Sour Root Cave (PMU 7)

Found in Exbel just north of Grassroot Town, Sour Root Cave is the first dungeon to provide a HM for the player to have. It contains HM Cut, which allows the player to cut down small trees, giving access to hidden areas across the regions. It is filled with all sorts of Grass and Bug Pokémon. The miniboss can be rebattled without exiting the dungeon. This makes "farming" HM Cut for future uses easier.

The Pokémon in this dungeon are mainly in the level range of 3-10.

The dungeon was introduced before PMU 7.

Scenery
The scenery in this dungeon is the same for all floors, with dirt, grassy cliffs and growing roots. There is an occasional vine coming out of the ground.

Pokémon
The Pokémon here are mainly Grass and Poison types. They are as follows:


 * Budew
 * Bellsprout
 * Nincada (Dawn, Dusk)
 * Caterpie
 * Metapod
 * Oddish
 * Kricketot
 * Weepinbell (Boss)
 * Vileplume (Boss)

Items
The items that are in this dungeon are basic for explorers, however this dungeon introduces status problems, mainly poison, so there are pecha berries in this dungeon. The Bosses here also drop items, this dungeon also exclusivly offers HM Cut something that is needed in order to progress through the game and make the game a whole lot easier.
 * Oran Berry
 * Pecha Berry
 * Leppa Berry
 * Apple
 * Poke (Invisible-Need HM Cut)
 * Leaf Stone (Weepinbell)
 * HM Cut (Weepinbell)
 * TM Payback (Weepinbell)
 * Tiny Mushroom (Vileplume)
 * Poké (Vileplume)

Dungeon Objective
The dungeon, like all others, requires you to climb the dungeon floors and beat the boss for completion. However, when you get far enough into the dungeon, you will reach a plant blocking the way, and you have to go up to face the Weepinbell to get cut.

After you gain the HM Cut and teach it to a Pokémon, you go left and face off with the Vileplume.



PMU 6

 * Sour Root Cave was actually taken directly from PMU 6. With a few touch-ups it was added into PMU 7 as one of the 3 original dungeons.

Trivia

 * The original boss of Sour Root was actually an Ivysaur.
 * Sour Root was in PMU 6.
 * Sour Root was one of the original dungeons in PMU 7.Top_of_sour_root.png
 * Sour Root used to be a set dungeon before recently, where it now is random.
 * In PMU 6, there was a glitch where players could walk on top of the overworld entrance to Sour Root. This was later fixed.