History VideoGame / PokemonMasters

* PurposefullyOverpowered: Master Fair-exclusive sync pairs are among the most powerful in the game. A significant factor in that is that they all come with an exclusive Master passive skill that greatly increases damage dealt by their entire team while also significantly reducing incoming damage, and the skills get even stronger for each team member from the same region as the Master Pair. The trade-off is that in addition to only being available to scout on temporary banners, they're only half as likely to appear as other 5-star sync pairs on their respective focus banners.

** Diantha’s Seasonal Outfit during the Poké War Games event bears a heavy resemblance to [[VisualNovel/FateStayNight Artoria Pendragon]].

** Diantha’s Seasonal Outfit during the Poké War Games event bears a heavy resemblance to [[VideoGame/FateGrandOrder Altria Pendragon]].

** When Rose and Oleana show up, they have no memories of [[spoiler:Rose trying to start the Darkest Days and his eventual arrest. Victor mentions that there have been cases of people showing up in Pasio with "apparent" memory loss, but said cases aren't about amnesia rather than them truly not knowing anything about events they should remember, meaning that Hoopa is not only bringing people in from different dimensions, but also from different times in said dimensions.]]

* NamedByTheAdaptation: Kris, Barry, Elio and Selene, who were cases of HelloInsertNameHere in their debut games, are properly named here. In both Kris and Barry's case, their first selectable default name became their canon name, the latter being a recursive nod to [[Anime/{{Pokemon}} his anime counterpart]].

''Masters'' takes place on the artificial island of Pasio, where the Pokémon Masters League is being held: a grand tournament that invites Trainers from the world over [[spoiler:([[ThinkingUpPortals mostly from different timelines]])]] to compete against each other. In Pasio, Trainers form sync pairs, a duo between a Trainer and a single Pokémon, and ally with other sync pairs to compete in [=3v3=] Pokémon battles. You are placed in the shoes of one such Trainer, who arrives on Pasio and quickly befriends Kanto Gym Leaders Brock and Misty.

** In ''Legends Arceus'', you were [[SchrodingersPlayerCharacter able to choose if you were a version of Lucas or Dawn who was isekai'd]] and if you had amnesia like most Fallers or if you remembered everything, and even if you came from a world where there were no Pokemon at all. The Hisui arc establishes that it is Rei who fell, that he came from a Pokémon world, and that he is also amnesiac like Fallers are.

** In ''Legends Arceus'', you were [[SchrodingersPlayerCharacter able to choose if you were a version of Lucas or Dawn who was isekai'd]] and if you had amnesia like most Fallers or if you remembered everything, and even if you came from a world where there were no Pokemon at all. The Hisui arc establishes that it is Rei who fell, that he came from a Pokemon world, and that he is also amnesiac like Fallers are.

** In ''Legends Arceus'', you were [[SchrodingersPlayerCharacter able to choose if you were a version of Lucas or Dawn who was isekai'd]] and if you had amnesia like most Fallers or if you remembered everything, and even if you came from a world where there were no Pokemon at all. The Hisui arc establishes that it is Rei who fell, and that he is also amnesiac like Fallers are.

* ''Mysterious Stones Chapter:'' Once Giovanni's schemes are seemingly stopped, Prof. Bellis comes to learn from [[VideoGame/PokemonLegendsArceus Rei]] about Mysterious Stones that have the same properties as Sync Stones but don't act quite like they do. As the mysteries of these stones are being investigated, Rei senses that someone from his past is quietly spying on their moves...

''Masters'' takes place on the artificial island of Pasio, where the Pokémon Masters League is being held: a grand tournament that invites Trainers from the world over to compete against each other. In Pasio, Trainers form sync pairs, a duo between a Trainer and a single Pokémon, and ally with other sync pairs to compete in [=3v3=] Pokémon battles. You are placed in the shoes of one such Trainer, who arrives on Pasio and quickly befriends Kanto Gym Leaders Brock and Misty. To gain entry to the PML, the player and their allies set out to collect five Badges held by particularly strong Trainers scattered across the island, and along the way add some familiar faces to your party on the journey to conquer the PML. However, during their journey they will have to contend with some particularly powerful foes: Lear, resident {{Jerkass}} and the creator of Pasio, and the villainous Team Break, a band of masked thieves who steal Pokémon from other Trainers and are at odds against Lear for reasons unknown.

Later, after the conclusion of the PML, the story shifts away from the player character as everyone faces a new threat: Team Rocket's leader Giovanni schemes to take over Pasio by manipulating every evil faction leader and their subordinates to further his own agenda. In the meantime, Paulo, a rival to the player character, [[CantCatchUp faces his shortcomings as a trainer]] and quietly ponders how to become stronger, [[HeelFaceRevolvingDoor even if it means taking unconventional methods to do so]] seeing the villains showcasing their ill-gotten powers.

Once Giovanni's schemes are seemingly stopped, Prof. Bellis comes to learn from [[VideoGame/PokemonLegendsArceus Rei]] about Mysterious Stones that have the same properties as Sync Stones but don't act quite like they do. As the mysteries of these stones are being investigated, Rei senses that someone from his past is quietly spying on their moves...

* ThinkingUpPortals: A scientist you encounter asks you to help with his investigation of the strange sightings of black rings showing up. Apparently, not every trainer arrived at Pasio by boat. He just misses out on the sighting of the mythical Pokémon Hoopa floating around in the background, causing mischief. Many trainers arrived on Pasio by passing through Hoopa's portals ([[spoiler:[[AllThereInTheManual except Team Rainbow Rocket's Giovanni]], [[MythologyGag who does have his own universe-hopping systems]]]]). Marlon mentions that he swam the entire distance from Unova to Pasio with his Carracosta. He saw this shiny black portal open up right in front of him and decided to go through it, and found himself in Pasio's waters.

''Masters'' takes place on the artificial island of Pasio, where the Pokémon Masters League is being held: a grand tournament that invites Trainers from the world over to compete against each other. In Pasio, Trainers form sync pairs, a duo between a Trainer and a single Pokémon, and ally with other sync pairs to compete in [=3v3=] Pokémon battles. You are placed in the shoes of one such Trainer, who arrives on Pasio and quickly befriends Kanto Gym Leaders Brock and Misty. To gain entry to the PML, the player and their allies set out to collect five Badges held by particularly strong Trainers scattered across the island, and along the way add some familiar faces to your party on the journey to conquer the PML. However, during their journey they will have to contend with some particularly powerful foes: Lear, resident {{Jerkass}} and the creator of Pasio, and the villainous Team Break, a band of masked thieves who steal Pokémon from other Trainers.

* TotallyRadical: An Ace Trainer in Chapter 23 tries to talk like this — key word being ''tries''. His teammates find him very embarrassing.

** Multiple player characters have also been established as the heroes of their respective games. Those that have been confirmed are Red, Ethan, Brendan, Dawn, Hilbert, Rosa, Serena, and Gloria; only the hero of the Alola games (Elio or Selene) remains unclear.

** Even when choosing heroes, ''Masters'' doesn't strictly follow the conventions regarding starters in their games of origin. Brendan is Norman's son in ''Masters'', but his partner Treecko has the type-advantage against May's partner Mudkip (when in the original games, May would have Torchic[[note]]However, Sygna Suit May does use a Blaziken, which she reveals is the same one that she traveled with throughout Hoenn[[/note]]). Meanwhile, Dawn has a Turtwig to Barry's Piplup, which in the original games would mean she was the professor's assistant, especially since Lucas is paired with Infernape, the starter weak to Barry's, prior to teaming up with Dialga. But, since Lucas is the professor's assistant and Dawn and Barry are established to be childhood friends, Dawn is the protagonist.
** On a lesser extent, Cyrus ends up owning Palkia, perhaps because it's the one that makes most sense for Team ''Galactic'', Flint and Volkner have Infernape and Luxray respectively as their aces while Flint talks about his other non-Fire-types instead of his full Fire-type team from ''Platinum'', and Dawn, Lucas, and Barry don't have their winter clothing on, implying that they do not come from the third version of their games. On the other hand, the rest of the characters seem to come from ''Platinum'' because they do allude to the events there such as Giratina and the Distortion World; a lodge's topic that get Cynthia and Dawn super interested to talk about when such dimension doesn't exist outside of the ''Platinum'' plotline, which implies that maybe everyone does come from ''Platinum'' (Cyrus, however, is implied to truly be from the ''Pearl'' timeline because he has no recollection of Giratina when asked about it).

** The Final Villain chapter has [[spoiler:Team Rocket run amok on Pasio after Giovanni gets ahold of Hoopa Unbound with hundreds of Legendary Pokémon for his grunts to wield, and they eventually break into the Pokémon Center with Looker and the triplets holding them off so the heroes can escape to confront Giovanni.]]