The Battle Frontier in Platinum is the most demanding challenge in Sinnoh: trainers with optimized teams, no mercy and, sometimes, cruel bad luck. To string wins together, you need a team built for the long haul and a strategy tailored to each facility. Here is ours.

The principles also apply to the Battle Tower in Diamond and Pearl, whose rules the Platinum Tower reuses. The basic rules and rewards are covered in Battle Tower and Battle Frontier.

The secret comes down to one sentence: over a streak of seven battles with no healing, a consistent team beats a brilliant but fragile one. Every lost battle wipes out the whole streak.