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{{BossNPC|Theme=Orange|Boss=The Pumpkin King|Date=2015—present|Location=[[Route 6]]|Cooldown=12 days|Requirements=Be Kanto Champion,An invariably level-100 on-hand lineup|Rewards=Access to [[Goldenrod City]]'s [[Berries|berry]] shop,A multitude of potential Pokémon or items; read below|Lineup=Shuckle,Ludicolo,Rattata,Yanmega,Roserade,Bisharp}}
{{Quote|Oh, so you think you're good; do ya'? Let's see if you can match up with the pumpkin king!!!|The Pumpkin King}}

The Pumpkin King is a [[Bosses|boss NPC]] that can be found on [[Route 6]]. 

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.

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==Boss rework 2019==
'''The Pumpkin King''' was part of the Boss rework in 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 Xanascrip 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-figth 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 [[Revive|Revives]].

==Lineup==
===Easy===
{{BossNPCLineup|Boss=The Pumpkin King|Lineup=Bisharp,Shuckle,Yanmega,Roserade,Gourgeist,Togekiss|Moves0=Swords Dance,Knock Off,Iron Head,Low Kick|Moves1=Stealth Rock,Infestation",Toxic,Encore|Moves2=Bug Buzz,Air Slash,Protect, Giga Drain|Moves3=Giga Drain,Sludge Bomb,Spikes,Sleep Powder|Moves4=Seed Bomb,Will-o-Wisp,Phantom Force,Leech Seed|Moves5=Air Slash,Flamethrower,Dazzling Gleam,Aura Sphere|Item=None,None,None,None,None,None|Ability=Defiant,Sturdy,Speed Boost,Poison Point,Insomnia,Serene Grace|Nature=Adamant,Impish,Modest,Timid,Impish,Timid}}

==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 [[Berries|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.
===Standardly===
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 [[Pokémon Counterparts#Shiny Pokémon|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 '''The Pumpkin King''' 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 Sash|Focus Sashes]], [[Weakness Policy|Weakness Policies]], [[Air Balloon|Air Balloons]],[[Lum Berry|Lum Berries]] or [[Sitrus Berry|Sitrus Berries]].

'''Tier 2''': A random amount of more valuable items, mixed with some high valuable rewards depending on the boss, like [[PP Up|PP Up's]], [[Rare Candy|Rare Candies]], [[Train Ticket|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 yet known possible rewards are listed here. Those lists are not complete as there is not enough information yet.
====Pokémon====
No Pokémon reward known yet.

====Items====
No items known yet.

====Three-consecutive wins====
After reaping a randomized reward from the standard prizeset, you will also be prompted to select one of these Pokémon as an additional reward.

No three times reward known yet.