Team Initiation Challenge

Endgame spoilers

The Team Initiation Challenge unlocks after Mewtwo points Ditto at a suspicious building in the Wasteland. The finale is a major story reveal — skip the bottom section if you’re still working through the challenge.

The “building” holds a machine that issues one challenge at a time. Each challenge asks for a specific set of items — many of them endgame materials you’ll only have after the main story — and hands back a replica Gym Badge.

The machine can only run one challenge at a time. You can gather everything in advance, but you’ll submit in order.

Reward · Bouldery Badge

Challenge 1

5 Leppa Berries

Reward · Cascade-like Badge

Challenge 2

10 Beans

10 Tomatoes

10 Wheat

Reward · Thunderish Badge

Challenge 3

20 Lumber

5 Fluff

Collect around the homes of Pokémon like Swablu and Mareep.

10 Paper

Give Wastepaper to Pokémon with the Recycle specialty.

Reward · Rainbowish Badge

Challenge 4

40 Bricks

Give Solid Clay to Pokémon with the Burn specialty.

20 Gold Ingots

Smelt Gold Ore in a Furnace.

50 Concrete

Requires processing.

Reward · Soul-like Badge

Challenge 5

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50 Electricity

Connect generators to the building. A Furnace provides 30, a Windmill provides 10.

10 Crystal Fragments

5 Tinkagears

Give Iron Ingots to Tinkmaster.

Reward · Marshy Badge

Challenge 6

4 Industrial Beds

4 Resort Lights

4 Office Desks

Reward · Volcanoey Badge

Challenge 7

Prerequisite: Reach Environment Level 5 in Bleak Beach, Rocky Ridges, and Sparkling Skylands.

1 Washing Machine

1 Refrigerator

1 Game Boy

Reward · Earth Badge

Challenge 8

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1 Cherished Photo

Deposit any photo you’ve taken. Use the camera feature in the overworld.

Reward · Completion — building transforms

Challenge 9

Prerequisite: Reach Environment Level 5 in the Withered Wasteland.

2 Party Poppers

Finale

Once all nine challenges are complete, the building starts to shake. It turns out the whole structure is a rocket — according to journal entries scattered across the Wasteland, built by Team Rocketseparately from humanity’s main evacuation.

The rocket launches into deep space. Afterwards, you can explore a special hideout underneath the launch area for post-game content.

For the full narrative context, see the Story & plot guide.