has a lot of rewards once found and broken open. This Battle Zone is a large one, set in a replica of the sewers, so I would usually have a hard time finding it once the golden Poké Ball appears, but I got lucky this time and found it promptly.
The last Mega Evolution to be given out through online battles is Mega Blaziken. Appropriate considering Mega Blaziken was the first Mega Evolution to be made available online back in Generation VI. I used Blaziken as much as possible in this run, making sure to keep it in its Mega form for most of it. Ordinarily, Mega Blaziken would have Speed Boost, but it doesn’t have it here. Not that it would matter much, as this moveset of Blaze Kick, Drain Punch, Brave Bird, and Earthquake is enough to handle almost anything this Hyperspace Battle Zone had to offer.
