The Safari Zone

The Safari Zone is a special gated Pokémon preserve located east of Polder Town, in East Borrius.

It is a self-contained mini-game involving a unique catching mechanic, four difficulties, increased encounter chances for gen 3 starters, and it is the only way to acquire certain rare Pokémon. So it is an essential visit if you want to fill up your Pokedex.

The Safari Game (Rules & Overview)

To participate in the Safari Game at the Safari Zone, speak to one of the two men with interesting haircuts at the eastern end of the gatehouse building. Each Safari Game session costs 500 Poke Dollars.

You’ll also be asked to choose a difficulty:

• Easy
• Medium
• Hard
• Insane

This difficulty choice determines the particular Pokemon available to catch in your Safari Zone session. Additionally, each increase in difficulty increases how fast the Pokemon can move and, therefore, how difficult they are to catch in the first place.

At the beginning of each session you’ll be given 30 Safari Balls. When you run out of Balls, the session will end and you will need to start a new one to continue capturing Pokemon.

Capturing Pokemon

When you enter the Safari Zone, the screen changes to a grassy field, and a wild Safari Zone Pokemon will appear.

Your goal is to throw a Safari Ball at the Pokemon to catch it – and since the Pokemon is a moving target, this may be more difficult than it sounds.

Use the Arrow Keys to move the red capture ring, and throw a Safari Ball using A.

And even if your Ball hits the target, the Pokemon still has a chance to break free. You can try as many times as you like, so long as you have the Safari Balls for it.

Pressing the B button gives you the option to run and skip that particular Pokemon if you do not want to waste time and Balls catching it. But to do this you will need to pay a fee on balls:

• 5 on Easy Mode
• 4 on Medium Mode
• 3 on Hard and Insane Modes

The START option gives you the choice of feeding special Berries to the wild Pokemon, but they must be one of these berries:

• Razz Berries
• Bluk Berries
• Nanab Berries
• Wepear Berries
• Pinap Berries

Each Safari Pokemon can be affected by up to three Berries at a time, and their effects do stack with each other. If you want more details about using berries then scroll down to the bottom of this page for more info.

List of Safari Zone Pokemon

Below are tables detailing all of the possible encounters you can find in the Safari Zone, with each table organized by each of the difficulty modes.

Easy Mode

Pokemon	Catch Rate	Held Item(s) (must feed a Pinap Berry)
Blitzle	Random	Cheri Berry
Bounsweet	Random	Grassy Seed
Cubone	Random	Razz Berry Bluk Berry Wepear Berry Nanab Berry Pinap Berry
Helioptile	Random	Razz Berry Bluk Berry Wepear Berry Nanab Berry Pinap Berry
Alolan Meowth	Random	Quick Claw
Minun	Random	Cell Battery
Natu	Random	Razz Berry Bluk Berry Wepear Berry Nanab Berry Pinap Berry
Plusle	Random	Cell Battery
Rhyhorn	Random	Razz Berry Bluk Berry Wepear Berry Nanab Berry Pinap Berry
Skitty	Random	Pecha Berry Leppa Berry
Mudkip	Higher chance after every 5 captures of other Safari Pokemon	Razz Berry Bluk Berry Wepear Berry Nanab Berry Pinap Berry
Treecko	Higher chance after every 5 captures of other Safari Pokemon	Razz Berry Bluk Berry Wepear Berry Nanab Berry Pinap Berry
Torchic	Higher chance after every 5 captures of other Safari Pokemon	Razz Berry Bluk Berry Wepear Berry Nanab Berry Pinap Berry

Medium Mode

Pokémon	Catch Rate	Held Item(s) (must feed them Pinap Berry)
Alolan Diglett	Random	Soft Sand
Helioptile	Random	Razz Berry Bluk Berry Wepear Berry Nanab Berry Pinap Berry
Rhyhorn	Random	Razz Berry Bluk Berry Wepear Berry Nanab Berry Pinap Berry
Spinda	Random	Chesto Berry
Steenee	Random	Grassy Seed
Tauros	Random	Razz Berry Bluk Berry Wepear Berry Nanab Berry Pinap Berry
Wobbuffet	Random	Razz Berry Bluk Berry Wepear Berry Nanab Berry Pinap Berry
Xatu	Random	Razz Berry Bluk Berry Wepear Berry Nanab Berry Pinap Berry
Zebstrika	Random	Cheri Berry
Mudkip	Higher chance after every 5 captures of other Safari Pokemon	Razz Berry Bluk Berry Wepear Berry Nanab Berry Pinap Berry
Treecko	Higher chance after every 5 captures of other Safari Pokemon	Razz Berry Bluk Berry Wepear Berry Nanab Berry Pinap Berry
Torchic	Higher chance after every 5 captures of other Safari Pokemon	Razz Berry Bluk Berry Wepear Berry Nanab Berry Pinap Berry

Hard Mode

Pokémon	Catch Rate	Held Item(s) (must feed them Pinap Berry)
Alolan Diglett	Random	Soft Sand
Alolan Exeggcute	Random	Psychic Seed
Golisopod	Random	Razz Berry Bluk Berry Wepear Berry Nanab Berry Pinap Berry
Helioptile	Random	Razz Berry Bluk Berry Wepear Berry Nanab Berry Pinap Berry
Kangaskhan	Random	Razz Berry Bluk Berry Wepear Berry Nanab Berry Pinap Berry
Rhydon	Random	Razz Berry Bluk Berry Wepear Berry Nanab Berry Pinap Berry
Spinda	Random	Chesto Berry
Tauros	Random	Razz Berry Bluk Berry Wepear Berry Nanab Berry Pinap Berry
Wobbuffet	Random	Razz Berry Bluk Berry Wepear Berry Nanab Berry Pinap Berry
Zebstrika	Random	Cheri Berry
Combusken	Higher chance after every 5 captures of other Safari Pokemon	Razz Berry Bluk Berry Wepear Berry Nanab Berry Pinap Berry
Grovyle	Higher chance after every 5 captures of other Safari Pokemon	Razz Berry Bluk Berry Wepear Berry Nanab Berry Pinap Berry
Marshtomp	Higher chance after every 5 captures of other Safari Pokemon	Razz Berry Bluk Berry Wepear Berry Nanab Berry Pinap Berry

Insane Mode

Pokémon	Catch Rate	Held Item(s) (must feed them Pinap Berry)
Doublade	Random	Razz Berry Bluk Berry Wepear Berry Nanab Berry Pinap Berry
Alolan Dugtrio	Random	Soft Sand
Alolan Exeggcute	Random	Psychic Seed
Golisopod	Random	Razz Berry Bluk Berry Wepear Berry Nanab Berry Pinap Berry
Heliolisk	Random	Razz Berry Bluk Berry Wepear Berry Nanab Berry Pinap Berry
Kangaskhan	Random	Razz Berry Bluk Berry Wepear Berry Nanab Berry Pinap Berry
Rhydon	Random	Razz Berry Bluk Berry Wepear Berry Nanab Berry Pinap Berry
Tauros	Random	Razz Berry Bluk Berry Wepear Berry Nanab Berry Pinap Berry
Wobbuffet	Random	Razz Berry Bluk Berry Wepear Berry Nanab Berry Pinap Berry
Combusken	Higher chance after every 5 captures of other Safari Pokemon	Razz Berry Bluk Berry Wepear Berry Nanab Berry Pinap Berry
Grovyle	Higher chance after every 5 captures of other Safari Pokemon	Razz Berry Bluk Berry Wepear Berry Nanab Berry Pinap Berry
Marshtomp	Higher chance after every 5 captures of other Safari Pokemon	Razz Berry Bluk Berry Wepear Berry Nanab Berry Pinap Berry

Safari Zone Berries

You can purchase berries for the Safari Zone from the Seaport City Marketplace, where each of them sells for P500 each.

Below we’ve detailed where you can buy these berries, and we’ve also listed the effects that each berry has when you use any of them during a Safari Zone encounter.

Most of these berries also have stackable effects, meaning you can use multiple to mix effects, or you can use the same berry twice or three times to have the effect applied further.

Seaport Marketplace – Southwest Stall – Berry Vendor
Berry	Cost
Razz Berry	500 Poke Dollars
Bluk Berry	500 Poke Dollars
Nanab Berry	500 Poke Dollars
Wepear Berry	500 Poke Dollars
Pinap Berry	500 Poke Dollars

Item	Effect	Image
Razz Berry	Increases Safari Zone Pokémon’s catch rate by 25% Effect stacks, up to 3 total Berry effects per Pokemon
Bluk Berry	Increases Safari Zone Pokémon’s catch rate by 50%, but increases distance length of movement Effect stacks, up to 3 total Berry effects per Pokemon
Nanab Berry	Decreases Safari Zone Pokémon’s likelihood of movement Effect stacks, up to 3 total Berry effects per Pokemon
Wepear Berry	Decreases Safari Zone Pokémon’s distance length of total movement area Effect stacks, up to 3 total Berry effects per Pokemon
Pinap Berry	Makes a Safari Zone Pokemon more likely to be holding an item Effect does not stack with itself

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