

This aberration is why Missingno can sometimes look like a fucked up barcode, and why it has a type that doesn’t actually exist in the game (“bird” is a Pokémon type that eventually got cut in Red and Blue, presumably replaced by “flying” type Pokémon. They’re known as “glitch Pokémon,” and they happen because of something funky in the programming of Pokémon Red and Blue (we’ll get to that in a second). In this picture, none of these look like normal Pokémon, that’s because they aren’t. If you're curious about the Special stat required to get all of the Pokemon that will level to 100 instantaneous, here's the list: ☉16 - Nidoqueen, Pidgeotto lvl9 or Gary's Eevee lvl8 (Viridian City)Īll of the other Pokemon won't be leveled to 100 after growling the initial Pokemon 6 times and receiving less then 55 experience. ☉9 - Ivysaur, NidoranM lvl4 / NidoranF lvl4 works well ☉7 - Nidoking, Pidgey lvl3 / Rattata lvl3 works well Also, there are other Pokémon such as Slowbro, Voltorb, Lickitung, etc but they won't grow to level 100 because they aren't in the Medium-Slow EXP group. Growl on them 7 times then return to Viridian Forest to encounter Ivysaur and train it by encountering a wild Pokemon and switch to your strongest Pokemon.Īvailable Pokemon with the glitch are NidoranF, Nidoking, Nidoqueen, Ivysaur and Gengar. First thing you need to know is to not battle Brock and this trainer in Viridian Forest:įinally, encountering a Level 100 Ivysaur is the same thing as Nidoking but instead, encounter a level 4 Nidoran Male or Female. But, hey-that's the trade-off you get for fully leveling a Pokemon, a glitch you can pull off before you even reach the first gym.Īt first, I’ll try to cover 3 Pokemon that you can encounter Level 100. So if you try this glitch with a Bulbasaur, it'll turn into a level 100 Ivysaur, not a level 100 Venusaur. Pokemon like Nidoking, Venusaur, Blastoise, Charizard, Gengar, and Alakazam, just to name a few.

As I said, it works on Pokemon that are in the “Medium Slow” experience group. Just to notice, it doesn’t work in all Pokemon. If a level 1 Pokémon with negative experience points completed a battle without gaining enough experience points to reach 0 or higher, the game, attempting to determine its level based on the number of experience points it had, would consider it to be at level 100 (having gone well over the amount required to reach this level), causing it to instantaneously jump to this level. However, due to the use of unsigned integers, the game interpreted this value as 16,777,162 experience points. In Generation I and Generation II, level 1 Pokémon in the Medium Slow group were calculated to have -54 experience points.

The Glitch can be also classified as the “Experience Underflow Glitch” So this glitch you can trigger it at very early parts of the Game. At first, I’ll try to make the list by order of Gameplay.
