Great Marsh

Great Marsh 大湿原 Great Marsh "Wild Missingno. appeared!"
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Location:	Pastoria City
Region:	Sinnoh
Generations:	IV
Location of Great Marsh in Sinnoh.
Pokémon world locations

The Great Marsh (Japanese: 大湿原 Great Marsh) is an area located in Pastoria City. It is Sinnoh's Safari Zone and contains some Pokémon that cannot be found anywhere else in Sinnoh. It is filled with marshy areas, which, unlike normal marsh tiles, have tall grass which are inhabited by wild Pokémon.

Functioning

Capturing Pokémon

Much like other Pokémon preserves in Kanto and Hoenn, the Great Marsh features a Safari Game in which Trainers pay $500 for 30 Safari Balls and a limited number of steps (500) to catch all the Pokémon they can.

The mechanics are similar to other Safari Zones: when a wild Pokémon appears, the player may not send out any Pokémon to battle it, but must instead try to catch the Pokémon without harming it. The wild Pokémon may choose to flee the battle at any time, thus, catching a Pokémon in the Great Marsh requires mainly luck.

There are four options shown in the battle screen:

• Throw a Safari Ball - Throws a Safari Ball in possibility of capture. It is much the same as throwing a Poké Ball in an average Pokémon battle.
• Throw bait - Throwing Bait makes a Pokémon harder to catch, but makes it less likely to flee from battle.
• Throw mud - Throwing Mud does the reverse of throwing Bait, making the Pokémon easier to catch, but making the Pokémon more likely to flee from battle.
• Run from battle - Like in an average Pokémon battle, running away from a Pokémon will cause the battle to end.

Similar to the issue in Pal Park, if the player has an Arceus in the front of their party, holding a Plate, and initiates a battle, the game will freeze.

The area was redesigned in Pokémon Platinum to feature slightly upgraded graphics that allow the player to distinguish between deep and shallow mud. The park is still divided into six areas, but the individual areas have slightly different layouts.

Changing Pokémon

Using the binoculars to spot Pokémon

Some Pokémon will not always appear in the Marsh. Each day, the Pokémon will change; therefore, to get a new set, players must wait a day. These Pokémon will appear randomly in one of the six areas; some may not appear for a while, while others may appear several days in a row or in multiple areas on the same day. Some may not appear until after getting the National Pokédex. The only way to tell which changing Pokémon is available in the areas for the day is to use the lookout upstairs from the entrance. Record mixing also changes the changing Pokémon of the day in the Great Marsh so that all players mixing records have the same Pokémon on the same day.

In order to find out what Pokémon are going to be in each area daily, the player is able to walk up to the second floor in the lobby, and use the binoculars and look out onto the marsh. For $100 players can get a brief glimpse of the Great Marsh showing certain Pokémon in certain areas of the marsh. In each slide, a part of the park will appear with a Pokémon in the center of the slide that can be found in that area.

Details

As with previous Safari Zones, Pokémon are made easier and harder to catch by modifying their catch rates. An escape rate is also given for each Pokémon that appear in the Great Marsh. The escape rates for Pokémon are the same for all Generation IV games, except that those who do not appear in the Great Marsh or the Johto Safari Zone do not have their escape rates defined in the relevant games.

At the start of an encounter, both rates are set to their species defaults. Throwing Bait will lower the escape rate by one stage, but will also have a 90% chance of lowering the catch rate by one stage. Conversely, throwing Mud will raise the catch rate by one stage, but will also have a 90% chance of raising the escape rate by one stage. When bait is thrown and the flee stage is not decreased the message "... is busy eating!" will be displayed. When mud is thrown and the catch stage is not decreased the message "... is beside itself with anger!" will be displayed. Stages for catch rates and escape rates work identically to stat stages: they may not be raised above +6 or below -6, where 0 is the starting stage. The stage multipliers applied to the catch rates and escape rates are also identical to that of stat stages.

At the end of each turn, a random number between 0 and 254 (inclusive) is generated, and if it is less than the or equal to the modified escape rate, the Pokémon escapes.

Due to a programming error, Whiscash does not have a flee rate programmed into the game, and thus only has a 1/255 chance to flee (Flees on a random number result of 0).

Exclusively throwing Safari Balls provides the best chance of catching every Pokémon in the Great Marsh.

Flee rates

Base Flee Rates*
	60	23.5%
	90	35.3%
	120	47.1%
	150	58.8%

Items

Getting off the rail

Area divisions^DP

Area divisions^Pt

Entrance

Item		Location	Games
	Safari Ball ×30	To be used during the Safari Game; cannot be kept	D  P  Pt
	Matchup Checker	Reward for capturing five Pokémon in a single Safari game	Pt

Area 1

Item		Location	Games
	Potion	Near the train stop	D  P
	Poké Ball	Northwest of man wearing hat	Pt
	Super Repel	Northwest of the train stop	D  P
	Yellow Shard	West of the train stop	Pt
	Rare Candy	In the northwesternmost corner (hidden)	D  P  Pt

Area 2

Item		Location	Games
	Great Ball	East of the train stop	D  P
	Blue Shard	North of the ledge	Pt
	Toxic Plate	In the trees on the northern edge, above the woman with the parasol (hidden)	D  P
	Toxic Plate	In the northeastern corner, 3 tiles north from the southern fallen tree (hidden)	Pt

Area 3

Item		Location	Games
	Honey	On the far west side, north of the man who incorrectly describes Bait and Mud	D  P
	Great Ball	South of the man who describes bait and mud	Pt
	Ultra Ball	West of the train stop, about halfway across the area (hidden)	D  P
	Leaf Stone	Near the center, in the middle of the large area of mud (hidden)	Pt

Area 4

Item		Location	Games
	Super Potion	East side, above a ledge	D  P
	Poké Ball	South of Bug Catcher, below a ledge	Pt
	Poké Ball	Northeast of the train stop	D  P
	Green Shard	Northwest of Bug Catcher	Pt
	Nugget	In the trees north-east of the large eastern pond (hidden)	D  P
	Hyper Potion	Northwest of Green Shard, at the end of a "dead-end" path of bog (hidden)	Pt

Area 5

Item		Location	Games
	Antidote	Near the train stop	D  P
	Great Ball	West of the train stop	Pt
	Full Heal	Northwest of the Antidote (hidden)	D  P
	Big Mushroom	On the south side, on the ground in the small corner without mud (hidden)	Pt

Area 6

Item		Location	Games
	HM05 (Defog)	From the boy with green hair when entering the marsh	D  P
	Red Shard	Given at random from the boy with green hair when entering the marsh a different day	Pt
	Green Shard	Given at random from the boy with green hair when entering the marsh a different day	Pt
	Blue Shard	Given at random from the boy with green hair when entering the marsh a different day	Pt
	Yellow Shard	Given at random from the boy with green hair when entering the marsh a different day	Pt
	Parlyz Heal	Northeast corner of the pond	D  P
	Red Shard	Southeast corner of the pond	Pt
	Hyper Potion	A couple of steps below the Parlyz Heal (hidden)	D  P
	Max Repel	A couple of steps below the Red Shard, in the middle of the mud (hidden)	Pt

Pokémon

All Areas*

Pokémon	Games						Location	Levels	Rate
Surfing
Psyduck	D		P		Pt		Surfing	20-40	5%
Marill	D		P		Pt		Surfing	20-30	30%
Wooper	D		P		Pt		Surfing	20-30	60%
Wooper	D		P		Pt		Surfing	20-30	90%
Quagsire	D		P		Pt		Surfing	20-40	5%
Quagsire	D		P		Pt		Surfing	20-40	10%
Fishing
Magikarp	D		P		Pt		Fishing Old Rod	3-10	100%
Magikarp	D		P		Pt		Fishing Old Rod	3-15	100%
Magikarp	D		P		Pt		Fishing Good Rod	10-25	55%
Gyarados	D		P		Pt		Fishing Good Rod	15-30	5%
Barboach	D		P		Pt		Fishing Good Rod	15-20	40%
Barboach	D		P		Pt		Fishing Good Rod	10-25	45%
Gyarados	D		P		Pt		Fishing Super Rod	40-55	15%
Gyarados	D		P		Pt		Fishing Super Rod	30-55	40%
Carvanha	D		P		Pt		Fishing Super Rod	15-30	45%
Carvanha	D		P		Pt		Fishing Super Rod	30-55	45%
Whiscash	D		P		Pt		Fishing Super Rod	30-55	40%
Whiscash	D		P		Pt		Fishing Super Rod	20-50	15%
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 1 and 2

Pokémon	Games						Location	Levels	Rate
Psyduck	D		P		Pt		Grass	24,26	8%
Tangela	D		P		Pt		Grass	30-31	5%
Hoothoot	D		P		Pt		Grass	24	0%	0%	10%
Noctowl	D		P		Pt		Grass	26	0%	0%	10%
Noctowl	D		P		Pt		Grass	28,30	0%	0%	20%
Marill	D		P		Pt		Grass	25-26	15%
Yanma	D		P		Pt		Grass	30-31	5%
Wooper	D		P		Pt		Grass	24	20%
Wooper	D		P		Pt		Grass	28-30	40%
Quagsire	D		P		Pt		Grass	25-26	15%
Quagsire	D		P		Pt		Grass	30	10%
Azurill	D		P		Pt		Grass	24	1%
Tropius	D		P		Pt		Grass	28,30	20%	20%	0%
Starly	D		P		Pt		Grass	26	10%	10%	0%
Bidoof	D		P		Pt		Grass	26	1%
Bibarel	D		P		Pt		Grass	25	20%
Bibarel	D		P		Pt		Grass	28	20%
Budew	D		P		Pt		Grass	24	10%	10%	0%
Special Pokémon
Arbok	D		P		Pt		Dual-slot FireRed	24,26	8%
Arbok	D		P		Pt		Dual-slot FireRed	30	8%
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 3 and 4

Pokémon	Games						Location	Levels	Rate
Psyduck	D		P		Pt		Grass	22,24	8%
Tangela	D		P		Pt		Grass	27-30	25%	25%	0%
Tangela	D		P		Pt		Grass	28-30	0%	0%	15%
Hoothoot	D		P		Pt		Grass	22,24	0%	0%	20%
Hoothoot	D		P		Pt		Grass	27	0%	0%	10%
Noctowl	D		P		Pt		Grass	28	0%	0%	10%
Marill	D		P		Pt		Grass	23-24	15%
Yanma	D		P		Pt		Grass	29-30	5%
Wooper	D		P		Pt		Grass	22	20%
Wooper	D		P		Pt		Grass	27-29	30%
Quagsire	D		P		Pt		Grass	23-24	15%
Quagsire	D		P		Pt		Grass	29	10%
Azurill	D		P		Pt		Grass	22	1%
Starly	D		P		Pt		Grass	24	10%	10%	0%
Bidoof	D		P		Pt		Grass	24	1%
Bibarel	D		P		Pt		Grass	23	20%
Bibarel	D		P		Pt		Grass	27-28	30%	30%	0%
Bibarel	D		P		Pt		Grass	27	0%	0%	20%
Budew	D		P		Pt		Grass	22	10%	10%	0%
Special Pokémon
Arbok	D		P		Pt		Dual-slot FireRed	22,24	8%
Arbok	D		P		Pt		Dual-slot FireRed	29	8%
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
Tangela	D		P		Pt		Grass	28-29	5%
Hoothoot	D		P		Pt		Grass	20,22	0%	0%	20%
Hoothoot	D		P		Pt		Grass	26-27	0%	0%	20%
Marill	D		P		Pt		Grass	21-22	15%
Yanma	D		P		Pt		Grass	26-29	25%	25%	0%
Yanma	D		P		Pt		Grass	27-29	0%	0%	15%
Wooper	D		P		Pt		Grass	20	20%
Wooper	D		P		Pt		Grass	26-28	30%
Quagsire	D		P		Pt		Grass	21-22	15%
Quagsire	D		P		Pt		Grass	28	10%
Azurill	D		P		Pt		Grass	20	5%
Starly	D		P		Pt		Grass	22	10%	10%	0%
Bidoof	D		P		Pt		Grass	22	5%
Bibarel	D		P		Pt		Grass	21	20%
Bibarel	D		P		Pt		Grass	26-27	30%	30%	0%
Bibarel	D		P		Pt		Grass	26	0%	0%	20%
Budew	D		P		Pt		Grass	20	10%	10%	0%
Special Pokémon
Arbok	D		P		Pt		Dual-slot FireRed	20,22	8%
Arbok	D		P		Pt		Dual-slot FireRed	28	8%
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
Psyduck	D		P		Pt		Grass	20,22	8%
Tangela	D		P		Pt		Grass	28-29	5%
Hoothoot	D		P		Pt		Grass	20,22	0%	0%	20%
Hoothoot	D		P		Pt		Grass	26-27	0%	0%	20%
Marill	D		P		Pt		Grass	21-22	15%
Yanma	D		P		Pt		Grass	26-29	25%	25%	0%
Yanma	D		P		Pt		Grass	27-29	0%	0%	15%
Wooper	D		P		Pt		Grass	20	20%
Wooper	D		P		Pt		Grass	26-28	30%
Quagsire	D		P		Pt		Grass	21-22	15%
Quagsire	D		P		Pt		Grass	28	10%
Azurill	D		P		Pt		Grass	20	1%
Starly	D		P		Pt		Grass	22	10%	10%	0%
Bidoof	D		P		Pt		Grass	22	1%
Bibarel	D		P		Pt		Grass	21	20%
Bibarel	D		P		Pt		Grass	26-27	30%	30%	0%
Bibarel	D		P		Pt		Grass	26	0%	0%	20%
Budew	D		P		Pt		Grass	20	10%	10%	0%
Special Pokémon
Arbok	D		P		Pt		Dual-slot FireRed	20,22	8%
Arbok	D		P		Pt		Dual-slot FireRed	28	8%
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.

Changing Pokémon

The "rates" below are the chances for that Pokémon to be selected to appear in an area. All of these Pokémon will appear with a 10% encounter rate within the Great Marsh, or a 10% greater rate if they were already present. In Diamond and Pearl, the changing Pokémon's encounter rate is compensated (so that all encounter rates sum to 100%) by lowering the encounter rate of Marill and Quagsire in the same area (as seen above) by 5% each, while in Platinum, it is compensated by lowering the encounter rate of Wooper by 10%. The way this works in the games, this means that if Wooper is selected as the changing Pokémon in Platinum, there is no change to the tables shown above.

Pokémon	Games						Location	Levels	Rate
Golduck	D		P		Pt		Grass	22,24,26	3/32
Tangela	D		P		Pt		Grass	27-30	1/32
Yanma	D		P		Pt		Grass	27-30	1/32
Quagsire	D		P		Pt		Grass	27-30	2/32
Roselia	D		P		Pt		Grass	22,24,26	3/32
Tropius	D		P		Pt		Grass	27-30	1/32
Staravia	D		P		Pt		Grass	22,24,26	3/32
Skorupi	D		P		Pt		Grass	22,24,26	5/32
Skorupi	D		P		Pt		Grass	27-30	5/32
Croagunk	D		P		Pt		Grass	22,24,26	5/32
Croagunk	D		P		Pt		Grass	27-30	4/32
Carnivine	D		P		Pt		Grass	22,24,26	5/32
Carnivine	D		P		Pt		Grass	27-30	3/32
Pre-National Pokédex only
Marill	D		P		Pt		Grass	22,24,26	1/32
Wooper	D		P		Pt		Grass	22,24,26	2/32
Wooper	D		P		Pt		Grass	27-30	15/32
Quagsire	D		P		Pt		Grass	22,24,26	1/32
Azurill	D		P		Pt		Grass	22,24,26	2/32
Bidoof	D		P		Pt		Grass	22,24,26	1/32
Bibarel	D		P		Pt		Grass	22,24,26	1/32
Post-National Pokédex
Paras	D		P		Pt		Grass	22,24,26	1/32
Paras	D		P		Pt		Grass	27-30	2/32
Exeggcute	D		P		Pt		Grass	22,24,26	1/32
Exeggcute	D		P		Pt		Grass	27-30	2/32
Kangaskhan	D		P		Pt		Grass	22,24,26	1/32
Kangaskhan	D		P		Pt		Grass	27-30	2/32
Yanma	D		P		Pt		Grass	22,24,26	1/32
Shroomish	D		P		Pt		Grass	22,24,26	1/32
Shroomish	D		P		Pt		Grass	27-30	2/32
Gulpin	D		P		Pt		Grass	22,24,26	1/32
Gulpin	D		P		Pt		Grass	27-30	2/32
Kecleon	D		P		Pt		Grass	27-30	2/32
Drapion	D		P		Pt		Grass	22,24,26	1/32
Drapion	D		P		Pt		Grass	27-30	2/32
Toxicroak	D		P		Pt		Grass	22,24,26	1/32
Toxicroak	D		P		Pt		Grass	27-30	1/32
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.

Layout

Version	Entrance 1F	Entrance 2F	Marsh
Diamond
Pearl
Platinum

In the anime

The Great Marsh in the anime

As a boy, James was exploring the Great Marsh when he found a Carnivine stuck in the mud, struggling to get free. James pulled it out and they became friends ever since. During Team Rocket's journey through Sinnoh, Carnivine traveled with James.

Ash, Dawn, and Brock visited the Great Marsh in Cream of the Croagunk Crop!, in which Brock and his Croagunk participated in the Pastoria Croagunk Festival.

In A Crasher Course in Power!, Team Rocket were shown relaxing in the Great Marsh.

In the manga

The Great Marsh in the Pokémon Adventures manga

In the Pokémon Adventures manga

In A Skuffle with Skorupi, Diamond, Pearl and Platinum came here after Crasher Wake's assistant recommended Platinum to get a Grass-type Pokémon before challenging the Gym Leader. Platinum tried to catch various Pokémon, like Budew and Skorupi, with no success. At some point, the group got stuck in the mud. While they tried to struggle themselves free, a wild Carnivine attacked Chatler and Lax, who fought it and won. Chimler saved Platinum from drowning in the mud, after which the group left the Great Marsh empty handed.

In the TCG

The following is a list of cards related to mentioning or featuring the Great Marsh in the Pokémon Trading Card Game.

Pokémon in the Great Marsh Cards listed with a blue background are only legal to use in the current Expanded format. Cards listed with a green background are legal to use in both the current Standard and Expanded formats.
Card	Type	English Expansion	Rarity	#	Japanese Expansion	Rarity	#
Gumshoos		Ultra Prism		113/156	Ultra Moon		051/056

Trivia

• In Diamond and Pearl, a man in the Great Marsh incorrectly states that both the Bait and the Mud make Pokémon more likely to run but easier to catch. In Platinum however, the man states that the Bait will make the Pokémon easier to catch and more likely to flee, and the Mud will make it harder to catch but less likely to flee.
• If the player uses the walk through walls cheat to enter the Great Marsh, the changing Pokémon won't appear.
• In Platinum, if the player encounters a Pokémon when they would normally would "pop" out of deep mud, a glitch exists where upon exiting the battle, it will seem that the player is still "stuck", despite being able to move around normally. The effects of this glitch are most obvious when the player attempts to move to a tile with dry land after performing the glitch.

In other languages

Language Title Chinese Cantonese 大濕地 Daaih Sāpdeih * 大濕原 Daaih Sāpyùhn * Mandarin 大濕地 / 大湿地 Dà Shīdì * 大溼地 Dà Shīdì * 大溼原 Dà Shīyuán * 大湿原 Dà Shīyuán * Finnish Suursuo European French Grand Marais German Großmoor Italian Gran Palude Korean 대습초원 Dae Seupchoweon Polish Wielkie Bagna Portuguese Grande Pântano* European Spanish Gran Pantano Vietnamese Đầm lầy lớn

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