Mission #076: Tomb Raider
Start Location Great Desert, Tomb of Borrius 1F – Ruin Maniac at slide puzzle
Unlock Requirements
  • Become Pokémon Champion
Objectives Explore the Tomb of Borrius
Reward Item: Psychium Z

An archaeologist is trying to get into the Tomb of Borrius. Take him to the treasure chamber and he’ll give you a Psychium Z.

Starting the Mission

Fly to Dehara City and head east out of the gate. You’ll end up in the Great Desert.

Dehara City east gate / Pokémon Unbound
Dehara City east gate

From there, hug the cliff wall to the south and walk east until you find two canyon entrances to the south, each with a cactus in front of them.

The cacti and the canyons / Pokémon Unbound
The cacti and the canyons

Take the canyon entrance behind the smaller cactus – the other one is blocked.

Head south until you reach an open area, and then hug the north wall walking east.

You’ll see the entrance to the Tomb of Borrius immediately, on the east side of that little valley.

The Tomb of Borrius / Pokémon Unbound
The Tomb of Borrius

Head inside to the entrance chamber and you’ll see a Ruin Maniac in front of a puzzle.

The entrance chamber / Pokémon Unbound
The entrance chamber

If you’re Pokémon Champion, he steps aside to let you solve it.

It’s a tile puzzle depicting a Ho-Oh, and you’ll need to rearrange the tiles to their intended positions to continue. Below is the completed puzzle solution:

The completed puzzle image / Pokémon Unbound
The completed puzzle image

When you do this, a hole opens up beneath you and you drop multiple floors before landing in B4F.

The mission is to explore / Pokémon Unbound
The mission is to explore

The Ruin Maniac throws down a ladder so you’re not trapped down there, and comes down himself to investigate.

Your mission is to find the burial chamber and then escape with any treasure you may find.

How to Complete

B4F – Dusknoir Boulder Puzzle

B4F is a boulder puzzle floor / Pokémon Unbound
B4F is a boulder puzzle floor

The first obstacle you’ll need to clear is a boulder puzzle, with a slight twist. There are multiple Dusknoir on this floor whose line of sight needs to be blocked.

If they see you, you’ll be sent back to the ladder.

The quickest way to solve the puzzle is as follows:

Step 1: Break the southernmost rock with Rock Smash.

Before the first move / Pokémon Unbound
Before the first move

Step 2: Push the southernmost boulder east to the wall.

After the first move / Pokémon Unbound
After the first move

Step 3: Push the boulder all the way north along the eastern wall until it hits a rock you can smash.

After the third move / Pokémon Unbound
After the third move

Step 4: Smash the bottom rock with Rock Smash.

After the fourth move / Pokémon Unbound
After the fourth move

Step 5: Push the boulder north one space. Then push it all the way east to the button. This will disable the wall of fire.

After the fifth move / Pokémon Unbound
After the fifth move

Step 6: Walk down to the remaining boulder.

The remaining boulder / Pokémon Unbound
The remaining boulder

Step 7: Push this boulder east to the eastern wall, and then push it south until it is one tile away from the southern wall (not touching the wall).

After the seventh move / Pokémon Unbound
After the seventh move

Step 8: Push the boulder all the way east until it blocks the vision of the Dusknoir.

After the eighth move / Pokémon Unbound
After the eighth move

Step 9: Walk east and follow the passage up until you see two boulders and a rock blocking the way forward.

After the ninth move / Pokémon Unbound
After the ninth move

Step 10: Push the leftmost boulder north until it is directly east of the next button.

After the tenth move / Pokémon Unbound
After the tenth move

Step 11: Push the boulder west onto the button. This will make the Dusknoir ahead turn to face the wall.

After the eleventh move / Pokémon Unbound
After the eleventh move

Step 12: Walk back down to the southern side of the boulder that’s next to the smashable rock.

After the twelfth move / Pokémon Unbound
After the twelfth move

Step 13: Push the boulder north one space.

After the thirteenth move / Pokémon Unbound
After the thirteenth move

Step 14: Push the boulder west to the wall.

After the fourteenth move / Pokémon Unbound
After the fourteenth move

Step 15: Push the boulder north twice so it is on the same horizontal line as the boulder on the button.

After the fifteenth move / Pokémon Unbound
After the fifteenth move

Step 16: Push the boulder all the way north so it blocks the vision of the final Dusknoir next to the ladder.

After the final move / Pokémon Unbound
After the final move

With that, you’re free to proceed around the Dusknoir and get to the ladder.

The way to the ladder is clear / Pokémon Unbound
The way to the ladder is clear

Climb it and you’ll end up on B3F.

B3F – Lava Stepping Stone Puzzle

An unexpected volcano / Pokémon Unbound
An unexpected volcano

You’ll end up on a floor almost completely covered in lava. To get around, you’ll need to navigate on a series of stepping stones.

From the ladder platform, go south until you step on the first stepping stone.

The first stepping stone / Pokémon Unbound
The first stepping stone

Then, follow them east.

The first junction / Pokémon Unbound
The first junction

You’ll get to a junction of stones almost immediately. Jump onto the southern path.

The second junction / Pokémon Unbound
The second junction

From there, go down and then take the path that starts from the western stone.

Moving along the path / Pokémon Unbound
Moving along the path

This path of stepping stones will snake around until it eventually starts heading northeast.

The third junction / Pokémon Unbound
The third junction

You’ll reach a junction that looks like a square – head for the path leading from the northeast stone.

The northeast stone of the junction / Pokémon Unbound
The northeast stone of the junction

From there, follow it generally north as it snakes around the lava.

Another snaky path / Pokémon Unbound
Another snaky path

You’ll eventually pass a junction whose western path leads to an item – continue on past it and the stones will lead east.

Continue until you see another junction (pictured below). Take the northern path here to an island.

The fourth junction / Pokémon Unbound
The fourth junction

There’s a rock on the island that acts as a switch when activated.

The first rock switch / Pokémon Unbound
The first rock switch

When you activate the switch, there will be a rumbling, and some paths will have shifted.

Go back to the junction you were just at, and this time head east.

There will soon be another junction – take the southern path and you’ll see that the path leads to an island with an item on it. Follow it through.

Head south from the next junction / Pokémon Unbound
Head south from the next junction
On the other side of the island / Pokémon Unbound
On the other side of the island

Pass over that island until you get to a four-way junction of stones. Take the eastern path here until you get to another island with a rock on it.

The second rock switch / Pokémon Unbound
The second rock switch

Activate the second rock and the paths will shift again – a new path will appear to the north.

Jump onto the new path / Pokémon Unbound
Jump onto the new path

Take the new path west until you get to the same island that had an item on it.

The paths have changed / Pokémon Unbound
The paths have changed

The paths leading from this island have now changed – you want to take the southern path here and follow it along.

Following the stones / Pokémon Unbound
Following the stones

Keep going south and west until you reach an island with a rock on it.

The switchless rock / Pokémon Unbound
The switchless rock

This rock doesn’t have a switch, though. Ignore it and take the southwest path.

Follow the stones west, past the junction, and the path will turn south.

Going south / Pokémon Unbound
Going south

Keep following them until you get to another junction of stones.

Take the path to the island / Pokémon Unbound
Take the path to the island

Go south from this junction and land on the island with the item on it.

Go left from that island and you’ll see another rock switch / Pokémon Unbound
Go left from that island and you’ll see another rock switch

Then take the west path and you’ll find yourself near another rock switch.

The third rock switch / Pokémon Unbound
The third rock switch

Touch this rock switch to change the paths again.

Then take the new south path to follow it south and east.

The south path / Pokémon Unbound
The south path
Pass the next junction / Pokémon Unbound
Pass the next junction

Keep going along the southern wall, passing the chance to go north to an island. Keep going northeast.

Follow it to a small island / Pokémon Unbound
Follow it to a small island

This path leads to a small island – cross it and continue north along the stones.

Returning to the first switch / Pokémon Unbound
Returning to the first switch

You’ll get to the first rock switch again. Activate it one more time, then head exactly back the way you came until you get to the small island.

The small island’s paths have changed / Pokémon Unbound
The small island’s paths have changed

From the small island, take the path leading east.

The ladder out of the lava / Pokémon Unbound
The ladder out of the lava

You’ll finally make it to the ladder to the next floor, and you can leave all that lava behind.

B2F – Dusknoir Haze Puzzle

This floor can be hard to navigate / Pokémon Unbound
This floor can be hard to navigate

When you get to B2F, you’ll notice that your vision gets more and more blurry with each step.

Here’s how to complete this puzzle:

From the ladder, head north.

Tip: There are Dusknoir on this floor who will teleport you back to the ladder if they see you. They’re stationary, but they shift around. They will also immediately spot you if you’re running, so if you have always running enabled, hold the B button so you move at a walking pace.

The T-junction / Pokémon Unbound
The T-junction

You’ll get to a T-junction. Take the west path.

Slip behind this Dusknoir / Pokémon Unbound
Slip behind this Dusknoir

Take the first northern path at the first opportunity so you can get behind the Dusknoir and follow that way west.

Keep going west / Pokémon Unbound
Keep going west

Keep on going west until you can’t go any further.

It will become even harder and harder to see, so you’ll need to make your way by “feeling” for the walls by bumping them.

Turn south / Pokémon Unbound
Turn south

When you can’t go west any further, turn south and follow the path of least resistance.

Then go east / Pokémon Unbound
Then go east

You’ll hit another wall, which is your cue to start moving east.

Keep going / Pokémon Unbound
Keep going

Again, keep going until you can’t go further in that direction, being mindful of Dusknoir.

Head south when you can, making sure not to run.

The final stretch / Pokémon Unbound
The final stretch

You’ll reach a point where you can head west again – here you’ll want to head to the southwest corner of the room.

Nearly there / Pokémon Unbound
Nearly there

From the western wall, follow the path north.

The ladder / Pokémon Unbound
The ladder

The blurry object in the northwest corner of the room is your way off this floor & it’s the completion of this puzzle.

B1F – Cracked Floor Puzzle

You’ll arrive on B1F, and encounter probably one of the most difficult and frustrating puzzles in the game.

Cracked floors / Pokémon Unbound
Cracked floors

The floor all around here is cracked, and if you linger too long on a cracked floor, you’ll be sent to the ladder on the floor below.

However, running isn’t fast enough. Not even riding on the Motorcycle is fast enough – except if you use turbo mode, which you can by holding B. You’ll need to ride your Motorcycle holding B across all of the gaps, and one wrong move will send you back to the very beginning of the puzzle.

Tip: If you’re using an emulator, there’s a way to cheese this puzzle. Slow the emulator down to at least 20% of normal speed, so you can control when you can stop and when you have to turn easier.

From the left-hand tile, race south onto a patch of solid ground. Then, continue east until you hit a 2×2 square.

The first gap / Pokémon Unbound
The first gap
The 2x2 square / Pokémon Unbound
The 2×2 square

From the top right tile of that square, head south across the cracks.

The platform to the south / Pokémon Unbound
The platform to the south

Then turn east and race along another patch until you hit a pillar.

The pillar / Pokémon Unbound
The pillar

From the pillar, race across the cracks to the north.

Near the north wall / Pokémon Unbound
Near the north wall

Then race east until you see a platform near a ladder.

Keep going until you hit the ladder / Pokémon Unbound
Keep going until you hit the ladder

Charge on through, and eventually you’ll make it to the northeast corner of the floor and to the final ladder in the tomb.

Burial Chamber

The burial chamber / Pokémon Unbound
The burial chamber

You’ll finally arrive in the burial chamber of the Tomb of Borrius, and there’s a lot of treasure for you to pick up.

Take all the Relic items on the long tables before attempting to reach the item on the large coffin. This will activate the security system!

Leave the large coffin until last / Pokémon Unbound
Leave the large coffin until last

It’s a Magearna, and the only one in the game. It will inflate to Dynamax size, so you’ll need to defeat it with two Pokémon.

After defeating it, you’ll get the option to capture it.

Dynamax Battle
Dynamax
Magearna

Steel/Fairy
(Lv.50)
Your reward / Pokémon Unbound
Your reward

For braving the dangers of the Tomb of Borrius, you’ll get the Psychium Z.

In addition, all those Relic items you may have picked up in the tomb will sell for a hefty price at Gurun Town.

Once you complete this mission, Mission #079: Treasure Hunter becomes available.

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