 In the game, players engage in a Pokémon battle depicted on the top screen of the handheld device.To battle the enemy Pokémon, players create groups of three or more identical Pokémon icons on the grid in the bottom screen.The battles are fought using a rock-paper-scissors style system where each Pokémon has different elemental types assigned to it, and the outcome is based on the strengths and weaknesses that these types have on each other.