Quick Guide:
  • Go through Route 12 and battle your Rival
  • Obtain HM03 Surf
  • Enter Dehara City
  • Challenge the Double Battle House
  • Visit Cloud Game Corner

Route 12

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Route 12 map
Points of Interest
Rival Battle
Collector Steve
Raid Den
Hiker Oliver
Worker Braxton
Cosmog Bag
Fisherman Claude
Fisherman Ronald
Psychic Johan
Kindler Fry
Beauty Sheila
Exits and Passages
Cliff Cave
Tarmigan Town
Requires HM Surf
Requires HM Rock Climb
Dehara City
Items

Items
Max Repel
(hidden)
Revive
(hidden)
Link Stone
Pearl
Mental Herb
(hidden)
Heart Scale
Zygarde Cell
TM47 Steel Wing
X Sp. Def
(hidden)
Wild Pokémon

Wild Pokémon
Long Grass
Rockruff
Rock
Day and Night
Mienfoo
Fighting
Day and Night
Ponyta
Fire
Day and Night
Snubbull
Fairy
Day and Night
Deerling
Normal/Grass
Day and Night
Dedenne
Electric/Fairy
Day and Night
Fletchling
Normal/Flying
Day
Fletchinder
Fire/Flying
Day
Solosis
Psychic
Day
Hoothoot
Normal/Flying
Night
Noctowl
Normal/Flying
Night
Gothita
Psychic
Night
Surfing
Tentacool
Water/Poison
Tentacruel
Water/Poison
Pelipper
Water/Flying
Mantyke
Water/Flying
Fishing
Magikarp
Water
(Old Rod)
Carvanha
Water/Dark
(Good Rod)
Wailmer
Water
(Good Rod)
Sharpedo
Water/Dark
(Super Rod)
Wailord
Water
(Super Rod)
Gyarados
Water/Flying
(Super Rod)
Trainers

Trainers
Collector Steve
Togedemaru
Electric/Steel
(Lv.37)
Goomy
Dragon
(Lv.36)
Hiker Oliver
Alolan Graveler
Rock/Electric
(Lv.36)
Graveler
Rock/Ground
(Lv.36)
Boldore
Rock
(Lv.36)
Worker Braxton
Tynamo
Electric
(Lv.36)
Fisherman Claude
Carvanha
Water/Dark
(Lv.37)
Krabby
Water
(Lv.37)
Fisherman Ronald
Corsola
Water/Rock
(Lv.37)
Wailmer
Water
(Lv.37)
Horsea
Water
(Lv.36)
Barboach
Water/Ground
(Lv.36)
Psychic Johan
Solosis
Psychic
(Lv.36)
Jynx
Ice/Psychic
(Lv.37)
Meowstic
Psychic
(Lv.36)
Elgyem
Psychic
(Lv.36)
Kindler Fry
Ponyta
Fire
(Lv.38)
Fletchinder
Fire/Flying
(Lv.36)
Beauty Sheila
Rockruff
Rock
(Lv.35)
Snubbull
Fairy
(Lv.37)

You’ve just earned the power of Mega Evolution by completing Tarmigan Mansion, and you’ve headed north out of Tarmigan Town on to Route 12. At the other end of Route 12 is Dehara City.

First steps on Route 12 / Pokémon Unbound
First steps on Route 12

Take a few steps north on the route, though, and you’ll run into a familiar face.

Rival Battle

Fourth round with your Rival / Pokémon Unbound
Fourth round with your Rival

Your Rival shows up, fresh after beating the Mansion himself and keen to show off how much he’s grown as a trainer since last you saw him.

Rival Battle (4th Round)
Toucannon
Normal/Flying
(Lv.37)
Vaporeon
Water
(Lv.38)
Piloswine
Ice/Ground
(Lv.38)
Metang
Steel/Psychic
or
Gabite
Ground/Dragon
or
Pupitar
Rock/Ground
(Lv.26)


He still can’t believe it when we beat him yet again, but doesn’t have much time to process it before Professor Log arrives.

Professor Log has a gift for you / Pokémon Unbound
Professor Log has a gift for you

Your Rival is not that happy to see him, and is keen to leave to keep searching for his parents.

Luckily for both him and you, Professor Log has something that will make that easier.

Getting HM03 Surf

HM03 Surf / Pokémon Unbound
HM03 Surf

It’s HM03 Surf!

However, you’ll have to beat the Dehara City Gym to use it.

Professor Log tells you to head to Dehara City to find Jax, and then after you earn the Gym Badge you can travel with Surf together to the Ruins of Void.

After your Rival and the Professor leave, you’re free to continue on through the route.

Collector Steve / Pokémon Unbound
Collector Steve

Getting Through Route 12

Walk west down a couple of sets of stairs, passing Collector Steve on the way.

You’ll see a cutscene of Marlon on a beach, still unsure of what to do after you beat him at Thundercap Mountain. Before he can decide, a strange Grunt appears behind him and teleports Marlon away.

Worker Braxton / Pokémon Unbound
Worker Braxton

Once the cutscene is over, continue until you see Worker Braxton to the northwest.

Challenge him, and after you beat him and head north you’ll see another cutscene.

Zapdos is captured after all / Pokémon Unbound
Zapdos is captured after all

Hoopa, the portal Pokémon, has brought the strange Grunt a Pokémon in a bag, but the Grunt doesn’t want it.

He wants Zapdos, so Hoopa summons it and the Grunt captures it.

Looks like the Shadow have all the Legendary Pokémon they need after all.

Move a couple of boulders to get past / Pokémon Unbound
Move a couple of boulders to get past

Walk northwest and you’ll see an entrance to the beach you’ve been seeing in the cutscenes.

Go west onto the sand and you will quickly spot the bag that Hoopa left.

The bag has a Cosmog in it / Pokémon Unbound
The bag has a Cosmog in it

Make sure you have an empty slot in your team, and then examine the bag.

There’s a Cosmog inside!

Once you’ve got this super rare Pokémon, it’s time to continue on to Dehara City.

Psychic Johan / Pokémon Unbound
Psychic Johan

Go back the way you came and go past Psychic Johan until you see a set of stairs leading east up the cliff face.

Go past the blonde trainer / Pokémon Unbound
Go past the blonde trainer

Keep going up the cliff, fighting Kindler Fry on the way.

Once you’ve beaten him, walk north along the ledge.

The entrance to Dehara City / Pokémon Unbound
The entrance to Dehara City

You’ve made it to Dehara City, which is a big place full of things to do and explore.

Head inside the gate to progress.

Dehara City

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Dehara City map
Points of Interest
Dehara Department Store
Pokemon Center
Dehara City Gym
Expert Belt Girl
Double Battle House
Developer House
Friendship House
Sinnoh Starter House
Go-Goggles House
Ore Merchant House
Cloud Game Corner
Coin Case Man
Exits and Passages
Route 12
(west) KPT Expressway
Requires HM Surf
(east) Rift Cave
Great Desert
Items

Items
Zygarde Cell
Rare Candy
Ultra Ball
Wild Pokémon

Wild Pokémon
Surfing
Tentacool
Water/Poison
Tentacruel
Water/Poiso
Pelipper
Water/Flying
Pyukumuku
Water
Fishing
Magikarp
Water
(Old Rod)
Staryu
Water
(Good Rod)
Poliwag
Water
(Good Rod)
Poliwhirl
Water
(Super Rod)
Staryu
Water
(Super Rod)
Starmie
Water/Psychic
(Super Rod)
Sandygast
Ghost/Ground
(Super Rod)
Dehara City / Pokémon Unbound
Dehara City

Keep going along the road from the gate until you see the Pokémon Center – this marks the beginning of Dehara City proper.

Dehara City is massive, so it’s best to start in one area and then move clockwise around town, to make sure you don’t miss anything.

The Pokemon Center / Pokémon Unbound
The Pokemon Center

The first area you should visit is the road leading east.

There are two big buildings here – go in the first one, which is the Pokémon Center.

The Luxury Ball girl / Pokémon Unbound
The Luxury Ball girl

Inside is a girl who will give you 5 Luxury Balls, and will offer to change the Ball of any Pokémon in your team to a Luxury Ball.

The next building along is the massive Dehara Department Store – head on inside.

The Dehara Department Store / Pokémon Unbound
The Dehara Department Store

Dehara Department Store

This Department Store is slightly dangerous / Pokémon Unbound
This Department Store is slightly dangerous

One thing to be aware of here is that it’s not all about shopping – there are trainers on 3F and above that will want to challenge you if they see you, so bear that in mind.

The Department Store has:

  • A regular Poke Mart on 2F
  • An Evolution Stone shop on 3F
  • A TM shop on 4F
  • A Stat Items shop on 5F
  • And a Mail shop on 6F

As for the trainers:

Trainers
Sailor Edmund
Machoke
Fighting
(Lv.37)
Vaporeon
Water
(Lv.38)
Hiker Oliver
Hawlucha
Fighting/Flying
(Lv.38)
Umbreon
Dark
(Lv.37)
Twins Mayo and May
Glameow
Normal
(Lv.37)
Gastrodon
Water
(Lv.37)
Guitarist Dalton
Boldore
Rock
(Lv.37)
Jolteon
Electric
(Lv.38)
Psychic Jeckle
Espeon
Psychic
(Lv.38)
Spoink
Psychic
(Lv.37)

And On 2F, there’s a maid who offers to purchase anything in your inventory that resembles an ingredient or food item – usually organic healing items.

The Maid will buy ingredients / Pokémon Unbound
The Maid will buy ingredients

On 6F there is a very strange woman who acts like a vending machine.

This woman is a vending machine? / Pokémon Unbound
This woman is a vending machine?

Weird vibes aside, it’s best to purchase a Soda Pop from her because you’ll need it in a moment.

After you’re finished shopping, leave the building and head west.

Back to Dehara City

The Gym is out of business for now / Pokémon Unbound
The Gym is out of business for now

Unfortunately, there’s no way for you to get the badge from the Gym at the moment, because there is no way across the water to reach the island it sits on.

Remember its location for later.

Keep following the road west and then turn north, ignoring any forks you may come across.

The KBT Expressway entrance / Pokémon Unbound
The KBT Expressway entrance

You will quickly find this city’s entrance to the Expressway, and there’s a few new Gem Shops open.

Tip: The path to Dresco Town and the rest of the tunnel network is also open if you want to backtrack that way.

Gem Family Move Shops
Steel
Iron Head
3 Steel Gems
Dehara City entrance
Electric
Magnet Rise
3 Steel Gems
North of the Dehara City entrance
Fire
Flare Blitz
4 Fire Gems
Northeast along the Dresco Town path

Just east of the Expressway entrance is a large park.

Someone keeps misplacing healing items in parks / Pokémon Unbound
Someone keeps misplacing healing items in parks

Like Epidimy Town, if you sit on one of the benches here, you’ll get a random healing item.

After that, keep going north and you’ll come to a large beach.

The north beach / Pokémon Unbound
The north beach

There’s a Battle Girl here who is very thirsty – if you give her the Soda Pop we bought in the Department Store, she’ll give you an Expert Belt.

From there you can head back to the park, and take the south exit. You’ll come to a street and a row of houses – head east until you see a house with a sign next to it.

The Double Battle House, and the Developer House next to it / Pokémon Unbound
The Double Battle House, and the Developer House next to it

You’ve arrived at Double Battle House, which is very similar to the one in Dresco Town.

Head inside for a bit of training.

Double Battle House

Inside the Double Battle House / Pokémon Unbound
Inside the Double Battle House

This place works exactly the same as Dresco’s version – the trainers in here are able to be fought over and over again, so if you ever feel like you’re underleveled, make sure you put in some time here.

Double Battles
Battle Girl Ginger
Mienfoo
Fighting
(Lv.38)
Gurdurr
Fighting
(Lv.38)
Breloom
Grass/Fighting
(Lv.38)
Gambler Artred
Alolan Golem
Rock/Electric
(Lv.38)
Lycanroc (Midday Form)
Rock
(Lv.38)
Lycanroc
(Midnight Form)

Rock
(Lv.38)
Poke Maniac Garth
Togedemaru
Electric/Steel
(Lv.38)
Pachirisu
Electric
(Lv.38)
Eelektrik
Electric
(Lv.38)
Bird Keeper Featred
Fearow
Normal/Flying
(Lv.38)
Talonflame
Fire/Flying
(Lv.38)
Trumbeak
Normal/Flying
(Lv.38)
Psychic Wyatt
Malamar
Dark/Psychic
(Lv.38)
Gardevoir
Psychic/Fairy
(Lv.38)
Grumpig
Psychic
(Lv.38)

The house next to the Double Battle House is a bit of an easter egg from the developers of this game – everyone who had a hand in contributing has their own avatar and witty line to say, just like the Game Freak rooms in the official Pokémon games.

Other Notable Areas

Rift Cave entrance / Pokémon Unbound
Rift Cave entrance

Just northeast of those two houses is a cave entrance. This is Rift Cave, and it’s best to leave the exploration of this place for later.

For now, head south until you see a block of four houses.

The block of four / Pokémon Unbound
The block of four

There are things to do and collect in every single one of these houses, so it is best to start with the northwest house and continue clockwise.

Top-Left House

The family on the lower floor of the northwest house is concerned with the happiness of Pokémon.

This boy just wants to play with Pokemon / Pokémon Unbound
This boy just wants to play with Pokemon

The girl will tell you how happy your lead Pokémon is, and the boy will offer to play with one of them to raise happiness.

Upstairs has a couple of useful things too / Pokémon Unbound
Upstairs has a couple of useful things too

The man upstairs in the hallway wants to see a Pokémon like a balloon, which could be any of Jigglypuff’s evolutionary line or Drifloon and Drifblim.

He’ll reward you with an Air Balloon, which will save the holder from a Ground-type move once before bursting.

There are pesky Pokemon showing up on the beach / Pokémon Unbound
There are pesky Pokemon showing up on the beach

The fisherman inside the unit here on the second floor gives you a mission to throw any Pyukumuku you might find on the beach back in the ocean, because they’re a hazard to beachgoers.

You just go to the northern beach and remove all the Pyukumuku you can find until it tells you to return.

A pesky Pyukumuku / Pokémon Unbound
A pesky Pyukumuku

No need to battle them, you’ll just need to examine them and they’ll leave.

Your reward for the beach cleanup / Pokémon Unbound
Your reward for the beach cleanup

For cleaning up the beach, you’ll be given a Power Band.

With that house complete, move to the northeast one.

Top-Right House

A free Passho Berry / Pokémon Unbound
A free Passho Berry

Talking to the Monferno here will get you a free Passho Berry, but it’s her owner that is more important.

Getting a free Turtwig / Pokémon Unbound
Getting a free Turtwig

Just like the trainer from Unova in Route 5, this trainer is from Sinnoh and will offer you one of the three Sinnoh starter Pokemon – Turtwig, Chimchar, or Piplup.

You can come back for the other two when you have 6 and 8 badges respectively.

Sinnoh Starters
Turtwig
Grass
Lv.30
Chimchar
Fire
Lv.30
Piplup
Water
Lv.30
Upstairs is a Yellow Shard trainer / Pokémon Unbound
Upstairs is a Yellow Shard trainer

Go up to the second floor and you’ll find a woman who will give you 2 Yellow Shards.

The old lady who lives with her can teach Thunder Punch if you give those shards to her – if not, you can keep them for later.

Bottom-Right House

The Hiker here will give you an important item later / Pokémon Unbound
The Hiker here will give you an important item later

A Hiker lives in the southeast house, and he says that the Great Desert to the east of Dehara is dangerous if you don’t have the right equipment.

He offers to lend you his pair of Go-Goggles, but won’t do so until you beat the Dehara Gym. Remember his location for later.

Time for the southwest house now.

Bottom-Left House

The southwest house has ore and bone buyers / Pokémon Unbound
The southwest house has ore and bone buyers

There’s a gentleman inside that will buy any ore items that you have, similar to the Maid and food items.

But more importantly, the man in the hallway next to him will purchase Rare Bones for twice the price Poke Marts will offer – P10000 each.

This old man wants to see if we’ve encountered 250 or more Pokemon / Pokémon Unbound
This old man wants to see if we’ve encountered 250 or more Pokemon

Head upstairs, and if you’ve been adventurous enough, you will have seen (not caught) at least 250 Pokémon by now. If that’s the case, the old man up here will give you a Binding Band.

Cloud Game Corner

The Cloud Game Corner / Pokémon Unbound
The Cloud Game Corner

The Cloud Game Corner is one more destination to check out in Dehara City, and it’s just above the Department Store.

Speak to the man outside and he’ll give you a Coin Case, which is essential if you want to play any minigames.

The gaming floor / Pokémon Unbound
The gaming floor

As soon as you enter, you’ll see Jax at one of the machines.

For now, speak to the other patrons in here and they’ll give you various amounts of Coins to start you off with.

A tall order, but worth it / Pokémon Unbound
A tall order, but worth it

The man in the northwest corner gives you a mission to earn 3000 Coins in a single day by playing the game Cloud Burst.

How Games Work

Cloud Burst / Pokémon Unbound
Cloud Burst

Cloud Burst is a minigame where you control an Altaria, flying around popping balloons. It will take quite a few runs for you to rack up 3000 points, but it is doable.

Your reward is something special – a Balloon Pikachu with Levitate and the moves Fly, Agility, Slam, and Discharge. Could come in handy perhaps?

Reward Pokémon
Balloon Pikachu
Electric
(Lv.35)

If you’re willing to spend more time earning Coins, there are a number of other rare Pokémon that can only be purchased in the Game Corner Shop.

Game Corner Shop
Emolga
Electric/Flying
500 Coins
Hawlucha
Fighting/Flying
1000 Coins
Eevee
Normal
1500 Coins
Klefki
Steel/Fairy
3000 Coins
Axew
Dragon
5000 Coins
Porygon
Normal
9999 Coins
Speak to Jax to continue the story / Pokémon Unbound
Speak to Jax to continue the story

Continuing The Story

After you’re done in the Game Corner, speak to Jax to get things moving again.

Before you do, make sure you have everything in order – you won’t be returning to town for quite a while.

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