{"id":135770,"date":"2026-01-23T10:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T10:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-196562"},"modified":"2026-01-23T10:45:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T10:45:00","slug":"pokemon-legends-z-a-ranked-battle-season-6-start-date-and-rewards-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2026\/01\/23\/pokemon-legends-z-a-ranked-battle-season-6-start-date-and-rewards-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"Pok\u00e9mon Legends Z-A Ranked Battle Season 6 Start Date And Rewards Revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/7e3652a918150\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/7e3652a918150\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture\" data-uuid=\"7e3652a918150\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Pok\u00e9mon Legends: Z-A - Mega Swampert\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/7e3652a918150\/pokemon-legends-z-a-mega-swampert.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/7e3652a918150\/pokemon-legends-z-a-mega-swampert.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" alt=\"Pok\u00e9mon Legends: Z-A - Mega Swampert\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\"><span class><\/span> Image: The Pok\u00e9mon Company<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>With <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/pokemon_legends_z-a\">Pok\u00e9mon Legends: Z-A<\/a>&#8216;s Sceptile-focused season coming to an end, The Pok\u00e9mon Company has shared some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pokemon.com\/uk\/pokemon-news\/earn-swampertite-in-pokemon-legends-z-a-ranked-battles-season-6\">extra details<\/a> on what&#8217;s next for the Ranked Battle scene, including the all-important start date and rewards.<\/p>\n<p>Ranked Battle Season 6 kicks off on <strong>29th January<\/strong> and will be sticking around until <strong>19th February<\/strong>. In that time, those who reach Rank S will be rewarded with a Swampertite Mega Stone, which is capable of giving your Swampert a Mega Evolution makeover.<\/p>\n<p>Returning Mega Stones from previous seasons will also be up for rewards this time around, with Greninjite, Delphoxite, Chesnaughtite, Baxcalibrite, and Sceptilite cropping up as rewards from Rank Y through to Rank U.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the exact time that Season 6 kicks off in your region:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\" first\"><strong>North America:<\/strong> 10pm (Wed) PST \/ 11pm (Wed) MST \/ 12am CST \/ 1am EST<\/li>\n<li><strong>UK\/Ire:<\/strong> 6am GMT<\/li>\n<li><strong>Europe:<\/strong> 7am CET \/ 8am EET<\/li>\n<li class=\" last\"><strong>Asia\/Oceania:<\/strong> 3pm JST \/ 2pm AWST \/ 5pm AEDT<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You&#8217;ll only be able to enter Pok\u00e9mon numbered 001-232 in the Lumiose Pok\u00e9dex and 001-132 in the Hyperspace Pok\u00e9dex for this season, all of which will be set to level 50 for Ranked Battles. On top of that, your team can only contain one of the following special &#8216;mon:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Xerneas<\/li>\n<li>Yveltal<\/li>\n<li>Zygarde<\/li>\n<li>Mewtwo<\/li>\n<li>Kyogre<\/li>\n<li>Groudon<\/li>\n<li>Rayquaza<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For a rundown of all the current season&#8217;s rewards and a complete list of previous events, check out our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/guides\/pokemon-legends-z-a-ranked-battles-all-seasons-and-rewards\">Ranked Battle Season guide<\/a> below.<\/p>\n<p><!-- cache: html:nintendolife.com\/ssl\/pokemon\/related-articles:192564 @ 1769176143 --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"block object-related\"> <\/aside>\n<p><em>Will you be entering the next Ranked Battle season? Let us know in the comments.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: The Pok\u00e9mon Company With Pok\u00e9mon Legends: Z-A&#8216;s Sceptile-focused season coming to an end, The Pok\u00e9mon Company has shared some extra details on what&#8217;s next for the Ranked Battle scene, including the all-important start date and rewards. Ranked Battle Season 6 kicks off on 29th January and will be sticking around until 19th February. In [&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-135770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135770","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=135770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}