Kanto Safari Zone

Safari Zone サファリゾーン Safari Zone "Wild Missingno. appeared!"
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Location:	North of Fuchsia City
Region:	Kanto
Generations:	I, III
File:SafariZoneKantoTownMap.gif Location of Safari Zone in Kanto.
Pokémon world locations

The Safari Zone (Japanese: サファリゾーン Safari Zone) is a special Pokémon preserve in Kanto where Trainers can enter to capture certain types of Pokémon in. It is owned by Baoba.

For $500, the player will receive 30 Safari Balls. With a large area to cover, Trainers must plan out their destination so as to arrive in time to capture all the Pokémon they want.

During Generation I and Generation III, however, a sweepstakes is taking place to find a hidden house deep in the Safari Zone, called the Secret House. The winner of the sweepstakes receives HM03 (Surf).

When a wild Pokémon appears, no Pokémon may be sent out to battle it: catching Pokémon here, as in all Safari Zones, requires sheer luck. There are four options in the battle screen: Throw a Safari Ball, throw Bait, throw a Rock, and run away. Throwing Bait makes a Pokémon less likely to run, but makes it harder to catch; while throwing a Rock does the reverse, making it easier to catch but more likely to run. If the player takes too long to catch the Pokémon, it will automatically run away.

In Generation II, the Safari Zone has closed down while Baoba takes a vacation. In the contemporaneous Generation IV games, he has opened another one in Johto. Kanto's Pal Park can instead be found in this location.

Its Town Map description from FireRed and LeafGreen reads:

Details

As with other Safari Zones, Pokémon are made easier or harder to capture by modifying the Pokémon's catch rate. An escape factor is also added to represent the probability of a Pokémon escaping.

Generation I

There is one additional factor, known as the "Bait factor". At the start of an encounter, both Bait and escape factors are set to 0. Whenever Bait is thrown, the escape factor is reset while the Bait factor increases by a random value between 1 and 5 (but to no more than 255). The opposite occurs if a Rock is thrown: the Bait factor is reset and the escape factor increases on the same basis. The catch rate is doubled whenever a Rock is thrown, but halved (rounded down) whenever Bait is thrown.

At the end of each turn, the Bait or escape factor (whichever one is nonzero) is decreased by 1; if the escape factor is decreased to 0 the modified catch rate resets to the Pokémon's default catch rate. A random value is generated, and if this is less than half of the Pokémon's base speed rounded down (if the Bait factor is nonzero), double the base speed (if both factors are zero), or 4 times the base speed (if the escape factor is nonzero), the Pokémon escapes; a Pokémon will also escape regardless of nonzero Bait factor if its base speed is greater than 128.

Generation III

The Safari Zone mechanics were overhauled to more closely resemble that of the Hoenn Safari Zone. Like it, there is an additional "catch factor" that begins at 100/1275 of the Pokémon's catch rate (rounded down). The escape factor manifests itself as a value dependent on the species of the Pokémon known as the "escape rate", unlike in the Hoenn Safari Zone, and, unique to all versions of the Safari Zone, is never modified.

Like Generation I, a Pokémon will be angry or eating whenever Bait or Rocks are thrown. If Bait is thrown, it will be "eating" for 2-6 turns, during which the catch factor is halved. If Rocks are thrown, it will be "angry" for 2-6 turns, during which the catch factor is doubled. Being "angry" or "eating" is mutually exclusive, though modifications to the catch factors will stack (reverting to its original value whenever the Pokémon is neither "angry" nor "eating"). Whenever a Safari Ball is thrown, the catch factor is converted back to a catch rate by multiplying by 1275/100 and rounding down.

At the end of a turn, a random number from 0 to 99 is generated, and is compared to 5 times its "modified escape factor": 1275/100 of the escape rate (rounded down), which is doubled if the Pokémon is "angry" or quartered (rounded down) if the Pokémon is "eating". If the random value is less, the Pokémon escapes.

Closing notices

In Generation II, the sign outside the Safari Zone contains a notice about it being closed in that reads:

In HeartGold and SoulSilver, the sign informs that since the Safari Zone is closed, the facility houses Pal Park instead.

Pokémon

Generation I

Entrance

Pokémon Games Location Levels Rate Nidoran♂ R B Y Grass 22 25% Nidoran♂ R B Y Grass 14 25% Nidoran♀ R B Y Grass 22 25% Nidoran♀ R B Y Grass 36 15% Exeggcute R B Y Grass 24-25 20% Exeggcute R B Y Grass 24 15% Venonat R B Y Grass 22 15% Rhyhorn R B Y Grass 25 15% Rhyhorn R B Y Grass 20 10% Nidorino R B Y Grass 31 10% Nidorino R B Y Grass 31 5% Nidorino R B Y Grass 23 10% Nidorina R B Y Grass 31 5% Nidorina R B Y Grass 31 10% Parasect R B Y Grass 30 5% Parasect R B Y Grass 27-32 15% Paras R B Y Grass 27 5% Scyther R B Y Grass 23 4% Pinsir R B Y Grass 23 4% Tangela R B Y Grass 22 4% Chansey R B Y Grass 23 1% Chansey R B Y Grass 27 1% Fishing Magikarp R B Y Fishing Old Rod 5 100% Poliwag R B Y Fishing Good Rod 10 50% Goldeen R B Y Fishing Good Rod 10 50% Magikarp R B Y Fishing Super Rod 5-10 70% Psyduck R B Y Fishing Super Rod 15 25% Slowpoke R B Y Fishing Super Rod 15 25% Krabby R B Y Fishing Super Rod 15 25% Dratini R B Y Fishing Super Rod 15 25% Dratini R B Y Fishing Super Rod 10 20% Dragonair R B Y Fishing Super Rod 15 10% A colored background means that the Pokémon can be found in this location in the specified game. A white background with a colored letter means that the Pokémon cannot be found here.

Area 1

Pokémon Games Location Levels Rate Nidoran♂ R B Y Grass 24 25% Nidoran♂ R B Y Grass 24 5% Nidoran♂ R B Y Grass 21 25% Exeggcute R B Y Grass 23-25 20% Exeggcute R B Y Grass 22-26 20% Paras R B Y Grass 22 15% Doduo R B Y Grass 26 15% Nidorino R B Y Grass 33 10% Nidorina R B Y Grass 33 10% Nidorina R B Y Grass 32 10% Nidoran♀ R B Y Grass 24 5% Nidoran♀ R B Y Grass 24 25% Nidoran♀ R B Y Grass 29 15% Cubone R B Y Grass 19 10% Tauros R B Y Grass 21 10% Parasect R B Y Grass 25 5% Marowak R B Y Grass 24 5% Kangaskhan R B Y Grass 25 4% Chansey R B Y Grass 21 4% Scyther R B Y Grass 28 1% Scyther R B Y Grass 15 1% Pinsir R B Y Grass 28 1% Fishing Magikarp R B Y Fishing Old Rod 5 100% Poliwag R B Y Fishing Good Rod 10 50% Goldeen R B Y Fishing Good Rod 10 50% Magikarp R B Y Fishing Super Rod 5-15 90% Psyduck R B Y Fishing Super Rod 15 25% Slowpoke R B Y Fishing Super Rod 15 25% Krabby R B Y Fishing Super Rod 15 25% Dratini R B Y Fishing Super Rod 15 25% Dratini R B Y Fishing Super Rod 15 10% A colored background means that the Pokémon can be found in this location in the specified game. A white background with a colored letter means that the Pokémon cannot be found here.

Area 2

Pokémon Games Location Levels Rate Nidoran♂ R B Y Grass 22 25% Nidoran♂ R B Y Grass 36 25% Nidoran♀ R B Y Grass 22 25% Nidoran♀ R B Y Grass 14 15% Exeggcute R B Y Grass 25-27 20% Exeggcute R B Y Grass 20 15% Paras R B Y Grass 23 15% Rhyhorn R B Y Grass 26 15% Rhyhorn R B Y Grass 25 10% Kangaskhan R B Y Grass 28-33 15% Nidorino R B Y Grass 30 10% Nidorino R B Y Grass 30 5% Nidorina R B Y Grass 30 5% Nidorina R B Y Grass 30 10% Nidorina R B Y Grass 23 10% Venomoth R B Y Grass 32 5% Cubone R B Y Grass 16 5% Chansey R B Y Grass 26 4% Scyther R B Y Grass 25 4% Tauros R B Y Grass 28 1% Pinsir R B Y Grass 15 1% Fishing Magikarp R B Y Fishing Old Rod 5 100% Poliwag R B Y Fishing Good Rod 10 50% Goldeen R B Y Fishing Good Rod 10 50% Magikarp R B Y Fishing Super Rod 5-15 90% Psyduck R B Y Fishing Super Rod 15 25% Slowpoke R B Y Fishing Super Rod 15 25% Krabby R B Y Fishing Super Rod 15 25% Dratini R B Y Fishing Super Rod 15 25% Dratini R B Y Fishing Super Rod 15 10% A colored background means that the Pokémon can be found in this location in the specified game. A white background with a colored letter means that the Pokémon cannot be found here.

Area 3

Pokémon Games Location Levels Rate Nidoran♂ R B Y Grass 25 25% Nidoran♂ R B Y Grass 25 5% Nidoran♂ R B Y Grass 29 25% Exeggcute R B Y Grass 24-26 20% Exeggcute R B Y Grass 22-26 20% Venonat R B Y Grass 23 15% Doduo R B Y Grass 26 15% Nidorino R B Y Grass 33 10% Nidorino R B Y Grass 32 10% Nidorina R B Y Grass 33 10% Nidoran♀ R B Y Grass 25 5% Nidoran♀ R B Y Grass 25 25% Nidoran♀ R B Y Grass 21 15% Cubone R B Y Grass 19 10% Venomoth R B Y Grass 31 5% Marowak R B Y Grass 24 5% Tauros R B Y Grass 26 4% Tauros R B Y Grass 21 10% Pinsir R B Y Grass 25 4% Kangaskhan R B Y Grass 28 1% Tangela R B Y Grass 27 1% Fishing Magikarp R B Y Fishing Old Rod 5 100% Poliwag R B Y Fishing Good Rod 10 50% Goldeen R B Y Fishing Good Rod 10 50% Magikarp R B Y Fishing Super Rod 5-15 90% Psyduck R B Y Fishing Super Rod 15 25% Slowpoke R B Y Fishing Super Rod 15 25% Krabby R B Y Fishing Super Rod 15 25% Dratini R B Y Fishing Super Rod 15 25% Dratini R B Y Fishing Super Rod 15 10% A colored background means that the Pokémon can be found in this location in the specified game. A white background with a colored letter means that the Pokémon cannot be found here.

Generation III

Entrance

The entrance is the first area encountered, where the gate to Fuchsia City lies. Pokémon Games Location Levels Rate Nidoran♂ FR LG Grass 22 20% Nidoran♀ FR LG Grass 22 20% Exeggcute FR LG Grass 24-25 20% Rhyhorn FR LG Grass 25 20% Venonat FR LG Grass 22 15% Nidorino FR LG Grass 31 10% Nidorino FR LG Grass 31 5% Nidorina FR LG Grass 31 5% Nidorina FR LG Grass 31 10% Parasect FR LG Grass 30 5% Scyther FR LG Grass 23 4% Pinsir FR LG Grass 23 4% Chansey FR LG Grass 23 1% Fishing and Surfing Psyduck FR LG Surfing 20-40 100% Slowpoke FR LG Surfing 20-40 100% Magikarp FR LG Fishing Old Rod 5 100% Goldeen FR LG Fishing Good Rod 5-15 60% Poliwag FR LG Fishing Good Rod 5-15 20% Magikarp FR LG Fishing Good Rod 5-15 20% Goldeen FR LG Fishing Super Rod 15-25 40% Seaking FR LG Fishing Super Rod 20-30 40% Dratini FR LG Fishing Super Rod 15-25 15% Psyduck FR LG Fishing Super Rod 15-35 4% Slowpoke FR LG Fishing Super Rod 15-35 4% Dragonair FR LG Fishing Super Rod 25-35 1% A colored background means that the Pokémon can be found in this location in the specified game. A white background with a colored letter means that the Pokémon cannot be found here.

Area 1

Area 1 is to the northeast of the entrance. Pokémon Games Location Levels Rate Nidoran♂ FR LG Grass 24 20% Nidoran♂ FR LG Grass 24 5% Doduo FR LG Grass 26 20% Exeggcute FR LG Grass 23-25 20% Paras FR LG Grass 22 15% Nidorino FR LG Grass 33 10% Nidorina FR LG Grass 33 10% Nidoran♀ FR LG Grass 24 5% Nidoran♀ FR LG Grass 24 20% Parasect FR LG Grass 25 5% Kangaskhan FR LG Grass 25 4% Scyther FR LG Grass 23-30 1% Pinsir FR LG Grass 28 1% Fishing and Surfing Psyduck FR LG Surfing 20-40 100% Slowpoke FR LG Surfing 20-40 100% Magikarp FR LG Fishing Old Rod 5 100% Goldeen FR LG Fishing Good Rod 5-15 60% Poliwag FR LG Fishing Good Rod 5-15 20% Magikarp FR LG Fishing Good Rod 5-15 20% Goldeen FR LG Fishing Super Rod 15-25 40% Seaking FR LG Fishing Super Rod 20-30 40% Dratini FR LG Fishing Super Rod 15-25 15% Psyduck FR LG Fishing Super Rod 15-35 4% Slowpoke FR LG Fishing Super Rod 15-35 4% Dragonair FR LG Fishing Super Rod 25-35 1% A colored background means that the Pokémon can be found in this location in the specified game. A white background with a colored letter means that the Pokémon cannot be found here.

Area 2

Area 2 is northwest of the rest house in Area 1. Pokémon Games Location Levels Rate Nidoran♂ FR LG Grass 30 20% Nidoran♀ FR LG Grass 30 20% Exeggcute FR LG Grass 25-27 20% Rhyhorn FR LG Grass 26 20% Paras FR LG Grass 23 15% Nidorino FR LG Grass 30 10% Nidorino FR LG Grass 30 5% Nidorina FR LG Grass 30 5% Nidorina FR LG Grass 30 10% Venomoth FR LG Grass 32 5% Chansey FR LG Grass 26 4% Tauros FR LG Grass 28 1% Fishing and Surfing Psyduck FR LG Surfing 20-40 100% Slowpoke FR LG Surfing 20-40 100% Magikarp FR LG Fishing Old Rod 5 100% Goldeen FR LG Fishing Good Rod 5-15 60% Poliwag FR LG Fishing Good Rod 5-15 20% Magikarp FR LG Fishing Good Rod 5-15 20% Goldeen FR LG Fishing Super Rod 15-25 40% Seaking FR LG Fishing Super Rod 20-30 40% Dratini FR LG Fishing Super Rod 15-25 15% Psyduck FR LG Fishing Super Rod 15-35 4% Slowpoke FR LG Fishing Super Rod 15-35 4% Dragonair FR LG Fishing Super Rod 25-35 1% A colored background means that the Pokémon can be found in this location in the specified game. A white background with a colored letter means that the Pokémon cannot be found here.

Area 3

Area 3 is south of the northwestern part of Area 2. Pokémon Games Location Levels Rate Nidoran♂ FR LG Grass 22 20% Nidoran♂ FR LG Grass 30 5% Doduo FR LG Grass 26 20% Exeggcute FR LG Grass 25-27 20% Venonat FR LG Grass 23 15% Nidorino FR LG Grass 30 10% Nidorina FR LG Grass 30 10% Nidoran♀ FR LG Grass 30 5% Nidoran♀ FR LG Grass 22 20% Venomoth FR LG Grass 32 5% Tauros FR LG Grass 25 4% Kangaskhan FR LG Grass 28 1% Fishing and Surfing Psyduck FR LG Surfing 20-40 100% Slowpoke FR LG Surfing 20-40 100% Magikarp FR LG Fishing Old Rod 5 100% Goldeen FR LG Fishing Good Rod 5-15 60% Poliwag FR LG Fishing Good Rod 5-15 20% Magikarp FR LG Fishing Good Rod 5-15 20% Goldeen FR LG Fishing Super Rod 15-25 40% Seaking FR LG Fishing Super Rod 20-30 40% Dratini FR LG Fishing Super Rod 15-25 15% Psyduck FR LG Fishing Super Rod 15-35 4% Slowpoke FR LG Fishing Super Rod 15-35 4% Dragonair FR LG Fishing Super Rod 25-35 1% A colored background means that the Pokémon can be found in this location in the specified game. A white background with a colored letter means that the Pokémon cannot be found here.

Items

Layout

Version	Entrance	Area 1	Area 2	Area 3
Red
Blue
Yellow
FireRed
LeafGreen

In the spin-off games

In Pokémon Pinball

In Pokémon Pinball, the Safari Zone appears on the Red and Blue tables; catchable Pokémon include Nidoran♀, Nidoran♂, Paras, Doduo, Grimer, Rhyhorn, Chansey, Scyther, Pinsir and Tauros.

In the anime

The Kanto Safari Zone appears only once in the anime: in EP035, an episode which aired in few countries outside of Japan.

In the anime, the Safari Zone is run by a gun-toting warden, Kaiser. Like in the games, Trainers are restricted to only thirty Safari Balls per challenge. It is explained that this is because of too many Trainers capturing all the rarest Pokémon too rapidly and due to searching for the Pokémon Dratini.

Ash captures thirty Tauros in his Safari challenge.

Pokémon

Tauros (×30) ♂	Dratini	Dragonair	Nidorino ♂
Nidorina ♀	Rhyhorn	Rhydon	Magikarp
Gyarados	Horsea	Poliwag	Goldeen
Slowpoke

In the manga

In the Pokémon Adventures manga

In the Red, Green & Blue arc, Red visits the Safari Zone during Meanwhile... Vileplume!, Long Live the Nidoking! and A Hollow Victreebel. With the help of the two robots Pidgebot1 and Pidgebot2, Red goes through the jungle on a moving wooden plank. When he encounters two Nidoking fighting over a Nidoqueen, Red decided to capture a Nidoking. The Nidoking blocked the Poké Ball with its arm hitting the Nidoqueen straight on the head capturing the Nidoqueen. This made the Nidoking very angry. It began to rampage and crush everything. Red threw Rocks at Nidoking, hurting it badly and making it even angry, but managed to escape.

Later, Red was eaten by a Victreebel (using Vine Whip). He was not digested, however; merely tied up for a feast in the near future. This feast would be to celebrate the evolution of Bellsprout and Weepinbell. Red and Pidgebot had an idea to use a Poké Flute to wake the Grass Pokémon up, and distracted them with a Poké Doll before escaping. Unfortunately, they ran straight into the Nidoking from earlier on. Using a caught Victreebel, Red was also able to capture the Nidoking.

Pokémon

Red captures several Pokémon in the Safari Zone. Despite the fact that he was not supposed to bring any regular Poké Balls, Red managed to smuggle one in and catch a Nidoqueen. The others were caught using the custom Safari Balls he was given.

Parasect (caught)	Parasect (multiple, caught)	Dragonair	Nidoking ♂ (multiple, caught)
Nidoqueen ♀ (caught)	Victreebel (multiple, caught)	Weepinbell (multiple, caught)	Bellsprout (multiple, caught)

In the Pokémon Pocket Monsters manga

Red and his Pokémon visit the Safari Zone in Rampage At The Safari Zone?!. It ends up being wrecked by Clefairy's destructive powers.

Pokémon

Nidoran♀	File:Isamu Akai Tauros.png Tauros ♂	Omanyte	Omastar
Kabuto	Kabutops	Aerodactyl

Trivia

• The background music is Evolution (Japanese: 進化).
• The Safari Zone is a location in Generation II, but is very minimally programmed into the game. It can only be accessed by changing the warp pointers when a room is entered, however, when it has been accessed, the area is unmistakably the entrance area, complete with music. It is apparently a leftover from the development builds of Gold and Silver.
  • However, in HeartGold and SoulSilver, the Safari Zone is replaced with Pal Park.

In other languages

Language Title Mandarin Chinese 野生原野區 European French Parc Safari German Safarizone Italian Zona Safari European Spanish Zona Safari

Kanto
Settlements Pallet Town • Viridian City • Pewter City • Cerulean City • Vermilion City • Lavender Town Celadon City • Saffron City • Fuchsia City • Cinnabar Island • Indigo Plateau Routes 1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5 • 6 • 7 • 8 • 9 • 10 • 11 • 12 • 13 • 14 • 15 • 16 • 17 • 18 • 19 • 20 • 21 • 22 • 23 • 24 • 25 • 26 • 27 • 28 Landmarks Professor Oak's Laboratory • Viridian Forest • Diglett's Cave • Pewter Museum of Science • Mt. Moon (Square) • Cerulean Cave Underground Path (Kanto Routes 5–6) • Underground Path (Kanto Routes 7–8) • S.S. Anne • S.S. Aqua • Sea Cottage • Rock Tunnel Power Plant • Cycling Road/Pokémon Road • Team Rocket Hideout • Silph Co. • Magnet Train • Pokémon Tower • Safari Zone/Pal Park GO Park • Seafoam Islands • Pokémon Mansion • Cinnabar Lab • Pokémon League Reception Gate • Victory Road • Tohjo Falls Access to Sevii Islands • Johto

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