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Missingno. けつばん Ketsuban

Missingno.'s Yellow form

Type Category  Bird  Normal  Red/Blue  Normal  999  Yellow ??? Pokémon Hexadecimal identifier Exp. at Lv. 100 1F, 20, 32, 34, 38, 3D, 3E, 43, 44, 45, 4F, 50, 51, 56, 57, 5E, 5F, 73, 79, 7A, 7F, 86, 87, 89, 8C, 92, 9C, 9F, A0, A1, A2, AC, AE, AF, B5, B6, B7, B8 Unknown Pokédex National #000 Johto #— Hoenn #— Sinnoh #— Unova (BW) #— Unova (B2W2) #— Games found in Red, Blue, and Yellow Special stat for Mew glitch Time Capsule exploit Pokémon 31, 32, 50, 52, 56, 61, 62, 63, 67, 68, 69, 79, 80, 81, 86, 87, 94, 95, 115, 121, 122, 127, 134, 135, 137, 140, 146, 156, 159, 160, 161, 162, 172, 174, 175, 181, 182, 183, 184 N/A Height Weight 10'0" 3507.2 lbs. Hybrid of Catch rate N/A 3 Gender ratio Unknown Egg Groups Egg cycles Unknown Unknown EV yield HP ? Atk ? Def ? Sp.Atk ? Sp.Def ? Speed ? Exp. ?

Missingno. (Japanese: けつばん Ketsuban) is a dual-type Bird/Normal glitch Pokémon in Red and Blue, and a dual-type Normal/999 glitch Pokémon in Yellow Version. Due to the ease of which it can be found, it is one of the best-known glitch Pokémon.

In later generations, other glitch Pokémon are referred to as "a Missingno.", despite there being little relation to the one found in Red and Blue or Yellow Version.

Missingno.'s cry is the game's equivalent of a "blank" cry: a Nidoran♂'s voice with a pitch of 0 and no echo. However, a few Missingno. have different cries.

If Missingno.'s Pokédex data is viewed, it will consist of a very long string of glitchy sounds, much like .4 or h POKé's entries. However, unlike their entries, Missingno.'s does not lock up the game.

Forms

The five forms of Missingno. (clockwise from left: normal, Ghost, Aerodactyl, Yellow, Kabutops)

Normal form

Missingno. normal form has a sprite that is a strange block of glitched pixels in a backward-L shape. Due to the larger number of characters that can be used to make it appear, it is the most common form. Normal form is exclusive to Red and Blue Versions.

• This form appears through the old man glitch if the character in the third, fifth, or seventh slot of the player's name is the end of name marker, G, H, J, M, S, T, :, ], a, b, c, m, o, p, or v.
• This form appears through the Mew glitch with a special stat of 31, 32, 50, 52, 56, 61, 62, 63, 67, 68, 69, 79, 80, 81, 86, 87, 94, 95, 115, 121, 122, 127, 134, 135, 137, 140, 146, 156, 159, 160, 161, 162, 172, 174, 175 or 181.

Kabutops fossil form

Missingno. Kabutops fossil form uses the sprite of the Kabutops fossil found in the Pewter Museum of Science.

• This form appears through the old man glitch if w is the character in the third, fifth, or seventh slot of the player's chosen name.
• This form appears through the Mew glitch with a special stat of 182.

Aerodactyl fossil form

Missingno. Aerodactyl fossil form uses the sprite of the Aerodactyl fossil found in the Pewter Museum of Science.

• This form appears through the old man glitch if x is the character in the third, fifth, or seventh slot of the player's chosen name.
• This form appears through the Mew glitch with a special stat of 183.

Ghost form

Missingno. Ghost form uses the sprite of the Ghost found in Pokémon Tower if the player does not have the Silph Scope.

• This form appears through the old man glitch if y is the character in the third, fifth, or seventh slot of the player's chosen name.
• This form appears through the Mew glitch with a special stat of 184.

Yellow Version form

Missingno. Yellow Version form is Normal/999, whereas Missingno. forms in Red and Blue Versions are Bird/Normal. It uses the palette of Pikachu, and so appears as a yellow and red glitched box. It also causes glitches that Missingno. in Red and Blue Versions did not. If caught, it will cause graphical glitches, possibly rendering the player invisible and making duplicates of the player and all other on-screen characters walk in random locations on the screen. Yellow form is exclusive to Yellow Version.

• This form does not appear through the old man glitch, as the old man glitch was removed in Yellow Version.
• This form appears through the Mew glitch with a special stat of 31, 32, 61, 62, 63, 67, 68, 69 or 86.

Glitches caused

Examples of corrupted Hall of Fame entries.

Missingno.'s appearance in-battle allows the item duplication glitch, which increases the number of items in the 6th bag slot by 255 if caught, or 128 if not caught.

Encountering Missingno. has been known to interfere with the save game data in various ways, such as adversely affecting the Hall of Fame saved data and (if its stats are viewed) messing with some graphics until the stats of a normal Pokémon are viewed. When a Trainer battles with Missingno. in their party, both the Trainer sprite and their Pokémon's sprites will be scrambled, and all other sprites will be reversed. Viewing the stats screen of a non-glitch Pokémon will remove the effects.

Trading Missingno.

Missingno. can be traded from Red and Blue into Pokémon Yellow, but cannot be traded forward through the Time Capsule into Pokémon Gold, Silver, and Crystal. In Yellow, Missingno. levels down to level 1 if it gains any experience, and cannot grow any higher. The only way to use a Missingno. at a different level in battle is to use a link cable to battle between two games.

In the trade center, Missingno., due to its index number, appears as many different Generation II Pokémon from the perspective of Pokémon Gold, Silver, and Crystal, most commonly Tyrogue (due to the common name of ASH in Generation I). For a full list of the Generation II Pokémon Missingno. can appear as, see List of Pokémon by index number (Generation I). If the player tries to trade Missingno., a message will appear stating "Your <name> appears abnormal." and the trade will automatically be cancelled. Rarely, if a Missingno. is successfully traded, it will become the Pokémon it was said to be, and act normally (though it will retain any and all moves it had as a Missingno.). At this point, it only may be traded back into the Generation I game while the player is still in the Time Capsule (where it will again become a Missingno.), as if the player leaves, the Generation II game will detect it as a Generation II Pokémon and not allow the player to enter the Time Capsule.

In Pokémon Stadium

When viewed in Pokémon Stadium, Missingno. will appear as a substitute doll, while in Pokémon Stadium 2, Missingno. will show up as a Ditto, and if the game is saved via Stadium 2, will then become a Ditto permanently. Capturing Missingno. in the Game Boy Tower in Pokémon Stadium may cause the cartridge to become unable to be played with Pokémon Stadium.

Nintendo on Missingno.

Nintendo has an official description of Missingno. listed in their Customer Service troubleshooting section:

"MissingNO is a programming quirk, and not a real part of the game. When you get this, your game can perform strangely, and the graphics will often become scrambled. The MissingNO Pokémon is most often found after you perform the Fight Safari Zone Pokémon trick. To fix the scrambled graphics, try releasing the MissingNo Pokémon. If the problem persists, the only solution is to re-start your game. This means erasing your current game and starting a brand new one." ^[1]

Nintendo was incorrect on the method for fixing graphical issues; releasing Missingno. does not fix the graphics. The actual way to fix these issues is to view the Pokédex data or stat page of a Hybrid glitch Pokémon or official Pokémon.

Game data

Pokédex entry

Game locations

Learnset

By TM/HM

Normal form

Generation I Other generations:  TM   Move   Type   Power   Accuracy   PP  TM01 Mega Punch Normal 80 85% 20 TM02 Razor Wind Normal 80 100% 10 TM03 Swords Dance Normal — —% 30 TM05 Mega Kick Normal 100 75% 5 TM06 Toxic Poison — 85% 10 TM09 Take Down Normal 90 85% 20 TM10 Double-Edge Normal 120 100% 15 TM11 BubbleBeam Water 65 100% 20 TM13 Ice Beam Ice 95 100% 10 TM14 Blizzard Ice 120 70% 5 TM17 Submission Fighting 80 80% 25 TM19 Seismic Toss Fighting — 100% 20 TM20 Rage Normal 20 100% 20 TM25 Thunder Electric 120 70% 10 TM26 Earthquake Ground 100 100% 10 TM27 Fissure Ground — 30% 5 TM29 Psychic Psychic 90 100% 10 TM30 Teleport Psychic — —% 20 TM43 Sky Attack Flying 140 90% 5 TM44 Rest Psychic — —% 10 TM45 Thunder Wave Electric — 100% 20 TM49 Tri Attack Normal 80 100% 10 TM50 Substitute Normal — —% 10 HM01 Cut Normal 50 95% 30 HM02 Fly Flying 70 95% 15 Bold indicates a move that gets STAB when used by Missingno. Italic indicates a move that gets STAB only when used by an evolution of Missingno.

Kabutops fossil, Aerodactyl fossil and Ghost forms

The TM/HM learnset of the Kabutops fossil, Aerodactyl fossil and Ghost forms are the same as the Pokémon whose data was accessed last.

Yellow form

Generation I Other generations:  TM   Move   Type   Power   Accuracy   PP  This Pokémon learns no moves by TM. Bold indicates a move that gets STAB when used by Missingno. Italic indicates a move that gets STAB only when used by an evolution of Missingno.

Evolution

Most index nos. RGB Missingno.  Bird  Normal  ↔ Most index nos. Yellow Missingno.  Normal  999

182 Ghost Missingno.  Bird  Normal

183 Aerodactyl fossil Missingno.  Bird  Normal

184 Kabutops fossil Missingno.  Bird  Normal

Trivia

• If counted among normal Pokémon, the typical 'normal form' Missingno. have the highest Attack base stat of all valid Pokémon in Red and Blue. This is the ninth highest of all Pokémon, not including other glitch Pokémon as of Generation IV.
  • Likewise, the 'normal form' Missingno. have the lowest Defense base stat of any Pokémon, again not including other glitch Pokémon and the third lowest Speed base stat in Red and Blue.
    • The Pokémon Yellow normal form Missingno. have 0 base speed. This ties with various Generation I glitch Pokémon for the lowest base Speed stat.
• Missingno. is much heavier than any regular Pokémon. Missingno. is about four times heavier than 'M. Missingno. is about half the weight of h POKé, the heaviest known Pokémon of any kind.
• Missingno.'s height is 10'0". 'M is more than twice as tall as Missingno. This makes Missingno. the 19th tallest Pokémon when compared to non-glitch Pokémon.
• In its normal form, it has the same learnset as 'M, except that 'M cannot learn Substitute via TM50.
• In 2010, Missingno. was entered into GameFAQs' 8th annual Character Battle. It advanced to the third round by defeating Crono and Yoshi, but later lost to Sephiroth.
• 'Normal form' Missingno.'s stats in Red and Blue are actually determined by the parties of several Burglars, read as base stats.

Name origin

Missingno.'s English and Japanese names are both derived from "missing number", a reference to its number as 000, the missing number before 001, Bulbasaur.

External links

• Article on Wikipedia
• RAGECANDYBAR MissingNo. Project

References

This glitch Pokémon article is part of Project GlitchDex, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on glitches in the Pokémon games.