Horde Encounters

Horde Encounters are a feature that first appeared in Pokémon X and Y where a player has the chance to run into five wild Pokémon at the same time. In Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire horde encounters are expanded upon and can involve a run in with five trainers and battle them at the same time too.

These horde of wild Pokèmon are usually the same species with a chance of one of them being of a different species. These Pokémon are about half the levels of the Pokémon a player would run into in a single battle and are generally the lower evolutionary stage of the single run-in Pokémon.