Monday, January 31, 2022

Text Play: Pokémon Xenoverse #1

Hello, and welcome to the Eldiw region! This is the first entry in my Text Play of Pokémon Xenoverse!



Now, I know what you are thinking. "Hey wait, man! You haven't finished Pokémon Zeta yet!" Well, that's because my old computer that I had been playing that game on had decided to die on me.


I'm hoping that I can retrieve my old save file from my old computer, because I was really far ahead in that game and I don't want to start it over again. That would really suck.

In the meantime, I thought it would be cool to start a Text Play of another fangame I had discovered: Pokémon Xenoverse. This game is a little bit different from previous fangames I've covered here in this blog. That's because this game primarily uses brand new Pokémon completely made for this game. Fans often dub these original Pokémon "Fakémon" as they are not 'official' Pocket Monsters. Normally, games like this don't really interest me very much. I don't know why. Maybe it's because the lack of any 'official' Pokémon makes the game fangame feel less like a...real Pokémon game. I don't know.



So, you may be asking yourself. If these kinds of games normally don't interest me, why am I playing this game? Well, that's because I saw some of MunchingOrange's playthrough of it on YouTube, and it managed to grab me. It got me wanting to play it for myself. So, I downloaded it at the game's website right here. Word of warning, the site's in Italian. But don't worry, the game is playable in English. Which is good for me as I don't really know any Italian.


Now, before I continue on, I must warn you, I will be spoiling this game, so please keep that in mind before reading it any further.



So, with that out of the way, let's play this game! 

First of all, I have to shout out the intro of this game. The intro is amazingly well done. It almost feels like it could have been the intro for the Pokémon anime in a parallel timeline. Also, you may be wondering about the Latin on the title screen. Well, Per Aspera Ad Astra means "through hardships to the stars" or "Our aspirations take us to the stars". It's a surprisingly appropriate phrase to describe a Pokémon trainer's journey. Pokémon trainers aspire to be the best at it, and they can go through rough times and hardships to reach that goal. Rather clever.



Anyway, the very first choice the game offers you is a choice between Classic and Modern mode.


What this choice affects is how Pokémon in your party get experience points in battle. As the screenshot shows, in Classic Mode, only Pokémon that get to actually participate in battles will get XP. In Modern Mode, all the Pokémon in your party get XP after a battle, whether they participated in it or not. It's like the game gave you the EXP share at the very beginning, much like in Sun and Moon/Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon. If you want a more old-school experience (not to mention more of a challenge), choose Classic Mode. Me? I'm going Modern. It'll make building teams to take on Gym Leaders a lot easier. Once you make your choice, the game begins!



The game begins in a rather unusual way.



No, this isn't the guy you play as. This is your player character's father, Versil. He's eagerly awaiting your birth. A nurse summons you in, and in a move that would likely be seen as unprofessional by some doctors, asks you to guess the new baby's gender. This is just how you pick the gender of the character you play as. 

It's also here that we learn that your mother is named Clover. Hey, our character has both parents! For a Pokémon game, that's really neat. But there was a missed opportunity here. Versil has red hair. It would have made for a neat gag if he was named Crimson. Crimson and Clover, over and over...I'm partial to the Joan Jett version myself.


Anyway, here's where you give your character your name. Five years pass. One fine day, Versil decides to show us around the Nova Ranch, our family's home and business.


We have a nice little home. The first stop is the Miltank Farm.


Forget Moo-Moo Milk, the milk you can get here is the finest around, baby! Next is the pond, right under where the Miltank graze. The waters are rather calming to look at. I wonder if there are any Pokémon in this pond. The last thing we're shown is a big tombstone.


It's in memory of our character's grandfather, who passed away some years earlier. Versil says we're a bit too young for the stories of his life. Yeah, that's because the old man was known for misadventures with hookers and cocaine. 


Versil is about to take us home when he hears a disturbance. We run over and find a little treasure.


Yeah, this is how we choose our starter for this game. So, what are the starters for this game? Well, unlike the other fan games I've played here, the game's starters are completely new Pokémon. The first is Shyleon, the Grass starter.



Shyleon is a chameleon-like Pokémon, with a bit of a ninja vibe to it. Next is the Fire starter, Trishout.



I think Trishout is meant to be based on a dinosaur. And finally, there is Shulong, the Water starter.



I have no idea what Shulong is supposed to be based on. Maybe some kind of otter...tadpole-type thing? Out of the three, I ended up choosing Trishout. I chose Trishout for a couple of reasons. One was that Trishout looked like the coolest one of the starters to me. The second reason was that I normally don't choose Fire starters to play the actual games. Nothing against them, I just normally only get them for the sake of completing the Pokédex. The third is that Trishout is also a new type: Sound. That got me curious. 

There is something funny about how we choose the starters in this game. That is, why choose just one here? I mean, in the "standard" Pokémon games, there's a professor there to ensure that you don't just...make off with all three. Here, there's nobody around. these three Pokéballs are just...lying on the ground. There's nothing stopping us from taking all three. Soooo... why not just grab all of them? 


I mean, that would be a fun twist. Starting with all three. I really hope we can get all three in this game. We were able to get all three starters in Zeta, after all. Anyway, it turns out that someone actually did want those Pokémon, and we get attacked by a mysterious figure packing a Tyranitar. And then we wake up.


Whoa. What a nightmare. Oh, morning Trishout! How are you, buddy...hey, wait a minute. If Trishout is here, then that means...that wasn't a nightmare, was it? 


Anyway, I'm hungry and want some breakfast. Downstairs, Mama Clover greets me. It's a very special day. As it turns out, today is my birthday!



It's mah biiiirthday! My b-b-b-birthday! Clover wishes that Versil was here, but he's abroad working. I wonder where he went off to? I think it would be neat if he went off to the Vesryn region. But my nightmare puts a damper on the whole thing. You see, it was a memory of eleven years earlier. Yeah, so at this point, I'm a 16-year-old teenager. As it turns out, Versil and I didn't come straight home after the Tyranitar attack. Our grandma Flora found me and Trishout a few days later...and Versil had vanished. ...that Tyranitar threw my old man into orbit, didn't he?


...yeah, it turns out that Clover was just making up that "abroad at work" thing as an attempt to protect us from the truth. Yeah, she had been saying consistently that Versil had been "abroad working" for over ten years. Traveling abroad for business is an actual thing that happens, but people who do that do come home at some point. How did anyone not question this after some time?


Welp, time to go find him. As is the thing in these games. Clover is understandably concerned about the dangers. But this is a Pokémon game. In this world, ten-year-olds regularly brave dangers and save the world all the time. I'm technically a late bloomer here, doing this at 16!


Clover reveals that she and someone named Aster have been working on finding Versil for the past eleven years. Well, maybe some fresh eyes on this case would find something new. As such, she basically is like, "You're not looking for your father, and that's final! Now go to your room!" In our room, Trishout suggests an idea to get around the whole thing.


...I swear to Arceus, I think this fire Yoshi is trying to get me killed. Thankfully, the tree next to our house broke our fall. It's at this point that Trishout officially becomes our first Pokémon. We head out through the ranch, but there are a couple of items we can collect on the way. The first is behind the Miltank barn.


As seen in this screenshot, there is an Antidote behind the Miltank barn. On our way to Grandpa's gravestone, we learn the Nova Ranch's slogan.


Wait, the Nova ranch has this catchphrase? Yeah, that's not how it works. Nebulae are where stars are born. They are literally star factories. Supernovas are explosions that occur when a massive star dies. Yeah, "Nova Ranch" does sound cool, and it does keep with the slight stellar theme this game seems to have, but the motto doesn't quite fit the name to me. Nebula Ranch would have fit better. Still would have fit the stellar theme, and it would make a nice gag with the motto.  

Anyway, we head to Grandpa's grave. There's a Potion behind the gravestone. Get it. It's here that we meet Nana Flora.


I imagine that Nana Flora is quite a Cool Old Lady. She comes off as someone who could still have Indiana Jones-style adventures even at her age. She basically teaches us how to catch a Pokémon, and gives us some Pokéballs to help with that. We capture our second Pokémon here: A Weedle. I tried to weaken it to catch it, but I ended up getting a critical and making it faint. Nuts.
 
Anyway, Nana Flora will heal up your Pokémon after this battle. Okay, with that taken care of, let's head out on our journey...


...oh, we are so dead. Clover challenges us to a Pokémon battle.

1st Pokemon: Jigglypuff (Level 5) - Defeated by Trishout.

It's funny that she sends a Jigglypuff to battle me, yet our home has a Wigglytuff. Maybe the Wigglytuff is more of a pet than a battling Pokémon? The battle convinces Clover to let me go help find Versil. She then gives me my birthday present.


A brand-spanking new pair of shoes. Thanks, Clover! With these babies, I can make it to the next city (Hadwarf City) lickety-split! That's where Aster lives. He's an old friend of Versil's. Since he and Clover have been looking for him for the past decade-plus, he may have some leads. So, let's head out to the city!

The thing I noticed is that Nova Ranch...is a big place. Big enough to have a couple of Trainers hanging around, waiting for someone to face them. In fact, it's at this very ranch that we battle a proper Trainer for the first time.


...isn't this Ranch supposed to be private property? Why are trainers wandering around here? Did Versil and Clover allow this? Anyway, the Trainer is pretty simple, armed with a level 3 Bidoof and a level 3 Zigzagoon. We continue upwards until we reach a gate.


This gate leads up to Route 1. Also, see that item there? Grab it, that's a Potion. You never know when you'll need a Potion. Battling the Trainers here is a good way to get some quick experience for your team starting out. The Nova Ranch also allows you to build a surprisingly diverse team of Pokémon rather quickly. I mean, there's Weedles, Ledybas, Bidoofs, and the brand-new Electric/Flying Sparkowl and the Normal/Fighting-type Yemin. I also got to learn a bit about the Sound-type. Sound-type attacks are pretty effective against Fighting-type Pokémon, but not so much against Psychic-type Pokémon. Gotta remember this.


When you enter the route, you notice someone messing with a giant tree trunk.


What is this kid doing here? Well, his name is Adi, and he's rather new to the region. And this tree trunk is not an ordinary tree stump. It's what's called a Pokémon Den. This is a kind of dungeon that can be used to find hidden treasures and observe the behavior of wild Pokémon. Pokémon in the wild can find items that Trainers drop on their journeys, and they take them to the Dens. It's like a dragon hoarding gold in a way. They are explorable, but you can only send one Pokémon at a time. And some Dens require a certain type.

Thing is, Pokémon also use Dens as their home, and sending a Pokémon to explore the Den runs the risk of the wild Pokémon kicking the explorer out. Well, to be fair, that's understandable. We are sending Pokémon to poke around its home without permission.


Well, let's invade a Pokémon's home, shall we? I sent in Trishout to poke around.


Hey, there's a Rattata in here! Basically, the idea is to neither step in the areas with the leaves and branches on them, nor let the Pokémon see you. Once you get past the Rattata, you find an item in the Den.


It's a Rare Candy. A rare item (naturally), this candy will instantly make the level of the Pokémon you give it to jump up by one. For example, if you give it to a level 5 Pokémon, it instantly reaches level 6. Its why Rare Candies are as their name suggests, rare. And with that, the Den is completed! Next to the Den is another Trainer.


She packs an Abra, which helped me discover that Sound-type attacks are not super-effective against Psychic-types. I think the reason why Sound is not effective against Psychic Pokémon is the idea that psychic powers allow someone to ignore loud noise?


Above the Trainer is a Pokéball. Below is the entrance to Hadwarf City, but we have to battle one more trainer before entering.


And once we get past him, we go into Hadwarf City! The first place you encounter here is the Pokémon Center. Thank Arceus.


The Ryu-looking dude standing next to the PC is a Move Deleter. He can make your Pokémon forget any move they learned. By punching them in the head, I presume.


The bald guy on the right will give you an Oran Berry. The second floor of this Pokémon Center has a shop where you can buy some basic supplies. I've always liked the idea of the Pokémon Center and the shop being in the same building. It always seems more convenient. You can buy some basic supplies here at this point. Potions, Antidotes, Pokéballs, that kind of thing. Next to the market is a fighter who wants some money. Give him some money if you want a Focus Band. I'm curious as to what's here in the city. But before we can really explore...


Somebody needs help! Let's see what we can do!


...oh, boy. I kind of wish I chose Shulong right now. One citizen suggests that they call in an "Aster" to help. Wait, Aster? Could this be the same Aster that knew Clover and Versil? The man himself arrives.


How does he do that with his hair? Pokémon regions must have some insane hair gel products. He implies these fires have happened before. So, this is clearly no accident or natural force. Wonderful, we got a mad arsonist on the loose!


Well, not to worry, because Astor has this fire handled...as this city has no fire department. Or maybe he's the fire department? Anyway, he brings out a Pokémon that will handle this no problem.


No, you are not seeing things. He has Suicune, the legendary Pokémon of Gold, Silver, and Crystal. ...how the heck did he catch it? You get the impression that Aster is an incredibly powerful and skilled trainer if he can command a legendary so casually. And naturally, Suicune is able to easily put out the flames.


Yeah, he is Hadwarf's fire department. After the crowd disperses, it's confirmed that yes, he is the same Astra that knew our parents. You see, Versil was his mentor, the Professor Oak to his Ash Ketchum. Since we're just starting out on our Pokémon journey, Aster is all like, "Hey, you wanna go catch an arsonist with me?"


Dude, none of my Pokémon are even at level 10 yet! And I don't have any Pokémon that are strong against Fire-types! Well, Aster explains that the arsonist is not a man...but a Pokémon. In particular, an "X Pokémon".


No, not Xerneas, the mascot of Pokémon X! "X Pokémon" are a mysterious breed of the pocket monsters that have been appearing all over the region recently. Not much is known about them...except that they come from a place called the "Xenoverse"! We have a title drop! Anyway, the Pokémon was last seen at Stardust Beach. We can get there from Route 2. 

But first, I thought it would be nice to give Hadwarf City a bit of a look around first. There's a building that's being guarded.


Yeah, evidently, we'll have to wait until we help Aster out before we can come in here. I think that building is the gym. It looks like a gym. Anyway, we go left from this building and downwards to get to this house here. 


The man inside this house has a little granddaughter. She went over to a lab, but she forgot her favorite Poké Doll. He wants to know if I can bring it over to her. Sure, why not? It's a simple fetch quest. Hadwarf City is a pretty basic Pokémon town, not much to look at. The most-interesting looking buildings are guarded. 


Yeah, I think this building might be the gym after all. Anyway, we should get going to Stardust Beach. But before we go, check out this screenshot.


See that item next to the gate? Get it. It's an Antidote. You never know when you might need one. To get to Stardust Beach, you have to go through a wooded area, where you can catch some more Pokémon and fight some trainers. The game seems to consider this area part of Stardust Beach, but it seems like a possible Route 2 to me. It's at the end of this wooded area we find Aster himself, facing off against a strange new Pokémon.



Yeah, brand new Pokémon are not unusual at this point. After all, we've seen plenty of them. Anyway, Aster has cornered this little angry red Killer Tomato-looking critter...but he wants me to fight this thing.


Yeah. Isn't this the Pokémon that's been causing those fires? That kind of suggests that this Pokémon would be pretty powerful...and rather dangerous. You have a friggin' legendary, Aster! You might have a better chance of stopping it than me! Well, this is the game's way of introducing us to X Pokémon. 


No, not Xerneas! X Pokémon are the extradimensional Pokémon Aster mentioned earlier. And we need special Pokéballs to catch them called Xeno Balls. Aster developed them to capture these Pokémon as for some reason, regular Pokéballs can't hold them.


Maybe it's because it's from another dimension? Aster has studied the strange new critters and he has discovered something. You know how Pokémon in battle have life bars? Well, X Pokémon have multiple life bars. That means that this Pokémon can take more of a beating than the average Pokémon. This critter here has two. So, let's face this thing.


This X Elekid kind of remind me of Delta Pokémon from Pokémon Insurgence or the Alolan and Galarian variants from Sun/Moon and Sword/Shield. Looks different from the standard Elekid and has different attacks in a certain element. I managed to capture it, and I think this game's PokéDex has a separate section for X Pokémon.


Anyway, with this guy caught, Aster takes me back to his lab. It's where he's been researching X Pokémon. He's not sure how many of these new Pokémon are out there, but he knows they can be a serious threat to the region if they're not dealt with. He suggests I start on my journey to be a Pokémon Master, with the Hadwarf City Gym. he heads out, as he's got a meeting to get to.

One of the scientists will educate you a bit on the Sound type. Sound is good against Water, Flying, and Fairy, but it's also weak against Dragon and Electric. It's here in the lab that you find the little girl who wants her Poke Doll!



If you go back to her grandfather's house, he'll give you a Great Ball as a reward. With that, I decided to return to the beach and explore it a bit.



The old guy there is Mr. Briney with his beloved Pokémon Peeko. Peeko was a Wingull, but now it has seemingly evolved into a Pelipper. Makes me wonder how far ahead of Ruby and Sapphire this is set. The main thing is that pier over there. The one that seems to be guarded by a captain and a pair of angry sailors. They're guarding the ship because there's some maintenance being done on it. Not much else here, just this little grassy area off to the right. 


The item there is a Stardust. I think you can sell that for some extra cash. That's pretty much it for Stardust Beach. You can try to catch a Palossand here if you want. Just talk to the little sand piles with the shovels in them.

I headed back to Hadwarf City. I figured that maybe getting past the Gym there would help me continue forwards. After all, Aster did suggest I go there. The Gym itself is in a little forest area, and it has a big ol' tree on top of it, suggesting that it's a Grass or Bug-themed gym. I'm leaning for towards grass as the leader here, a Basil, is described as "The Man at One with Nature." Below it is another item.


It's a Revive. Get it. They're hard to come by, and always handy in a pinch. Once inside the gym, a man inside confirms that Basil is indeed a Grass-type specialist.


Trishout will really kick some butt here, being part-Fire. Also, that X Elekid we got earlier is a Fire-type. I can't help but wonder if this was the game's way of getting me to use this X Pokémon. I also decided to bring along Taillow, as it's a Flying-type. Flying-types are good against Grass Pokémon. I hope it can learn some Flying moves.

The inside of the Hadwarf Gym, naturally for a gym specializing in Grass-type Pokémon, is essentially a giant forest inside. This gym is awesome for one reason. You see, if you walk around in the grass patches here...you can encounter and catch wild Pokémon here.


I am not kidding. This Gym has wild catchable Pokémon in it. It's amazing! I never thought I'd ever see something like this. I was wondering if this was the game's way of replacing the trainers you face in the Gym before you face the leaders. After all, there seems to be an endless amount of wild Pokémon to face here, and it's a convenient way to grind up your Pokémon some more before facing Basil.

There's also a big stone sign with a strange bit of writing on it.


You see, there will be three large logs slightly ahead of the screenshot. This writing is indicating which log you go through, the leftmost log. Going through the middle and right logs will get you thrown out by a Trevenant. The left log will take you to a chamber where you can battle a trainer. From there, you enter another room like the first.


Like the first room, just follow the sign. And yes, that is a bit of a glitch in the screenshot. It's a minor thing, it's not game-breaking, thank God. As with the last room, you go into the log that the sign tells you to go into. In this case, it's the one on the right. You end up in another room, where you fight another trainer, armed with a Level 10 Phantump. My X Elekid easily took care of it. Finally, we meet Basil himself.


Don't worry about the big two slabs. There's nothing on them. Basil is basically your archetypical hippie/Zen Master. Despite this, he really doesn't like it when people bother him while he's meditating.

1st Pokemon: Morelull (Lv. 10) - Defeated by X Elekid. Basil used a Potion, but it didn't help.
2nd Pokemon: X Spiritomb? (Lv. 12) -  Defeated by X Elekid.

And with that, we get the first badge of the Eldiw region, the Root Badge. We also get TM86 (Grass Knot). 



Ain't it a beauty? Basil claims it's because he let his anger get the better of him. Sure, buddy. What I found interesting about this battle was that Basil seemed to have an X Pokémon of his own: the Spiritomb.



It has to be an X Pokemon. It looks different from the standard (presumably it's Grass, as Basil is a Grass-type specialist), and it has different attacks. Which does lead me to wonder...how did he get this Pokemon? Was it given to him? According to Aster, regular Pokeballs are useless for catching X Pokemon. You need a Xeno Ball to catch one. Did Aster give Basil some as well so he could catch this?


Anyway, now that we got badge #1, it's time to head out. You can still encounter and try to catch wild Pokémon here after beating Basil. But the very second we leave the gym...


Aster shows up. What's up, pal? He's thrilled I beat Basil, but he has an errand for me to run. Seriously? Can I at least get a little rest here?


One of Aster's researchers has gone off to Proxim Island on a mission about enhancing the Xeno Balls. He hasn't updated Aster lately, and Mr. Wavehead is a bit worried. Naturally, instead of going there himself to find out what's going on, he wants me to check up on them. A rookie Trainer with only one badge, and zero Pokémon that has reached level 20. He says the sailor we met at Stardust Beach, you know, Mr. Briney? He can take us there. Just tell him Aster sent us. He'll give us something for it at the lab if we do this. It had better be money...



So, let's go do this...after we get healed up at the Pokémon Center. Proxim Island is a small little island, with a few huts in it. It's got some scientists on it. If you talk to one examining a rock, you'll get a Star Piece. Nearby is a hut that has an old lady with an Eevee in it. She'll give you TM45 (Attract).

In one of the huts near the center of the island, you'll find Rem, the scientist Aster wants the updates from. His dialogue implies that he hasn't really been doing his job. He gives me the prototype he was supposedly working on. When I return it to Aster, he's...none too happy. You see, the "prototype"...was just a standard Xeno Ball. Yeah, Rem's been spending his time on Proxim goofing off.

Aster asks me who took me down to the island. It was Mr. Briney, the sailor Aster told me about. But Aster reveals that Mr. Briney stopped working with him years ago.


That explains why he didn't call his Pelipper "Peeko". Despite that, we did get the prototype back, so Aster has a nice little gift for us: The PokéWES!


He wants us to play beta tester for this fancy glove. This is what you use in this game to access your map, your PokéDex, and a little thing called the HM Service. The HM service is what will allow Trainers to use moves like Cut, Flash, and Surf in the overworld. The game also borrows from Sun and Moon, allowing Trainers to hire Pokémon to help explore the region. In fact, the WES in PokéWES stands for "Wide Exploration System". However, to access certain features, Aster needs these stones called H-Minerals, which he hopes I'll find. And he gives me some extra Xeno Balls. You can buy some more in the lab now, but they are pretty expensive. It makes sense, as Xeno Balls are specially designed, and X Pokémon are presumably rarer than standard Pokémon.

It's interesting that we get the game's equivalent of a PokéDex so late compared to the "official" Pokémon games. I have never played a Pokémon game that makes you wait until you beat the first Gym Leader to get the PokéWES. And this game also has...achievements. Yeah, achievements. Much like in an Xbox game. You get them for doing certain things, like collecting Pokémon and beating Gym Leaders. It does have one issue. For some reason, the game crashes when I access the Achievements screen.



Well...now where do we go from here? Well, remember that ship from earlier? We can now go on it! And that's where we'll stop for now.

The graphics give me the vibe of a Pokémon game made for mobile devices. I don't hate it. It is different, but that's not a bad thing. It looks to me like it's a halfway point between the sprites of early Pokémon games and the style of the models from the upcoming Diamond and Pearl remakes.

The translation is pretty good, from what I've seen. Couple minor grammatical errors here and there, though. 

There are a couple of things I didn't like about this game so far. This might just be a me thing, though. You see, I couldn't turn off the game's sound and music right away. I like to listen to YouTube videos when I play Pokémon fangames (helps me relax), and it's annoying hearing the music over it. Luckily, I discovered the program that lets me take screenshots allows me to mute the game, so that's handy. Still thought, I would have liked to have been able to mute the game through the Options menu. It would be more convenient.

Also, the player character's default speed is slowwwww. Very slow.


Yeah, I know you get running shoes early on, so you can run faster, and it maybe is something that annoys only me, but...yeah. I thought I'd point that out. Also, I'm not sure if it's my laptop or the game, but when I try to run in the game, it's like the game briefly pauses regularly. Almost like a record skipping. It's a minor thing, but I think it's worth noting.

The new Pokémon are pretty cool, and I did like that at the beginning of the game, you can choose to essentially start the game with a modern EXP Share. This is really going to make grinding less of a...grind, ha ha. I am so sorry. It will also make it easier to create and train new teams to take on Gym Leaders and the like. I can't wait to see what comes next!

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Pokemon Obtained:
(Nova Ranch)
- Trishout
- Weedle
- Sparkowl
- Ledyba
- Zigazgoon
- Yemin
- Mareep
- Bidoof
(Stardust Beach)
- Wingull
- Inkay
- Taillow
- Sandygast
- Bremand
- Kakuna (evolved from Weedle)
- Masgot
(Hadwarf Gym)
- Phantump
- Oddish
- Beedrill (evolved from Kakuna)
(Proxim Island)
- Shawkbird (evolved from Sparkowl at Level 15)