Talk:Workout Sea

Is Wailord a wanderer?

How do we know whether Wailord (or any Pokémon for that matter) is a wanderer (or an in-game event Pokémon)? Nescientist (talk) 13:49, 5 July 2020 (UTC)

Because it looks just like any of the other wanderers in the game's data table; there is nothing different about it that couldn't be different about any other two wanderers. It's only differentiated elsewhere by the behavior it's apparently given. (It could be about as simple as: at the beginning of the day, all these flags are reset for whether a wanderer was defeated, but not Wailord (or most non-Wild Area/non-DLC wanderers).) Tiddlywinks (talk) 15:01, 5 July 2020 (UTC)

I was hoping for a guidebook, or some better definition of what wanderers are...

I'm of a mind that functional differences are about the only thing that should matter, and maybe this is the first exception. Anyway, if it indeed never respawns, it's functionally more similar to Zacian or Tapu Fini than to the Motostoke Riversbank Snorlax imo; it doesn't even move IIRC. Nescientist (talk) 15:50, 6 July 2020 (UTC)

The wanderer page has a whole list of Pokemon that often don't reappear. In the field that identifies wanderers, Zacian and Zamazenta have a distinct value. That said, there are also some other odd "wanderers". Most notable is the Pokemon featured in the Motostoke Stadium challenge. Tiddlywinks (talk) 23:56, 6 July 2020 (UTC)

I think that's where I was trying to get to: Any idea why they're not listed on the wanderer page (nor on the in-game event list)? How can we be 100% sure Zacian and Zamazenta are not wanderers? I mean, they do fit the definition... Nescientist (talk) 18:35, 7 July 2020 (UTC)