Steven (boss)

Steven
Location	Valley Of Steel Underground
Cooldown time	12 days
Dates active	16.09.2019
Basic requirements
Must have completed the Hoenn League 2 Steel type pokemon in team 1 Pokemon with the move Iron Defense Must have completed Steven’s Quest in Valley Of Steel Eastern Peak
Rewards Randomized eventualities of rewards; read below.

Steven is the boss-NPC incarnation of Steven —the Elite Four Champion (Hoenn).

Boss rework 2019

Steven was part of the Boss rework in 2019 and was updated at the 16th September 2019. 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.

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 challengeable 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 hold 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.

Challenging Lance

Steven is located in the far North Cave of Valley Of Steel. He will challenge the player given that he or she has completed the Hoenn Elite Four. After the battle, he will have a cooldown time of 12 days.

Lineup

Easy

Steven’s Lineup
Metagross Nature Ability Item Adamant Clear Body None Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Thunder Punch Electric Physical 75 100 Meteor Mash Steel Physical 90 90 Ice Punch Ice Physical 75 100 Zen Headbutt Psychic Physical 80 90	Excadrill Nature Ability Item Adamant Mold Breaker None Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Earthquake Ground Physical 100 100 Iron Head Steel Physical 80 100 Rock Slide Rock Physical 75 90 Swords Dance Normal Status — —
Empoleon Nature Ability Item Calm Torrent None Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Scald Water Special 80 100 Ice Beam Ice Special 95 100 Roar Normal Status — — Grass Knot Grass Special — 100	Lucario Nature Ability Item Adamant Justified None Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Meteor Mash Steel Physical 90 90 Close Combat Fighting Physical 120 100 Extreme Speed Normal Physical 80 100 Swords Dance Normal Status — —
Ferrothorn Nature Ability Item Sassy Iron Barbs None Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Leech Seed Grass Status — 100 Power Whip Grass Physical 120 85 Knock Off Dark Physical 65 100 Gyro Ball Steel Physical — 100	Heatran Nature Ability Item Modest Flash Fire None Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Magma Storm Fire Special 100 75 Earth Power Ground Special 90 100 Solar Beam Grass Special 120 100 Ancient Power Rock Special 60 100
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

Steven’s Lineup
Metagross Nature Ability Item Adamant Clear Body Leftovers Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Thunder Punch Electric Physical 75 100 Meteor Mash Steel Physical 90 90 Ice Punch Ice Physical 75 100 Zen Headbutt Psychic Physical 80 90	Excadrill Nature Ability Item Adamant Mold Breaker Focus Sash Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Earthquake Ground Physical 100 100 Iron Head Steel Physical 80 100 Rock Slide Rock Physical 75 90 Swords Dance Normal Status — —
Magnezone Nature Ability Item Modest Magnet Pull Choice Specs Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Hidden Power Fire Fire Special 60 100 Thunderbolt Electric Special 90 100 Flash Cannon Steel Special 80 100 Sunny Day Fire Status — —	Lucario Nature Ability Item Adamant Justified Choice Band Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Meteor Mash Steel Physical 90 90 Close Combat Fighting Physical 120 100 Extreme Speed Normal Physical 80 100 Swords Dance Normal Status — —
Ferrothorn Nature Ability Item Sassy Iron Barbs Leftovers Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Leech Seed Grass Status — 100 Power Whip Grass Physical 120 85 Knock Off Dark Physical 65 100 Gyro Ball Steel Physical — 100	Heatran Nature Ability Item Modest Flash Fire Choice Scarf Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Magma Storm Fire Special 100 75 Earth Power Ground Special 90 100 Solar Beam Grass Special 120 100 Ancient Power Rock Special 60 100
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

Steven’s Lineup
Mega Metagross Nature Ability Item Adamant Tough Claws Metagrossite Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Thunder Punch Electric Physical 75 100 Meteor Mash Steel Physical 90 90 Ice Punch Ice Physical 75 100 Zen Headbutt Psychic Physical 80 90	Excadrill Nature Ability Item Adamant Mold Breaker Choice Scarf Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Earthquake Ground Physical 100 100 Iron Head Steel Physical 80 100 Rock Slide Rock Physical 75 90 Swords Dance Normal Status — —
Magnezone Nature Ability Item Modest Magnet Pull Choice Specs Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Hidden Power Fire Fire Special 60 100 Thunderbolt Electric Special 90 100 Flash Cannon Steel Special 80 100 Sunny Day Fire Status — —	Jirachi Nature Ability Item Adamant Serene Grace Choice Scarf Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Iron Head Steel Physical 80 100 Ice Punch Ice Physical 75 100 Fire Punch Fire Physical 75 100 Zen Headbutt Psychic Physical 80 90
Ferrothorn Nature Ability Item Sassy Iron Barbs Rocky Helmet Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Leech Seed Grass Status — 100 Power Whip Grass Physical 120 85 Knock Off Dark Physical 65 100 Gyro Ball Steel Physical — 100	Heatran Nature Ability Item Modest Flash Fire Choice Specs Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Magma Storm Fire Special 100 75 Earth Power Ground Special 90 100 Solar Beam Grass Special 120 100 Ancient Power Rock Special 60 100
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.

Reworked bosses such as Steven 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.

Randomized subset

All possible rewards are listed below.

Pokémon

Pokédex Number	Pokémon	Type 1	Type 2	Reward Tier
#304		Aron	Steel	Rock	1
#227		Skarmory	Steel	Flying	1
#410		Shieldon	Rock	Steel	1
#624		Pawniard	Dark	Steel	2
#303		Mawile	Steel	Fairy	2
#374		Beldum	Steel	Psychic	3
#529		Drilbur	Ground		3
#707		Klefki	Steel	Fairy	3
#447		Riolu	Fighting		3

Items

Item	Quantity	Reward Tier
	Revival Herb	3-5	1
	Focus Sash	3-10	1
	Rare Candy	3-10	1
	Passho Berry	7-10	2
	Electric Gem	2-10	2
	Ice Stone	1	3

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
#707		Klefki	Steel	Fairy	Medium/Hard
#529		Drilbur	Ground		Medium/Hard
#374		Beldum	Steel	Psychic	Medium/Hard