The Pumpkin King (boss)

The Pumpkin King
Location	Vermilion City Graveyard
Cooldown time	12 days
Dates active	2015—present
Basic requirements
Be Kanto Champion
Rewards Access to Goldenrod City‘s berry shop A multitude of potential Pokémon or items; read below

The Pumpkin King is a boss NPC that can be found in Vermilion City Graveyard.

It is an animate, semi-anthropomorphic, outsized pumpkin that tries to intimidate all passersby on the route, attempting to menace the qualifiable trainers into a battle.

Boss rework 2019

The Pumpkin King was part of the Boss rework in early 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.

Lineup

The Pumpkin King’s Lineup
Bisharp Nature Ability Item Adamant Defiant None Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Swords Dance Normal Status — — Knock Off Dark Physical 65 100 Iron Head Steel Physical 80 100 Low Kick Fighting Physical — 100	Shuckle Nature Ability Item Impish Sturdy None Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Stealth Rock Rock Status — — Infestation Bug Special 20 100 Toxic Poison Status — 90 Encore Normal Status — 100
Yanmega Nature Ability Item Modest Speed Boost None Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Bug Buzz Bug Special 90 100 Air Slash Flying Special 75 95 Protect Normal Status — — Giga Drain Grass Special 75 100	Roserade Nature Ability Item Timid Poison Point None Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Giga Drain Grass Special 75 100 Sludge Bomb Poison Special 90 100 Spikes Ground Status — — Sleep Powder Grass Status — 75
Gourgeist Nature Ability Item Impish Insomnia None Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Seed Bomb Grass Physical 80 100 Will-O-Wisp Fire Status — 85 Phantom Force Ghost Physical 90 100 Leech Seed Grass Status — 100	Togekiss Nature Ability Item Timid Serene Grace None Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Air Slash Flying Special 75 95 Flamethrower Fire Special 90 100 Dazzling Gleam Fairy Special 80 100 Aura Sphere Fighting Special 80 —
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

Goldenrod City Berry Shop

Thereupon defeating The Pumpkin King, you will inherit access to the berry shop in Goldenrod City; this is the only vendor of EV-reductive berries in the game, thereby providing a more expeditious avenue to obtain them for those who are affluent enough to outlay the expenditures for them.

Standard Rewards

The standard rewards will be randomized each time; however, upon defeating him three-consecutive times, you will get a extra reward.

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.

Randomized subset

All possible rewards are listed below.

Pokémon

Pokédex Number	Pokémon	Type 1	Type 2	Reward Tier
#213		Shuckle	Bug	Rock	1
#270		Lotad	Water	Grass	1
#624		Pawniard	Dark	Steel	3

Items

Item	Quantity	Reward Tier
	Chople Berry	10	1
	Colbur Berry	10	1
	Occa Berry	10	1
	Passho Berry	10	1
	Rindo Berry	10	1
	Shuca Berry	10	1
	Yache Berry	10	1
	Shiny Stone	1	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
#213		Shuckle	Bug	Rock	Medium/Hard
#270		Lotad	Water	Grass	Medium/Hard
#624		Pawniard	Dark	Steel	Medium/Hard