Top 5 Funniest Glitches in Pokémon Scarlet & Violet

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I’ll be upfront here; I like Pokemon Scarlet & Violet. They move the series forward in several important ways, and there are moments here that are the highest highs of the franchise’s history. Pokemon Scarlet & Violet are also ridiculously buggy. The performance issues are so rampant that they will impact your experience, regardless of your tolerance for low framerates. This is unacceptable for the largest multimedia franchise on the planet.

But you know what? I’ve had some hearty laughs encountering glitches in this game. There are so many weird, unpredictable oddities in Scarlet & Violet that I almost look forward to discovering them. In a perfect world, Game Freak would have intentionally made Pokemon do weird stuff in the background just for the player’s amusement. If Charizard can burn at 3600 degrees Fahrenheit, I see no reason why Chansey can’t noclip through a mountain and wave goodbye to me for lore-appropriate reasons.

These are the five funniest glitches I’ve encountered in Pokemon Scarlet & Violet so far. That’s right, these all happened in my single playthrough. I didn’t need to outsource even a single entry to make this list.

Pokemon behave in a variety of ways in Scarlet & Violet. Some run from you, others watch you like they’re worried you’ll steal their lunch. The ones that run towards you have no concept that battles cannot be initiated while you talk to NPCs. Hence you’ll have several opportunities to just… become Pokemon.

I wish I could have played these games earlier, because half-man half-Pupitar would have been a great Halloween costume.

I had the pleasure of triggering an evolution after a Titan Pokemon fight. The developers apparently did not anticipate this would ever happen.

After carrying me