Professor Rowan (boss)

Professor Rowan
Location	Jubilife Trainers School
Cooldown time	12 days
Dates active	2019—present
Basic requirements
Be Sinnoh Champion Caught data of 50 Pokémon native to Sinnoh
Rewards Pokémon (subsumptive of SInnoh’s subset of starter Pokémon) Type-enhancing held items

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

Because of his byjob as a distributor starter Pokémon, his trove of prizes include Sinnohs’s own subset of starter Pokémon, making him a potentially prolific alternative to hunting for the starter Pokémon in the wild.

Boss rework 2019

Rowan was part of the Boss rework in 2019 and was updated at the 16th September 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 Rowan

Professor Oak can be found in the upper-rightmost corner in Jubilife Trainers School.

Interacting with him will automatically initiate a battle contingent that you have completed the Sinnoh League. You also need to have the caught data of 50 Sinnoh pokemon in order to challenge him. 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 Rowan’s Lineup
Torterra Nature Ability Item Adamant Overgrow None Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Wood Hammer Grass Physical 120 100 Earthquake Ground Physical 100 100 Stone Edge Rock Physical 100 80 Seed Bomb Grass Physical 80 100	Empoleon Nature Ability Item Modest Torrent None Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Ice Beam Ice Special 95 100 Hydro Pump Water Special 110 80 Grass Knot Grass Special — 100 Toxic Poison Status — 90
Infernape Nature Ability Item Naive Blaze None Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Close Combat Fighting Physical 120 100 Flare Blitz Fire Physical 120 100 Gunk Shot Poison Physical 120 80 Grass Knot Grass Special — 100	Staraptor Nature Ability Item Adamant Reckless None Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Brave Bird Flying Physical 120 100 Double-Edge Normal Physical 120 100 Close Combat Fighting Physical 120 100 Quick Attack Normal Physical 40 100
Gliscor Nature Ability Item Adamant Poison Heal None Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Earthquake Ground Physical 100 100 Ice Fang Ice Physical 65 95 Facade Normal Physical 70 100 Knock Off Dark Physical 65 100	Rotom Nature Ability Item Modest Levitate None Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Thunderbolt Electric Special 90 100 Shadow Ball Ghost Special 80 100 Will-O-Wisp Fire Status — 85 Defog Flying Status — —
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

Professor Rowan’s Lineup
Torterra Nature Ability Item Adamant Overgrow Choice Band Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Wood Hammer Grass Physical 120 100 Earthquake Ground Physical 100 100 Stone Edge Rock Physical 100 80 Seed Bomb Grass Physical 80 100	Empoleon Nature Ability Item Modest Torrent Focus Sash Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Ice Beam Ice Special 95 100 Hydro Pump Water Special 110 80 Grass Knot Grass Special — 100 Toxic Poison Status — 90
Infernape Nature Ability Item Naive Blaze Life Orb Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Close Combat Fighting Physical 120 100 Flare Blitz Fire Physical 120 100 Gunk Shot Poison Physical 120 80 Grass Knot Grass Special — 100	Staraptor Nature Ability Item Adamant Reckless Choice Band Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Brave Bird Flying Physical 120 100 Double-Edge Normal Physical 120 100 Close Combat Fighting Physical 120 100 Quick Attack Normal Physical 40 100
Gliscor Nature Ability Item Adamant Poison Heal Toxic Orb Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Earthquake Ground Physical 100 100 Ice Fang Ice Physical 65 95 Facade Normal Physical 70 100 Knock Off Dark Physical 65 100	Rotom Nature Ability Item Modest Levitate Choice Specs Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Thunderbolt Electric Special 90 100 Shadow Ball Ghost Special 80 100 Will-O-Wisp Fire Status — 85 Defog Flying Status — —
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

Professor Rowan’s Lineup
Torterra Nature Ability Item Adamant Overgrow Choice Band Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Wood Hammer Grass Physical 120 100 Earthquake Ground Physical 100 100 Stone Edge Rock Physical 100 80 Seed Bomb Grass Physical 80 100	Empoleon Nature Ability Item Modest Torrent Choice Scarf Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Ice Beam Ice Special 95 100 Hydro Pump Water Special 110 80 Grass Knot Grass Special — 100 Toxic Poison Status — 90
Infernape Nature Ability Item Naive Blaze Life Orb Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Close Combat Fighting Physical 120 100 Flare Blitz Fire Physical 120 100 Gunk Shot Poison Physical 120 80 Grass Knot Grass Special — 100	Staraptor Nature Ability Item Adamant Reckless Choice Band Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Brave Bird Flying Physical 120 100 Double-Edge Normal Physical 120 100 Close Combat Fighting Physical 120 100 Quick Attack Normal Physical 40 100
Gliscor Nature Ability Item Adamant Poison Heal Toxic Orb Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Earthquake Ground Physical 100 100 Ice Fang Ice Physical 65 95 Facade Normal Physical 70 100 Knock Off Dark Physical 65 100	Manaphy Nature Ability Item Modest Hydration Choice Specs Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Surf Water Special 90 100 Ice Beam Ice Special 95 100 Energy Ball Grass Special 90 100 Tail Glow Bug Status — —
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 Rowan 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
#396		Starly	Normal	Flying	1
#403		Shinx	Electric		1
#436		Bronzor	Steel	Psychic	1
#427		Buneary	Normal		2
#207		Gligar	Ground	Flying	2
#387		Turtwig	Grass		3
#390		Chimchar	Fire		3
#393		Piplup	Water		3

Items

Item	Quantity	Reward Tier
	Revival Herb	3-5	1
	Weakness Policy	2-10	1
	Focus Sash	3-10	1
	Rare Candy	3-10	2
	Ultra Ball	5-10	2
	Master Ball	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
#387		Turtwig	Grass		Medium/Hard
#390		Chimchar	Fire		Medium/Hard
#393		Piplup	Water		Medium/Hard