Pokémon merge glitch: Difference between revisions

Let'sPresuming saythat the youplayer wanted to give the move Horn Attack to a Magikarp. First, youhe or she would have select an empty box on the PC, and then deposit a Pokémon in the box. (Any Pokémon will do; I'llwork, usebut Rattata foris used in this example.) Next, depositthe yourplayer has to [[GlitchDex/Y:255|Q]] or [[GlitchDex/RB:255|Charizard 'M]] in the box. After thatthe player has to deposit the Pokémon that youhe or she wantwants to gain the new moves, in this case Magikarp. Finally, deposit the Pokémon with the moves youthat the player wantwants the other Pokémon to have, in this case Rhyhorn. After depositing these Pokémon, the contents of yourthe player's box wouldshould be similar to this:

KeepThe inplayer should mindacknowledge that the CANCEL button is really yourhis or her Q/Charizard 'M, and that the three blank spaces are Magikarp, Rhyhorn, and the CANCEL button, respectively. Now, the player should withdraw the Rattata (or any other Pokémon above Q/Charizard 'M.) Youand he or she would have just combined the two Pokémon. The contents of the box should now belook like this:

The names in parentheses show which Pokémon each of these really is. YourThe player's Rhyhorn has now become a Magikarp, and yourthe player's Magikarp has now become a Q or Charizard 'M. However, these Pokémon have retained their own stats. Their stats should look like this:

What'sThe this?player Younow havehas a Magikarp with the stats and name of a Rhyhorn!, Whatthis kindis of a freakish hybridwhat is this?often Actually,referred thisto is what glitchologists callas an unstable [[hybrid]]. It is unstable because itthe itsdata concerning the Pokémon's identification data has been mixed up, and it is no longer a normal Pokémon. [[Hybrid]] Glitches could also be considered as unstable hybrids because they have some of the data of another Pokémon. This unstable hybrid wasn't exactly what you were wanting, right? You wanted a normal Magikarp with Horn Attack, right? Well, there is one way to stabilize these hybrids - evolution. When this Magikarp becomes a Gyarados, its stats will become those of a normal Gyarados, but it will retain its altered moves. This Gyarados is now a perfectly stable, normal Pokémon. Stabilizing hybrids by evolving them is important if you want to trade them to Gold/Silver/Crystal Version because unstable hybrids will be blocked by GSC's error trap just as if you had tried to trade a Glitch Pokémon.

This might seem like a bad thing butIt itsis possible to take advantage of thisthe '''Q Trick''' by 'tricking' Pokémon Stadium 2 into doing another thing what youthe player might want it to do. This method will not allow yourthe player's Pokémon to have the other Pokémon's stats but it will allow it to have attacks it wouldn't learn otherwise still.

To do this method, simply doperform the '''Q Trick''' as normal on yourthe GBplayer's Generation I game. However this time, turn the Pokémon into the '''opposite''' of what youthe wantplayer wants it to be. For example, sayif Ithe player wanted a flying Mewtwo. I'dhe takeor ashe Pidgey andwould turn the Mewtwo into ita Pidgey as opposed to turning the Pidgey into the Mewtwo. NowThe player can then teach the Hybrid Pidgey created Fly, andor any other moves which Pidgey possiblycan Skynormally Attacklearn.

NowIf uploadthe itplayer uploads the Pidgey onto Pokémon Stadium 2's lab via a transfer pak andhe you'llor she would notice that the Hybrid Pidgey willwould behave changed into a Mewtwo. LookingIf the player looks at the Mewtwo's stats the game will show that it seems to be just a normal Mewtwo. However while its stats will be normal, its attack roster will not. You'llThe player will notice that theif Skyhe Attackor and Fly youshe taught Fly to the hybrid Pidgey willthe move would still be there! on that Mewtwo. Also, Ifif youthe saveplayer yoursaves the game after moving around the Mewtwo in the storage system on Pokémon Stadium 2 itwould willhave permanently becomebecame a Flyingflying Mewtwo!.

This error trap thatEffectively, Pokémon Stadium 2's has[[error trap]] will also turn '''any''' Pokémon which was previosuly turned into a Charizard 'M/Q's by the '''Q trickTrick''' back to the wayoriginal theyPokémon, were.however Anyany moves youthe player taught themthat Pokémon as a Q/Charizard 'M will be kept. ItsIt is possible to make Ditto or some otheranother Pokémon know attacks that they wouldn't normally know with either of these two methods.