Southern Ruins

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Southern Ruins 南の遺跡 Southern Ruins "Wild Missingno. appeared!"
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The Southern Ruins (Japanese: 南の遺跡 Southern Ruins) are a location in the game Detective Pikachu Returns which are located far from Ryme City. The ruins celebrate the coexistence between humans and Pokémon, and its puzzles embody this recurring theme. The construction of the ruins are said to have coincided with a large meteor shower.

Tim, Rachel, and Pikachu explore the ruins in search of Professor Gordon, a leading figure in the field of mineral archeology, to help understand more about the Aurora Drop. They also encounter Unitas at these ruins, who are looking to recapture Ice-type Pokémon who had escaped into these ruins. It is also later revealed that Unitas has taken away meteorites at the ruins to help power Merloch's fusion machine.

Geography

Berry puzzle in the ruins

Floor B1

The ruins are made up of two floors which require puzzles to be completed in order to access the deeper sections of the ruins. Certain sections have been frozen by the Ice-type Pokémon in the ruins, which require the assistance of Monferno and Galarian Darmanitan to help melt or break away.

The ruins are situated at the top of a slope, and the area is snowing unnaturally due to the presence of the escaped Ice-type Pokémon who have been taken away from their usual habitat. Many Berry trees populate the area around the ruins, including Coba, Shuca, Haban, Nanab, Yache, Pinap, and Tamato Berry trees. Many fossils can also be found outside the ruins, including Skull Fossils, Armor Fossils and Old Amber. As it is the site of previous meteor shower, there are impact sites in the area as well as Pokémon such as Cleffa.

B1

B1 consists of three main rooms, with the largest center room housing the puzzle which prevents access to B2. This puzzle involves obtaining Berries from outside the ruins and correctly placing them on Passimian statues. Professor Gordon's Slowpoke is found with its tail frozen in the left-most room, while the right-most room's entrance is initially frozen over by the Ice-type Pokémon who were worried about Unitas recapturing them in the ruins.

B2

Floor B2

B2 is a larger floor consisting of multiple rooms. Professor Gordon is trapped in one of these rooms due to rubble blocking the entrance to the room. Tim and Pikachu befriend Galarian Darmanitan who assists them in breaking down this rubble. The innermost room is initially blocked off with a wall of ice, which is also broken down with the help of Darmanitan. The final puzzle in this room involves moving a Clefairy and human statue, and solving this puzzle reveals a hidden exit to the ruins exterior. Tim meets a Unitas member and their Croagunk and Mamoswine, who is fought off by Darmanitan in its Zen Mode form.

Local concerns

The following local concerns can be found at the Southern Ruins.

Local concern	Description	Solution
Deliver the leaf clothes to Swadloon	Leavanny is worried about the Swadloon that went off to play in this cold weather. Deliver the leaf clothes that Leavanny made for them.	The first Swadloon can be located close to the entrance to the ruins, while the second is inside the ruin's first floor
Find the hiding Cleffa	Some Cleffa are playing hide-and-seek, but the seeker wants to find the others quickly because they all have plans later. Find the hiding Cleffa for the seeker.	Three Cleffa can be found outside the ruins. One is located behind rocks close to the fossil collectior, another is hiding behind a rock next to the pond, and a third is close to Passimian's tree in the north-west
Find the missing Ursaring	Ursaring's friend went off in search of food and hasn't come back. Help find the other Ursaring.	Ursaring's friend can be found frozen inside the ruins which requires the assistance of Galarian Darmanitan to break open
Take the quiz professor's Pokémon quiz	The quiz professor is quizzing you about Pokémon. Search for Pokémon that match her hints.	Answers
Excavate the Pokémon fossils slumbering throughout the ruins	The fossil collector can't collect fossils because his partner's paws are numb from the cold. Find some fossils for him.	Three fossils can be found by breaking rocks outside the ruins with Galarian Darmanitan. The Armor Fossil can be found in the western section of the road, the Skull Fossil in one of the northeast rocks near Solrock, and the Old Amber in a rock in the center

Although not registered as a local concern, Minior will also request assistance from Pikachu to help Minior and its friends to fly back home. Galarian Darmanitan can be used to smash the Minior's heavy shells so that they can return home.

Pokémon

Exterior

Cleffa	Shuckle	Ursaring	Zigzagoon	Lotad	Solrock
Monferno	Munchlax (Chris's)	Swadloon	Leavanny	Toucannon (quiz professor's)	Rowlet
Charjabug	Passimian	Eldegoss

Ruins interior

B1

Zubat	Slowpoke (Trevor's)	Galarian Mr. Mime	Ursaring	Smoochum	Bronzor
Swadloon	Crustle	Vanillite	Bergmite

B2

Croagunk (Unitas's)

Mamoswine (Unitas's)

Galarian Darmanitan

Minior

Eiscue

In other languages

Language Title Chinese Cantonese 南方遺跡 Nàahmfōng Wàihjīk Mandarin 南方遺跡 / 南方遗迹 Nánfāng Yíjī / Nánfāng Yíjì French Ruines du Sud German Südliche Ruinen Italian Rovine meridionali Korean 남쪽 유적 Namjjok Yujeok Spanish Ruinas del sur

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