List of glitches (Generation IX)

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

Scarlet and Violet

All versions

Miscellaneous

Itemfinder Mark missing logic

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

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.

Memory leak

Due to a memory leak, 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.

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.

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.

Running speed glitch

On handheld mode, if the player connects a second controller (i.e. a Pro Controller) and hold both joystick 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.

Lighting glitches

Terastallization icon lighting glitch

Lighting off

Lighting on

If the Tera Orb is charged, the Terastallization icon affects the overworld lighting in battle when selecting a move. It is currently unknown if this is intentional.

Texture/model glitches

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.

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.

Texture overlay glitch

In some cases, Pokémon will appear with another texture overlaid across their body.

Espathra hair texture glitch

Espathra and its Shiny form, 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.

User interface glitches

Health bar quirk

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.

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.

By SmallAnt_Clips

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.

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.

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.

Typeless summary glitch

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

Battle glitches

Trick Room Female Indeedee

Main article: Game move errors → Unobtainable for the generation → Unobtainable moves

Female Indeedee using Trick Room during a Tera Raid Battle

In 5★ Tera Raid Battles, female Indeedee has an identical moveset to its male counterpart, which erroneously includes the move Trick Room, a move it cannot normally learn. If the move is forgotten, it cannot be relearned. When caught, the Female Indeedee is permitted to be traded online, and participate in the Battle Stadium.

This is currently the only instance of an error move obtainable by the player with no apparent attempts to correct it. Currently, Game Freak has not patched the game to replace Trick Room with an appropriate move, or blocked Female Indeedee with Trick Room from online use.

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 this appears to have been resolved, not by correcting the erroneous move, but by permitting other players to host them freely with Trick Room still present in the moveset.

By @Atrius97

No type effectiveness or critical hit messages

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

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).

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.

Main article: Poké Portal News → 2023 → May 19, 00:00 to 02:00 UTC, 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.
• All Iron Treads raids with random Tera types were erroneously coded never to appear as Shiny, 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, 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, but the event was eventually announced as being cancelled entirely. This is the first instance of a Poké Portal News event being removed from the server entirely to address a glitch.

Prior to v1.3.0

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Prior to v1.2.0

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.

By @Atrius97

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 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 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.

By @Atrius97

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.

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.

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, however some models still appear to persist in areas such as Tera Raid Battles.

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.

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.

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.

Prior to 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.

References

Glitches in the Pokémon games Multiple generations Transform glitches • Glitch Trainers • Cloning glitches • Error messages • Arbitrary code execution Generation I Glitches • Battle glitches • Overworld glitches -- • 0 ERROR • Broken hidden items • Cable Club escape glitch • Dual-type damage misinformation Experience underflow glitch • Fight Safari Zone Pokémon trick • Glitch City • Item duplication glitch • Item underflow Mew glitch • Old man glitch • Pewter Gym skip glitch • Pokémon merge glitch • Rhydon glitch • Rival twins glitch Select glitches (dokokashira door glitch, second type glitch) • Super Glitch Time Capsule exploit • Walking through walls • ZZAZZ glitch Generation II Glitches • Battle glitches Bug-Catching Contest glitch • Celebi Egg glitch • Coin Case glitches • Experience underflow glitch Glitch dimension • Glitch Egg • Teru-sama • Time Capsule exploit • Trainer House glitches • GS Ball mail glitch Generation III Glitches • Battle glitches • Overworld glitches Berry glitch • Dive glitch • Pomeg glitch • Glitzer Popping Generation IV Glitches • Battle glitches • Overworld glitches Acid rain • GTS glitches • Pomeg glitch • Rage glitch Surf glitch • Tweaking • Pal Park Retire glitch Generation V Glitches • Battle glitches • Overworld glitches Charge Beam additional effect chance glitch • Charge move replacement glitch • Choice item lock glitch Frozen Zoroark glitch • Sky Drop glitch Generation VI Glitches • Battle glitches • Overworld glitches Charge Beam additional effect chance glitch • Charge move replacement glitch • Choice item lock glitch Lumiose City save glitch • Symbiosis Eject Button glitch • Toxic sure-hit glitch Generation VII Glitches • Battle glitches Charge Beam additional effect chance glitch • Charge move replacement glitch • Choice item lock glitch Toxic sure-hit glitch • Rollout storage glitch Generation VIII Glitches Charge Beam additional effect chance glitch • Charge move replacement glitch • Choice item lock glitch Toxic sure-hit glitch • Rollout storage glitch • Party item offset glitch Generation IX Glitches Glitch effects Game freeze • Glitch battle • Glitch song Gen I only: Glitch screen • TMTRAINER effect • Inverted sprite Gen II only: Glitch dimension Lists Glitches (GO • Mystery Dungeon • TCG GB • Spin-off) Glitch Pokémon (Gen I • Gen II • Gen III • Gen IV • Gen V • Gen VI • Gen VII • Gen VIII) Glitch moves (Gen I) • Glitch types (Gen I • Gen II)

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