Talk:List of glitches in Generation VIII

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• Symbiosis
• Eggsploit
• Glitch Table Update?
• Overflowing stats
• Rose Tower Glitch
• Ally Switch self-attack glitch
• Split
• Ursaluna Cry Glitch

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Symbiosis

There is a glitch I found in Sword and Shield. If an item can be consumed during switch-in, Symbiosis will activate it twice and consume the item that it passes. If Oranguru Symbiosis passes a Berry or a non-Berry, the animation of consumption will match but have the effect of the prior item. Example: Trick Room is set by an Oranguru holding a Lagging Tail. Manually switch in a G-Darmanitan holding Room Service, Room Service is consumed to lower G-Darmanitan's Speed, Symbiosis passes the Lagging Tail, Lagging Tail is consumed to lower G-Darmanitan's Speed.

I have tested this glitch with Room Service (-2 Speed) and the Terrain Seeds (+2 defenses). I would share a link to my Twitter or YouTube, but the AI says no.

Theory crafting: I assume that having your own Intimidate bounced back by an opponent's Ability will activate the glitch with Adrenaline Orb (+2 Speed). I also believe that if you or the opponent would activate your Item on Turn 0, it would activate twice (like Intimidate or their own Terrain Ability). I do not know if Stealth Rocks, Spikes, etc. can activate the glitch with Health-based Berries (either for healing like Sitrus or for stats like Ganlon).

LocalMaple (talk) 18:12, 18 January 2020 (UTC)

Okay. I will add this. --TheICTLiker4 17:54, 21 January 2020 (UTC)

Eggsploit

here is a video about it [[1]] you can also evolve male combee into vespiquen (shown here [[2]]) - unsigned comment from Wild Starfish (talk • contribs)

Glitch Table Update?

Could the "List of glitches" table please be corrected/updated to reflect the information on this page? I do not know how to do this (and I probably don't have the authority to do this) so could this be fixed ASAP? Thank you in advance. BlueDecoRoller (talk) 04:03, 3 March 2020 (UTC)

Overflowing stats

Apparently non-HP stats overflow when they go above 654. Does that information belong on this page? sumwun (talk, contribs) 03:27, 22 June 2021 (UTC)

Rose Tower Glitch

Tested the Rose Tower Glitch on Pokémon Sword 1.0.0 and 1.1.0, the two versions playable at the time the glitch information was added to Bulbapedia (January 2020). Neither time was I unable to progress after flying to another location before entering Rose Tower. The Tower was registered as a fly location both times, so I was unable to replicate the glitch. This coupled with not being able to find any reference to the glitch elsewhere on the internet suggests that the information was added in error. I am minded to remove the glitch info from the page in the near future unless there are any objections. --Thespeon196 (talk) 17:01, 24 August 2024 (UTC)

Ally Switch self-attack glitch

This video demonstrates a glitch not listed here where Ally Switch can allow a pokemon to attack itself. I don't have SwSh so I can't test further or check which versions have this. --^Swampert_rox 19:10, 22 December 2024 (UTC)

Split

I suggest splitting this page by subject like in previous generations:

• List of glitches in Generation VIII
  • List of battle glitches in Generation VIII
  • List of overworld glitches in Generation VIII

Alternatively we could split this list by game, since there are almost no glitches that affect all Generation VIII games:

• List of glitches in Pokémon Sword and Shield
• List of glitches in Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl
• List of glitches in Pokémon Legends: Arceus

For comparison, these are the existing pages for previous generations:

• List of glitches in Generation I
  • List of battle glitches in Generation I
  • List of overworld glitches in Generation I
• List of glitches in Generation II
  • List of battle glitches in Generation II
• List of glitches in Generation III
  • List of battle glitches in Generation III
  • List of overworld glitches in Generation III
• List of glitches in Generation IV
  • List of battle glitches in Generation IV
  • List of overworld glitches in Generation IV
• List of glitches in Generation V
  • List of battle glitches in Generation V
  • List of overworld glitches in Generation V
• List of glitches in Generation VI
  • List of battle glitches in Generation VI
  • List of overworld glitches in Generation VI
• List of glitches in Generation VII
  • List of battle glitches in Generation VII
  • List of overworld glitches in Generation VII

--Daniel Carrero (talk) 16:43, 14 March 2025 (UTC)

I don't see a need to split this page, and I'm not sure why the other pages needed to be split that way either. Landfish7 17:22, 15 March 2025 (UTC)

Starting in 2022, I split the other pages into "battle glitches" and "overworld glitches". At some points I also created a few other glitch pages.

The current page we are discussing (List of glitches in Generation VIII) used to have HOME glitches too, but it was also split in January 2025 when someone created List of glitches in Pokémon HOME.

Maybe at some point we should discuss all the glitch pages as part of a larger initiative?

In my opinion, it's best to keep the separation between "battle glitches" and "overworld glitches" as they are groups of related glitches.

Arguably people might want to see all battle glitches together if they want to know how Pokémon battles work. But to be fair, even if it's true (it's true at least for me), a single page named "List of glitches in Generation VIII" could have sections for "battle glitches" and "overworld glitches" without the need to be split into different pages anyway.

At least in my opinion, splitting can help navigation in some cases since there are usually many glitches per generation (especially Gen I). Surely when "List of glitches was created in Generation I" was created back in 2009, we weren't listing nearly as many Generation I glitches as we are today. --Daniel Carrero (talk) 18:04, 15 March 2025 (UTC)

I think splitting the other lists of glitches in that way was a mistake. I find it harder to navigate—I think there's a substantial benefit to having all of the glitches listed on the same page. Also, I still occasionally find links to the old pages that no longer work because the section links to the old lists were never updated. I think it could make sense to have "Battle glitches" and "Overworld glitches" as subheaders on the list pages, but not as entirely separate pages.

However, I do think it makes sense to split the lists from Gen 7 onward by game (specifically, SM/USUM as a single page, and Let's Go as a separate page). For Gens 1-6, the core series games in the same generation are built with the same engine, meaning that there is usually a lot of overlap in glitches. However, starting with Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee!, the core series games of the same generation now usually do not share the same engine, and aren't even directly compatible (requiring HOME as an intermediary), so don't have the kinds of overlapping glitches that make it useful to have them share the same page. The only glitches likely to be shared are the ones that are part of the battle engine itself—but those are the glitches most likely to span multiple generations, which would have separate pages anyway that are just linked from the glitch lists. And even then, the Pokémon Legends games use a different battle engine to other core series games anyway, so won't share glitches in that same way. SnorlaxMonster 13:04, 17 March 2025 (UTC)

I understand. So this would be the plan (correct me if I'm wrong):

• Merge back all the "Battle glitches" and "Overworld glitches" pages into the main pages.
• Use sections like battle "Battle glitches" and "Overworld glitches".
• Split glitch pages by game from Gen VII onwards.

If this is done, I suppose these would be the game pages:

• List of glitches in Pokémon Sun, Moon, Ultra Sun, and Ultra Moon
• List of glitches in Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee!
• List of glitches in Pokémon Sword and Shield
• List of glitches in Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl
• List of glitches in Pokémon Legends: Arceus
• List of glitches in Pokémon Scarlet and Violet
• List of glitches in Pokémon HOME (this one already exists)

For the record, Mario Wiki uses lists by game like List of Super Mario World glitches or the glitches are mentioned on the game pages like Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2#Glitches. --Daniel Carrero (talk) 15:56, 17 March 2025 (UTC)

I agree with SnorlaxMonster (and Landfish). I think it would possibly make sense to split later generations by game (because that's essentially what it's separated by anyway). Nescientist (talk) 19:25, 17 March 2025 (UTC)

Ursaluna Cry Glitch

I noticed in LA that most of Ursaluna's cries sounded like Basculegion, which I'm certain is not intentional. Contributing to this, Basculegion immediately follows Ursaluna in the Pokédex. Eragon4 (talk) 20:02, 23 April 2025 (UTC)