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Generation II Glitch Discussion

How to make hybrids in Gold/Silver - Page 1

How to make hybrids in Gold/Silver

Posted by: Torchickens
Date: 2013-09-19 14:25:04
I think this might be already known, but I'll talk about it anyway as details are always useful! It's quite easier than this IMO. Note you can always get rid of ????? (FF) by putting them as the 2nd-6th Pokémon in the party and participating in the Bug Catching Contest.

When ????? (FF) is above some other Pokémon and you deposit any Pokémon above the ????? (FF), the Pokémon below it get their first species byte ("donor byte") from the Pokémon above that Pokémon and so on, until one of the Pokémon gets the donor byte of ????? (FF).

Consider this party:
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Pidgeot / Pidgeot
Rattata / Rattata
????? (FF)
Golem / Golem
Fearow / Fearow
Forretress / Forretress

If we deposit Rattata, Golem gets its first species byte ("donor byte") from ????? (FF), Fearow gets it from Golem and Forretress gets it from Fearow, hence this happens.

[img]http://i.minus.com/jkBpVAgNGhWyX.png[/img]

The TM/HM learnset depends on the donor byte, therefore we can teach our Fearow/Forretress hybrid something like Fly and then take it into the Pokémon Daycare Center to stabilize it back into the recipient (Forretress).

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Unfortunately the level up and stone evolutions depend on the recipient, so you can't stabilize a shiny Pokémon to an evolution of the donor this way.

If I remember rightly, if the donor Pokémon is from Generation I and the recipient is from Generation II, you can trade it over to Generation I without the need of ????? (FF) above it, though you already need to get ????? (FF) to hybridize Pokémon this way anyway.

Re: How to make hybrids in Gold/Silver

Posted by: krynxe
Date: 2013-09-26 03:32:05

If I remember rightly, if the donor Pokémon is from Generation I and the recipient is from Generation II, you can trade it over to Generation I without the need of ????? (FF) above it, though you already need to get ????? (FF) to hybridize Pokémon this way anyway.

How would the gen I game interpret the pokemon? As the donor, or as the recipient? And would the trade stabilize the pokemon? I imagine not

Re: How to make hybrids in Gold/Silver

Posted by: Torchickens
Date: 2013-09-26 06:26:24


If I remember rightly, if the donor Pokémon is from Generation I and the recipient is from Generation II, you can trade it over to Generation I without the need of ????? (FF) above it, though you already need to get ????? (FF) to hybridize Pokémon this way anyway.

How would the gen I game interpret the pokemon? As the donor, or as the recipient? And would the trade stabilize the pokemon? I imagine not


As the donor. The trade doesn't stabilize the Pokémon, so you can take it into the Daycare Center to make both species bytes match the recipient and get the relevant equivalent.