Erika (boss)

Erika
Location		Viridian Maze
Cooldown time		12 days
Dates active		2016—present
Basic requirements
Must have completed the Kanto League
Rewards Randomized eventualities of rewards; read below.

"I see you have grown stronger since our Gym battle, but so have I. Let me challenge you; I want to test how much both of us have improved!"

—Erika

Erika is the Gym-leader boss NPC of the eponymous Celadon City Gym-leader.

As a multifunctional NPC, it is also sought-out as the official Giga Drain-tutor in addition to its conventional boss-NPC functions.

Boss rework 2019

Erika 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 challenge for those who have a high Pokémon knowledge. Boss teams are decisively reworked and only contain level 100 Pokémon. EVs and held 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.

Giga Drain tutorship

Erika will also teach the Giga Drain technique to any compatible Pokémon tutee for 7,500 per transaction.

Tuteeship does not require you to have previously defeated her.

Challenging Erika

Erika resides in the environs of Viridian Maze, where she exists on the pretext of planting a bush. She is on the western half of the maze, against the northern wall, about a quarter of the maze's width away from the western wall.

Because of the area's lightless obscurity, you are strongly recommended to bring a Flash-wielding Pokémon or a Flashlight on-hand to illuminate the area for navigational purposes; this can be obtained early on as HM02 in a Route 2 stophouse.

In the sinuous maze, Erika can be found in the north section of the west half of the maze.

Once interacted with, you have the option to initiate the battle with her (in addition to her Giga Drain tutorship) contingent that there is no in-effect cooldown time. If you lose, you must wait for 12 days to elapse before she is rechallengable.

Lineup

Easy

Erika's Lineup
Ferrothorn Nature Ability Item Relaxed Iron Barbs None Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Iron Head Steel Physical 80 100 Curse Ghost Status — — Self-Destruct Normal Physical 200 100 Payback Dark Physical 50 100	Volcarona Nature Ability Item Timid Swarm None Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Signal Beam Bug Special 75 100 Heat Wave Fire Special 95 90 Amnesia Psychic Status — — Psychic Psychic Special 90 100
Ludicolo Nature Ability Item Timid Swift Swim None Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Mega Drain Grass Special 40 100 Icy Wind Ice Special 55 95 Surf Water Special 90 100 Solar Beam Grass Special 120 100	Celebi Nature Ability Item Timid Natural Cure None Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Magical Leaf Grass Special 60 — Ancient Power Rock Special 60 100 Perish Song Normal Status — — Leech Seed Grass Status — 90
Torterra Nature Ability Item Adamant Overgrow None Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Crunch Dark Physical 80 100 Razor Leaf Grass Physical 55 95 Stomping Tantrum Ground Physical 75 100 Synthesis Grass Status — —	Tangrowth Nature Ability Item Sassy Leaf Guard None Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Brick Break Fighting Physical 75 100 Knock Off Dark Physical 65 100 Slam Normal Physical 80 75 Giga Drain Grass Special 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.

Medium/Hard

Erika's Lineup
Ferrothorn Nature Ability Item Relaxed Iron Barbs Rocky Helmet Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Power Whip Grass Physical 120 85 Gyro Ball Steel Physical — 100 Bulldoze Ground Physical 60 100 Explosion Normal Physical 250 100	Volcarona Nature Ability Item Timid Swarm Passho Berry Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Bug Buzz Bug Special 90 100 Flamethrower Fire Special 90 100 Giga Drain Grass Special 75 100 Quiver Dance Bug Status — —
Ludicolo Nature Ability Item Timid Swift Swim Life Orb Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Focus Blast Fighting Special 120 70 Hydro Pump Water Special 110 80 Giga Drain Grass Special 75 100 Ice Beam Ice Special 90 100	Celebi Nature Ability Item Timid Natural Cure Leftovers Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Thunder Wave Electric Status — 100 Earth Power Ground Special 90 100 Nasty Plot Dark Status — — Psychic Psychic Special 90 100
Torterra Nature Ability Item Adamant Overgrow Focus Sash Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Wood Hammer Grass Physical 120 100 Earthquake Ground Physical 100 100 Stone Edge Rock Physical 100 80 Synthesis Grass Status — —	Tangrowth Nature Ability Item Sassy Leaf Guard Assault Vest Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Earthquake Ground Physical 100 100 Power Whip Grass Physical 120 85 Sludge Bomb Poison Special 90 100 Ancient Power Rock Special 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.

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 Erika 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%	20,000-40,000	5

Pokémon

Pokédex Number		Pokémon	Type 1	Type 2	Reward Tier
#270		Lotad	Water	Grass	1
#114		Tangela	Grass		1
#387		Turtwig	Grass		2
#597		Ferroseed	Grass	Steel	2
#636		Larvesta	Bug	Fire	3

Items

Item		Quantity	Reward Tier
	Rindo Berry	5-10	1
	Sitrus Berry	5-10	1
	TM22 - Solar Beam	2-3	1
	Weakness Policy	8-10	1

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
#270		Lotad	Water	Grass	Medium/Hard
#387		Turtwig	Grass		Medium/Hard
#597		Ferroseed	Grass	Steel	Medium/Hard
#636		Larvesta	Bug	Fire	Medium/Hard