Revision 2

Overview

The Team Initiation Challenge is a major Important Request in Pokemon Pokopia that spans the entire game. After completing the "Yawn Up a Storm" quest and finding Onix, Professor Tangrowth leads the player to a mysterious tower on the beach of the Withered Wasteland. Interacting with a box on the tower's front begins the challenge.

The challenge consists of nine parts, each requiring different materials or items. Completing each part awards a themed badge and unlocks the next tier. Finishing all nine is required for full game completion.

All Nine Parts

Part-by-Part Walkthrough

Part 1: Bouldery Badge

Gather 5 Leppa Berries. These are the most common berry in the game and can be found on bushes throughout the Withered Wasteland. If you have been foraging regularly, you likely already have enough.

Part 2: Cascade-like Badge

Collect 10 Beans, 10 Tomatoes, and 10 Wheat. All three are farming crops. Till soil with Rototiller (learned from Drilbur), plant seeds, and wait for them to grow. Having a Pokemon with the Grow specialty nearby speeds up crop growth significantly.

Part 3: Thunderish Badge

Submit 20 Lumber, 5 Fluff, and 10 Paper. Lumber comes from having a Pokemon with the Chop specialty break down Small Logs. Fluff is found on Dream Islands and dropped by Pokemon with the Litter specialty. Paper requires the Recycle specialty to convert Wastepaper.

Part 4: Rainbowish Badge

This part requires significant industrial production. Bricks need Squishy Clay processed by a Pokemon with the Burn specialty. Gold Ingots require Gold Ore (found in the Rocky Ridges volcanic area) smelted in a Smelting Furnace. Concrete needs Limestone crushed by a Pokemon with the Crush specialty using a Concrete Mixer.

Part 5: Soul-like Badge

Electricity is generated by Pokemon with the Generate specialty (Magneton, Electabuzz, Mareep, Pawmi). Crystal Fragments come from the Sparkling Skylands Dream Islands. Tinkagears are crafted by Tinkmaster (the Tinkatuff NPC), who has the exclusive Engineer specialty.

Part 6: Marshy Badge

This part requires crafted furniture items rather than raw materials. Industrial Beds, Resort Lights, and Office Desks are all advanced recipes. You will need to have discovered these recipes through crafting progression or purchased them from the PC Shop or Cloud Island shops.

Part 7: Volcanoey Badge

The three required items are all high-tier appliances. The Washing Machine, Refrigerator, and Game Boy System require raising the Environment Level to 5 in at least three areas to unlock their recipes. This is the most time-consuming part of the challenge and effectively gates it behind near-endgame progression.

Part 8: Earth Badge

Submit one photo taken using Photo Mode. Any in-game photo works. You receive the Earth Badge.

Part 9: Grand Finale

The final submission is 2 Party Poppers. Craft them using 1 Paper and 1 Vine Rope each (Vine Rope is dropped by Litter-specialty Pokemon like Bellsprout). After submitting the Party Poppers, Professor Tangrowth appears and sets them off, triggering the game's grand finale.

What Happens After Completion

The Rocket Launch

After submitting the Party Poppers, the lighthouse begins to shake. The building transforms into a rocket and launches into the sky. This triggers the game's credits sequence.

During the credits, the rocket is shown traveling through space in a storybook-style animation. It dodges meteors and passes planets before encountering another spaceship. An astronaut emerges and discovers the photo the player deposited inside. The scene plays to the Pallet Town theme.

The logs found in the underground area reveal that the rocket was built by Team Rocket as part of humanity's evacuation from Earth during a climate catastrophe. See the Team Rocket Hideout article for full details on the hidden area and Team Rocket lore.

Magnemite and Magnet Rise

After the rocket launches, a hole remains in the ground where the building once stood. Dropping into this hole leads to the Team Rocket Hideout, an underground area with Team Rocket's "R" emblem on the walls. Inside, players can find the Rocket Hideout Music CD on a bookcase.

More importantly, Magnemite appears in the underground area. Build a Factory Storage habitat (1 Streetlight, 1 Metal Drum, 1 Jumbled Cords, 1 Control Unit) to befriend it. Magnemite teaches Ditto Magnet Rise, the 14th and final Ditto ability. Magnet Rise enables free flight in all directions, rapid block placement, and material absorption, making it the ultimate building tool.

Tips

• Start gathering materials for later parts early. Bricks, Gold Ingots, and Concrete take time to produce in quantity.

• The badge names are playful references to the original Kanto Gym Badges (Boulder Badge, Cascade Badge, Thunder Badge, etc.).

• Part 7 is the longest bottleneck. Focus on raising Environment Levels across all areas throughout the game to unlock the required recipes.

• The challenge can be completed at any pace. There is no time limit or expiration on any part.

• After completion, prioritize building the Factory Storage habitat for Magnemite. Magnet Rise makes all future building projects significantly easier.

• The credits can be replayed from the menu. Completing the challenge does not end the game or lock you out of any content.