Yeah, I think Leon’s victories are finally getting to her.ĭo you think we should bring that up with the professor? I doubt it’s healthy and I’m starting to worry about her.įinally, our first real route – in Pokémon speak, the paths that connect various towns, always crawling with Pokémon to catch and Trainers to mug. But, she’s all bitter now, have you noticed? So I’m thinking I ought to talk to the professor and see if she could help! You’ve got to take part, too! A proper rival is just the thing every trainer needs to keep growing stronger, after all.

Maybe he just didn’t want to make it look like nepotism. And Lee doesn’t seem to think I’m up to snuff… If you’re a Pokémon trainer now, you must want to try your hand at the Gym Challenge, right?īut the trick is that you’ve got to be endorsed if you want to take part.

Well, well, well, what’s all this then? We’ll be back for you later. What happened that was so dramatic it’s still around in the public consciousness? Wow, the townsfolk are still talking about this. Most of them are just some variation on “gosh I just so do love Pokémon”, but some of them… No, really.Īs you’d expect, you can enter most buildings with doors and engage in conversations like you belong there. In Gen 1, the computer system had its own subplot you had to visit its inventor, Bill Gates, by fighting your way through a bridge full of schoolchildren, after which a gangster gave you a piece of gold ore. It’s what you do with all the Pokémon you were filling your Pokédex with. You go there to get rid of Pokémon you don’t want to by digitizing them Tron-style, downloading them back into your party later if you want. In olden days, two other people split his duties between them and there was only one of each in the entire game here, this guy shows up in pretty much every Pokémon Center.Īlso, that computer in the back is haunted by a Rotom (or it straight up is a Pokémon with an Internet connection, I don’t know). This due lets you rename your Pokémon or shuffle around their move list. In previous games, these were rarer than Pokémon Centers, which the games used as breathers between areas as well as setting them up in towns here, you can find Pokémarts both in Centers and in the occasional other building. Here is the Pokémart it sells you the local equivalent of healing potions, status effect removers, and Phoenix Downs, plus Pokéballs, items that can manipulate your Poké’s stats mid battle, and ways to teach them new moves. By the way, your moves have a power point budget they can spend their way through if they run out of PP (yep) for every move, their only option is to use a free move, struggle, which damages them almost as much their opponent. You even get a nice graphic! It fully restores their heath, revives any dead fainted ones, removes status conditions, and restores their power points. That 4th Pokémon is this weird bug I found, it sucked so I got rid of it. Across from the entrance and just under the Pokéball is the Pokémon Center proper, which heals all of your Pokémon for free. So in here we have three different sections. In older games, it and the Pokémart, which sold you items, were always in adjacent buildings (except at the ends of long routes, where centers sometimes showed up on their own) apparently, they’ve long since consolidated them. Most towns have a Pokémon Center building, always marked by that big red Pokéball (like in the upper right). Hop takes the chance to explain Pokémon Centers and Marts in detail, but rather than transcribe all that, I’ll bottom-line it for you. You can go into buildings and pester the people in there (who will react like you just asked them to explain something in the classroom), go hit up the Pokémart – There’s a train station off to the left – Leon came out of it a couple updates back – but while we will be using it eventually, that’s still in the future. Wedgehurst - Pokémon Sword and Shield OSTĪh, Wedgehurst, a town with more than two buildings.

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