Mission #030: Home for a Hobo | |
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Start Location | Epidimy Town, old man near Pokémon Center |
Unlock Requirements |
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Objectives | Find a new home for an old man in Epidimy Town by helping out a landlord in Seaport City |
Reward | Item: Icium Z |
An old man in Epidimy Town is homeless and needs your help to find a vacant house. The only suitable vacant apartment is in Seaport City, and you’ll have to help out its landlord before he’ll give it to the old man.
If you do that though, your prize is the Icium Z.
Starting the Mission

Speak to the old man wandering near the Pokémon Center in Epidimy Town.

The old man needs somewhere to live. There are no houses available in Epidimy Town, so you’ll need to look much further afield.
How to Complete

In Seaport City there’s an apartment building north of the Marketplace.
The upper floor has a vacant apartment, and it’s the one you need to give to the old man.

The man on the couch in the hallway of this building is the landlord.
However, first you’ll need to do something for him, and it turns out to be more complicated than it seems.
A couple of thugs have taken the landlord’s prized Skitty, and you’ll need to track them down.

You can find Swizer and Bullo near the steps that lead to the beach on the southwest side of town.
They’ll give you a Double Battle, and when you beat them they’ll run off.
Burglar Swizer and Black Ferrothorn Bullo | |
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Combusken Fire/Fighting (Lv.54) |
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Shieldon Rock/Steel (Lv.52) |
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Garbodor Poison (Lv.53) |
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The landlord is grateful, but you’ll need to walk him back home for your reward.
Returning the Landlord

However, when you get there, he mysteriously disappears.
Swizer shows up to gloat, and tells you if you want him back, you’ll need to go to the western Seaport warehouse – the one just near the beach entrance – to take on him and his gang.
There’s weird restrictions though – you need to bring only Ice and Fairy-type Pokémon (double types are fine, so long as at least one of them is Ice or Fairy). Prepare your team – this may be difficult if you haven’t trained those typings.

If you’re all set, head to the warehouse.

And it just so happens that the majority of the Pokémon these thugs have are super effective against Ice- or Fairy-types, which means that you’ll be at a severe type disadvantage the whole time.

Once Swizer is satisfied you’re following the rules, he allows you to go downstairs to face the goon gauntlet.
Warehouse Trainers | |
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Black Ferrothorn Goon and Burglar Milan | |
Tentacruel Water/Poison (Lv.53) |
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Ferroseed Grass/Steel (Lv.51) |
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Alolan Sandshrew Ice/Steel (Lv.51) |
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Torkoal Fire (Lv.53) |
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Escavalier Bug/Steel (Lv.53) |
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Black Ferrothorn Goon and Burglar Colin | |
Wormadam Bug/Steel (Lv.52) |
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Seviper Poison (Lv.52) |
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Pawniard Dark/Steel (Lv.51) |
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Heatmor Fire (Lv.53) |
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Ferrothorn Grass/Steel (Lv.53) |
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Black Ferrothorn Goon and Burglar Hernando | |
Aggron Steel/Rock (Lv.53) |
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Charmander Fire (Lv.51) |
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Ferroseed Grass/Steel (Lv.51) |
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Litten Fire (Lv.51) |
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Black Ferrothorn Goon and Burglar Toby | |
Steelix Steel/Ground (Lv.53) |
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Nidorino Poison (Lv.52) |
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Garbodor Poison (Lv.53) |
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Torracat Fire (Lv.52) |
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Keep going south, passing an intersection along the way – there’s just a Worker there who hears the cry of a Mimikyu.

At the south end of the hallway is a Strength boulder and a narrow passage leading west into the mass of storage containers. Take the passage.

Every fight in here is a Double Battle, and this one is just the first, so make sure you’re prepared.
Once they’ve been defeated, go to the end of the passage and push the boulder out of the way so you can head north.
Tip: Be warned that this represents a path of no return, since the boulder resets behind you. You may want to use items to heal up after every single fight, because they’re pretty tough.

You’ll see the landlord to the north – talk to him and he’ll start following behind.
Take the west passage through the containers and you’ll get another Double Battle.

Once these goons are finished with, continue along the passage until you reach the western side of the warehouse. Follow the path down, and you’ll notice three passages leading east.

Go past the first passage you see, unless you want to catch a Mimikyu.
If you go along the bottom passage, you’ll be hit with an optional Double Battle. Take the middle passage first if you want to avoid it.

You’ll pass the ambush by and head east, straight into a Double Battle you can’t avoid.

Once you defeat this pair of goons, you’re free to make your escape from this floor of this warehouse.

Walk east and you’ll see that you can now push the boulder from the other side, freeing up the way to the entrance.
Leaving the Warehouse

As soon as you go upstairs, however, Swizer and Bullo are waiting for you. They’re not happy you managed to get this far, and want to take care of you personally.
Burglar Swizer and Black Ferrothorn Bullo | |
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Garbodor Poison (Lv.54) |
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Bastiodon Rock/Steel (Lv.54) |
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Bisharp Dark/Steel (Lv.53) |
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Hawlucha Fighting/Flying (Lv.52) |
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Blaziken Fire/Fighting (Lv.54) |
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Should you be able to defeat them, they’ll allow you to take the landlord home.
The Old Man’s Apartment
As payment for rescuing him and his Skitty, he tells you that he’ll allow the old man in Epidimy Town to move into the upstairs apartment free of charge.

Fly back to Epidimy Town to give the old man the good news. He heads to his new apartment immediately.
Speak to him in Seaport City and he’ll give you the Icium Z, which upgrades Ice-type moves to Z-Moves if you give it to a Pokémon to hold.

