{"id":135508,"date":"2026-01-03T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-195838"},"modified":"2026-01-03T06:30:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T06:30:00","slug":"pokemon-legends-z-a-ranked-battle-season-5-coming-soon-includes-another-mega-stone-reward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2026\/01\/03\/pokemon-legends-z-a-ranked-battle-season-5-coming-soon-includes-another-mega-stone-reward\/","title":{"rendered":"Pok\u00e9mon Legends: Z-A Ranked Battle Season 5 &#8220;Coming Soon&#8221;, Includes Another Mega Stone Reward"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/67981b077d157\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/67981b077d157\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture\" data-uuid=\"c93c0a67b2153\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Season 5\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/c93c0a67b2153\/season-5.large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/c93c0a67b2153\/season-5.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Season 5\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\"><span class><\/span> Image: The Pok\u00e9mon Company<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/pokemon_legends_z-a\">Pok\u00e9mon Legends: Z-A<\/a> has announced Season 5 Ranked Battles are &#8220;coming soon&#8221;. This time round, when you reach Rank S, you&#8217;ll be able to claim a Sceptilite stone.<\/p>\n<p>This event will take place between <strong>8th January 2026<\/strong> and <strong>29th January 2026<\/strong>. Players will also be able to earn a Baxcalibrite at Rank V, Chesnaughtite at Rank W, Delphoxite at Rank X, and Greninjite at Rank Y.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some additional details via the official announcement page:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pok\u00e9mon Levels between Lv. 1 and Lv. 100 are eligible and all Pok\u00e9mon are automatically set to Lv. 50 during battles.<\/li>\n<li>Lumiose Pok\u00e9dex No. 001-227 are eligible to participate and Hyperspace Pok\u00e9dex 00-127, and 132 are eligible to participate.<\/li>\n<li>No more than one Pok\u00e9mon with the same Pok\u00e9dex number may be used. Pok\u00e9mon are allowed to hold items and duplicate held items are not allowed. And the total time limit is 3 minutes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can find out more about Pok\u00e9mon Legends: Z-A Season Ranked Battles in our full guide here on Nintendo Life:<\/p>\n<p><!-- cache: html:nintendolife.com\/ssl\/related-articles:192564,195096,192632,192371 @ 1767427683 --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"block object-related\"> <\/aside>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: The Pok\u00e9mon Company Pok\u00e9mon Legends: Z-A has announced Season 5 Ranked Battles are &#8220;coming soon&#8221;. This time round, when you reach Rank S, you&#8217;ll be able to claim a Sceptilite stone. This event will take place between 8th January 2026 and 29th January 2026. Players will also be able to earn a Baxcalibrite at [&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-135508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135508","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=135508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}