Nikola (boss)

Nikola
Location	Unknown Place (Trainers Valley)
Cooldown time	21 days (Only if you have lost to him)
Dates active	2016—present
Basic requirements
Must have successlessly attempted to capture a Legendary Pokémon
Rewards A recompensed chance of battling a squandered Legendary Pokémon

Nikola is the eponymous boss NPC of the staff member of that namesake.

Nikola is paradigmatically anomalous from most bosses in the sense that his function is specialized strictly in the restitution of squandered Legendary Pokémon, providing renewability to a player’s chance at capturing one of the mythical creatures; he does not reward any prizesets beyond that, otherwise. If a player has resultlessly encountered a Legendary Pokémon and are otherwise divested the opportunity of hunting for them again, defeating Nikola will restitute it.

Tallying to his Legendary Pokémon specialty, Nikola is the only boss NPC at this time to marshal multiple Legendary Pokémon in his lineup.

Boss rework 2019

Nikola now allows you to re-summon each legendary you’ve released once. Bear in mind that neither he nor Community Coordinators will restore your legendary if you release it, intending to utilize the recapture as a reroll. He will only restore the legendary this way once, whether or not you manage to capture it. It is highly recommended that you do not utilize this as a reroll — this is intended for players who accidentally release their legendaries.

The boss rework was issued and is still ongoing to improve the boss NPC’s in general. All reworked bosses are coded in Python and not in Xanascript anymore, which gives new opportunities. Reworked bosses can now have held items as well. One of the biggest benefits is, that the Python script sees when if the server crashed in order to not count a lose in case the player fought against the boss while the server crashed. In such a case the player can simply re-fight the boss. Nikola does not have any difficulty levels as he is a special boss with one clear purpose.

Challenging Nikola

Nikola is stationed in Unknown Place; this is an adjunct map on Trainers Valley. Thereon, he can be found recuperating under a bower of the map’s centermost tree.

In order for a battle to be initiable with Nikola, you must have discernibly attempted to capture one of the huntable Legendary Pokémon and unsuccessfully so; this stipulates that you do not have its caught-data entry registered on your Pokédex and that you have battled the Legendary Pokémon in question. If you there is no discernible inopportunity to capture these Legendary Pokémon, no battle will be initiated.

If you have lost to him, he will be rechallengeable after a 21-day-cooldown time.

Lineup

Nikola’s Lineup
Mewtwo Nature Ability Item Timid Pressure Life Orb Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Psystrike Psychic Special 100 100 Aura Sphere Fighting Special 80 — Fire Blast Fire Special 110 85 Ice Beam Ice Special 95 100	Rayquaza Nature Ability Item Adamant Air Lock Lum Berry Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Dragon Dance Dragon Status — — Outrage Dragon Physical 120 100 Extreme Speed Normal Physical 80 100 Earthquake Ground Physical 100 100
Kyogre Nature Ability Item Modest Drizzle Choice Specs Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Water Spout Water Special 150 100 Thunder Electric Special 110 70 Ice Beam Ice Special 95 100 Hydro Pump Water Special 110 80	Arceus Nature Ability Item Adamant Multitype Silk Scarf Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Swords Dance Normal Status — — Extreme Speed Normal Physical 80 100 Shadow Claw Ghost Physical 70 100 Brick Break Fighting Physical 75 100
Deoxys Nature Ability Item Hasty Pressure Life Orb Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Psycho Boost Psychic Special 140 90 Superpower Fighting Physical 120 100 Ice Beam Ice Special 95 100 Knock Off Dark Physical 65 100	Groudon Nature Ability Item Naughty Drought Leftovers Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Earthquake Ground Physical 100 100 Stone Edge Rock Physical 100 80 Fire Blast Fire Special 110 85 Dragon Tail Dragon Physical 60 90
Emboldened moves avail from a STAB bonus when deployed by that Pokémon. Italicized moves are functionally broken; see their individualized pages for more information.

Rewards

At the fulcrum of Nikola’s rewards is the reinstatement of the Legendary Pokémon’s battleability or the quest lead-ups needed for it, thereby accessibilizing to you another chance of hunting for them.

Resettable Legendary Pokémon

Pokédex Number	Pokémon	Type 1	Type 2
#144		Articuno	Ice	Flying
#145		Zapdos	Electric	Flying
#146		Moltres	Fire	Flying
#151		Mew	Psychic
#243		Raikou	Electric
#244		Entei	Fire
#245		Suicune	Water
#251		Celebi	Grass	Psychic
#377		Regirock	Rock
#378		Regice	Ice
#379		Registeel	Steel
#380		Latias	Dragon	Psychic
#381		Latios	Dragon	Psychic
#385		Jirachi	Steel	Psychic
#480		Uxie	Psychic
#481		Mesprit	Psychic
#482		Azelf	Psychic
#485		Heatran	Fire	Steel
#488		Cresselia	Psychic
#490		Manaphy	Water
#492		Shaymin	Grass
#646		Kyurem	Dragon	Ice
#649		Genesect	Bug	Steel