Pokémon Sword and Shield Route 6 - available Pokémon, items and trainers
Our complete walkthrough for Pokémon Sword and Shield.
Route 6 is a rocky, ladder-filled route joining Hammerlocke to Stow-on-Side, 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.
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Pokémon Sword and Shield: Route 6 Pokémon, items and trainers
Entering Route 6, across the bridge from Hammerlocke, you'll be blocked once more by Team Yell, who are weirdly concerned about a random Silicobra.
Hop turns up, but Yell still won't let you through because apparently you're too loud and might wake it up, which is ironic given the racket they tend to make. Give them a battle and they'll buzz off, with Silicobra unharmed, and then an old lady called Opal will appear and give you her League Card - turns out she's the Gym Leader up in Ballonlea!
With that all done and dusted, it's time to head on through the route. There are a few different paths you can take here - in the form of ladders up and down different levels - so make sure you explore every nook and cranny to collect all the items and Pokémon we've listed below.
Finally, there's also a person called Cara Liss, by the campsite, who's researching fossils. Come to her with two different fossils and she'll splice them back to life in the form of a proper Pokémon, which is neat!
Available Pokémon
| Pokémon | Notes |
|---|---|
| Helioptile | Overworld |
| Yamask (Galar) | Overworld |
| Diglett | Overworld |
| Dugtrio | Overworld |
| Durant | Overworld |
| Axew | Overworld |
| Maractus | Overworld |
| Silicobra | Random |
| Skorupi | Random |
| Duskull | Random |
| Hippopotas | Random |
| Heatmor | Random |
| Torkoal | Random |
| Hawlucha | Random (rare) |
| Greedent | Berry Tree |
| Magikarp | Fishing |
| Drednaw | Fishing |
| Goldeen | Fishing |
| Arctozolt | Dino + Bird Fossils |
| Dracozolt | Drake + Bird Fossils |
| Dracovish | Drake + Fish Fossils |
| Arctovish | Dino + Fish Fossils |
Available Items
| Item | Location |
|---|---|
| Opal's League Card | From Opal, after beating Team Yell Grunts |
| Ultra Ball x3 | Jump off the first ledge in first patch of grass |
| Rare Bone x2 | Hidden: next to Model Nicola |
| TM30 Steel Wing | Area on upper right - go through the long grass right of Backpacker Ruth |
| Rare Candy | Hidden: by small rock near long grass below Backpacker Ruth |
| TM15 Dig | By the camp |
| Fossilized Dino x2 | Hidden (Sword): By dome-like rock in front of area with camp site |
| Fossilized Fish | Hidden (Shield): By dome-like rock in front of area with camp site |
| Light Clay | On a ledge left of Backpacker Diana. Go up the ladder, left, and down the other ladder to get it |
Trainers and Battles
| Trainer | Pokémon | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Team Yell Grunt 1 | Stunky Linoone | Lv.29 Lv.30 |
| Team Yell Grunt 2 | Liepard | Lv.30 |
| Beauty Anita | Clefairy Clefable | Lv.29 Lv.30 |
| Medical Team Iwan and Evelyn | Togetic - Pawniard | Lv.31 - Lv.31 |
| Backpacker Diane | Sawk | Lv.31 |
| Model Nicola | Skorupi Pawniard | Lv.30 Lv.30 |
| Backpacker Ruth | Throh | Lv.31 |
| Artist Duncan | Koffing Sudowoodo | Lv.29 Lv.31 |
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.
That's everything here for now, so your next stop is Stow-on-Side and Bea or Allister's Gym. Otherwise, head back to our main Pokémon Sword and Shield walkthrough and guide hub for all the other pages we have like this.