Glimwood Tangle

Glimwood Tangle		ルミナスメイズの森 Luminous Maze Forest
"Wild Missingno. appeared!"

Location:

Between Stow-on-Side and Ballonlea

Region:

Galar

Generations:

VIII

Location of Glimwood Tangle in Galar.

Pokémon world locations

Glimwood Tangle (Japanese: ルミナスメイズの森 Luminous Maze Forest) is a forest in the northwestern part of the Galar region. It lies between Stow-on-Side (to the south) and Ballonlea (to the north).

Geography

Glimwood Tangle is a forest with several, maze-like paths. Though perpetually dark, luminescent mushrooms provide small circles of light at various points on the paths; touching these mushrooms causes them to glow more brightly and expands the area that they light. The paths are divided into a southern and a northern group, connected only by the easternmost path. When entering the tangle from Stow-on-Side, the paths lead to a T-shaped fork. Taking the fork's western branch leads to a four-way intersection that connects (via the northern and southern exits) to a roughly circular path, with a ledge in the northern part of the circle; the western exit leads to a dead end. The fork's eastern branch leads to a curving path with two small, dead-end offshoots before connecting to the northern group of paths. The northern paths branch into four broad, overlapping circuits, with an oblong one north of the other three. Four ledges divide some areas of the paths: one between the westernmost and central lower circuits, one between the westernmost and northern circuits, and two on the northeastern corner of the northern circuit. On the eastern edge of the northern circuit sits a wide clearing, which connects to a path to the northeast that leads to Ballonlea.

Until the player has defeated Bede at Stow-on-Side, two Team Yell Grunts block the way through the forest.

Items

	Location	Games
Bright Powder	West of the first crossroads, down the path south of Cook Derek	Sw Sh
Full Heal ×2	East of the first crossroads (hidden)	Sw Sh
Big Root	Down the eastern path, next to a tree root	Sw Sh
TM24 (Snore)	In a dead end west of the Daring Couple	Sw Sh
Hyper Potion ×2	Southwest of the northern exit	Sw Sh
Luminous Moss	On a ledge along the path near Madame Judy (hidden)	Sw Sh
TM56 (U-turn)	On a ledge at the end of the path near Madame Judy	Sw Sh

Pokémon

Hidden encounters

Pokémon	Games		Location	Levels	Rate
Ponyta Galarian Form	Sw	Sh	Grass	34-36	10%
Spritzee	Sw	Sh	Grass	34-36	10%
Swirlix	Sw	Sh	Grass	34-36	10%
Phantump	Sw	Sh	Grass	34-36	10%
Shiinotic	Sw	Sh	Grass	34-36	20%
Shiinotic	Sw	Sh	Grass	34-36	15%
Oranguru	Sw	Sh	Grass	34-36	9%
Passimian	Sw	Sh	Grass	34-36	9%
Sinistea Phony Form	Sw	Sh	Grass	34-36	10%
Sinistea Antique Form	Sw	Sh	Grass	34-36	1%
Hattrem	Sw	Sh	Grass	34-36	15%
Hattrem	Sw	Sh	Grass	34-36	10%
Morgrem	Sw	Sh	Grass	34-36	20%
Indeedee Male	Sw	Sh	Grass	34-36	5%
Indeedee Female	Sw	Sh	Grass	34-36	5%
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.

Curry encounters

Pokémon	Games		Location	Levels	Rate
Morgrem	Sw	Sh	Curry	34-36	7.94%
Shiinotic	Sw	Sh	Curry	34-36	8.93%
Morgrem	Sw	Sh	Curry	34-36	9.01%
Shiinotic	Sw	Sh	Curry	34-36	9.01%
Ponyta Galarian Form	Sw	Sh	Curry	34-36	9.93%
Hattrem	Sw	Sh	Curry	34-36	9.93%
Phantump	Sw	Sh	Curry	34-36	9.93%
Sinistea Phony Form	Sw	Sh	Curry	34-36	9.93%
Spritzee	Sw	Sh	Curry	34-36	9.93%
Hattrem	Sw	Sh	Curry	34-36	10.14%
Oranguru	Sw	Sh	Curry	34-36	10.17%
Indeedee Female	Sw	Sh	Curry	34-36	11.17%
Phantump	Sw	Sh	Curry	34-36	11.27%
Swirlix	Sw	Sh	Curry	34-36	11.27%
Sinistea Phony Form	Sw	Sh	Curry	34-36	11.27%
Passimian	Sw	Sh	Curry	34-36	11.55%
Sinistea Antique Form	Sw	Sh	Curry	34-36	12.16%
Indeedee Male	Sw	Sh	Curry	34-36	12.68%
Sinistea Antique Form	Sw	Sh	Curry	34-36	13.80%
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.

Wanderers

There are two Impidimp seen hiding behind luminescent mushrooms, and are encountered when interacting with them. One is near the entrance, the other is near a dead end to the east, just before Cook Derek. They respawn every time when exiting and re-entering the area.
Morgrem is located to the left of Madame Judy, behind a large tree. It does not respawn.

Pokémon	Games		Location	Levels	Rate
Impidimp	Sw	Sh	Wanderer	31	N/A
Morgrem	Sw	Sh	Wanderer	38	One
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.

Trainers

Trainer

Pokémon


	Cook Derek ケンサク Kensaku Reward: $4,080

	Milcery♀	Lv.33
	No item

	Sinistea Phony Form	Lv.33
	No item

	Shiinotic♀	Lv.34
	No item


	Daring Couple Robert and Jacqueline ユウタとミレイ Yūta and Mirei Reward: $7,344

	Ninetales♂	Lv.34
	No item

	Kirlia♀	Lv.34
	No item


	Madame Judy メグミ Megumi Reward: $6,600

	Indeedee♂ Male	Lv.33
	No item

	Indeedee♂ Male	Lv.33
	No item

In the anime

Glimwood Tangle in the anime

Glimwood Tangle first appeared in The Tale of You and Glimwood Tangle!. Chloe went there alongside Ash and Goh in search of a Galarian Ponyta and Rapidash. Whilst there, Goh spotted a Morelull and chased after it, causing him and Ash to become separated from Chloe. Goh eventually caught Morelull, and whilst trying to find Chloe, they wandered into Ballonlea and met Opal.

Chloe, meanwhile, encountered a Galarian Ponyta, who led her to an injured Galarian Rapidash. Chloe went off in search of a flower whose dew could heal Rapidash, only to run into a trio of Impidimp that stole her backpack. After a playful fight with Bluk Berries, Chloe retrieved her backpack and got the flower dew she had searched for, using it to heal Rapidash. As thanks for healing it, Rapidash let Chloe ride itself and took her to Ballonlea.

The forest reappeared in The Sweet Taste of Battle!, where Leon was seen interacting with some of the forest Pokémon on his way to Ballonlea, before admitting that he was completely lost.

In Must Be Our Heroes and the Witch!, Brock was lured into Glimwood Tangle by a Hatterene, which wanted to feed on the strong negative emotions of his latest heartbreak. Ash, Misty, and Cilan received help from a Hatenna in leading them to Brock, whom they were able to save.

Pokémon found in Glimwood Tangle

Ponyta	Rapidash	Impidimp (×3)
Swirlix	Phantump	Spritzee
Hatterene	Hatenna	Hattrem
Joltik

Caught Pokémon

Goh's Morelull

In the manga

Glimwood Tangle in Pokémon Adventures

Pokémon Adventures

Sword & Shield arc

Glimwood Tangle appeared in Shocking!! Reunion in the Forest. After it turned out that Allister had sneaked into Professor Magnolia's van due to his interest in her Antique Form Sinistea and Polteageist, the Pokémon Professor revealed that she had met them when her car had lost a tire while driving through the forest shortly before. Due to Professor Magnolia having forgotten to reset the route record on the van's auto driver, it ended up driving the exact same route as before and crashing again.

As the van stopped, Allister left it to explore the forest in the hopes of catching himself an Antique Form Sinistea and Polteageist as well, with Casey chasing after him. While doing so, she heard a familiar sound in the distance, which she recognized as the sound of her lost Toxtricity, Tera, who was engaged in a battle against a wild Drakloak. Due to being solely focused on the battle, Tera didn't pay any attention to Casey until it had defeated Drakloak, after which it happily rejoined its Trainer, while Allister caught the Drakloak for himself.

In the TCG

Glimwood Tangle in the TCG

Main article: Glimwood Tangle (Darkness Ablaze 162)

Glimwood Tangle was introduced as a Stadium card in the Pokémon Trading Card Game during the English Sword & Shield Series (the Japanese Sword & Shield Era). It was first released in the Japanese Explosive Walker subset and the English Darkness Ablaze expansion, with artwork by aky CG Works. It allows the players to ignore any coin flip results and flip again.

Trivia

Glimwood Tangle as seen in the "Pokémon Live Camera" stream

Glimwood Tangle was first showcased in the "Pokémon Live Camera" 24-hour livestream on October 4, 2019, in which Galarian Ponyta was officially revealed.
- During the stream, Pikachu was shown to be native to the forest, despite not being encounterable there in the game itself.
- Impidimp also made several appearances in the livestream, despite not being acknowledged officially outside of limited-distribution demos prior to the game's release.

In other languages

Language		Title
Chinese	Cantonese	迷光森林 Màihgwōng Sāmlàhm
Chinese	Mandarin	迷光森林 Míguāng Sēnlín
Czech		Glimwood Tangle
Finnish		Glimwood-metsä
French		Forêt de Lumirinth
German		Wirrschein-Wald
Italian		Bosco Brillabirinto
Korean		루미너스메이즈숲 Luminous Maze Forest
Polish		Bór Glimwood
Brazilian Portuguese		Bosque Glimwood
Russian		Сверкающие Дебри Sverkayushchiye Debri
Spanish		Bosque Lumirinto