The CRAZIEST Glitches in Pokémon GO History! 

4:37 Doll from the substitute mov. The substitute is created at the cost of 25% of the user's HP and will take all or most of the incoming damage from the opposing Pokémon until it breaks.

The premier ball glitch was not a glitch. The legendaries were just too tired of constantly being caught so they decided to troll.

There was also a cool bug a few years ago: when you defeated a GO rocket leader, and the encounter was not shiny, you flee from it. Every 90 minutes, the encounter had a new chance of being shiny, so every 90 minutes, you could come to that specific pokestop, where you defeated the leader, and check if the encounter is shiny. if not, you flee again and come back again 90 minutes later and check again. This way, I got my shiny shadow stantler from Cliff :)

4:28 that's a doll that appears when a trainer uses the 'Substitute' move in the original games.

I still get the gym glitch of all the pokemon being mashed together tho lol

6:19 That was a feature for the event because ALL rocket grunts were psychic/grass types for the exeggcute research weekend and all of them could give the shadow shiny exeggcute. There was a PvP glitch a while back in which the shields always showed that the opponent's move was resisted/neutral. In GBL, when you shield a move that is supper effective, the shield turns red. For instance if your opponents uses hydro cannon on your fire type and you shield it, the shield colour will turn red. But in one of the updates the shield always remained blue even if all of the opponent's moves were super effective OR it always turned red even if the moves were resisted. And since there is no rule book for PvP (in game after 2.5 years), new players were always confused if they should shield the moves from a specific type or not.

I got the shiny Braviary! I also got a strange glitch where two braviarys and two poke balls appeared.

Hey the place holder Pokemon is what appears when you use the move Substitute in the main series games and allows you to take any attack but casting the move drains some HP. Also the shiny grunts glitch was actually a feature of the event because every psychic/grass grunt has an exeggcute!

That pokemon “placeholder glitch” is the image used in the original pokemon games when a pokemon used the move substitute!

I have a story for this. One time I was checking to see how many pokemon were in gyms. this specific blissey, says it has been in a gym for 19352 days = 53.4 years. I'm still super confused how this happened.

The snorlax looked good 1:47😳

I love the face-down Buddy glitch. Your take on it made me laugh, too. Sometimes they are even half IN the ground.

My sister had her buddy as Tapu fini and her Tapu fini snapped its neck when she tried playing with it. And my uncle had a dragonnite glitched into his pokemon inventory. Also when my sister had her location/GPS off and a wild smeargle was following her it was kinda creepy. Also my sister had encountered a glitch where her pokemon buddy would shrink.

Another great video and the placeholder glitch is from the main series game move substitute

To counter the giant Pokémon there was also extremely TINY pokemon last fall during the Galar event, mostly just skwovet but I loved it

Lugia: Ho-oh I just snorted a entire case full of coke and I'm starting to feel the effects.

I remember one of the first glitches that had been so hyped up which was the weird baby head on a weird red screen. Was one of the first and also strangest. Nostalgic now Edit: nvm it's at 4:22, all I said still stands tho Also I gotta do it... Pokedex update plz?

I actually have a screenshot of when that jagged Lugia glitch happened to me in a Zapdos encounter.

Really enjoying these. There was that other TR glitch that if you fought a Team Leader at a Pokestop you could run from encounter then go back in an hour and it would be another version of that Pokémon. I did it with Stantler (your shiny Stantler reminded me). The first Stantler I got after beating the team leader not shiny, went back after an hour, wasn’t shiny, went back after another hour and yes I got the shiny. Of course they fixed that glitch.

another funny visual glitch iv encountered was last year in some event when pikachus with hats i cannot remember were showing up. I tapped on several pikachus and either their ears where strait out rectangle shapes or the tail or the entire body was just broken. I used to have some pictures but I deleted them to free up phone space lol

4:01 I lost it😂😭

1:55 this happens pretty often to me

Few weeks ago, I was playing some pvp. I choose my team for Great League, then SOMEHOW I got in a pvp battle with only an Aerodactyl, which I don't have and don’t know how it even let me pvp with just one Pokemon.

There was a visual glitch for a buddy Mega Gengar that I encountered once where it would move around the map, stop and then get stuck in this jumping animation where its mouth was open. I was able to get one screenshot of it where it looks like it was about to chomp down on an unsuspecting Bidoof.

2:08 the same thing happened to me with Mewtwo and Kyogre last year, before and during Go Fest...😤🤬🤬

I really loved the veteran mode on the grunts/leaders … I love that they hamert back , now the grunts and leaders are a joke again🥺

4:30 it's the toy that proffesor kukiu gave to rockruff in the anime in sun and moon

There was one old glitch back from 2016/2017 ish where the first pokeball you throw at a Pokémon would go flying like 20 miles in the air, it went so far that you couldn’t see it land on the ground. it was kinda funny but annoying if u were low on balls

Day 21 of asking for a pokedex update HIT RANK 20 IN GBL MY BEST

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I remember once getting an invitation for an Ex raid starting about an hour after I got the invitation. I rushed across town to go grab the Mewtwo and patiently waited along with 10-15 others. When the time came for the raid to start, a Snorlax popped up. ExLax has to be one of my favorite Pokémon for that random reason.

the green stuffy thing that replaces a pokemon is a move in the main series games called "substitute" where the opposing pokemon would disappear and be replaced by that stuffy thing

The placeholder stuffed animal thing is from the main series games. its a move called Substitute where the pokemon swaps with this thing to take damage for them.

1:50 This still happen every now & then 4:56 I seen this glitch with an eevee recently..... It wasn't even my eevee. It was an eevee raid in a gym. (You could see it clipping through the gym when you clicked on the gym). It is the weirdest visual glitch that i have ever had and it happened earlier this month. I uploaded a clip of it clipping through the gym spin disc if you were curious of what it looked like

One time I had my mega Venusaur as my buddy, and it started just walking straight up into the air

I still get that stacking gym glitch these days, some times on accident, mostly on purpose.

I remember a glitch with the pokestop nearby menu where if you pressed two pokemon at the same time they would appear inside of each other. It was similar to the gym visual bug

There was a visual glitch a while back where most appearances of Magmorter and only magmorter would be the shiny form.

I honestly think shadow shinys from grunt would be a cool addition you just make the chance of getting them lower then a leader

There was a bug with Pumpkin Helm. When you equip dress with hood you can also equip Pumpkin Helm which bugs the game .... a little. The bug makes you character disappear till you get rid of the helm BUT not just in map. Basically your character was somehow "deleted" from game and stay in one place while you can normally move and spawn pokemons making it impossible to play because after a while you was out of bounds visible on screen.

Fun fact:during the spring into spring event, I actually caught a shadow shiny exeggcute from leader arlo. Not sure if it was a coincidence or maybe the glitch also increased odds or maybe it had something to do with the exeggcute research day

That visual glitch with that stuffed toy looking thing is a part of an ability from the games that would swap your Pokémon for a turn to that

I am so sad. I first encountered a Galarian articuno, which ran away. The next two days, I encountered a galarian zapdos. And then I encountered another galarian Zapdos from the same day. And both of them ran away even though I did an excellent curveball throw with golden razz berry

The green stuffed animal thing is a substitute from main Pokémon games I think when the grunts get shadow shinys its when the leaders have had it in the past

I wonder if (or how, rather) that last premier ball glitch has something to do with the current glitch, that if it shakes once it's a guaranteed catch?

so I had a computer years ago that would do something similar to that lugia glitch on certain games. The issue was a severely underpowered CPU, so that glitch may have occurred on a lower end phone

Once I had a glitch where my buddy (a shiny sentret) had its eyes and mouth replaced with black squares, kinda scared me and I've still got screenshots lol

That green plushie thing is actually the Substitute from the main series Pokémon games.

I had a Slowpoke encounter where the Slowpoke was upside-down and in the air. It was so creepy in AR when I realized I had to look up! I had a Slowbro appear as a tiny doll. I also had the Pokemon stadium appear as a miniature set at my feet once.

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I have the current glitch growing on where I can’t catch more than 10 daily lure Pokémon or any sighting of the legendary birds😂😂

I remember the team rocket glitch, I just so happened to battle giovanni during that and man was it frustrating

Quick catch glitch which is still in game probably the most common glitch and also there was a glitch that allows you to keep Great ball or Ultra ball as main ball in catching screen even if you run away from pokemon or you caught it

I once had a glitch where my buddy (a tyranitar) went into the ground like it was diving

The last ball glich u covered in this video lasted longer then a few month it lasted from 2017/2018 until October 2019. IT when they added the legendary beast from gen 2 untill mid gen 3 was added and has re apered several times for weeks at a time.

When your Lugia encounter gives you a lugia with all of its bones broken

I've had a glitch where my buddy just gave up walking around with me because I was walking too much. I honestly loved it, because nihilego just seemed so lost

I've encountered a few Glitches myself, 1 actually had all 12 Eggs hatch as Chespin, but obviously weren't all Chespin.

I have sometimes an irritating glitch, which is when I tap on a pokémon I want to catch, it becomes huge. Not like in this video, it looks like the pokémon is on me, like it's directly in front of my face. And I can't do anything... Nowadays it sometimes happen while walking on a map. I can't do anything, except closing and reopening the app.

My caption for the Lugia glitch: My nervous system when I hit my knee on the edge of the table. I’ll take my cookie now thank you.

I have footage of a first person glitch that I encountered. It worked with the AR feature and I was looking at the map in first person

I have this super cool glitch where I don’t have the daily incense yet because Niantic’s rollout of this feature makes absolutely no sense.

I remember the premier ball glitch good. Feels like yesterday thats crazy.

I actually had a glitch like a week ago i went into a bidoof encounter then quickly left and idk what i did after but my whole screen was just a cursed bidoof

The 'lewd' Lugia in the thumbnail just made me burst out laughing lol. Then I saw,, the 'Multi-Beasts'. Dragonite taking 'Multi-scale' a little too literally. 😂

No mention of the ninja glitch. I had back to back Starly Ninja encounters and managed to record the 2nd.

The grunt I recently fought had a snorlax, gardivoir, and dragonite. First 2 were over 10k cp and dragonite had over 15k cp. What a beast! My favorite glitch I saw was when your buddy pokemon rises out of the ground.

once my pokemon that i had as a buddy was on my map and after a fight it disappeared and it was on full bar

During the Starly community day, all of my shiny Starly all loaded without eyes. (when my game eventually froze, I rebooted the game and their eyes fully loaded.)

For the Luigia, when you realize your favorite childhood RU-vidr has a kid

The doll thing is something from the games. It is a move called substitute where it replaces itself with the doll and protects itself

when the Mankey GBL encounters happened it glitched since there were two encounters and I got a shiny Mankey when I was supposed to get star dust and the rest of my encounters were the regular rewards.

Lugia cap: when you drink NyQuil at 11:50pm but you have a assignment due at 12 so you drink coffee:

4:28 that’s a substitute doll… surprised you didn’t know that one

I had the premiere ball glitch recently. I had 14 balls on a Cobalion and I gave it most of my golden razz berries and I even had multiple excellent throws but it trolled me by running away

I still get the premier ball glitch, I did a Moltres raid last month and it did the one shake on the last ball and immediately broke out.

My favorit glitch, was back when mewtwo went from EX raids to normal raids, for a period of aprox 10-15 min, you could use a TM to get shadow ball to all non shadow ball mewtwo`s

Honestly the last premier ball glitch was never fixed for me. It doesnt matter which pokemon, they ALWAYS flee at the very last premier ball after a single shake, and it's been like that for years now

I have a beast ball nihilego. Was just clearing out special research right before community day while waiting for it to start. Did not realize it was special.

I once played when my character's face wasn't present, so that was fun.

The best Glitch I ever saw was on my friend's account when Groundon first came out in raids. My friend decided to use the VR mode to catch him as well as take a few photos, when he found Groundon and got him to jump out, he was very tiny.

I literally just encountered a galarion Articuno that was super glitched like the face was on his but that was also mixed with a shiny Lugia

The lugia makes the same sound when you shiny check

Craziest thing I’ve experienced is every Pokémon being shiny and then running on the second ball wiggle. Found lots of shinies in 10 mins until I decided to restart the app. Fun times

I got the special research Xurkitree too. Didn't know it was a glitch

So just swapped out my Overqwil for Hisui Sneasel and the Overqwil graphic wouldn't leave. I didn't capture it in my game, but did get a screen grab of Sneasel wearing an Overqwil hat in my widget.

Shiny shadow exeggcute from grunts was not a glitch. It was just a feature during the event

Actually there is another glitch I am experiencing sometimes, a few minutes ago it actually happened twice where I encounter a pokemon, it moved out of the encounter screen for a second and then went back in and after (quick) catching that pokemon, it's like I am laying on the ground looking from under some pokemon and from there i have to hit things like the only pokemons I can see from there and pokestops like that, but I can't move the camera. The only ways I fix it so far are spinning a pokestop, letting myself get shown a nearby raid or just leaving and opening the app. Maybe a video would be more clear than this

I had a glitch when I clicked a Pokémon on there not seeing end (on accident) it would zoom in the the Pokémon and when the Pokémon ran it would show me walking away that happened yesterday 😂

The craziest glitch I had happening to me was the Research Encounter Glitch. Back in the early days of the whole research-thing, you could start an Pokémon Encounter from research even if you got an "GPS signal not found" (happened a lot when I was indoors). If you try to encounter one now with that "GPS signal not found", it won't let you, (if they haven't somehow re-enabled it). Back then, it did. For whatever reason, when that was up, it corrupted the Pokémon (and a few other things) completely. I have an video of it. Just search " pokemon go corruptions old clips " and mine should be the first one or at least somewhat high up. Only if you're interested that is. It's not the best glitch in the world, and I can almost guarantee that this most likely happened to a ton of people before me. So I'll not claim that I was the first to discover this or anything at all. I was just surprised when it happened, and then I messed around with it when I found out what caused it, lmao

07:09 Lugia on bath salts

For the lugia: When you wake up in the morning at 4:00 in the morning but you don't have to wake up until 5 hours later.

The gym stacking still happens a lot, or... extreme spacing

I remember when the Leader glitch made the battles so difficult lol

4:27 i didn't know they used the substitute move doll from the main series game as placeholder

The glitch of the six overlapped Pokémon still happens to me pretty often

love the joystick on the screen wit the lugia haha

Psychic Bird that is somehow not Water Type tries to eats Mythic7’s 'stardust' and breaks the 4th wall, and also all of our brains. Now Mystic7 where is my cookie

I didn't do the Seattle fest sadly because busy and I could but I couldn't

I swear that to this day, the "last ball" gltich is still a thing... unless you get a criticall catch