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Fainting
When the team falls, it returns to the Hollow without the bag or the coins it was carrying. What is lost, what remains, and the special cases: the Monster House, bosses, fleeing, playing together.
In short
- Lost: the bag and the purse, entirely. They stay at the bottom of the dungeon.
- Kept: the items your Pokémon hold, everything in the bank’s vault, the levels gained, the garden’s plots.
- Fleeing costs as much as fainting; the
Escape Orb, for its part, brings everything back.
When the team falls
A Pokémon whose HP drops to zero faints: it stays down, and control passes to an ally still standing. When the last one standing falls, or the hero if alone, the run stops: the team wakes up in the Hollow.
What is lost, what remains
| Lost | Kept |
|---|---|
| The bag, entirely | What the Pokémon hold (one item each) |
| The purse, entirely | The bank’s vault, items and coins |
| The place, to be redone | Levels and moves learned |
| The requests taken, which wait for another run | The garden’s plots and crops |
Special cases
- In a Monster House: if swept away, the team is thrown out, without the treasure, but the run goes on.
- Before a boss who lets you retry: the team gets back up at the arena door, and the fight is replayed.
- Playing together: whoever gives up the run loses their bag and their coins; the other returns standing.
- Fleeing: leaving the place without finishing it or using an orb costs the bag and the purse, like fainting.
Reviving an ally
A 
Reviver Seed revives a fallen ally, next to you, with half its HP. A fainted Pokémon that isn’t revived stays down until the end of the floor, and gets back up on the next floor if the run goes on.
Before a hard place, leave in the vault what you won’t need, or tick “Store everything in the vault automatically” at the bank. And give your Pokémon the items that matter: held, they can’t be lost.
See also
- The HollowDuskull’s bankWhat you deposit in Duskull’s vault doesn’t go on expeditions: fainting doesn’t cost it, and it weighs nothing in the bag. How to deposit, take back, and let the bank store your earnings automatically.
- ItemsHeld itemsEach Pokémon on the team can hold one item, just one. It no longer weighs in the bag, isn’t lost when you faint, and acts as long as it is worn: stats, protection, recovery, experience, recruitment or Belly for the whole team.
- Getting startedEasy, Normal, HardThe difficulty is chosen at each departure, on the departure sheet. What each level changes, figure by figure: the hits of wild Pokémon and bosses, their levels, what the place yields, and the requests.