Remember our feature that highlighted 30 Things You Might Have Missed In Pokémon Scarlet & Violet? Well, we've already found 30 more things, from neat Easter Eggs to things that make battling a whole lot easier.
Let's dive in — how many do you already know?
More Things You Didn't Know About Pokémon Scarlet & Violet
Gary's back
Remember Gary? The little toerag of a rival from the original Pokémon games, back when rivals were just the kids who wanted to ruin your life? Well, there's a reference to Gary in Pokémon and Scarlet, and he has tiny hands. Looks like we win again, Gary.
Toedscool runs like a weird little guy
This falls into the category of "hey, that's cool!" instead of a useful fact about the game, but just look at this lad:
Convergent evolution is real
When two unrelated species end up evolving into similar shapes, that's called "convergent evolution", and its most well-known example is carcinisation, in which multiple species have evolved a crab-like creature.
Wiglett, Wugtrio, Toedscool and Toedscruel are examples of this evolution. They're entirely separate Pokémon, not regional variants!
You can name your Pokémon "Egg"
If you name your Pokémon "Egg", the game will occasionally think it is an egg, and refer to it as "The Egg". It doesn't change anything in any meaningful way, but still — Egg is a great name.
Herba Mystica is a reference to older Pokémon games
Old Pokémon games had HMs, which taught you new traversal moves like Fly, Surf, and Strength. ScarVi has Herba Mystica... but what does Herba Mystica abbreviate to? That's right. HM. Woah.
Marks and Ribbons give your Pokémon titles
You can earn Ribbons for your Pokémon and catch wild 'mons that have Marks on them, but did you know that each one confers a title on your Pokémon? It'll appear in battle, turning your Pokémon from bog-standard Pikachu into "Pikachu the Great Friend" or "Pikachu the Rowdy". Some of them are really hard to get, though...
Bagin's is a reference to Pokémon Legends: Arceus
The bag shop in ScarVi is called Bagin's, and you might think, "sure, it's a play on the word 'bag', I get it" — but it's more than that!
Players of Pokémon Legends: Arceus may remember Bagin as the guy who charges WAY too much money to add a single slot to your bag. Looks like he took all that money and made himself a business!
There's a super rare Ribbon
...In fact, there's one ribbon with a chance of finding it that's so minuscule that no one actually has found it yet. It's called the Once-In-A-Lifetime Ribbon, and it's earned through Surprise Trades!
Press ZL in the menu to quickswap held items
A neat trick for swapping around items like Rocky Helmet, Lucky Egg, and Amulet Coins!
Press RS to centre the battle view
Do you find that your viewpoint is always a bit pants? Wouldn't it be nice if you could have the battle framed like old games, with the option to free-cam around if you feel like it?
Just press in the right stick on your controller to snap the battle into an old-style view!
Press ZL in battle to focus on the opponent
And hey, wouldn't it be nice to be able to examine your foes, too? Well, you can! Hold down the ZL button and you'll focus on your opponent up close.
Press RS in the overworld to change the zoom
While you're running around in the open world of Paldea, you can change how close the camera is for a better view. Just click in the right stick to zoom out or in.
Check stat changes with Y
When you're in battle, press "Y" to open up a menu that shows you all the effects, stat changes, and abilities in effect on the battlefield. Handy!
Pin TMs to track down ingredients
Head over to the TM Machine and press the + button to "pin" a TM recipe. When you're running around, you can press right on the D-Pad to bring up the TMs you've pinned, check what you need, and whether or not you've got all the ingredients yet!
You can rename a traded Pokémon once
It used to be the case that traded Pokémon were stuck with the terrible names their former owners gave them, but not any more — you can change their name once once you have them.
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I like to use tera raids to revive my knocked out pokemon too — sure it only works for one at a time, but still handy if I am not in a picnic mood. I believe this refills pp too.
Does anyone else think the ZL function just doesn't work very well? I know what it's trying to do and I like the concept, but I hate the implementation. I wish it would just show info about every pokemon in view; the lock-in just seems a bit janky to me. Plus pretty sure it doesn't work in area zero (even post-game) or on crystalized pokemon which is annoying.
The name of the gen 1 rival is blue/green (depending on wether it’s japan or the west), not gary.
Gary was anime only.
Also 5 Herba Mystica's and 5 HM's in Pokemon Red, Blue, Yellow.
A bit off topic, but y’all are the only place I’ve seen that refers to these games as “ScarVi”. Nothing wrong with it (for sure beats typing out “Scarlet and Violet” five thousand times), but it was just something that I wanted to point out, haha.
To comment on the actual article, I didn’t realize the Pokémon size differences were that pronounced, I never caught the “Herba Mystica” reference, and I wish you could rename traded Pokémon more than once but at least you can do it at all. Cool finds all around.
@darkswabber
Also in the Manga and he appears in some games even personal
@MH4 yeah most places call it ScVi and a handful of places say SV. And some jokes like ScurVi ofcourse.
You're playing a dangerous game with that Gardevoir image.
SV doesn't have as many cool easter eggs/hints as some of the more recent games, but what is here is really cool and shows great attention to detail (I'm particularly fond of the Bagin reference and the multiple animations Pokemon can have for a variety of different scenarios myself).
Then again, this could just be me being spoiled after the absolute treasure trove of fan-service that was PLA so what do I know XD
Woopsies! I think you messed up with the page break and now the whole thing is one long page instead of two shorter ones! Might want to get that fixed
Time to name your Chansey "the EGG".
@Fizza I thought so too about Gardevoir. Yabe
It was fantastic to see my Reddit post about the two different founders included in this list! Made me smile! ☺️
@Kirbyo not sure what went wrong there, but it's fixed now! <3
@fromjtov that was a really cool spot, thank you
@KateGray Great! Now as for the actual things mentioned in the article... Toedscool's run is the most hilarious thing I've ever seen. The more practical features seem really useful. I still don't think I'm gonna get the games, though. I tried Pokemon X recently, and I fell out pretty quickly. Still cool to see all the things the developers put into Scarlet and Violet!
@FishyS Yeah it's proper janky. Usually by the time the name appears I'm so close I end up touching the Pokemon and entering battle with it anyway.
Definitely needs the parameters tweaking. Something that would actually be nice to expose to the player as an option we could adjust to personal taste. But then, this is a game lacking most basic accessibility options so a quality of life thing like this is unlikely I guess.
There is no character called Gary in the Pokémon games. The character from the anime called Gary was based on the character called Blue.
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