History VideoGame / PokemonMasters

* AscendedMeme: Players quickly took notice of Rosa's thinking pose, quick to compare it to the "Hit or Miss" Tiktok meme. The developers noticed too.
-->'''Rosa:''' In a sync battle, your Pokemon's attack can usually either hit or miss, but I guess some attacks never miss, huh?

* OneSteveLimit: A variation. As of yet, no two Sync Pairs have the same Pokémon as one another. In fact, not even any evolution lines are repeated except for one (Pikachu for the player and Alolan Raichu for Hau).

* StarterMon: The player character starts out with Pikachu, and Brock and Misty (and their Onix and Starmie) also join immediately so as to make a three-pair team. Rosa and her Snivy also come pretty darn close, as they join you at the end of the ForcedTutorial section before you download the rest of the game data.

* ButThouMust: ...say Yes to letting Rosa join your team. When she asks if you were reconsidering your offer for her to join your team, your options are "Nah, we'll be counting on you", and "Nope, welcome to the team."
* CantDropTheHero: Averted, in that there's nothing stopping you from switching our you and your Pikachu for other trainers as soon as you're allowed to edit your team.

* SignatureMon: Most trainers in the game are paired up with their most well-known Pokemon. For example: Cynthia has her Garchomp, Red has Charizard, Whitney has her Miltank, and Brock has Onyx. A few, however, didn't have a signature to begin with (the most obvious being Factory Heads Noland and Thornton, who don't even have set teams in their home games due to Battle Factory rulesets using random rental Pokémon) or use a Pokémon other than their famous one; for instance Lt. Surge uses a Voltorb instead of his Raichu.

** When Brock uses his Sync Move he stands shirtless with his arms crossed over his chest, exactly he same as his original sprite in the Generation 1 games.

* StarterMon: The player character starts out with Pikachu, and Brock and Misty (and their Onix and Starmie) also join immediately so as to make a three-pair team.

* MythologyGag: ''A lot''.
** One of the random trainers who can show up in the Pokémon Center is a Black Belt who talks about how he used to be a security guard for a gift shop and is now scared of Hyper Beams. He's the poor man who Lance ordered Dragonite to attack at Mahogany Town back in ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver''.
** Brendan reminisces about watching the stars with May, as they do after the end credits of ''VideoGame/PokemonOmegaRubyAndAlphaSapphire''. He also [[ShipTease says her eyes were pretty like stars]].
** Rosa talks about how she had some roles in movies filmed at Pokéstar Studios, and she still tries to keep up on her acting skills even now.
** Drake refers to Mr. Briney as his old friend several times, which was previously established in ''Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire''.

* SignatureMon: Most trainers in the game are paired up with their most well-known Pokemon. For example: Cynthia has her Garchomp, Red has Charizard, Whitney has her Miltank, and Brock has Onyx. A few, however, didn't have a signature to begin with (the most obvious being Factory Heads Noland and Thornton, who don't even have set teams in their home games due to Battle Factory rulesets using random rental Pokémon) or use a Pokémon other than their famous one; for instance Lt. Surge uses a Voltorb instead of his Raichu (Which the Alolan form was paired with Hau).

* ContinuityNod: ''A lot''.
** One of the random trainers who can show up in the Pokémon Center is a Black Belt who talks about how he used to be a security guard for a gift shop and is now scared of Hyper Beams. He's the poor man who Lance ordered Dragonite to attack at Mahogany Town back in ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver''.
** Brendan reminisces about watching the stars with May, as they do after the end credits of ''VideoGame/PokemonOmegaRubyAndAlphaSapphire''. He also [[ShipTease says her eyes were pretty like stars]].
** Rosa talks about how she had some roles in movies filmed at Pokéstar Studios, and she still tries to keep up on her acting skills even now.
** Drake refers to Mr. Briney as his old friend several times, which was previously established in ''Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire''.

* SignatureMon: Most trainers in the game are paired up with their most well-known Pokemon. For example: Cynthia has her Garchomp, Red has Charizard, Whitney has her Miltank, and Brock has Onyx. A few, however, didn't have a signature to begin with (the most obvious being Factory Heads Noland and Thornton, who don't even have set teams in their home games due to Battle Factory rulesets using random rental Pokémon) or use a Pokémon other than their famous one; for instance Lt. Surge uses a Voltorb instead of his Raichu.

''Pokémon Masters'' is a 2019 mobile game in the ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' series that was released for Android and iOS devices on August 28th, 2019, produced in cooperation between The Pokémon Company and [=DeNA=], the same company who co-developed with Creator/{{Nintendo}} for mobile games based on [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros their]] [[Franchise/FireEmblem existing]] [[VideoGame/AnimalCrossing franchises]].

* ClothesMakeTheSuperman: Certain trainers have alternate outfits that changes their partner pokemon. For example, Sygma Suit Brock has Tyranitar for his pokemon instead of Onyx.

* LootBoxes: The game uses a gacha system to scout new Sync Pairs. If you get a repeat of a Sync Pair you already have, they will level up and become more powerful. The story mode provides a healthy number of free trainers, but some Sync Pairs can only be obtained through scouting them in the shop for gems.

* SignatureMon: Every trainer in the game is paired up with their most well-known Pokemon. For example: Cynthia has her Garchomp, Red has Charizard, Whitney has her Miltank, and Brock has Onyx. Some trainers have a Pokemon evolution line that can evolve, such as Rosa with the Snivy line. The player character has Pikachu as their partner.

* AllegedlyFreeGame: The game has a premium currency in the form of Gems, which can only be used to buy more sync pairs from the gacha system. Gems can be obtained at a fairly steady rate by playing through missions and battles, so it doesn't pressure you to spend real money just for a chance at obtaining a new Sync Pair. You can also exchange coins for gems. Everything else in the game, such as battle items, can be easily obtained as quest rewards or by grinding up coins to buy with. The game even lets you set a hard cap on the amount of gems you can buy at any given period of time, and differentiates between gems that were purchased and gems obtained through play. You can't use earned gems to purchase daily sync offers, but the story itself hooks you up with a good handful of trainers just for playing through it.

* AllegedlyFreeGame: The game has a premium currency in the form of Gems, which can only be used to buy more sync pairs from the gacha system. Gems can be obtained at a fairly steady rate by playing through missions and battles, so it doesn't pressure you to spend real money just for a chance at obtaining a new Sync Pair. You can also exchange coins for gems. Everything else in the game, such as battle items, can be easily obtained as quest rewards or by grinding up coins to buy with. The game even lets you set a hard cap on the amount of gems you can buy at any given period of time. The story itself hooks you up with a good handful of trainers just for playing through it.

* LootBoxes: The game uses a gacha system to scout new Sync Pairs. If you get a repeat of a Sync Pair you already have, they will level up and become more powerful.

* AllegedlyFreeGame: The game has a premium currency in the form of Gems, which can only be used to buy more sync pairs from the gacha system. Gems can be obtained at a fairly steady rate by playing through missions and battles, so it doesn't pressure you to spend real money just for a chance at obtaining a new Sync Pair. Everything else in the game, such as battle items, can be easily obtained as quest rewards or by grinding up coins to buy with. The game even lets you set a hard cap on the amount of gems you can buy at any given period of time.

* ButThouMust: ...say Yes to letting Rosa join your team. When she asks if you were reconsidering your offer for her to join your team, your options are "Nah, we'll be counting on you", and "Nope, welcome to the team!"

* SignatureMon: Every trainer in the game is paired up with their most well-known Pokemon. For Cynthia has her Garchomp, Red has Charizard, Whitney has her Miltank, and Brock has Onyx. Some trainers have a Pokemon evolution line that can evolve, such as Rosa with the Snivy line. The player character has Pikachu as their partner.

* BadassInDistress: The tutorial starts a bunch of Punks harassing Sinnoh league champion Cynthia and challenging her to a battle. Cynthia claims that her and her Garchomp are too exhausted from recent battles to take up their offer, and Rosa protests that they can't just challenge her whenever they want. It's up to you, Brock, and Misty to put them in their place.

* SignatureMon: Every trainer in the game is paired up with their most well-known Pokemon. Cynthia has her Garchomp, Whitney has her Miltank, and Brock has Onyx. Some trainers have a Pokemon evolution line that can evolve, such as Rosa with the Snivy line. The player character has Pikachu as their partner.