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The Roller Skates (Japanese: ローラースケート Roller Skates) are a key item in Pokémon X and Y that allow the player to move around faster than they would by running, but slower than they would on a bicycle, by navigating with the Nintendo 3DS's circle pad.

In the games

The Roller Skates are obtained from a Roller Skater outside the Santalune Gym after the player has defeated her in a battle. Unlike walking, running, and riding a bicycle, the Roller Skates requires the use of the Control Pad; pressing the directional buttons will cause the player to switch to the Running Shoes.

When going through tall grass, the player is reduced to walking speed and the PokéRadar may not be used.

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Tricks

The player can perform certain tricks while using the Roller Skates. Any trick requiring a ledge cannot be performed until the player has learned it from an NPC. However, the player may perform grounded 360s as soon as they have the Roller Skates. These tricks are aesthetic and have no significant gameplay effect.

The player can learn five Roller Skate tricks:

• Backflip — Taught by a Roller Skater on North Boulevard, outside Hotel Richissime, below a tree.
  • Go over a ledge while dashing or while doing a parallel swizzle to perform a backflip.
• Parallel swizzle — Taught by a Roller Skater inside an office building on the western end of South Boulevard.
  • When slowly moving forward, the player will begin to move their feet side to side.
• Drift-and-dash — Taught by a Roller Skater at the monument in Vert Plaza.
  • When the player begins skating or turns in the opposite direction, they gain a boost in speed.
• 360 — Taught by a Roller Skater inside Café Rouleu on Estival Avenue.
  • Jump over a ledge while rotating the circle pad to perform a midair pirouette.
• Cosmic flip — Can only be learned if the player already knows all other tricks. Taught by Twirling Whirlwind in the Lost Hotel.
  • With adequate speed the player will perform a special flip when heading towards a ledge, quickly changing to the opposite direction, then right back to jump over it.

In the TCG

Roller Skates have been featured in the Pokémon Trading Card Game as an Item. The following is a list of cards named Roller Skates.

Related items Cards listed with a blue background are only legal to use in the current Expanded format. Cards listed with a green background are legal to use in both the current Standard and Expanded formats.
Card	Type	English Expansion	Rarity	#	Japanese Expansion	Rarity	#
Roller Skates	I				Collection X		056/060

In other languages

Language Title French Rollers German Rollerskates Italian Pattini Korean 롤러스케이트 Roller Skate Spanish Patines

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