Item

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Items (Japanese: どうぐ dōgu) have various uses, including healing, powering up, or helping one to catch Pokémon. Below is a list of item categories. Some items have their own articles.

Bag

The bags in Platinum

The Bag appears in every Pokémon game in one form or another. It is used to hold all of the player's items, and is accessible from the beginning of the game through the menu.

Trainer card

The Trainer card contains all the information about a Trainer, including their name, Trainer ID number, the amount of money they have]], the amount of Pokémon in their Pokédex and the length of time they have been playing. The Trainer card will change color depending on how far through the game the player is.

Rewards

Badges

Badges are a sign that a player has defeated a Gym Leader. Earning more badges will help qualify for the Pokémon League, as well as allow the use of specific HMs outside of battle and affect the behavior of certain Pokémon. They are displayed with the Trainer card.

Frontier Symbols

A Frontier Symbol is earned when one of Hoenn's Frontier Brains is defeated. They are displayed on the Frontier Pass and only appear in Pokémon Emerald.

Colored print

Commemorative Prints

A Commemorative print is earned in the when one of the Frontier Brains at a Generation IV Battle Frontier is defeated. The prints are displayed on the Vs. Recorder.

Pokédex

A Pokédex records information about every species of Pokémon a Trainer has encountered. There are three kinds:

Regional Pokédex - for listing Pokémon specific to a certain region
National Pokédex - for listing all 493 species of Pokémon
Unown Dex - for listing the (at the time) 26 species of Unown

Running Shoes

The Running Shoes have been a stable part of the game since Generation III. By pressing the B button, players are able to run instead of walk. In Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver the Running Shoes can be activated using the Nintendo DS's touch screen.

Recovery items

Some items allow the recovery of a Pokémon's HP. Typically, these are food items and incldue drinks, ethers, herbal medicine, Potions, Revives, the Ragecandybar and the one-of-a-kind Sacred Ash.

Some status ailment healing items will cure a Pokémon of other injuries.

Stat-enhancing items

Evolution

Main article: Evolutionary stone

Main article: Evolution-inducing held item

In Battle

Main article: Battle item

Vitamins

Main article: Vitamin

Held items

Held items are items given to a Pokémon to hold onto by its Trainer. These items can help the Pokémon in battle (such as berries, in-battle effect items, stat-enhancing items or type-enhancing items), help the Pokémon to reproduce (such as incense) or provide communication with others (such as Mail).

Tools

Balls

Balls such as the Poké Ball are a mechanism in which a captured Pokémon is kept. Poké Balls come in many varieties, each of different strength.

Escape Rope

Escape Ropes are used to return to the entrance of a cave or dungeon.

Experience-affecting item

Experience-affecting items such as the Exp. All and Exp. Share aid a Pokémon's growth.

Poké Doll and Fluffy Tail

The Poké Doll and Fluffy Tail provide easy escape from a wild Pokémon.

Repel

Repel prevents wild Pokémon from appearing. There are many different types, each with a different strength.

Cologne

Only in Pokémon Colosseum and Pokémon XD, Cologne increases a Pokémon's happiness.

Honey

Honey attracts wild Pokémon to grassy patches and can be slathered on special trees in the Sinnoh region to attract rare Pokémon.

Move Machines

TMs and HMs provide a wider movepool for Pokémon to learn from. Some moves will have additional use outside of battle.

Items to sell or trade

Some items have no purpose other than to earn money for the player or otherwise help obtain other goods. These can specifically refer to Coins, Apricorns, and Shards, but other valuable items and exchangeable items can also be found.

Key items

Key items can only be obtained once in gameplay and cannot be traded between games. Often these are items which the player must deliver to a non-player character, but other times they are intended to be kept and will aid gameplay.

Fossils

Fossils may be revived into Pokémon. There are seven types of fossil:

Devices

PokéGear

Main article: PokéGear

PokéNav

Main article: PokéNav

Pokétch

Main article: Pokétch

Decorations

Main article: Bed

Main article: Carpet

Main article: Pokémon doll

Main article: Game system

Main article: Plant

Main article: Poster

Main article: Chair

Main article: Cushion

Main article: Desk

Main article: Mat

Main article: Ornament

Scarves

Main article: Scarf

Flutes

Main article: Flute

Main article: Poké Flute

Main article: Time Flute

Super Contest items

Main article: Accessory

Main article: Backdrop

Mulch

Main article: Mulch