Version-exclusive Pokémon: Difference between revisions

'''Version-exclusive Pokémon''' are Pokémon that are missing from one or more games in a single [[Generation]] to encourage trading between multiple players.  For instance, in the original [[Pokémon Red and Blue|Pokémon Red]], {{p|Bellsprout}} was absent but appeared in [[Pokémon Red and Blue|Pokémon Blue]].  Version-exclusive Pokémon usually complement each other in design, type, as well as location of appearance in the wild.

Below is a list of Pokémon exclusive to games.  This list does not take note of Pokémon exclusive between [[Generation III]] [[Kanto]] and [[Hoenn]] games, simply because there are too many Pokémon that are native to each individual region to list; a better indicator of those Pokémon which are missing from each region would be the [[List of Pokémon by Kanto Dex number|Kanto Dex]] and [[List of Pokémon by Hoenn Dex number|Hoenn Dex]]. However, even this does not take [[Generation II Pokémon]] into account, since the vast majority thereof is only listed in the [[National Dex]] of those games. Furthermore, a list of Pokémon missing from the Generation III GameCube games, [[Pokémon Colosseum]] and [[Pokémon XD|XD]], is far too long to be included in this context.  

Take note that the Pokémon listed below are '''''<u>MISSING</u>''''' from that particular game, and will need to be traded from a game ''within the same generation'' that does not list them. Therefore, Pokémon obtainable in Generation II by trading with [[Generation I]], Pokémon obtainable in [[Generation IV]] by utilizing GBA games, and finally - [[legendary Pokémon]] that require attending promotional events, are all excluded from the following list.

It is of relevant note that in [[Pokémon Diamond and Pearl]], most of the version exclusives of the GBA games can be caught in the wild by [[dongle method|inserting one of the GBA games into the DS]]. In Pokémon XD, the seven Emerald-absent Pokémon are all obtainable, thus eliminating the need in trading with either [[Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire Versions|Pokémon Ruby]] or [[Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire Versions|Sapphire]] (previously, ''both'' were required).

 

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| [[Image:200MS.gif]] [[Image:429MS.png]]<br/>{{p|Misdreavus}} and {{p|Mismagius}}

| [[Image:198MS.gif]] [[Image:430MS.png]]<br/>{{p|Murkrow}} and {{p|Honchkrow}}

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| [[Image:352MS.gif]]<br/>{{p|Kecleon}}

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| [[Image:304MS.gif]] [[Image:305MS.gif]] [[Image:306MS.gif]]<br/>{{p|Aron}}, {{p|Lairon}} and {{p|Aggron}}

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| [[Image:408MS.png]] [[Image:409MS.png]]<br/>{{p|Cranidos}} and {{p|Rampardos}}

| [[Image:431MS.png]] [[Image:432MS.png]]<br/>{{p|Glameow}} and {{p|Purugly}}

| [[Image:434MS.png]] [[Image:435MS.png]]<br/>{{p|Stunky}} and {{p|Skuntank}}

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