The COMPLETE HISTORY of the Safari Zone in Pokemon

The Safari Zone was an iconic fixture in the earlier Pokemon games, and even made some appearances in more recent ones. In this video, we take a retrospective look back at every single Safari Zone throughout the series and go over what unique attributes each one has.

Chapters:
0:00 Intro
1:19 Pokemon Red/Blue/Yellow's Safari Zone
8:16 Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald's Safari Zone
14:55 Pokemon FireRed/LeafGreen's Safari Zone
17:48 Pokemon Diamond/Pearl/Platinum's Safari Zone
22:08 Pokemon HeartGold/SoulSilver's Safari Zone
26:25 The status of the Safari Zone after gen 4

Check out Professor Rex's videos talking about Safari Zone strategies:

[Jesthers]

If you think about it, Legends: Arceus essentially reuses and rehashes the entire concept of the Safari zone. Throw bait to keep pokemon in place (increasing catch rate while eating), or projectiles to stun (allowing capture of aggressive pokemon, but doesn't increase catch rate), all in a free roam environment where you don't use pokemon to weaken or apply status effects. You can battle and capture normally too, but these non-battle methods always reminded me of the Safari Zone and I'm surprised more people don't mention that.

[FortyPerc]

Great video! Good to have a refresher on these cause it's honestly been so long since we got a proper new one. Definitely learned some new stuff in this video too

[Nameless_mixes]

I always loved the Safari Zone in Fire Red/Leaf Green and Diamond/Pearl/Platinum. I never really understood how to make it work in Heart Gold/Soul Silver as a kid and the encounters felt a little lackluster in Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald. I loved the music so much! And as someone that grew up loving trains, the tram system in the 4th gen games was so much fun for me (even if it didn't take you very far). I remember being so excited finding Carnivine and Croagunk and then spending hours hunting down Skorupi! And in the gen 1 remakes, it was so much fun trying to find all the rare mons that inhabited it! I was a little bummed when they axed the feature. But it wasn't the end of the world for me. It felt similar to the Game Corner in that it was a feature I'd miss but wouldn't mind leaving behind. There are plenty of aspects of the games like the VS Seeker/Recorder, Dowsing Machine, PSS, and Battle Frontier that I do wish were saved in future installments.

[LatiosAzurill]

I mean, minus the rock and bait options, LGPE pretty much had Safari Zone rules for every non-static wild encounter - so a Safari Zone would be a bit redundant lol
As for Gen 2, the Bug Catching Contest in the National Park kind of filled the Safari Zone niche to some extent, albeit with a couple twists

[monopolyrubix]

I miss when every region had these recurring areas, like the Safari Zone, the Department Store, the Game Corner, a Cycling Road, Victory Road, etc. It made those places feel special, being part of a tradition. It's a shame they've mostly been phased out... Even the Daycare is gone now.

[Gryffynbyrd]

Let's fugging gooo, another Yuki Hoshikawa upload!

[crumpscrumbs]

It’s so nice seeing a real upload for the love of Pokémon instead of that trash about Typhlosion from the leak. Thanks Yuki, you’re a real one 💖❤️⭐️

[PhilipGamingLand]

Thank you for the great Safari Zone video

[_Teej_]

25:09 it is fun to see Beldum get called out here, since my core memory of this zone was just spamming random objects without a guide and then one day finding metang and wasting SO many safari balls thinking it was the coolest possible capture. I imagine there is a lot of cool stuff to find with the guide, but random discovery gives it soul

[nohar]

It just dawned on me while watching that all the Pokémon in the Hoenn Safari Zone are from the first two gens. I wonder if it has anything to do with how the decision to implement older Pokémon midway through development.

[SpearMKW]

I should try and join the next Safari Week shinyhunt event. While im not too into shiny hunting, i do love the Safari Zone, i even caught a shiny Parasect once in FR/LG at school during a lunch break many years ago.

[ThymeSplitter]

I miss the Safari Zone, I always thought it was a really fun part of the games.

[Kivamusicchannel]

It makes sense with Pikachu and other Pokemon in the Hoenn safari zone are only found there. They are imports.

[Kuroig]

Alright, is good to know that it wasn't just me being salty, feeling like just throwing balls in the great marsh was more useful..also maybe is just me, but it really confused me why they swapped how bait/throwing rock/mud worked in the marsh too, not that it really helps there tho lol

Nice video btw! Always nice seeing these retrospectives. I say the kanto games safari zone is probably my favorite, just in terms of the mechanics, and pokemon ya get there. (I mean hoenn's is fine mechanics wise, but most of the mons there aren't too exiting)

[CraftsmanOfAwsomenes]

Note: there are actually 1 daily pokemon for each area in the Great Marsh, so it's 6 in practice.

[notniless]

0:08 Frederick fire emblem is that you??

[MrChristianCain]

imo it makes sense that the great marsh has more "regular" pokemon than the other safari zones. the safari zones are supposed to have pokemon that aren't native, that is why it is called "safari" zone. the great marsh is just a certain part of the swampland in sinnoh, so having the same pokemon as the other swampy route in addition to some special ones makes sense.

[gameyfirebro]

9:40 It's cool bc it shows that Pikachu isn't native to every region. Even if he's in the dex.

Btw I personally consider Houndour a Kanto mon for it not being wild in Johto, but rather Kanto.

[thetreyceratops]

I’m not particularly sad about the Safari Zone not being in recent games, considering the fact that it got worse every single time it came back, and peaked in Gen 1. Not only is it full of unique Pokémon, a massive amount of the best Pokémon in Gen 1 are there, including Tauros and Chansey, two of the top 3 best Pokémon in Gen 1 competitive

[thefinalskarm]

So something that gets ignored with gen 6's safari zone is the concept known as "bank balls".
prior to gen 7 numerous pokeballs were exclusive to transfers, some even to the gamecube games for the johto starters.
bank balls at the time were spread during breeding female pokemon (sorry Tauros) with the exceptions of the master ball and cherish ball which did not pass on.
what this meant was that exclusive balls of defunct features (dream ball again sorry Tauros) or the challenging safari zone bank balls would be highly desirable, while it's purely cosmetic, you know how people get sometimes.

the real reason is of course unknown, but this is something I had the epiphany of in this video remembering the torment I went through for my dream ball vulpix.