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- This article is about the the tournament from Pokémon Stadium 2. For the tournament from Pokémon Trading Card Game and Pokémon Card GB2, see Challenge Hall.
Challenge Cup (Japanese: チャレンジカップ Challenge Cup) is one of the four Stadium Cups in Pokémon Stadium 2. Unlike the other five Stadium Cups, however, players cannot use their own Pokémon, instead being handed a random rental team each time they begin a challenge.
The Cup has four different classes, each featuring different leveled Pokémon. What remains the same, however, is that the Pokémon that are used all have strange nicknames. Any Pokémon controlled by the player will have a nickname that has first all-capitalized letters, then all-lowercase, while the opposite is true for opponents, in which their Pokémon are named lowercase, then uppercase. A Bulbasaur used by the player would, then, be named BULBAsaur, while one controlled by the opponent would be named bulbaSAUR.
The Battle Factories featured in Generation III's and Generation IV's Battle Frontiers may be seen as a spiritual successor to the Challenge Cup.
Banned Pokémon
There are 19 pokémon that the player never gets regarless of the level that he chooses, these are: Caterpie, Metapod, Weedle, Kakuna, Magikarp, Articuno, Zapdos, Moltres, Dragonite, Mewtwo, Mew, Unown, Raikou, Entei, Suicune, Tyranitar, Lugia, Ho-Oh and Celebi.
Poké Ball Class
List of Pokémon that are qualified
Trainers
Round 1
Round 2
List of Pokémon that are qualified
Trainers
List of Pokémon that are qualified
Trainers
Round 1
Round 2
List of Pokémon that are qualified
Trainers
Trivia
- Sometimes the players get pokémon with illegal combinations, e.g. a level 45 Kabuto with Ancient Power and Surf (Kabuto can only have Ancient Power at level 45 via breeding and it only learns Surf in the Generation I games).
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