NEW Unlimited Item Duplication Glitch for Pokemon Scarlet Violet DLC version 3.0.0 

HEY - guys, just so you know, I performed the glitch just fine with small pokemon AND without using struggle, or getting imprison on my dupe pokemon. Did it with a fresh shiny Rowlett! Instead of using imprison, you can just run. Modifying the moveset of the pokemon and struggling before running is just extra steps that don't add anything, so unless your pokemon has self-damaging moves, or something that could wipe out your pokemon, I wouldn't bother. Okay, happy duping! UPDATE: I've spent my day messing with this glitch, and man my head hurts from too much screen time... Anyway, I've learned a bit. For starters, this glitch seems to not trigger in this location with certain pokemon, held items, or a combination of the two. However, yes, it works in multiple locations, and you do not need to face a specific direction, you just need to be near a tree or a location where sleeping spawns can appear, and where Smeargle can appear. This means this can be triggered in any biome! The reason it won't trigger I believe has to do with the game's memory, but I'm unsure. The reason it does work is that it seems transformed Smeargle confuses the game, and instead of despawning the smeargle, it stores its data to recycle the spawn, but the data it copies is the pokemon Smeargle transformed into. What's crazy is that when the copied pokemon appears in the wild, it even retains the health your pokemon was at. If it was damaged, it will appear with the same health missing in the wild. There's is no 100% guarantee this will work, even when you've performed all of the steps. There's a bit of randomness to it, because it's just how the game handles spawns, despawns, and respawns. If you've tried 10x and still can't get it to work, try saving, closing the software, starting the software, leaving the area, and reloading it. Then change the pokemon you're trying g to clone, or its held item. Or experiment with different locations. I will also add that imprison, nor struggle add to the effectiveness of triggering this glitch. It's not needed, and if anything, a hindrance - but DO remove self-damaging moves from your clone pokemon. Also, don't ask me about cloning fused pokemon, I haven't tried that, and people have reported ill effects of it. I'm just cloning pokemon so that they appear legal. Also, don't clone pokemon that have already been transferred through HOME, you will not be able to bring them into HOME. That's all I've got, that's a wrap. Okay, have fun duping!

Regarding Smeargle: Absolutely not an unlockable spawn, it's available as soon as you get access to the terarium.

Haven’t played Pokémon in many months, but I see a dupe glitch and I click.

2 things to note. I couldn't figure out what I was doing wrong. 1) Make sure your ditto doesn't have the HA imposter otherwise it will transform automatically and not let it sketch. 2) Make sure you're faster than smergle. My ditto was only level 75 and I had to throw some mochi it's way. lol

For those without Kyurem on hand, Iron Leaves can relearn Imprison at the level you catch it at, and I was able to make the glitch work with him.

So, after some testing, here's how I figure the glitch works: The size of the Pokemon does NOT matter. The location does NOT matter, as long as there's a tree nearby. The direction you are facing LIKELY does not matter. You do NOT have to do any damage to the Pokemon with Struggle. What DOES matter is that there is an available spawn point under the tree. If you are failing, it's likely because the area is too full with Pokemon and there is no "room" to respawn the transformed Smeargle. What I assume happens is that, upon running, the game will attempt to respawn the Smeargle in the tree spawn (or nearby spawn, I'm not sure if THAT even matters). But, since it's transformed, something it's not normally supposed to do, it will be respawned as the copy. All you have to do is make sure there is an empty spawn point for it to spawn in, and the last Pokemon's data will spawn there. This makes it particularly interesting to me because now I have to wonder if the Smeargle after the transform has your item even before the spawn. I may test this later.

This is such an amazing way to duplicate items. With a little set up you have a fast method that you don't need to delete boxes of pokemon to do.

As an update to this glitch: It is not specific to that location, and the whole imprison/struggle thing is unecessary. I've used the glitch successfully in the Coastal Biome as well to obtain a second legitimate Meloetta caught at level 70 in the Coastal Biome. These are the only requirements I've found: A Pokemon must transform into the Pokemon you want to duplicate. I BELIEVE it is necessary to have the Pokemon be a very specific distance west of a tree with a spawn point underneath it that Pokemon will spawn sleeping at. I BELIEVE you must encounter the Pokemon by walking into it while facing VERY slightly west of due north. Once the Pokemon has transformed into the Pokemon you want to duplicate, you can run from the battle immediately. If the Transformed Pokemon turns around, you know the glitch worked. I BELIEVE the Pokemon will always spawn sleeping under a tree, which is the reason I BELIEVE a tree with a spawn point that Pokemon can spawn sleeping at is required. Nothing else is necessary at all, there are no size requirements, Imprison is not required, Struggle is not required. This can theoretically be done with Dittos as well in Paldea, but there's no easy way to position them correctly, it just happens to work with Smeargles because they follow you and can learn Transform. Also of note, the transformed Pokemon will become an EXACT duplicate of your own Pokemon at the time you flee the battle, including all moves, all their remaining PP and its remaining HP. This should be usable to obtain duplicates of any Pokemon you own that are obtainable in the Terarium and are at an appropriate level to be caught there, most notably a level 70 Meloetta in the Coastal Zone. Edit: The tree the Pokemon will spawn at does not need to be directly east of the Pokemon, in fact I'm not sure you even need to face north when you encounter it but you might. I got a third Coastal Biome Meloetta and it spawned nearby stationary under a tree, but not the tree I was lined up for. Instructions unclear, but it is possible in other locations with trial and error. Edit: Any Pokémon that can be found in the Terarium should be legal when duped with this method regardless of what biome they naturally spawn in, except Meloetta who MUST be caught in the Coastal Biome. This is because you can theoretically herd any Pokémon from its home biome to a neighboring Biome.

If you want to do this glitch with Pokemon that are worth keeping Girafig and Fennekin are both able to learn imprison and both spawn in the Savanna Biome naturally so duplicating those shiny versions wouldn't be illegal.

Thanks, great for duping ability patches! Also I left the terrarium, went to paldea and flew back to the spot close to the tree and the duped pokemon was still there (I used Arceus). If you send out your pokemon using the L button to get rid of the annoying pokemon that gather around it will not kill the duped pokemon. At least it doesn't kill the Arceus. Also you can run over to the healing machine nearby to get your pp back and your duped pokemon will still be there waiting for you. You can also use theif to get the held item. It does take some of the duped pokemons HP but after you run and reinitiate a battle the duped pokemons HP is back to full.

To note: if you catch fused kyurem, you won’t be able to release it, since you will be only able to separate one of ur fused kyurem

Just another tip - if, after the first item you dupe, you are having issues trying to get the glitch to occur again, try switching which Pokémon is holding the item. First try I did Iron Leaves holding a sport ball and when I tried it while it held a dream ball, it wasn’t working. So I switched to Arceus holding the dream ball and then it worked again. Thanks Blaines for sharing this info!!

Update: you can do this with any pokemon so long as u forget all moves except sleep talk. it takes a little longer to get the glitch to work but I have done it with iron crown and now iron boulder. and make it struggle then run away. pro tip, keep the pokemon u are duping at high hp because the "wild copy" will have the same hp u have when u run away. Happy hunting

As many have mentioned, be sure that the tree is clear (no sleeping Pokemon under it or Rowlett perching atop it). Quality of Life: You can picnic reset the entire area. Don't use regular Kyurem, it works but it's pressure ability will waste your Trick's PP. Meowscarada learns Trick through move remember and she has pretty good movement speed to clear annoying spawns. A party of 6 Meowscarada's (recommend leveling them up to avoid failed escapes) with trick PP'ed up will save you a bunch of trips to the health station

I still had all my duped items since Walking Wake came out and forced everyone to choose to update or keep duping 😂 but this looks cool gonna try this later. Thanks Blaines!!

The brief pause at the beginning was funnier that it should've been 😂

Leaving my comment here as well so it may help someone else, after many failed attempts. All videos I have seen so far only make this process harder, longer and needlessly complicated. I have found an easier way to do this and it has not failed a single time so far. My tips: ignore the whole Struggle thing. You don't need to attack at all. As soon as the Smeargle becomes your Farigiraf, you can run away. Also, FARIGIRAF is def better than Kyurem because of the ability. If you have regular Kyurem with Pressure, it will only make things longer. For any purposes, my Farigiraf is level 100 but I am unsure if this affects anything at all. Same with Ditto, because it must outspeed the Smeargle. As for the location. I don't know why all RU-vidrs insist so much on those freaking bushes. You can use the three bushes as reference, but stay away from them. Instead, take the Smeargle CLOSER TO THE TREE, like some 2 meters (6 feet) away from it. In short, you can still put the Smeargle in that location between thr 3 bushes and the big tree, just take the Smeargle closer to the tree and not the bushes Face North with the character and approach the Smeargle. Do everything normally and skip the attack, just run away once the Smeargle transforms. By being closer to the tree, you will ensure no mons will spawn in or around the area. This is what was killing my previous attempts. If it still doesn't work, try slowly moving away from the tree towards the bushes, until you find the sweetspot. You will eventually find it, and it's still closer to the tree than the bushes.

Ghost types let you run away no matter what. A trick Gholdengo works pretty well for the item swapping.

If you are having trouble using Iron Leaves or Kyurem, make sure there isn’t a Pokémon sleeping under the tree! This tripped me up at first but the glitch works!

*** NOTICE *** As of 3.0.1, this glitch no longer works because Smeargle can no longer use the move Transform.

Speaking of Mochi, imagine our four-legged pets doing the Mochi Dance.

Thank gosh, another item dupe glitch! I've been waiting for this for ages 😩😩

While about to begin glitch, I found a random shiny dodrio

If you’re cloning Pokémon, hurry up and transfer them to home (it it lets you..) before they update it like BDSP and don’t let them transfer. I recommend cloning apricorn pokeballs though, if you don’t have anything in particular you wish to clone. (Moon, love, dream, etc. pokeballs) because they’re pretty decent items for trading people. Same with the ability patch(? I forget which ability item is which) and stuff like that. Great bargaining items in trades.

Took a hot bit, but I got it to work! So much easier than the previous dupe glitches (imo at least). Really makes you wonder how people find this stuff...

One mistake in the video. If you dupe using a fused Kyurem or Calyrex, separate it before keeping it in your boxes. Due to how the fusion mechanics work, any fused Pokémon will work and you should theoretically be able to use the DNA Splicers/Reins of Unity again to fuse another legendary into the other form. Be warned that you will absolutely want to keep the cloned Kyurem/Calyrex for the sole purpose of separating your two legal legendaries when it comes time to pack up for the next generation or else they'll be trapped in Scarlet/Violet since you can't move fused Pokémon into HOME.

If its not working for you try a smeargle beside that same tree(sleeping under or awake) make sure to face north and follow the other steps exactly!

You encountered a wild Smeargle. Smeargle: I identify as a tree-loving Kyurem Black.

DO NOT CATCH KYUREM/NECROZMA/CALYREX fused. Many reports of people catching the clones and not being able to unfuse their pokemon.

Quick way to farm items! Awesome. Still had one of my duped Koraidon in my party and had a bunch of ribbons on it. Then I had to say goodbye because of that one battle in Indigo Disk. Don’t want to get attached to another dupe that will get patched out though. I’ll stick to the items. 😂

Blaines if u see this please make a video , catching the cloned kyurem and releasing it breaks the DNA splicers, if anyone else is having the same problem please leave a like for blaines to see this comment

Kyurem Black Smeargle using his Fraud Skills to Print Master Balls

God I wish you could duplicate herba mystica. That's what I need most 😮‍💨

Hi Blaines, great video. Id like to point out a few things I have found while messing with it to make the process even easier! 1. Can be done all with Pokemon in the native dex, I used ditto, bronzong for imprison, and then rotom for trick. Worked great! Also, bronzong doesn't have imprison so you get double the items (kyuurem has pressure) 2. This glitch will not work if other Pokemon are sleeping at the tree! Knock out any sleeping Pokemon before trying this. 3. I've heard size of Pokemon matters but it truly doesn't. Positioning and ensuring Pokemon aren't sleeping at the tree are the 2 determining factors. I've successfully duped all apriballs using the above setup. I hope this helps, cheers.

We need to develop a list of Pokémon this can work using pronto! So far we have cases of Galarian Moltres and Black Kyurem working for this, but we need to figure out all the others that can too.

Regarding the illegal location data: this still works PERFECTLY for illegal shiny locked pokemon. Like duplicating shiny Pecharunt, etc.

This glitch is patched as of June 2024 :( whenever the smeargle tries to transform into the Pokémon it will say “but it failed”

i wish we knew earlier about this bug kinda want to fight kieran in the BBL Champion battle with all 4 ogerpon forms

STILL WORKS! My trick: Make sure no Pokémon are under the tree before battle. If your ditto doesn’t use transform in the first turn, find another Smeargle. Done

Can confirm, cloud form Landorus also works Also, if you wont kill whatever you transformed it into, if you have a banette you can use thief and have 25 pp and then forget it and relearn it to refill the pp

Now people gonna need a glitch to get rid of their fused pokemon dupes lol

Smeargle is available outside of the habitat expansions, no BP needed!

GUYS U DONT HAVE TO USE STRUGGLE ON IT i did some testing and i replicated the glitch with terapagos and endure with full PP and HP. the copy has both. and used endure so now its easier to catch the duplicated pokemon! So forget protect or sleep talk, have then only know endure. lets smeargle transform into your poke you wanna dupe, use endure, then leave.

While the Kyurem will be illegal, if you unfuse the Kyurem-Black or Kyurem-White depending on which you used, you can actually get a fully legal Zekrom or Reshiram. (so like zekrom and reshiram shiny values are gonna plummet)

gamefreak not letting us shiny hunt the legendaries in the DLC, then a DLC related glitch where everyone is duplicating their shiny legendaries is just poeting lmao

I managed to duplicate it! I tried using Zekrom since I didnt have Kyurem Black and it didn't work but I can with Arceus. I suspect its because my trainer direction facing north changes when I encounter the smeargle with Zekrom probably since he jumps back and the camera kinda shifts slightly out of north Thanks Blaines now I can farm beastball this way since my NSO sub is gone and I can't get from trading online lol

For anyone who isn’t aware you can never despawn the duplicated Pokémon… you can travel back to Paldea and then back to blueberry academy, Use a picnic, Run out of spawn range… The only way to get rid of it is capturing & releasing it, Saving the game or Closing the game application.

i got it! Make sure to change Dittos ability from transform to something else with an ability patch!

Wow thanks to it i already have 50 gold bottle caps 😂 Remember guys that you run out of Trick PPs, you can just forget e relearn the move. It will restore all your PPs and you can continue doing it indefinitely.

Not having any luck with this glitch, the Smeargle simply pops out of existence when I flee. Can't understand what I'm doing wrong.

For some reason I can do this very consistently with electivire. Tried other Pokémon and struggle but I get it within 2 tries with electivire every time. You want him to be about 3/4s distance from the tree to the patch of grass. An equivalent distance would work with any tree that has sleeping spawn points. I have leer and quick attack on electivire and I’m tricking with Goldhengo, so electivire literally can’t touch him hahahaha. I’ve also noticed that sometimes the Pokémon will sort of “face plant” instead of turn around (which is absolutely hilarious to watch). Either way, DONT CHECK FOR IT TOO SOON! Sometimes it won’t spawn in while you’re looking next to it. Also with what direction you should face while encountering, I’m not sure this matters at all. I think the most important part of that is that you are away from the tree while battling. The Pokémon in this game won’t spawn in right next to you to avoid randomly running into Pokémon all the time. So In this video example you want to face north durning the encounter because your character will be far enough away from the tree that the Pokémon can spawn in. The most important parts are how far away both your character and the smeargel are from the tree. Some Pokémon it seems you can’t duplicate, but Outside of this it’s really just RNG

I’ve done this over and over for about an hour and can’t get it to work at all. Same update, same spot, same pokemon, same moves and steps. Only thing different is I have Kyurem Black holding an ability patch. I don’t get it… Update: Finally got it to work after 2 hours smh, changed nothing so still don’t understand 😂

Ability patch about to go nuts today good lookin !!

Someone try it with a shiny smeargle and see if you can make unobtainable shinys like koraidon

can confirm. If you place switch into sleep/standby while engaged with the Clone. You can continue the dupe of said item, after powering back up.

Thanks so much!! Really wanted this for the shell bells. I no longer have to switch items before i do a raid

Used Kyurem black and now DNA splicers dont work on it

This works, but it’s definitely finicky. I’ve made a few attempts, and got it to work once. But once I did, I got dozens of Sport Balls out of the deal. Very sweet!

Was able to do this with fuecoco, could technically catch it with an apriball

Look at that, duplication is back, been a while since this was common place

Bizarre. And even more bizzare that sketch doesn't just fail on transform.

So don’t update your game until you have enough items thank you for this

***It's inconsistent but works,*** it looks like it depends on an open spawn near a tree; whether it's using a spawn for the "Smeargle" that transformed or just a pokemon spawn in general isn't very clear, VERY RANDOM.

thanks Blaine’s for always helping the community and spreading the news much appreciated

I got this to work for me. I was down to 800 beast balls and no reserves and now i can get 999 plus extra in boxes again.

My Violet is still on Ver 1.1 but after watching this, I'm tempted to update so I can enjoy this!! :D

I still haven’t updated my scarlet and violet of pokemon

Finally a second chance i updated my game before I could try the last one

Cool note: the duped pokemon will quite literally be a 1 to 1 scale, this even includes the wild pokemon having a nickname in the wild, and any titles you had on it

Damn we actually can make wild mythicals WAIT IM MAKING A WILD PECHARUNT scratch that i did clone kyurem, now i need to find another appropriate legendary/mythical lol the clickbaithers will be loving this

anyone having issue on the game where after the glitch, any wild pokemon u met, will just disappear after u quit the battle, including tera wild pokemon? anyone could share me how to fix this?

Don´t work for me, tried over 20times, is there anyone here who got the glitch working?

knowing me and my plasbad instruction-following skills, I'd screw something up and break the game entirely

I actually caught a shiny Smeargle while trying this Edit: and a Trapinch

its not working for me for some reason. The smeargle just leaves.Anyone else having issues or is it just me?

Arceus did it for me! :) Thanks for sharing this new Glitch

I just dont understand who figures out these random ways to glitch things lol. "Stop on you left foot! Dont forget it!"

Safari and sport balls go brrrr Thanks for the vid!

While trying this (and succeeded.) I noticed that if you are unable to run away on the first try after setting up, it is likely the glitch did not work properly and will need to be started all over.

0:01 Pause here 😐

As of Feb 1 2024 this glitch has been patched. Smeargle can no longer use Transform in wild encounters

I did this with Shiny dawn wings necrozma and only the necrozma showed that it was caught in the savannah biome so I got to keep the shiny lunala

while following this tutorial found my first full odds shiny in the indigo disk a shiny vibrava

This is the cleanest item duplicates ever 💯💯💯💯💯 I did the ride legendary glitch so much that I don’t have nothing to duplicate anymore 😅

If you have a G Articuno and G Moltres from a previous giveaway the molteres can learn impirson, and the cuno can learn trick. I was able to get Gmoltres to dupe.

I get the glitch pokemon to appear but when I take the item and leave battle the item does not appear with my pokemon in my inventory?

i never got a chance to do the koraidon/miraidon item glitch but this one seems far more easier, hopefully they dont patch this out for awhile

@blaines The one thing that wasn't notated is if you go to that rest area that is by that tree to heal your pp for trick is at the Black kyurem will then relocate to the other side of the rest area and then you can just have it where you can farm it in that spot. When you are ready to change the item you have to defeat the clone Pokemon or capture and then do the clone process all over again with a new smeargle

I cant get the positioning right or something. Ive tried for the past 2 hours and cant do it

If it a Pokemon that’s catchable in the Savanna Biome does it cause problems? Snivy doesn’t spawn in that spot, but I’d love to clone my shiny snivy or charmander etc. :O

Its sad for me who doesn't have dlc.

Dang! I better start doing this before it gets patched. Also I couldn't stop laughing when Blaines turned his camera towards the tree and black kyurem (glitched smeargle) was just there, floating all menacingly XD.

Funny, I finally got it to work the one time and now I can never get it to work ever again

BLAINES I MISSED YOU DOING GLITCH VIDEOS

It still works, although you just really have to find a smeagle near a tree, didn't use imprison nor struggle, I just let him change to furret and then dip out then go to a tree where smeagle/furret is, problem was whenever I use trick continuously seems like its not really getting an ability patch each time I use the skill, I had to "run away" then battle it again. The ability patch goes automatically in the bag.

I do everything right but after i run away the pokemon will not spawn

This is awesome thankyou blains for this also i wish there was a multiple item dupe glitch like there was ib bdsp where u could dupe 30 at a time

Gah, it took me almost 1.5 hours to get the damn thing in the right place but I finally got it to work. Thank you I’m now duplicating a bunch of moon balls. I’m not sure if I’ll try again later with a love ball cause it was driving me up a wall trying to get it to work but at least I’m gonna have a bunch of moon balls 😂

Yay! I hope this doesn’t get patched super quickly because it was the kind of thing that made BDSP fun

This is amazing, tried it with my shiny kyurem and it worked after a few tries