Brock (boss)

Brock
Location Diglett’s Cave
Cooldown time 12 days
Dates active 2016—present
Basic requirements
  • Must have completed the Kanto League
Rewards
  • Standardized reward subset

‘I spent my time treasure-hunting and had a bolstered-up lineup, resultantly… Want to see what I found?’

—Brock

Brock is the boss-NPC incarnation of Brock—the Gym Leader of Pewter City.

Boss rework 2019

Brock was part of the Boss rework in 2019 and was updated at the 10th January 2019. The boss rework was issued and is still ongoing to improve the boss NPCs in general. All reworked bosses are coded in Python and not in Xanascript anymore, which gives new opportunities. Reworked bosses can now have held items as well. One of the biggest benefits is, that the Python script sees when if the server crashed in order to not count a lose in case the player fought against the boss while the server crashed. In such a case, the player can simply re-fight the boss.

The boss rework implies a challenge for players on any experience level who do enjoy doing bosses because of the three difficulty level every not story related boss has, which ensures that bosses are challengable for newer players and also be a challenge for those who have a high Pokémon knowledge. Boss teams are decisively reworked and only contain level 100 Pokémon. EVs and held items do vary among other things — also depending on the difficulty level.

  • Easy: bosses have no EVs and no hold items; as well as a weakened moveset. Consecutive win rewards are also not available.
  • Medium: bosses have 252 EVs in each stat and hold items.
  • Hard: bosses have 400 EVs in each stat and hold items. Furthermore, the player is not allowed to use in-battle items such as Revives.

Challenging Brock

Brock can be found on the overpassing cliffside on the basement floor of Diglett’s Cave. The staircase that is perpendicularly interposed between both allotments of Diggable Patches in this cave can be used to reach the cliffside to access Brock.

Interacting with him will automatically initiate a battle if you have completed the Kanto League. If you have previously battled him, it will be a 12-day cooldown time to rechallenge him. In case you should have a playing time under 100 hours, Brock will give you a warning if you are really sure to fight him.

Lineup

Easy

Brock’s Lineup

Aerodactyl
Nature Ability Item
Naive Rock Head None
Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy
Rock Slide Rock Physical 75 90
Taunt Dark Status 100
Stealth Rock Rock Status
Explosion Normal Physical 250 100

Golem
Nature Ability Item
Jolly Sturdy None
Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy
Rock Slide Rock Physical 75 90
Bulldoze Ground Physical 60 100
Heavy Slam Steel Physical 100
Sucker Punch Dark Physical 80 100

Steelix
Nature Ability Item
Adamant Sturdy None
Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy
Iron Head Steel Physical 80 100
Dig Ground Physical 80 100
Sandstorm Ground Status
Double-Edge Normal Physical 120 100

Cradily
Nature Ability Item
Sassy Storm Drain None
Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy
Toxic Poison Status 90
Solar Beam Grass Special 120 100
Smack Down Rock Physical 50 100
Sludge Wave Poison Special 95 100

Toxicroak
Nature Ability Item
Timid Poison Touch None
Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy
Vacuum Wave Fighting Special 40 100
Sludge Bomb Poison Special 90 100
Dark Pulse Dark Special 80 100
Round Normal Special 60 100

Terrakion
Nature Ability Item
Jolly Justified None
Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy
Sacred Sword Fighting Physical 90 100
Rock Slide Rock Physical 75 90
X-Scissor Bug Physical 80 100
Poison Jab Poison Physical 80 100
  • Emboldened moves avail from a STAB bonus when deployed by that Pokémon.
  • Italicized moves are functionally broken; see their individualized pages for more information.

Medium/Hard

Brock’s Lineup

Mega Aerodactyl
Nature Ability Item
Naive Tough Claws Aerodactylite
Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy
Stone Edge Rock Physical 100 80
Taunt Dark Status 100
Fire Blast Fire Special 110 85
Aqua Tail Water Physical 90 90
Ice Fang Ice Physical 65 95
Pursuit Dark Physical 40 100
Earthquake Ground Physical 100 100

Golem
Nature Ability Item
Jolly Sturdy Weakness Policy
Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy
Stone Edge Rock Physical 100 80
Rock Polish Rock Status
Earthquake Ground Physical 100 100
Fire Punch Fire Physical 75 100

Steelix
Nature Ability Item
Adamant Sturdy Leftovers
Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy
Earthquake Ground Physical 100 100
Heavy Slam Steel Physical 100
Stone Edge Rock Physical 100 80
Ice Fang Ice Physical 65 95

Cradily
Nature Ability Item
Sassy Storm Drain Leftovers
Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy
Seed Bomb Grass Physical 80 100
Rock Slide Rock Physical 75 90
Toxic Poison Status 90
Curse Ghost Status

Toxicroak
Nature Ability Item
Timid Poison Touch Choice Specs
Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy
Focus Blast Fighting Special 120 70
Sludge Bomb Poison Special 90 100
Icy Wind Ice Special 55 95
Dark Pulse Dark Special 80 100

Terrakion
Nature Ability Item
Jolly Justified Expert Belt
Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy
Close Combat Fighting Physical 120 100
Stone Edge Rock Physical 100 80
Swords Dance Normal Status
Earthquake Ground Physical 100 100
  • Emboldened moves avail from a STAB bonus when deployed by that Pokémon.
  • Italicized moves are functionally broken; see their individualized pages for more information.

Rewards

The standard subsets of rewards will be randomized and rewarded each time; however, upon defeating him three-consecutive times, you will get a extra reward on the difficulty level Medium and Hard while Hard gives slightly better rewards.

There is no shiny counterpart of Pokémon rewarded from the randomized prizeset; only the selectable prizes have one, which is 1/4,096 in fractional notation (0.0244%, in percental notation).

All rewarded Pokémon are initialized at level 20.

Reworked bosses such as Brock have rewards depending on the difficulty level you beat them. As harder the difficulty as more valuable is the reward normally. The exact reward is random generated based on a list of possible rewards and contains at least a money reward. There are three difficulty level: Easy, Medium and Hard.

For extra rewards, the Medium and Hard level have a three-time win streak.

Mode Tier chances Pokémoney rewarded PvE Coins rewarded
1 2 3
Easy 85% 10% 5% 5,000-10,000 None
Medium 80% 10% 10% 12,000-30,000 3
Hard 60% 25% 15% 20,000-35,000 5

Items

Item Quantity Reward Tier
Rare Candy 5 1
PP Up 5 1
Stardust 1-2 2
Star Piece 1 2
Dome Fossil 1 2
Helix Fossil 1 2
Old Amber 1 2
Nugget 1 3
Big Nugget 1 3

Three-consecutive wins

After being rewarded some of the abovementioned items, you will also be prompted to select one of these Pokémon as an additional reward.

Pokédex Number Pokémon Type 1 Type 2 Reward Tier
#138 Omanyte Rock Water Medium/Hard
#140 Kabuto Rock Water Medium/Hard
#142 Aerodactyl Rock Flying Medium/Hard
#347 Anorith Rock Bug Medium/Hard
#345 Lileep Rock Grass Medium/Hard