{"id":131061,"date":"2023-01-06T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-06T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-143311"},"modified":"2023-01-06T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T15:00:00","slug":"pokemon-scarlet-violet-ranked-battle-series-2-announced-paradox-pokemon-allowed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2023\/01\/06\/pokemon-scarlet-violet-ranked-battle-series-2-announced-paradox-pokemon-allowed\/","title":{"rendered":"Pok\u00e9mon Scarlet &amp; Violet Ranked Battle Series 2 Announced, Paradox Pok\u00e9mon Allowed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/a48c69d4b7cb7\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/a48c69d4b7cb7\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Pok\u00e9mon Scarlet &amp; Violet Ranked Battle Series 2 Announced, Paradox Pok\u00e9mon Allowed 1\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/a48c69d4b7cb7\/pokemon-scarlet-and-violet-ranked-battle-series-2-announced-paradox-pokemon-allowed-1.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZpZXdCb3g9IjAgMCA5MDAgNTA2Ij48L3N2Zz4=\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" data-original=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/a48c69d4b7cb7\/pokemon-scarlet-and-violet-ranked-battle-series-2-announced-paradox-pokemon-allowed-1.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Pok\u00e9mon Scarlet &amp; Violet Ranked Battle Series 2 Announced, Paradox Pok\u00e9mon Allowed 1\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\">Image: Nintendo Life<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>While Series 1 is underway until the end of the month, The Pok\u00e9mon Company has revealed plans for Series 2 of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/pokemon_scarlet_and_violet\">Pok\u00e9mon Scarlet &amp; Violet<\/a>&#8216;s Ranked Battles, which is due to kick off on 1st February.<\/p>\n<p>As shared by <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SerebiiNet\/status\/1611226244527558656\">Serebii<\/a>, Series 2 makes one big change for the Pok\u00e9mon battling meta \u2014 Paradox Pok\u00e9mon will now be able to be used, and there&#8217;s no limit on how many you can bring, either. That means Pok\u00e9mon like Iron Hands, Great Tusk, Scream Tail, and Iron Valiant can all be added to your competitive teams for Ranked Battle between 1st February to 31st March 2023.<\/p>\n<p>The banned list of &#8216;mons remains pretty much the same, with Tera Raid exclusives Charizard and Cinderace alongside the four Treasure of Ruin legendaries and Koraidon and Miraidon unable to participate. You can find the full list of banned Pok\u00e9mon for Series 2, along with the Singles and Doubles rulesets, over on <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.serebii.net\/scarletviolet\/rankedbattle\/series2.shtml\">Serebii<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- cache: html:nintendolife.com\/ssl\/nintendo-switch\/related-articles:141285 @ 2023-01-07T11:45:37+00:00 --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"block object-related\"> <\/aside>\n<p><em>Are you taking part in Series 1? How are you enjoying ranked battles? And are you happy to see Paradox Pok\u00e9mon joining in? Let us know!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: Nintendo Life While Series 1 is underway until the end of the month, The Pok\u00e9mon Company has revealed plans for Series 2 of Pok\u00e9mon Scarlet &amp; Violet&#8216;s Ranked Battles, which is due to kick off on 1st February. As shared by Serebii, Series 2 makes one big change for the Pok\u00e9mon battling meta \u2014 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}