Wild Area

The Wild Area (Japanese: ワイルドエリア Wild Area) is an extensive area in the Galar region. It adjoins several towns in the region.

A Trainer walking in the Wild Area.

The Pokémon found in the Wild Area vary depending on the weather, which can vary wildly between the different subareas. Pokémon with higher levels also wander outside of the normal tall grass in many places. The areas north of the Motostoke River are home to Pokémon with higher levels overall. Once the player has started the Darkest Day or captured Eternatus, Pokémon found throughout the Wild Area will generally have higher levels.

Unlike in most other areas in the game (which use a fixed perspective), in the Wild Area the player can control the camera using the right control stick. These mechanics, as well as the weather and wild Pokémon mechanics, carry over to the Isle of Armor and Crown Tundra.

Locations

An overview of the entire Wild Area

The Wild Area is composed of many subareas. The player first enters the Wild Area from the south, but the locations below are listed from north to south in accordance with the map. The Town Map's representation of the Wild Area is only a rough layout and may diverge from in-game borders.

South Wild Area

Watchtower Ruins lies in the northwestern corner.
East Lake Axewell is the large area in the north in front of the gate to Motostoke and includes most of the eastern half of Lake Axewell.
Axew's Eye is the island that lies in the middle of Lake Axewell.
North Lake Miloch lies in the northeastern corner and includes a part of the northern end of Lake Miloch.
West Lake Axewell is the western half of Lake Axewell (in the west). Despite the depiction on the Town Map, it also extends north of the footbridge to Motostoke's wall.
Dappled Grove lies in the southwestern corner.
Rolling Fields is the large central area in the south.
Meetup Spot is the southernmost point.
South Lake Miloch encompasses the majority of Lake Miloch (in the east).
Giant's Seat lies along the south and east borders of the Wild Area.

North Wild Area

Lake of Outrage lies in the northwestern-most corner.
Hammerlocke Hills lies along the north before the gate to Hammerlocke.
Giant's Cap is on the west, lying along the eastern shore of the Lake of Outrage.
Dusty Bowl is the large central area north of the Route 5 bridge.
Giant's Mirror lies along the east, east of Dusty Bowl.
Stony Wilderness lies just north of the Route 5 bridge.
Bridge Field encompasses most of the area between the Motostoke Outskirts and Route 5 bridges.
Motostoke Riverbank is the southernmost area, north of the river and slightly beyond the Motostoke Outskirts bridge.

Weather

The weather in the Wild Area varies between areas, and each area changes weather when the date changes. The weather determines which wild Pokémon can appear, and may cause certain weather conditions and terrain to appear in battle.

Thunderstorms, blizzards, sandstorms, and fog are rarer than other weather conditions. If these weather conditions are occurring anywhere in the Wild Area, this fact will be advertised on the X menu.

Sandstorms, blizzards, and fog will not appear until the player has reached certain points in the games. If they would appear in the Wild Area, they instead appear as intense sun, snow, or clear (respectively). Once the player unlocks the weather, any instances of it that would have appeared immediately become that weather (even without changing the date). The restrictions for foggy weather are not present in the Isle of Armor or the Crown Tundra.

On certain special dates, the whole Wild Area will have the same weather. These dates are typically the first of a month.

Since symbol encounters and wanderers are spawned based on the weather the player is currently experiencing, it is possible for the weather of one zone to affect these types of spawns in another zone near a border.

Weather	Common Pokémon	Effect in battle	Prerequisite	Special dates
Clear (はれ)	Normal, Grass, Flying	—	—	May 1
Cloudy (くもり)	Fighting, Poison, Dark	—	—	March 1
Rain (あめ)	Water, Bug	Rain	—	October 1
Thunderstorm (豪雨)	Water, Electric, Dragon	Rain, Electric Terrain	—	November 1
Snow (ゆき)	Ice	Hail	—	December 1 December 25
Blizzard (吹雪)	Ice, Steel	Hail	Visit Hammerlocke	February 1
Harsh sunlight (ひでり)	Fire, Ground	Harsh sunlight	—	July 1
Sandstorm (砂嵐)	Ground, Rock	Sandstorm	Visit Hammerlocke	April 1
Fog (霧)	Psychic, Ghost, Fairy	Misty Terrain	Become Champion	February 29 June 1

Features

The Wild Area has a number of features that appear in many different areas:

The Wild Area is populated with 99 Pokémon Dens, where the player can participate in Max Raid Battles.
There are a large number of hidden items throughout the Wild Area. These items respawn daily, and each specific spot may yield different items on different days.
Watt Traders allow the player to trade Watts for items, participate in the Rotom Rally, change the color of their outfit, and upgrade their Rotom Bike.

Items

Hidden items

There are a large number of hidden items throughout the Wild Area. These hidden items regenerate each day, even if the player has not obtained them.

Each spot has one or more possible items that it can yield, with the possible items depending on the spot. Every item that regenerates daily can also rarely regenerate as a Wishing Piece (at approximately a 1% chance) instead of the items in its standard pool.

100-Watt gifts

Hikers and Fishers may appear in different parts of the Wild Area to offer the player an unspecified item for 100 Watts. The player does not know what the item is until they agree to purchase it.

Fisher

	Location	Games
Pearl ×3	Common	Sw Sh
Big Pearl	Common	Sw Sh
Big Pearl ×2	Average	Sw Sh
Big Pearl ×3	Average	Sw Sh
Pearl String	Average	Sw Sh
Pearl String ×2	Rare	Sw Sh
Wishing Piece	Rare	Sw Sh

Hiker

A Hiker's possible items depend on the player's progress, changing when the player gains their second Badge and when they become Champion.

Item	Rate
Item	0-1 Badge	2-8 Badges	Champion
Exp. Candy XS	Common
Exp. Candy XS ×2	Common
Exp. Candy XS ×3	Common
Exp. Candy XS ×4	Average
Exp. Candy XS ×5		Common
Exp. Candy S	Rare	Common	Common
Exp. Candy S ×2		Common	Common
Exp. Candy S ×3		Rare
Exp. Candy M		Rare	Common
Exp. Candy M ×2			Uncommon
Exp. Candy L			Rare
Rare Candy	Rare	Rare	Rare
Wishing Piece	Very Rare	Very Rare	Very Rare

Trainers

Pokémon Breeder Chloe can appear in many different Wild Area zones. She eventually reappears after being defeated.

She can appear in the following Wild Area zones:

Trainer

Pokémon

Before earning the Fire Badge


	Pokémon Breeder Chloe テツコ Tetsuko Reward: $2,600

Grookey	Grookey♂	Lv.13
	No item

Scorbunny	Scorbunny♂	Lv.13
	No item

Sobble	Sobble♂	Lv.13
	No item

After earning the Fire Badge


	Pokémon Breeder Chloe テツコ Tetsuko Reward: $9,000

Raboot	Raboot♂	Lv.30
	No item

Drizzile	Drizzile♂	Lv.30
	No item

Thwackey	Thwackey♂	Lv.30
	No item

After becoming Champion


	Pokémon Breeder Chloe テツコ Tetsuko Reward: $18,000

Inteleon	Inteleon♂	Lv.60
	No item

Rillaboom	Rillaboom♂	Lv.60
	No item

Cinderace	Cinderace♂	Lv.60
	No item

In the anime

The Wild Area in the anime

In the main series

The Wild Area appeared in Mind-Boggling Dynamax!, where Ash and Goh explored it after their arrival in Galar. They witnessed a Snorlax Gigantamaxing, but it blocked a railroad line in the process, threatening to cause an accident. However, Ash and Goh were able to make Snorlax move off the tracks, saving the train. Afterwards, in the same area, Goh caught the Scorbunny that had followed him from Wyndon.

In JN050, Ash and Goh revisited the Wild Area, this time accompanied by Chloe, to dig up Fossil found there. They met two bumbling Fossil diggers named Cara Liss and Gasattsu, whom they helped digging up Fossils they intended to restore into an Arctovish and a Dracozolt. However, their Fossil pieces got mixed up as they started the restoration process, resulting in them being restored as Dracovish and Arctozolt instead. After some interactions with the Fossil Pokémon, Cara Liss and Gasattsu were satisfied with the data they had gotten and let Ash and Goh take care of them. As such, Ash then proceeded to catch Dracovish, while Goh caught Arctozolt.

Pokémon found in the Wild Area

Braviary	Maractus	Wooloo	Ribombee
Grubbin	Phantump	Seedot	Goomy
Hippopotas	Tympole	Frillish	Flygon
Snorlax ↔ Gigantamax Snorlax	Rookidee	Budew	Butterfree
Joltik	Ditto

Caught Pokémon

In Pokémon: Twilight Wings

The Wild Area in Pokémon: Twilight Wings

The Wild Area first appeared during a montage at the end of Letter, where Bea was shown confronting a wild Rhydon. Bea's visit to the Wild Area was shown in full in Training, where she took a Flying Taxi there to train with her Machop, Machoke, and Machamp following her loss against Leon in a battle.

In the manga

The Wild Area in Pokémon Adventures

In the Pokemon Adventures manga

The Wild Area first appeared in PASS04, where Sōdo, Shirudomiria, Professor Magnolia, and Marvin went there to investigate the Pokémon Dens in the Rolling Fields, encountering Team Yell in the process.

In PASS12, the group traveled through the Wild Area again in order to reach Hammerlocke.

Trivia

The theme used for the northern parts of the Wild Area, including Bridge Field onward, is shortened for Routes 6, 7, 8, and 9.
The Wild Area is based on the Lake District.^[1]

In other languages

Language		Title
Chinese	Cantonese	曠野地帶 Kwongyéh Deihdaai
Chinese	Mandarin	曠野地帶 / 旷野地带 Kuàngyě Dìdài
Dutch		Wilde Land
Finnish		Villi seutu
French		Terres Sauvages
German		Naturzone
Italian		Terre Selvagge
Korean		와일드에리어 Wild Area
Portuguese	Brazil	Área Selvagem
Portuguese	Portugal	Área Selvagem
Russian		Нетронутые Земли Netronutyye Zemli
Spanish		Área Silvestre