Which Pokémon serves as the game’s environmental researcher in Pokémon Pokopia?

Professor Tangrowth serves as Pokémon Pokopia’s environmental researcher. This Tangrowth studies the damaged world and helps investigate why humans and Pokémon left it.

The character plays a role that echoes the professor figures familiar from Pokémon stories, but Professor Tangrowth is not a human scientist. Tangrowth is a Pokémon, and the character’s title reflects a self-appointed research mission in the abandoned landscape.

Professor Tangrowth meets the transformed Ditto and becomes an important guide to the world’s mystery. Together, they examine the environment and encounter Pokémon that need help as habitats are restored. The investigation therefore connects the game’s story to its building and community systems.

Players may confuse the character with Professor Oak because Oak is the best-known Pokémon professor and is closely associated with Kanto. In Pokopia, however, the researcher linked to the environmental mystery is specifically Professor Tangrowth.