Grass cutting
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Grass cutting is a game mechanic introduced in Generation I which allowed players to clear tall grass, and as such reduce the amount of Wild Pokémon encounters. This one of the overworld uses for the Hidden Machine Cut, however after Generation III the feature was removed from the games.
In the core series games
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In Generations I to III, Cut can be used to remove a portion of tall grass. This is only available by using the move from the party screen.
The grass is restored once the player leaves the current area or resets the game.
Generation I
Cut removes a 2×2 tall grass tile patch (4 tiles per patch). It does not matter if the player is located inside or outside the 2×2 patch, as long as the player is facing one of its tiles.
In this generation, it is not possible to remove tall grass from Viridian Forest or Safari Zone (the only two areas where not all the grass is arranged in 2×2 tile patches).
Generation II
Cut still removes a 2×2 tall grass tile patch like before.
In addition, long grass (tall grass that is longer than usual) was introduced as well. If the player uses Cut on a 2×2 patch of long grass, it becomes the regular variety of tall grass. Therefore, using Cut twice removes the long grass completely.
Generation III
In this generation, Cut removes tall grass from the player's current tile and all the adjacent tiles at once (if any), up to 9 tiles in a 3×3 arrangement. Unlike in the previous generation, Cut now also removes long grass completely with a single use.
Unlike in Generation I, Viridian Forest and Safari Zone are not exceptions anymore. The tall grass found there can be cut normally in Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen.
Pokémon Emerald
In Pokémon Emerald, Pokémon with the Ability Hyper Cutter cut a larger amount of tall grass (or long grass) at once, up to 25 tiles in a 5×5 arrangement.
If the player uses Cut to remove all the long grass on Faraway Island before battling the Mew that is hiding in the grass, Mew will disappear without a battle.
Gallery
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In animation
Pokémon the Series
Pokémon the Series: Gold and Silver
In Playing with Fire!, Harrison's Kecleon used its tongue to cut the grass where Ash's Pikachu was hiding during their Silver Conference battle.
Pokémon Journeys: The Series
In Time After Time!, Goh's Scyther and Farfetch'd used Slash and Cut, respectively, to cut tall grass in Ilex Forest, uncovering a wild Ariados and Pineco in the process.
In the manga
Pokémon Adventures
Platinum arc
In Unplugging Rotom (Heat, Wash, Mow, Fan, Frost), when Rotom was playing with Diamond before he obtained it as his Pokémon, it appeared as a Mow Rotom at some point and cut down some grass to create an image of Diamond's face.
Trivia
- Cut's ability to cut down grass might be referencing the Kusanagi no Tsurugi, a sacred Japanese sword. The name translates to "grass-cutting sword".
- There is a reference to grass cutting in the description of Route 29 in Johto: "The road smells like freshly cut grass."
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