Battle Options

In battle, you will have your towers (Pokémon) that you can use to defeat enemies.

Send Out Your Pokémon
In this game, you can click on your towers and drag them on to one of the bordered squares. Each Pokémon can attack as well as each Pokémon can support. Choose how you will send your Pokémon out and which order, placement, or any other strategies you have planned. You can also switch Pokémon to other spots by clicking and dragging. If you want to remove them, drag them on a tile that is taken or drag them out of the tile range.

Preparing for Battle
When a Pokémon is out for battle, you can click the Pokémon's icon to level it up, change it's strategy on targeting, and change it's attack.

Leveling
A Pokémon cannot level up until they recieve an amount enough to level up. When they reach a level, it could learn a move or evolve.

Moves
Moves are what towers use to interact with themselves, their allies, and enemy Pokémon. The effects of moves may include: doing damage, healing, causing status effects, or causing debuffs or buffs.

Moves can have three main stats: Damage, Cooldown, and Duration.

These moves can be selected by the Pokémon and will be used.

Targeting
Depending on the situation, you may want to change your target. There are nine different types of targeting. Each targeting option can be selected at the start.

Regular
The Pokémon will normally attack.

Fastest
The Pokémon will aim at the fastest enemy Pokémon.

Slowest
The Pokémon will aim at the slowest enemy Pokémon.

Least Health
The Pokémon will aim at enemies with the lowest health.

Most Health
The Pokémon will aim at enemies with the highest health.

Super Effective
Depending on the move, the Pokémon will attack enemy Pokémon with it's move that's most effective.

Ignore Red
The Pokémon will ignore enemy Pokémon that are in the red zone. This option is most useful when capturing Pokémon.

Focus Candy
Enemies that hold Candy or other items will be focused on.

Ignore Candy
Enemies that hold Candy or other items will be ignored.

Attacking
In some cases, you will send out your Pokémon out to attack. You just click and go instead of dragging. Your Pokémon will be attacked by defending enemies, in which you need to protect yourself and steal from the opponent. You can still use some moves to your disposal. Instead of waves, energy will replace it.

Energy
Energy is the power of how much your Pokémon can be sent out. Each Pokémon usually takes 20 Energy.

Menu
The Menu Button is a feature that Sam added to Pokemon Tower Defense v3.1 to replace the Exit Button. The Menu Button is where you can switch on or off Music, Sound FX, or Damage Text without exiting out of the level, but gives the option to leave the level by the Exit button on the bottom left. You can also go back to the fight by using the Back button on the bottom right corner.

Zoom
The zoom feature was added in v4.9 which allows you to zoom in closer and further to the map and out of the map by 100%, 75%, 50%, or 25%.

Fast Forwarding
Fast Forwarding is an option that allows the player to make the game go a little faster and turning it back to normal, added in v4.4. It is activated by pressing it while in a level. It makes the waves and your Pokemon attacks speed up. In v4.5, the possible speed options changed from x1 to x2, to x1 to x4.

Added in v4.5, when a shiny or legendary Pokemon appeared on screen, the game would return to normal (x1) speed (this was determined by the fans through a poll on Sam's blog).

In v4.6, the same will happen with achievement Pokemon.

The Fast Forwarding button was updated in v4.9 so that you could select a speed without going through the others first.

In v4.9.5, you can now see which speed you are at with a yellow circle around it.

Items
In Pokémon Tower Defense, you have access to unlimited PokéBalls and Six Potions. The Pokéball is a device specially made for catching Pokémon. You can capture a Pokémon if it has a red life bar. Potions are a feature added in v4.1. They are used to heal your Pokémon by 20 HP (Potion), 50 HP (Super Potion), or completely (Max Potion) during a level. Only six Potions are available per level. The number of Potions available resets to six after each level.

Money
On the top right corner, you can see how much money you have. You cannot use money in battle.

Waves
Above your Pokémon, you can see what wave you are on and how many waves there are.