Invisible shiny Bulbasaur

Invisible shiny Bulbasaur is a glitch Pokémon found only in Pokémon Diamond and Pearl. It is usually found in Sinnoh's Oreburgh Mine with the use of an Action Replay, although there are other ways in encountering it with an Action Replay.^[1]. It can also be encountered in a wild double battle when using a cheat code to walk over water, and it can be found in Victory Road as well.

Invisible shiny Bulbasaur always appears at Lv.0 with 0 Max HP, similarly to ?????????? in Generation III. It does not appear to have any usable attacks – in double battles, the only attack it can use is Struggle. It is apparently invisible, although it may have a sprite resembling DPBox's (when it uses Struggle in a double battle, the bottom of a sprite resembling DPBox's is visible at the top of the screen); it sparkles like a shiny Pokémon when it appears; and it's cry is the same as that of a Bulbasaur. If the player attempts to attack it, the game will assume there is no target and end the battle immediately.

By using the walk through walls code to walk over water, the player can trigger a wild double battle with an Invisible shiny Bulbasaur and a real Pokémon. An Invisible shiny Bulbasaur's shadow cannot be seen under it. Instead, the shadow is found beside the real Pokémon. The game, thinking that the player is traveling with a partner, will display two of the player's back sprite, one being the player and the "clone" being the nonexistent partner. The partner, whose name is nothing more than a blank space, will send out a DP Box. If the player does not run, then after both real Pokémon have taken their turns, one of the glitches will attack the other with Struggle, causing both to faint (one from damage, the other from recoil). It is also possible to obtain Invisible shiny Bulbasaur by using the instant egg code when there is no Pokémon in the daycare, or just one, and then using the hatch eggs fast code to hatch an otherwise unhatchable egg. This freezes the game quite often however. In some rare cases, an Action Replay code input wrongly may cause a permanent roaming Invisible shiny Bulbasaur to appear.

Interestingly, in a wild double battle, Invisible shiny Bulbasaur copies its partner's Speed stat and replaces all participating Pokémon's cries (including DPBox's) with a Bulbasaur's cry. After each attack animation, its HP counter disappears.

Invisible shiny Bulbasaur is essentially a null, which happens when an empty space in the party is called to battle. This would explain why the game says that there is no target because, technically, there is no Pokémon.

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External links

• Video of an encounter with this glitch

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