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Pokémon Pokopia: All Pokemon Specialties & Abilities

In Pokopia, traditional battle abilities are replaced by work Specialties. Each Pokemon has a unique Specialty that determines what jobs it can perform — from chopping wood to generating electricity. Use this database to find the right Pokemon for any task.

Appraise

Utility

Identifies Lost Relics found at glowing dig spots, converting them into high-value furniture items.

Pokemon with this Specialty

Professor Tangrowth(Story NPC, always available)

Use Cases

  • Identify Lost Relics
  • Convert relics to furniture

First available: Withered Wasteland

Build

Construction

Required for all blueprint-based large structure construction. A Build Pokemon must serve as foreman to direct construction.

Pokemon with this Specialty

Cubone
Timburr
Gurdurr
Conkeldurr(Also has Crush)
Heracross
Machamp
Tinkaton

Use Cases

  • Construct buildings from blueprints
  • Pokemon Center rebuilds
  • Housing construction

First available: Withered Wasteland

Bulldoze

Construction

Destroys or relocates large structures using Demolition Kit or Relocation Kit. Essential for town reorganization.

Pokemon with this Specialty

Onix
Corviknight
Snorlax
Munchlax
Hariyama
Iron Thorns
Flygon

Use Cases

  • Demolish buildings
  • Relocate structures
  • Clear large obstacles

First available: Withered Wasteland

Burn

Energy

Lights campfires and torches, powers Smelting Furnaces for metal/glass production, fires Squishy Clay into Bricks, and can dispel rain.

Pokemon with this Specialty

Charmander
Charmeleon
Charizard
Torchic
Combusken
Blaziken
Torkoal
Magmar
Fuecoco
Vulpix

Use Cases

  • Fire Squishy Clay into Bricks
  • Smelt ore into Ingots
  • Make Glass from sand
  • Light campfires/torches
  • Dispel rain

First available: Withered Wasteland

Chop

Gathering

Processes Small Logs into standard Lumber. Core resource processing specialty needed from the very start.

Pokemon with this Specialty

Scyther
Scizor
Pinsir
Sirfetch'd
Decidueye

Use Cases

  • Convert Small Logs to Lumber (10 logs = 50 lumber)

First available: Withered Wasteland

Crush

Gathering

Operates Concrete Mixer to produce Concrete from Limestone. Also crushes berries and food into colored Dye/Paint for furniture customization.

Pokemon with this Specialty

Conkeldurr(Also has Build - ideal for Concrete production)

Use Cases

  • Operate Concrete Mixer
  • Produce Concrete from Limestone
  • Crush berries into Dye/Paint

First available: Sparkling Skylands

Generate

Energy

Temporarily powers isolated electrical devices not yet connected to the grid - streetlights, machines, cash registers.

Pokemon with this Specialty

Pikachu
Peakychu(Paldean Pikachu variant)
Pawmi
Magnemite
Electabuzz

Use Cases

  • Power streetlights
  • Activate machines
  • Power cash registers
  • Charge stations

First available: Bleak Beach

Illuminate

Energy

Advanced form of Generate. Provides macro-level lighting for entire town areas at night.

Pokemon with this Specialty

Peakychu(Paldean Pikachu - exclusive to this specialty)

Use Cases

  • Light up entire town areas at night
  • Required for Mosslax awakening quest

First available: Bleak Beach

Grow

Production

Accelerates crop growth when stationed near farmland. Significantly speeds up Wheat, Tomato, and Bean maturation.

Pokemon with this Specialty

Bulbasaur
Ivysaur
Venusaur
Bellsprout
Weepinbell
Victreebel
Oddish
Gloom
Vileplume

Use Cases

  • Speed up crop growth
  • Accelerate Wheat/Tomato/Bean farming

First available: Rocky Ridges

Litter

Production

Pokemon periodically drops specific raw resources near its habitat. Foundation of automated material farming.

Pokemon with this Specialty

Mareep(Drops Fluff)
Bellsprout(Drops Vine Rope)
Combee(Drops Honey)
Paldean Wooper(Drops Squishy Clay)

Use Cases

  • Passive Fluff generation (Mareep)
  • Passive Vine Rope (Bellsprout)
  • Passive Honey (Combee)
  • Passive Squishy Clay (Paldean Wooper)

First available: Withered Wasteland

Recycle

Production

Converts waste materials into useful resources. Wastepaper becomes Paper, Nonburnable Garbage becomes Iron Ore.

Pokemon with this Specialty

Trubbish
Garbodor
Cinccino
Porygon
Metang

Use Cases

  • Convert Wastepaper to Paper (10 waste = 20 paper)
  • Convert Nonburnable Garbage to Iron Ore

First available: Bleak Beach

Water

Gathering

Waters crops using nearby water basins, clears ground sludge, and can change weather to increase humidity at Rain Altar.

Pokemon with this Specialty

Squirtle
Slowpoke
Shellos
Lapras
Piplup
Lotad

Use Cases

  • Water crops
  • Clear sludge
  • Change weather via Rain Altar

First available: Withered Wasteland

Reverse Lookup: Pokemon → Specialties

PokemonSpecialties
Bellsprout
Blaziken
Bulbasaur
Charizard
Charmander
Charmeleon
Cinccino
Combee
Combusken
Conkeldurr
Corviknight
Cubone
Decidueye
Dedenne
Diglett
Electabuzz
Flygon
Fuecoco
Garbodor
Gloom
Growlithe
Gurdurr
Hariyama
Heracross
Iron Thorns
Ivysaur
Lapras
Lotad
Machamp
Magmar
Magnemite
Mareep
Metang
Munchlax
Oddish
Onix
Paldean Wooper
Paras
Pawmi
Peakychu
Pidgey
Pikachu
Pinsir
Piplup
Porygon
Professor Tangrowth
Scizor
Scyther
Shellos
Sirfetch'd
Slowpoke
Snorlax
Squirtle
Timburr
Tinkaton
Torchic
Torkoal
Trubbish
Venonat
Venusaur
Victreebel
Vileplume
Vulpix
Weepinbell
Zubat