Obscure Pokémon game trivia

[FinnishPokéFan92]

Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon have a lot of small side quests scattered around the game. In one of these, the player can help a woman fix a broken vending machine with the help of their Rotom Dex. The woman reveals that she helped design Rotom Dex's Poké Finder function and wonders which device Rotom could enter next, suggesting that perhaps it could merge with a PC Box in the future.

Then, lo and behold, Sword and Shield introduced Rotomi.

 

[Antiyonder]

First entry was meant for this thread to begin with. Posted it earlier on in the anime trivia thread by mistake.

1. Can't recall, plus a few commenter mention knowing one of the things on here: WEIRD Pokemon Facts in Under 10 Minutes!

The first one on here which caught my attention is how to get 5 Pokéballs from Oak in Gen 1.

Basically do not purchase any at all yet, then beat Blue in the optional battle west of Viridian City. And then go back to see Oak and he will give you them as you can't just filling in the Dex by just seeing the Pokémon.

So obscure trivia or barely?

2. So February of 2009 saw the first US release of Dragon Quest V which was the third version of that installment. Said port being on the DS.

Pokémon was still on Gen 4 with the Zoroark movie not even having hit Japan theaters yet.

Just giving context, but Dragon Quest V's DS port had for the first time Jailcat (debuted in VIII which has some monster recruiting, btw) as a recruitable monster.

Like the usual monster companions there are four default names to choose from. One of the possible names for Jailcat? Purrloin.:-D

 

[Funnylion]

I don't think this is obscure and more a fact that people overlook, but you know how we didn't get a pure flying type until Tornadus in Gen 5? Well, we didn't actually get a pure fully evolved dragon type until Gen 5 either, with Haxorus and Druddigon.

 

[prog rocker]

We were going to get one earlier, but they decided to make Hoothoot Normal/Flying and Ho-Oh Fire/Flying.

Also, now that I'm referencing Spaceworld: Moonlight, Morning Sun and Synthesis were apparently going to be the new Eeveelutions signature moves, but that changed when they removed Leafeon.

Same with Curse and Norowara, which was an even bigger shame because it made too much sense.

 

[Harryghost]

Before Generation VIII, After You fails if the turn order remains the same even after using the move, but it no longer fails in Generation VIII.

 

[Jimothy]

This might be old news, but I just noticed--

Each grouping of Eevee evolutions has its own naming scheme in Japanese, except one:

Showers
Thunders
Booster

Eifie
Blacky

Leafia
Glacia

Nymphia

The gen 1 Eevees end in an -er sound, gen 2 in an -ee sound, and gen 4 in an -ia sound.

But then Sylveon is also -ia, seemingly grouping it with Leafeon and Glaceon like a trio.

Which is odd on its own, but doubly odd because often Sylveon gets grouped with Espeon and Umbreon, being the three friendship evolutions

Also, Jolteon is Thunders and Zapdos is Thunder? Come on.

 

[FinnishPokéFan92]

I guess this counts as trivia in a way, but the post-game battle facilities have some hidden gems in terms of NPC dialogue. Here's an example from Sword and Shield's Battle Tower.

Spoiler

 

[Enigmatic Espurr]

Oh, I went back and read mine and need to correct some. While there is a diagram of a Snivy in Sycamore’s lab near his desk, there’s also one of what looks to be a Tepig by the elevator. Also, Cynthia now has three alternative outfits in Masters EX, making it a tie between her and Steven. But another fact is that all of AZ’s Pokémon know the move Return, which helps demonstrate how much he’s changed for the better.

 

[prog rocker]

I guess this counts as trivia in a way, but the post-game battle facilities have some hidden gems in terms of NPC dialogue. Here's an example from Sword and Shield's Battle Tower.

Spoiler

The poor girl is gonna need brain bleach when she gets older...

This might be old news, but I just noticed--

Each grouping of Eevee evolutions has its own naming scheme in Japanese, except one:

Eifie
Blacky

Just noticed that the third scrapped Eeveelution from GS also used follow that pattern: Leafy.

Nice catch!

 

[Palamon]

In OR/AS, all Pokemon on Route 101 are guaranteed to be captured because the wild Pokemon will never break out of a pokeball. I don't know if this is an obscure fact, but I didn't know this until recently myself.

 

[FinnishPokéFan92]

In OR/AS, all Pokemon on Route 101 are guaranteed to be captured because the wild Pokemon will never break out of a pokeball. I don't know if this is an obscure fact, but I didn't know this until recently myself.

The same is true for Kalos Route 2 and Alola Route 1 until the Iki Town festival.

 

[prog rocker]

In OR/AS, all Pokemon on Route 101 are guaranteed to be captured because the wild Pokemon will never break out of a pokeball. I don't know if this is an obscure fact, but I didn't know this until recently myself.

The same is true for Kalos Route 2 and Alola Route 1 until the Iki Town festival.

You mean I wasted my own Pokémon's health there???

 

[Greninjaman]

In OR/AS, all Pokemon on Route 101 are guaranteed to be captured because the wild Pokemon will never break out of a pokeball. I don't know if this is an obscure fact, but I didn't know this until recently myself.

You mean I wasted my own Pokémon's health there???

Isn't Galar Route 1 the same?

 

[Palamon]

Isn't Galar Route 1 the same?

Don't seem to see anything about Pokemon being unable to break out of pokeballs for Galar Route 1.

I didn't know it was like that for all the Pokemon 3ds main series games, though. Learned something new today.

 

[RileyXY1]

Despite the Flying typing existing since Generation 1, no pure Flying types were introduced until Gen 5, and no Pokemon had it as a primary type until Gen 6. Also, no Pokemon had Normal as a secondary type until Gen 6 as well.
Ghost/Poison is the only type combination that has not been seen since Gen 1, even on Pokemon that are related by evolution to Gen 1 Pokemon.
In Gen 1, Bite, Gust, Sand Attack, and Karate Chop were all Normal-type moves. Gold and Silver changed their types to Dark, Flying, Ground, and Fighting respectively. This is one of only two times that a type of a move is changed to an already existing type, the other was in Black and White when the ??? type was retired, and its only move Curse became a Ghost-type move.
There actually is a ???-type Arceus form in the code of the Sinnoh games that is only used to prevent crashes.
The TM for Snarl is unobtainable in BW because it requires the Lock Capsule, an event-only item that was meant to be distributed to HGSS but it was never released. It was meant to be sent forward from HGSS to BW, where it can then be opened to obtain the TM for Snarl.
There was an unused item in the Sinnoh games called the Magma Stone. It was finally made available six years after DP's release in BW2 as it used to allow the player to catch Heatran, which was originally introduced in DP.
Due to the name censors in XY you can't name your character Viola, which is the name of the game's first Gym Leader.
The Trainer Tower in FRLG is notable for being the very first location in any main series game where you can battle NPC trainers with shiny Pokemon on their teams. There's three shinies to battle there in total, those being a shiny Meowth, a shiny Seaking, and a shiny Espeon.
Despite Rock and Grass tying for the most weaknesses of any type (at 5 each) a dual type Rock/Grass type only has four weaknesses in total. This is because their weaknesses heavily overlap with the other's resistances, with Rock removing Grass's weaknesses to Fire, Flying, and Poison while Grass removes Rock's weaknesses to Water, Ground, and Grass itself. As a result, a Pokemon with the Rock/Grass type combination only has four weaknesses, those being Bug, Ice, Fighting, and Steel, and it has super effective Rock STAB to deal with the former two.

 

[DarkMeow]

In Pokémon Ranger, there's a mission where you have to lead Professor Hastings through a creepy factory in order to stop the Go-Rock Squad from using the factory to produce Super Stylers. If you stand and idle without doing anything, Professor Hastings will tell you to hurry up and do something after a certain amount of time. Just found this out in my last playthrough when I set my DSi down for a little bit, and when I picked it back up, he was getting mad at me for not doing anything. Gave me a chuckle.

 

[Rockapheller]

During a playthrough of Pokemon Pearl a few years ago, I decided to evolve my Chimchar solely through battling the Pokemon of Route 201 before speaking to the Professor for the first time in his lab. Surprisingly, the developers were prepared to acknowledge this grind-heavy achievement. Professor Rowan has a line unique to this circumstance in which he shows surprise that your pokemon has already evolved, rather than simply observing that it seems happy.

 

[FinnishPokéFan92]

During a playthrough of Pokemon Pearl a few years ago, I decided to evolve my Chimchar solely through battling the Pokemon of Route 201 before speaking to the Professor for the first time in his lab. Surprisingly, the developers were prepared to acknowledge this grind-heavy achievement. Professor Rowan has a line unique to this circumstance in which he shows surprise that your pokemon has already evolved, rather than simply observing that it seems happy.

This actually reminded me of something I have thought about at some point: in USUM, what would happen if your starter was already evolved during your first meeting with Hau, where all the starters are shown outside their Poké Balls?

 

[prog rocker]

I think the scene keeps going like usual, judging how I tended to replace the starter with whatever I used for my solo runs as soon as possible.

 

[Harryghost]

I just realized it the other day but there have been new Bug/Poison type Pokémon introduced every Generation till Generation V; and there have been no new Bug/Poison type Pokémon introduced since then.