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

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 [[]] — [[]] —	Torkoal Nature Ability Item Random Shell Armor Leftovers Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Lava Plume Fire Special 80 100 Solar Beam Grass Special 120 100 [[]] — [[]] —
Flygon Nature Ability Item Random Levitate Choice Band Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Outrage Dragon Physical 120 100 Fire Blast Fire Special 110 85 [[]] — [[]] —	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 [[]] —
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%	50,000-40,000	5

Pokémon

Pokédex Number		Pokémon	Type 1	Type 2	Reward Tier
#328		Trapinch	Ground
#261		Poochyena	Dark
#276		Taillow	Normal	Flying

Items

Item		Quantity	Reward Tier
	[[]]

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