Special Pokemon

Overview

Pokemon Pokopia features seven named special variant Pokemon with unique appearances, backstories, and exclusive specialties that no other Pokemon can perform. Each has its own Pokedex entry and plays a distinct role in gameplay. These characters are encountered through story events across the game's four main regions and are essential for accessing specific game systems like cooking, item customization, music playback, relic appraisal, and late-game construction.

Quick Reference

Professor Tangrowth

See main article: Professor Tangrowth

A Tangrowth with white vines covering the top half of its body, wearing broken glasses and carrying a stick with a TM on its head. Professor Tangrowth (Japanese: モジャンボはかせ, Dr. Mojumbo) is male and was the last remaining Pokemon in the world before Ditto's arrival. Before humans disappeared, this Tangela lived with a Pokemon Professor and occasionally played with the professor's grandchild and other Pokemon Trainers. After the humans vanished, it put on the professor's discarded glasses and took on the role of guide and teacher.

Professor Tangrowth has the exclusive Appraise specialty, making it the only Pokemon that can identify Lost Relics and convert them into usable materials. It is available from the very start of the game in the Withered Wasteland, where it provides the player's first Pokedex and serves as the primary source of world lore throughout the story.

Peakychu

An unusually pale Pikachu with a smaller-than-average tail that emits a strange glow from its body. Peakychu (Japanese: うすチュウ, Usuchu) is female. Her backstory reveals a tragic origin: when her friends were sick during the world's decline, Peakychu repeatedly shared her own electricity with them to heal them. This drained her permanently, changing her physical structure so she can no longer generate electricity on her own. Despite this sacrifice, she maintains a cheerful demeanor.

Peakychu has the exclusive Illuminate specialty, which lights up entire sections of a town when she is connected to a Charge Station. While standard Electric-type Pokemon with the Generate specialty can power individual machines, Peakychu can illuminate massive areas at once, making her essential for the Bleak Beach storyline where the player must restore light to a permanently dark town.

How to Find Peakychu

Peakychu is found in Bleak Beach, not the Withered Wasteland. You must first reach Great Trainer Rank by completing the "Yawn Up a Storm" quest in the Withered Wasteland to unlock Bleak Beach. Progress through the Bleak Beach story quests focused on brightening the town and generating electricity (installing utility poles, connecting streetlamps to water wheels and windmills). After meeting Mosslax and completing certain missions, a dialogue from Meowth reports that "someone lying on the ground" has been spotted in another part of Bleak Beach. Head to that location for a cutscene introducing Peakychu.

Mosslax

A Snorlax covered in thick moss with flowers growing on its head. Mosslax (Japanese: こけカビゴン, Koke-Kabigon) has been asleep for so long that moss and flowers began growing all over its body. According to its lore, Mosslax attempted to sleep off a bad mood and accidentally slept through the entire apocalypse.

Mosslax has the exclusive Eat specialty. When you offer Mosslax food on a plate, something good happens depending on the food's flavor. These buffs last until the end of the in-game day (which resets at 5:00 AM local time):

How to Find Mosslax

Mosslax is hidden in Bleak Beach. During the Bleak Beach story, Meowth and Trubbish claim to hear an unusual noise. Use Rock Smash to break through a wall on the cliffside to uncover Mosslax sleeping inside. Waking Mosslax is tied to Professor Tangrowth's "Brighten Things Up!" quest. As you install utility poles and restore light to the area, the flowers on Mosslax's head gradually bloom. Once Mosslax is fully awakened, build its habitat (Gourmet's Offering) to recruit it and unlock the Eat specialty.

Chef Dente

A special Greedent wearing a large cooking pot as a hat, covered in kitchen tools including a whisk, pan, ladle, and spatula. Chef Dente has culinary ambitions and functions as the Head Chef NPC who teaches Ditto recipes. Rescuing Chef Dente is what unlocks the entire cooking system.

Chef Dente has the exclusive Party specialty, which has two main functions:

• Cooking bonus: When Chef Dente is your follower while you cook at any station, you produce extra portions from the same ingredients.

• Feast events: Chef Dente can lead feasts using a large cooking pot. During the "Time to Party!" Important Request in Rocky Ridges, you must craft Party Platters from Iron Ingots, fill each with a cooked meal (five meals total), and gather bulk ingredients (15 Beans, 15 Leppa Berries, 15 Wheat, 5 Honey) for a massive communal feast.

How to Find Chef Dente

Chef Dente is found trapped in a barrel in Rocky Ridges. Break the barrel to free it. After rescue, Chef Dente teaches the basics of cooking and provides initial recipes. The "Time to Party!" quest later involves clearing an area of volcanic ash for Chef Dente's large cooking pot, recruiting Ludicolo and DJ Rotom, and cooking a feast that culminates in a cutscene where Volcanion appears on top of the volcano.

DJ Rotom

A Rotom that has possessed a mini stereo system, giving it a boombox-shaped form called Stereo Rotom (Japanese: アゲ↑ロトム, Age Rotom). This is the only form variation introduced in Pokopia whose type differs from base Rotom: it is Electric/Normal rather than Electric/Ghost. DJ Rotom manages the game's music playback system.

DJ Rotom has the exclusive DJ specialty. Give it Music CDs found throughout the world (in glowing blocks, golden Pokeballs, and Dream Islands) and it builds playlists featuring remixed Kanto themes by Junichi Masuda and songs spanning 30 years of Pokemon music. Known tracks include the Pallet Town theme from Red and Blue, Fortree City from Ruby and Sapphire, and The Academy from Scarlet and Violet. Music playback is limited to one area at a time.

How to Find DJ Rotom

DJ Rotom is encountered during the Rocky Ridges story alongside Chef Dente. It plays a role in the "Time to Party!" Important Request, where the player must provide it with a CD and recruit Ludicolo (by building an Uplifting Duckweed habitat near a pond) before the feast event can proceed. DJ Rotom is listed as Rare in the Pokedex and can later appear across all five regions.

Smearguru

A vibrantly paint-splattered variant of Smeargle with an unusually large brush at the end of its tail. Smearguru (Japanese: ドーブルせんせい, Doble-sensei) is described as a "prolific painter" and can be found painting on canvas in a private hut.

Smearguru has the exclusive Paint specialty, which allows the player to recolor certain items such as furniture and add decorative patterns. There are two ways to customize items:

• Follower mode: Take Smearguru as your follower and it can directly paint buildings and items for you.

• Paint Balloons: Craft Paint Balloons at a Workbench and use them on any item you want to recolor. Stand in front of the item, select the balloon, and choose your color. This method works even without Smearguru present.

How to Find Smearguru

Smearguru is found in a private hut in Bleak Beach after opening a checkpoint gate that requires Great Trainer Rank. Smearguru asks you for a Leppa Berry. After bringing it, you can recruit Smearguru by building a Tantalizing Restaurant habitat. Once recruited, the Paint specialty unlocks for item customization across your entire world.

Tinkmaster

A special Tinkaton with the exclusive Engineer specialty. Tinkmaster (Pokedex #270, Fairy/Steel type) is found in Sparkling Skylands and is essential for late-game construction. It can lead major building projects, create Tinkgears from Iron Ingots, and reduce construction duration for Building Kit projects. Tinkmaster holds a complete monopoly on converting Iron Ingots into Tinkgears, which are required for advanced infrastructure like Lift platforms.

How to Find Tinkmaster

Tinkmaster is located at the top of a tall tower in Sparkling Skylands, accessed by using the Glide ability to fly to a neighboring island. To complete Tinkmaster's initial request, bring 6 Concrete and 1 Iron Ingot. Tinkmaster then accompanies you and Professor Tangrowth to investigate a large building floor by floor. This leads to the "Rebuild the Huge Building" Important Request, where you construct Lift platforms (5 Concrete, 1 Tinkgear, 5 Iron Ingots) and other infrastructure.

Lore Significance

The seven special Pokemon are the last survivors of Pokopia's apocalypse, each coping with the disappearance of humans in different ways. Professor Tangrowth adopted a human role. Peakychu sacrificed her own power to save others. Mosslax simply slept through everything. Chef Dente preserved culinary traditions. DJ Rotom kept the music alive. Smearguru continued creating art. Tinkmaster maintained its engineering work. Together, they represent different aspects of civilization that Ditto helps rebuild throughout the game.