50 Fun Facts About Pokémon Scarlet and Violet

Koraidon and Miraidon, the Legendaries that serve as the player's ride, both resemble which ordinary Paldean Pokémon?

Cyclizar has carried people since ancient times, as 10,000-year-old murals show, and it gains from the deal: a rider's body heat warms its back and lifts its spirit.

Which Grass-type cat joins Fuecoco and Quaxly as the three starter Pokémon of Scarlet and Violet?

Sprigatito's fluffy fur is similar in composition to plants, and its body gives off a sweet scent that mesmerizes those around it and grows stronger in the sun.

Two weeks after launch, how did Nintendo respond to Scarlet and Violet's bugs and frame-rate drops?

A public apology came on 1 December 2022 with update 1.1.0, Nintendo saying it took players' feedback seriously and was working on improvements to the games.

Which English singer-songwriter wrote 'Celestial', the song that plays over Scarlet and Violet's end credits?

Ed Sheeran, a Pokémon fan since childhood, wrote 'Celestial' for the games, and its music video shows a sketch-style Snorlax bouncing him clear of an oncoming car.

Tinkaton swings its 220-pound hammer at rocks to knock which Flying-type Pokémon out of Paldea's sky?

Corviknight is the target, and Paldea pays for it: the Pokédex says Corviknight can't run a taxi service there because its natural predators would attack it mid-flight.

What could players do with Paldea's eight Gyms in Scarlet and Violet that no earlier mainline Pokémon game had allowed?

Fight them in any order: Scarlet and Violet are the series' first open-world games, so the eight Gyms, the Titans and Team Star's bases can each be tackled whenever you reach them.

Which Paldean dolphin Pokémon changes into a muscular Hero Form after it switches out of battle?

Palafin's Zero to Hero Ability transforms it when it leaves the field, and its Pokédex entry says it will never show anybody its moment of transformation.

Scarlet and Violet each have their own version-exclusive Pokémon professor; what are the two called?

Sada and Turo are counterparts: whichever one your version has turns out to be the long-absent parent of your schoolmate Arven.

Scarlet's school is Naranja Academy and Violet's is Uva Academy, names borrowed from which two fruits?

Orange and grape echo the scarlet and violet of the two titles: the player enrols at Naranja Academy in Scarlet and Uva Academy in Violet, and it is otherwise the same school.

Team Star's five squads, Segin, Schedar, Navi, Ruchbah and Caph, are named after stars in which constellation?

Cassiopeia is also the alias of the gang's hidden big boss, who enlists you in Operation Starfall, a plan to make the squads disband by beating their leaders.

Gimmighoul evolves into Gholdengo only once its Trainer is carrying how many Gimmighoul Coins?

999 coins are all consumed on the spot, and the evolution cannot be cancelled once the total is reached; roaming Gimmighoul flee when touched, leaving coins behind.

Primeape finally gained an evolution, Annihilape, which it reaches only after using which move twenty times?

Rage Fist must be used twenty times before a level-up, after which Annihilape's fury literally outgrows its body. Only it and Primeape can learn the move.

Quaxly's final evolution Quaquaval, Paldea's flamboyant 'Dancer Pokémon', pairs Water with which second type?

Fighting suits a Pokémon whose single kick can send a truck rolling: Quaquaval battles by dancing, and flourishes of its water feathers slice into its foes.

Which Levincia Gym Leader livestreams her own Gym Test, sending challengers around the city to find Director Clavell?

Iono, the 'Supercharged Streamer', rates her viewers' reactions above winning and keeps broadcasting right through the Gym battle itself.

Which Ice-type Gym Leader on Glaseado Mountain was a world-class pro snowboarder until an injury ended his career?

Grusha, 'the Sub-zero Shredder', was forced to retire from snowboarding by a grievous injury, and his Gym profile says his once-fiery passion is now locked behind a thick, icy shell.

Which Cascarrafa Gym Leader, a seafood chef, dashes off to an auction and leaves his wallet for the player to return?

Kofu then makes buying rare Hoenn wakame at the Porto Marinada auction your impromptu Gym Test, handing over 50,000 Pokédollars to bid with.

Which weary businessman serves as both Medali's Normal-type Gym Leader and a Flying-type member of Paldea's Elite Four?

Larry says he uses Normal types because they have a lot in common with him, and fields Flying types at the League only because 'the boss told me to use a different type here'.

Ryme, Montenevera's Ghost-type Gym Leader, has also spent four decades as a world-famous what?

A rapper known as the 'MC of RIP', she is said to bring the dead to their feet, which is why she took up Ghost types.

Which member of Paldea's Elite Four is a small child who specialises in Steel types and nicknames her Tinkaton 'Tinkie'?

Poppy is far younger than every Gym Leader and Elite Four member yet ranks among Paldea's strongest, calling her Copperajah 'Rajah'.

Which Dragon-type Elite Four member also teaches art at the academy and inspired Brassius's 'Surrendering Sunflora'?

Hassel ran away from a long line of Dragon Trainers to chase a dream of making music before landing both jobs in Paldea.

Which chairwoman of Paldea's Pokémon League also faces challengers as its Top Champion on the League building's rooftop?

Geeta saves her Glimmora for last in that Champion battle, and she normally inspects Paldea's Gyms by battling their leaders herself, a job she hands to the player after they win.

After the player picks a starter in Scarlet and Violet, what does rival Nemona choose for herself?

The one weak to yours is her pick: already a Champion-ranked Trainer, Nemona raises a brand-new team alongside you so the two of you can battle as equals.

Arven hunts the five Herba Mystica partly to heal which badly injured pet, hurt by something in Area Zero?

Mabosstiff was mauled in Area Zero, where Arven's absent parent runs a lab, and the fifth herb finally brings it back to full health.

In what form does Arven serve the Herba Mystica that gradually restore the player's weakened Koraidon or Miraidon?

As sandwiches: each one Arven makes restores one of the weakened mount's lost powers, from dashing and swimming to gliding and climbing.

Dondozo, the 'False Dragon Titan', is steered from inside its own mouth by which small sushi-shaped Pokémon?

Tatsugiri shelters in Dondozo's mouth, and its Commander Ability powers up the giant catfish whenever the two are sent out together.

Which Paradox pair, Donphan's ancient and futuristic relatives, escaped Area Zero as the Quaking Earth Titan?

Great Tusk and Iron Treads are version-split, one in Scarlet and one in Violet, and beating this Titan restores your mount's ability to glide through the air.

Roaring Moon, a Paradox Pokémon found only in Scarlet, is an ancient lookalike of which Dragon-type Pokémon?

Salamence is the lookalike, specifically its Mega-Evolved form, and Roaring Moon's Pokédex entry cites a 'dubious magazine' tying it to 'a phenomenon that occurs in a certain region'.

A week before Scarlet and Violet launched, which Nintendo game asked players to side with Grass, Fire or Water?

Splatoon 3 held a Splatfest pitting Team Grass against Team Fire and Team Water, borrowing the three-way choice of first partner that opens a Pokémon adventure.

Miraidon, Pokémon Violet's mascot, shares Koraidon's Dragon typing but pairs it with which second type?

Electric fits the 'Iron Serpent' of an old book, said to have turned the land to ash with its lightning, which Miraidon's Pokédex entry suggests it is.

Roughly how many copies did Scarlet and Violet sell worldwide in their first three days, a record for Nintendo?

10 million copies in three days, more than 4 million of them in Japan, was the fastest start for any game on Nintendo hardware, set even as players reported bugs and frame-rate drops.

In the Zero Lab at the bottom of Area Zero, the professor turns out to be what?

A robot running an AI copy of the professor stands in for the real one, who died before the story begins, and it asks the player to help undo its creator's work.

What did the professor build deep in the Zero Lab to bring Paradox Pokémon into Paldea?

A time machine is the professor's legacy: it keeps pulling Paradox Pokémon into Area Zero, and switching it off for good is the goal of the game's final battle.

Finishing Victory Road, Path of Legends and Starfall Street unlocks which final story that wraps up the plot?

The Way Home sends you into Area Zero with all three story partners, and unlike the first three stories it can only be played last.

What does the academy call Director Clavell's independent-study assignment that sends every student out across Paldea?

The Treasure Hunt tells students to find something they personally treasure, the in-world excuse for letting you roam an open world.

Launch reviews made Scarlet and Violet what among mainline Pokémon games on Metacritic?

Lowest-rated ever: Scarlet scored 72 and Violet 71 on Metacritic, below every earlier mainline pair, as critics marked the games down for bugs and frame-rate drops.

Team Star, the delinquent gang dismantled in Starfall Street, was originally founded by students who were what?

Victims of bullying formed the team and confronted their tormentors eighteen months earlier, a scandal that made the bullies drop out.

Which shy schoolgirl, rescued from Team Star grunts on her first appearance, is secretly the gang's founder and boss?

Penny ran Team Star from her room so none of its members ever learned her face, then plotted Operation Starfall to disband it herself.

Each Team Star boss rides into battle atop a Starmobile, a custom car driven by which Pokémon sitting in its hood?

Revavroom sits in the hood and controls the car while two Varoom serve as its rear wheels, and each Starmobile takes on a type and Ability to match its boss.

Asado Desert, Socarrat Trail and Casseroya Lake show that Paldea's places are named after terms from which field?

Cooking and food fit a region modelled on Spain: 'asado' is a barbecue, 'socarrat' is the prized crust at the bottom of a paella pan, and in Japanese the desert is simply 'Roast Desert'.

Which city, the largest in Paldea, houses the academy the player attends?

Mesagoza is 'Table City' in the Japanese games, and for all its size it has no Gym of its own: all eight of Paldea's Gyms lie elsewhere.

In Scarlet and Violet, Eggs now turn up during which activity, which replaced the Pokémon Day Care?

Picnics also let you wash your Pokémon and build meals that grant Egg Power, which raises the odds of an Egg turning up in the basket.

The Teal Mask's legend of Ogerpon and three false heroes reverses the roles of which Japanese folktale?

Momotarō, the peach boy, fought ogres with a dog, monkey and pheasant; here the ogre is the wronged hero and the animal trio are the thieves.

Okidogi, Munkidori and Fezandipiti, honoured every year at Kitakami's Festival of Masks, are known collectively as what?

The Loyal Three are really the villains: they stole Ogerpon's masks, and villagers who misread the clash buried them as heroes under a monument.

Which Kitakami boy, Carmine's younger brother, steals the Teal Mask and later becomes BB League Champion?

Kieran dethrones Drayton after losing Ogerpon to the player, turning from a timid kid into a strength-obsessed rival.

The Indigo Disk added a nineteenth Tera Type that no Pokémon can carry as a normal typing; what is it called?

Stellar is the form Terapagos takes when it Terastallizes; any other Pokémon keeps its usual weaknesses and resistances under it and gets its boost to each move type only once.

Which item, which comes in 19 varieties, rewrites the type a Pokémon becomes when it Terastallizes?

Tera Shards are traded 50 at a time: hand that many of one type to the restaurant in Medali and a Pokémon's Tera Type is changed to match.

Every student and teacher at Blueberry Academy, the Indigo Disk's undersea school, specialises in which battle format?

Double Battles are the house rule, and the school runs on its own currency, Blueberry Points, which students earn by completing Blueberry Quests.

Blueberry Academy's Terarium is split into Savanna, Coastal, Canyon and which fourth biome?

Polar completes the set: the Terarium is an undersea dome with an artificial sky, built so Pokémon from many regions can live in four carefully regulated climates.

The DLC epilogue Mochi Mayhem introduces which Mythical Pokémon that enslaves people and Pokémon with toxic mochi?

Pecharunt, a Poison/Ghost type shaped like a peach, hides as a shop decoration in Kitakami before the showdown.

Pokémon: Paldean Winds, a four-episode anime set at Paldea's academy, premiered in 2023 on which platform?

YouTube carried all four episodes of the original web series from September 2023; they follow three students, Ohara, Aliquis and Hohma, who are asked to make a video showing newcomers what makes the academy special.