Warrior

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Warriors (Japanese: ブショー Military General) are people who can form a special bond with Pokémon called a link. They appear in Pokémon Conquest.

Warriors do not catch Pokémon, instead forming a link with their Pokémon. It is implied that only certain people have the ability to become a Warrior.

Links

See also: Link

Warriors can forge special bonds with Pokémon called links. The number of Pokémon a Warrior can link with is called their Capacity (Japanese: うつわ Capacity), which ranges from 1 to 8. If a Warrior has reached their Capacity for links, any future attempts to form links prompt that a Pokémon be released if the newly linked Pokémon is to be kept. In battle, only one Pokémon per Warrior may be on the field at any time. Pokémon are unable to switch out for a Warrior's other linked Pokémon during a fight.

A Warrior's compatibility with species of Pokémon depends on the Warrior's Specialty and Weakness. Warriors have a Specialty for one or two elemental types of Pokémon, and the maximum link percent they can achieve with Pokémon of these types is usually higher than what they can reach with Pokémon of other types. For example, the Warrior Shōun's Specialty is Electric, so his maximum link percent with Pichu is 70%, but only 50% with Magikarp. Likewise, Warriors have a Weakness for one or two types, with those types usually being super effective against one or both of the Warrior's Specialty types. Warriors have low link percent caps with Pokémon that possess at least one of their Weakness types — in some cases, they cannot link with such Pokémon at all. While a Warrior's Specialty is shown to players in-game, the Warrior's Weakness is a hidden value.

Each Warrior has a Perfect Link with one specific evolutionary line. For Pokémon with branched evolutionary lines, the Warrior specializes in only one of the branches (for example, the Warrior Tomonobu has a Perfect Link with Ralts, Kirlia, and Gardevoir, but not with Gallade). A Perfect Link has a maximum link percent of 100%, and the type combination of the Pokémon correlates closely to a Warrior's Specialty types; some Perfect Links only correspond to one of a Warrior's two Specialty types, while others share both types.

Warlords

Main article: Warlord

Warlords are a special type of Warrior who can transform when they have a Perfect Link with a Pokémon. This process is similar to Evolution, in that it is permanent and upgrades various attributes of the Warlord. Specifically, transforming increases the Warlord's stats and maximum link percentages, changes their Warrior Skill to a unique one, and changes their outfit to be more ornate, often visually resembling their Perfect Link Pokémon. Warlords also display a range of emotions in dialogue, and if their active Pokémon is one of their Perfect Links, then that Pokémon will emote alongside them.

Some Warlords also have Perfect Links with multiple branches of an evolutionary line, such as the Hero/Heroine, who has a perfect link with every Eeveelution; or with species that are completely unrelated Evolution-wise, including Legendary Pokémon.

Warrior Skills

Main article: Warrior Skill

Each Warrior has a Warrior Skill, depending on the character. A Warrior Skill can be used once per battle to aid the Warrior's Pokémon in battle.

When a Warlord transforms, their Warrior Skill changes. All transformed Warlord's Warrior Skills are unique to that character.

Stats

Main article: Stat (Conquest) → Warrior stats

A Warrior has three different stats (Power, Wisdom, and Charisma) that affect not only their Pokémon, but also affect the results of kingdom location activities, such as shopping for items, mining for gold, and investing gold into upgrading kingdom locations.

Recruitment

See also: List of Pokémon Conquest characters

All Warriors are potentially recruitable, including Warlords. However, not all Warriors are available simultaneously - the ones that can appear depend on the story the player is currently in.

Free Warriors are those who are found roaming the wild Pokémon kingdom locations at random. They are either Warriors (including Warlords) who fled from a kingdom after the player conquered it, or they are rōnin who were never associated with a Warlord.

A free Warrior can be recruited if any of these conditions are met:

Defeat them within 4 turns.
Defeat them with a super effective move.
Defeat them without the player's allies taking any damage from that Warrior's Pokémon.

Recruiting Warlords requires the Warlord's Pokémon to be defeated only by another Warlord's Pokémon, in addition to one of the above conditions. In addition, a Warrior will never be recruitable after being defeated by indirect damage (such as Poison) or a battlefield hazard.

It is also possible to recruit Warriors from an enemy army, as long as the battle dissolved that enemy army - meaning the player conquered that army's last remaining territory. If the enemy army owns at least one other territory, then all of their Warriors will retreat after the battle, preventing recruitment.

If a recruitment condition has been met, then the Warrior's parting quote will express admiration for the player's strength. If no recruitment condition has been met, then the Warrior will usually express disappointment at their defeat.

Storage management

After a battle, the player can choose which Warriors they would like to recruit to their army. If the Warrior has been previously registered to the Gallery (which is effectively the player's cross-story save file), then the Warrior's previously-saved team of Pokémon (as well as transformations, in the case of Warlords) is restored just before prompting the choice.

If the player selects a Warrior to recruit, they must then send the Warrior to one of the kingdoms the player controls, each of which can hold up to 6 Warriors. If the player controls all 17 kingdoms, then this is an effective capacity of 102 Warriors. Since the game has a total of 200 Warriors, this means it is not possible to have all available Warriors in the player's current army simultaneously.

Should a Warrior be sent to a kingdom that is at max capacity, the player will be prompted to dismiss one of the Warriors in that kingdom from the army. This can be done even if other kingdoms would have space for them. This sequence of actions is the only way to directly dismiss a Warrior from the army. However, the player cannot dismiss the leader of their own army in the current story - for example, Hideyoshi cannot be dismissed during his own story, Happily Ever After.

Trivia

The maximum limit of 6 Warriors per battle (equaling 6 Pokémon per battle) is parallel to a regular Trainer's maximum team limit of 6 Pokémon.