About Routepedia

Routepedia is a Pokémon maps database. It covers 44 Pokémon games with an interactive map of every region, and 3,293 locations you can click. Open a town, route or cave and you get what is in it: the wild Pokémon and how often they appear, the items on the ground and the ones you have to search for, the trainers and the teams they bring.

It works on a phone as well as it does on a laptop. No login, no email, no paywall on anything.

I am a 37 year old Pokémon fan, and the first one I owned was Yellow. I have replayed most of these games more than once, and every single time I have ended up with a browser tab open next to me, scrolling a wall of text to answer a question that is fundamentally about a place. Where is the Moon Stone in Mt. Moon. What is in this grass. Did I already do this floor.

Those are map questions. Answering them with paragraphs always felt like being given directions in prose when what you wanted was to be shown. So I started building the maps I wanted to look at, put the answers on them, and kept going.

I have been a graphic designer for 17 years, so a lot of this is just me being unable to leave a badly presented thing alone.

The original plan was one region. Kanto. One map, clickable, with the wild Pokémon on it.

Then Kanto exists in a lot of games and they look nothing alike, so that became several maps. Then Johto sits right next door and I could hardly stop there. Then someone asked about Hoenn. Then I wanted the caves and the buildings, not just the outdoors, so every floor of every dungeon got its own map. Then it seemed silly to mark the wild Pokémon and not the items, so items went on, then hidden items, then trainers, then their full teams.

Somewhere in there it stopped being a Kanto map and became 44 games across 11 regions. Each step was a small thought I could not shake. The honest version is that I keep building this because I enjoy it.

• Every location, clickable. Pan and zoom a whole region, then click a town, route or cave to see what is in it. Each place also has its own page and its own map at its own address.
• Wild Pokémon, with rates. What appears in the grass, the water and on a rod, how often, and at what level. Time of day and season where the game has them.
• Items and hidden items. What is lying on the ground and what is buried, marked where you would find it.
• Trainers and their teams. Who is waiting on a route, and exactly what they are carrying, so you can plan a team before you walk into it.
• Pokémon Locator. Pick a species, see every place it lives across all 44 games at once.
• Where am I? quiz. A crop of a town, and a guess. Harder than it sounds.

These games are beautiful and most reference sites bury that under grey tables. Here the map is the page: big, pannable, and the thing you look at first. Bold type, generous space, and colour used to mean something rather than to decorate. The internet has enough grey databases. This is not one of them.

The site is free and nothing is gated. Every map, every location, every Pokémon, every item and trainer opens without a login.

There are ads on some pages, and I like them about as much as you do. They pay for servers and bandwidth, which a site made mostly of large images needs rather a lot of. The map pages themselves stay ad-free, because an ad on top of a map you are trying to read is a bad experience and I am not doing it.

Pokémon names, artwork and game content belong to Nintendo, Game Freak and The Pokémon Company. Routepedia is an independent fan project and uses them under fair-use principles for informational and editorial purposes. If you are a rights holder with a concern, get in touch with the form below.

Found a mistake, a place that is wrong, or something missing? That is the most useful message you can send me, and it is how a lot of this has been corrected already.

What is Routepedia?

Routepedia is a Pokémon maps database. It covers 44 Pokémon games with an interactive map of every region and 3,293 locations you can click. Open a place and you see what is there: the wild Pokémon and how often they turn up, the items lying around and the ones buried, the trainers and the teams they are carrying. It is free, with no account and nothing to install.

How is it different from a wiki?

A wiki tells you about a place. This shows you the place. You pan across a whole region the way you would a real map, click the town you are standing in, and read what is in it without leaving the picture. Every location also has its own page for the detail that will not fit on a pin.

Which Pokémon games are covered?

44 games across 11 regions and 6 platforms: Red, Blue, Yellow, Gold, Silver, Crystal, Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald, FireRed, LeafGreen, Platinum, HeartGold, SoulSilver, Diamond, Pearl, Black, White, Black 2, White 2, New Pokémon Snap, X, Y, Omega Ruby, Alpha Sapphire, Legends: Arceus, Sun, Moon, Ultra Sun, Ultra Moon, Brilliant Diamond, Shining Pearl, Scarlet, Violet, Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu!, Pokémon: Let's Go, Eevee!, Sword, Shield, Sword: The Isle of Armor, Sword: The Crown Tundra, Shield: The Isle of Armor, Shield: The Crown Tundra, Legends: Z-A, Legends Z-A: Mega Dimension.

Why does one region look different in different games?

Because it is redrawn every generation. Kanto in Red is grey Game Boy tiles and Kanto in HeartGold is a 3D world, and what lives in the grass changes with the art. So each game gets its own map here rather than everything sharing one picture with a note attached.

Can I find where a specific Pokémon lives?

The Pokémon Locator does that. Pick a species and you get every place it turns up across all 44 games, with the method you catch it by and the level it shows up at. There are 913 species in it.

Does it work on a phone?

The maps pan and zoom on touch the same way they do with a mouse, and there is nothing to install. Pages are static, so the site loads on a bad connection and keeps working.

Is Routepedia free?

Yes. No account, no sign-up, no paywall, and the map pages carry no ads.