Pinkan Island (quest)

Pinkan Island (quest)
Region Multiregional	Difficulty Experienced	Compulsory? 1
Starting location Speak to Officer Jenny in Vermilion City.
Requisites Must have defeated the Johto League cadre 25 or more hours of playtime
Rewards Access to Pinkan Island Ability to hunt for pink Pokémon

The Pinkan Island quest is the requisitory quest of the eponymous Pinkan Island area—a standalone island of the limitedly accessible Orange Islands archipelago. The walkthrough biregionally spans through the Kanto and Orange Islands (segmentally) regions.

This quest’s completion is required in order to access the aforementioned area, allowing players to use the only Orange Islands area that has been released at this juncture. Once it has been completed, pinkened Pokémon will be huntable—a speciological counterpart of Pokémon that are peculiarly pinkish in their pigmentation that inhabit the island.

Walkthroughs

Textual guide

Liaising with Officer Jenny

Once you have become a triregional champion by defeating the Hoenn League, you can speak to Officer Jenny in Vermilion City to start the quest.

She will inform you that Team Rocket agents have just absconded the area; since the nature of their escapade was unknown at that juncture, she will start by eliciting your witness account of it (which is inapplicable at the time) before enlisting your investigatory help for the incident.

Because neither of you were apprised of any rudimentary details of the incident, she will exhort you to speak with the locals for any potentially elicitable information. Speak to the lady near the Pokémon Center (see the thumbnail to the right for the exact locus); she will recall that she saw two figures, likened to Team Rocket agents, headed towards Route 6.

Team Rocket pursuit

Tread northwards and enter Saffron City. You will find a cyclist riding nearby the southern gatehouse; speak to him.

He recounts that Team Rocket agents trampled over him when rushing through the area and recalls eavesdropping that they planned to steal appurtenances from a shop. Unbeknownst to him, they planned to steal from Celadon Department Store; head there next.

Once you enter Celadon Department Store, you will speak to the owner on the receptionistic floor, learning that they have just been freshly robbed with no avail from the local police department.

Now that you have yet another lead to pinpoint Team Rocket’s whereabouts, head to the contiguous route in Route 7. You will find another infamous Team Rocket duo in Butch and Cassidy; they will challenge you to a Pokémon battle once confronted.

Pinkan Island (quest) Trainers

Butch and Cassidy Raticate Lv. 120 Hitmontop Lv. 120 Mightyena Lv. 120 Tentacruel Lv. 120 Hypno Lv. 120 Charizard Lv. 120 Notes: No experience-points and Pokémoney payouts will be yielded from this battle.

All NPCs cool down after 7 days unless noted contrariwise.

Irrespective of the outcome, the duo will decamp out of the area, disadvising you from following them. Now, it is time to report back to Officer Jenny about that murky encounter.

Embarking to Pinkan Island

Upon recapitulating your encounter with the Team Rocket agents and the witness accounts gleaned along the way, Officer Jenny infers that they have conspired to poach pink Pokémon from Pinkan Island.

Having already built a reputable rapport with her, she will sanction you to visit Pinkan Island to help apprehend Team Rocket amid their devious plans. Speak to the Pinkan Island sailor on the dock, who will costlessly ferry to the island for this visit.

As soon as you arrive, another Officer Jenny, will immediately confer with you, having been relayed of your investigatory role in the case; shortly thereafter, another Officer Jenny will report that the pink-Pokémon inhabitancies have reportedly depopulated, indicating that Team Rocket has already made strides in poaching them.

Hot pursuit

With the increasingly exigent plight reported, it is time to hasten to the forest southwards.

Upon entering the forest, all of your Pokéballs will be confiscated by the ranger; this is to preclude its visitors from capturing pink Pokémon, which is interdicted against any uncitizenized visitors. They can be reclaimed later by interacting with the ranger.

You’ll immediately confrontationally encounter a Team Rocket agent, who you will need to beat to proceedingly move through the forest.

Pinkan Island (quest) Trainers

Team Rocket Raticate Lv. 100 Hypno Lv. 100 Weavile Lv. 100 Notes: No experience-points and Pokémoney payouts will be yielded for potential secondary battles and onwards.

All NPCs cool down after 7 days unless noted contrariwise.

Once you have dispatched him, scour the rest of the area for other Team Rocket agents. They will all flee and conceal themselves once you approach them within proximate eyeshot, entailing that you search to locate wherever they are hiding.

There are three fleeing Team Rocket members, total; each one will battle you upon their detection, as shown below.

Pinkan Island (quest) Trainers

Team Rocket Rapidash Lv. 100 Electrode Lv. 100 Yanmega Lv. 100 Notes: Found shrouded in the bush as shown in the right thumbnail.

All NPCs cool down after 7 days unless noted contrariwise.

Pinkan Island (quest) Trainers

Team Rocket Nidoqueen Lv. 100 Golbat Lv. 100 Crobat Lv. 100 Nidoking Lv. 100 Notes: Found shrouded underneath a tree as shown in the left thumbnail.

All NPCs cool down after 7 days unless noted contrariwise.

Pinkan Island (quest) Trainers

Team Rocket Gengar Lv. 100 Spiritomb Lv. 100 Misdreavus Lv. 100 Notes: Found nearby a mountainside’s ladder in the last right-aligned thumbnail. Rock Smash or a Pickaxe is needed to negotiate to this area.

All NPCs cool down after 7 days unless noted contrariwise.

Once you have dispatched all-three of them, you can enter Pinkan Island Cliff.

Pinkan Island Cliff

On Pinkan Island Cliff, you will find various skirmishes between police officers and Team Rocket agents, as they have all congregated here. Since most pathways are occluded due to their ongoing battles, you must navigate through the area via the bridges.

Various pink Pokémon will be noticeably held hostage; you must defeat the captors in order to liberate them, as shown below.

Pinkan Island (quest) Trainers

Team Rocket Houndoom Lv. 100 Donphan Lv. 100 Ariados Lv. 100 Notes: Holding a Vileplume hostage on the westernmost mountainside. The Vileplume will also give you a Miracle Seed for extricating it.

All NPCs cool down after 7 days unless noted contrariwise.

Pinkan Island (quest) Trainers

Team Rocket Venomoth Lv. 100 Beedrill Lv. 100 Ariados Lv. 100 Notes: Holding a Parasect hostage.

All NPCs cool down after 7 days unless noted contrariwise.

With them dispatched, one last encounter is waiting with Butch and Cassidy, who can be found amid the fray.

Butch and Cassidy’s Lineup
Nidoking Nature Ability Item Random Random None Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Ice Beam Ice Special 95 100 Thunderbolt Electric Special 90 100 Sludge Bomb Poison Special 90 100 Earth Power Ground Special 90 100	Nidoqueen Nature Ability Item Random Random None Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Body Slam Normal Physical 80 100 Earthquake Ground Physical 100 100 Poison Jab Poison Physical 80 100 Rock Slide Rock Physical 75 90
Shuckle Nature Ability Item Random Random None Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Wrap Normal Physical 15 90 Toxic Poison Status — 90 Slack Off Normal Status — — Knock Off Dark Physical 65 100	Aggron Nature Ability Item Random Random None Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Earthquake Ground Physical 100 100 Iron Head Steel Physical 80 100 Stone Edge Rock Physical 100 80 Explosion Normal Physical 250 100
Cloyster Nature Ability Item Random Random None Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Icicle Spear Ice Physical 25 100 Pin Missile Bug Physical 25 95 Rock Blast Rock Physical 25 90 Shell Smash Normal Status — —	Primeape Nature Ability Item Random Random None Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Close Combat Fighting Physical 120 100 Sucker Punch Dark Physical 80 100 Ice Punch Ice Physical 75 100 Bullet Punch Steel Physical 40 100
Emboldened moves avail from a STAB bonus when deployed by that Pokémon. Italicized moves are functionally broken; see their individualized pages for more information.

Once you have completed that penultimate battle, it is time to battle a perennial nemesis of yours: Giovanni, who has spearheaded the sordid operation at hand.

Giovanni’s Lineup
Persian Nature Ability Item Random Random None Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Power Gem Rock Special 80 100 Double-Edge Normal Physical 120 100 Signal Beam Bug Special 75 100 Night Slash Dark Physical 70 100	Tyranitar Nature Ability Item Random Random None Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Crunch Dark Physical 80 100 Fire Blast Fire Special 110 85 Earthquake Ground Physical 100 100 Stone Edge Rock Physical 100 80
Excadrill Nature Ability Item Random Random None Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Earthquake Ground Physical 100 100 Iron Head Steel Physical 80 100 Swords Dance Normal Status — — Rock Slide Rock Physical 75 90	Rhyperior Nature Ability Item Random Random None Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Stone Edge Rock Physical 100 80 Earthquake Ground Physical 100 100 [[]] — Rock Polish Rock Status — —
Nidoking Nature Ability Item Random Random None Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Ice Beam Ice Special 95 100 Thunderbolt Electric Special 90 100 Sludge Bomb Poison Special 90 100 Earth Power Ground Special 90 100	Mega Kangaskhan Nature Ability Item Random Random None Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Double-Edge Normal Physical 120 100 Crunch Dark Physical 80 100 Earthquake Ground Physical 100 100 Brick Break Fighting Physical 75 100
Emboldened moves avail from a STAB bonus when deployed by that Pokémon. Italicized moves are functionally broken; see their individualized pages for more information.

Once you have vanquished Giovanni once again, Team Rocket will abscond once again, whereafter Officer Jenny will escort you back to Pinkan City.

Mission (nearly) completed

You will be resituated nearby the Pinkan City ferry.

If you haven’t already, it is advisable to reclaim your Pokéballs from the Pinkan Island Forest ranger. While you still won’t initially be allowed to carry your Pokéballs into the area, he will offer you a workaround: if you donate both a level-90-plus Scyther and Electabuzz with maximal happiness, you will be allowed entry in the forest with your Pokéballs, allowing you to hunt for pinkened Pokémon therein. Note that neither the Scyther nor the Electabuzz require your OT.