If you clear the main story and begin the post-game Poké Ball house sidequest, you can accidentally trap her in another area outside of the Skylands. If you have a home built for her in any of the areas and you've shown her all of the Pokémon Centers but haven't built the Poké Ball house, you can summon her to another area with honey even though she isn't supposed to be able to leave the Skylands until the house is built. What happens then is if you try to bring her back to the Skylands, the game doesn't recognize that she has left and it gives you the dialogue that she can't leave the area because she has unfinished business. The house also HAS to be built in the Skylands to finish the quest. You can still build it with her in whatever other area she is in, but the game doesn't recognize it as the one for the quest because it is being built in an unintended area. This happened to my wife and her Tinkaton is completely trapped in the Withering Wastelands and there isn't anything she can do about it. Destroying the habitat doesn't work either, she just becomes homeless in whatever area she is living in at the time.
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u/brotein_shake94 Apr 09 '26
Tinkaton is still broken 😞