Obscure Pokemon Facts

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#369. In a cutscene in the ending of Pokémon X and Y, a 6th form of Floette is seen, the Eternal Flower Floette.

Although not seen at any other point or in any other game, full data for a usable Eternal Flower Floette exists in the data of Generations VI and VII, including sprites, shiny sprites and a menu sprite, its own unique cry, base stats different to regular Floette, the ability to learn the exclusive move Light of Ruin at level 50, and in Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon, its own Pokédex entry separate from regular Floette. It also cannot evolve nor can it produce eggs. (X)(X)

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#422. In Pokémon Stadium, every time the Player beats the Rival at the end of Gym Leader Castle, they will be given 1 of 8 random Pokémon as reward.

All 8 of the Pokémon given are Pokémon that can only be obtained once per Generation I game, namely: Bulbasaur, Charmander, Squirtle, Hitmonlee, Hitmonchan, Eevee, Omanyte, and Kabuto. (X)

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#421. Between Version 1.0 and 1.1 of the English version of Pokémon FireRed, Tyranitar had its Pokédex entry completely replaced.

In FireRed Version 1.0 (as well as all versions of LeafGreen) Tyranitar's Pokédex entry is copied from Pokémon Silver:

Its body can't be harmed by any sort of attack, so it is very eager to make challenges against enemies.

In Version 1.1 Tyranitar is given a brand new Pokédex entry:

It has an impudent nature. Having great strength, it can even change surrounding landforms.

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#420. Although the Pokémon that appear in Pokémon FireRed/LeafGreen and Pokémon Emerald's unused Altering Cave event are identical in all three games, the Pokémon that appear in Emerald's are also programmed with a 5% chance of holding a rare item.

Mareep have a chance to hold a Ganlon Berry, Aipom and Shuckle have a chance to hold a Berry Juice, Pineco have a chance to hold an Apicot Berry, Teddiursa and Stantler have a chance to hold a Petaya Berry, Houndour have a chance to hold a Big Mushroom, and Smeargle have a chance to hold a Salac Berry. (X)

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#A14. In Pokémon Red and Blue, if the Player takes a Vaporeon, Jolteon, Flareon, Dratini, Dragonair, and Dragonite to Bill's Sea Cottage on Route 25 before helping him turn back into a human, the Player will be allowed to enter the area behind the Sea Cottage, allowing them to catch rare PokéGods such as Sapusaur, Rainer, and Pikablu. (X)

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#419. In Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver, if the Player doesn't choose Giratina at the Sinjoh Ruins, and chooses either Dialga or Palkia instead, it will become impossible to obtain Origin Forme Giratina and its respective Forme-changing Griseous Orb.

This is because the Griseous Orb held by the Giratina obtained in the Sinjoh Ruins cannot be found anywhere else in the game, and with both Origin Forme Giratina, and the Griseous Orb being untradeable in Generation IV, any Player who didn't choose Giratina here will be unable to ever obtain Origin Forme Giratina. (X)

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#418. Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl are the first main series games since Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire to not introduce any new Pokémon, and the first since Pokémon Crystal to not introduce any new Pokémon or form(e)s. (X)

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#417. In Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver, the higher the friendship of the Player's walking Pokémon, the higher the chance of getting a bite when fishing. (X)

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#416. In Pokémon Crystal, Generation III, and Generation V onwards, increasing a Pokémon's friendship is more effective when at the same location the Player first met said Pokémon.

In Pokémon Crystal, the amount of friendship gained is doubled when levelling up only, whereas in Generation III and Generation V onwards, any friendship gains will be boosted by 1. (X)

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#415. Between Japanese Pokémon Red and Green and International Pokémon Red and Blue, the gender of the Nidoran traded on the Underground Path were switched.

In the Japanese versions, a Nidoran♀ is traded for a Nidoran♂. In International versions, a Nidoran♂ is traded for a Nidoran♀ instead. (X)

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#414. Internal files found in Pokémon HOME shows unused cry data for second forms of both Jynx and Celesteela.

Although Celesteela's second form cry uses the default Bulbasaur cry, Jynx's second form has a unique cry and uses the same reverb as Mega Evolution forms.

This unused cry, as well as the fact that the cry's file name matches the naming convention as other Mega Evolution's crys, indicates Mega Jynx may have been planned at one point. (X)(X)

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#413. In Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl, each time a Spinda is entered into a Pokémon Contest, it will have a different random pattern of spots regardless of the Player's Spinda's pattern.

This is because when a Pokémon Contest is first started, and the four entered Pokémon are generated, only the species, form, gender, and shinyness from the Player's Pokémon are preserved.

The PID/Encryption Constant is instead generated at random, thus causing Spinda's PID/EC-reliant spots to also be random. (X)

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#412. In Pokémon Scarlet and Violet's "The Indigo Disk" DLC, the Terapagos the Player encounters towards the end is always male.

However, Terapagos actually has a 50:50 male to female ratio, but the only Terapagos the Player encounters in "The Indigo Disk" is programmed so that it will be male 100% of the time. (X)

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#411. For the original Japanese release of the Base Set Pikachu TCG card, Pikachu is depicted with yellow cheeks, and this colour is carried over to the English translation of Base Set Pikachu.

However for the 1st Edition print and the "Shadowless" Unlimited print of the English Base Set Pikachu, Pikachu is actually depicted with red cheeks instead, before being changed back to Yellow for subsequent Unlimited prints. (X)

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#410. Pokémon Scarlet and Violet are the only main series Pokémon games where Zubat and Golbat are completely unobtainable, even through trading.

These are also the first main series games where Crobat is completely unobtainable since Generation I. (X)(X)(X)

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#409. Although official Korean-language translations of the Generation IV games were released, they cannot trade to non Korean-language Generation IV games as Korean-language characters do not exist in any of the other-language games.

This does not prevent Pokédex completion however, as all Pokémon not natively found in the Generation IV games had event distributions for the Korean-language games. (X)(X)(X)

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#A13. In Pokémon Red and Blue, if the Player catches a Lickitung in an Ultra Ball, adds it to their Party and heads to the exact spot where Snorlax was blocking the bridge east of Vermillion City, then once there turns their Game Boy upside down and uses a Rare Candy on the Lickitung, it will evolve into Pokémon #160, Luigi. (X)