Kalos Route 18

Kalos
Route 18

１８番道路
Route 18

Map description

This path is best known for its trolley, once used for the coal mine, and the curious Inverse Battle house.

Required for navigation

	Cut

	Rock Smash

Connecting locations

↑

Anistar City

Route 18

Terminus Cave

→

Couriway Town

↓

Location

Location of Route 18 in Kalos.

Pokémon world routes

←

Route 17

Route 19

→

Route 18 (Japanese: １８番道路 Route 18) is a route in eastern Kalos, connecting Anistar City and Couriway Town. The route is also known as Vallée Étroite Way (Japanese: エトロワ・バレ通り Étroite Vallée Way). It cannot be accessed until the player defeats Team Flare by beating Lysandre for the final time at its HQ in Geosenge Town.

Route description

This route is home to a horde of Durant, which sometimes damage the area with their tunneling to such a degree that it must be temporarily closed. Such a case happens when the player first arrives in Anistar City, and a pair of Workers is blocking the gate's southern exit until the damage done by the Iron Ant Pokémon has been fixed. Once the player has stopped Team Flare in Geosenge Town, the damage will have been repaired, and the Workers will let the player enter the route.

Route 18 is a lush, green route with a river flowing through it. The river can be crossed either by a bridge or Roller Skate rail near a Wacan Berry tree, which can be found growing in an area behind a cuttable tree. At the east section of the route lies the Terminus Cave, an abandoned coal mine which was closed down due to the rumors of a monster living in there. Remains of former mining cart rail tracks can still be found lying outside of the cave entrances.

Inverse House

Main article: Inver

Once per day, Psychic Inver may be battled in an Inverse Battle, where type matchups are reversed so that normally super effective moves are not very effective, and vice versa (with immunities becoming weaknesses). Inver has many preset Pokémon, but only chooses a random three during the battle. In addition, his Pokémon's Abilities may vary, even potentially having their Hidden Abilities. At first, Inver's Pokémon are at level 55, but after the player has entered the Hall of Fame, their levels grow to 65.

Items

	Location	Games
Poké Ball	In the bush behind the route sign south of the Anistar City Gate (hidden)	X Y
Hyper Potion	South of a ledge south of where the main road bends coming out of the Anistar City Gate	X Y
Wacan Berry	In front of the Berry tree north of the west end of the bridge (requires Cut) (regenerates after 7 days)	X Y
PP Up	Down the grind rail by the Wacan Berry tree (requires Cut)	X Y
Ether	On the wall at the end of the path on the left side of Inver's house (hidden)	X Y
Max Ether	In the southeast, at the end of the east branch of the elevated tracks	X Y
X Defense	In the northeast corner of the area at the base of the elevated tracks (requires Rock Smash)	X Y
Super Potion	At the base of the elevated tracks, on the middle rock in a vertical line of three (hidden)	X Y
Honey	In the northern patch of red flowers north of Couriway Town, in the empty northeastern corner (hidden, reappears occasionally)	X Y

Inver's rewards

For the rewards received by defeating Inver in an Inverse Battle, see Inver → Rewards.

Rock Smash

	Location	Games
Big Pearl	Randomly found by smashing breakable rocks	X Y
Ether	Randomly found by smashing breakable rocks	X Y
Hard Stone	Randomly found by smashing breakable rocks	X Y
Heart Scale	Randomly found by smashing breakable rocks	X Y
Max Ether	Randomly found by smashing breakable rocks	X Y
Max Revive	Randomly found by smashing breakable rocks	X Y
Pearl	Randomly found by smashing breakable rocks	X Y
Revive	Randomly found by smashing breakable rocks	X Y
Soft Sand	Randomly found by smashing breakable rocks	X Y
Star Piece	Randomly found by smashing breakable rocks	X Y

Natural objects

West of the river

	Location	Games
Rawst Berry	Randomly found by using Air Cutter, Blizzard, or Twister on a green Berry tree during a battle	X Y
Lum Berry	Randomly found by using Air Cutter, Blizzard, or Twister on a green Berry tree during a battle	X Y
Aguav Berry	Randomly found by using Air Cutter, Blizzard, or Twister on a green Berry tree during a battle	X Y
Rindo Berry	Randomly found by using Air Cutter, Blizzard, or Twister on a green Berry tree during a battle	X Y
Kebia Berry	Randomly found by using Air Cutter, Blizzard, or Twister on a green Berry tree during a battle	X Y
Tanga Berry	Randomly found by using Air Cutter, Blizzard, or Twister on a green Berry tree during a battle	X Y
Babiri Berry	Randomly found by using Air Cutter, Blizzard, or Twister on a green Berry tree during a battle	X Y
Chesto Berry	Randomly found by using Air Cutter, Blizzard, or Twister on a purple Berry tree during a battle	X Y
Wiki Berry	Randomly found by using Air Cutter, Blizzard, or Twister on a purple Berry tree during a battle	X Y
Payapa Berry	Randomly found by using Air Cutter, Blizzard, or Twister on a purple Berry tree during a battle	X Y
Kasib Berry	Randomly found by using Air Cutter, Blizzard, or Twister on a purple Berry tree during a battle	X Y
Colbur Berry	Randomly found by using Air Cutter, Blizzard, or Twister on a purple Berry tree during a battle	X Y
Mental Herb	Randomly found by using Petal Blizzard or Razor Leaf on grass during a battle	X Y
Power Herb	Randomly found by using Petal Blizzard or Razor Leaf on grass during a battle	X Y
White Herb	Randomly found by using Petal Blizzard or Razor Leaf on grass during a battle	X Y

East of the river

	Location	Games
Aspear Berry	Randomly found by using Air Cutter, Blizzard, or Twister on a yellow Berry tree during a battle	X Y
Sitrus Berry	Randomly found by using Air Cutter, Blizzard, or Twister on a yellow Berry tree during a battle	X Y
Iapapa Berry	Randomly found by using Air Cutter, Blizzard, or Twister on a yellow Berry tree during a battle	X Y
Wacan Berry	Randomly found by using Air Cutter, Blizzard, or Twister on a yellow Berry tree during a battle	X Y
Shuca Berry	Randomly found by using Air Cutter, Blizzard, or Twister on a yellow Berry tree during a battle	X Y
Charti Berry	Randomly found by using Air Cutter, Blizzard, or Twister on a yellow Berry tree during a battle	X Y
Chilan Berry	Randomly found by using Air Cutter, Blizzard, or Twister on a yellow Berry tree during a battle	X Y
Fire Stone	Randomly found by using Hyper Voice or Rock Slide on a spiky rock during a battle	X Y
Thunder Stone	Randomly found by using Hyper Voice or Rock Slide on a spiky rock during a battle	X Y
Water Stone	Randomly found by using Hyper Voice or Rock Slide on a spiky rock during a battle	X Y
Leaf Stone	Randomly found by using Hyper Voice or Rock Slide on a spiky rock during a battle	X Y
Heat Rock	Found by using Eruption, Heat Wave, or Lava Plume on a round rock during a battle	X Y

Pokémon

Games

Location

Levels

Rate

	Sandslash

X

Y

Grass

46

10%

	Graveler

X

Y

Grass

45-46

15%

	Pupitar

X

Y

Grass

46

10%

	Lairon

X

Y

Grass

46

10%

	Torkoal

X

Y

Grass

44-45

20%

	Gurdurr

X

Y

Grass

44-46

30%

	Heatmor

X

Y

Grass

45-46

5%

	Durant

X

Y

Grass

44

10%

Red flowers

	Sandslash

X

Y

Red flowers

44-45

20%

	Graveler

X

Y

Red flowers

45-46

15%

	Pupitar

X

Y

Red flowers

44-46

30%

	Lairon

X

Y

Red flowers

44-46

30%

	Torkoal

X

Y

Red flowers

46

10%

	Gurdurr

X

Y

Red flowers

46

10%

	Heatmor

X

Y

Red flowers

45-46

5%

	Durant

X

Y

Red flowers

44

10%

Horde Encounter

	Geodude

X

Y

Horde Encounter

23

60%

	Heatmor

X

Y

Horde Encounter

23

5%
^{with Durant}

	Heatmor

X

Y

Horde Encounter

24

5%
^{with Durant}

	Durant

X

Y

Horde Encounter

23

35%

	Durant

X

Y

Horde Encounter

23

5%
^{with Heatmor}

	Durant

X

Y

Horde Encounter

24

5%
^{with Heatmor}

Rustling bush

	Durant

X

Y

Rustling bush

44-46

~90%

	Heatmor

X

Y

Rustling bush

45

~10%

Rock Smash

	Graveler

X

Y

Rock Smash

44-46

95%

	Shuckle

X

Y

Rock Smash

44, 46

5%

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.

Trainers

Trainer

Pokémon


	Youngster Jayden トモキ Tomoki Reward: $1,152

	Scolipede♂	Lv.48
	No item

	Pinsir♂	Lv.48
	No item


	Battle Girl Justine リリコ Ririko Reward: $2,496

	Mienshao♀	Lv.52
	No item


	Hiker Orestes マサテル Masateru Reward: $2,800

	Stunfisk♂	Lv.50
	No item


	Sky Trainer Jeremy ショウタロウ Shōtarō Reward: $5,000

	Ninjask♂	Lv.46
	No item

	Drifblim♂	Lv.47
	No item

	Flygon♂	Lv.50
	No item


	Black Belt Yanis タクマ Takuma Reward: $2,400 Requires Rock Smash

	Sawk♂	Lv.49
	No item

	Pangoro♂	Lv.50
	No item


	Lass Sara サラ Sara Reward: $1,152

	Granbull♂	Lv.48
	No item

	Dedenne♀	Lv.48
	No item

For the Pokémon used by Psychic Inver in his Inverse Battles, see here.

In the anime

Route 18 in the anime

Route 18 appeared in Meeting at Terminus Cave!, where Ash and his friends arrived at Terminus Cave.

In the manga

Pokémon Adventures

Route 18 in Pokémon Adventures

X & Y arc

Route 18 first appeared in Connecting with Gardevoir in a flashback to when Korrina first found the Lucarionite that she would go on to use to Mega Evolve her Lucario.

In Pinsir Changes, Tierno and Shauna searched the route to find a Pinsirite for X's Rute and an Absolite for Y's Solsol.

In Malamar Traps, X and his friends stayed the night at Route 18 before heading to Pokémon Village to confront Team Flare. There he was introduced to Wikstrom and Drasna by Diantha. The next morning, they would head to Pokémon Village while the Elite Four provided a distraction. They were, however, put to sleep by Xerosic's Malamar's Hypnosis, with the exception of X.

The rest of the group eventually woke up and headed to Pokémon Village while X and Blue fought Xerosic. In Charizard Transforms, when Xerosic was facing imminent defeat to X and Blue, the other Team Flare scientists stopped Y, Shauna, Tierno, and Trevor from advancing, and challenged them to battles. Y faced Aliana, Trevor faced Bryony, Tierno faced Mable, and Shauna faced Celosia. At around the same area, Xerneas clashed with Yveltal once more.

After his Flabébé evolved, Trevor gained the confidence to take on Aliana as well, thus allowing Y to get to X and Blue, both of whom had already reached the Pokémon Village. Bryony, Mable, and Celosia were eventually defeated, with Aliana being forced to surrender when faced with Tierno, Trevor, and Shauna. The trio then witnessed Xerneas and Yveltal reverting to their dormant forms and sinking beneath the ground in order to leave Zygarde with no reason to remain active and thus allowing it to escape from Team Flare's control.

Trivia

Name origin

Vallée Étroite means "narrow valley" in French.

In other languages

Language		Title
Chinese	Cantonese	峽谷道路 Haahpgūk Douhlouh
Chinese	Mandarin	峽谷道路 / 峡谷道路 Xiágǔ Dàolù
French		Chemin des Gorges
German		Vallée-Étroite-Weg
Italian		Via Valle Stretta
Korean		에뜨르와발레도로 Étroite Vallée Doro
Spanish		Senda Valle Angosto