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This article relates only to the glass flutes. For other flutes, see Poké Flute, Azure Flute, Time Flute, or Eon Flute.

A flute (Japanese: ビードロ vidro) is a hand-blown glass instrument that produces sound when it is blown into.

List of Flutes

	Name	Effect
		Gen III and IV	Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire
	Black Flute	Reduces wild Pokémon encounter rate	Increases the level of wild Pokémon
	Blue Flute	Wakes a sleeping Pokémon
	Red Flute	Snaps a Pokémon out of infatuation
	White Flute	Increases wild Pokémon encounter rate	Decreases the level of wild Pokémon
	Yellow Flute	Snaps a Pokémon out of confusion

In the core series games

Mechanics

In the Generation III and IV games, as well as Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire, these flutes have one of two types of effects:

• The player can play the Blue Flute, Red Flute, or Yellow Flute in battle to cure a Pokémon of sleep, infatuation, or confusion, respectively. Unlike most status-curing items, this does not consume the item.
• The player can play the Black Flute or White Flute outside of battle to affect wild Pokémon encounters.
  • In the Generation III and IV games, they reduce or increase the wild encounter rate, respectively.
  • In Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire, they increase or reduce the levels of wild Pokémon, respectively.

In Pokémon Colosseum and XD, while the other flutes work as normal, the Black Flute and White Flute cannot be used. If the player attempts to use one, the message "This item's use is forbidden in the Orre Region." will be displayed.

In Generation V games and Pokémon X and Y, these items do not have their function and are simply ordinary valuable items. They can be sold to the item maniac in Undella Town for a higher-than-usual sell price.

Acquisition

In Pokémon Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald, Omega Ruby, and Alpha Sapphire, the player can collect volcanic ash in the Soot Sack and have it turned into flutes at the Glass Workshop on Route 113.

In Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen, the Yellow Flute can be purchased from the Rocket Game Corner, but the other flutes can only be obtained by trading them. In Pokémon Colosseum and XD, the flutes can only be obtained by trade, except the Yellow Flute, which can be found in Pokémon XD.

In Pokémon Diamond and Pearl, the flutes cannot be found in the game, but they can be acquired by migrating a Pokémon holding that item via Pal Park. In Pokémon Platinum, the Black Flute and White Flute are available, but the other three are not. In Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver, all five flutes can be found in the game.

In Pokémon Black, White, Black 2, and White 2, the player can receive any of the Flutes from the treasure hunter on Route 13. In Black 2 and White 2, these are the only items they can receive from in.

From Generation VII onward, the flutes are unobtainable.

Artwork

These are artwork of the items as seen in the Pokémon Global Link

Black Flute	Blue Flute	Red Flute	White Flute	Yellow Flute

In the anime

Flutes in the anime

A full set of flutes appeared in SS007, where Ash received it as a prize for winning the Battle Frontier Flute Cup.

In the manga

In the Pokémon Adventures manga

In Tanks, but No Tanks, Anorith & Lileep, Wallace was seen having exchanged the volcanic ash collected by Ruby for an unspecified flute.

Trivia

• Their Japanese name, vidro, refers to a specific type of flute which originated in Germany. Vidro are a common decoration in Japan.
• These items are the only normal items that can be used multiple times without having multiple copies in the Bag.
• Due to the Bag having more pockets in Generation IV than in Generations III and VI, the five flutes are the only set of similar items that cannot all be placed in the same pocket: the Black and White Flutes are in the items pocket, while the Red, Blue, and Yellow Flutes are in the battle items pocket.
  • Therefore, whereas in Generation III and VI the Blue Flute can be used both inside and outside of battle to awaken a sleeping Pokémon, due to its Generation IV placement, it cannot be used outside battle at all. While the Red and Yellow Flutes could be selected for use outside of battle in Generation III, they remove effects on a Pokémon which it automatically recovers from as soon as it leaves the battlefield anyway, giving them no out-of-battle purpose whatsoever. In Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire, both the Red and Yellow Flutes can only be used in battle.
  • In Generation V and X and Y, the battle items pocket and items pocket were merged, thus reuniting the items. However, their individual uses have been removed, turning them into ordinary valuable items.
  • The Blue, Red and Yellow Flutes were moved to the medicine pocket in Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire, meaning that they have been in three different bag pockets over three generations.
• The Yellow Flute is the only flute obtainable in Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness without trading.

In other languages

Language Title Chinese Cantonese 玻璃哨 Bōlēi Saau Mandarin 玻璃哨 Bōlí Shào * 哨子 Shàozi * French Flûte German Flöte Italian Flauto Korean 비드로 Vidro Spanish Flauta

See also

• Poké Flute
• Azure Flute
• Time Flute

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