How to Get Bulbasaur in Pokémon Quest

To get Bulbasaur in Pokémon Quest, cook the Veggie Smoothie a la Cube recipe at Very Good or Special quality. While standard plant recipes attract common Grass types like Paras, Bellsprout, and Oddish, Bulbasaur is a rarer encounter that requires high-tier ingredients to appear consistently at your base camp.

Veggie Smoothie a la Cube Recipes and Quality Tiers

Veggie Smoothie a la Cube requires a combination of plant-classified and soft-classified ingredients. The dish is graded across four quality tiers based on the rarity of ingredients in your cooking pot. Higher qualities narrow the encounter pool toward rarer Pokémon like Bulbasaur.

Normal recipes rely almost entirely on common ingredients and have a negligible chance of producing Bulbasaur. To avoid wasting cooking expeditions on Paras, target at least Very Good quality by using precious ingredients.

Key Cooking Ingredients

• Big Root (Precious): The most critical ingredient for Bulbasaur because it satisfies plant, soft, and precious quality checks simultaneously.
• Balm Mushroom (Precious): A high-tier soft ingredient that raises the recipe to Very Good or Special when paired with Big Roots.
• Apricorn (Common): An inexpensive plant material useful as filler for Good and Very Good recipes.
• Tiny Mushroom (Common): A soft ingredient used for completing lower-quality dishes.

Choosing the Right Cooking Pot

The cooking pot tier determines the level, base stats, and total ingredient cost of your recruited Bulbasaur. Match your pot choice to your current inventory and progression needs:

1. Iron Pot: Requires 3 ingredients per slot (15 total). It yields low-level Pokémon with base stats, making it the most cost-effective choice for unlocking Bulbasaur early in the game without draining your precious materials.
2. Bronze Pot: Requires 10 ingredients per slot (50 total). It summons mid-level recruits with moderate stat boosts for mid-game expeditions.
3. Silver Pot: Requires 15 ingredients per slot (75 total). It attracts high-level recruits with enhanced base stats.
4. Gold Pot: Requires 20 ingredients per slot (100 total). It yields late-game Pokémon with the highest base stat bonuses, ideal when cooking for an endgame team member.

Using Duplicate Grass-Type Spawns

Low-tier recipes or bad encounter rolls will regularly yield common Grass types like Paras, Oddish, and Bellsprout. Keep these duplicate spawns rather than discarding them. Using Pokémon of the same type provides a significant bonus during Move Learning and Level-Up training, giving you the resources needed to train your Bulbasaur as soon as you recruit one.