Sour Root Cave (PMU 7)

Sour Root Cave, also known as Sour Root or SRC, is the easiest dungeon accessible that provides a HM to players in Exbel. It is located north-east of Grassroot Town. The HM it contains is Cut, which allows the player to cut down small plants. The mini-boss which drops HM Cut is Weepinbell, and the final boss of the dungeon is Vileplume. The dungeon is home to various Grass, Bug, and Poison Pokémon.

Sour Root Cave is one of the earliest dungeons which introduces status problems, the other dungeons being Island Garden, Seafoam Cove, Sunny Hillside, and Tiny Grotto.

Attributes
The scenery in this dungeon is similar on all ten floors, which composes of orange dirt, grassy cliffs, mushrooms, and growing roots. Large vines occasionally emerge from the ground.

Sour Root Passage
Sour Root Passage is a small room containing various warp panels after the player proceeds from the 5th floor of Sour Root Cave. To access the stairs which will lead to the mini-boss Weepinbell, the player must solve a warp puzzle. Players whom wish to recruit Oddish can find them here at night.

After beating Weepinbell there's a break point with an Escape Orb if you did not bring along a Pokémon that can learn or has Cut, as it's needed to cut down the plant blocking the staircase to continue. From the 6th to the 10th floor, many small plants will block the players' way and prevent them from moving forward. The HM Cut obtained from Weepinbell will be necessary for players to traverse through the dungeon.

Weepinbell
After completing the warp puzzle at the Sour Root Passage, the player will arrive at Sour Root Chambers, the midpoint of Sour Root Cave. A timid Weepinbell will be caught by surprise when the player arrives, and proceeds to attack the player after some hesitation. Upon defeat, Weepinbell will drop HM Cut.

Boss Drop:
 * HM Cut

Before Fighting:
 * Ahh! An intruder! What should I do...uhh...
 * Uhh...go away! ...Please? ....You aren't going to leave, are you? Then that leaves me with uh...no choice! ...P-prepare to fight!

Vileplume
At the end of the dungeon, Vileplume will lure the player closer and closer to it with a sweet demure. When the player's get close enough to Vileplume, Vileplume will engage the player in battle.

Boss Drop:
 * 50 Poké
 * 1 Poké
 * 1 Mushroom

Before Fighting:
 * My my... what do we have here~?
 * Come closer~
 * Closer...
 * Closer~
 * TO YOUR DOOM!!!

Pokémon
''Pokémon in bold are recruitable. Please visit the Recruitable Pokémon page for more information.''

Dungeon Objective
The dungeon, like all others, requires the player to climb the dungeon floors and beat the boss for completion. However, after defeating Weepinbell, the player will need a Pokémon whom has learnt Cut to gain access to the next floor. After player teach HM Cut to a Pokémon, the player may progress and face off with the Vileplume at the end of the dungeon. Obtaining HM Cut allows access to various areas and dungeons across the overworld.

This dungeon is also the first dungeon accessible for players to recruit Bellsprout, Budew, Metapod, Nincada and Oddish. Nincada is a rare spawn at night, whereas Oddish is a spawn in Sour Root Passage at night.

Trivia

 * The boss of Sour Root Cave used to be an Ivysaur.
 * This dungeon was initially introduced in PMU 6, and was reintroduced as one of the original dungeons in PMU 7.
 * There was a glitch in PMU 6 where players could walk on top of the overworld entrance to Sour Root. This was eventually fixed.
 * There was a glitch where player could rebattle the mini-boss without exiting the dungeon, which made it easier to farm HM Cut. They eventually removed that problem due to abuse.
 * Weepinbell is Level 14, while Vileplume is Level 17.
 * Sour Root was a set dungeon before it was updated to be random.