Professor Elm (boss)

Prof. Elm
Location		Ruins Of Alph
Cooldown time		12 days
Dates active		2016
Basic requirements
Must have completed the Johto League
Rewards Randomized eventualities of rewards and Pokémon; read below.

"I'm stronger than I was before! Don't take me lightly!"

—Elm

The Professor Elm boss is the boss-NPC incarnation of Professor Elm—the Pokémon professor of the Johto region. He homologizes to Professor Oak, Professor Birch and Professor Rowan of the Kanto, Hoenn and Sinnoh regions, respectively, as Johto's professorial boss NPC.

Because of his byjob as a distributor starter Pokémon, his trove of prizes include Kanto's own subset of starter Pokémon, making him a potentially prolific alternative to hunting for the starter Pokémon in the wild.

Boss rework 2019

Elm 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 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.

Challenging Professor Elm

Elm resides in Ruins Of Alph, to be more specific in the research laboratory close to the east entrance of the ruins. In order to have access to this place. Once interacted with, you have the option to initiate the battle with him contingent that there is no in-effect cooldown time and that you have satisfied all the battle requirements. If you lose, you must wait for 12 days to elapse before he is rechallengable. In case you should have a playing time under 100 hours, Elm will give you a warning if you are really sure to fight him.

Lineup

Easy

Professor Elm's Lineup
Corsola Nature Ability Item Bold Natural Cure None Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Surf Water Special 90 100 Power Gem Rock Special 80 100 Earth Power Ground Special 90 100 Toxic Poison Status — 90	Togekiss Nature Ability Item Timid Serene Grace None Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Psyshock Psychic Special 80 100 Air Slash Flying Special 75 95 Aura Sphere Fighting Special 80 — Shadow Ball Ghost Special 80 100
Meganium Nature Ability Item Bold Overgrow None Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Giga Drain Grass Special 75 100 Reflect Psychic Status — — Echoed Voice Normal Special 40 100 Poison Powder Poison Status — 75	Typhlosion Nature Ability Item Modest Blaze None Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Lava Plume Fire Special 80 100 Swift Normal Special 60 — Flame Charge Fire Physical 50 100 Extrasensory Psychic Special 80 100
Feraligatr Nature Ability Item Jolly Sheer Force None Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Aqua Tail Water Physical 90 90 Brick Break Fighting Physical 75 100 Earthquake Ground Physical 100 100 Aqua Jet Water Physical 40 100	Tyranitar Nature Ability Item Careful Sand Stream None Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Rock Slide Rock Physical 75 90 Payback Dark Physical 50 100 Thunder Punch Electric Physical 75 100 Bulldoze Ground Physical 60 100
Emboldened moves avail from a STAB bonus when deployed by that Pokémon. Italicized moves are functionally broken; see their individualized pages for more information.

Medium/Hard

Professor Elm's Lineup
Corsola Nature Ability Item Bold Natural Cure Focus Sash Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Surf Water Special 90 100 Power Gem Rock Special 80 100 Mirror Coat Psychic Special — 100 Light Screen Psychic Status — —	Togekiss Nature Ability Item Timid Serene Grace Leftovers Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Nasty Plot Dark Status — — Air Slash Flying Special 75 95 Flamethrower Fire Special 90 100 Aura Sphere Fighting Special 80 —
Meganium Nature Ability Item Bold Overgrow Light Clay Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Giga Drain Grass Special 75 100 Toxic Poison Status — 90 Reflect Psychic Status — — Petal Dance Grass Special 120 100	Typhlosion Nature Ability Item Modest Blaze Charcoal Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Eruption Fire Special 150 100 Fire Blast Fire Special 110 85 Focus Blast Fighting Special 120 70 Roar Normal Status — —
Feraligatr Nature Ability Item Jolly Sheer Force Life Orb Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Dragon Dance Dragon Status — — Liquidation Water Physical 85 100 Ice Punch Ice Physical 75 100 Earthquake Ground Physical 100 100	Mega Tyranitar Nature Ability Item Careful Sand Stream Tyranitarite Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Stone Edge Rock Physical 100 80 Crunch Dark Physical 80 100 Fire Punch Fire Physical 75 100 Thunder Punch Electric Physical 75 100
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 will be initialized at level 20.

Reworked bosses such as Elm 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 Sashes, Weakness Policies, Air Balloons,Lum Berries or Sitrus Berries.

Tier 2: A random amount of more valuable items, mixed with some high valuable rewards depending on the boss, like PP Up's, Rare Candies, 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 possible rewards are listed below.

Pokémon

Pokédex Number		Pokémon	Type 1	Type 2	Reward Tier
#152		Chikorita	Grass		2
#155		Cyndaquil	Fire		2
#158		Totodile	Water		2
#175		Togepi	Fairy		3
#246		Larvitar	Rock	Ground	3

Items

Item		Quantity	Reward Tier
	Mystic Water	1	1
	Charcoal	1	1
	Miracle Seed	1	1
	Rare Candy	3-8	2
	PP Up	3-8	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
#152		Chikorita	Grass		Medium/Hard
#155		Cyndaquil	Fire		Medium/Hard
#158		Totodile	Water		Medium/Hard
#175		Togepi	Fairy		Medium/Hard
#246		Larvitar	Rock	Ground	Medium/Hard