Since the old Map Guide is severely outdated and lacking information, here's a new and improved one.



How do maps work?

Each map has three pokemon types assigned to them, and every hour randomly pulls 10 pokemon to appear on the map, corresponding to the map types. This type can be either the primary type or the secondary type of the pokemon for it to have a chance of appearing. Meaning an Ice-Psychic type pokemon can appear on any map with either Ice or Psychic assigned to it.

In addition to the 10 random pokemon, each map also has two regular pokemon and one legendary that are always roaming the map. These two regular pokemon that are constantly around, don't appear on the Map Route Guide that you can find next to each map. This book guide shows you what pokemon are currently roaming the map, and it updates hourly when new pokemon are chosen.

The exception to this are static pokemon added to maps for events and/or collection contests, which always take the first "random" pokemon spot, meaning in essence that there are three regular pokemon that are always around, and only 9 truly random pokemon. Currently two maps have these; Black Forest map has Bellsprout and Frozen Cave has Sawsbuck.

The level of the encountered pokemon is based on the highest level pokemon in your party plus minus 5 levels, but capped at 5 and 100. Meaning if you're looking for a level 5 pokemon, having only level 5 pokemon in your party gives the best odds, since the map pokemon can only be level 5-10 in that case. On the other end of the spectrum, even if you have a level 160,000 pokemon in your party, you'll still only run into level 95-100 pokemon because of the cap. Legendaries are exempt from this, those will always be level 200-250.

One thing to keep in mind when you're hunting for legendaries, is that some of them can also appear as one of the ten random pokemon, and you can catch them with normal balls when that happens.

Unowns can be found everywhere at all times, thus they're not included on the list.



Black Forest
Types: Grass, Poison, Bug
Regulars: Lileep, Lotad, Bellsprout
Legendary: Tapu Bulu

Frozen Cave
Types: Water, Ice, Rock
Regulars: Glalie, Spheal, Sawsbuck
Legendary: Keldeo

Haunted Mansion
Types: Psychic, Ghost, Dark
Regulars: Drifloon, Mandibuzz
Legendary: Hoopa

River Rafting
Types: Water, Ice, Ground
Regulars: Gorebyss, Mantyke
Legendary: Palkia

Electricity Hub
Types: Electric, Fighting, Steel
Regulars: Rotom, Shinx
Legendary: Xurkitree

Lava Beach
Types: Fire, Flying, Rock
Regulars: Larvesta, Litleo
Legendary: Pheromosa

0* Temp
Types: Normal, Water, Ice
Regulars: Goldeen, Shellder
Legendary: Tapu Fini

Dark Town
Types: Fighting, Ghost, Dark
Regulars: Aron, Shieldon
Legendary: Yveltal

Desert Beach
Types: Ground, Dragon, Fairy
Regulars: Surskit, Wailmer
Legendary: Xerneas

Dark Forest
Types: Poison, Psychic, Bug
Regulars: Surskit, Wailmer
Legendary: Buzzwole

Jungle
Types: Normal, Grass, Flying
Regulars: Lileep, Lotad
Legendary: Type: Null

Leaf Town
Types: Grass, Flying, Steel
Regulars: Magmortar, Maractus
Legendary: Meloetta

Foggy Wastelands (premium)
Types: Electric, Steel, Fairy
Regulars: Machoke, Rapidash
Legendary: Diancie

Thar Desert (premium)
Types: Fire, Ground, Dragon
Regulars: Scyther, Stantler
Legendary: Guzzlord

Reborn Surface (test map)
Types: Normal
Regulars: Bulbasaur
Legendary: None (random roaming pokemon also appear as a legend)

Legend of Dawn (upcoming?)
Types: Normal, Dark, Grass
Regulars: Lileep, Lotad
Legendary: N/A



Since it's kinda related, here's how many balls it takes on average to catch a pokemon.
Poké Ball: 2.37 (average cost per pokemon = $355.5)
Great Ball: 2.27 (average cost per pokemon = $11,350)
Ultra Ball: 2.02 (average cost per pokemon = $20,200)
Based on data collected by me (about 2k catches), your results may slightly vary.
Do what you will with this info 🤷🏻‍♂️

Ultra beasts are not legendaries but I get your point. Thanks for the guide tho it'll be really helpful for current and future members

Good work, thread stickied!

Update

Added test map and some info on poke balls at the bottom.

Update

New collection contest (Bellsprout), so changed that one extra regular on Black Forest map from Zangoose (previous collection contest pokemon) to Bellsprout.

Update

Another small update to add Sawsbuck on the Frozen Cave map regulars, thanks to previous event quest.