Gritty Hollow

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Gritty Hollow
Entrance to Gritty Hollow
Floors	13
Random	Yes
Weather
Boss	Yes
Secret Room	Yes
Sealed chamber	B10F
Monster Houses	Yes
Level range*	30 to 45
Music
B1-13F, B13-1F	PSMD) Drilbur Coal Mine

Gritty Hollow (Gritty, GH) was a dungeon located east in Exbel; southeast of Friendship Forest and north of Ash Forest. The move Rock Smash is required to reach the entrance. It is unique in that players first descend 13 Floors and then start ascending back up them to complete the dungeon. Several craters also form inaccessible rooms and may contain items and enemies throughout the dungeon. Linoone is the final boss of Gritty Hollow.

The weather is always clear, however while descending, Floors 4, 8, and 11, always have sandstorm.

Attributes

Traps
Icon	Name
	Chestnut Trap
	Gust Trap
	Mud Trap
	Slow Trap
	Spin Trap
	Slumber Trap
	Summon Trap

Descending

Gritty Hollow hosts moderately-sized to large rooms, with pathways often leading players to adjacent rooms. Walls appear to compose of brown rock, and the floor tiles are sandy-brown as well. Many oddly shaped rooms form small craters, which require Ghost-type Pokémon, a Mobile Scarf or Orb, or any method of warping to access, as they do not conjoin with the main dungeon's pathway. The Pokémon found descending cannot be recruited. There is fog-of-War prevalent throughout the entire dungeon which gradually blocks more of the player's view the deeper the players progress.

Grit Hole

After Floor 13 when descending, there is a midpoint with a bed for healing, and the way to continue at the end. The entrance of the room presents dialogue:

• [Player Name]: (How odd. No one's here...)
• [Player Name]: (...Oh well, I better get going, nothing to see here.)

Ascending

The second part has players ascend back up the dungeon from Floor 13 to 1. Stairs which previously led players deeper into the dungeon now leads the players up out of the dungeon. Scenery wise, Gritty Hollow is the same. However, enemy Pokémon are stronger, and two recruitable Pokémon, Spinda and Rhyhorn will now spawn here rarely. On Floor 10 when ascending only is a sealed chamber with a Sinister Box that can contain a Gray Silk.

Boss

Upon reaching the surface again, a lone Linoone is seen returning from grocery shopping and will eventually notice the player. Linoone will then fight the player in attempt to chase the player away from its home.

Boss drop:

• Big Apple
• 1 Mushroom

Dialogue:

Before fighting

• Linoone: Grurrf...Finally back from the market. Home, sweet home...~
• Linoone: Gotta stock for the winter, hrmmph...
• Linoone: ...Wait. What's that I smell...
• Linoone: ......
• Linoone: YOU! What are you doing here!?
• Linoone: This is MY Den. Get out of here!
• Linoone: Go on! SCRAM!
• Linoone: Do I have to chase ya out?
• Linoone: Fine, don't say I didn't warn ya!

After defeating

• Linoone: Mrrrgh...I often forget, I'm not as youthful as I used to be...
• Linoone: I would've kicked yer toosh, ten years back!
• Linoone: ...At least ye stood yet ground, Even after I yelled your ears off.
• Linoone: Hmmm. This is the only place I call home. It's the only thing that keeps me going....
• Linoone: ...I was afraid you might want to take it.
• Linoone: But you don't seem all that bad.
• Linoone: There's the way out, if you get bored of my sorry mug. I have to go back...

Secret Room

Secret Rooms are found when descending on Floors 5-12. These Secret Rooms have two Deluxe Boxes which may contain the following:

• Smooth Rock
• Ground Diamond
• Rock Dust
• Soft Sand
• King's Rock
• Big Apple
• Max Ether
• TM Bulldoze
• TM Dig
• TM Rock Tomb
• Sandy Orb

Pokémon

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

Portrait	#	Pokémon	Floor	Recruit rate
	265	Wurmple	B1-13F, B13-1F	Unrecruitable
	056	Mankey	B1-13, 13-1F	Unrecruitable
	095	Onix	B1-13, 13-1F	Unrecruitable
	161	Sentret	B1-13, 13-1F	Unrecruitable
	206	Dunsparce	B1-13, 13-1F	Unrecruitable
	263	Zigzagoon	B1-13, 13-1F	5%
	266	Silcoon	B1-13, 13-1F	Unrecruitable
	268	Cascoon	B1-13, 13-1F	Unrecruitable
	270	Lotad	B1-13, 13-1F	Unrecruitable
	283	Surskit	B1-13, 13-1F	Unrecruitable
	287	Slakoth	B1-13, 13-1F	Unrecruitable
	290	Nincada	B1-13, 13-1F	Unrecruitable
	293	Whismur	B1-13, 13-1F	Unrecruitable
	399	Bidoof	B1-13, 13-1F	Unrecruitable
	057	Primeape	B13-1F	Unrecruitable
	111	Rhyhorn*only attacks in self-defense	B13-1F	5%
	143	Snorlax	B13-1F	Unrecruitable
	162	Furret	B13-1F	Unrecruitable
	235	Smeargle	B13-1F (dawn/dusk)	2%
	267	Beautifly	B13-1F	Unrecruitable
	269	Dustox	B13-1F	Unrecruitable
	294	Loudred	B13-1F	Unrecruitable
	327	Spinda*only attacks in self-defense	B13-1F	6%
	530	Excadrill	B13-1F	Unrecruitable

Items

IS	Item	Location	Tile	Hidden
	Persim Band	B1-13F, B13-1F	Floor	No
	Soft Sand	B1-13F, B13-1F	Floor	No
	Ground Diamond	B1-13F, B13-1F	Wall, Floor	No
	Gray Silk	B10FAscending	N/A	N/A
	Protector	B1-13F, B13-1F	Wall, Craters	Yes
	Apple	B1-13F, B13-1F	Floor	No
	Big Apple	B1-13F, B13-1F	Floor	No
	Huge Apple	B10FAscending	N/A	N/A
	Ether	B1-13F, B13-1F	Floor	No
	Revive	B10FAscending	N/A	N/A
	Oran Berry	B1-13F, B13-1F	Floor	No
	Sitrus Berry	B1-13F, B13-1F	Floor	No
	Leppa Berry	B1-13F, B13-1F	Floor	No
	Reviver Seed	B1-13F, B13-1F	Floor	No
	Gummis	B10-13, 13-10F	Floor	No
	Honey	B1-13F, B13-1F	Floor	No
	Stick	B1-13F, B13-1F	Floor	No
	Nugget	B10FAscending	N/A	N/A
	TM Dig	B13-1F	Wall	No
	TM Rock Tomb	B1-13F, B13-1F	Floor	No
	TM Sandstorm	B13-1F	Floor	No
	All Protect Orb	B1-13F, B13-1F	Floor	No
	Clear Sky Orb	B1-13F, B13-1F	Floor	No
	Foggy Orb	B1-13F, B13-1F	Floor	No
	Mobile Orb	B1-13F, B13-1F	Floor	No
	Spurn Orb	B1-13F, B13-1F	Floor	No
	Sunny Orb	B1-13F, B13-1F	Floor	No
	Heart Scale	B1-13F, B13-1F	Wall	Yes

Mystery Eggs

Gritty Hollow has Mystery Eggs that can appear on all floors.

Portrait	#	Pokémon	Location	Tile	Hidden
	161	Sentret	B1-13F, B13-1F	Floor	No
	235	Smeargle	B1-13F, B13-1F	Craters	No
	265	Wurmple	B1-13F, B13-1F	Floor	No
	283	Surskit	B1-13F, B13-1F	Floor	No
	293	Whismur	B1-13F, B13-1F	Floor	No
	327	Spinda	B1-13F, B13-1F	Floor	No
	446	Munchlax	B1-13F, B13-1F	Wall	Yes

Dungeon Objective

As with many dungeons, the objective is to complete the dungeon and beat the boss. Players additionally visit the dungeon to obtain a Gray Silk.

Rhyhorn, Smeargle, and Munchlax are exclusive Pokémon found in Gritty Hollow.

Tips

• Bring X-Ray Specs to see through the darkness. This item is especially useful if players are hunting for eggs or recruits.

Trivia

• Gritty Hollow was created by Erladino.
• Secret Rooms used to appear while ascending but took the player back down a floor. The Secret Rooms were moved to the descending floors to prevent this from happening.
• Cut used to be required instead of Rock Smash.