Part 4
Episode 2: "Reap What's Been Sewn"
Obsidia Ward (Central + South)
Obsidia Ward is even bigger than Peridot, taking place as the biggest ward in Reborn City. Thanks to its huge size, it was broken up into three parts on maps: North Obsidia, Obsidia, and South Obsidia. However, after the earthquakes and the plants incident, the three parts are now separated geographically as well. The part we can access currently is the central part, Obsidia (and a part of South Obsidia).
Victoria wasn't kidding when she said Obsidia was being attacked by plants. Vines are growing and wriggling everywhere, and some areas are blocked off. If you're experiencing lag in this area, it's probably because of all of these vines. Maybe when they get cleared out, your game will be smoother. Now, you might notice that there's a bunch of people staring at this giant crack in the middle of the street, which splits Obsidia in another half. There's also a Cut tree in the sidewalk, and if you somehow managed to cut it down, you could get to the other side. And we have a Badge that lets us use Cut. Gee, I wonder what we're going to do!
So you might want to make sure you have caught or will catch a Pokemon that can learn it before we set off to try and find Victoria. Anyway, there's a couple events we can do in Obsidia Ward, before we try to get to the other side.
Firstly, let's find the Pokemon Center and any stores. By the way, Obsidia has quite a few shops, unlike Peridot and Opal.
Pokemon Center:
There's quite a few people in the Pokemon Center, by the way, including one girl who says her boyfriend fell into the giant crack in Obsidia and another woman who is looking for her son. You might want to remember them, because in case you couldn't tell, those are future events.
Next up, the shops.
Critical Capture, a Poke Ball Shop:
Critical Capture:
Heavy Ball - 300
Moon Ball - 300
Fast Ball - 300
Love Ball - 400
Nest Ball - 500
Net Ball - 500
Dive Ball - 500
Timer Ball - 1000
Friend Ball - 3000
Out of these, I would recommend getting some of the Timer Balls and Nest Balls. Some Pokemon will have very low catch rates, even if they are very low leveled.
Devon Corp: (which surprisingly doesn't really have good Items; it's like the Poke Mart of Obsidia...)
Devon Corp:
Potion - 300
Repel - 350
Poke Ball - 200
At the very least, we finally get Repels. You may want to stock up on them if you don't like running into wild Pokemon, and quite a few areas will have them.
This over here is one of two Salons in Obsidia, Central Salon:
Anyway, there are three things you can do here. One: For the price of 1500, you can get your Pokemon groomed and increase its happiness, but you can only do this once a day. It's handy for those baby Pokemon, but you'll need to save up. The lady who does this is here in the Salon:
Secondly, you can check your Pokemon's happiness by talking to the girl above the lady who grooms your Pokemon in the picture above. She'll give you vague answers instead of actually telling you what the number is, though, but at least you get a sense of how your Pokemon are feeling?
The last thing you can do here is talk to a different lady. She wants to see a Pokemon with maxed out happiness. If you do so, she'll give you a Soothe Bell, which will also help with getting your Pokemon to become more friendly! If the Pokemon isn't friendly enough, she'll just say that you're a bad Trainer. :c Anyway, your starter Pokemon or a Pokemon that needs happiness to evolve that has evolved should/will suffice.
Anyway, the final store there is is Sweet Kiss, a candy store~
There will be two counters inside. One will sell you candy.
Sweet Kiss:
Common Candy - 300
Whipped Dream - 1000 Peppermint (cures Poison) - 600 Chewing Gum (cures Paralysis) - 800 Pop Rocks (cures Sleep) - 750 Salt-water Taffy (cures Burn) - 850 Red-Hots (cures Freeze) - 850 Cotton Candy (Revive) - 5000 Rare Candy - 20000
The other allows you to challenge a tile puzzle. If you manage to create the picture of a Swirlix, you'll get Sweet Kiss' mascot, Swirlix! Keep in mind that you can repeat these. The puzzle should look like this: If yours seems like it does, but it doesn't end immediately as it should if the puzzle is correct, maybe try turning the corners?
(Lv. 10)
Although we can buy a Whipped Dream, we can't evolve Swirlix without giving it a Link Stone (stone evolution for Trade Pokemon), so it isn't too great of a Fairy type. However, Swirlix does get some useful moves, like Light Screen, Aromatherapy, Draining Kiss, Energy Ball, Play Rough, Endeavor, etc. But even Slurpuff isn't so great, as it can't get Belly Drum without breeding from a Limited Event Pokemon and Sitrus Berries are consumable. You can go for a special Slurpuff, though, since Flamethrower, Surf, etc. are available in the future.
Anyway, you may notice a vending machine in Sweet Kiss, but a boy is blocking it. Give him any Ice Cream, which you can buy from the Opal Ice Cream Vendor, and he'll move. You may now get more Ice Cream, without needing to use weather!
Sweet Kiss Ice Cream Vendor:
Vanilla Ice Cream* - 1000 / 400
Choc Ice Cream - 600
Berry Ice Cream - 800
Occasionally, a Blue Moon Ice Cream will drop out instead of the Ice Cream you buy.
*When you buy Ice Cream for the first time, it will cost 1000. This is because the Ice Cream that will drop out is actually a Vanillite! After this, Vanilla Ice Cream can be bought for 400.
(Lv. 15)
Besides being cute, Vanillite is a pretty nice Ice type, and is also the first obtainable one. It gets moves like Mirror Move, Mirror Shot, Acid Armor, Ice Beam, etc., so it can actually be both somewhat defensive as well as still do some damage. Vanillite is probably outclassed by stronger Ice types, but most of the best ones only will appear later in game, so you might be using Vanillite for a while if you choose to.
Now, that wraps up the shops. Before we go south, there's a Steel Gem over here:
In addition, that building in the same picture actually leads to the Underground Railroad, but Obsidia side.
Underground Railnet
Remember the part from Peridot side? Well, this one has some different Pokemon, and some stronger ones at it too.
Underground Railnet, Obsidia Side:
Encounters:
Dark Spots:
I already talked about Noibat and Woobat, but Klink is a new Pokemon! It becomes fairly bulky, and getting Gear Grind and Shift Gear are pretty nice. Also, it can learn Charge Beam for boosting Special Attack. If you want a Steel type, Klink is available here, but it's another Pokemon that will be outclassed later. If you haven't realized by now, most of the good Pokemon will be available pretty late.
Anyway, last event for now is in a man's apartment.
Here, his Lillipup will run away. However, we can't reach the area his Lillipup runs off to next just yet, but it's coming up fairly soon.
With all of that done, we can finally go see Victoria! She mentions that the only way to get to the other side of South Obsidia and Obsidia is to go through the Obsidia Slums, but she finds it dangerous. She doesn't want you to go in and battles you. (*cough* Roadblock *cough*)
Apprentice Victoria would like to battle!
Items: 2 Potions
Field: None
Format: Singles
(Lv. 15) Synchronize: Double Team, Teleport, Disarming Voice, Lucky Chant
(Lv. 15) Thick Fat: Sand Attack, Arm Thrust, Fake Out, Force Palm
(Lv. 17) Blaze: Odor Sleuth, Defense Curl, Flame Charge, Arm Thrust
Victoria is a Fighting type Trainer, so...
- Fairy types, Flying types and Psychic types would naturally be useful against her, like Espurr, Swoobat, Jigglypuff, etc.
- As for Ralts (which will obviously evolve into Gallade), there's Poison types like Stunky that can easily take it out. Just remember not to use statuses unless you're doing something like using Poison Gas from a Poison type, since Synchronize won't affect it that way.
After beating her, Victoria will let you go into the Slums. Before we do that, on windy days, you can see Hoppip floating around in this area. If you touch one, it will battle you! The area in this picture is opened up to you later, but you don't have to be here to get one.
(Lv. 10) Egg Moves: Aromatherapy, Encore, Grassy Terrain
When it evolves into Jumpluff, Hoppip can actually be a pretty speedy Pokemon with the usual Sleep Powder, Leech Seed, U-Turn, and Acrobatics (since you're not going to get too many useful Items anytime soon). It's somewhat frail, but Jumpluff is a great supportive Pokemon with some nice attacks too.
Obsidia Slums
Now, there's going to be wild Pokemon here, as well as a couple Trainers. Luckily, there are three of these Items called "Light Shards", which will heal your whole team up, but can only be used once. If you feel like something is going to happen soon and you need to heal up, use them. You'll get to see more of these later on signalling more battles/important battles, appearing when the devs think you might need them, whether just before/after a boss or in between a bunch of Trainers. They look like this:
Anyway, I mentioned that there's wild Pokemon here, so let's list them. (You won't see these Pokemon at the back room nor the exit.)
Obsidia Slums:
Encounters:
Here, you can get some Fighting types, which you want to have at least one of for the upcoming Gym. I recommend Makuhita out of the three, since its Abilities are all nice, plus it gets moves like Fake Out and Knock Off. Pancham and Mankey are kinda outclassed by it, really.
Also, if you want a Flying type, Pidove is a good option because it evolves into a POWERFUL STARAPTOR due to Air Cutter and Roost.
EV Train here in Attack, if you'd like, as Pidove, Mankey, and Pancham all give Attack. Avoid Trubbish and Makuhita, since they give you Speed and HP respectively. Actually, if you want a fast physical Pokemon, just avoid Makuhita, and if you want a bulky physical Pokemon, just avoid Trubbish.
Anyway, the Slums has a couple of jumping puzzles, but all of them are pretty easy, although some have dead end paths. You might hear about a mysterious moving box from the Trainers... Wonder what that could be? Boxes don't usually move, but you'll get to see it as you progress through the Slums. How spooky, has it been haunted with the Halloween spirit? By the way, since I didn't say this, Happy Halloween~
Oh, and if you remember from the stolen Pokemon quest, the thief said the person who stole the Pokemon went to the Obsidia Slums. Well, after you beat this random Trainer, he says that he stole the Pokemon, and then sold it off to a gang member in Lapis Ward. Sigh.
Also, there's a couple of Items through out the Slums: Zinc, TM 60 Quash, a Moon Stone, a Great Ball, and probably a couple more hidden around that don't really need to be shown.
Also, if you push this box out of the way after entering an optional room like this...
You'll come to a jumping puzzle. After beating that, you'll be at the start of the Slums, but on an opposite side, where there can be either a Ducklett or Drowzee Egg.
Egg Moves: Mirror Move OR Egg Moves: Nasty Plot
Both Ducklett and Drowzee are good Pokemon. Ducklett can use Rain Dance + Hurricane to its advantage, while Drowzee can learn Hypnosis + Nightmare, Poison Gas, etc. These strategies are pretty unusual, but they work.
Eventually we'll see that the moving box is actually...
Following the Scraggy, we'll eventually come to a room with some more Scraggy and a Scrafty, who will battle you.
Pokemon Gang would like to battle!
Items: None
Field: None
Format: Doubles (Alone)
Scraggy (lv. 14) [ANY ABILITY]: Sand Attack, Faint Attack, Headbutt
Scraggy (Lv. 15) [ANY ABILITY]: Sand Attack, Faint Attack, Headbutt
Scraggy (Lv. 16) [ANY ABILITY]: Sand Attack, Faint Attack, Headbutt, Swagger
Scrafty (Lv. 18) [ANY ABILITY]: Sand Attack, Faint Attack, Headbutt, Swagger
This is a double battle, but it's really a joke. Swagger and Sand Attack might be annoying, but this fight is pretty easy.
- Just bring a Flying type, Fairy type, or Fighting type, and you should be good to go.
- Perish Song too op pls nerf
Upon defeating them, they will unlock the door to get out of the Slums and leave. Aww, looks like we won't be getting a Scraggy just yet (hint hint).
South Obsidia Ward
Anyway, after leaving that place, you'll be in the other part of South Obsidia Ward.
Police are blocking off Obsidia Ward from you, so we can't get to the other side of the crack just yet. There's also a huge door that leads to a place called the Byxbysion Wasteland, but it's locked. So the only place left to go is south, to another part of Reborn City, called Coral Ward.