List of glitches in Generation IX

This is a list of glitches that occur in the Generation IX core series Pokémon games.

Scarlet and Violet

All versions

Battle glitches

Interrupted cheer deduction glitch

During a Tera Raid Battle, if a cheer is confirmed at the same time as an extra action from a boss is triggered and interrupts the cheer from executing, the number of usable cheers may still be deducted despite the cheer not actually being used.

Missing TM Materials item IDs

There are 23 stubbed items in Pokémon Scarlet and Violet that map to TM Materials for Sprigatito, Fuecoco, Quaxly, Koraidon, Miraidon, the treasures of ruin, and Paradox Pokémon found in the Paldea Pokédex, item IDs 2100-2102 (Sprigatito through Quaxly), 2124-2125 (Koraidon and Miraidon), 2138-2151 (Paradox Pokémon, excluding Walking Wake and Iron Leaves), and 2152-2155 (treasures of ruin).^[1]

If the game attempts to grant these items to the player, such as via the rewards following the completion of a Tera Raid Battle, the game will crash.

Walking Wake and Iron Leaves event raids did attempt to grant bonus drops of TM Materials, however they were unaffected by this glitch due to not having an associated TM Material item ID. 7★ Raid Battles for species not found in Paldea, (such as Charizard), were also unaffected, as they did not have TM Materials in the item pool.

The first instance of this glitch occurred May 19, 00:00 to 02:00 UTC, 2023 with the introduction of Great Tusk and Iron Treads event raids.

May 19, 00:00 to 02:00 UTC, 2023 Poké Portal News event glitches

The item rewards screen of one of the glitched Great Tusk and Iron Treads raids, attempting to display a non-existent TM Material prior to the game crashing.

An announcement for a 7★ Delphox event intended to run from May 25 to 28, 2023 that briefly appeared in the Pokémon HOME calendar on May 21, before being removed from the event calendar.

Main article: Poké Portal News → 2023 → May 19, 00:00 to 02:00 UTC, 2023

Main article: Poké Portal News → 2023 → June 16 to 19, 2023

This event was originally intended to run between May 19, 00:00 UTC to May 21, 23:59 UTC, 2023, but included two notable glitches during its initial introduction on May 19, 2023:

• The item rewards attempted to grant and display TM Materials for Great Tusk and Iron Treads, despite both species not having associated TM Material items. This caused the item rewards screen for some players to display "None" as one of the item rewards, followed by the game crashing.^[2][3]
• All Iron Treads raids with random Tera types were erroneously coded never to appear as Shiny,^[4] despite both versions of Great Tusk, and the Iron Treads with the forced Ground Tera type being able to appear as Shiny at the standard 1:4103.05 odds.

At approximately 02:00 UTC on May 19, 2023,^[5] all event raids were removed from the server, (including the 7★ Chesnaught the Unrivaled event), replaced with completely blank event data for any players that connected during this time. The official Japanese twitter account issued an apology,^[6] but the event was eventually announced as being cancelled entirely.^[7] This is the first instance of a Poké Portal News event being removed from the server entirely to address a glitch.

Additionally, an announcement for a 7★ Delphox event running from May 26, 2023 00:00 UTC to May 28, 2023 23:59 UTC briefly appeared in the Pokémon HOME calendar on May 21, but was removed almost immediately, likely due to the cancellation of the prior event causing scheduling conflicts.

The June 16 to 19, 2023 rescheduled event resolved both aforementioned glitches, with both Great Tusk and Iron Treads no longer attempting to award the glitched TM Materials, and Iron Treads with random Tera Types are no longer prevented from being Shiny.

June 21 to July 2, 2023 Poké Portal News 0 Tera Shards glitch

The item rewards screen of one of the glitched Gimmighoul raids in Pokémon Scarlet, attempting to display "0 Tera Shards" as item rewards due to an null item reward pool.

Main article: Poké Portal News → 2023 → June 21 to July 2, 2023

After June 21, 2023's Nintendo Direct aired, the 25th Tera Raid Battle event featuring Chest Form Gimmighoul was announced. Gimmighoul with various Tera Types appeared in 1-5 Tera Raid Battles from June 21 (15:00 UTC) to July 2 (23:59 UTC), 2023.^[8]

Initially, from 15:00 UTC to approximately 17:30 UTC, there was a glitch in the event data for Pokémon Scarlet. Players with Scarlet who completed the event raids were shown reward screens showing multiple instances of "0 Tera Shards" as a reward, (due to a null item reward pool), and were prevented from joining the raids of Pokémon Violet players, who were unaffected by the bug. New event raid data was uploaded the server shortly after, with Scarlet players who connected online after 17:30 UTC receiving raids with correct reward pools, and being able to join raids hosted by players with Violet.^[9]

No type effectiveness or critical hit messages

If a Pokémon uses a single-target attack move targeting their own ally Pokémon and hits, messages for type effectiveness or critical hits will not show if it otherwise would.

Permanent cheer preservation on fainting

During Tera Raid Battles, if a player faints while the effects of a temporary stat boost from a cheer are active, then the stat boosts will be preserved and permanently applied for the rest of the raid after respawning. This permanent effect does not show as a visible buff in the Battle Info menu unlike the normal cheer effects. This effect can be stacked by using another cheer afterwards to increase the current cheer boost by ×0.5 (with no set maximum like stat stages), and fainting again will preserve the increased stats, while the cheer naturally wearing off after 3 turns will just reset stats back to the state before the cheer was used.^[10]

Swapping Pokémon in multiplayer raids

During multiplayer Tera Raid Battles, occasionally you may be incorrectly using another player's Pokémon with their exact stats and moves, but it will not be replaced permanently after the battle ends.^[11] The model will visually remain the same as the original Pokémon until it faints and respawns.

Tera Raid Battle Zacian glitch

During Tera Raid Battles, if a teammate uses a Zacian holding a Rusted Sword, the Zacian may appear in its Hero of Many Battles form on the field while its health bar icon is its Crowned Sword form. This can result in a Hero of Many Battles Zacian appearing to use Behemoth Blade, as it is actually a Crowned Sword Zacian.

Terapagos battle oversight

During the battle against Terapagos in its Stellar Form, if it is confused by a move such as Dynamic Punch and then breaks its own barrier due to confusion damage, the player can then knock out Terapagos early by dealing enough damage. If this happens, the game will put the battle in an unwinnable state, as the battle script has Terapagos create another barrier, but as its HP was effectively depleted, it is no longer recognized as an active participant of the battle.

Trick Room Female Indeedee

Main article: Game move errors → Unobtainable at the game's release → Unobtainable moves

Female Indeedee using Trick Room during a Tera Raid Battle

The summary page showing the error move Trick Room after capture

In 5★ Tera Raid Battles, female Indeedee has an identical moveset to its male counterpart, which erroneously included the move Trick Room, a move it could not normally learn. When caught, female Indeedee with Trick Room were permitted to be traded online, and participate in the Battle Stadium.

Additionally, while Female Indeedee 5★ raids were initially impossible to host online to other players (displaying an error message when attempting to join them), as of early December 2022 they began permitting other players to host them freely with Trick Room still present in the moveset, despite it still being an error move at the time.

This is currently the only instance of an error move obtainable by the player where the error was corrected by the developers simply allowing it, and eventually integrating it as a feature. As of v2.0.1 of Scarlet and Violet, instead of correcting the erroneous move, Game Freak instead patched the game to add Trick Room to Female Indeedee's TM learnset, effectively rendering it no longer an "error move". However, if the move is forgotten, it can not be relearned without using a TM.

Turn 255+ Move Glitches

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Miscellaneous

Door collision glitches

Some buildings have doors that lack collision, allowing the player to step through them into a small square space on the other side. One such door can be found in Porto Marinada near the eastern entrance to the market.

Memory leak

Due to a memory leak^[12], the longer the game remains open, the more performance issues occur, eventually leading to heap corruption errors, potentially causing crashes, savefile corruption, and a wide variety of glitches.

This can be solved partially by exiting the main map via entering Mesagoza, shops and houses with an interior map, gyms, or Area Zero, or closing and reopening the game periodically.

Once-in-a-Lifetime Ribbon missing logic

Likely due to an oversight, the logic for the Once-in-a-Lifetime Ribbon to be granted to Pokémon is not present in the game. Despite being unobtainable, the official guidebook mentions it is intended to be obtained from Surprise Trade at a 1/100 chance to be applied to traded Pokémon.^[13]

Out-of-bound spawning glitch

Pokémon and items will often spawn in places inaccessible to the player, such as behind walls, below the ground, underwater, or inside objects such as trees, rocks, or buildings.

Picnic glitch

If the player attempts to open a picnic while riding Koraidon/Miraidon on a body of water, they will be brought back to where they've been before entering the body of water.

Pokémon Egg Shiny Roll bug

When breeding, if any personality value rerolls are applied, (such as the additional Shiny rolls provided via the Masuda method or Shiny Charm), the initial roll to generate a personality value is skipped.

This glitch is also present in the core series Generation VIII games.

Premature outbreak and Tera Raid crystal reset bug

Outbreak and Tera Raid crystal may sometime reset themselves without the system's date changing or the player changing the date themselves.

Running speed glitch

On handheld mode, if the player connects a second controller (i.e. a Pro Controller) and hold both joysticks on the attached left Joy-con and second controller diagonally in the same direction, they will run at even faster speed than usual.

Town Map glitch

After the credits roll, the player will be transported to their dorm room in the Naranja Academy^S/Uva Academy^V, but the player's location on the Town Map will still be marked as the Great Crater of Paldea until they leave the academy building.

Texture/model glitches

Clone glitch

	This glitch is in need of research. Reason: Does this happen on all Titans or only the Open Sky Titan? You can discuss this on the talk page.

After defeating a Titan, if the Pokémon that defeated it evolves, it will display two of the Pokémon's model.

Espathra hair texture glitch

Espathra and its Shiny variant, displaying the incorrect hair coloration

When the camera is far from Espathra, its hair, which is normally white, is shown as the same color as its wings.

Glaseado Gym Test texture quirk

Koraidon and Miraidon during the Glaseado Gym Test, with glitched textures

During the Glaseado Gym Test, Koraidon may appear with its body textures heavily desaturated and Miraidon may appear with a white texture across most of its body, apparently missing its typical body textures. This is opposed to a subtle "snow-dusted" texture overlaid on top of their respective correct colorations, which is the intended appearance.

Overworld disguise glitch

Certain Pokémon such as Zorua and Ditto spawn in the overworld disguised as another species. Due to nearby spawns being retained after saving and reloading the game, nearby instances of disguised Pokémon will still be present if the player saves near one, then closes, and reopens the game.

However, when reloading the game, the Pokémon will lose its disguise and appear as the correct species. If encountered in battle, it appears to "transform back into itself", playing the typical animation for losing its disguise, but not changing models.^[14]

Porto Marinada Market reappearing seller glitch

When the player imports certain Pokémon from Pokémon HOME, a seller will appear in Porto Marinada Market to auction off the relevant items for changing the forms of those Pokémon, such as the Reveal Glass and Prison Bottle. The seller will disappear upon the conclusion of the final auction once there are no more items to be sold. However, if the player stands in front of the now-empty stall and triggers a form change that takes place in the overworld, such as using the Griseous Core on Giratina, the seller will reappear during the form change animation and will have no dialogue if she is spoken to.

Texture overlay glitch

In some cases, Pokémon will appear with another texture overlaid across their body.^[15]

User interface glitches

Alcremie form glitch

When an Alcremie is in a Double Battle, its icon on the target selection menu will depict Vanilla Cream Alcremie with a Strawberry Sweet regardless of what form is actually in the battle. This can be easily seen in battles with Lacey, where her Ruby Swirl Alcremie with a Berry Sweet triggers the glitch.

Health bar quirks

During Tera Raid Battles, the health bar of the boss appears inconsistent between participants, and may display an incorrect amount of damage taken, or appear to regain health after being reduced to 0 HP. The last issue commonly occurred when using certain moves such as Play Rough visually displaying more damage than what was actually taken prior to 1.2.0, and the game trying to correct to the real HP value afterwards would make it appear as the boss recovered HP.

A similar issue can happen during the Titan Pokémon battles involving Arven, where if the Titan attacks his Pokémon and the player's Pokémon will hit it as well, but move after the Titan, the HP bar will update to values in the wrong order.

Kofu's Wallet sprite glitch

When the player receives Kofu's Wallet in Cascarrafa, the description window may briefly appear on the screen with the sprite of a Water-type TM instead of the correct sprite, before the window reappears with the correct sprite.

Mass outbreak form display glitch

If a Pokémon has multiple forms that can be found in the wild, the map may display an incorrect form icon when this species appears in a mass outbreak. For example, a Stretchy Form Tatsugiri icon may display for a mass outbreak of Curly Form Tatsugiri.

Minimap out-of-bounds icons glitch

After the game has been open for an extended period of time, the minimap will stop clearing Pokémon icons from the map, causing them to appear out-of-bounds of the minimap rather than vanishing when the player is out of range.

Negative number revival timer glitch

When going to the HOME menu during a raid while the revival timer is active and the raid continues in the background, and returning after the Pokémon has been revived, the revival timer may stay visible and count down into negative numbers. When it reaches -100, it will appear as -?0, with a ? in the tens digit.

Slow 300 HP bar animation glitch

When taking damage or healing to a result of exactly 300 HP, the HP bar will animate slower than normal.

Tera Blast type effectiveness glitch

If a Pokémon is Terastallized during a battle, other Pokémon on the player's team who know Tera Blast may have Tera Blast's type or effectiveness display in menus as if they were the Pokémon that was Terastallized, based on their own Tera Type.

TM list glitch

When teaching a Pokémon a move using the "Use TMs to learn moves" option on the status screen, if the last TM on the list is used, the cursor will highlight a blank space on the list after teaching the move. This is due to the used TM disappearing from the list, but the cursor not adjusting to highlight the TM above it despite it becoming the last one in the list.

Typeless summary glitch

When viewing the summary screen of a Pokémon that is currently typeless, the game will crash.^[16]

Prior to v3.0.1

Dragon Cheer glitch

When a Pokémon under the effect of Dragon Cheer was switched out of battle and then reentered that battle, its attacks would still have a heightened chance of landing critical hits. This glitch was fixed in v3.0.1.

Input lock glitch

When levelling up Inkay using candy while it is under Level 30, the game would stop receiving inputs from the controllers. This glitch was fixed in v.3.0.1.

Item Printer glitch

After players installed the Item Printer in the League Club Room, under certain circumstances, they could get stuck between the Item Printer and the wall. This glitch was fixed in v.3.0.1.

Smeargle cloning glitch

If the player lures a Smeargle very close to a tree in the Terarium, has the wild Smeargle use Sketch to Sketch the move Transform, then has the wild Smeargle use Transform, if the player then runs away from the battle, the Smeargle will become a clone of the Pokémon it transformed into, and the player can then re-encounter the clone in a battle to capture it. The clone will disappear from the overworld if the game is saved and restarted if it is not caught.

Much like the curry cloning glitch, most aspects of the original Pokémon will stay the same (including its held item and any ribbons or marks), but info about where and how it was caught, and the info about who caught it will be overwritten. Furthermore, by having the wild Smeargle transform into certain battle-only forms, such as Terastal Form Terapagos or Hero Form Palafin, the clone will be able to sustain these forms outside of battle where they otherwise wouldn't be until the clone is placed in the PC or until the game is restarted.

Stellar Form Terapagos and Ogerpon in its Terastallized State cannot be cloned, as Transform fails against those targets. However, the player can still Terastallize clones of Ogerpon and Terapagos to use said forms.

Using this glitch, it's possible to clone Pokémon obtained through the NPC trades in the BB League Club Room, and since OT and ID data is overwritten upon capturing a clone, but ribbons and marks are copied, the Partner Ribbon is able to be obtained on a Pokémon the game considers to be the players, allowing any OT to be a Pokémon's title.

The Pokémon HOME tracker value will also be copied if the original Pokémon had one, so clones made from this glitch cannot be used there in those cases.

This glitch was fixed in v.3.0.1, by making the move Transform fail if used by wild Smeargle in this scenario.

TM223 required material glitch

In Pokémon Scarlet, one of the TM materials needed to craft TM223 required Shieldon Claws, despite Shieldon and Bastiodon being exclusive to Pokémon Violet, making it impossible to craft this TM in this game. This glitch was fixed in v.3.0.1.

Prior to v3.0.0

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Prior to v2.0.2

Paradise Protection Protocol battle glitch

During the battle against the Paradise Protection Protocol's Koraidon/Miraidon, if the player has these Pokémon registered to the Paldea Pokédex, the game will crash when hovering over slot 4, 5 or 6 when viewing their party. This was fixed in v2.0.2.

Prior to v2.0.1

Itemfinder Mark missing logic

Likely due to an oversight, the logic for the Itemfinder Mark to be granted to Pokémon was not present in the game^[17]. Despite it being unobtainable prior to v2.0.1., Hassel erroneously mentions it as being obtainable during one of his Art classes at the Naranja Academy^S/Uva Academy^V.

In v2.0.1., the Itemfinder Mark can be awarded as intended.^[18]

Tera Raid missing players glitch

During multi-player Tera Raid Battles, other players that join may not appear to the host player, instead showing an empty player slot, despite having all available player slots filled. This was fixed in v2.0.1.

Prior to v1.3.1

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Prior to v1.3.0

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Prior to v1.2.0

Destiny Bond Terastallization glitch

If a Pokémon uses Destiny Bond and Terastallizes on the next turn, Destiny Bond won't cause the attacker to faint. This is a bug and was fixed in the Version 1.2.0 update.

February 27 to March 12, 2023 Poké Portal News Bad Egg

Bad Egg as a result of catching a Walking Wake or Iron Leaves in v1.1.0 of Scarlet or Violet

Main article: Poké Portal News → 2023 → February 27 to March 12, 2023

The Poké Portal News event on February 27 to March 12, 2023 introduced Walking Wake and Iron Leaves in 5★ Tera Raid Battles. However, it was possible to update the Poké Portal News event data while still remaining on Scarlet or Violet v1.1.0, causing incorrect event data to be generated.

If the player attempted to join a 5★ event raid after going online in v1.1.0 during this period, these raids would result in a Bad Egg instead, due to the lack of species data existing in v1.1.0. These Bad Eggs cannot be hatched, released, or traded, and also set the flag for having caught Walking Wake or Iron Leaves, causing the player to be unable to attempt to catch another. Updating the game to v1.2.0 does not result in the Bad Egg becoming the correct species.^[19]

This glitch was partially fixed in Scarlet and Violet v1.3.0, which released April 20, 2023, with v1.3.0 detecting any Bad Eggs present in the savefile and resetting the respective capture flag(s) if a player had obtained a Bad Egg, Additionally, a repeat of the event was scheduled for May 1 to 14, 2023 as a direct response ^[20] to the issue, allowing affected players another chance to capture a Walking Wake and/or Iron Leaves.

v1.3.0 also made a change to how Poké Portal News event data was stored, now storing it under version specific blocks in the savefile, preventing event data from a newer game version from being accessed by the player on an outdated game version, hypothetically preventing the original glitch from occurring again in the future.

Despite the v1.3.0 patch notes^[21] claiming to fully resolve the issue, while the patch does properly detect the presence of Bad Eggs, any Bad Eggs obtained during the aforementioned glitched raid event continue to persist in the player's storage after updating to v1.3.0, without any method of removing them, as they still cannot be traded, released, or hatched.

Order Up glitch

If a Dondozo with a Tatsugiri in its mouth uses the move Order Up, the move will increase one of Dondozo's stats even if the move is negated (eg. via Protect). This is a bug and was fixed in the Version 1.2.0 update.

Persistent model glitch

After the game has been open for an extended period of time, the last previously loaded model will remain loaded during cutscenes or interior locations, often appearing as a Poké Ball or Pokémon placed arbitrarily in the middle of a room, or near the entrance of an interior location.

This was partially resolved in v1.2.0, apparently fixing the appearance of glitched Poké Ball models, however some Pokémon models still appear to persist in areas such as Tera Raid Battles and inside buildings.

Ribbon/Mark menu glitch

In the Party and Box menus, the Ribbons and Marks earned by a Pokémon are not displayed properly, and can only be viewed and equipped when the summary menu is accessed from the party.^[22]

TM014 Thumbnail oversight

The Thumbnail preview for TM014 (Acrobatics) mistakenly had remnants of a developer debugging menu. This was corrected in v.1.2.0.

Uncatchable Transformed Ditto glitch

Prior to v1.2.0, if a wild Ditto used Transform to transform into the alternate form of any species, (specifically a form with an index value other than "0"), it would cause the catch rate of the Ditto to become 0, making it impossible to catch with any Poké Ball except the Heavy Ball or Master Ball. This was fixed in v1.2.0, always using Ditto's correct catch rate of 35, regardless of what species/form it is currently transformed into.^[23]

Prior to v1.1.0

Elite Four Music glitch

During the Elite Four battles, the brief intro of the background music played on a persistent loop throughout rather than playing the entire music. This was fixed in v1.1.0.

Online battle RNG glitch

During online matches, the same RNG seed was used for every battle, causing many "random" actions to be completely predictable, such as the accuracy checks for whether OHKO moves like Sheer Cold would be successful during a turn.^[24][25]

Sleep Status visual glitch

When a Pokémon is afflicted by the sleep status condition, its eyes would remain open. This was fixed in v1.1.0.

Prior to v1.0.1

Multiplayer Tera Raid Shiny sparkle glitch

During a Multiplayer Tera Raid Battle, if another player brings out a shiny Pokémon, the sparkling animation will only be displayed on the player's own Pokémon. This was fixed in v1.0.1.

Sylveon type flag oversight

Due to an oversight, Sylveon has the same flag as Arceus and Silvally, which prevents its type from being changed. This was fixed in v1.0.1.^[26]

References

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