Answers to the most common questions about the game. For the full rules, see the game guide.
Draft Mon is a Pokémon roguelike. You draft a team of 6 Pokémon, prepare it, then climb a Battle Tower floor by floor until you're defeated. Every run is different, and part of your progress carries over from one run to the next.
Yes, completely. There are no purchases, no ads and no account to create.
No. The game runs right in your browser: just open the page and click “Play”.
Yes. The interface adapts to phones (portrait and landscape), tablets and computers.
Your progress is stored in your browser, across 5 save slots. Nothing is sent to a server. On the other hand, your save doesn't follow you from one device to another, and it disappears if you clear the site's data in your browser.
The Pokédex covers all nine generations, from Kanto to Paldea: over 1000 Pokémon, with their regional forms (Alola, Galar, Hisui, Paldea), Mega Evolutions and Gigantamax forms.
Mega Evolution, Z-Moves, Dynamax and Gigantamax, and Terastallization. Each one depends on a held item and is triggered with a button during battle. There are also double battles against twins.
In Easy, the draft only offers fully evolved Pokémon with a ready-to-use build. In Normal, every stage is offered and you set up nature, EVs, ability and moves yourself. Hard adds one constraint: HP and status conditions carry over from one battle to the next, whereas they are restored in the other two modes.
The run ends, but you earn Tower Tokens based on the floors you cleared. They buy permanent Starting Boosts: money, starting items, Poké Mart discounts or a free draft reroll. Affinity Candies and Affinity levels are kept too.
They raise the Affinity level of a Pokémon line with the Professor. A high-level line shows up more often in the draft and at the Ranch, up to twice as often at the maximum level.
Yes. Every Pokémon offered in the draft or at the Ranch has a 0.2% chance of being shiny. You have to pick it when it's offered, otherwise the chance is lost.
A tool separate from runs, available from the home screen. It lets you build up to 10 teams with no restrictions, compare damage between two Pokémon, spot threats to a build, and import or export in Pokémon Showdown format.
They are temporary AI-generated images: Draft Mon is still in beta. If you're an artist and would like to offer your services for the logo, the banner or other artwork, get in touch on the game's Discord.
No. Draft Mon is a non-commercial fan project, not affiliated with Nintendo, Game Freak or The Pokémon Company. Pokémon and related names are trademarks of their respective owners.
On the game's Discord.