What Do Specialties Do in Pokémon Pokopia’s Completing and Solving?

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In Pokémon games, Pokémon usually learn moves that they use to attack or gain strategic advantages in battles. However, in Pokémon Pokopia, there is no fighting or battles, so moves are not part of the game. Instead, each Pokémon has “Specialties,” which are specific skills or abilities tied to them. These Specialties are unique moves that each Pokémon knows and have a special purpose.

Specialties are essential for many tasks within the game. Some quests may require your Pokémon to have a certain Specialty to complete them. Additionally, certain habitats cannot be built if there is a Pokémon with a specific Specialty nearby. While they are not used for fighting, you cannot finish the game without them. Here’s what you need to understand about them.

How to Teach Pokémon Specialties

Unlike traditional Pokémon games, there are no Technical Machines (TMs), Hidden Machines (HMs), or leveling up Pokémon to learn new moves. Pokémon do not evolve either; instead, you find and add one of each type. Because of this, Pokémon cannot learn Specialties after you catch them. They start with the Specialty they have when you find them, and these are fixed—specific to the Pokémon’s type and design, not random.

If you need a Pokémon with a particular Specialty, such as Bulldoze, and you don’t have one in your current region, you will need to locate that Pokémon in another region and make it follow you. When you’re done with it, it will return to its natural habitat, so you don’t have to worry about disrupting the game’s ecosystems.

How Many Specialties Are There, and What Do They Do?

There are a total of 31 Specialties in Pokémon Pokopia. Here’s an overview of what each Specialty does and which Pokémon can have them:

Specialty	What It Does	Earliest Pokémon You Can Find With It
Burn	Lights candles, activates smelting furnace, turns clay to brick	Charmander
Grow	Speeds up growth of crops, flowers, and trees	Bulbasaur
Water	Fills water basins, adds bubbles to mud for cleaning	Squirtle
Chop	Turns small logs into lumber	Scyther, Pinsir, Heracross
Build	Needed to construct buildings	Timburr
Bulldoze	Needed to build Pokémon Centers	Onix
Search	Helps find buried items	Vespiquen
Fly	Transports you instantly to another Pokémon location	Pidgey
Teleport	Instantly moves you to another Pokémon location	Exeggcute, Slowking
Recycle	Converts waste paper into usable paper	Metang
Gather	Adds materials to community boxes	Machop, Rolycoly
Generate	Turns on electrical devices in habitats	Magneton, Electabuzz, Mareep, Pawmi
Crush	Turns berries into paint or limestone into concrete	Onix
Litter	Drops resources like fluff near habitats	Bellsprout, Combee
Trade	Runs trading stalls at Pokémon centers or marts	Hitmonlee, Hitmonchan, Hoothoot
Hype	Dances to music to boost regional mood	Ludicolo
Yawn	Tells you the humidity level of an area	Slowpoke
Dream Island	Takes you to a special Dream Island with a Poke Doll	Drifloon
Gather Honey	Trades honey for rare furniture	Vespiquen
Storage	Acts as extra storage for items	Gulpin
Explode	Shoots out of cannons to destroy obstacles	Voltorb
Collect	Trades in rare items like relics for other rare items	Gimmighoul
Appraise	Converts relics into usable items	Tangrowth
Illuminate	Brightens an entire region with a Charge Station	Pikachu (Peakychu)
Paint	Changes the color or pattern of items	Smeargle
Eat	Exchanges food for rare items	Snorlax (Mosslax)
Party	Increases the number of meals produced from food	Greedent (Chef Dente)
DJ	Plays any discovered music CDs	Rotom (DJ Rotom)
Engineer	Speeds up building projects; needed for late-game buildings	Tinkatuff
Transform	Turns into other Pokémon to learn their abilities	Ditto (you!)
???	Unknown	???

Each Specialty serves a specific purpose in building habitats, completing quests, or gathering resources. Unlike moves in regular Pokémon games, Specialties are fixed and tied directly to the Pokémon’s type and design, rather than learned through leveling or items. To acquire a Pokémon with a desired Specialty, you often need to find and catch that Pokémon in the wild or in different regions, then have it follow you for certain tasks before returning it to its natural environment.