Phase 2 section
Pokémon HeartGold & SoulSilver Violet City services and in-game trade Walkthrough
Zephyr Badge Open Violet's school, trade, and early services. Exact HGSS encounters, trainers, items, puzzle route, version differences, and completion checks.
Open Violet's school, trade, and early services. This combined guide never substitutes original Gold/Silver or Crystal data for the Nintendo DS remakes.
Source maps
Violet, Violet Gym, Violet Route 36 Gatehouse, Violet Poké Mart, Violet Pokémon Center 1F, Violet Pokémon School, Violet Northwest House, Violet Unused, Violet Bellsprout Onyx Trade House, Violet Pokémon Center B1F.
Version scope
HeartGold and SoulSilver are labeled per row. Event-only and external-device content is never presented as normal retail progression.
Route Plan
Tour the Pokémon School, collect the city gifts, trade Bellsprout for Onix if desired, visit the northwest house, and enter Sprout Tower before the Gym.
Wild Pokémon
Each area below has its own table, split by encounter method. Standard rates merge every base slot for a species and are shown per time window: morning 04:00-09:59, day 10:00-19:59, night 20:00-03:59. Swarm, radio-broadcast, and Headbutt tables keep their own labeled rows, and every row carries HG/SS markers. Underlying slot odds: grass 20/20/10/10/10/10/5/5/4/4/1/1; Surf 60/30/5/4/1; Rods 40/30/15/10/5; Rock Smash 80/20; Headbutt 50/15/15/10/5/5.
| Pokémon | Games | Levels | Rate | Requirement / notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Morning | Day | Night | ||||
| Swarm (post-National Dex daily announcement) | ||||||
 Whiscash | HGSS | 40 | 100% | Super Rod. Post-National Dex swarm replacement. | ||
| Whiscash | HGSS | 20 | 65% | Good Rod. Post-National Dex swarm replacement. | ||
 Poliwag | HGSS | 15-25 | 60% | Surf. Post-National Dex swarm replacement. | ||
| Whiscash | HGSS | 10 | 15% | Old Rod. Post-National Dex swarm replacement. | ||
| Surfing | ||||||
| Poliwag | HGSS | 10-25 | 90% | Rate counts base slots temporarily replaced by the announced daily swarm. | ||
 Poliwhirl | HGSS | 15-25 | 10% | Rate counts base slots temporarily replaced by the announced daily swarm. | ||
| Fishing — Old Rod | ||||||
 Magikarp | HGSS | 10 | 85% | Rate counts base slots temporarily replaced by the announced daily swarm. | ||
| Poliwag | HGSS | 10 | 15% | Rate counts base slots temporarily replaced by the announced daily swarm. | ||
| Fishing — Good Rod | ||||||
| Poliwag | HGSS | 20 | 60% | Rate counts base slots temporarily replaced by the announced daily swarm. | ||
| Magikarp | HGSS | 20 | 40% | Rate counts base slots temporarily replaced by the announced daily swarm. | ||
| Fishing — Super Rod | ||||||
| Poliwag | HGSS | 40 | 80% | Rate counts base slots temporarily replaced by the announced daily swarm. | ||
| Magikarp | HGSS | 40 | 20% | Rate counts base slots temporarily replaced by the announced daily swarm. | ||
| Headbutt — common tree table | ||||||
 Hoothoot | HGSS | 2-3 | 50% | Common Headbutt table; regular-tree selection depends on Trainer ID and tree group. | ||
 Pineco | HGSS | 10 | 30% | Common Headbutt table; regular-tree selection depends on Trainer ID and tree group. | ||
 Exeggcute | HGSS | 10 | 20% | Common Headbutt table; regular-tree selection depends on Trainer ID and tree group. | ||
| Headbutt — rare tree table | ||||||
| Hoothoot | HGSS | 4-5 or 10 | 80% | Rare Headbutt table; regular-tree selection depends on Trainer ID and tree group. | ||
| Exeggcute | HGSS | 10 | 20% | Rare Headbutt table; regular-tree selection depends on Trainer ID and tree group. | ||
Static, gift, trade, and event Pokémon
| Pokémon | Method | Level | Requirement / note |
|---|---|---|---|
 Mareep | Gift Egg | Lv. Egg | Source-scripted encounter or gift; save or make party space before resolving it. |
 Wooper | Gift Egg | Lv. Egg | Source-scripted encounter or gift; save or make party space before resolving it. |
 Slugma | Gift Egg | Lv. Egg | Source-scripted encounter or gift; save or make party space before resolving it. |
 Onix | In-game trade | Matches offered Bellsprout | Received as Rocky; useful against Falkner. |
Trainers
Teams are the exact source party records. Moves and held items appear only when the trainer format defines them. Reward = last party member level × 4 × trainer-class multiplier; double battles double the base payout where the engine applies it.
| Trainer | Location / order | Full team | Reward | Battle note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Leader Falkner FalknerSource trainer ID 20 | Violet Gym • scripted/system variant | ₽1,560 | Single battle. | |
 Bird Keeper GS RodSource trainer ID 29 | Violet Gym • source tile (18, 11) | ₽224 | Single battle. | |
| Bird Keeper GS AbeSource trainer ID 50 | Violet Gym • source tile (12, 15) |
| ₽288 | Single battle. |
Items And Hidden Items
| Item | Method | Plain-English placement | Source tile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rare Candy | Visible item ball | Pick up the item ball in the northeast part of Violet. | 504, 237 |
| PP Up | Visible item ball | Pick up the item ball in the northwest part of Violet. | 459, 229 |
| Hyper Potion | Hidden / Dowsing MCHN | Use the Dowsing MCHN on the ground in the east part of Violet, 2 tiles east and 7 tiles north from the nearest source NPC. | 505, 254 |
| Poké Ball | Hidden / Dowsing MCHN | Use the Dowsing MCHN on the ground in the north part of Violet, 1 tile west from the nearest source NPC. | 481, 241 |
| Yellow Apricorn | Daily Apricorn tree | Harvest the source-indexed tree in Violet; it regrows after the daily reset. | 472, 275 |
Puzzles And Systems
Follow the route plan in order; source tiles in the item and trainer tables provide a QA anchor for every placed object.
Completion Checklist
- Visit all 10 mapped source subareas assigned here.
- Account for 21 random, Headbutt, Safari, Contest, static, gift, trade, or event rows across the per-area tables.
- Defeat or deliberately defer all 3 listed trainer records.
- Collect 2 visible items, 2 hidden items, and 1 Apricorn trees assigned here.
- Finish the stated story, puzzle, schedule, version, and event conditions before moving on.
Sources And Validation
- Primary source:
pret/pokeheartgoldcommit814275e4392cc21eef45a04e6dc8d980010ca2b7. - Layers: encounter banks, map headers, trainer parties, field events and scripts, Headbutt, Safari, Bug Contest, hidden items, Apricorns, phone/Pokégear, and Frontier engine data.
- Machine-readable validation report and trainer asset manifest.
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