Mechanics Hub
Three pages on how the game's systems actually behave — battle rules, item behaviour, and what changes between releases.
The three systems pages, and the three reference lists under them
Pokemon Locations & How to Get Every Pokemon
Wild encounters, story gifts, eggs, shadow pokemon purification, rift pokemon bosses and legendary encounters — including phantump, torchic, articuno, zygarde, volcanion and 20+ more.
Read the pokemon guide →Items, Moves & Battle Mechanics
Move relearner, move tutors, TMs, heart scales, crests, mega stones, the Omni Ring, field effects and key items like the coin case, moon stone and eviolite.
Read the items & moves guide →Collections, Keys & Achievements
All 55 achievements and their AP rewards, plus key items and collectibles: zygarde cells, odd key, enigmatic key, mysterious key, anju pendant and the golden apple.
Read the collection guide →Three of those topics are large enough to be reference lists of their own rather than sections of an overview. If you already know which item you need, start there:
Mega Stones & the Omni Ring
All 105 Mega Stones with the exact sidequest, shop or boss that gives each one — plus which 15 cannot be obtained at all in the current version.
See every Mega Stone →Crests
All 68 species-locked Crests with their actual in-game effect, where each is found, and the chapter or route that gates it.
See every Crest →Stamps & the Somniam Mall
All 9 Stamps, the sponsor who hands each one over, and what collecting them unlocks at Grand Dream City's Somniam Mall.
See all 9 Stamps →Every system these three pages cover
The cluster is broader than the three card titles suggest. This is the full inventory, so you can see what exists before deciding which page you need.
| System | What it decides | Page |
|---|---|---|
| Acquisition methods | Which routes exist at all for obtaining a species — wild, gift, egg, trade, event or boss. | Pokemon guide |
| Wild encounters | Where a species appears, how often, at what level, and which method brings it out. | Pokemon guide |
| Gifts and eggs | The one-time, scripted acquisitions that cannot be repeated if you miss them. | Pokemon guide |
| Shadow Pokemon | How a shadow Pokemon is captured and what purification does to it afterwards. | Pokemon guide |
| Rift Pokemon | Boss fights altered by Rift Matter — a different encounter type, not a difficulty setting. | Pokemon guide |
| Aevian forms | The region's own variants of existing species and what each one changes. | Pokemon guide |
| Legendaries and mythicals | Where the endgame catches sit and what has to be true before they appear. | Pokemon guide |
| Teaching moves | What the relearner, the tutors and the TMs each let you do — the three are not interchangeable. | Items & moves |
| Field effects | The battle environment itself: fifty fields, each rewriting what moves and abilities do. | Items & moves |
| Crests | Species-locked held items that change a single Pokemon's behaviour rather than its stats alone. | Items & moves |
| Mega evolution | Which species can mega evolve and what has to be obtained before any of them can. | Items & moves |
| Key items | Items that unlock routes or gate progress, as opposed to items you consume. | Items & moves, Collection |
| Achievements and AP | The 55 tracked milestones and the rewards that spending achievement points buys. | Collection |
| Collectibles | The scattered sets — cells, keys, shinies — that are found rather than earned. | Collection |
Three things the pages cover twice, from different angles
Overlap inside the cluster is deliberate: a system can matter both as something you obtain and as something you operate. Knowing which half you want saves a page load.
| Thing | On one page it is… | On the other it is… | Read |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mega evolution | Pokemon guide: a category of acquisition — which species are eligible and where the stones come from. | Items & moves: a mechanic — how the Omni Ring gates it and what changes in battle when it fires. | Items & moves for the rule, Pokemon guide for the species. |
| Key items | Items & moves: the ones that unlock routes or gate progress. | Collection: the same objects tracked as a set to complete. | Items & moves for what it does, Collection for where the set stands. |
| Aevian forms | Pokemon guide: what the variant is and how it differs from the original species. | Locations: which area of Aevium each form belongs to. | Pokemon guide to identify it, Locations to go and find it. |
Where this cluster stops
These three pages explain systems. Several neighbouring questions sound like mechanics but are answered elsewhere, usually better, because the answer depends on something this cluster does not track.
| Question | Not here, because | Answer lives on |
|---|---|---|
| What is inside this particular area? | Encounters are indexed by species here, not by map. The per-area tables list every spawn in one place. | Locations |
| Can I switch difficulty, or turn a system off? | Those are password-gated toggles, not mechanics. The password page lists what each code changes. | Passwords |
| Does this decision lock me out of something? | Lockouts are a consequence of story choices, and the choice pages track them per branch. | Save & choices, Relationship |
| Is this behaviour new in V14, or has it always worked this way? | Change history belongs with the release, not with the system. The version page carries the release-by-release record. | Versions & updates |
What this hub does not do
It inventories the systems and points at the page that explains each one. It does not define them — a definition here would be a second, thinner copy of a page that already covers the subject properly, and would compete with it rather than help you.
About this hub
A mechanic is not behaving the way a guide says it should. Which page do I check?
Check the release the guide was written for first — between releases this game has changed level caps, item availability and even what certain key items do. Each card below names the release its page was verified against.
Are these pages about rules, or about where to find things?
Rules. Where to find a specific item or creature is a different job and is covered by the region and collection pages, not here. This hub is about how the systems work once you have the pieces.
How do these pages handle things that changed between releases?
Anything version-dependent is labelled with the release it applies to rather than presented as a standing rule. If a card below is verified only against an older release, it says so.
Sources & Further Reading
This page is a secondary source. Everything on it traces back to the following primary ones, which are worth reading directly if a detail matters to you.
- Rejuvenation Wiki — Field Effects — the 50 fields and their modifiers.
- Rejuvenation Wiki — Crests — every Crest's effect and location.
- Rejuvenation Wiki — Mega Stone — the Mega Stone list and sources.
- Rejuvenation Wiki — Aevian Forms — regional forms and how they differ.
- Rejuvenation Wiki — Shadow Pokemon — purification and Shadow moves.
- Rejuvenation Wiki — Rift Pokémon — rift boss encounters.