Professor Birch (boss)

Professor Birch
Location Verdanturf Town House 2
Cooldown time 12 days
Dates active 2016—present
Basic requirements
  • Having defeated the Hoenn League
Rewards
  • Pokémon (subsumptive of Hoenns’s subset of starter Pokémon

‘I haven’t battled in a while, but would you mind?’

—Professor Birch

The Professor Birch boss is the boss-NPC incarnation of Professor Birch—the preeminent Pokémon professor of the Hoenn region. He homologizes to Professor Oak, Professor Elm and Professor Rowan of the Kanto, Johto and Sinnoh regions, respectively, as Hoenn’s professorial boss NPC.

Challenging Professor Birch

Professor Birch can be found in the in House 2 of Verdanturf Town.

Interacting with him will automatically initiate a battle contingent that you have completed the Hoenn 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, Birch will give you a warning if you are really sure to fight him.

Lineup

Easy

‘s Lineup

Mightyena
Nature Ability Item
Random Random None
Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy
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Medicham
Nature Ability Item
Random Random None
Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy
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Swellow
Nature Ability Item
Random Random None
Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy
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Pelipper
Nature Ability Item
Random Random None
Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy
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Flygon
Nature Ability Item
Random Random None
Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy
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Mega Sceptile
Nature Ability Item
Random Random None
Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy
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  • 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

Birch’s Lineup

Medicham
Nature Ability Item
Random Random None
Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy
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High Jump Kick Fighting Physical 130 90
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Slaking
Nature Ability Item
Random Truant Leftovers
Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy
Rock Slide Rock Physical 75 90
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Giga Impact Normal Physical 150 90

Swellow
Nature Ability Item
Random Guts Flame Orb
Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy
Thief Dark Physical 60 100
Brave Bird Flying Physical 120 100
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Pelipper
Nature Ability Item
Random Drizzle None
Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy
Knock Off Dark Physical 65 100
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Flygon
Nature Ability Item
Random Levitate Life Orb
Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy
Outrage Dragon Physical 120 100
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Mega Swampert
Nature Ability Item
Random Swift Swim Swampertite
Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy
Earthquake Ground Physical 100 100
Waterfall Water Physical 80 100
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  • Emboldened moves avail from a STAB bonus when deployed by that Pokémon.
  • Italicized moves are functionally broken; see their individualized pages for more information.

Hard

Birch’s Lineup

Medicham
Nature Ability Item
Random Pure Power Choice Band
Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy
Zen Headbutt Psychic Physical 80 90
Fire Punch Fire Physical 75 100
High Jump Kick Fighting Physical 130 90
Ice Punch Ice Physical 75 100

Slaking
Nature Ability Item
Random Truant Choice Band
Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy
Rock Slide Rock Physical 75 90
Fire Punch Fire Physical 75 100
Hammer Arm Fighting Physical 100 90
Giga Impact Normal Physical 150 90

Swellow
Nature Ability Item
Random Guts Flame Orb
Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy
Thief Dark Physical 60 100
Brave Bird Flying Physical 120 100
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Torkoal
Nature Ability Item
Random Drought Leftovers
Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy
Lava Plume Fire Special 80 100
Solar Beam Grass Special 120 100
Earthquake Ground Physical 100 100
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Flygon
Nature Ability Item
Random Levitate Life Orb
Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy
Outrage Dragon Physical 120 100
Fire Blast Fire Special 110 85
Earthquake Ground Physical 100 100
Stone Edge Rock Physical 100 80

Mega Blaziken
Nature Ability Item
Random Speed Boost Blazikenite
Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy
Brave Bird Flying Physical 120 100
Flare Blitz Fire Physical 120 100
High Jump Kick Fighting Physical 130 90
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  • 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 Professor Birch 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 2
Hard 60% 25% 15% 25,000-35,000 5

Pokémon

Pokédex Number Pokémon Type 1 Type 2 Reward Tier
#261 Poochyena Dark 1
#276 Taillow Normal Flying 1
#328 Trapinch Ground 2
#287 Slakoth Normal 2
#258 Mudkip Water 3
#255 Torchic Fire 3
#252 Treecko Grass 3

Items

Item Quantity Reward Tier
Rare Candy 3-8 2
Air Balloon 3-8 2

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
#328 Trapinch Ground
#287 Slakoth Normal
#255 Torchic Fire
#258 Mudkip Water
#252 Treecko Grass