The player plays different athletic mini-games with three Pokémon. There are five different courses: There are also ten different events. In each even you need to use two different skills for something, for exmple you need Stamina and Power for Block Smash. No Pokémon are banned from the Pokéathlon events and certain Pokémon specialise in different skills, for example Flying Pokéemon specialise in Jumping. You can use ApriJuice to improve skills. Using ApriJuice will however decrease some stats and wears off after a while.