Hoenn Safari Zone

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Safari Zone サファリゾーン Safari Zone "Wild Missingno. appeared!"
Map description:	This amusement area provides a rich environment in which to catch many different kinds of Pokémon.
Location:	North of Route 121
Region:	Hoenn
Generations:	III, VI
Location of Safari Zone in Hoenn.
Pokémon world locations

The Hoenn Safari Zone (Japanese: サファリゾーン Safari Zone) is a special Pokémon preserve where Trainers can enter to capture certain types of Pokémon. The entrance is on Hoenn's Route 121.

For $500, the player will receive thirty Safari Balls. Certain areas can only be accessed with the Mach Bike, Acro Bike, or Surf. There are also smashable rocks, but they do not prevent progress and only facilitate encountering Pokémon. In Emerald, another area will open up to the east, with a pathway directly north of the entrance once the National Pokédex is obtained.

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 a Pokéblock, go near, and run away. Throwing Pokéblocks makes a Pokémon less likely to run, but makes it harder to catch; while going near does the reverse, making it easier to catch but more likely to run.

In addition, players may place Pokéblocks on designated stands in order to attract specific Pokémon, similar to the system of slathering honey on trees to entice rare Pokémon in Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum, and Object Arrangement in the Johto Safari Zone of HeartGold and SoulSilver.

In Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire, the Safari Game has been removed, and players can enter the Safari Zone area without paying a fee. Pokémon found here are now collected through normal battles. In addition the layout of the Safari Zone has changed where the Mach Bike and Acro Bike are needed more often to get to different areas. Also certain TMs are inaccessible until the player can get ahold of both bikes in the post-game. Additionally the locations of certain Pokémon have changed such as Pikachu, Wobbuffet, and Girafarig can now be found only in one area instead of two.

No Generation III Pokémon can be caught in this Safari Zone, implying that all Pokémon available for capture have been imported.

Details

As with other Safari Zones, this Safari Zone allows Pokémon to be easier or harder to capture by changing the catch rate of the Pokémon, which is done indirectly through a "catch factor". Furthermore, an "escape factor" is added to represent the probability that a Pokémon will escape the following turn. At the start of an encounter, the catch factor starts at 100/1275 of the Pokémon's catch rate, rounded down (if this is lower than 1, this will be set to 1), while the escape factor starts at 3.

Depending on the action taken, the catch and escape factors are modified as follows (neither factor may increase to more than 20 nor decrease to less than 1):

Throwing a Pokéblock that the Pokémon completely ignores has no effect. A Pokémon is enthralled by a Pokéblock if its preferred flavor dominates its disliked flavor, while a Pokémon completely ignores it if its disliked flavor dominates its preferred flavor. If both preferred and disliked flavors are equal (including if neither are present), the Pokémon is curious about the Pokéblock.

If a player chooses to throw a Safari Ball, the catch factor is multiplied by 1275/100 (rounded down) to obtain the modified catch rate. At the end of a turn, a randomly generated value from 0 to 99 is obtained, and if this value is less than 5 times the escape factor, the Pokémon escapes.

These numbers translate to a 5% change in probability of escaping for every unit change (plus or minus 1) in the escape factor, with an initial 15% chance of escape; and a 2.5% change* in probability of capture for every unit change in the capture factor, with an initial capture probability of approximately catch rate/510 rounded down to the nearest multiple of 0.025 (2.5%), or 0.025 if it would be less.

The Pokéblock feeder will only have effect on grass patches up to five steps away from the feeder, and all wild Pokémon encountered will have a Nature for which the Pokémon would be enthralled by it if an identical Pokéblock was thrown at it (or a random Nature if no such Nature exists). Only one Pokéblock may occupy a feeder, and the feeder's effect disappears after 100 steps are taken.

Items

Area 2

Item		Location	Games
	Max Revive	Far southwest of the Area, beyond the pond (requires Surf)	R  S  E

Area 3

Item		Location	Games
	TM22 (SolarBeam)	Far northeast of the area, beyond the pond (requires Surf)	R  S  E

Area 4

Item		Location	Games
	Calcium	In the far northwest part of the area	R  S  E

Area 5

Item		Location	Games
	PP Up	Three squares south of the southernmost Pokéblock stand (hidden)	E
	Full Restore	In the furthest southeast patch of grass (hidden)	E
	Big Pearl	East in a patch of grass beyond the top of the waterfall	E

Area 6

Item		Location	Games
	Rare Candy	In the southeast portion of the area there is a 2×3 patch of light green grass in the lower right portion of it (hidden)	E
	Zinc	In a small nook among the wall in the rocky path to the north (hidden)	E
	Nugget	Between two ledges at the end of the rocky path to the west	E

Pokémon

Area 1

Generation III

Pokémon	Games						Location	Levels	Rate
Pikachu	R		S		E		Grass	25, 27	5%
Oddish	R		S		E		Grass	25, 27	40%
Gloom	R		S		E		Grass	25	5%
Doduo	R		S		E		Grass	25	10%
Natu	R		S		E		Grass	25	10%
Girafarig	R		S		E		Grass	25, 27	20%
Wobbuffet	R		S		E		Grass	27, 29	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 VI

Pokémon	Games						Location	Levels	Rate
Pikachu	OR			AS			Grass	28-30	??%
Oddish	OR			AS			Grass	25	??%
Gloom	OR			AS			Grass	25-30	??%
Psyduck	OR			AS			Grass	29	??%
Doduo	OR			AS			Grass	28-30	??%
Girafarig	OR			AS			Grass	25, 27	??%
Surfing
Psyduck	OR			AS			Surfing	20-35	100%
Fishing
Goldeen	OR			AS			Fishing Old Rod	5-10	30%
Magikarp	OR			AS			Fishing Old Rod	5-10	70%
Goldeen	OR			AS			Fishing Good Rod	10-30	40%
Magikarp	OR			AS			Fishing Good Rod	10-oras0	60%
Goldeen	OR			AS			Fishing Super Rod	25-35	80%
Seaking	OR			AS			Fishing Super Rod	25-40	20%
DexNav
Kakuna	OR			AS			Grass	30	??%
Pidgeotto	OR			AS			Grass	30	??%
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

Generation III

Pokémon	Games						Location	Levels	Rate
Pikachu	R		S		E		Grass	25, 27	5%
Oddish	R		S		E		Grass	25, 27	40%
Gloom	R		S		E		Grass	25	5%
Doduo	R		S		E		Grass	27	10%
Natu	R		S		E		Grass	25	10%
Girafarig	R		S		E		Grass	25, 27	20%
Wobbuffet	R		S		E		Grass	27, 29	10%
Surfing
Psyduck	R		S		E		Surfing	20-35	100%
Fishing
Goldeen	R		S		E		Fishing Old Rod	5-10	30%
Magikarp	R		S		E		Fishing Old Rod	5-10	70%
Goldeen	R		S		E		Fishing Good Rod	10-30	40%
Magikarp	R		S		E		Fishing Good Rod	10-30	60%
Goldeen	R		S		E		Fishing Super Rod	25-35	80%
Seaking	R		S		E		Fishing Super Rod	25-40	20%
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 VI

Pokémon	Games						Location	Levels	Rate
Oddish	OR			AS			Grass	25, 27	??%
Gloom	OR			AS			Grass	25	??%
Doduo	OR			AS			Grass	27	??%
Xatu	OR			AS			Grass	25	??%
Wobbuffet	OR			AS			Grass	27, 29	??%
Surfing
Psyduck	OR			AS			Surfing	20-35	100%
Fishing
Goldeen	OR			AS			Fishing Old Rod	5-10	30%
Magikarp	OR			AS			Fishing Old Rod	5-10	70%
Goldeen	OR			AS			Fishing Good Rod	10-30	40%
Magikarp	OR			AS			Fishing Good Rod	10-oras0	60%
Goldeen	OR			AS			Fishing Super Rod	25-35	80%
Seaking	OR			AS			Fishing Super Rod	25-40	20%
DexNav
Kakuna	OR			AS			Grass	30	??%
Pidgeotto	OR			AS			Grass	30	??%
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
Oddish	R		S		E		Grass	27, 29	30%
Gloom	R		S		E		Grass	29, 31	15%
Doduo	R		S		E		Grass	27, 29	15%
Dodrio	R		S		E		Grass	29, 31	5%
Rhyhorn	R		S		E		Grass	27, 29	30%
Pinsir	R		S		E		Grass	27, 29	5%
Surfing
Psyduck	R		S		E		Surfing	20-35	95%
Golduck	R		S		E		Surfing	25-40	5%
Fishing
Goldeen	R		S		E		Fishing Old Rod	5-10	30%
Magikarp	R		S		E		Fishing Old Rod	5-10	70%
Goldeen	R		S		E		Fishing Good Rod	10-30	40%
Magikarp	R		S		E		Fishing Good Rod	10-30	60%
Goldeen	R		S		E		Fishing Super Rod	25-35	80%
Seaking	R		S		E		Fishing Super Rod	25-40	20%
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 4

Pokémon	Games						Location	Levels	Rate
Oddish	R		S		E		Grass	27-29	30%
Gloom	R		S		E		Grass	29, 31	15%
Natu	R		S		E		Grass	27, 29	15%
Xatu	R		S		E		Grass	29, 31	5%
Heracross	R		S		E		Grass	27, 29	5%
Phanpy	R		S		E		Grass	27, 29	30%
Rock Smash
Geodude	R		S		E		Rock Smash	5-30	100%
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 5

Pokémon	Games						Location	Levels	Rate
Hoothoot	R		S		E		Grass	35	5%
Spinarak	R		S		E		Grass	33	10%
Mareep	R		S		E		Grass	34, 36	30%
Aipom	R		S		E		Grass	34	10%
Sunkern	R		S		E		Grass	33, 35	30%
Gligar	R		S		E		Grass	37, 40	5%
Snubbull	R		S		E		Grass	34	5%
Stantler	R		S		E		Grass	36, 39	5%
Surfing
Marill	R		S		E		Surfing	25-35	39%
Wooper	R		S		E		Surfing	25-30	60%
Quagsire	R		S		E		Surfing	35-40	1%
Fishing
Goldeen	R		S		E		Fishing Old Rod	25-30	30%
Magikarp	R		S		E		Fishing Old Rod	25-30	70%
Goldeen	R		S		E		Fishing Good Rod	25-30	20%
Magikarp	R		S		E		Fishing Good Rod	25-30	60%
Remoraid	R		S		E		Fishing Good Rod	30-35	20%
Goldeen	R		S		E		Fishing Super Rod	25-30	40%
Remoraid	R		S		E		Fishing Super Rod	25-35	59%
Octillery	R		S		E		Fishing Super Rod	35-40	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 6

Pokémon	Games						Location	Levels	Rate
Hoothoot	R		S		E		Grass	35	5%
Ledyba	R		S		E		Grass	33	10%
Aipom	R		S		E		Grass	33, 35	30%
Sunkern	R		S		E		Grass	34	10%
Pineco	R		S		E		Grass	34	5%
Teddiursa	R		S		E		Grass	34, 36	30%
Houndour	R		S		E		Grass	36, 39	5%
Miltank	R		S		E		Grass	37, 40	5%
Rock Smash
Shuckle	R		S		E		Rock Smash	20-40	100%
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.

Areas

Safari Zone in Pokémon Ruby, Sapphire, and pre-National Pokédex Emerald

• Area 1 houses the entrance.
• Area 2 is directly west of Area 1.
• Area 3 is directly north of Area 2. The Mach Bike is needed to get there.
• Area 4 is directly north of Area 1. The Acro Bike is needed to get there.
• Area 5 is directly east of Area 1. It is only accessible after defeating the Elite Four in Emerald.
• Area 6 is directly north of Area 5. It is only accessible after defeating the Elite Four in Emerald.

Hoenn
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