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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^[1]. 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.^[2]

Memory leak

Due to a memory leak^[3], 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 diagonaly 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 reported 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

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.^[4]

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.

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 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.^[5]

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, GameFreak 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.

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.

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 v1.2.0

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.^[6] This glitch is scheduled to be fixed in a future update releasing in late April 2023.

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.^[7]

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, effectively making it impossible to catch. 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.^[8]

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.

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.^[9][10]

In v1.0.0

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.^[11]

References

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