Expeditions

Send teams of Pokémon from your PC box to explore Kanto. They spend hours away and come back with experience and crafting reagents no wild Pokémon drops. It is the job for the Pokémon sitting idle in your box.

Tracey's expedition board with a team picked

Where

Use the map table in the Researcher Lab of the Union Room (after beating Brock, go up the stairs of any Pokémon Center) to open the expedition board. Tracey, standing beside it, explains how it all works.

The day's board

There are 22 expeditions, from recommended level 3 to 100. Each day the board shows 6 of them, one from each level range (1-15, 16-30, 31-45, 46-60, 61-80, 81-100), drawn for your account: every trainer has their own board. It changes at 00:00 UTC, and logging in again never changes the day's expeditions.

Each expedition takes one team a day, and you can have several teams out at once.

Building a team

Only Pokémon in your PC box can go. The Pokébar and the bag do not count, and everyone comes back to the box.
A team has 1 to 6 Pokémon, and each one can be on only one expedition at a time.
The fee (₽200 to ₽1,600) is paid when the team leaves and never comes back, not even if the expedition fails. It costs about half an hour of what hunting at the expedition's level earns (an hour on a risky one). Expeditions never pay money, only experience and materials. Under a 30% chance, the board asks before the team leaves.
While away, a Pokémon can't be used, sold, released or traded.
The level is recommended, not required: any Pokémon may go, but a weak team fails more often.

Each extra Pokémon cuts the trip by 10% of the base time:

Pokémon on the team	Time away
1	24 h
2	21 h 36 min
3	19 h 12 min
4	16 h 48 min
5	14 h 24 min
6	12 h

Chance of success

The window shows the chance as you build the team. Each Pokémon's power is its level × its rarity's multiplier, +20% if it has one of the place's types. The chance is:

the team's average power ÷ (recommended level × 1.25) × 0.8, always between 5% and 95%.

Rarity	Power per level	At the recommended level	With the place's type
Common	× 1	64%	76.8%
Uncommon	× 1.25	80%	95%
Rare	× 1.5	95%	95%
Epic	× 1.8	95%	95%
Extraordinary	× 2.2	95%	95%
Legendary	× 2.5	95%	95%

The result is rolled when you collect the team. If the expedition fails, the Pokémon come back with no experience and no reagent.

What they bring back

Experience: the expedition pays 2.4 times the XP from its recommended level to the next (drawn each trip between 90% and 110% of that, one draw for the whole team), shared equally by the Pokémon sent (the share of one that never came back is lost). Each gains at most 100% of the span between its own level and the next, so a strong team cannot carry a weak Pokémon up several levels at once. A Pokémon above its trainer's level gains 50% of its share, as in battle. One Pokémon alone at the place's level goes up a level; a team of 6 comes back sooner, each with a smaller share. A level-100 Pokémon gains nothing, and Double EXP events do not apply to expeditions.
The place's reagent, one per expedition: 1, +1 if a Pokémon of the place's types came back, and +1 with a 2% chance per level the team's best member stands over the recommended level (up to 50%).
Sigils: each returning Pokémon has a 50% chance of bringing the Sigil of one of its types.
Special finds, from some species:

Find	Chance	Who brings it
Ancient Coin	25%	Meowth, Persian
Tailwind Feather	25%	Pidgey, Pidgeotto, Pidgeot
Magnet Gear	25%	Magnemite, Magneton
Lucky Eggshell	25%	Chansey
River Orb	25%	Psyduck, Golduck

Reagents are for crafting items in the professions, and Sigils also pay for Day Care eggs. No NPC buys reagents.

Risky expeditions

From level 65 on, expeditions are risky: a Pokémon may never come back, and that loss is permanent.

Each Pokémon's chance of being lost is 8%, minus 0.2% per level over the recommended one, plus 0.5% per level under it, minus 2% if it has one of the place's types. It always stays between 2% and 40%.
Protected, shiny or starred Pokémon, and those holding an item, can't go.

All expeditions

Level	Expedition	The place's types	Fee	Place reagent
3	Oak's Ranch The wide pasture behind Professor Oak's lab, where trainers' Pokemon roam free. A gentle first outing: the herds are friendly and the grass hides plenty to find.	NormalGrass	₽200	Wild Herb
6	Valencia Island The first of the Orange Islands, home of Professor Ivy's lab. Its warm shallows and palm groves teem with Bug and Water Pokemon.	WaterBug	₽200	Forest Moss
10	Porta Vista A beach town whose reef belongs to a swarm of Tentacool. The team combs the shore while the Tentacruel stay calm.	WaterPoison	₽300	Sea Crystal
15	Viridian Forest A maze of tall trees north of Viridian City, buzzing with Bug Pokemon. Easy to get lost in, easy to fill a bag with moss.	BugGrass	₽600	Forest Moss
18	Pinkan Island A protected Orange Island where Pokemon turn pink from eating its berries. Officer Jenny lets only a careful team in.	NormalFairy	₽600	Wild Herb
20	Mt. Moon A mountain cave where Clefairy dance under the full moon. Moon dust and odd stones lie deep in its tunnels.	RockFairy	₽600	Moon Dust
24	Maiden's Peak A misty seaside town and its stone maiden, said to have waited forever for her love. At night a Gastly haunts the cape.	GhostWater	₽750	Spirit Orb
28	Rock Tunnel A pitch-black tunnel through the mountains near Lavender Town. Only a sturdy team finds its way through.	RockFighting	₽800	Cave Crystal
32	Pokémon Tower Lavender Town's tower of graves, thick with Ghost Pokemon. The upper floors are cold, quiet and hard to leave.	GhostPsychic	₽800	Spirit Orb
36	Bill's Lighthouse Bill's lighthouse on the northern cape, where he waits for a giant Dragonite. Its cliffs and tide pools hold rare finds.	WaterDragon	₽800	Sea Crystal
40	Safari Zone Fuchsia City's wild preserve, where rare Pokemon roam across grass, lakes and rocks.	NormalGrass	₽800	Wild Herb
42	Grampa Canyon A fossil dig in a deep canyon, where an Aerodactyl once woke from amber. Its walls still hold Omanyte and Kabuto shells.	RockFlying	₽800	Cave Crystal
45	Power Plant An abandoned power plant crackling with stray current. Electric Pokemon nest among its rusting generators.	ElectricSteel	₽800	Charged Orb
50	Seafoam Islands Twin frozen islands whose caves twist under icy currents. Only a strong team reaches the bottom.	WaterIce	₽800	Sea Crystal
52	Trovita Island An Orange Island whose gym battles out on the water. Its beaches and charged reefs reward a quick, sharp team.	WaterElectric	₽800	Charged Orb
55	Cinnabar Ruins The burnt mansion on Cinnabar Island, its lab notes still scattered. Fire Pokemon roam among the ruins.	FirePsychic	₽800	Volcanic Ash
58	Navel Island A snowy Orange Island peak, where the gym challenge is a race to the summit. The ice hides crystals and old stone.	IceRock	₽800	Cave Crystal
65	Victory Road · Risky The last cave before the Pokemon League, full of tough trainers and wild Pokemon. Not everyone comes back.	FightingGround	₽1,600	Victory Ore
72	Charicific Valley · Risky A sanctuary of wild Charizard, where Ash's Charizard trained. The valley burns hot, and its residents test every visitor.	FireFlying	₽1,600	Volcanic Ash
80	Cerulean Cave · Risky A cave closed to all but the strongest trainers, home to the most powerful Pokemon in Kanto.	PsychicDragon	₽1,600	Mystic Shard
92	Shamouti Island · Risky The shrine island of the legendary birds. When fire, ice and lightning clash, only the bravest team returns.	FlyingElectric	₽1,600	Mystic Shard
100	New Island · Risky Mewtwo's island fortress, hidden in the storms out at sea. The hardest expedition of all.	PsychicDark	₽1,600	Mystic Shard