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 was initially introduced in PMU 6, and was reintroduced as one of the original dungeons in PMU 7. 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 Victreebel. 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 Cave Passage
The Sour Root Cave 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 the brief warp puzzle.

After beating Weepinbell there's a break point with an Escape Orb if the player did not bring along a Pokémon that can learn or has Cut, as it's needed to cut down the leaves blocking the staircase to continue. From the 6th to the 10th floor, many of the small leaves can 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 Chamber. 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: After Defeating:
 * 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!
 * Ooof that hurt! Oops... I dropped my HM Cut. Gah... no time! Got to run!

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

Boss Drop:
 * 50 Poké
 * 1 Mushroom
 * Leaf

Before Fighting: After Defeating:
 * My my... what do we have here~?
 * Come closer~
 * Closer...
 * Closer~
 * TO YOUR DOOM!!!
 * Ooof... You're strong! I'll get you next time! Tehehe!

Sour Root Cave Grotto
The end room of Sour Root Cave has a Wooden Box and 3 piles of 10 Poké behind cut leaves.

End Box

 * Chesto Scarf
 * Pecha Scarf
 * Silver Powder
 * Apple
 * Ether
 * Honey
 * Oran Berry
 * Blast Seed
 * Quick Seed
 * Tiny Reviver Seed
 * Escape Orb
 * Mushroom

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 Victreebel 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.

Trivia

 * The PMU 7 version of Sour Root Cave was created by Espyria.
 * There was a glitch where player could re-battle the mini-boss without exiting the dungeon, which made it easier to farm HM Cut. They eventually removed that problem due to abuse.
 * Sour Root Cave was still in PMU 7 a set dungeon before it was updated to be random.
 * The boss of Sour Root Cave in PMU 6 was an Ivysaur.
 * It was Vileplume previously 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.