Pokémon Ranger/Grimer Outbreak
Back at Fall City's Base[edit]
Joel promotes you to Ranger Rank 3 for doing an excellent job with your mission in calming the Machoke and helping the Fall City citizens! With this, you can use the Poison Poké Assist, the Psychic Poké Assist, and lastly, you'll unlock a second bar to your partner's energy gauge, meaning you can now use a more powerful assist with it.
Just after you rank up, a civil engineer runs in pushing you to the side, as he reports that the sewers, which are supposed to be clean, are full of sludge! It's infested with Grimer and he wants a Ranger to investigate. Joel says that all his Rangers are tied up so he assigns you the mission to go and capture the Grimer and then deliver them to an expert Ranger that can deal with them.
Grimer Outbreak[edit]
Your next mission has started, so head out of the Ranger Base and go the same way you went to the lab whuch is just north of the Base. Go past the lab, and south to find the sewer entrance. Before you can delve deep into the sewer, you meet up with a Fall City Ranger who will take the Grimer that you capture. The sewer has a few good new Pokémon to capture, starting with Totodile.
Pokémon in this area (Bold = New):
| Pokémon |
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 Totodile
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 Grimer
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 Corphish
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 Magnemite
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 Drowzee
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 Koffing
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 Raticate
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 Croconaw
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 Tangela
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 Meditite
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 Magneton
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 Oddish
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 Crawdaunt
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Before you can go on and capture anything else, you'll find some puddles of sludge, and you'll find your first Grimer. After capturing it, the sludge will be cleared, and the Ranger that was at the entrance will come running to take the Grimer with him.
Heading east and south to the next screen, you'll find a few more Pokémon, including Corphish which we hadn't seen before. Notice the two metal fence gates, and how you are yet unable to clear them.
Heading south and east, you'll find another pair of Grimer. Capture them and continue heading east until you find a ladder to climb down. Climb down the ladder then down the next ladder near the engineer to find a Drowzee. This next area is slippery and you can fall off the ledge to the east and go down a floor so be careful. Slide your way around the gap and capture a Koffing on the way. Go up the two ladders and you'll find a Raticate which you need to capture. After you do, bring it back to where you saw the fence, and use Raticate's Field Move to cut down one of the metal fences. Head north to the next screen. Along the way, you'll be jumped by a new Pokémon, Croconaw.
Keep heading east to find another pair of Grimer, capture them and continue moving along to the next screen. You'll find two pipes, going into the one on the left will only allow you to catch a Drowzee and a Corphish. Capture the Drowzee as its Poké Assist has a double affect on the Grimers. Once done, head into the pipe on the right. You'll meet with Aria, who will go on ahead with her investigations on the Go-Rock Squad. Go north out of the pipe, and down the stairs directly to the right. Dodge all the Koffing and make sure not to fall down, and climb the stairs on the right side of the room.
Head down the pipe on the left, save if you wish and head west and north to the next screen. Capture the Magnemite before the bridge and use its Electric field Move if your Styler is low. Cross the bridge and walk a bit west to encounter a Grimer trio. Capture them and head east to capture another Drowzee. After that, head west to find Aria and a small post on the other side of a waterway. You'll need to find a way to cross, so go north to find Tangela, a new Pokémon.
Bring this Tangela down to the place you need to cross and use its Field Move on the post to get across. Before going any further west, go north and capture a Meditite.
After capturing the Meditite, jump down onto the side you were previously and go east to find a breakable wall. Use Meditite's Field Move to clear it, and go inside to find not one, but two new Pokémon, Magneton and Oddish! Keep in mind that Magneton's Field Move is an improved version of that of Magnemite and Pichu, so it may be a valuable ally to you in the future.
Cross once again by finding a Tangela to the north using it's Field Move. Walk into the pipe to the west. Follow its linear path until you exit. In this room, you can go to the west and find a gate that requires Raticate's Field Move to clear. Thankfully, going down the pipe to the left and straight down, ignoring the branching path to the left, will bring you to an area with another Raticate, so capture it and bring it back to that gate to clear it. If you do, you'll find another new Pokémon behind it, Crawdaunt!
After capturing it, head back into the left pipe, and this time go to the left branching path and then down, out of the pipe. Capture another trio of Grimer and head on through the area. You'll see a civil engineer getting attacked by two Grimer and a Muk. Head towards him and along the way you will find another Drowzee, capture it then continuebto the engineer and capture all three of the Pokémon in your next boss battle!
| Pokémon |
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 Muk
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This battle is made quite difficult by the fact that both Grimer and Muk leave poisonous tracks on the ground as they move, which hurt if you draw a line into them. To give you an easier time on this fight, you can capture the Drowzee that appears a bit before this battle and use its Assist, as the Psychic Assist levitates the Pokémon in the air for a little while allowing for a much easier capture. Otherwise you can also attempt to use your partner's Assist to paralyze them all, but if you do make sure they are together as it may be difficult to draw loops around them if they are not.
Once you've captured all three, it'll be...
Mission clear!
