Pokémon SoothingSilver
SoulSilver with every Pokémon up to Gen 4 obtainable, regional forms in place of a dozen Johto and Kanto lines, rebuilt bosses and level caps through sixteen gyms and beyond.
More about the game
DracAndre's enhancement of Pokémon SoulSilver in the Sacred Gold and Storm Silver tradition. Every Pokémon through Generation 4 can be caught, with all of Gen 1 and 2 available before the League and the rest in Kanto, and wild tables change across nearly every route. Several familiar lines are swapped for their regional forms (Alolan Rattata, Sandshrew, Diglett, Geodude, Grimer, Exeggutor and Marowak; Galarian Slowpoke and the legendary birds; Hisuian Growlithe and Voltorb; Paldean Wooper), Delibird becomes Iron Bundle, and the roaming beasts and Lugia appear as Shadow Pokémon. Gym Leaders, Rocket Executives, the Elite Four and a long post-game of rematches and super bosses run rebuilt teams with held items and full movesets, and the documentation publishes a level cap for every one of them. Moves are brought to their Generation 6 values, HMs are made usable in battle, trade evolutions work through friendship or items, and quality-of-life changes include reusable TMs and a move reminder in every Pokémon Center.
What's different, point by point
- All Pokémon through Generation 4 obtainable; Gen 1 and 2 before the League, the rest in Kanto
- Regional forms replace the Rattata, Sandshrew, Diglett, Geodude, Grimer, Exeggutor, Marowak, Slowpoke, Growlithe, Voltorb and Wooper lines, plus the Kanto birds
- Shadow Mewtwo, Raikou, Entei and Lugia; Iron Bundle in place of Delibird and Walking Wake in place of Suicune
- Rebuilt teams for every Gym Leader, Executive, Elite Four member and rival, with a second rival in Kris or Gold
- Published level caps for all sixteen gyms, Red, and the post-game bosses up to Lv 100
- Moves at their Generation 6 values, with HMs reworked into usable attacks and eleven old moves replaced by new ones
- Trade evolutions through friendship or by using the held item; every evolution stone sold at the Assembly Plaza
- Reusable TMs, a move reminder in every Pokémon Center, an early Exp. Share and 40 custom shinies at 1/2048
DracAndre
This guide is built from DracAndre's own documentation. The game, the ideas and the work are theirs — the site just makes the numbers searchable. Play it from the official page, and send them the feedback and the thanks.
What this guide covers
Every guide here is built from the game's own documentation. Where a ROM hack changed something but never published the numbers, this says so rather than quietly filling the gap with the original game's — which would be worse than leaving it out.
| Section | Source | |
|---|---|---|
| Wild Pokémon by area | From the game itself | Every grass, Surf, rod, Rock Smash, swarm and radio table in the workbook, 136 areas, plus the documentation's gifts, trades and legendary events. |
| Encounter rates | From the game itself | The workbook's own per-slot rates for grass, Surf and Rock Smash; none for the rods, which it lists in slot order only. |
| Wild levels | From the game itself | The workbook's own levels, per slot. |
| Stats, abilities and movesets | From the game itself | Base stats, types, abilities, level-up learnset, TM compatibility, evolutions and wild held items for 505 species and forms, with the documentation's per-species change notes. |
| TM and HM compatibility | From the game itself | All 92 TMs and 8 HMs with per-species compatibility from the workbook. |
| Where TMs are found | Not published by the creator | The documentation places only 5 TMs (31, 53, 61, 71 and Thunder Wave); the rest, the HMs and the rods are not located anywhere in it, so they are not placed here. Ask in the release thread or Discord SoothingSilver is built on HeartGold / SoulSilver; the HeartGold / SoulSilver guide has the original game's TM locations. |
| Trainer and boss teams | From the game itself | All 754 trainer rows in the workbook with levels, held items, abilities and movesets; the 124 documented boss fights are placed in story order, the rest are unplaced because the workbook records no location. |
Credits
- Hack, documentation and all game data: DracAndre
- Patch files and flashcart work: DeadSkullzJr
- Violet City Trainer School: Xgelorius (Rius)
- Community Discord: SoothingSilver Discord
- Sprites via PokéAPI; base move and TM data from PokéAPI and Bulbapedia.
Reading the tables
SourceEverything here comes from the creator's own files: the 1.4 PokEditor workbook (stats, learnsets, TMs, evolutions, moves, trainers and every wild table) and the 1.4 documentation (change notes, item locations, events, tutors, the boss list and the level caps). The workbook is the source of truth for v1.4.5; where the two disagree on a detail, such as a boss's held item, the workbook is what is shown.
RatesGrass, Surf and Rock Smash percentages are the workbook's own per-slot rates, added together where a species fills more than one slot; * marks 5% or less. The workbook gives no separate percentages for the three rods, so rod tables are listed in slot order, most common first, without one.
TimesMorning is 4am–10am, day 10am–8pm and night 8pm–4am on the DS clock. A table marked with a time only appears then; a plain Grass table is the same all day.
FloorsWhere the workbook holds several tables for one map, each floor is a separate page. Floors are named where the documentation's own species lists identify them, and numbered where it does not.
FormsSpecies the documentation says are 'replaced by' a regional or other form are shown under that form's name (Rattata (Alola), Slowpoke (Galar), Growlithe (Hisui), Wooper (Paldea), Iron Bundle, Walking Wake, the Shadow legendaries). Their stats, types and abilities are the hack's own numbers, not the official form's.
MovesThe documentation says all moves use their Generation 6 values; the moves page lists each difference from SoulSilver. Eleven old moves were replaced outright (Kinesis → Freezing Glare, Withdraw → Scald, Acid Armor → Volt Switch, Sharpen → Thunderous Kick, Smelling Salts → Fiery Wrath, Spider Web → Chloroblast, Barrage → Windburn, Slack Off → Swarm Strike, Clamp → Hydro Geyser, Trump Card → PhotonEclipse, Mud Sport → Glacial Blade). The workbook carries data for the first five; the other six are listed by name only.
TrainersTrainer teams come from the workbook's 754 rows. The workbook stores no location and only a numeric class, so ordinary trainers are listed by name under 'Trainers without a documented location'; the 124 boss fights are placed and titled from the documentation's Major Trainer Battles list. A trainer whose moves are not set in the workbook uses the Pokémon's level-up moves, and is shown without a moveset.
AbilitiesThe workbook only forces an ability on some trainer Pokémon. Where it leaves the slot to the game (most of them), Generation 4 picks between the two from the Pokémon's personality value, so both are shown as 'A / B'. The documentation names the one actually used on a few bosses.
CapsLevel caps are the documentation's own, one per boss, and are written on each stage. Chuck, Jasmine and Pryce (and Eusine and Petrel) have two teams depending on the order you take them in; both are listed.
TmsTM62 is Scald and TM83 is Volt Switch per the documentation (the workbook's compatibility columns agree). Only the five TMs the documentation places are located; the rest are marked as not placed rather than copied from SoulSilver. HMs and rods are likewise not placed.
HeadbuttHeadbutt trees are not in the workbook or the documentation, so no Headbutt encounters are listed.