Remember Carnivine in our item example? Well you’ll also have to leave those items in the Desert for ten straight days before he’ll begin to appear. Some rarely occurring Pokemon will not only requires items to be set out, but will also require those items to sit in the area for a length of time before they appear. These items will eventually be worth up to seven times their original value (based on how long you leave them out for), so things will get easier to catch all the Pokemon possible in the Safari Zone. The good thing is that the longer you leave these items out, the more experience those items will get, and they will level up like a Pokemon. That leaves you only five items to place elsewhere in the zone. Now you can only have 30 items out at a time, and some Pokemon like, say, Carnivine require 25 Grassland item to be laid out in the Desert area. Each of these special Pokemon will require a set number of items to be laid down in the Safari Zone in the area they would show up in. This will involve special items that can attract Pokemon that would otherwise not appear in the Safari Zone. Once you bring him one he’ll activate a new level of customization. After that, he will ask you for a Sandshrew. In return, he’ll activate the customization ability mentioned in the previous paragraph. The Safari Zone Warden will also have tasks he will assign to you.
Each of the six zones features distinctly different Pokemon, so you’ll have to visit them all eventually. This means if all you need to complete the Pokedex is say, a Smeargle, you can set it up so that the Field area of the Safari Zone is right at the entrance, giving you a better chance of catching it. By using your DS stylus and the touch pad, you can move around the order of the six Safari Zones. Remember in the old games where you’d have to waste half your steps just to get to an area where you could hopefully find a Chansey? Well, now the Safari Zone is customizable. This new Safari Zone is a lot more Trainer friendly however. Your play ends when you run out of either steps or Safari Balls. It’s the biggest and most complex Safari Zone to date, so let’s take a look at what all you’ll have to go through to catch ’em all.įirst of all, the basic premise has stayed the same – you are given thirty Safari Balls and you have a limited number of steps to catch Pokemon with. In Pokemon Heart Gold and Soul Silver, the Safari Zone is back… just in a brand new location. This meant no Safari Zone Pokemon for your character. In the original Pokemon Gold, Silver and Crystal, when your Trainer traveled to Kanto you found that the Safari Zone had moved out of Fuchsia City.