Great Marsh

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Great Marsh だいしつげん Great Marsh "Wild Missingno. appeared!"
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Location:	Pastoria City
Region:	Sinnoh
Generations:	IV
File:Pastoria City.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 is Sinnoh's Safari Zone and contains some Pokémon that cannot be found anywhere else in Sinnoh. It is filled with marshy areas, which, unlike normal marsh tiles, have tall grass which are inhabited by wild Pokémon.

Functioning

Capturing Pokémon

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Getting off the rail

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 number of steps (500) to catch all the Pokémon they can.

The mechanics are similar to other Safari Zones: when a wild Pokémon appears, the player may not send out any Pokémon to battle it, but must instead try to catch the Pokémon without harming it. The wild Pokémon may choose to flee the battle at any time, thus, catching a Pokémon in the Great Marsh requires mainly luck.

There are four options shown in the battle screen:

• Throw a Safari Ball - Throws a Safari Ball in possibility of capture. It is much the same as throwing a Poké Ball in an average Pokémon battle.
• Throw mud - Throwing mud makes a Pokémon easier to catch, but makes it more likely to flee from battle
• Throw bait - Throwing bait does the reverse of throwing mud, making a Pokémon less likely to run but harder to catch.
• Run from battle - Like in an average Pokémon battle, running away from a Pokémon will cause the battle to end.

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

The area was redesigned in Pokémon Platinum to feature slightly upgraded graphics that allow the player to distinguish between deep and shallow mud. The park is still divided into six areas, but the individual areas have slightly different layouts.

Changing Pokémon

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Using the binoculars to spot Pokémon

Some 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. Mixing records also changes the changing Pokémon of the day in the Great Marsh so all players mixing records have the same Pokémon on the same day.

In order to find out what Pokémon are going to be in each area daily, the player is able to walk up to the second floor in the lobby, and use the binoculars and look out onto the marsh. For $100 players can get a brief glimpse of the Great Marsh showing certain Pokémon in certain areas of the marsh. In each slide, a part of the park will appear with a Pokémon in the center of the slide that can be found in that area.

Details

As with previous Safari Zones, Pokémon are made easier and harder to catch by modifying their catch rates. An escape rate is also given for each Pokémon that appear in the Great Marsh. The escape rates for Pokémon are the same for all Generation IV games, except that those who do not appear in the Great Marsh or the Johto Safari Zone do not have their escape rates defined in the relevant games.

At the start of an encounter, both rates are set to their species defaults. Throwing bait will lower the escape rate by one stage, but will also have a 90% chance of lowering the catch rate by one stage. Conversely, throwing mud will raise the catch rate by one stage, but will also have a 90% chance of raising the escape rate by one stage. Stages for catch rates and escape rates work identically to stat stages: they may not be raised above +6 or below -6, where 0 is the starting stage. The stage multipliers applied to the catch rates and escape rates are also identical to that of stat stages.

At the end of each turn, a random number between 0 and 255 is generated, and if it is less than the modified stat stage, the Pokémon escapes.

Items

Entrance:

Item		Location	Games

Area 1:

Item		Location	Games

Area 2:

Item		Location	Games

Area 3:

Item		Location	Games

Area 4:

Item		Location	Games

Area 5:

Item		Location	Games

Area 6:

Item		Location	Games

Pokémon

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

Pokémon	Games						Location	Levels	Rate
Psyduck	D		P		Pt		Grass	20-30	8%
Azurill	D		P		Pt		Grass	20-30	1%
Marill	D		P		Pt		Grass	20-30	15%
Wooper	D		P		Pt		Grass	20-30	20%
Wooper	D		P		Pt		Grass	27-30	20%
Quagsire	D		P		Pt		Grass	20-30	15%
Quagsire	D		P		Pt		Grass	28-30	15%
Bidoof	D		P		Pt		Grass	20-30	1%
Bibarel	D		P		Pt		Grass	20-30	20%
Bibarel	D		P		Pt		Grass	26-28	20%
Starly	D		P		Pt		Grass		9%	9%	0%
Budew	D		P		Pt		Grass		10%	10%	0%
Hoothoot	D		P		Pt		Grass	20-24	0%	0%	10%
Hoothoot	D		P		Pt		Grass	26-27	0%	0%	10%
Noctowl	D		P		Pt		Grass	26	0%	0%	9%
Noctowl	D		P		Pt		Grass	28-30	0%	0%	2%
Surfing and Fishing
Wooper	D		P		Pt		Surfing	20-30	85%
Quagsire	D		P		Pt		Surfing	24-31	15%
Magikarp	D		P		Pt		Fishing Old Rod	3-10	100%
Magikarp	D		P		Pt		Fishing Good Rod	10-25	65%
Gyarados	D		P		Pt		Fishing Good Rod	10-25	5%
Barboach	D		P		Pt		Fishing Good Rod	10-25	30%
Gyarados	D		P		Pt		Fishing Super Rod	30-55	5%
Carvanha	D		P		Pt		Fishing Super Rod	30-54	30%
Whiscash	D		P		Pt		Fishing Super Rod	21-55	65%
Special Pokémon
Arbok	D		P		Pt		Dual-slot FireRed		8%
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.

Changing Pokémon

Pokémon	Games						Location	Levels	Rate
Pre-National Pokédex
Golduck	D		P		Pt		Grass	20-26	10%
Roselia	D		P		Pt		Grass	20-26	10%
Staravia	D		P		Pt		Grass	20-26	10%
Skorupi	D		P		Pt		Grass	20-26	10%
Croagunk	D		P		Pt		Grass	20-26	10%
Carnivine	D		P		Pt		Grass	20-26	10%
Yanma	D		P		Pt		Grass	26-31	Varies
Tangela	D		P		Pt		Grass	27-31	Varies
Tropius	D		P		Pt		Grass	28-30	Varies
Post-National Pokédex
Paras	D		P		Pt		Grass	20-26	10%
Exeggcute	D		P		Pt		Grass	20-26	10%
Kangaskhan	D		P		Pt		Grass	20-26	10%
Yanma	D		P		Pt		Grass	20-26	10%
Shroomish	D		P		Pt		Grass	20-26	10%
Gulpin	D		P		Pt		Grass	20-26	10%
Drapion	D		P		Pt		Grass	20-26	10%
Toxicroak	D		P		Pt		Grass	20-26	10%
Kecleon	D		P		Pt		Grass	28-30	10%
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.

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 Cream of the Croagunk Crop!, Brock and his Croagunk participate in a Croagunk festival held in the Great Marsh.

Trivia

• A man in the Great Marsh incorrectly states that both the bait and the mud make Pokémon more likely to run but easier to catch.
• If players in Platinum catch five or more Pokémon in one Safari Game, they can receive the matchup checker Pokétch app.
• If the player uses the walk through walls cheat to enter the Great Marsh, the changing Pokémon won't appear.
• Interestingly, this Safari Zone is located inside the city with the fifth Sinnoh League Gym faced in Pokémon Platinum, Pastoria City. Both the Kanto Safari Zone and Johto Safari Zone are also located in or near cities where the fifth Gym Leader is faced in their respective regions, though the Johto Safari Zone did not exist until Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver.

In other languages

Language Title Mandarin Chinese 大濕地 Dà Shīdì European French Grand Marais German Großmoor Italian Gran Palude Korean 대습초원 European Spanish Gran Pantano

Safari Zones
Kanto Safari Zone • Johto Safari Zone • Hoenn Safari Zone • Great Marsh

Sinnoh
Settlements Twinleaf Town • Sandgem Town • Jubilife City • Oreburgh City • Floaroma Town • Eterna City • Hearthome City Solaceon Town • Veilstone City • Pastoria City • Celestic Town • Canalave City • Snowpoint City • Sunyshore City Pokémon League • Fight Area • Survival Area • Resort Area Routes 201 • 202 • 203 • 204 • 205 • 206 • 207 • 208 • 209 • 210 • 211 • 212 • 213 • 214 • 215 216 • 217 • 218 • 219 • 220 • 221 • 222 • 223 • 224 • 225 • 226 • 227 • 228 • 229 • 230 Landmarks Lake Verity (Lakefront) • Oreburgh Gate • Oreburgh Mine • Oreburgh Mining Museum • Global Terminal/Global Wonder Station Ravaged Path • Floaroma Meadow • Valley Windworks • Eterna Forest • Old Chateau • Underground/Grand Underground Wayward Cave • Mount Coronet • Amity Square • Lost Tower • Hallowed Tower • Solaceon Ruins • Maniac Tunnel • Lake Valor (Lakefront) Great Marsh • Pokémon Mansion • Trophy Garden • Fuego Ironworks • Iron Island • Lake Acuity (Lakefront) • Spear Pillar • Victory Road Pal Park/Ramanas Park • Contest Hall • Battle Zone • Battle Park • Battle Tower/Battle Frontier • Stark Mountain • Snowpoint Temple Spring Path • Sendoff Spring • Turnback Cave • Fullmoon Island • Newmoon Island • Seabreak Path • Flower Paradise • Hall of Origin Access to Distortion World See also Hisui

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