Quick Guide:
  • Ride a Lapras to Route 5
  • Explore Route 5
  • Visit the Pokemon Day Care
  • Arrive in Crater Town

Route 5

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Route 5 map
Points of Interest
Route Healer
Lass Sally
Beauty Janice
Bug Catcher James
Walking Mission
Youngster Ben
Bug Maniac Colton and Lass Robin
Baby Pokemon Mission
Pokemon Day-Care
Pokemon Breeder Challenge
Unova Starter House
Youngster Calvin
Route 4 West
Requires HM Cut
Crater Town
Items

Items
Fresh Water
(hidden)
Moon Ball
Ether
Zygarde Cell
Revive
Super Potion
Super Repel
Wild Pokémon

Wild Pokémon
Long Grass
Lickitung
Normal
Day and Night
Nidoran
Poison
Day and Night

Ditto
Normal
Day and Night
Purrloin
Dark
Day and Night
Taillow
Normal/Flying
Day
Growlithe
Fire
Day
Yanma
Bug/Flying
Day
Zubat
Poison/Flying
Night
Murkrow
Dark/Flying
Night
Houndour
Dark/Fire
Night
Venonat
Bug/Poison
Night
Surfing
Tentacool
Water/Poison
Tentacruel
Water/Poison
Pelipper
Water/Flying
Basculin
Water

Fishing
Magikarp
Water
(Old Rod)
Corphish
Water
(Good Rod)
Staryu
Water
(Good Rod)
Staryu
Water
(Super Rod)
Starmie
Water/Psychic
(Super Rod)
Crawdaunt
Water
(Super Rod)
Gyarados
Water/Flying
(Super Rod)
Trainers

Trainers
Lass Sally
Taillow
Normal/Flying
(Lv.19)
Taillow
Normal/Flying
(Lv.20)
Beauty Janice
Kirlia
Psychic/Fairy
(Lv.20)
Floette
Fairy
(Lv.19)
Bug Catcher James
Cutiefly
Bug/Fairy
(Lv.19)
Venonat
Bug/Poison
(Lv.20)
Youngster Ben
Nidoran
Poison
(Lv.20)
Lickitung
Normal
(Lv.19)
Bug Maniac Colton
(possible Double Battle with Robin)
Burmy
Bug
(Lv.19)
Yanma
Bug/Flying
(Lv.20)
Combee
Water
(Lv.19)
Lass Robin
(Possible Double Battle with Colton)
Roselia
Grass/Poison
(Lv.20)
Pokémon Breeder Annie
(repeatable daily)
Vulpix
Fire
(Lv.20)
Purrloin
Dark
(Lv.20)
Flabebe
Fairy
(Lv.19)
Ralts
Psychic/Fairy
(Lv.19)
Cherubi
Grass
(Lv.19)
Cleffa
Fairy
(Lv.19)
Youngster Calvin
Growlithe
Fire
(Lv.18)
Houndour
Dark/Fire
(Lv.20)
Route 5 starts here / Pokémon Unbound
Route 5 starts here

You’ve just ridden on the back of a Lapras down a waterfall and now you’re in Route 5, a pleasant but damp valley.

Head west through a patch of long grass and talk to the first person you meet.

This guy will take care of you / Pokémon Unbound
This guy will take care of you

Luckily for you, the first person you meet offers to heal your Pokémon for free, and acts as another waypoint in your long journey.

Once you finish healing up, walk east and you’ll get challenged by Lass Sally.

The beginning of the third floor / Pokémon Unbound
The beginning of the third floor

After you get past Sally, there’ll be a man jogging up and down the path in front of you.

He offers a mission: walk 150000 steps and he’ll give you something interesting.

This is something you can just do naturally in a playthrough, so when you eventually reach that number, head back here and he’ll give you Carbos – not just one though. FIFTY doses of the stuff.

Youngster Ben and the crossroads / Pokémon Unbound
Youngster Ben and the crossroads

Once you have the walking mission under way, make a start on it by walking west and you’ll run into Youngster Ben.

There’s a bit of a junction here – go to the north and follow the corridor through the trees.

The Pokemon Day Care is a useful place / Pokémon Unbound
The Pokemon Day Care is a useful place

You’ve arrived at the Pokémon Day Care, and there’s lots of things you can do here before ending up in Crater Town.

Pokémon Day Care

This Day Care worker gives you one of the longest and most painful missions in the game / Pokémon Unbound
This Day Care worker gives you one of the longest and most painful missions in the game

You’ll see someone on the left that needs your help with some research. You’ll need to show them various Baby Pokémon, and some of them can’t be caught – they must be bred at the Day Care holding certain rare incense items:

Baby Pokémon Locations
Budew
Grass/Poison
catch on Route 4
Azurill
Normal/Fairy
catch on Route 2
Happiny
Normal
catch on Route 18 or breed Chansey with Luck Incense
Mantyke
Water/Flying
catch by Surfing on Routes 6, 7, 12, 16, 17 or breed Mantine with Wave Incense
Wynaut
Psychic
catch Wobbuffet in the Safari Zone and breed with Lax Incense
Chingling
Psychic
catch Chimecho in Rift Cave and breed with Pure Incense
Bonsly
Rock
catch Sudowoodo on Route 18 and breed with Rock Incense
Mime Jr.
Psychic/Fairy
catch Mr. Mime in a random Swarm and breed with Odd Incense
Munchlax
Normal
catch the Snorlax post-game and breed with Full Incense

If you’re lucky and patient enough to do all that, your prize is an Oval Charm, which will increase the chances of an Egg being found at the Pokémon Day Care.

This trainer is repeatable / Pokémon Unbound
This trainer is repeatable

Just to the right of the entrance to the Day Care is a breeder who needs your help.

Every day, you can battle their Pokémon to help make them stronger, and this will make you stronger in the process.

The Pokemon Day Care will raise your Pokemon / Pokémon Unbound
The Pokemon Day Care will raise your Pokemon

As with most other Pokémon games, leaving a Pokémon at the Day Care will raise its level as you walk around and go about your business. Come back periodically and you’ll have a stronger Pokémon.

South of Youngster Ben / Pokémon Unbound
South of Youngster Ben

Unova Starter House

Once you’re finished at the Day Care, head back to the intersection and take the south path. You’ll see another fork in the road, and when you do, immediately follow it west.

The Unovan trainer’s house / Pokémon Unbound
The Unovan trainer’s house

You’ll see a house in the middle of the woods. Go inside, because the person living here has a present for you.

Your choice of the Unovan starters / Pokémon Unbound
Your choice of the Unovan starters

A trainer from Unova lives here, and she has three Unovan starter Pokémon that she can’t raise anymore.

You can pick one now, and come back when you have 4 and 7 badges respectively to collect the other two.

Unova Starters
Snivy
Grass
Tepig
Fire
Oshawott
Water
The last trainer on Route 5 / Pokémon Unbound
The last trainer on Route 5

Back onto Route 5

When you’ve got your brand new Unovan Pokémon, head south and you’ll be challenged by Youngster Calvin.

Crater Town awaits / Pokémon Unbound
Crater Town awaits

Now that you’ve seen all that there is to see on Route 5, go south and you’ll see a town in the middle of a massive crater – Crater Town.

Crater Town

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Crater Town map
Points of Interest
Pokémon Center and Hidden Clefairy
Move Maniac (Reminder)
Swarm Reports
Poke Mart
Crater Town Gym
Brother Rescue Mission
Exits and Passages
(East) Route 5
(West) KBT Expressway
Requires HM Cut
Blocked by Shadow Grunts
Items
Stardust
Stardust
Stardust
Star Piece
Zygarde Cell
Crater Town / Pokémon Unbound
Crater Town

There are a couple of things for us to do here – first, go to the Pokémon Center.

A secret / Pokémon Unbound
A secret

Investigate the bookshelf next to the counter and you’ll see a hidden path leading to a small room with a Clefairy in it – this is one of many secret areas where you have the opportunity to battle or catch one rare Pokémon.

The southeast house / Pokémon Unbound
The southeast house

After you’ve caught or defeated the Clefairy, walk south until you find the house that is tucked into the southeast corner of the crater.

The Move Maniac / Pokémon Unbound
The Move Maniac

This is the house of the Move Maniac – he will make your Pokémon remember a move that they have forgotten in exchange for Heart Scales.

Since we don’t have any of those yet, leave and continue west around the crater’s edge.

Two shady characters / Pokémon Unbound
Two shady characters

There are two Shadow grunts having a whispered conversation with each other at this end of town, and you can’t get past them.

Walk north, down into the crater a little, and you’ll see a Poke Mart.

Crater Town Poke Mart / Pokémon Unbound
Crater Town Poke Mart

The Poke Mart is a great place to get supplies, but there’s another thing worth getting in this particular location, and it’s totally free.

Flash will come in handy / Pokémon Unbound
Flash will come in handy

The blonde-haired woman inside will give you TM70 Flash, which can light up dark places. You will need it later on.

The gym / Pokémon Unbound
The gym

West of the Poke Mart is the Crater Town Gym, but you may need a little bit more practice first before making an attempt.

Walk south from here and you’ll see a house just south of the center of the crater.

The Swarm Report house / Pokémon Unbound
The Swarm Report house

Inside this house is a family that are somehow able to detect when random Swarm events happen, and can tell you about them.

Talk to the girl in here and she’ll tell you where and what the Swarm is. Her father will give you a Berry at random if you show him a Pokémon caught from that particular swarm.

One last house to visit / Pokémon Unbound
One last house to visit

There’s one more thing for us to pick up in Crater Town, and that’s a mission from the southwest house.

The KBT Expressway

Mission accepted / Pokémon Unbound
Mission accepted

The man who lives here has a brother who has been kidnapped by a ruthless gang called the Black Emboar, and they’ve gone to the KBT Expressway.

Sounds like the perfect place to train up a bit before taking on the Crater Gym.

The entrance to the KBT Expressway / Pokémon Unbound
The entrance to the KBT Expressway

The KBT Expressway – which is short for the “King Borrius the Third Expressway”, according to the Hiker nearby – can be accessed from the northern exit of Crater Town.

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