Pokémon Sword and Shield Glimwood Tangle - available Pokémon, items and trainers

Glimwood Tangle is a dimly lit forest route, and follows on from Stow-on-Side and the Gym battle with Bea or Allister in your quest through Pokémon Sword and Shield's main story.

On each page of our walkthrough like this, we'll cover any and all of the obtainable Pokémon, item locations, trainers and their teams that you might come across here, as well as walking you through any key steps of the story, puzzles or challenges along the way.

Where applicable, note that our walkthrough pages will be down into separate sections referring to each of your visits to a given location, seeing as you often backtrack or revisit various places in your quest to become Galar League Champion. And of course if there are any, we'll clearly mark any spoilers, too!

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Pokémon Sword and Shield: Glimwood Tangle - available Pokémon, items and trainers

The Glimwood Tangle is a lot simpler than it seems at first, don't worry. There are a handful of items and interesting wild Pokémon to catch here, plus a couple of trainers, as usual, and that's about it!

The main thing to note is that you can touch the glowing mushrooms to make them light up, helping you out with visibility - although it's still light enough to see what you're doing without using the mushrooms anyway. Touch a pink one, mind, and you'll probably end up in a battle with a cheeky little Impidimp.

To collect everything in the Glimwood Tangle, here's what to do:

1. Go left from the entrance, battle a cook, and then go down through the grass, which takes you on a loop to the left and back to that trainer again, then go back to the entrance area.
2. Now go right, collect the hidden item by the big tree stump, and up to the double battle. Hang left in front of them to a dead end for an item.
3. Go up and left from either the double battle or the item (it doesn't matter which). There's a single battle there, and then you can go down for a quick loop left.
4. After that lower loop, go left again but this time for a loop taking you upwards, with a ledge to jump off.
5. After jumping down those two ledges at the top of that second loop, head right and up to the exit. Simple!

If you want the shortest route through, just hand right all the way and go straight up - it's dead easy!

Available Pokémon

Available Items

Trainers and Battles

With it finally in the wild, here's how to start the Crown Tundra DLC and our full Pokémon Crown Tundra walkthrough. Plus, here's how to catch Calyrex, Glastrier and Spectrier, the Regieleki and Regidrago puzzle solution and Regirock, Regice, Registeel locations, details on how to catch Legendary Birds Articuno, Zapdos and Moltres in the Crown Tundra, the Ultra Beasts and Necrozma adventure, Dynamax Adventures, including the legendries you can catch on these adventures, and the new Crown Tundra Pokédex and returning Pokémon explained. For Isle of Armor players, here's how to find the Slowpoke, where to find Max Mushroom locations, and how to get Kubfu, become best friends and evolve it, plus all Diglett locations too! For the base game, here's info on the ability to transfer Pokémon to Pokémon Home, the Wild Area, lists of all TM locations and TRs, all Galarian forms and finally our main Pokémon Sword and Shield walkthrough for the whole game.

That's everything here for now, so continue on to Ballonlea for the next steps in your quest, or cycle back to our main Pokémon Sword and Shield walkthrough and guide hub for all the other pages we have like this.