Great Marsh

Great Marsh Unknown Unknown "Wild Missingno. appeared!"
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Location:	Pastoria City
Region:	Sinnoh
Generations:	IV
File:Sinnoh Great Marsh Map.png Location of Great Marsh in Sinnoh.
Pokémon world locations

The Great Marsh (Japanese: だいしつげん Great Marsh) is an area located in Pastoria City. It contains some Pokémon that cannot be found anywhere else in Sinnoh.

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 amount of time to catch all the Pokémon they can.

When a wild Pokémon appears, no Pokémon may be sent out to battle it: catching Pokémon here, as in all Safari Zones, requires sheer luck. There are four options in the battle screen: Throw a Safari Ball, throw bait, throw mud, and run away. Throwing bait makes a Pokémon less likely to run, but makes it harder to catch; while throwing mud does the reverse, making it easier to catch but more likely to run.

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

Items

Area 4:

• Poké Ball (near Tram Stop)

Area 5:

• Revive

Area 1:

• Potion (near the train stop)
• HM05 (Defog) (talk to the boy with green hair when you enter the marsh)

Area 3:

• Honey

Area 2:

• Toxic Plate (3 trees from the rock in the right top corner of Area 2. Item is hidden)

Pokémon

In all six areas, the Pokémon able to be caught is exactly the same.

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Name	Games		Location	Levels	Rate
All Times
Psyduck	D	P	Grass	20-30	8%
Azurill	D	P	Grass	20-30	1%
Marill	D	P	Grass	20-30	15%
Wooper	D	P	Grass	20-30	20%
Quagsire	D	P	Grass	20-30	15%
Bidoof	D	P	Grass	20-30	1%
Bibarel	D	P	Grass	20-30	20%
Carnivine	D	P	Grass	20-30	1%
Psyduck	D	P	Surf	20-30	?
Marill	D	P	Surf	20-30	?
Wooper	D	P	Surf	20-30	?
Quagsire	D	P	Surf	20-30	?
Magikarp	D	P	Old Rod	?	100%
			Good Rod	?	65%
Gyarados	D	P	Good Rod	?	5%
			Super Rod	42-51	5%
Barboach	D	P	Good Rod	?	30%
Whiscash	D	P	Super Rod	?	65%
Carvanha	D	P	Super Rod	?	?
Morning
Starly	D	P	Grass	?	9%
Budew	D	P	Grass	?	10%
Day
Starly	D	P	Grass	?	9%
Budew	D	P	Grass	?	10%
Night
Hoothoot	D	P	Grass	20-24	10%
Noctowl	D	P	Grass	26	9%
Special Pokémon*
Arbok	D	P	Dongle: FireRed	?	8%

Changing Pokémon

These 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 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.

This list is not yet complete.

Name	Games		Location	Levels	Rate
Before National Dex
Golduck	D	P	Grass	20-26	10%
Staravia	D	P	Grass	20-26	10%
Roselia	D	P	Grass	20-26	10%
Carnivine	D	P	Grass	20-26	10%
Skorupi	D	P	Grass	20-26	10%
Drapion	D	P	Grass	20-26	10%
Croagunk	D	P	Grass	20-26	10%
Toxicroak	D	P	Grass	20-26	10%
After National Dex
Paras	D	P	Grass	20-26	10%
Shroomish	D	P	Grass	20-26	10%
Yanma	D	P	Grass	20-26	10%
Kangaskhan	D	P	Grass	20-26	10%
Exeggcute	D	P	Grass	20-26	10%
Gulpin	D	P	Grass	20-26	10%

Tricks

• A common trick to any Safari Zone is to hold down B and tap the direction pad to rotate the player character while standing in the grass, this will allow wild Pokémon to be found without taking steps.
• Another easy trick is to take a Pokémon with Sweet Scent and have it use it to get battles without taking steps.

In the anime

As a boy, James was exploring the Great Marsh, and found a Carnivine stuck in the mud, struggling to get free. James pulled it out, and they became friends. Carnivine has been James's friend ever since, and since he most recently arrived in Sinnoh, has been traveling with James.

In DP082, Brock and his Croagunk participate in a Croagunk festival held in the Great Marsh.

Trivia

• All the main characters in the Pokémon anime (except Dawn and May) have (or had at any point) a Pokémon that can be found in the Great Marsh: Ash has Staravia and Noctowl; Brock has Croagunk; Misty has Azurill, Psyduck and Gyarados and befriended a Golduck; Tracey has Marill; Jessie had Arbok and Yanma; James has Carnivine (captured in the Great Marsh, no less), and had Gyarados.
• A man in the Great Marsh incorrectly states that both the bait and the mud make Pokémon more likely to run but less easy to catch.

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