Pokemon Emerald Route 118 Walkthrough

Route 118 is a dedicated section page for Phase 5: Balance Badge. Cross east of Mauville with Surf, meet Steven, and open the long path toward Fortree.

Route Plan

Primary source maps covered here: Route 118. Follow this page as its own checklist, then return to the phase index when the wild Pokemon, trainers, items, and boss notes are complete.

Wild Pokemon

Area / subarea	Method	Pokemon	Level range	Odds	Time / condition	Requirements
Route 118	Tall grass / cave floor	Electrike	Lv. 24-26	30%	Any time	None
Route 118	Tall grass / cave floor	Zigzagoon	Lv. 24-26	30%	Any time	None
Route 118	Tall grass / cave floor	Wingull	Lv. 25-27	19%	Any time	None
Route 118	Tall grass / cave floor	Linoone	Lv. 26	10%	Any time	None
Route 118	Tall grass / cave floor	Manectric	Lv. 26	10%	Any time	None
Route 118	Tall grass / cave floor	Kecleon	Lv. 25	1%	Any time	None
Route 118	Surf	Tentacool	Lv. 5-35	60%	Any time	Surf
Route 118	Surf	Wingull	Lv. 10-30	35%	Any time	Surf
Route 118	Surf	Pelipper	Lv. 25-30	5%	Any time	Surf
Route 118	Old Rod	Magikarp	Lv. 5-10	70%	Any time	Old Rod
Route 118	Old Rod	Tentacool	Lv. 5-10	30%	Any time	Old Rod
Route 118	Good Rod	Magikarp	Lv. 10-30	60%	Any time	Good Rod
Route 118	Good Rod	Carvanha	Lv. 10-30	20%	Any time	Good Rod
Route 118	Good Rod	Tentacool	Lv. 10-30	20%	Any time	Good Rod
Route 118	Super Rod	Carvanha	Lv. 20-45	60%	Any time	Super Rod
Route 118	Super Rod	Sharpedo	Lv. 30-35	40%	Any time	Super Rod

Trainers

Order	Area	Trainer	Team	Reward	Notes
1	Route 118	Aroma Lady Rose	Roselia Lv. 14 Shroomish Lv. 14 Roselia Lv. 14	560	May have Match Call/rematch data later.
2	Route 118	Fisherman Barny	Tentacool Lv. 25 Carvanha Lv. 25	1000	Story/route battle.
3	Route 118	Fisherman Wade	Tentacool Lv. 16	640	Story/route battle.
4	Route 118	Guitarist Dalton	Magnemite Lv. 15 Whismur Lv. 15	480	May have Match Call/rematch data later.
5	Route 118	Bird Keeper Perry	Wingull Lv. 26	832	Story/route battle.
6	Route 118	Bird Keeper Chester	Taillow Lv. 25 Swellow Lv. 25	800	Story/route battle.
7	Route 118	Youngster Deandre	Zigzagoon Lv. 14 Aron Lv. 14 Electrike Lv. 14	224	Story/route battle.

Items

Item	Type	Location	Requirement / flag context
Hyper Potion	Visible	Route 118, on the east side at map coordinates (69,7)	ROUTE 118 HYPER POTION
Iron	Hidden	Route 118, hidden on the central area at map coordinates (31,13)	ROUTE 118 IRON
Heart Scale	Hidden	Route 118, hidden on the southwest side at map coordinates (12,14)	ROUTE 118 HEART SCALE
Good Rod	Gift / reward	Route 118, Receive Good Rod	NPC gift or story reward

Completion Checklist

• Clear the main objective: Cross east of Mauville with Surf, meet Steven, and open the long path toward Fortree.
• Review every wild Pokemon method listed for the section.
• Fight or deliberately skip every trainer listed in route order.
• Collect visible items, hidden items, and scripted rewards you care about before moving on.

Source Notes

• Source of truth: pret/pokeemerald wild_encounters.json, map map.json object/background events, map scripts.inc, trainers.h, and trainer_parties.h.
• Encounter odds are aggregated by species and method from Emerald slot rates. Most rows are marked Any time because Emerald has no normal day/night wild encounter split.
• Pokemon table sprites use locally cached Emerald front sprites from /guides/pokemon-emerald-pokemon-sprites.json.
• Trainer art on this page uses the local Emerald trainer manifest and reused Hoenn character art where Emerald-specific artwork is not available.