Professor Oak (boss)

Professor Oak
Location	Cinnabar Lab Room 2
Cooldown time	12 days
Dates active	2016—present
Basic requirements
Be Kanto Champion
Rewards Pokémon (subsumptive of Kanto’s subset of starter Pokémon) Type-enhancing held items

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

Because of his byjob as a distributor starter Pokémon, his trove of prizes include Kanto’s own subset of starter Pokémon (exclusive of the quaternary selectable in Pikachu), making him a potentially prolific alternative to hunting for the starter Pokémon in the wild.

Boss rework 2019

Oak 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 NPC’s 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 chellange for those who have a high Pokémon knowledge. Boss teams are decisively reworked and only contain level 100 Pokémon. EVs and hold 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 Professor Oak

Professor Oak can be found in the upper-rightmost corner in room 2 of Cinnabar Island‘s research lab. If Professor Oak is found in his lectural position, interact with him; this will invisibilize him and visibilize him in the boss-NPC position, effectively transposing his location to allow you to challenge the boss.

Interacting with him will automatically initiate a battle contingent that 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, Oak will give you a warning if you are really sure to fight him.

Lineup

Easy

Professor Oak’s Lineup
Rotom-Wash Nature Ability Item Bold Levitate None Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Shock Wave Electric Special 60 — Ominous Wind Ghost Special 60 100 Signal Beam Bug Special 75 100 Will-O-Wisp Fire Status — 85	Venusaur Nature Ability Item Modest Overgrow None Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Giga Drain Grass Special 75 100 Sludge Bomb Poison Special 90 100 Sleep Powder Grass Status — 75 Poison Powder Poison Status — 75
Charizard Nature Ability Item Timid Blaze None Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Flamethrower Fire Special 90 100 Dragon Pulse Dragon Special 85 100 Air Slash Flying Special 75 95 SmokeScreen Normal Status — 100	Blastoise Nature Ability Item Modest Torrent None Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Dark Pulse Dark Special 80 100 Aura Sphere Fighting Special 80 — Scald Water Special 80 100 Toxic Poison Status — 90
Tauros Nature Ability Item Jolly Sheer Force None Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Take Down Normal Physical 90 85 Pursuit Dark Physical 40 100 Rock Slide Rock Physical 75 90 Zen Headbutt Psychic Physical 80 90	Dragonite Nature Ability Item Adamant Multiscale None Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Wing Attack Flying Physical 60 100 Thunder Punch Electric Physical 75 100 Dragon Claw Dragon Physical 80 100 Slam Normal Physical 80 75
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

Professor Oak’s Lineup
Rotom-Wash Nature Ability Item Bold Levitate Leftovers Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Defog Flying Status — — Thunderbolt Electric Special 90 100 Hydro Pump Water Special 110 80 Reflect Psychic Status — —	Venusaur Nature Ability Item Modest Overgrow Black Sludge Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Petal Dance Grass Special 120 100 Sleep Powder Grass Status — 75 Sludge Bomb Poison Special 90 100 Leech Seed Grass Status — 100
Mega Charizard X Nature Ability Item Random Tough Claws Charizardite X Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Flare Blitz Fire Physical 120 100 Dragon Dance Dragon Status — — Dragon Claw Dragon Physical 80 100 Earthquake Ground Physical 100 100	Blastoise Nature Ability Item Modest Torrent Sitrus Berry Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Hydro Pump Water Special 110 80 Dark Pulse Dark Special 80 100 Toxic Poison Status — 90 Ice Beam Ice Special 95 100
Tauros Nature Ability Item Jolly Sheer Force Life Orb Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Rock Climb Normal Physical 90 85 Earthquake Ground Physical 100 100 Rock Slide Rock Physical 75 90 Iron Tail Steel Physical 100 75	Dragonite Nature Ability Item Adamant Multiscale Lum Berry Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Outrage Dragon Physical 120 100 Dragon Dance Dragon Status — — Fire Punch Fire Physical 75 100 Extreme Speed Normal 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.

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 will be initialized at level 20.

Reworked bosses such as Oak 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.

Tier 1: A random amount of common items which depends on the boss, like Focus Sashes, Weakness Policies, Air Balloons,Lum Berries or Sitrus Berries.

Tier 2: A random amount of more valuable items, mixed with some high valuable rewards depending on the boss, like PP Up’s, Rare Candies, Small Train Ticket or Corphish.

Tier 3: Rare Pokémon depending on the boss, like Gible, Dratini, Bunnelby or Scyther.

Easy: 85% chance for tier 1, 10% for tier 2 and 5% for tier 3 rewards, 5-10k money reward.

Medium: 80% chance for tier 1, 10% for tier 2 and 10% for tier 3 rewards, 12-30k money reward, +2 PvE Coins.

Hard: 60% chance for tier 1, 25% for tier 2 and 15% for tier 3 rewards, 20-40k money reward, +4 PvE Coins.

The possible rewarded Pokémon on the hard mode are considered as slightly more valuable than those you may get on the Medium mode.

Randomized subset

All possible rewards are listed below.

Pokémon

Pokédex Number	Pokémon	Type 1	Type 2	Reward Tier
#001		Bulbasaur	Grass	Poison	2
#004		Charmander	Fire		2
#007		Squirtle	Water		2
#147		Dratini	Dragon		3
#479		Rotom	Electric	Ghost	3

Items

Item	Quantity	Reward Tier
	Haban Berry	5-10	1
	Occa Berry	5-10	1
	Passho Berry	5-10	1
	Rindo Berry	5-10	1
	PP Up	3-8	2
	Rare Candy	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
#001		Bulbasaur	Grass	Poison	Medium/Hard
#004		Charmander	Fire		Medium/Hard
#007		Squirtle	Water		Medium/Hard
#147		Dratini	Dragon		Medium/Hard