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Challenger's Cave

12 wild Pokémon recorded here across 2 games. Choose your game to see its map, encounter methods, levels and known chances.

12Unique Pokémon2Games3Sub-areas
Appears in:BlackWhite
How you find them:In the grassWhile surfingBy fishing
Explore this locationBlack & White · 1F · Area map
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Challenger's Cave area maps

Choose a game and map. Open the encounter panel for this image or browse the named areas and their rates below.

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Challenger's Cave — in-game area map from Pokémon Black & White · 1F
View all encounters on this map 7 Pokémon →

The tables below give rates for each named area and method. The image does not pinpoint individual patches.

Explore encounter areas 3
Challengers Cave (1F)7 Pokémon · 2 methods
Challengers Cave (B1F)8 Pokémon · 2 methods
Challengers Cave (B2F)12 Pokémon · 6 methods

Floor and section maps are linked where the game image matches the encounter area. A map without a highlighted patch does not imply patch-specific odds.

This image has no pinpointed encounter patches. Open the area-wide rates above or browse the tables below.

Drag or swipe to pan. Scroll to move; Ctrl/Cmd + scroll or pinch to zoom. Double-click to zoom into a point. Keyboard: arrows to pan, +/− to zoom, 0 to fit.In-game area map · Black & White · 1F · Map source: Bulbapedia ↗Game imagery © Pokémon / Nintendo / Creatures / GAME FREAK.

Wild Pokémon encounters

Choose your game and conditions. Each method has its own encounter table.

Challengers Cave (1F)

Walking in grass

6 Pokémon

Chance per encounter with this method and the selected conditions; not the chance per step or of catching it.

Cave (dust cloud)

1 Pokémon

Chance per encounter with this method and the selected conditions; not the chance per step or of catching it.

Challengers Cave (B1F)

Walking in grass

7 Pokémon

Chance per encounter with this method and the selected conditions; not the chance per step or of catching it.

Cave (dust cloud)

1 Pokémon

Chance per encounter with this method and the selected conditions; not the chance per step or of catching it.

Challengers Cave (B2F)

Super Rod

3 Pokémon

Chance per encounter with this method and the selected conditions; not the chance per step or of catching it.

Super Rod (ripples)

3 Pokémon

Chance per encounter with this method and the selected conditions; not the chance per step or of catching it.

Walking in grass

7 Pokémon

Chance per encounter with this method and the selected conditions; not the chance per step or of catching it.

Cave (dust cloud)

1 Pokémon

Chance per encounter with this method and the selected conditions; not the chance per step or of catching it.

Surfing

1 Pokémon

Chance per encounter with this method and the selected conditions; not the chance per step or of catching it.

Surfing (ripples)

1 Pokémon

Chance per encounter with this method and the selected conditions; not the chance per step or of catching it.

Encounter slots: PokéAPI. Modifiers such as Repel and lead Pokémon abilities are not applied.

Challenger's Cave across the games

Challenger's Cave shows up in 2 games, and the wild lineup shifts each time. Here's who you can meet in every version it appears in — tap a Pokémon for its full entry.

Black12 Pokémon
PoliwagPoliwhirlPoliwrathGravelerLickitungSableyeMawileRioluBoldoreWoobatExcadrillBasculin
White12 Pokémon
PoliwagPoliwhirlPoliwrathGravelerLickitungSableyeMawileRioluBoldoreWoobatExcadrillBasculin

All Pokémon found at Challenger's Cave

These 12 Pokémon have wild encounters recorded at Challenger's Cave in Unova across every game in which the area appears. Tap any Pokémon for its full Pokédex entry, stats, evolutions and every other place it can be found.

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