Pomeg Berry

A Pomeg Berry (Japanese: ザロクのみ Zaroku Fruit) is a type of Berry introduced in Generation III.

Pomeg Berry
ザロクのみ
Zaroku Fruit
Bag Pomeg Berry Sprite.png
Pomeg Berry
Pokémon Global Link artwork
Introduced in Generation III
Pocket
Generation III Bag Berries pocket icon.png Berries (RSE)
Generation III Bag Berry Pouch pocket icon.png Berry Pouch (FRLG)
Generation IV Bag Berries pocket icon.png Berries
Generation V Bag Berries pocket icon.png Berries
Generation VI Bag Berries pocket icon.png Berries
Generation VII Bag Berries pocket icon.png Berries
Generation VIII Bag Berries pocket icon.png Berries
Generation IX Bag Berries pocket icon.png Berries
Flavor
Generation III
SPICY DRY SWEET BITTER SOUR SMOOTH
10 0 10 10 0 20
Generation IV/VIII
SPICY DRY SWEET BITTER SOUR SMOOTH
10 0 10 10 0 20
Natural Gift
Type Ice
Power Gen. IV-V 70
Gen. VI+ 90
Fling
Power 10
Effect None

In the core series games

Price

Games Cost Sell price
RSEFRLG
DPPtHGSS
BWB2W2
XYORAS
SMUSUM
BDSP
N/A $10
SwSh N/A $40
SV N/A $20

In the Generation V games, the Pomeg Berry can be sold to the gourmet maniac on Route 5 for $20.

Effect

In Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire, the Pomeg Berry cannot be used directly and only has a use as an ingredient for Pokéblocks.

From Pokémon Emerald, the Pomeg Berry can be used from the Bag on a Pokémon to increase the Pokémon's friendship (+10 at friendship 0-99, +5 at friendship 100-199, +1SwSh-/+2E-USUM at friendship 200-254) and lowers its HP EVs by ten points (but not below 0). In Generation IV only, this Berry reduces the EV to 100 if it was above 110 when used.

Ingredient

Berry Blending
RSE When blending with NPCs, Pomeg Berries will produce the following Pokéblocks:
NPC NPCs' Berries Flavors (100 RPM) Feel
1 NPC   Spiciness 23, Bitterness 10 20
2 NPCs    Spiciness 23, Bitterness 10, Sweetness 10 20
3 NPCs     Spiciness 23, Bitterness 23 19
Blend Master   Spiciness 51, Bitterness 12 43
ORAS Pomeg Berries are red Berries that have a low chance of producing a Pokéblock+.
Berry Crush
FRLGE Pomeg Berries have a base Berry Powder of 100 and a difficulty of 100.
With two players, this Berry will contribute 200 units of Berry Powder at 100% silkiness.
Poffin Cooking
DPPt
BDSP
When used alone, Pomeg Berries will produce Poffins with Spiciness 8, Bitterness 8 and smoothness 19 when cooked in 1 minute with no spills or burns.
Ice Cream Scoop
DW
Flavor 1 Flavor 2 Flavor 3
Easy to scoop              
Stickiness           
Juice Shoppe
XY Pomeg Berries are red Berries in Group 3.
Composting
XY Pomeg Berries are red Berries.
Dye Houses
SMUSUM 15 Pomeg Berries, Tamato Berries, and Cheri Berries are used to dye any white or dyed clothing into pastel red.
Curry
SwSh Pomeg Berries have a rarity of 3.
Cram-o-matic
SwSh Pomeg Berries are Ice-type items and give 6 points towards the output value.

Exchange

Pokémon Dream World

In the Pokémon Dream World, the player could exchange Berries for Décor. The following Décor required Pomeg Berries.

Catalogue Décor Price
Plain Catalogue Speaker 1   10 Pomeg Berries
  15 Iapapa Berries

Description

Games Description
RS POKéblock ingredient. Plant in loamy soil to grow Pomeg
FRLG Can be ground up into powder as an ingredient for medicine.
E Makes a Pokémon friendly but lowers base HP.
Colo.XD An item brought over from a faraway place.
DPPt A Poffin ingredient. Using it on a Pokémon makes it more friendly, but it also lowers its base HP.
HGSS
BWB2W2
Using it on a Pokémon makes it more friendly, but it also lowers its base HP.
XYORAS
SMUSUMPE
A Berry to be consumed by Pokémon. Using it on a Pokémon makes it more friendly but lowers its base HP.
SwShBDSP A Berry to be consumed by Pokémon. Using it on a Pokémon makes it more friendly but lowers its HP base points.
SV If a Pokémon is fed this Berry, it will grow more friendly, but it will lose base points for its HP stat.

Tag information

  • No. 21
  • Size: 5.3" (13.5 cm)
  • Firmness: Very hard
Games Description
RSE However much it is watered, it only grows up to six Berries.
DPPt
BDSP
When this sweetly spicy Berry's thick skin is peeled, many pieces of the fruit spill out.

Curry information

Games Description
SwSh A Berry with sweet and spicy flesh. If you keep chewing it, its bitterness will slowly spread in your mouth.

Acquisition

Games Finite methods Repeatable methods
RSE Routes 119 and 123 Route 123 (Berry Master), Sootopolis City
Mossdeep Game Corner (Dodrio Berry Picking with 4 players)E
FRLG Joyful Game Corner (Dodrio Berry Picking with 4 players)
Colo.XD Trade
DPPt Routes 214 and 226, Fight Area Route 208 (Berry Master's house)
Pal Park (score of 3500-4150)
Battle Frontier (Scratch-Off Card)
HGSS Fuchsia City
Pal Park (score of 3500-4150)
Battle Frontier (Scratch-Off Card)
PW Hoenn Field, Beyond the Sea, Amity Meadow
BW Spin Trade (5 players)
B2W2 Route 5, Black Tower/White Treehollow
Join Avenue (Flower Shop)
Spin Trade (5 players)
DW* Windswept Sky
XY Mutation of Iapapa and Mago Berries
ORAS Routes 119 and 123 Route 123 (Berry Master), Sootopolis City
Hyper Rank Pokémon Contest Spectacular (given by fan)
PMC* Balloon Popping (Lv. 3)
SMUSUM Berry piles (Route 10)
SwSh Berry trees (Route 7, Bridge Field, Dappled Grove, Giant's Mirror, Hammerlocke Hills, Motostoke Riverbank)
Max Raid Battles (Rolling Fields, Dappled Grove, East Lake Axewell, West Lake AxewellSh, South Lake MilochSw, Giant's Seat, North Lake Miloch, Motostoke RiverbankSh, Bridge Field, Stony Wilderness, Dusty Bowl, Giant's Mirror, Hammerlocke Hills, Giant's CapSh)
SwShIA Berry trees (Insular Sea)
Max Raid Battles (Fields of Honor, Soothing Wetlands, Forest of Focus, Challenge Beach, Brawlers' Cave, Challenge Road, Courageous Cavern, Training Lowlands, Workout Sea, Stepping-Stone Sea, Insular Sea, Honeycalm Sea)
SwShCT Berry trees (Ballimere Lake)
Max Raid Battles (Slippery Slope, Frostpoint Field, Giant's Bed, Snowslide Slope, Path to the Peak, Crown Shrine, Giant's Foot, Frigid Sea, Ballimere Lake)
BDSP Routes 214 and 226, Fight Area Route 208 (Berry Master's house)
Battle Park Exchange Service Corner
Picked up by walking Pokémon (Lonely, Docile, Timid, Quiet, Bashful, Calm, Gentle, Careful Natures)
SV Alfornada (Emotional Spectrum Practice), Porto Marinada auction
Tera Raid Battles (4★, 5★)
Sparkling overworld item (East Province (Area Two), South Province (Area Four))
SVTM Ogre Oustin'
SVID Sparkling overworld item (Canyon Biome)

Growth

Generation III
 
Planted
0 hours
 
Sprouted
3 hours
 
Taller
6 hours
 
Flowering
9 hours
 
Berries
12 hours
A Pomeg plant will yield 2-6 Berries.
Generation IV
 
Planted
0 hours
 
Sprouted
8 hours
 
Taller
16 hours
 
Flowering
24 hours
 
Berries
32 hours
A Pomeg plant will yield 1-5 Berries. A growing Pomeg plant's soil dries by 8% every hour, fully drying out in 13 hours.
Generation V
 
Planted
0 hours
 
Sprouted
12 hours
 
Taller
24 hours
 
Flowering
36 hours
 
Berries
48 hours
A Pomeg plant will yield ? Berries.
Generation VI
Pokémon X and Y
 
Planted
0 hours
 
Sprouted
8 hours
 
Growing
16 hours
 
Bigger
24 hours
 
Budding
32 hours
 
Bloom
40 hours
 
Berries
48 hours
A Pomeg plant will yield 1-20 Berries. During its growth, watering the plant adds 0.5 Berries to the final harvest, weeding it adds 1.5, and removing a pest adds 3. Pomeg plants attract Ledyba as pests. If grown next to each other, a Pomeg Berry and a Kasib Berry may mutate into a Petaya Berry.
Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire
 
Planted
0 hours
 
Sprouted
8 hours
 
Taller
16 hours
 
Flowering
24 hours
 
Berries
32 hours
A Pomeg plant will yield 2-26 Berries.
Generation VII
Pokémon Sun, Moon, Ultra Sun, and Ultra Moon
 
Planted
0 hours
 
Sprouted
30 hours
 
Taller
36 hours
 
Flowering
44 hours
 
Berries
48 hours
A Pomeg plant will yield 5 Berries if Isle Aplenny is at Phase 1, 9 Berries if it is at Phase 2, and 14 Berries if it is at Phase 3.
Generation VIII
Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl
 
Planted
0 hours
 
Sprouted
8 hours
 
Taller
16 hours
 
Flowering
24 hours
 
Berries
32 hours
A Pomeg plant will yield 2-5 Berries.

Gallery

Artwork

     
Ingredient artwork from Sword and Shield Artwork from
Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl
Artwork from
Scarlet and Violet


Sprites

   
Berry Tag Sprite (Generation III) Berry Tag Sprite (Generation IV)

In the anime

 
Pomeg flowers in the anime

While the Pomeg Berry itself has never been featured in the anime, its flowers appeared in The Grass-Type is Always Greener!. Ash, his friends, and Cheryl found a Combee residing near them, thus giving them their first lead to the Amber Castle.

In the manga

 
A Pomeg Berry in Pokémon Adventures

Pokémon Adventures

Diamond & Pearl arc

In A Conk on Cranidos's Cranium, a Pomeg Berry was a part of Diamond and Pearl's manzai routine. In the Chuang Yi translation, it was referred to as a Rowap Berry instead.

In Problematic Probopass and Mad Magnezone II, a Pomeg Berry was seen among the many Berries that Cyrus's Probopass's Mini-Noses dug out of Lax's fur while trying to retrieve Cyrus's camera.

Trivia

  • Due to its ability to lower a Pokémon's HP EVs, it is famous for the Pomeg glitch, which can lower the HP of a Pokémon which has low HP so that it underflows. The glitch occurs in Pokémon Emerald, Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum.

Origin

The Pomeg Berry's design and name may be based on a pomegranate.

Names

Language Name Origin
Japanese ザロクのみ Zaroku no Mi From 石榴 zakuro, pomegranate
English Pomeg Berry From pomegranate
French Baie Grena From grenade, pomegranate
German Granabeere From Granatapfel, pomegranate
Italian Baccagrana From melagrana, pomegranate
Spanish Baya Grana From granada, pomegranate
Korean 유석열매 Yuseok Yeolmae From 석류 (石榴) seokryu, pomegranate
Chinese (Mandarin) 榴石果 Liúshí Guǒ* From 石榴 shíliú, pomegranate
紅榴 Hóngliú* From 紅 hóng (red) and 石榴 shíliú (pomegranate)
Chinese (Cantonese) 榴石果 Làuhsehk Gwó From 石榴 sehklàuh, pomegranate
Brazilian Portuguese Fruta Marô From romã, pomegranate
Vietnamese Quả Pomeg* From its English name
Quả Lựu From lựu, pomegranate

External links



  This Pokémon article is part of Project BerryDex, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on each Berry in the Pokémon series.