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Pomeg Berry ザロクのみ Zaroku Fruit No. 21

Effect Makes a Pokémon more friendly, but lowers HP EVs.E, Gen. IV+ Natural Gift Type Ice Power 90 Flavor Generation III   SPICY DRY SWEET BITTER SOUR   +1 -1 0 +1 -1 Generation IV             10 SPICY       0 DRY       10 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 5.3" 13.5 cm Very hard Bag description Generation III POKéblock ingredient. Plant in loamy soil to grow Pomeg.RS Can be ground up into powder as an ingredient for medicine.FRLG Makes a Pokémon friendly but lowers base HP.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 HP.DPPt Using it on a Pokémon makes it more friendly, but it also lowers its base HP.HGSS Generation V Using it on a Pokémon makes it more friendly, but it also lowers its base HP. Generation VI A Berry to be consumed by Pokémon. Using it on a Pokémon makes it more friendly but lowers its base HP. Generation VII A Berry to be consumed by Pokémon. Using it on a Pokémon makes it more friendly but lowers its base HP. Generation VIII Unknown Tag description Generation III However much it is watered, it only grows up to six Berries. Generation IV When this sweetly spicy Berry's thick skin is peeled, many pieces of the fruit spill out. Ice Cream Scoop Flavor 1 Flavor 2 Flavor 3 Scoop Stickiness Origin Name Pomegranate Design Pomegranate

A Pomeg Berry (Japanese: ザロクのみ Zaroku Fruit) is a type of Berry introduced in Generation III.

Locations

Growth and harvest

Generation III

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

Generation IV

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

Generation VI

A Pomeg Berry will mature from a planted seed to a full-grown, fruit-bearing tree in 48 hours, with 8 hours per stage. A Pomeg 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 Pomeg Berry will mature from a planted seed to a full-grown, fruit-bearing tree in 48 hours. A Pomeg 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 Pomeg Berry can produce a Level 12 (maybe higher) Spicy-Bitter Poffin when cooking alone.

Used on a Pokémon

This Berry increases a Pokémon's friendship by and lowers its HP 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 anime

Pomeg flowers in the anime

While the Pomeg Berry itself has never been featured in the anime, its flowers were seen in The Grass-Type is Always Greener!, where Ash, his friends, and Cheryl found a Combee residing near them, thus giving them their first lead to the Amber Castle.

In the manga

A Pomeg Berry in Pokémon Adventures

In the Pokémon Adventures manga

A Pomeg Berry appeared in A Conk on Cranidos's Cranium as a part of Diamond and Pearl's comedy routine. In the Chuang Yi translation, it was referred to as a Rowap Berry instead.

In Problematic Probopass and Mad Magnezone II, a Pomeg Berry was seen among the many Berries that Cyrus's Probopass's Mini-Noses dug out of Lax's fur while trying to retrieve Cyrus's camera.

Trivia

• Due to its ability to lower a Pokémon's HP EVs, it is famous for the Pomeg glitch, which can lower the HP of a Pokémon which has low HP so that it becomes a negative value.

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.