7 Pokemon Places You Forgot About

- Greetings Pokefans, Michael here, and throughout the entire history of the main Pokémon series, there have been several

places

or landmarks that have become super famous. Cerulean Cave, Lavender Town, Slowpoke Well, Mount Chimney, and the Eternal Forest, just to name a few. However, there are some locations that are really obscure, maybe it's because they're an optional location, with nothing of interest, or they only appear in one main series game, or they just make up locations that you literally can't access unless you you activate them. the event. So in today's video, I'm going to go over several Pokémon locations that I personally

forgot

about, which means you probably did too, or maybe you haven't even heard of them.

I'm only going to go over the locations of the main series games, because if I were talking about spin-off games or anime locations, we'd be here for a year. Also real quick, before we start, I want to thank you because I recently surpassed one million subscribers. (audience cheering) Thank you all for supporting this channel and allowing me to continue living the dream that I do. Also, if you have any suggestions for a special 1 million subscriber video I can make, tell me in the comments because I don't have anything. But now let's start with the locations, I'll move through them in generational order, starting with the third generation.

I'm skipping Generations One and Two because they're too famous, they're too established, and Kanto and Johto have appeared in so many games, throughout Pokémon history, that I didn't forget a single Kanto or Johto Location. So, in my opinion, they are too memorable to appear here. But while Kanto doesn't have any

places

that people forget, there is an area near Kanto that definitely does, because it's not as well known. This area only appeared in a couple of main series Pokémon games, across all eight generations. The Savvy Islands in FireRed and LeafGreen. There are tons of landmarks in there that don't appear in any other game, so they end up being pretty obscure.

Especially since four of the seven islands are only accessible once you've beaten the league. But, while they're all reasonably obscure, there are a few specific landmarks that I think take the cake. The first one is actually a pair of landmarks technically, but they're connected so I count it as one entry. That's Outcast Island and Altering Cave. Outcast Island is a water route and of course the island north of Six Island and is the furthest point from the Six Islands Pokémon Center. You go down the Water Path, then the Green Path, which contains the bush pattern, and then you reach the path called Outcast Island, where the island itself is located at the end.

There's virtually nothing of interest here, aside from one or two objects and some slippers, until you notice a lone cave entrance. Surely this cave must be full of ancient and fascinating treasures. After all, it's a remote and desolate place in a Pokémon game and those tend to have interesting things. You enter the cave known as Altering Cave and discover that the rewards for your exploration and journey are nothing, literally nothing. The cave is a room, it has no items and the only wild Pokémon in there are Zubat, which range from levels six to 16, which is oddly low since this area can only be accessed after you've been to the Pokémon League.

So what's the deal? Why does this extremely remote cave exist with nothing but the weak Zubat in it? Also, why did they bring it back in the Emerald version? It's in a more accessible location on Route 103 after you beat the Pokémon League, but seriously, what's the point of this empty cave with only the weak Zubat? My old guide to FireRed and LeafGreen says that Altering Cave is as desolate and lonely as it gets, doesn't it? It is. But it wasn't supposed to be like that. The reason Altering Cave exists but has nothing of interest is that it was originally intended to be a mysterious place for gifts.

Data miners found in the code of these third-generation games that Altering Cave is capable of spawning eight different Johto Pokémon, Mareep, Aipom, Pineco, Shuckle, Teddiursa, Houndour, Stantler, and Smeargle. Its spawns are activated through Mystery Gift events, and when that happens, whatever Pokémon is part of the event completely replaces Zubat's spawns, inside the Altering Cave. This appears to be a feature that gives players a way to obtain these Johto Pokémon, without having to trade them with Pokémon Colosseum. At the time of FireRed and LeafGreen's release, Pokémon Colosseum is the only Pokémon game where you can obtain these Pokémon in the third generation.

So they came up with this mystery giveaway event, to give these Pokémon to players who didn't have trading capabilities with a GameCube, because if you couldn't get the Pokémon from the Colosseum or a friend, you literally couldn't complete your national card. Pokedex. This was intended to be a solution for that. However, no events for Altering Cave have ever been released anywhere, unless you hack your game, Altering Cave will never spawn anything except Zubat, and it never has. My theory on the reason behind them creating this location, but then not doing any events for it, is that they made Emerald, they made all of these Johto Pokémon available somewhere in Emerald, so they could be obtained directly within a third generation game of the main series. .

So Altering Cave was no longer necessary. The only flaw with this theory is that they included it in Emerald, even though all the Pokémon that could appear there can appear directly in Emerald, so that's a little strange. I guess it's just another one of those situations where Game Freak codes something and then decides later, it doesn't matter. But because Altering Cave was never used, it became an unimportant remote location and a completely skippable location in both FireRed, LeafGreen, and Emerald because why would you go back to Route 103 after becoming the champion? Therefore, many Pokémon fans out there have probably never heard of or completely

forgot

ten about Outcast Island and Altering Cave.

The next location is another Savvy Islands location that is definitely not as dark because it is a mandatory part of the post-game quest, but I still wanted to discuss it because I had forgotten about it and also because I started laughing when I read. his name, because I am a boy. The Dotted Hole, this place makes use of the Braille visual system, which originated in Hoenn with the Regi Quest. That makes sense because what's at the bottom is the Sapphire, the element that, along with the Ruby, you need to be able to trade between the Kanto games and the three Non-Kanto Gen games.

It can only be entered using slash at the entrance, which Braille says must be done simply by reading the cut. The next message tells you the order of the holes you must jump through, up, left, right, down, and the final message, once you have reached the Sapphire, says: let the two shiny stones, one in red and another in blue, connect the past. Two friends sharing power, open a window to a shining new world, the next world awaits you. It's a bit strange that an ancient society would write a message about building an interregional communications center for long-distance training.

The next location is another cave on the Gen three island, which is Artisan Cave in Emerald. I'm sure most of you remember the Emerald Battle Frontier, because that place is praised as one of the best post-game areas in the entire history of the main Pokémon series. However, I bet many of you forgot that Battle Frontier Island has a hidden cave. I certainly forgot. It is a cave that you can only access after you have irritated and then trapped or defeated the Sudowoodo near the battle palace. You head towards the surface of the waterfall with short waves and boom!

There is the cave. The inside has some ivy boosting vitamins, but most notable is that the only wild Pokémon in there is Smeargle, hence the name Artisan Cave, it is the only place in all of the main Gen three games, where you can catch Smeargle, since As I mentioned, Altering Cave was never given an event to make Smeargle appear there. Aside from Smeargle and the vitamins, there's not much to see, your progress until you reach the only exit side, which spits you out next to the Battle Tower. But once you have a Smeargle and have collected all the vitamins it contains, you really won't need to go back.

So it seems to just be a place that was implemented to be a fun little extra place to visit in the post-game, and also a place to put Smeargle. Those factors, combined with the fact that it's only found in one post-game area in one main series game, throughout Pokémon history, means it's a pretty forgettable place. The next location is another Hoenn location i.e. Scorched Slab. In the original Gen Three games, it's a one-room cave on Route 120, with the MT for a sunny day and nothing else, seriously, nothing else. There aren't even wild Pokémon.

I always thought it was strange that this single room with nothing but a TM had its own name and that cool name. They could have easily made a small island on Route 120 and placed the TM on top of there. But because this name is used for a single MT and you go in, go out and never come back, it means it's an extremely forgettable place. Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire clearly realized this was nonsense and expanded The Scorch Slabs substantially, giving it multiple floors, wild Pokémon, many more items, and a post-game legendary to catch, which is Heatran.

So if you dug into that in Oris, you'll probably find it more memorable. However, from the third generation until the release of Oris, or if you've never played Oris, it's a super forgettable place, with a strangely badass name. Alright, now let's move on to the fourth generation and the only place I'll talk about is the Sinjoh Ruins. And yes, as you've probably noticed, his name is a combination of Sinnoh and Johto. The location is only within HeartGold and SoulSilver, and is not actually within Johto or Kanto. If you look at your map while in the Sinjoh Ruins, it indicates that you are somewhere north of Johto.

The reason is that it's such a forgettable venue and many of you have probably never heard of it, is that it's an exclusive event venue, for events that were extremely difficult to find. You needed an Arceus from the Hall of Origin, which was never possible because they never released Azure Flute, or you needed an Arceus from an event distribution. Do you know how many legitimate Arceus distributions there were in the 4th generation? Nine, nine around the world, and they were all in different places. If you're from the United States like me, you had one week in November 2009 to get a legit Arceus in a 4th generation game.

That is. If you didn't get an Arceus from the extremely limited event in your region and didn't have any friends who got one, it's literally impossible to access Sinjoh Ruins without hacking your game. However, many people have of course pirated their games, so we know what happens at the Sinjoh Ruins event. And what happens is, well, long story short, crazy (bleep). If you take your Arceus to Alph Ruins, an investigator gets excited and takes you to the ruins to examine the unknown markings. Then suddenly you are teleported to the ruins of Sinjoh, where you meet Cynthia.

She takes you inside where you must choose between one of three symbols on the floor, referring to Dialga, Palkia and Giratina. Once you've made your choice, some strangers will appear and then the craziest scene in Pokémon history will play. (dramatic music) Look at this madness, real world images played in rapid succession, set to terrifying music. I almost can't believe it's real, it almost seems fan made. Finally, towards the end of the scene, an egg is shown hatching. When you return from that cosmic acid trip, you're presented with a level one Dialga, Palkia, or Giratina, depending on which circle you chose.

It has its signature orb, and as a fun fact, this is the only way to get a legitimate Gray Orb, HeartGold, and SoulSilver, because the item cannot be traded. So yeah, it's crazy and I'm a little disappointed that I didn't get the chance to participate in it. I mean I could now if I hacked my game, but it's not really the same. But since I, along with the vast majority of Pokémon players around the world, have never had the opportunity to participate in this event, they have never been to the Sinjoh Ruins, and probably don't even know they exist, until now, because I explained it to you.

Now, in the fifth generation, where the first location is another cave, Challenger's Cave, in black and white. It is located on Route Nine and is just a cave. You won't have access to it until after you win the league, because before then a black belt will block your way. Once inside, you'll find a few items, including the TM for Stone Edge,some trainers and some non-Gen 5 Pokémon like Lickitung, Sableye, Mawile, and Riolu, and that's the extent of the content there. There are no legends, not even for an event, and there are no big plot battles.

Really, your only reason to go in there is the TM for Stone Edge, some experience money, and the Pokémon there if you want to complete your National Pokedex. But if you don't care about that stuff, there's no reason to go in there. Also, it's entirely possible to forget it's there, because you have to go back to route nine after winning the league to get in, and there's no real reason in the plot to go back to route nine. And the cherry on top of this forgettable Sunday in the caves is that it is not black two and white two.

The cave entrance has collapsed, I guess because Game Freak said this cave was pointless, let's get rid of it. So, it's only in black and white and there are no other Pokémon games anywhere else. That combined with the fact that, like I said, there's nothing really interesting about it, means that a lot of people will forget about it. I certainly did. And the final location is another Generation Five location, actually it's an entire town that I'm talking about today because I didn't know of its existence until a couple of years after playing Generation Five for the first time, that being Anville Town.

The city of Anville is very far from the Unova region, so it can only be accessed by taking a train from the Nimbasa city station. That makes it look like the city of Kiloude in Kalos, but you can fly to Kiloude after you get there the first time. Anville doesn't have a Pokémon Center, so it's literally only accessible by train every time. Its main feature is the huge railway yard that has a rotating platform where there is a different train car every day, something I didn't even know until I wrote this video, because I had never been there on consecutive days.

On Saturdays and Sundays you can trade some items and there is a guy who will give you item rewards based on how well you do in the battle meter. Black Two and White Two feature a mini side quest about a lost Pansage and your reward for helping is a shiny dust. And that is. With no battles, no TMs, no wild cards, no Pokémon giveaways, no trade wins, both for Pokémon and plot occurrences, it's a quaint little remote town that's totally optional and totally missable. If you don't go to the Nimbasa City metro station, like me, you will never have a way to get there.

Even when I finally went to the subway station to try the Battle Subway, some time after finishing the game, I didn't notice the option for the Anville Town line. I discovered the town of Anville by seeing it mentioned online and thought, what the hell is that? How have I missed an entire town? So if I, one of the biggest Pokémon nerds, missed an entire city for years, then I think there's a good chance that many of you have done the same. Thank you so much for watching and a very special thank you to my Patreon patrons who are helping support my channel regardless of YouTube ad revenue fluctuations.

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