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==Outbreak==
Isn't this called swarming in the games? [[User:Fabu-Vinny|FabuVinny]] 09:55, 22 January 2006 (CST)

I think it was called that in the Gen II games, but then a trainer you exchanged phone numbers with would call you to tell you the good news :/ [[User:Manga-in-a-bottle|Manga-in-a-bottle]] 06:04, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
:So then... why do [[swarms]] and this have separate pages? '''[[User:TTEchidna|<span style="color:#FF0000;">T</span>]][[User talk:TTEchidna|<span style="color:#FF0000;">T</span>]][[wp:Echidna|<span style="color:#FF0000;">E</span><span style="color:#0000FF;">chidna</span>]]''' 23:39, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

==Groups==
I'm under the impression that people in the same group will have swarms on the same day. 
Can anyone confirm this?
:Well, um, one of my friends and I had superheavy rain on {{rt|212}} on the same day, and we're in the same group. '''[[User:TTEchidna|<span style="color:#FF0000">TTE</span>]][[User talk:TTEchidna|<span style="color:#0000FF">chidna</span>]]''' 13:14, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
::Superheavy rain? Same group? What do you mean? [[Image:Ani164MS.gif]][[User:Shiny Noctowl|<span style="color: #221202">S</span><span style="color: #550E01">h</span><span style="color: #880901">i</span><span style="color: #CC0500">n</span><span style="color: #FF0000">y</span>]]<sup>[[User talk:Shiny Noctowl|<span style="color: #221202">?</span>]][[Special:Contributions/Shiny Noctowl|<span style="color: #FF0000">!</span>]]</sup> 13:17, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
::: Yes, people in the same group experience the same Swarms. We've taken advantage of this several time to let each other know if we run into a swarm the other might be interested in. --[[User:Phred|Phred]] 04:01, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

== Okay, this is enough... ==

Is Tangela a swarmer or not? Is Tropius in the Safari Zone or not? Seriously. '''[[User:TTEchidna|<span style="color:#FF0000">TTE</span>]][[User talk:TTEchidna|<span style="color:#0000FF">chidna</span>]]''' 13:15, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
:No they aren't. Check <span class="plainlinks">[http://veekun.com veekun]</span>. Veekun's data is taken straight from the games, so it's guaranteed to be correct. [[Image:Ani164MS.gif]][[User:Shiny Noctowl|<span style="color: #221202">S</span><span style="color: #550E01">h</span><span style="color: #880901">i</span><span style="color: #CC0500">n</span><span style="color: #FF0000">y</span>]]<sup>[[User talk:Shiny Noctowl|<span style="color: #221202">?</span>]][[Special:Contributions/Shiny Noctowl|<span style="color: #FF0000">!</span>]]</sup> 13:17, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

== Um... ==

Shouldn't this article also cover swarming in the GSC games and the RSE games as well? Because I distinctly remember getting calls of certain Pokémon from certain people in GSC and seeing news coverages in RSE. - PDL

:Yeah, I think the same... swarms DO exist in previous games, althought not in the same way they do in D/P. My cousin, who has Sapphire mixed records with my brother (who has Ruby) and then a TV report was saying that there was a {{p|Seedot}} swarm on {{rt|114}}, which obviously was strange, cause Seedot can't be caught in Sapphire. I think there should be info added on this too. '''[[User:Hfc2x|<span style="color:#008800">h</span><span style="color:#000000">fc</span>]][[User talk:Hfc2x|<span style="color:#000000">2</span><span style="color:#008800">X</span>]]''' 20:28, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

::Actually, this happened to me too. You're the first one, excluding me of course, who I know having a Seedot swarm. This happened to me, though, without any recent link cable activity. [[User:UltimateSephiroth|UltimateSephiroth]] 12:35, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

:::Should this article have the information on swarms from HGSS? --DSDark 15:49, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
::::Yes, of course it should. If you have the information put it on the page. &mdash;'''<span style="font-family:Verdana"><span style="color:#000">darklord</span>[[User talk:The dark lord trombonator|<span style="color:#0047AB">trom</span>]]</span>''' 20:04, 6 October 2009 (UTC)

== Mass Outbreak ==

Hayley refers to Swarms as a "Mass Outbreak". Should the article be moved to this? -[[User:Sketchies|Sketchies]] 12:44, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

:My official player's guide also refers to this as "Mass Outbreak".  ~[[User:SaturnYoshi|<font color="midnightblue" face="comic sans ms">'''$aturn'''</font>]][[User:SaturnYoshi|<font color="green" face="comic sans ms">'''¥oshi'''</font>]] <sup>[[User talk:SaturnYoshi|<font color="maroon">THE VOICES</font>]]</sup> 18:20, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
::Ought it be capitalized... like that? The o's not very important... '''[[User:TTEchidna|<span style="color:#FF0000">''TTE''</span>]][[User talk:TTEchidna|chidna]]''' 06:18, 3 January 2009 (UTC)
:::I dunno, tell GameFreak/Nintendo/whoever. It's not like we made up the capitalization.--[[User:Urutapu|Ｌｏｖｅはドコ？]] ([[User talk:Urutapu|talk]] <small>•</small> [[Special:Contributions/Urutapu|contribs]]) 07:17, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

== Wrong! ==
 
It says that you can only find Dunsparce lv 16 but i recently captured one on platinum that was a lv 18! Is this a typo?--[[User:Sorou|sorou]] 01:03, 30 December 2009 (UTC) I've caught 4 so far, 2 male and 2 female, all lv 18!!!--[[User:Sorou|sorou]] 01:03, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

==HGSS==
I was going crazy looking for something that would tell me how to get the swarms in HeartGold and SoulSilver... Finally, I went to Serebii.net where it said that by going to Pokemon Talk radio channel it would tell me what swarms were happening and where. Is this correct? shouldn't it have this info on here..?--[[User:Moretacos|Moretacos]] 17:46, 26 April 2010 (UTC)
:Yes, that is correct, and yes, it should be in the article. It is mentioned in the radio section of the Pokégear article, but unless you are just searching you wouldn't find that.  <sc>[[User:Werdnae|<span style="color:#2D4B98;">Werdnae</span>]]</sc> <small>[[User talk:Werdnae|<span style="color:#009000;">(talk)</span>]]</small> 18:23, 26 April 2010 (UTC)

== Black and White outbreak ==

I don't have much data yet, but it seemed that outbreak Pokémon do not appear in dark grass patches.

Can't confirm the above, since so far it has been in sand for me ( route 4 ) But I will confirm probably 15-55 for levels.  I got ( in order ) levels of 35,16,24,19,51
([[User:Chromehawk|Chromehawk]] 07:01, 17 April 2011 (UTC))

==Outbreak triggers in RSE==
Does anyone know what triggers an outbreak in RSE? I got a notice of one in Emerald (Skitty, which I already had *groan*) right after defeating the Elite Four, but I haven't had another notice of one since, in over a week. I want Surskit! Do you have to be playing at a specific time of day and check a TV at the right time? [[User:Pdf23ds|Pdf23ds]] 18:15, 17 April 2011 (UTC)
:I think it's just because you're unlucky. Have you been playing it often, because RSE relies on its own game clock iirc. It's [[User:Turtwig A|Turtwig A]]! [[User talk:Turtwig A|My talk]] or [[Special:Contributions/Turtwig A|wiki edits]] 18:19, 17 April 2011 (UTC)

== List Order ==

Do these lists ''need'' to be in Pokédex order? I would think it would be much more useful to have them in order by route number, as you're much more likely to be looking up "the game's telling me where something's swarming, but not what" than "where is a particular thing swarming, if today should happen to be the day I'm looking for it". I tried adding a <code>class="sortable"</code> to the table, but that didn't sort it correctly (probably because of all the templates?). Anyways, just wondering what the most useful order for each list would be. --[[User:DarkfireTaimatsu|DarkfireTaimatsu]] 04:52, 18 April 2011 (UTC)
:Order on Bulbapedia is ''always'' National Dex unless there's a valid reason otherwise. And by route number would just be arbitrary. No one searches for the Pokémon they can find by mass outbreak by where they're found, they search what Pokémon they wanna find first. '''[[User:TTEchidna|<span style="color:#FF0000">''TTE''</span>]][[User talk:TTEchidna|chidna]]''' 05:13, 18 April 2011 (UTC)
::Actually, I do tend to check by route number. I'd rather see if the Pokémon swarming currently is one I need, resetting only if it isn't, than resetting until I get a specific Pokémon, for which I only have a 1/18 chance (in B/W; the chance is even lower in Gen. IV games). Route number would also assist by grouping version-differing swarms, making it easier to tell which Pokémon correspond. So no, I don't think it's "arbitrary". --[[User:AndyPKMN|Andy<sup>P</sup><sub>K</sub><sup>M</sup><sub>N</sub>]] [[User talk:AndyPKMN|(talk)]] 12:10, 18 April 2011 (UTC)

==Save/Reset Question==

WHEN does the swarm get reset between saves in B/W?
Can you save AFTER you play but BEFORE you check the swarm--
and if you do, will it still change?
In other words, here's my sitch from this morning:
I saved in Icirrus last night but wanted to swarm check before doing anything else.  So I had to fly to Opelucid to the nearest Guard Station to check the board.  *IF* I had opened the game and flown to Opelucid, *SAVED* in Opelucid BEFORE checking the board, THEN checked, would the swarm still have changed with each soft reset thereafter or would I have to wait 'til tomorrow?
Any help with this matter is *greatly* appreciated!
[[User:ArtemiSerebii|ArtemiSerebii]] 08:28 AM (EDT) May 6th, 2011
:Now comments to the bottom please. I assume that it will be like Gen IV, where it is selected some time prior to the change of date, such that neither soft resetting nor changing the DS clock will change the swarming Pokémon. <span class="sc">[[User:Werdnae|<span style="color:#2D4B98;">Werdnae</span>]]</span> <small>[[User talk:Werdnae|<span style="color:#009000;">(talk)</span>]]</small> 04:55, 7 May 2011 (UTC)