Menu glitches (Generation VIII): Difference between revisions

This glitch can also be used with the various sizes of Exp. Candy, as long as your bag contains only one copy of a particular size of candy that you want to use the glitch on. After scrolling, the source Pokémon will be the one that receives the experience points, so the scrolling will often not have any meaningful effect.

This can be useful in that it doesn't require the offset Pokémon to also meet the normal threshold for evolution, and can thereby cause it to evolve while underleveled, or even while it's still in an unhatched egg, in which case the evolved species will be what eventually hatches. It can also be used to cause a male Combee or Salandit to evolve as long as the source Pokémon is a female version of the matching species at a high enough level; doing so will cause the offset version to change gender and become female. If both the source and offset Pokémon are Espurr of opposite genders, using this glitch with either of them will cause the offset Pokémon to switch gender as it evolves, if that's what you prefer over forgoing the glitch and evolving it normally.

This glitch cannot be used to cause trade evolutions or stone evolutions to occur, because those evolutions aren't triggered by gaining levels. It also cannot cause, for instance, a non-Galar Linoone to evolve by leveling up a Galar Linoone, or the Gigantamax Meowth event to evolve by leveling up a different Meowth, because those are considered different forms.