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Hondew Berry ロメのみ Rome Fruit No. 24

Effect Makes a Pokémon more friendly, but lowers Special Attack EVs.E, Gen. IV+ Natural Gift Type Ground Power 90 Flavor Generation III   SPICY DRY SWEET BITTER SOUR   0 +1 -1 +1 -1 Generation IV             10 SPICY       10 DRY       0 SWEET       10 BITTER       0 SOUR       Growth Generation III Planted 0 hours Sprouted 3 hours Taller 6 hours Flowering 9 hours Berries 12 hours Generation IV Planted 0 hours Sprouted 8 hours Taller 16 hours Flowering 24 hours Berries 32 hours Size (in) Size (cm) Firmness 6.4" 16.2 cm Hard Bag description Generation III POKéblock ingredient. Plant in loamy soil to grow Hondew.RS Can be ground up into powder as an ingredient for medicine.FRLG Makes a Pokémon friendly but lowers base Sp.Atk.E An item brought over from a faraway place.ColoXD Generation IV A Poffin ingredient. Using it on a Pokémon makes it more friendly, but it also lowers its base Sp. Atk stat.DPPt Using it on a Pokémon makes it more friendly, but it also lowers its base Sp. Atk stat.HGSS Generation V Using it on a Pokémon makes it more friendly, but it also lowers its base Special Attack stat. Generation VI A Berry to be consumed by Pokémon. Using it on a Pokémon makes it more friendly but lowers its base Sp. Atk. Generation VII A Berry to be consumed by Pokémon. Using it on a Pokémon makes it more friendly but lowers its base Sp. Atk. Generation VIII Held Item: A Berry to be consumed by Pokémon. Using it on a Pokémon makes it more friendly but lowers its Sp. Atk base points. Curry Ingredient: A Berry with an unusual taste, but many people like it. When its yellow parts are bulging, the Berry is ripe. Tag description Generation III A Berry that is very valuable and rarely seen. It is very delicious. Generation IV This somewhat-rare Berry projects an image of luxury, so it is favored as a gift item. Ice Cream Scoop Flavor 1 Flavor 2 Flavor 3 Scoop Stickiness Origin Name Honeydew Design Honeydew

A Hondew Berry ( Japanese: ロメのみ Rome Fruit) is a type of Berry introduced in Generation III.

Locations

Growth and harvest

Generation III

A Hondew Berry will mature from a planted seed to a full-grown, fruit-bearing tree in 12 hours, with 3 hours per stage. A Hondew tree will yield 2-6 Berries.

Generation IV

A Hondew Berry will mature from a planted seed to a full-grown, fruit-bearing tree in 32 hours, with 8 hours per stage. A Hondew tree will yield 1-5 Berries.

Generation VI

A Hondew Berry will mature from a planted seed to a full-grown, fruit-bearing tree in 48 hours, with 8 hours per stage. A Hondew tree will yield 1-20 Berries. During its growth, watering the plant will add 0.5 Berries to the final harvest, weeding it will add 1.5, and removing a pest will add 3.

Generation VII

A Hondew Berry will mature from a planted seed to a full-grown, fruit-bearing tree in 48 hours. A Hondew tree will yield 5-14 Berries.

Uses

Berry Blending

Berry Crushing

At 100% performance, this Berry will contribute 200 units of powder.

Poffin Cooking

At 100% performance, a Hondew Berry can produce a Level 12 (maybe higher) Dry-Bitter Poffin when cooking alone.

Used on a Pokémon

This Berry increases a Pokémon's friendship by and lowers its Special Attack EVs by ten points (but not below 0). It can only be used outside of battle, and only has this effect in Pokémon Emerald and later games. In Generation IV only, this Berry reduces the EV to 100 if it was above 100 when used.

Artwork

Dream World artwork

In the manga

A Hondew Berry in Pokémon Adventures

Pokémon Adventures

Emerald arc

In Sneaky Like Shedinja II, Emerald's Sceptile sliced some Hondew Berries with Leaf Blade so its Trainer could eat them.

Platinum arc

In The Final Dimensional Duel VII, Jupiter used a Hondew Berry to turn her Tangrowth's Natural Gift into a Ground-type move while battling against Marley's Arcanine.

Trivia

• While the names of the Hondew Berry indicate it to be based on a melon, it may also resemble a ripe opium pod.

Names

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Berries

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This Pokémon article is part of Project BerryDex, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on each Berry in the Pokémon series.