Link (boss)

Link
Location	Twinleaf Town House 2
Cooldown time	12 days
Dates active	2017—present
Basic requirements
Having completed the Sinnoh League.
Rewards Randomized eventualities of rewards; read below.

Link is the boss NPC of the Video Game Character Link.

Boss rework 2019

Link was part of the Boss rework in 2019 and was updated at the 15th June 2019. The boss rework was issued and is still ongoing to improve the boss NPCs 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 has 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.

The boss rework implies a challenge for players on any experience level who do enjoy doing bosses because of the three difficulty level every not story related boss has, which ensures that bosses are challengable for newer players and also be a challenge for those who have a high Pokémon knowledge. Boss teams are decisively reworked and only contain level 100 Pokémon. EVs and held items do vary among other things — also depending on the difficulty level.

• Easy: bosses have no EVs and no hold items; as well as a weakened moveset. Consecutive win rewards are also not available.
• Medium: bosses have 252 EVs in each stat and hold items.
• Hard: bosses have 400 EVs in each stat and hold items. Furthermore, the player is not allowed to use in-battle items such as Revives.

Flash Cannon tutorship

Link will also teach the Flash Cannon technique to any compatible Pokémon for the price of 15,000. This does not require to have beaten Link beforehand.

Challenging Link

Link is located in the top right house of Twinleaf Town

Interacting with him will automatically initiate a battle if you have completed the Sinnoh League. If you have previously battled him, it will be a 12-day cooldown time to rechallenge him. In case you should have a playing time under 100 hours, Link will give you a warning if you are really sure to fight him.

Lineups

Easy

Link’s Lineup
Electrode Nature Ability Item Timid Static None Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Explosion Normal Physical 250 100 Protect Normal Status — — Signal Beam Bug Special 75 100 Taunt Dark Status — 100	Rapidash Nature Ability Item Jolly Run Away None Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Megahorn Bug Physical 120 85 Flamethrower Fire Special 90 100 Poison Jab Poison Physical 80 100 Bounce Flying Physical 85 85
Aegislash Nature Ability Item Adamant Stance Change None Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Shadow Sneak Ghost Physical 40 100 Brick Break Fighting Physical 75 100 Iron Head Steel Physical 80 100 Swords Dance Normal Status — —	Bronzong Nature Ability Item Impish Levitate None Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Payback Dark Physical 50 100 Earthquake Ground Physical 100 100 Flash Cannon Steel Special 80 100 Psychic Psychic Special 90 100
Hitmontop Nature Ability Item Adamant Intimidate None Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Close Combat Fighting Physical 120 100 Rock Slide Rock Physical 75 90 Aerial Ace Flying Physical 60 — Bulk Up Fighting Status — —	Absol Nature Ability Item Adamant Super Luck None Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Shadow Ball Ghost Special 80 100 Ice Beam Ice Special 95 100 Psycho Cut Psychic Physical 70 100 Night Slash Dark Physical 70 100
Emboldened moves avail from a STAB bonus when deployed by that Pokémon. Italicized moves are functionally broken; see their individualized pages for more information.

Medium

Link’s Lineup
Electrode Nature Ability Item Timid Static Life Orb Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Explosion Normal Physical 250 100 Protect Normal Status — — Signal Beam Bug Special 75 100 Taunt Dark Status — 100	Rapidash Nature Ability Item Jolly Run Away Choice Band Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Megahorn Bug Physical 120 85 Flamethrower Fire Special 90 100 Poison Jab Poison Physical 80 100 Bounce Flying Physical 85 85
Aegislash Nature Ability Item Adamant Stance Change Assault Vest Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Shadow Sneak Ghost Physical 40 100 Brick Break Fighting Physical 75 100 Iron Head Steel Physical 80 100 Swords Dance Normal Status — —	Bronzong Nature Ability Item Impish Levitate Leftovers Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Payback Dark Physical 50 100 Earthquake Ground Physical 100 100 Flash Cannon Steel Special 80 100 Psychic Psychic Special 90 100
Hitmontop Nature Ability Item Adamant Intimidate Choice Scarf Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Close Combat Fighting Physical 120 100 Rock Slide Rock Physical 75 90 Aerial Ace Flying Physical 60 — Bulk Up Fighting Status — —	Absol Nature Ability Item Adamant Super Luck Life Orb Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Shadow Ball Ghost Special 80 100 Ice Beam Ice Special 95 100 Psycho Cut Psychic Physical 70 100 Night Slash Dark Physical 70 100
Emboldened moves avail from a STAB bonus when deployed by that Pokémon. Italicized moves are functionally broken; see their individualized pages for more information.

Hard

Link’s Lineup
Hippowdon Nature Ability Item Impish Sand Stream Leftovers Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Iron Head Steel Physical 80 100 Ice Fang Ice Physical 65 95 Earthquake Ground Physical 100 100 Stone Edge Rock Physical 100 80 Fire Fang Fire Physical 65 95 Slack Off Normal Status — —	Aegislash Nature Ability Item Adamant Stance Change Choice Band Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Pursuit Dark Physical 40 100 Swords Dance Normal Status — — Iron Head Steel Physical 80 100 Sacred Sword Fighting Physical 90 100 King’s Shield Steel Status — — Flash Cannon Steel Special 80 100
Heatran Nature Ability Item Timid Flash Fire Choice Scarf Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Dragon Pulse Dragon Special 85 100 Earth Power Ground Special 90 100 Lava Plume Fire Special 80 100 Flash Cannon Steel Special 80 100 Stone Edge Rock Physical 100 80 Hidden Power Normal Special 60 100	Donphan Nature Ability Item Adamant Sturdy Choice Band Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Fire Fang Fire Physical 65 95 Thunder Fang Electric Physical 65 95 Heavy Slam Steel Physical — 100 Earthquake Ground Physical 100 100 Seed Bomb Grass Physical 80 100 Gunk Shot Poison Physical 120 80 Knock Off Dark Physical 65 100
Skarmory Nature Ability Item Careful Sturdy Leftovers Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Roost Flying Status — — Brave Bird Flying Physical 120 100 Iron Head Steel Physical 80 100 Whirlwind Normal Status — —	Shiny Emboar Nature Ability Item Adamant Reckless Choice Scarf Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Earthquake Ground Physical 100 100 Stone Edge Rock Physical 100 80 Sucker Punch Dark Physical 80 100 Zen Headbutt Psychic Physical 80 90 Flare Blitz Fire Physical 120 100 Wild Charge Electric Physical 90 100 Head Smash Rock Physical 150 80 Superpower Fighting Physical 120 100
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

The standard subsets of rewards will be randomized and rewarded each time; however, upon defeating him three-consecutive times, you will get a extra reward on the difficulty level Medium and Hard while Hard gives slightly better rewards.

There is no shiny counterpart of Pokémon rewarded from the randomized prizeset; only the selectable prizes have one, which is 1/4,096 in fractional notation (0.0244%, in percental notation).

All rewarded Pokémon will be initialized at level 20.

Bosses which are coded in Python such as Link have rewards depending on the difficulty level you beat them. As harder the difficulty as more valuable is the reward normally. The exact reward is random generated based on a list of possible rewards and contains at least a money reward. There are three difficulty level: Easy, Medium and Hard.
For extra rewards, the Medium and Hard level have a three-time win streak.

Tier 1: A random amount of common items which depends on the boss, like Focus Sashes, Weakness Policies, Air Balloons,Lum Berries or Sitrus Berries.

Tier 2: A random amount of more valuable items, mixed with some high valuable rewards depending on the boss, like PP Up’s, Rare Candies, Small Train Ticket or Corphish.

Tier 3: Rare Pokémon depending on the boss, like Gible, Dratini, Bunnelby or Scyther.

Easy: 85% chance for tier 1, 10% for tier 2 and 5% for tier 3 rewards, 5-10k money reward.

Medium: 80% chance for tier 1, 10% for tier 2 and 10% for tier 3 rewards, 12-30k money reward, +2 PvE Coins.

Hard: 60% chance for tier 1, 25% for tier 2 and 15% for tier 3 rewards, 20-40k money reward, +4 PvE Coins.

The possible rewarded Pokémon on the hard mode are considered as slightly more valuable than those you may get on the Medium mode.

Pokémon

Pokédex Number	Pokémon	Type 1	Type 2	Reward Tier
#100		Voltorb	Electric		1
#077		Ponyta	Fire		1
#436		Bronzor	Steel	Psychic	1
#237		Hitmontop	Fighting		2
#231		Phanpy	Ground		2
#227		Skarmory	Steel	Flying	2
#359		Absol	Dark		3
#498		Tepig	Fire		3
#679		Honedge	Steel	Ghost	3

Items

Item	Quantity	Reward Tier
	TM13 — Ice Beam	3-5	N/A
	TM75 — Swords Dance	3-5	N/A
	TM67 — Protect	3-5	N/A
	Dusk Stone	3-5	N/A
	Metal Coat	3-5	N/A
	Rare Candy	3-5	N/A
	Focus Sash	3-5	N/A
	Revival Herb	3-5	N/A
	Energy Root	3-10	N/A
	Tingle Clothes	1	N/A
	Tingle Headgear	1	N/A

Three-consecutive wins

After being rewarded some of the abovementioned items, you will also be prompted to select one of these Pokémon as an additional reward.

Pokédex Number	Pokémon	Type 1	Type 2	Reward Tier
#231		Phanpy	Ground		Medium/Hard
#227		Skarmory	Steel	Flying	Medium/Hard
#679		Honedge	Steel	Ghost	Medium/Hard
#498		Tepig	Fire		Medium/Hard
#359		Absol	Dark		Medium/Hard