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Pokémon Sword and Shield Wedgehurst and the Pokémon Lab - available Pokémon, items and trainers

Our complete walkthrough for Pokémon Sword and Shield.

Wedgehurst and the Pokémon Lab are your next destinations in the small local village nearby, and follow on from the Slumbering Weald in your quest through Pokémon Sword and Shield's main story.

On each page of our walkthrough like this, we'll cover any and all of the obtainable Pokémon, item locations, trainers and their teams that you might come across here, as well as walking you through any key steps of the story, puzzles or challenges along the way.

Where applicable, note that our walkthrough pages will be down into separate sections referring to each of your visits to a given location, seeing as you often backtrack or revisit various places in your quest to become Galar League Champion. And of course if there are any, we'll clearly mark any spoilers, too!

For more explainers, meanwhile, or walkthrough pages on more locations in Sword and Shield, head back to our main Pokémon Sword and Shield walkthrough and guide hub.

On this page:

Pokémon Sword and Shield: Wedgehurst

There are no trainers to battle or Pokémon to acquire in the little village of Wedgehurst, but there are a few things to see and do if you fancy it.

Your first Pokémon Center is here - feel free to poke around and get used to what will become some very familiar surroundings. There's also a Boutique, if you want to buy some new clothes or cosmetic items to change your look, and a Berry Grocer, selling some basic berries that are always handy.

There are also a couple of items to grab, but your main goal, though, is to head to the Pokémon Lab and meet a lady called Sonia. Head over to the right (east) of town to the big purple-roofed building.

Available Items

ItemLocation
PotionFrom man after exiting Pokémon Lab
Rare CandyAmongst the trees, on the right of the Pokémon Lab
Poké DollLeft of the fashion shop
ReviveHidden: By a rock before the steps down to Route 2

With it finally in the wild, here's how to start the Crown Tundra DLC and our full Pokémon Crown Tundra walkthrough. Plus, here's how to catch Calyrex, Glastrier and Spectrier, the Regieleki and Regidrago puzzle solution and Regirock, Regice, Registeel locations, details on how to catch Legendary Birds Articuno, Zapdos and Moltres in the Crown Tundra, the Ultra Beasts and Necrozma adventure, Dynamax Adventures, including the legendries you can catch on these adventures, and the new Crown Tundra Pokédex and returning Pokémon explained. For Isle of Armor players, here's how to find the Slowpoke, where to find Max Mushroom locations, and how to get Kubfu, become best friends and evolve it, plus all Diglett locations too! For the base game, here's info on the ability to transfer Pokémon to Pokémon Home, the Wild Area, lists of all TM locations and TRs, all Galarian forms and finally our main Pokémon Sword and Shield walkthrough for the whole game.


Pokémon Sword and Shield: the Pokémon Lab

Inside the lab, Sonia activates the Pokédex function on your Rotom Phone, and gives you your next objective: to visit her grandma, the Professor, in the house by the lake just the other side of town, through Route 2.

Outside, a man gives you a Potion, and up ahead Hop will tour you round the Pokémon Center if you haven't already visited. Talk to girl to the right of the Pokémon Center for a slightly strange horoscope reading, too...

That's everything here for now, so continue on to Route 2 for the next steps in your quest, or cycle back to our main Pokémon Sword and Shield walkthrough and guide hub for all the other pages we have like this.