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15 More Things You Might Have Missed In Pokémon Scarlet & Violet
16. Leeloo Dallas Multi-Select
You can select multiple Pokémon in a box, for easy movement — just press the minus button and you'll get a big box that you can draw around the Pokémon you want to grab.
You do have to have all your Pokémon next to each other for this to work, but bear the multi-select feature in mind when tidying up your boxes!
17. Trading Tongues
Trading for a Pokémon from someone whose game is in a different language will give you access to that Pokédex entry in both your language and theirs — including measurements, which will change to displaying their height in metres and their weight in kg.
Unfortunately, this only works for Japanese-language trades, as far as we can tell. Pokémon will say if they came from different regions still, like Italy, Spain, France, and so on, but you won't see their Pokédex entries.
18. Shiny Trophies
You can display shiny versions of Pokémon in the Pokédex, as long as you've seen them in their shiny form. This will replace their model with the shiny version until you decide to change it.
19. Help out your teachers
Make sure to check in with Prof Jacq from time to time — he'll give you rewards for doing his job for him filling out your Pokédex. This is on top of the rewards you get from the Pokédex itself!
20. Keep your Pokémon dry
You've probably tried sending out your Pokémon to auto-battle in the water, and you probably quickly discovered that this drowns the Pokémon, you monster. Of course, they're fine, they just can't swim, and they'll refuse to fight in the water.
However, you can throw balls at Water Pokémon to engage them in battle instead — just target them with ZL and press ZR to throw a Poké Ball. Your own Pokémon will then magically figure out how to fight on water. Why couldn't they do it before?
21. Climb every tower
Towers & Pokémon Centers serve as fast travel points, so you'll want to ensure that you've activated them all by using the Pokémon Center and climbing to the very tippy-top of each tower. You should climb towers anyway — they have TMs and Gimmighouls in them!
22. Your Pokémon have opinions now
You can now ask advice from your Pokémon when learning moves, and they'll tell you what they think you should get rid of to make room for the new move. This raises questions, obviously — can they talk? Do they understand battle strategy? — but try not to think too hard about it.
Also, treat it as a second opinion, because, erm, Pokémon can be a bit stupid. Our Flying-type Tera Pikachu thinks it should get rid of Fly, despite that being its whole deal. Shut up, Pikachu.
23. Get into Rotometry
Talk to the lady at the bottom of the Mesagoza steps, and she'll tell you she can read your past with "Rotometry". If you agree to this, you can get Rotom phone cases based on your Switch save data. The more Pokémon games you've played on Switch, the more phone cases you can get — and each one is themed around the specific Pokémon games you've played!
24. Backstabbing
Hit wild Pokémon in the back while sneaking, and you'll get a free attack. Is it honourable? No. Does it make it easier to beat them and/or catch them? Uh, yes.
25. Respawn, reuse, recycle
TMs and Gimmighouls respawn. This is a lifesaver if you're trying to grind for TMs, money, or those stuuuupid Gimmighoul coins. We have guides for that too, by the way:
26. The Pokédex has secrets
The Pokédex is even more useful than normal — this time it can actually help you find the Pokémon you're missing.
The Pokédex will show you the location and silhouette of Pokémon you haven't caught yet, as long as they're next to a Pokémon you already have in your Pokédex. Note that evolutions with no wild location won't have one, of course.
27. Buy balls in bulk
This isn't a new feature, but if you buy 10 Poké Balls of any type in one go, you'll get a Premier Ball as a reward. This scales up, too — buy 50 Poké Balls and you'll get 5 free Premier Balls.
Unfortunately, they don't have any special effect — they work exactly like Poké Balls, with a 1x catch rate. They do look cool, though. And they're free!
28. Sell stuff in bulk
When selling at a Poké Mart, just press X to open up the bulk selling menu. Select the things you want to sell, select how many you want to sell, and then you'll add it to a shopping list — once you're done, press the + button to sell it all at once!
29. Ladder sprinting
Hold down the B button while on a ladder to climb or descend faster. We don't have all day!
30. Flying is just falling in style
There is no fall damage in Pokémon Scarlet and Violet. You probably already know this one if you like to fling yourself off things, but your Rotom Phone will actually save you before hitting the ground. You can then press Y if the fall was accidental and you'd like to go back up to where you previously were, but there's a time limit, so make sure to press Y quickly!
Did you know any of these interesting tidbits already? Do you have any of your own that you wanted to show off? Let us know in the comments below!
Comments 17
Taking off the ugly hat really is the best advice!
This was very helpful. Thank you.
I thought Premier Balls slightly boosted friendship of Pokémon caught with them?
@C-Olimar Those are Luxury Balls. Premier Balls have always just been functionally identical to a regular Poké Ball, but prettier looking.
@C-Olimar That's a Luxury Ball! Premier ball are only cool-looking
Taking off hat was first thing I did in the game. Spending all my money to buy accessories and be slightly less ugly was also something I did ASAP.
Thanks for the reminder to check my Pokédex rewards. I had heard this before but somehow still forgot to ever do it. Most of these I had noticed, but I still haven't gotten around to trying picnics yet.
I really enjoy that your levitating phone saves you from falling. That makes 'phone floats in front of you' canon rather than e.g. super lazy animation.
@Glrd Unbelievable. I had thought that they increased friendship my entire life.
How do you change the default form for a given Pokemon in the Pokedex? I know since Gen V all you had to do was switch the form you were viewing and you were good. In SV for me, when I do that it works until I leave the Pokedex, where it resets all the changes I made.
This is really bizarre.. do we finally have an option in settings to change imperial measurement to metric measurement in the Pokédex?
Ugly hat?
...I thought it was cute-
I miss snorlax
I could have sworn that No. 17 was already in SwSh.
Yeah, these are great!
I found some of these but not all of them.
Another quick tip to go with making sandwiches in picnics is if you give your Pokemon a bath by looking at them and pressing X will not only level up their friendliness a little bit but also heals them completely and gives them a tiny boost in experience (about 30XP). It doesn't replenish PP for moves but it has come in handy for training my weaker mons' without using up all of my potions and you can do it several times to quickly level up their friendliness.
For number 7️⃣, I was hoping you could take off BOTH socks and shoes like I do in other games as I love to barefoot👣 in real life.
I got several "foreign" Pokémon via Surprise Trade, but only two of them registered in another language in the Pokédex—one in French and one in German. None of the Japanese Pokémon I received got registered. Seems to be a bug?
I think you might be onto something about the Papa pokemon. I needed to get a Cetitan but I didn't have an Ice stone, so I found one in the wild surrounded by Cetoddle, and when I went to fight the Cetitan all the Cetoddle starting crying. I felt really bad so I ran away and when I did they were just fine.
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