History VideoGame / PokemonRumble

** In the sequel, the first battle with Cobalion. The beginning battle with Zekrom double subverts that -- it's very hard at that point of game, but if you're good, you can win. The stage collapses anyway.

** Additionally, if a legendary pokemon has a signature move, the moveset of a captured pokemon is biased to nearly always give you that move.

* BrokenAesop: The typical Pokémon moral is that you should love and take care of your Pokémon, not just abandoning Mons once they're weak and trading up for stronger Mons. Rumble pretty much requires you to abandon your weaker Mons and trade up for stronger Mons in order to pass, treating your Pokémon as tools.

* The first game in the series debuted as a UsefulNotes/WiiWare game, prominently featuring Pokémon that debuted in ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'' and ''VideoGame/PokemonDiamondAndPearl''.
* ''Pokémon Rumble Blast'' (''Super Pokémon Rumble'' in Europe) was released on the UsefulNotes/Nintendo3DS featuring all then-available Pokémon[[note]]Keldeo, Meloetta, and Genesect are excluded[[/note]] and new game modes.
* The third game in the series, ''Pokémon Rumble [[UsefulNotes/WiiU U]]'' was available for download until the eshop closed in 2023. New features include Pokémon missing from ''Rumble Blast'', 4-player, and near-field communication, allowing interaction with separately purchased figures (compare ''VideoGame/{{Skylanders}}'').
* A fourth game, ''Pokémon Rumble World'', was released for the UsefulNotes/Nintendo3DS, and is free-to-play with a microtransaction system similar to that of ''VideoGame/PokemonShuffle''. Based on the Generation VI games.

* SuperTitle64Advance: ''Pokémon Rumble U'' for the UsefulNotes/WiiU.
* ToysToLifeGame: ''U'' used the NFC chip in the UsefulNotes/WiiU for this effect.

* The third game in the series, ''Pokémon Rumble [[UsefulNotes/WiiU U]]'' is available for download. New features include Pokémon missing from ''Rumble Blast'', 4-player, and near-field communication, allowing interaction with separately purchased figures (compare ''VideoGame/{{Skylanders}}'').

* SecretAIMoves: In ''Blast'' and ''World'', every boss has an attack where they become invincible for a short while, before producing a shock-wave that tosses you away and has the potential to wobble you. However, they are far weaker than their non-secret moves.

* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: The magician in ''World'' thinks that he should be the king because he has mastered the [[SuperMode Mega Evolution]]. Averted by the king himself, who doesn't fight the magician himself and instead sends you as his [[TheChampion champion]].

* CurbStompBattle: Right at the beginning of the first game, your only playable 'mon is a Rattata, which decides to try and fight in the Battle Royale. It will die in two hits. Good luck!
** In ''Blast'', your starting Pokémon are a pitifully weak Pikachu and ''slightly'' less weak versions of the Gen V starters and Victini. The first boss? '''Zekrom'''. Three guesses as to how well that turns out.
** It's important to note that, even if you do a good job in fighting Zekrom, you automatically lose thanks to [[spoiler:Dark Rust crashing the party]].

* HopelessBossFight: The opening battle in the Royale. It's not possible to win in the fight, as you have to kill the bosslike Pokémon that show up (in this case, it's the Kanto Eeveelutions), which isn't possible with [[ComMons Rattata]].

* MultiMookMelee: The Battle Royales.

** Also in the original game, Mewtwo. Which would you rather have? Three Dragons that can learn signature attacks that destroy the game, or one Pokémon that's basically an Alakazam with better Defense and a bigger range of moves? Lessened significantly in the following games, as Mewtwo recieved a powerful signature move in the form of Psystrike and is able to be obtained through normal means.

* ''Pokémon Rumble Rush'' is a mobile game entry in the series, released in May 2019 and was discontinued on July 22, 2020. Features Generation VII Pokémon.

* StockSubtitle: ''Pokémon Rumble '''World'''''.

** In ''World'', each stage can be a entrance, back, or center, while some can also have a Special area. However, they're all based on a handful of specific rooms per world with the only difference being where the holes leading to other rooms are located and what rooms they lead to. (And the rooms themselves are reused from ''Blast'', taking this trope UpToEleven.)

** Getting Manaphy in the game is nothing more than a chore. It requires you to release three Phione at the same time. But in order to get a Phione, you need to release a Lapras and a Vaporeon at the same time, both of which are rare to begin with (the former is a boss in one area, but it's rarer to befriend bosses). To top it all off, Manaphy have average Attack and only a little higher Defense than Phione.
** Mewtwo. Which would you rather have? Three Dragons that can learn signature attacks that destroy the game, or one Pokémon that's basically an Alakazam with better Defense and a bigger range of moves?

** Mega Rayquaza. It's fairly mediocre, mainly due to being held back by Dragon Ascent, which is significantly worse in ''Rumble World'' than in the main series. It's fairly hard to obtain, and usually requires the Legend Balloon, the most expensive balloon, to obtain. The only thing Mega Rayquaza has over other Mega Evolutions in this game is Delta Stream.

** Reshiram's Fusion Flare in ''World'' is ludicrously powerful, but moves very slowly, recharges even slower, and is so small that it only hits one target at a time, which is anything but helpful when you're being swarmed by dozens of Toy Pokémon from all sides.

* BigBad: [[spoiler:Dark Rust]] in Pokémon Rumble Blast.

* BrainwashedAndCrazy: The Dark Magician in ''World'' likes to do this to people to fight for him.

''Pokémon Rumble'' is an ActionAdventure ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' SpinOff series developed by perennial ''Pokémon'' spin-off developer Creator/{{Ambrella}}. Unlike most ''Pokémon'' games, in which you directly control or interact with real Pokémon, the world of ''Pokémon Rumble'' is inhabited by ''Toy'' Pokémon, small SuperDeformed-like Pokémon figurines. Much of the series' core gameplay consists of real-time battle similar to that of ''VideoGame/SmashTV'' using a simplistic control scheme, taking command of a party of Toy Pokémon to cut through swaths of hostile Toy Pokémon and challenge their boss at the end of a dungeon. By fighting against Toy Pokémon, you can potentially execute a NonLethalKO on them via "wobbling", which will allow you to befriend other Toy Pokémon and add them to your ranks.

* AntiGrinding: The possible numeric range of a Pokémon's power level before being captured is determined by your current Adventurer Rank which prevents you from getting strong Pokémon quickly unless you really put in the effort to raise your Adventurer Rank by raising the number of species that were discovered and obtained.
* ArtifactMook: A [[JustifiedTrope justified]] example and arguably an AntiFrustrationFeature given some of the [[AchievementSystem Titles]] in ''World''. All of those pokemon formes that have canon explanations limiting which ones you should encounter (eg, Gastrodon's Eastern Sea and Western Sea formes, which shouldn't naturally be found in the same sea, let alone ''right next to each other'') are completely disregarded, because [[ToyTime these are wind-up toys]] rather than actual pokemon. Of course, this [[FridgeLogic raises even more questions]].
* ArtificialStupidity[=/=]TooDumbToLive: The visitor bonuses where you rescue visiting Miis and [[EscortMission guide them to the end of the level]]. They are programmed to hang back at a safe distance, but their pathfinding is based on the player's route rather than what the enemy is doing, so they often end up literally standing there and letting bosses kill them or even actively walking into clearly telegraphed attacks.

* AttackAttackAttack: The enemy's approach to killing you. This is also the best way to beat bosses, since their guards die when you defeat the boss.
** However, against bosses, it's generally not a good idea to strictly attack them. They'll beat you in a damage race every time, if you allow one to happen.

*** Completely averted in the sequel, due to the change in the releasing system.
** Instant-kill moves, due to long charge times and their inability to affect bosses

** The trailer that showcases how it works shows Garchomp leading an army consisting of Dragonite, Metagross, Salamence, Haxorus, Druddigon, Kingdra, the final evolution of every Starter, and every Eeveelution. The enemy army is Hydreigon leading an army of Zweilous, Cryogonal, and Escavalier. [[CurbstompBattle The results are obvious.]]

* BossInMookClothing: Kricketot, oh God, Kricketot. It uses Bide, which gives it a status effect where any damage you deal to it is automatically dealt back to you. Using a powerful attack usually does about 800-1200 damage to the little critter. The average HP of a Pokémon in this game is 600-800. Long story short, if you attack Kricketot while Bide is in effect, you ''WILL'' die.
** Also, Meowth and Glameow. Both of them use Fake Out, which automatically makes you flinch when it connects. That leaves you ButtonMashing to get the status to go away. It doesn't help when you're swarmed by 5-10 of these bastards and they all gang up on you and kill you.

** Each rank is simply the same 7 stages with stronger Pokémon. The sequel has unique stages, but only about 10-15 themes.

* DegradedBoss: Rank C Bosses are normal enemies in Rank B, Rank B Bosses are normal enemies in Rank A, etc.
** ''Blast'' also has many early bosses show up in the later stages. Some get to be mooks in their final evolution's boss battle.

* DifficultySpike: The Battle Royales, Team Battles, and Rumpus Rooms are much harder than standard dungeons, but it's still easy.
** Any time you fight a Legendary Pokémon.
** In the sequel: Both EX-5 battles. Especially the Team Battle. Better hope you can scrounge up enough money for World Rank 8 or 9, because that's what it will take to even hope to defeat Reshiram or Zekrom. It is such an intense difficulty spike after EX-4, you'd think it'd be the last level, since the credits will even roll after beating both, but no. Have fun in EX-6.
** In Rumble U, when you get to the final segment of the story. The first Boss of this segment has a recommended power of 1700+. By this point, your strongest normally is around 1550-1650. Even after you beat the Final Boss, the Bonus areas are an even bigger difficulty spike, one of which demands a staggering 2100+ power. The Pokémon received during the final battle are only 1900-2000 at most. Have Fun.
** In Rumble World, the King Challenges get harder every time you complete them. To elaborate, you must have Toy Pokémon at the certain Power Level in order to perform well in the challenges (For example, the "Royal Quarterfinals" challenge requires you to have Toy Pokémon at 1200~, anything below that Power Level will be a real pain in the neck.)

** Subverted in ''World'', where all of the password Pokémon are strong if you're starting a new game but very quickly outclassed. All of them have power levels in the ~230 range, except for Meowstic (~300), Kangaskhan (~500), and Hydreigon (~712)

* FinalBoss: Mewtwo in the first game appears in both Normal and EX modes as the final boss, while Dark Rust is the final boss of the second game, though in the EX Battle Royal and the EX Team Battle modes, beating the 5 EX levels will open up the [[spoiler:last EX levels]] on each side, where the boss fights are Mewtwo and [[spoiler:Arceus]] respectively. The third game has the legendary [[spoiler:ice dragon Pokémon Kyurem (Black Kyurem)]] as the final boss.

* JokeCharacter: Ditto. Can't damage anything for crap, dies if you so much as blink at it, and its only move in the game is Struggle, which damages itself even if you don't hit anything.
** Fixed in the sequel, since its only move is Transform instead of Struggle.

* LeeroyJenkins: Razor Wind works like this.

* MythologyGag: The game was developed by Ambrella, the same company that made VideoGame/HeyYouPikachu. Anybody that's played HYP will recognise the terminal music as a remix of the Viridian Forest Edge theme. The sequel features most of the first game's music and some sound effects from ''Hey You, Pikachu!''. Also, some of the tracks in Rumble U are lifted directly from the aforementioned Nintendo 64 title as well as Pokémon Channel, by the same developers.

* OneManArmy: Single-player is basically this.

* PoorCommunicationKills: [[spoiler:A ''lot'' of bad stuff in ''Blast'' could have been avoided if Cobalion and Krookodile had ''explained'' that the Glowdrops were needed to stop the BigBad...]]

* RandomNumberGod: ''World'' is a tedious game where Luck puts too much of a heavy hand into most of the gameplay.

* ToysToLifeGame: ''U'' used the nfc chip in the UsefulNotes/WiiU for this effect.
* ToyTime: The whole game.
* TheTurretMaster: Anything with Spike Cannon turns them ''into'' a turret. Especially true in ''Blast'', where certain Skills can make it so you clear out entire areas in ''seconds''.
* VillainBall: Despite ''World'' being a [[ExcusePlot plot-light game]], the Magician displays an utterly ''astounding'' case of this in the Restaurant Opening Challenge Level. He, disguised as a chef, opens a restaurant and invites the King to visit, but the King has you visit in his stead. When you arrive and sit down to eat the waffles he prepared, he [[EvilLaugh laughs evilly]], then [[EvilGloating gloats]] about how you'll become his slave forever and he'll take the crown... until he notices that ''[[FailedASpotCheck you haven't eaten the waffles yet.]]'' He then challenges you to a [[SurpriseDifficulty a surprisingly hard]] EscortMission.

* WolfPackBoss: Sawsbuck in Rumble U is this, as you have to fight all four seasonal forms of Sawsbuck. A more minor example is the first stage in Variety Battle, which has you fight an Emboar, Samurott, and Serperior. If you get your Pokémon to focus on just one, they're a breeze.

** Can also be used by the player, if they have a Pokémon with a move like Shadow Claw, Dragon Claw, Poison Jab, etc. Rapidly tapping the attack button creates an endless stream of slashes that literally tear through groups of enemies. Now imagine four players doing this at the same time.
*** Some Special Traits in the sequel, such as Chop-Chop or Turbo, are made for this kind of attack.

* AntiGrinding: The numeric range of a Pokemon's power level is determined by your current Rank which prevents you from getting strong Pokemon quickly unless you really put in the effort to raise your Rank by catching a lot of them.

''Pokémon Rumble'' is an ActionAdventure ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' SpinOff series. Unlike most ''Pokémon'' games, in which you directly control or interact with real Pokémon, the world of ''Pokémon Rumble'' is inhabited by ''Toy'' Pokémon, small SuperDeformed-like Pokémon figurines. Much of the series' core gameplay consists of real-time battle similar to that of ''VideoGame/SmashTV'' using a simplistic control scheme, taking command of a party of Toy Pokémon to cut through swaths of hostile Toy Pokémon and challenge their boss at the end of a dungeon. By fighting against Toy Pokémon, you can potentially execute a NonLethalKO on them via "wobbling", which will allow you to befriend other Toy Pokémon and add them to your ranks.

* ''Pokémon Rumble Rush'' is a mobile game entry in the series, released in May 2019 and will be discontinued on July 22, 2020. Features Generation VII Pokémon.

** Perhaps that is the reason that it's supposed to be toys, rather than actual Pokémon, doing the battling.

* ''Pokémon Rumble Rush'' is a mobile game entry in the series, released in May 2019. Features Generation VII Pokémon.

*** This is likely a reference to Boota who is a [[FridgeBrilliance "pig-mole"]].

* A fourth game, ''Pokémon Rumble World'', was released for the UsefulNotes/Nintendo3DS, and is free-to-play with a microtransaction system similar to that of ''VideoGame/PokemonShuffle''. Based on the Generation VII games.

* A fourth game, ''Pokémon Rumble World'', was released for the UsefulNotes/Nintendo3DS, and is free-to-play with a microtransaction system similar to that of ''VideoGame/PokemonShuffle''.
* ''Pokémon Rumble Rush'' is a mobile game entry in the series, released in May 2019.

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''Pokémon Rumble'' is an action-adventure ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' spinoff series. Unlike most ''Pokémon'' games, in which you directly control or interact with real Pokémon, the world of ''Pokémon Rumble'' is inhabited by ''Toy'' Pokémon, small SuperDeformed-like Pokémon figurines. Much of the series' core gameplay consists of real-time battle similar to that of ''VideoGame/SmashTV'' using a simplistic control scheme, taking command of a party of Toy Pokémon to cut through swaths of hostile Toy Pokémon and challenge their boss at the end of a dungeon. By fighting against Toy Pokémon, you can potentially execute a NonLethalKO on them via "wobbling", which will allow you to befriend other Toy Pokémon and add them to your ranks.