One Surprising Pokémon You Can't Actually Catch
Players who like to collect rare species and forms in Pokémon may find a surprising one always out of their grasp: a particular form of Spinda is impossible to catch. Spinda is a plain Normal-type Pokémon that draws inspiration from a few different animals, including its rabbit-like ears and panda-like patterns. Its patterns give it a large-scale gimmick: each Spinda has an entirely unique set of spots on its head.
Spinda’s spots are determined by its personality value, a 32-bit integer that every Pokémon has. This value, unseen in normal gameplay, was introduced in Ruby and Sapphire and was used to determine many different factors of an individual Pokémon, including its gender, Ability, and Nature. Although methods of generating Pokémon have changed somewhat over the games, Spinda’s gimmick also made use of this then-new feature in its introductory generation.
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Some collectors have naturally sought to obtain as many different patterns of Spinda as possible. Although an incredibly daunting task, as there are over 4 billion personality values and therefore over 4 billion different Spinda patterns, it’s a fun exercise to see how many different kinds of Spinda one can find. A particular Spinda has proven especially elusive in Pokémon games, however: a Spinda with no spots. The base sprite of Spinda has no spots on its head, and it’s upon this sprite that its uniquely generated pattern is placed. It may seem like this would just be one of the more than 4 billion patterns, but the way its patterns are generated actually means that a spotless Spinda is unobtainable.
The incredibly unique Pokémon gimmick of Spinda’s comes from how it is programmed to
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