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In Generation III, in addition to making rare Pokémon temporarily more common, this feature can be combined with [[record mixing]] to allow the player to catch Pokémon that cannot be caught at all normally. Pokémon encountered through mass outbreaks will also have a predefined set of moves. | In Generation III, in addition to making rare Pokémon temporarily more common, this feature can be combined with [[record mixing]] to allow the player to catch Pokémon that cannot be caught at all normally. Pokémon encountered through mass outbreaks will also have a predefined set of moves. | ||
After entering the [[Hall of Fame]], every time the player wins a battle, there is a ~0.5% (328/65536) chance that the game will generate an outbreak; this does not apply to link battles, e-Reader battles, the Safari Zone, or the Battle Tower/Frontier. After an outbreak is generated, the television program announcing it will appear the next day. Once the television program has been watched, the outbreak becomes active.<ref>https://twitter.com/starla4444/status/937089825093627904</ref> | After entering the [[Hall of Fame]], every time the player wins a battle, there is a ~0.5% (328/65536) chance that the game will generate an outbreak; this does not apply to link battles, e-Reader battles, the Safari Zone, or the Battle Tower/Frontier. After an outbreak is generated, the television program announcing it will appear the next day. Once the television program has been watched, the outbreak becomes active.<ref>https://twitter.com/starla4444/status/937089825093627904</ref> Once outbreak has been activated, it will last until the end of the next day - during this time there's a 50% chance the game will generate the swarming Pokémon instead of using the usual encounter table (effectively halving the encounter rate for non-swarming Pokémon). However, seemingly due to an oversight, once a particular savefile generates an outbreak, it will never generate another one outside of [[record mixing]].<ref>https://github.com/pret/pokeemerald/blob/2efbd5f549bd03cfdaea2c84d48d5fb706034464/src/tv.c#L1658</ref> | ||
The [[record mixing]] feature of {{game2|Ruby|Sapphire|Emerald}} allows players to give an outbreak they've seen to other players, regardless of whether that outbreak would [[game-exclusive Pokémon|naturally occur in the player's game]]. The traded outbreaks will be announced on television in the following days after mixing records. | The [[record mixing]] feature of {{game2|Ruby|Sapphire|Emerald}} allows players to give an outbreak they've seen to other players, regardless of whether that outbreak would [[game-exclusive Pokémon|naturally occur in the player's game]]. The traded outbreaks will be announced on television in the following days after mixing records. | ||