Weirdest Features in Every Pokemon Generation

Some features are well documented, but others are so obscure that tons of fans may have missed out of them. Today we look through every generation to find the strangest ones.
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[@JPRPokeTrainer98]

Hope everyone is having a good one! What are some other obscure features that you know of?

[@FullOedipus]

One of my favorites is how in gen 2 the radio effects encounter rates depending on what channel you're listening to. It may be complete coincidence but I remember the lullaby channel had a repel effect and the pokemon talk channel making it easier to catch rare pokemon like stantler and yanma.

[@michaelfragoso6572]

What about The e reader cards in gen 3

[@PaintedHoundie]

this isnt necessarily a "feature" but in gen 4 games if you have an action replay and walkthrough walls cheat, on escort encounters (like with trainers like buck, riley, cheryl, etc) if you leave the area without going through the proper checkpoint, the game basically thinks youre still walking with them, and you will be stuck with them, meaning you will permanently in double wild battles with them, as well as they will be your partner if you end up in a trainer double battle. if you save in this state and play without AR, you will basically be stuck wherever youre at because youre not allowed to fly or surf on escort encounters. but you will be fully healed every battle, and you can get double the experience from double wild battles. you can fix it by just going back to the area and either leaving the right way again or complete the dungeon.

[@PokemonTravelerGuide]

The QR codes and Island Scan from Gen 7 come to mind.

[@chips9773]

the bike racks in diamond and pearl, if you speak to them while on a bike, it will ask you if you want to get off your bike

[@obits3]

Regarding “easy mode” in BW2, my personal theory is that easy mode was really meant for Pokédex completion play, and hard mode was for people who like battling.

[@robertlupa8273]

Just like Black City/White Forest - one for battles, one for catching Pokemon.

[@JazzyWaffles]

This! Resetting for Pokedex completion is irritating without the difficulty drop. Pokemon isn't hard, but I tend to blaze through the game when all I want is the opposite game's legendaries/exclusives, making it artificially hard at normal difficulty.

[@obits3]

@@JazzyWaffles If you want “easy mode” on other generations to complete the Pokédex, here’s my method. Pokémon you catch will always be loyal to you regardless of gym badges. It is based on trainer ID. Given that, I catch some Pokémon in the second game and trade them to my first game. Then, I juice them up quickly using power leveling and TMs from the first game. Trade back to game 2 and you now have high level loyal Pokémon to steamroll the story. While doing this trading, you can also transfer over useful items early. Finally, you should do this with a Pokémon that can learn false swipe to make catching easier. Without false swipe, you’ll either need to relay on status change moves or potentially staggering your “power level” Pokémon levels so you have one ready for every 10 levels (e.g if you try to catch a level 30 with a level 50 without false swipe or stat change moves, you’ll likely knock it out).

[@indisciipline]

but... why did you have to beat the game to get it...

[@robertharris6092]

@@robertlupa8273 how... would you know this before buying it? Of if you like battling but want the other legendary.

[@A_Name_On_YT]

Fun fact about the grass-cutting: in Pokemon Emerald, the special event island that had Mew involved essentially playing hide and seek with it in the very tall grass that comes up to your head. If you were to try and cutting the grass Mew would disappear and stop playing with you.

[@michaelgum97]

Mew doesn't want to be with a party pooper, huh?

[@comics4556]

Damn

[@rickshiandmoku4128]

Big sad

[@mikehurt3290]

Am I the only person who played pokemon they're entire life and didn't know about the grass cutting??

[@d.g4466]

@@mikehurt3290 it’s very common for people who started in gen 4 I didn’t find out till I accidentally did it on a copy of gold I got a few years after I started

[@shanez1215]

10:35 I actually did this when working on the Pokedex back in the day. Some troll listed a Lunala on GTS for a Salemence under level 10, so I got one. He's probably raging to this day lmao

[@JPRPokeTrainer98]

LMAOOOOOO

[@wikiuser92]

Poor fella didn't do their research!

[@wolfprincess3411]

Well played sir XD!

[@harrymanocha4533]

This could have been intentional - Lunala is a guaranteed encounter and pretty easy to stockpile if you do repeat playthroughs. The underlevelled Salamence is actually a rarity and difficult to find. I don't think they were trolling; I think they were just collecting

[@ironpyrous5787]

Please give me back my Lunala ?? How was I supposed to know it is possible to catch a Level 9 Salamence ??

[@dylanmcmurrer5610]

I spent hours cutting random patches of grass, it was oddly satisfying

[@paanazmi8062]

i cut random grass in gold/silver in hoping to found scret passage to legendary pokemon 😂😂😂

[@justinsmolik2834]

then in gen 4 and onward they took it out

[@Party4Lemons]

Oddly, the hard mode of BW2 becomes easier than the base difficulty after a certain point due to more exp being available meaning your Pokemon get stronger quicker.

[@qty1315]

Something similar happened in Bloodstained, though I think it was patched out. Hard mode made the enemies tougher, but it also put more difficult enemies with better drops earlier, including an enemy that dropped the best Familiar in the game which spawned at a fast rate and gave a ton of exp for the area. You could grind to a high-level very quickly, get a good piece of armor, and get an OP Familiar at full-power before the first boss. It made the whole game stupidly easy.

[@largenaq2935]

It balances out well in the end because the challenge mode elite four is such a big difficulty spike compared to the base game.

[@scrunkore]

I like gen 7's obscure island scan feature, you could use QR codes to get points towards encountering wild Pokemon not in the regional dex (I even used it to get Horsea in a Dragon type run of Ultra Moon)

[@goldenhydreigon4727]

And you can get Deino in Sun and Moon with this method

[@usermcskull4713]

I used it so that I could get Squirtle on my team in Ultra Moon

[@pk_madrigal]

8:01 when Platinum came out I vividly remember one of the paper inserts inside the game case was teasing the new Rotom forms and teaching you how to unlock Mystery Gift

[@Danielor4]

This

[@JazzyWaffles]

Yo same!! Love it when KZbinrs don't bother to do research haha

[@justussmith3080]

Plus the fact that having to unlock mystery gift didn’t start with gen 4, you had to do the same in gen 3 and he casually overlooked it

[@shadowpersonoftheunknown6245]

@@justussmith3080 AND gen 2

[@ultratog1028]

I remember trading between yellow and gold and found my squirtle and pikachu in yellow were shiny

[@robertlupa8273]

Wow :o

[@floorpanel8749]

When was that? And I’m 50% sure that’s impossible since only a few pokemon in those games could be shiny, but I don’t remember pikachu being one

[@ZimVerse]

@@floorpanel8749 Gen 1 Is Known To Be A Bit Of A Glitchy Mess So, He Could've Traded A Glitched Squirtle And Pikachu.

[@Joker22593]

You didn't pick the E-reader cards for gen 3? That's definitely the most weird of the features.

[@castform7]

I really like marks. Shiny hunting never interested me since it was a large time commitment for Pokemon a bunch of other people go for. With marks, not many people know about them so I can find one and feel unique and special. Plus I can give them nicknames that fit with their mark. I haven't found any but I'm having a lot of fun hunting

[@arthurfidas7254]

I’ve been looking for a rare marked growlithe for ages lol

[@BurmudaTriangleTV]

I just wish it was easier to know when that wild Pokemon has a mark before catching it. Still surprising and fun to find once you see it in the box though

[@williamcox632]

This ties into a story of mine. When I was searching for another balltoy for a living dex, the balltoy I found was a marked shiny. Btw I have both shiny and mark charms.

[@PrinzessinRamode]

The cellphone adapter feature for Crystal Version never released outside of Japan due to the fact that you had to pay to use the feature. It was 10 yen per 30 seconds, plus whatever your carrier charges. Having a game targeted towards game charge that much would simply not fly in 1999.

[@Kahadi]

Now most devs would kill to do that sort of thing, and in many cases do that as best they can

[@waliedsalam2487]

I remember getting a shiny smoochum from the odd egg. I didn’t even know it was shiny until I sent it out 😅

[@evefarrel]

The other weird thing is that there is a part where you need two ds's to get all the flashback scenes in bw2 as well. And the chance to catch all of N's pokemon. You had to have BW in one ds with a complete game and then BW2. One of these scenes was with the protags mother in BW

[@theuselessnoob8320]

For "Everyone Happy Wi-Fi Connection", at least in Platinum at launch, there was an insert in the box that told you what to say to the Jubilife guy for the Rotom key. I don't know if said insert was still included a year after launch, for example, as the Rotom key wasn't up for the game's entire life iirc. I hope I didn't come off as the "Uhm, actually..." guy. I just really like talking about Platinum. 👉👈

[@dull_scythe]

Those words are engraved in my brain

[@lloydirving6209]

2:52 bro in the year 2000 phones were insanely compact lol definitely smaller than a gameboy

[@JazzyWaffles]

Yeah I was thinking the same thing. Dude was talking like his first video game as a child was Fortnite lmao

[@robertharris6092]

And you know. Modern phones are huge.

[@SoraIndigo]

canceled/unreleased events/event locations in each game?(this might be a multiparter, especially if considering spin-offs)

[@A-No.1]

I'm surprised you didn't bring the destructible backgrounds in gen 6. Such an odd feature that I didn't even know existed until I replayed XY a year ago and wanted to know how to find lum berries.

[@mcfleury]

Real talk, I slap my thighs uncontrollably during the drum fill in your intro.... every time

[@dangercactus]

lol l slap my legs to the beat lol

[@robertlupa8273]

@@dangercactus Same. I do that for many songs.

[@itsagabe]

Oh! I had the Japanese version of Crystal (it was the only one available at the store around the time of my birthday and I was so excited that I said no when my mom asked if I'd like it for her to trade it in for the US version) and I never understood that expanded PC. Almost 20 years later and now I know.

[@animatted91]

Your calculus analogy actually happened to me. Was in AP classes growing up, took Calc as a junior in highschool, skipped trig and pre-calc. Senior year rolled around and I was told I needed to go back and take them even though I had already passed Calc. Life can be pretty stupid at times

[@glixas4444]

This channel is such a hidden gem

[@felipedestickman]

I agree

[@JPRPokeTrainer98]

[@Vixen-debo]

I just realized how underrated he was

[@LukeSkywalker-zv3xy]

@Glixas you are such a hidden gem :3

[@AuraStrikeAce]

Agreed

[@Ottendo]

Wow, I actually never knew any of these things happened! Great video!

[@Totsrocky]

This is The kind of content I love. Keep it going man!

[@JPRPokeTrainer98]

Appreciate it!

[@jamesstarnes8026]

Have you done a video for every final super boss or endgame boss in all the pokemon games yet? Just wondering.

[@kaiserexe4072]

I think you forgot a couple of features in Gen 3; assuming they can be considered weird/obscured 1) GBA introduced the e reader, which back in the day were used for mistery gift event items such as the tickets to get lugia and ho-oh; among other things. Back in the day if u get an original copy of ruby/sapphire u also get a card for you to scan it via e reader. As far as I know it replace a trainer's pokemon within the game for u to battle, and also gives you a new berry never seen before. 2) In FR/LG; during the sevii island post game visit, in six island, there is the altering cave. You normally encounter wild zubats, but as the name implies, you can change the wild pokemon encounters through mystery gift events; which could be obtained via Wonder Spots hold by Nintendo. However; it was not known back in the day.

[@zekromfury]

Dang, I thought you would talk about the QR code scanning over the SOS calls in Gen 7, the fact that you could just scan a QR code and a pokemon would appear was wack

[@YoitsuSW]

The weirdest feature of Pokemon sapphire is training a Kyogre for 10 years and still not facing the Elite Four

[@DarthBenneth]

I accidentally found out the Cut grass feature when I was 5 playing Yellow, and even back then thought it was interesting that I could reshape the routes to my convenience. Too bad my ADHD brain wouldn't let me sit down and take the time to make my vision a reality.

[@youtube-kit9450]

Lol. My brain literally made me do the opposite for a playthrouhg, only let me go on once I had cleared the grass. Ofc since the grass grew back, it's like mario where you cannot go back so you didn't care if the grass had grown back.

[@Shirker12]

About the square shinies in generation 8. I transferred two shiny Pokemon from Gen 7. My Gardevoir and Lopunny. Lopunny was a normal shiny, while my Gardevoir turned out to be a square shiny. Which was just kinda neat.

[@robertlupa8273]

8:22 *HOLD ON JUST A MINUTE* This VS screen is in the game!? Why does it look so amazing!? I swear, every time you use Gen 5 footage in your videos, I find something breathtaking. (yes, I never played Gen 5)

[@vivimannequin]

You should try it

[@rustamtalibzade6989]

10:37 not anymore, with the introduction of Pokémon GO - Pokémon Home connection

[@FRAPPEFIZZYY]

watching rn!! great video so far!!

[@lordofsparks]

I think the gen 3 grass cutting feature was supposed to be linked to Secret Base construction. Like if you were taking the time to decorate your base you probably didn’t want to have to fight a Zigzagoon every time you went in or out.

[@Bluestar-nn2uh]

That cut grass one brings back memories I used to go around and cut everything insight.

[@lloydirving6209]

8:01 "or buying those guides from gamestop for an absurd amount of money" the strategy guides were like $15 tops lmao, and you got a discount if you bought them with the game

[@DallenPearson]

I really enjoy this channel, sorry for your loss as well.

[@JPRPokeTrainer98]

Thanks so much, appreciate it ❤️

[@Ikcatcher]

Every time John makes a new video, my happiness stat increases

[@leonseuropeanislandadventu7398]

I remember that key system in BW2. It was pretty damn cool knowing me and my gf could trade keys and get access to new pokemon and stuff to play with. While it is cool, it did have its drawbacks as you said.

[@MrTulio517]

Very cool video, JPR!

[@ShortStoryLuke]

During the pokemon emerald mew event if you used cut in the tall grass in which mew is hiding it will disappear.

[@SapphireShuppet]

Your trainer image at the beginning makes you look like a young Giovanni

[@citeriorcf]

Been playing Pokemon since 2004. Never knew about the cut feature until today lol

[@enderslayer0848]

8:22 You just dissed my favorite game while being right.

[@moda-sanghua9530]

OMG, I remembered the Global Trade System in Japanese Crystal version. So nostalgic. I also didn’t know the cut HM to mow grass until Gen2. 😂

[@spamton1337]

Really love your content and I hope you’re doing ok from last week❤️

[@JPRPokeTrainer98]

Doing a lot better now, thank you! 🙏

[@salexume9622]

@@JPRPokeTrainer98 I’m doing good too, thanks for asking

[@goldzin9261]

the chosen one mark i remember something like that in mandtv transfering a pokemon from gen 1,2,3 (i dont remember excatly) to gen 8 and it was a purified tyranitar with that mark

[@Kurumisama]

Well considering most pokes in cerulean cave are well over 50 it's possible to shiny hunt them, specially Chaney and Ditto

[@rjd-kh8et]

I think the real reason cutting grass was removed is because it was harder to dynamically change the maps when they became 3D models in Gen 4.

[@todaysingredientis]

why did you scale rby/gsc 4:3 instead of just leaving the aspect ratio and adding columns?

[@nystria_]

I knew about the mobile feature in Crystal and how it related to getting the GS Ball and Celebii but not much more about it.

[@doggynolikey]

The "everyone happy wifi connection" thing was in the box book for the original games

[@christianlorre]

I like kricketune being named after it's weird cry.

[@howardkoslov1702]

Complaining about the key system is exactly why they stopped taking risks like that.

[@yslchristian]

Gen 3 is the generation I played the most and is my favorite and I had no idea cut can be used like that

[@marksmithwas12]

4:40 even though this was changed in the west, there's still code in the game that checks the players bag for an Egg Ticket. If you have one in your bag (through cheating or glitches) the game will remove 1 ticket from your bag upon receiving the Odd Egg

[@alibaba3568]

Nice trivia

[@tigerspruce8580]

Strange feature in hgss, an npc in the violet city pokemon center will give you three pokemon eggs if you find the random code to get them from your trainer id. I'm not sure how people were supposed to find these codes without the internet but I just randomly found the eggs like a couple of years ago.

[@jimi_jams]

7:08 the only acceptable nickname for a Kricketune.

[@kenthuang436]

In my VC version of Crystal, I got a Shiny Pichu. I transferred it to Gen IV.

[@robertlupa8273]

Nice :3

[@vivimannequin]

Gen 4?

[@ChicagoMel23]

You can’t transfer to gen 4 from there

[@rrigo45]

I used to use the cut feature back in the day when my Pokémon's health were so low. I didn't like spending money on anything in the Poké Mart.

[@goldenhydreigon4727]

Honestly, I also hope the dual slot Pokémon are implemented into BDSP's Pokedex too. We already know Elekid and Magby will since the Platinum dex is being used, but I really hope they give us Ursaring too since I want to use Paul's best possible team in one of the two games.

[@Moonstriker2514]

Aged like milk

[@goldenhydreigon4727]

​@@Moonstriker2514 Hey, they were still catchable in the Grand Underground at least

[@D4mnis]

Just hearing the intro, wild guess for gen 3: Braille-"Riddle" for the regis. HOW WAS I SUPPOSED TO GET THAT WITH 7 YEARS OLD NOT EVEN KNOWING WHAT IT COULD BE xD Still an interesting idea tho and kinda like it nowadays

[@REAL_STAR]

No one: That one gamefreak employee: *FOR THE LOVE OF ARCEUS BUY A REPLEL!*

[@ChicagoMel23]

The crystal trade service charged for each of the trades and battles. That would so not go over well now.

[@darkraiisdaddy1389]

Needed this since I started playing blue again and am currently stuck in vermillion lol

[@SpeedBoostGamer]

Never knew that different game cartages made certain pokemon appear in 4th gen, dopee

[@CarlosHernandez-jv6wk]

10:30 Yay! I actually knew about this because of a meme! I played through UltraSun with a level 9 Salamence.~ He helped me beat UltraNecrozma.

[@Awanderingdrifter]

I always found the difficulty modes in B2W2 to kinda be a bit redundant since they were unlocked post-game and the whole transfer key mechanic didn’t help. And maybe because I have no friends….

[@Ben-wu3or]

JPR DONT MISS

[@ImCounter]

10:03 Chain Fishing does not effect shiny chance, only brilliant aura Pokemon. Minor slip up but I feel like I should still call it out

[@hitmonmaster]

Im amazed you didn't touch on the exp share being I'm gen 1, im one of the most avid pokemon fans and I didn't learn that until last year

[@steve.s8495]

It wasn't even called the exp share, it was called the exp all

[@FullOedipus]

That cell phone was bigger than the gbc 🤢

[@claiternaiter446]

I was today years old when I found out about being able to cut the tall grass in gen 2. I was literally playing silver and immediately tried it out. Guess I’ll see if I ever use it again after this.

[@bensmith7124]

8:50 low key pre calc harder than calc 1

[@SilverTheGamerRPmaster]

How did you get footage of the mobile system GB working?

[@ThatAnArchyDude]

12:16 Square shiny is also more rare in Max. Raids & Dynamax Adventures. Wild encounters are the only encounters where this ratio is "inverted".

[@karamelkatte]

I found a Umbreon once while Eevee hunting n Pokemon Sun when I had beaten the game and had nothing better to do. I was quite bummed out when I had to defeat the Eevee that had called for the Umbreon first and I caught the Umbreon

[@shararm]

Pokemon yellow was my first Gameboy game and I just had my mind blown

[@RickSatan]

i grew out of pokemon when i was 6

[@WaterKirinGamer]

"Select Cut, watch the CUTscene"

[@malrofo]

I may be misremembering, but I think in get 3, cut let you trim tall grass and then cut the less tall but still kinda tall grass

[@mikepappas519]

If I remember correctly, the everyone happy wifi connection was written in the game manual

[@deviantartguy0]

Never knew you could cut the tall grass.

[@OHCAM5]

what? how do you not know that?

[@DrPOP-jp7eb]

I'm a bit disappointed you didn't go into to various e-reader functionalities in Gen 3! You can hack e cards to make your own trainers!

[@espurrseyes42]

Epilepsy? Or not having to have Flash? Which to choose.

[@angeldude101]

I love that it's technically legal to have a Lugia with Deoxys's signature move Psycho Boost in Gen 8 despite the fact that Deoxys itself isn't available. Assuming you don't go out of your way to remove it, every Lugia like this will have a rare ribbon unique to Pokemon from Colosseum and XD.

[@chandelurechan2638]

Actually you can obtain level one sudo legendarys and pretty much any Pokémon at level 1. This can be done by catching minimum cp Pokémon in Pokémon go and then transferring them to Pokémon home. Evolving a Pokémon doesn’t raise the level so you can evolve all of the babies into level 1 monsters.

[@kyrroti9921]

Pokémon Go mons can be moved to console games? Neat.

[@aprils1888]

OMG! I was wondering why my Shiny Jynx from crystal had a weird sparkle!

[@lermanct4486]

Great video, though if anything I appreciate the correct pronunciation of Regice.

[@kaciek6893]

I remember cutting grass in Pokémon

[@rachelflickinger102]

This video was so interesting

[@suzannedevreugd]

6:55 i have all games ruby saphire emerald fire red leaf grean and blue .. hoe does thiss exsecly work and does anyon have a list for all routes and pokemon that span in eetsh game i have diamond pear and platinum

[@justasimplenobody2666]

With Platinum I am curious if you put a copy of Pokémon Pinball Ruby/Sapphire in the GBA slot if there are any specific Pokémon encounters or not; since Ruby and Sapphire have their own encounters it'd be cool if the spinoff named after them had one too. If I had known about this feature as a kid I would've tried it out as I always had a GBA cartridge inserted in my ds lite; so I would've definitely been able to at least get the Gengar in the Old Chateu if nothing else but I never even thought about that feature as a possibility. But my sibling has my Platinum and we don't have a ds anymore so we can't try this for ourselves right now unfortunately. I'm curious if you or anyone else knows the answer to my very specific inquiry 😂😂

[@zonesproductions]

You can CUT THE GRASS?! I've been playing pokemon since day 1 and I NEVER knew about this! Holy moly 😂

[@alfredgomez3128]

Where I found out about it as a child, I'll never know. Missingno I know came from school gossip.

[@zen4realfightman426]

I thought that the egg was stuck to be a Togepi cuz all the times that played through the games I always got a Togepi

[@montecristosmith2343]

Does the Japanese eshop version of Crystal on 3ds still have the PCC building in Goldenrod or no?

[@JPRPokeTrainer98]

Yes, the PCC still exists in the Virtual Console version on 3DS, however, they didn’t update the wi-fi features, so it’s completely unusable, even in the Japanese version.

[@montecristosmith2343]

@@JPRPokeTrainer98 Thanks! Good vid btw

[@setsunian5283]

i'd love to see a ash's worst team video

[@JPRPokeTrainer98]

I’ll see what I can do!

[@aryanravi2627]

I always knew the cut thingy

[@salsathemonkey22]

You completely ignored the actually interesting gen 3 feature, E- Reader

[@TheShinyFeraligatr]

Also, that Mystery Gift was locked in it in the same way it was in Gen 4.

[@mightymarkdean]

Gen 8 does not have Chain Fishing. The only increase is Brilliant spawns which don't increase shiny odds just IV ODDS

[@ulrichbrodowsky5016]

Cutting grass worked in gen 1 as well