Talk:DexNav

People've been saying about existence of platinum crown that apparently is for catching every Pokémon that can be caught, including post-National. Eridanus (talk) 15:02, 5 December 2014 (UTC)

Search Function/Hidden Pokemon

I'm pretty sure that the hidden Pokemon show up on any tiles by themselves besides pokemon that can only be caught by fishing. Tsigma6 (talk) 03:43, 6 December 2014 (UTC)

Unown sprite pattern trivia

I'm not sure if this should be noted here or on the Unown page, but in the DexNav display, the sprite changes. You see the first Unown I caught was a 'N' Unown, now I failed to see what the sprite was right after the encounter since I caught a 'B' Unown straight away (like a few steps and then bam, another encounter) When I went to use the DexNav, the 'B' sprite was in use. However, I just caught a A Unown and now the DexNav Sprite is an 'A' Unown. So it goes to reason that the Sprite defaults to the closest (alphabetically) sprite to 'A' possible. This might need further testing, but it still in interesting the sprite changes based on the form(s) encountered and/or caught. Yamitora1 (talk) 19:27, 6 December 2014 (UTC)

Detector Mode

A Ranger on Route 119 describes the reactive magnifier/scope function as "Detector Mode". But given how this article is worded, I can't for the life of me make heads or tails of where that falls under. Kai * the Arc Toraph 18:24, 7 December 2014 (UTC)

Search Level

Someone just added that the search level is a "red herring". This is incorrect, but I don't know how best to correct it. From what I've found, at least for lower search levels, the search level (which does correspond to the times a Pokémon is encountered) dictates HOW MUCH information about a Pokémon is shared. So, for instance, if your search level is just 2, you CAN still encounter a Pokémon with perfect IVs (just like you might if you weren't even using the DexNav) and you might even encounter something with a hidden ability, or a special item. But the lower the search level, the less information will be shown, up to the point where only the level is shown. So not a "red herring" at all, but an indicator of how much information can be determined in advance. It would probably be best if someone could try to find exactly which levels correspond to another fact or tidbit being added. —Andy^P_K^M_N (talk) 00:51, 10 December 2014 (UTC)

Fair point; I was thinking from the point of view of acquiring better Pokémon. Though the search level still doesn't tell you anything new here, since you can plainly see how much information is visible  :) Eevee (talk) 02:10, 10 December 2014 (UTC)

The Japanese guidebook also specifies that the Search Level provides certain benefits, such as increased chances of certain special qualities (and enabling some to appear at all, although that's mostly restricted to very low Search Levels). --SnorlaxMonster 06:09, 12 December 2014 (UTC)

Just catch an eevee with charm using dexnav, level 0. i think even with level 0, you still can have hidden abilities, egg moves, iv etc but just lower chance. -Pokeant (talk) 13:05, 16 December 2014 (UTC)

I've done the same thing, but I don't even know for sure that there's a lower chance. I think the difference might just be that it won't tell you all the distinguishing features (first move, ability, held item, etc.) beforehand unless you have a high enough Search Level. But that's not to say the Search Level is useless—it tells you how much information will be disclosed, as well as how many more Pokémon you have to encounter before it starts disclosing more info. —Andy^P_K^M_N (talk) 22:44, 16 December 2014 (UTC)