Victory Road (First Area)

Victory Road (First Area) is the leftmost area Victory Road and is accessible from the entrance in Labradorra City. In their first visit to this area, the player will be constantly attacked by icicles from Blake's Alolan Sandslash.
== Walkthrough ==
HMs required: Strength, Rock Climb, Rock Smash
Enter victory road, head through the first room with many gears and into the next. The way forward is locked, so head up the stairs to your right. You will find a Strength boulder that you need to push onto a pressure plate, introducing you to a key mechanic within Victory Road. You can also interact with the map board to survey the area.
Once you push the strength boulder onto the pad and witness the cutscene, you will be introduced to the second mechanic of this section: Blake and his Sandslash. Every so often a large red “X” will appear on the floor accompanied by a sound cue. You have a few moments to run clear of the zone before an Icicle Crash damages you and your Pokémon. It is easier to dodge the Icicle Crash with speedup turned off, but this is quite manageable.  Pokémon with Magic Guard are immune to this effect.
You can’t get to Blake, so for now return to the locked gate and run into the room to the north. You’ll find yourself in a room with several machines and 3 sets of gemstones. Interact with the machine directly in front of you to watch the cutscene and start the puzzle. 
=== Crystal Puzzle 1 ===
Talk with the NPC to find out the hints, and the corresponding categories can be found by interacting with the green tiles on the machine directly above the crystal blocks. Using the logic puzzle, figure out what each gem is. The solution is spoilered below. Interact with the NPC again to confirm the solution.
Crystal Puzzle Solution
Continue through the unlocked gate and back into a new section of the main area. Remember to stay vigilant against Blake’s attacks. The path splits into up and down. The path upwards is a dead end, so head down all the way until you hit a minecart. Don’t touch the minecart yet – instead head down to the lever in the image and flip it – it should turn the associated rail straight. Head back and push the minecart into the track directly below the lever you just flipped.
Flip the first lever again, then head left to find and flip a second lever (shown on the left of the image below). Go back and push your minecart until it rests below lever 2 (this will create a rock climb shortcut to the entrance of Victory Road). Flip lever 2 again and ride the minecart down before heading into the next area. 
You’ll find yourself in a large room filled with yellow crystals. You can check the map board immediately to your right to get a lay of the land, but you’ll need to take the minecart to your left to continue. Once you’re out of that minecart, immediately head down the stairs to another minecart and ride that one down too. Following this is a fairly linear path that involves riding a minecart, getting out to flip the only lever in said area and then continuing onwards until you reach the point in the image below:
Ride the minecart below you and then climb up the Rock Climb wall. You should be able to get behind a Strength boulder. Push it all the way up onto a pad in the northern area, following the path in the images below (the red line is the path the boulder takes, not you). 
Once you’ve pushed it around the big boulder directly above the minecart track you took to get to this area, push it all the way right until it’s resting against a large cluster of yellow crystals, then take the left path across the minecart track (directly below where the character is standing in the below image) so you can push the boulder from above. Continue pushing the boulder until it’s on the pressure plate.
Head through the unlocked gate and flip the switch, then head back to your original minecart and ride it up, flip the switch, return and head back through the unlocked gate to reset the switch and finally head back to your original minecart to travel to a new area. You should see another Strength boulder between two staircases. Push it up the stairs and then retrace your steps all the way back to where you dismounted the very first minecart you took in this area that travelled around the left side of the room (this is the minecart in the top left of the below image). 
(The passage immediately to the left of this Strength boulder’s original position leads to the Tyranitarite). 
Alight from the minecart you just took and run up the stairs before heading right (i.e. you should emerge from where the bottom-left arrow is in the below image) – you should see the boulder you just pushed up some stairs. Push it onto the pressure plate – you’ll need to push it all the way to the left to push it up. Head through the unlocked gate and flip a lever, then take the minecart to your left into a new room. 
 
Rather, you’re back in the main area of this section of Victory Road, so watch out again for Blake’s attacks. Head down the stairs, pushing two Strength boulders out of the way as you go. You will find yourself at a strength puzzle. 
=== Strength Puzzle ===
It is worth saving at this point so you don’t have to run out every time you make a mistake. The red line in the associated image is the path you should be taking rather than the way the boulders should be moving:
Strength Puzzle Solution
Directions you need to walk, starting from on the stairs: 
# Down
# Right (push)
# Down right (push)
# Down (push)
# Left (push)
# Down left (push)
# Down (push)
# Right (push)
# Down Right
At the end of the instructions above, you should be in the small area to the right of the puzzle with an Escape Rope in it. Head down the passage next to the lower gear and push the strength boulder onto the pressure plate. Then head right and down, pushing the Strength boulder to the side so you can enter the gate you’ve just opened.
Head down and to the right. Push another boulder onto the pressure plate and then go up and around to enter the gate you’ve just opened. Push the boulder to the left, head down and get into the minecart. Flip the switch and get back on the minecart to enter the next area. 
Walk through the area (check out the map board if you’d like) before continuing on to the next room. You’ll meet Charlotte. Follow the path up past the map board and head right to find four minecarts. You can tackle these in any order.
=== TNT Puzzles ===
==== Northern Cart ====
Hope into the minecart and ride it down the hole. You’ll find yourself in an area with two strength boulders. Push them onto the respective pressure plates (the final step will require you to go around the large central structure and approach the boulder from the other direction). DO THESE ONE AT A TIME or you will get softlocked.
 
With both boulders on their plates, follow the wires to a now unlocked gate and rock climb down to a new area.
Head past the minecart and flip the switch, then rock climb up to where the minecart is lying and interact with the pile of rubble to fill the minecart. Go down, flip the switch again and then return to the minecart to send it down the straight track. It will create a Rock Climb wall. Rock Climb down to flip the lever. 
 
Send the minecart back and refill it with rubble, then send it onto the track again to create another rock climb wall. Repeat this process a third time with the newly accessible lever to create a passage down to the cart with TNT in it. 
 
Send the TNT cart to blow up the pillar, then take the Rock Climb wall down and head north to return to the minecarts. One down!
==== Eastern Cart ====
Hope into the minecart and ride it down the hole. Immediately jump into the minecart you’ll see and then flip the switch to your northeast.
Get into the other minecart. When you get off, both flip the switch above you and push the boulder to your right onto the pressure plate. 
Return to the first minecart and ride it up. You should be able to interact with a rubble-filled cart, push it, then return to the area with both the lever and the Strength boulder. Flip the lever again, the head up to the rubble cart and push it into the hole, creating a rock climb wall. Climb down. 
Here, we have to push the boulder to your right all the way around the spiralling minecart loop. To start with, push it right and then all the way down to the southern border of this area. The path is linear, just keep pushing the boulder around the track, saving often in case you make a mistake. You may need to backtrack to walk across minecart tracks to push the boulder in a particular direction. Continue until you’ve got the boulder on the pressure plate, then send the TNT cart on it's way.
To leave this area, head to the bottom-right of the area and walk down a short corridor to a jumpable ledge. Simply follow your nose and you’ll be back in the initial corridor. Head north back to the room with Charlotte and the minecarts.
==== Southern Cart ====
Hop in the minecart and fall down the hole. Don’t go for the minecart you see. Instead head right to find a Strength boulder and a pressure plate to the north. Push it to the point shown in the image, then ride the minecart around to finish pushing it onto the pressure plate. 
 
Before heading through the gate, send the minecart back to it’s original position, then double back to head through the gate and flip the lever. Then go back to the minecart and ride it down into the hole.
Here you’ll need to juggle the minecart tracks with the gates. Start by heading down through three open gates to find the TNT cart. Don’t touch the TNT cart yet, instead flip the lever directly above it to open a set of gates to your left, then head through them to push a Strength boulder out of the way. Retrace your steps back to the TNT cart. 
Go around this minecart track in an anticlockwise fashion. Your aim is to get back through the first set of gates you opened with the lever above the TNT cart (but from the opposite direction). As you’re walking, FLIP EVERY LEVER YOU COME ACROSS (except the one above the TNT cart). It will close a load of gates behind you, but that’s fine. Pay attention to the lever in the picture below: flip it once to open a gate to get to the lever to the southeast of it, but once you've flipped it backtrack to reset this lever, then continue on your way. 
When you’re back where you started, flip the final lever (the one above the TNT cart), then interact with the TNT cart to send it on it’s way. Return to the top of the area and push a boulder out of the way to access a Rock Climb wall. Simply follow your nose south and you’ll be back in the initial corridor. Head north back to the room with Charlotte and the Minecarts. One down!
==== Western Cart ====
Hop in the minecart and fall down the hole. Welcome to another Strength puzzle, find the boulder in the bottom right of the map. The solution is in the below image, the red line being the path the boulder needs to take rather than you:
Head through the open gate and ride the minecart into the hole.
From the dropdown point, flip the switch above you and then sent the TNT crate into the new bay. Reset the switch and then flip the one to the south of you to move the TNT crate again.
Repeat this process of flipping levers and moving the TNT cart several more times. Each lever both opens a gate and changes a piece of the track, look around the area to determine which one is which. In order to open the gate circled in the picture below, two levers have to be in their “right” configuration.
Continue with flipping levers and moving the cart around. In order to access the lever circled, run down and around the outside of the track. Complete this to send the TNT cart into the pillar. 
Leave via a rock climb wall on the left side of the area.
With all four TNT carts used, the pillar crumbles. From the black room, head down through the passage in the south wall (where you first entered this room) and then ride the minecart back up towards the strength puzzle. Head to the Rock Climb walls to your northeast and reconvene with Charlotte and Hardy. Head over the rubble using Rock Climb and head into the next room. Congratulations! You’ve completed the first part of Victory road.
The walkthrough continues in Victory Road (Second Area).
==Places of Interest==
===New World (Victory Road)===
==Sidequest and Special Encounters==
===Spirit Sidequest===
===Victini Quest===
==Puzzle Guide==
===3-Category Gem Logic Puzzle===
Solution:
===Victini Quest Gem Logic Puzzle===
The player can skip this puzzle by providing incorrect answers 6 times.
Solution:
==Pokémon==
===Entrance, Atrium 1 (busted)===
===B1F-B2F===
==Battles==
===Wandering Spirit Diana===
Wandering Spirit Diana is battled on a Holy Field in a Single Battle format. 
 
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===Wandering Spirit Jonathan===
Wandering Spirit Jonathan is battled on a Big Top Arena in a Double Battle format.
 
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===Wandering Spirit Lexi===
Wandering Spirit Lexi is battled on a Rainbow Field in a Single Battle format. 
 
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===Wandering Spirit Fezz===
Wandering Spirit Fezz is battled on a Swamp Field in a Single Battle format.
 
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===Wandering Spirit Trevor===
Wandering Spirit Trevor is battled on a Rainbow Field in a Single Battle format.
 
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===Wandering Spirit Cloud===
Wandering Spirit Cloud is battled in an Underwater in a Single Battle format.
 
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===Wandering Spirit Kamina===
Wandering Spirit Kamina is battled in a Chess Board in a Single Battle format.
 
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