Pokémon Pokopia specialties & jobs — Pokémon by role
Specialties are the jobs your Pokémon perform in Pokémon Pokopia — Build, Gather, Crush, Grow, Chop, and more. Open any card to see the full roster with that specialty, compare how deep each pool is, and pick efficient helpers for your Nintendo Switch 2 island.
31 specialty types · 441 Pokémon–specialty listings
Appraise
Appraises Lost Relics you find and converts them into rare furniture pieces.
Build
Leads blueprint construction—every large structure needs a Build Pokémon on the crew.
Bulldoze
Clears and reshapes ground; required to rebuild Pokémon Centers and can relocate buildings with the right kits.
Burn
Lights campfires and torches, powers smelting (glass, ingots), fires clay into bricks, and can help change the weather.
Chop
Turns logs into lumber—core material for almost everything you build.
Collect
Trades appraised Lost Relics for furniture and accepts Mysterious Feathers from certain Legendaries.
Crush
Supports big builds; feed berries or food for colored paint, and later run the mixer for cement.
DJ
Spins your in-game CDs as a playlist—pairs well with Hype Pokémon for mood.
Dream Island
Unlocks trips to Dream Islands for unique resources, dolls, and exploration.
Eat
Mosslax's daily meals grant buffs—rarer finds or different wild spawns depending on what you feed.
Engineer
Tinkaton speeds huge projects and crafts Tinkagears from iron for lifts, elevators, and late-game builds.
Explode
Load Voltorb into cannons to blast large rock clusters and clear space fast.
Fly
When you mark a Pokémon in the Pokédex Search, Fly can carry you straight to them.
Gather
With a Community Box nearby, collects useful litter and drops other Pokémon leave around habitats.
Gather Honey
Vespiquen takes honey from you and trades it back for special furniture.
Generate
Jolts lights and machines with electricity—automatically or while following you.
Grow
Speeds up nearby crops and plants—your go-to farming helper.
Hype
Dances to music to lift area mood—needed for story beats and certain Mythical unlocks.
Illuminate
Peakychu can light up an entire town—central to the Bleak Beach storyline.
Litter
Leaves useful debris (honey, fluff, vine rope, clay, ore, stone, and more) for Gather Pokémon to pick up.
Paint
Recolors furniture and adds patterns when you bring paint and pieces to a Smeargle specialist.
Party
Chef Dente runs big-pot feasts and can help you get extra dishes when you cook together.
Rarify
Spend Star Pieces for Rare Pokémetal—key for the 3D printer and some Legendary-related crafts.
Recycle
Turns Nonburnable Glass into iron ore and Wastepaper into paper at recycling stations.
Search
With the Dowsing Machine, highlights buried spots hiding relics, CDs, fossils, and slates.
Storage
Gulpin and Swalot stash materials you can still use at workbenches without filling your pockets.
Teleport
Same idea as Fly—warp to a Pokémon you've located with Pokédex Search (Psychic style).
Trade
Runs a personal shop at a powered cash register with stock that refreshes over time.
Transform
Ditto borrows other species' specialties to help rebuild and explore the island.
Water
Waters plants, washes away mud, and can invoke rain to tweak biome humidity.
Yawn
Slowpoke reads humidity—handy for tuning comfort for moisture-loving Pokémon.