Exchangeable item
An exchangeable item is a category of item which serves no in-game purpose aside from being able to be traded for another item or some sort of service. Though several Key Items fall under this category (such as Generation I and Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen's Bike Voucher), their exchange is often important to the story of the games, so they are not included here. These items are often also valuable items.
List of exchangeable items
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This item was featured in the TCG. |
Shards
- Main article: Shard
These items, also introduced in Generation III, come in different colors: red, blue, green, and yellow. They can be exchanged for the elemental evolutionary stones in Pokémon Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald, in groups of ten for the TMs containing weather-modifying moves in Pokémon Diamond and Pearl, and in groups of eight for special Move Tutor moves in Pokémon Platinum. They can be found lying around in certain areas, held by certain Pokémon, or in the Underground of Sinnoh. They can also be traded in for certain Berries from Jugglers found in Violet City and Fuchsia City. In Black 2 and White 2, Move Tutors found in Driftveil, Lentimas, Humilau, and Nacrene will use Shards as payment (from two to twelve), although each Tutor requires only one kind of Shard.
Apricorns
- Main article: Apricorn
These items are exclusive to Generation II and Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver. There are several different colors, and they can be made into different Poké Balls by Kurt in Azalea Town.
Bottle Caps
- Main article: Bottle Cap
These items were introduced in Generation VII along with Hyper Training. They can be exchanged to allow the player to raise a Pokémon's IVs through Hyper Training. They come in two colors that allow the player to raise either one or all of a Pokémon's IVs.
Appearance
Underground
These are artwork of the items as seen in the Sinnoh Underground
Heart Scale | Star Piece |
Dream World
These are artwork of the items as seen in the Pokémon Dream World
Heart Scale | Star Piece | Tiny Mushroom | Big Mushroom | Shoal Salt | Shoal Shell |
In the anime
In Defending the Homeland!, Clemont mentioned having used Big Mushrooms as a part of the new food he had just made for the group.
In SM032, Mallow found multiple Tiny and Big Mushrooms and Sophocles found a Star Piece during a Stoutland Search treasure hunt set up for Ash and his classmates by Olivia.
In the manga
In the Pokémon Adventures manga
A Big Mushroom appeared in Old Wounds, where Shoko gave it to one of her Patrat to hold while demonstrating Black her Marvelous Bridge Partrat Show.
Trivia
- Heart Scales are the shed scales of Luvdisc.
- The Move Reminder in Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen accepts Mushrooms instead of Heart Scales, most probably due to the lack of Luvdisc in Kanto and the Sevii Islands, as well as the abundance of Paras and Parasect.
- Due to a mistake in the Nintendo Power Pokémon Diamond and Pearl guide, there was a rumor that the Shoal Salt functions like the Leftovers. However, multiple tests in-game have shown that the Shoal Salt does nothing; it is in fact the Shell Bell that functions similarly to Leftovers, itself created in Generation III from four Shoal Salts and four Shoal Shells.
- In Pokémon X and Y, the Heart Scale is incorrectly sorted in the Bag as an evolutionary stone when the bag is sorted by type, instead of as an exchangeable item.
In other languages
Big Mushroom
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Heart Scale
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Shoal Salt
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Shoal Shell
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Star Piece
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Tiny Mushroom
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Types of items | |
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General | Evolution stones • Fossils • Flutes • Shards • Held items Evolution items • Escape items • Exchangeable items • Valuable items Battle items • Scents • Nectars • Candy • Ingredients |
Medicine | Status condition healing items • Vitamins • Feathers Mints • Mochi • Drinks • Herbal medicine |
Berry and Apricorn | Poké Balls • Apricorns • Berries • Mulch |
Aesthetic | Decorations • Accessories • Backdrops • Props • Décor Clothing (XY • SMUSUM • LGPE • SwSh • BDSP • LA • SV) |
Other | Mail • Key Items • Event items Wonder Launcher items • Rotom Powers |
This item article is part of Project ItemDex, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on all items. |