Viridian Forest — Pokémon Sour Crystal

Every wild Pokémon here, by encounter method.

Viridian Forest lists 11 Pokémon across 8 encounter methods (grass (night), grass (night), headbutt, headbutt (rare tree), and more), between level 3 and 20. Between them they cover 6 types: NormalFlyingElectricBugPoisonGrass. One of them is on no other route's wild tables in this guide: Bulbasaur.

Viridian Forest in other guides

The same area in other ROM hacks on this site. Each one has its own encounter table.

The original game's table for this area:

Opens up at Kanto.

Grass (night) Lv 3-8

8pm to 4am in game · 6% of steps start a battle

	Pokémon	Types	Level	Rate
	Hoothoot	NormalFlying	3-5	80%
	Noctowl	NormalFlying	5-8	15%
	Pikachu rare	Electric	7	5%

Grass (night) Lv 15-20

8pm to 4am in game · 6% of steps start a battle

	Pokémon	Types	Level	Rate
	Hoothoot	NormalFlying	15-17	80%
	Noctowl	NormalFlying	17-20	15%
	Pikachu rare	Electric	19	5%

Headbutt Lv 10

Headbutt a tree

	Pokémon	Types	Level	Rate
	Hoothoot	NormalFlying	10	50%
	Pineco	Bug	10	30%
	Noctowl	NormalFlying	10	10%
	Butterfree rare	BugFlying	10	5%
	Beedrill rare	BugPoison	10	5%

Headbutt (rare tree) Lv 10

The few trees on this map that hold the rarer set

	Pokémon	Types	Level	Rate
	Hoothoot	NormalFlying	10	60%
	Caterpie	Bug	10	15%
	Weedle	BugPoison	10	15%
	Metapod rare	Bug	10	5%
	Kakuna rare	BugPoison	10	5%

Swarm Lv 3-8

Only while that Pokémon is swarming here — see the game's swarm notifier.

	Pokémon	Types	Level
	Pikachu	Electric	3
	Pikachu	Electric	4
	Metapod	Bug	5
	Kakuna	BugPoison	5
	Pikachu	Electric	7
	Butterfree	BugFlying	8
	Beedrill	BugPoison	8
	Pikachu	Electric	3
	Pikachu	Electric	4
	Metapod	Bug	5
	Kakuna	BugPoison	5
	Pikachu	Electric	7
	Butterfree	BugFlying	8
	Beedrill	BugPoison	8
	Pikachu	Electric	3
	Pikachu	Electric	4
	Hoothoot	NormalFlying	5
	Noctowl	NormalFlying	5
	Pikachu	Electric	7
	Noctowl	NormalFlying	8

Swarm Lv 3-8

Only while that Pokémon is swarming here — see the game's swarm notifier.

	Pokémon	Types	Level
	Caterpie	Bug	3
	Weedle	BugPoison	3
	Metapod	Bug	5
	Kakuna	BugPoison	5
	Bulbasaur	GrassPoison	8
	Pikachu	Electric	7
	Caterpie	Bug	3
	Weedle	BugPoison	3
	Metapod	Bug	5
	Kakuna	BugPoison	5
	Bulbasaur	GrassPoison	8
	Pikachu	Electric	7
	Hoothoot	NormalFlying	3
	Hoothoot	NormalFlying	5
	Noctowl	NormalFlying	5
	Bulbasaur	GrassPoison	8
	Pikachu	Electric	7

Grass (morning/day) Lv 3-8

4am to 8pm in game · 6% of steps start a battle

	Pokémon	Types	Level	Rate
	Caterpie	Bug	3	30%
	Weedle	BugPoison	3	30%
	Metapod	Bug	5	20%
	Kakuna	BugPoison	5	10%
	Pikachu rare	Electric	7	5%
	Butterfree rare	BugFlying	8	4%
	Beedrill rare	BugPoison	8	1%

Grass (morning/day) Lv 15-20

4am to 8pm in game · 6% of steps start a battle

	Pokémon	Types	Level	Rate
	Caterpie	Bug	15	30%
	Weedle	BugPoison	15	30%
	Metapod	Bug	17	20%
	Kakuna	BugPoison	17	10%
	Pikachu rare	Electric	19	5%
	Butterfree rare	BugFlying	20	4%
	Beedrill rare	BugPoison	20	1%

Trainers here

10 fights here, in story order. ★ marks a gym leader or major battle.

Open in the interactive guide