Pokémon Sword and Shield Route 3 - available Pokémon, items and trainers

Route 3 is the next stop on your quest for Galar's Gym Badges, and follows on from Motostoke City 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 3: available Pokémon, items and trainers

Route 3 is a short and traditional one, leading west from Motostoke City towards the first Galar Mine.

In terms of the story, simply proceed through the route until you reach Sonia, who points out a building up ahead that looks like a factory. Apparently it's owned by Chairman Rose, and processes the ore dug up from the mine just up ahead.

Sonia will give you an Escape Rope - which is now a single, multi-use item, helpfully meaning you only need the one - and there are a few rare new Pokémon to keep an eye out for here on the Route, too.

Finally, note that the lady in front of the Galar Mine entrance will heal your Pokémon - and a campsite where you can do so too. There's a very small part of the route that is technically Route 3, but only accessible from inside the Galar Mine. In other words: onwards!

Available Pokémon

Available Items

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.

Trainers and Battles

That's everything here on Route 3 for now, so continue on to the first Galar Mine 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.