Wild Area

A Trainer walking in the 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.

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).

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.

Icon	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

Item		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
	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:

• Rolling Fields
• East Lake Axewell
• Bridge Field
• Stony Wilderness
• Giant's Seat
• Axew's Eye
• Dusty Bowl

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.

Pokémon found in the Wild Area

Braviary	Maractus	Wooloo
Ribombee	Grubbin	Phantump
Seedot	Goomy	Hippopotas
Tympole	Frillish	Flygon
Snorlax ↔ Gigantamax Snorlax

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 the Sword & Shield arc.

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 off of Lake District.
• The Wild Area is a 3D open world area that draws similarity to various role-playing games, for example The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.

In other languages

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

Galar
Settlements Postwick • Wedgehurst • Motostoke • Turffield • Hulbury • Hammerlocke Stow-on-Side • Ballonlea • Circhester • Spikemuth • Wyndon Routes 1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5 • 6 • 7 • 8 • 9 • 10 Landmarks Slumbering Weald • Galar Mine • Galar Mine No. 2 • Motostoke Outskirts Glimwood Tangle • Route 9 Tunnel • Rose Tower/Battle Tower • Energy Plant • Tower Summit Wild Area Meetup Spot • Rolling Fields • Dappled Grove • Watchtower Ruins • East Lake Axewell • West Lake Axewell Axew's Eye • South Lake Miloch • Giant's Seat • North Lake Miloch • Motostoke Riverbank • Bridge Field Stony Wilderness • Dusty Bowl • Giant's Mirror • Hammerlocke Hills • Giant's Cap • Lake of Outrage Isle of Armor Fields of Honor • Master Dojo • Soothing Wetlands • Forest of Focus • Challenge Beach • Tower of Waters • Brawlers' Cave Challenge Road • Tower of Darkness • Courageous Cavern • Loop Lagoon • Training Lowlands • Warm-Up Tunnel Potbottom Desert • Workout Sea • Stepping-Stone Sea • Insular Sea • Honeycalm Sea • Honeycalm Island Crown Tundra Slippery Slope • Max Lair • Freezington • Frostpoint Field • Giant's Bed • Rock Peak Ruins • Iron Ruins • Old Cemetery Snowslide Slope • Iceberg Ruins • Tunnel to the Top • Path to the Peak • Crown Shrine • Giant's Foot • Roaring-Sea Caves Frigid Sea • Three-Point Pass • Split-Decision Ruins • Ballimere Lake • Lakeside Cave • Dyna Tree Hill

This article is part of Project Locations, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on every location in the Pokémon world.