Route 1 Sword And Shield

Route one

Hop wants to use this opportunity to railroad train up a bit, but he points out your eventual destination over in Wedgehurst: a building with a purple roof in the bottom-correct part of town. That's the Pokémon Research Lab!

Of form, it's not as elementary every bit just walking there like it was the final time yous went through Route 1. Oh, no, there's now a flock of Wooloo sleeping peacefully right in the middle of the road. You'll need to "take the long way round" to get to Wedgehurst.

At present that you have a Pokémon, you lot can go through the tall grass to the right that was previously inaccessible. In that location are likewise wild Pokémon roaming around freely in the alpine grass that you can run into on the overworld, although you will also notwithstanding encounter random encounters in the tall grass similar the erstwhile games.

Route i
Random Meet
Pokémon		Types	Level	Rarity
	Skwovet	Normal	2–5	50%
	Blipbug	Bug	2–5	30%
	Caterpie	Problems	2–5	15%
	Grubbin	Bug	two–5	10%
	Hoothoot	Normal Flying	ii–5	5%
Overworld Encounter
Pokémon		Types	Level	Rarity
	Skwovet	Normal	3–6	fifty%
	Rookidee	Flying	three–6	30%
	Wooloo	Normal	3–six	15%
	Nickit	Dark	iii–6	5%

You should besides have v Poké Balls at this point, and so you can use them to take hold of any wild Pokémon you run into. As with recent games, communicable Pokémon will requite you EXP, and EXP is now always earned for the entire party, like to how the Exp. Share functioned in the Sun and Moon games, although with no choice to turn it off. Still, the EXP earned is proportionate effectually the Pokémon'due south levels, so it shouldn't become too out of manus.

There's a Poké Ball sitting about the tall grass that you can choice upwards — it'due south not actually a Poké Ball, merely an detail ball that contains items. This one contains a Potion, which y'all should already have iii of past at present unless you lot used one to heal.

Keep going forth the path until it winds north, picking upwardly ii Paralyze Heals nearby in the grass. One handy feature is that, when y'all selection up a new item, it volition show on the screen what the item does.

Afterwards all of that, you should finally be virtually the entrance to Wedgehurst.