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Not to be confused with ?.

?????????? is a Glitch Pokémon that occupies slot 00 (or, to be exact, slot 0000) in Pokémon FireRed, LeafGreen, Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald versions. It was programmed into the game to prevent game crashes. It is not technically a glitch, because unlike previous (and future) inhabitants of slot 00, its information was defined by the programmers. (See image below)

Description

Pokédex entries

Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire

This is a newly discovered Pokémon. It is currently under investigation.

Pokémon Emerald

This is a newly discovered Pokémon. It is currently under investigation. No detailed information is available at this time.

Obtaining ??????????

This glitch data is usually encountered in-game by using a GameShark or Action Replay code for a Pokémon that doesn't exist.

Another way is to use a GameShark code for quick leveling up in FireRed and LeafGreen's daycare. If any Pokémon is placed into the daycare before the code is activated, after a short while of walking around the Pokémon in the daycare will produce an egg all by itself. The egg will soon hatch into ?????????? at level 0, and cannot be leveled up without Rare Candies, as the experience points required to reach level 1 are infinite. If it is traded to Emerald, it can be left in the daycare and will instantly be leveled up to 100. At this point, it can learn any of the eight HM moves and will be safe for the game unless its summary is looked at. But if given rare candies, it will start rapidly learning Ice Punch, even if the player refuses to teach it. This can be fixed by activating the "access fly map" GameShark code. Its National Dex number is 912, even though the National Dex doesn't go that far.

It can also be put in the daycare with a Ditto and receive an egg, at which point the game may freeze or slow down for a while. If the egg's summary is looked at, it will display "It's making sounds. It's about to hatch!". When it hatches (it will be female), it will ask if the player would like to nickname it. If the player does choose to do this, instead of saying "??????????'s nickname" as it does for other species, it will instead display "Kick's nickname". The reason for this is unknown.

Also, if a player of Ruby or Sapphire mixes records with an Emerald game who has a ?????????? in their party, and then battles the Emerald player at their secret base, the glitch Pokémon will transfer over and be able to be fought, but the enemy ?????????? will be level zero, and faint immediately after being attacked.

Yet another way to obtain this Pokémon is to use an Action Replay code to teleport to an area where a wild Pokémon can be captured before getting a starter Pokémon from either Professor Birch or Professor Oak. If a wild Pokémon battle is initiated, the player will send out a ?????????? with 0/0 HP. If the Pokémon gets hit, the player will white out and be sent to a Pokémon Center where lots of Poké Balls will begin to randomly appear all over the screen. A very similar effect occurs when one performs a variation of a glitch involving the Pomeg Berry.

After this Pokémon is captured, if one chooses to nickname ?????????? or look at it in the party screen, its sprite may appear as a gold-colored Bulbasaur. An item may be held by it, indicated as ????????, with a description in the bag of ????? and can only make a Pokémon that is holding it become hacked if migrated to either Pokémon Diamond or Pearl.

Another way to see it is to use the walk through walls code, and go to the Link Cable area and battle. Since there is no connected opponent, it appears instead.

There is a difference between the shiny and normal color: the white on the shiny appears to be darker.

??????????

There is another type of ??????????. Its sprite is the same sprite for an unseen Pokémon on the Pokédex for R/S/E. It is obtained by incorrect/corrupted gameshark WPM codes. Its National Dex number is ?87.

This is a very dangerous glitch: it can cause many problems to one's game, such as no longer being able to see wild Pokémon. When encountered, the game will appear to freeze, but then the music for legendary Pokémon will play. It has no cry and is always female. It is also asleep when encountered, but when caught it is poisoned. The item it holds will be the first item the player used during battle. When caught, it will have abnormal stats that cause the game to freeze when its summary is viewed, but when taken to a Pokémon Center, its summary will be safe to look at. It can only level up with Rare Candies. Its first type is blank, and the second type is Steel, but it is only Template:Type2, and its ability is Overgrow.

If put in a box, and if the player tries to pick it up with the white hand, you will appear to pick a copy of it up, but is a bad egg, which freezes the game when summary is looked at. This will now happen to every Pokémon one tries to pick up with the white hand. To fix this, the player can just exit, and re-enter the PC box. To move it, one should use the yellow hand by pressing the 'Select' button of the Game Boy Advance. Also, if it is switched with another Pokémon when held in the yellow hand, the game freezes.

If it is taken to the move tutor, it will have a long list of Ice Punches.

It cannot be traded, via either the Union Room or Cable Club. If attempted to be traded to another game, the game will glitch in different ways depending on location. In the Union Room, the screen may blur, the Union Room turns black and the game crashes. In the link room, the game of the player that trades it will restart as if he/she just turned their Game Boy on (all the way to the Game Boy screen).

Game data

Game locations

The only known way to encounter this Pokémon in the wild is to use a GameShark or other cheating device; however there are rumors that this Pokémon (along with ?, the Glitch Pokémon in slot 00FC) can be seen in the wild, with a slim-to-none chance.

Base stats

??????????'s Pokédex info was actually defined

Type effectiveness

Learnset

By leveling up

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Trivia

• There are many other variations of this Pokémon in the Generation III games. Their images are the same as ??????????'s, but the individual sprites can be backwards, differently colored, upside down, or any of several other minor differences in appearance.
• Many variations of this Glitch Pokémon are named after moves or fragments of a move's name (truncated to the game maximum of ten characters) (e.g. POUND, CHOP, RBOLT, WING ATTACK, ICK ATTACK, and so on.)
• In the Generation I and II games, hexadecimal slots were from 00 to FF, totaling to exactly 256 Pokémon slots available. However, in the Generation III games, the hexes are from 0000 to FFFF, allowing thousands (65,536 to be exact) of Pokémon to be defined. However, only 439 (counting ??????????, Egg, all Unown forms and 25 double question marks) were defined, filling the remaining 65,097 slots with ?????????? variants, or "decamarks," as they are referred to by glitch researchers.
• Analysis of ??????????'s moveset has yielded Bulbasaur's exact Generation III learnset. However, the moves are all learned at different levels.
• It has been stated that there are also similar glitch Pokémon called ??????????? and ????????????. However, this can safely be dismissed as nonsense, due to the fact that across all non-Japanese versions of the games, the limit is 10 characters (in Japanese versions, it is 5). Coincidentally, this can be confirmed using the catchphrase system in Pokémon Battle Revolution, as the name placeholder is "PPPPPPPPPP."
• There may be similar glitch Pokémon in the Generation IV games, but there has been no known investigation into this matter.
• One of ???????????'s Pokédex numbers, #?87, also appears as an item number when using infinite item Gameshark codes.

External links

• DecDex-Decamark variation list (Melchior X)
• Glitch City Laboratories - Glitch Dex - ??????????

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This glitch Pokémon article is part of Project GlitchDex, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on glitches in the Pokémon games.