What Happens When You Encounter MissingNo in Every Pokémon Game? 

I love that missingno seems to corrupt the trainers it touches with the battles. First yours and then the enemy after defeat

2:38 I love when the battle ended and the glitched trainer just said "wait!" like they know something is wrong-

In Emerald, the fact that they gave an error handler sprite *animation* and *flavor text* is wild.

2:42 That *"Wait!"* as the Beauty Trainer is corrupted feels a bit ominous

Everyone’s talking about their MissingNo. experience but no one’s talking about how the Tentacool in the box is named ‘Dive Bitch’

"I'll tell you a secret if you win!" *Entire universe crashes*

8:36 I’m not exactly sure why Gen 4 Missingno seems to delete some of the text as it loads, but “Wha do?” made me actually laugh out loud

Imagine that you are waiting for another kid to come and get beaten by you and that random kid just pulls out a Pokemon that you've never seen before and glitches you into oblivion

id honestly love to see missingno appear as a mythical, maybe like a glitched porygon that got extremely corrupted but escaped into the code

MissingNo is one of the most underrated Pokémon in the franchise. It doesn't even have a single anime appearance, which is pretty sad.

The fact that they took the time to make Missingno. roll around on appearance in generation III is adorable lol

Fun fact: The glitch Pokemon that fights after capture is actually an entirely seperate Pokemon from MissingNo, 'M, but is so very similar to MissingNo that it is often referred to as MissingNo's "sister". The reason the battle doesn't end after 'M is captured is because the game sets a "Transformed" value to an incorrect value, causing an invisible Ditto to fight in the place of 'M

Slight correction! The pokemon you showed that keeps fighting after capture is called ‘M, which is a separate glitch mon in the game’s data - although it takes MissingNo’s most famous L shape form and is caught in the same location. Whether your save file can encounter an ‘M depends (like with MissingNo’s various forms) on the name data of the player. 😊

Fun fact, at 11:00 the glitched shiny Bulbasaur is called ピカチュウ, which literally means... Pikachu 🤣

I really, REALLY wish Game Freak would do a special Missingo Event for a Halloween thing. C'mon, corrupted Tera Raid dens, weird glitchy things that behave oddly and maybe interface screw a bit...they can clearly make it so you can't capture a Pokémon there, so they could easily make it uncatchable or something.

Fun fact: The Gen 2 glitch Pokemons' garbled map tile appearance is actually like that because the devs anticipated that this kind of situation would happen and added an error handler to prevent the game from displaying the real glitch sprite and imploding. If you disable the error check with a cheat code, most of ?????'s true sprites crash the game either immediately with a black screen or when the sprite finishes moving rightwards.

There needs to be a Missingno appearance in the anime. Even just a hint to it.

I remember my brother firmly telling little 5yo old me to NEVER catch missingno because he didn't want his game corrupted. I just wanted lots of rare candy and master balls.

10:39 Kid tried to warm you. Some goddess Bulbasaur named Pikachu will be knock you out if you attempt to venture into the wild without your own Pokes. That's why Pokemon Mastery is so essential to this society.

Can't believe Missingno was cut in Gen 9.... May it rest in peace for now.

8:21 the fact that Dawn appears twice when you are obviously with your rival make me laugh more than i should be 😂😂

I remember the time where in Gen 8, hacked raids were a thing I saw a MissingNo. Max Raid and i couldn't resist to catch it just for curiosity, it worked pretty similar to Gen 1 MissingNo., being able to clone Pokémon and items I think it should've been mentioned that in Gen 8 ( with hacking ) you could catch MissingNo. as an egg or a Pikachu

What i find the most interesting is that missingno is not even composed from pokemon data It's just random numbers from the game's memory turned into a pokemon, since pokemon save data is nothing but numbers (well, technically all computer data is, but pokemons ARE saved as int numbers (and i think some letters as well) ) If the memory pointer happens to end up in your inventory, you could probably even design it yourself by adding/removing inventory items

Just because you didn't show it off I actually discovered missingno in legends Arceus from playing with cheats on a modded switch. The missingno for Arceus is a level 0 Lucario named egg and after you capture it you obtain an egg that you cant do anything with because breeding isn't present in the game. I thought it was actually pretty neat.

Shows how DANGEROUS MissingNo is in each gen

5:07 missigno got a pokedex entry cool he deserves

I played a ROM hack once that actually incorporated missingno into the story, and glitched out the entire world as part of that story. It was a surprisingly high quality ROM hack tbh

The original missingno gives me the idea of what the out of bounds is, just a void that you shouldn’t be in, giving you a creepy feeling

Missingno should be a paradox pokemon with the ability glitch which lowers or heightens the defense of the enemy pokemon

8:15 i really like that a random tentacruel decides to fight with this glitchy being

I like how the newer games can either try catch and do something with the errors, or outright crash; because the newer engines would spill an exception instead of happilly handling invalid data

1:20 Oh, hey. Criminals do that, too!

Ah, good old game destroyed. Brings back memories. Also loving that Colloseum/Gales of Darkness soundtrack.

I should also note that from my experience the gen 4 bug is very unreliable and often causes a crash starting most battles, and it seems that it'll only allow the game into one if the battle used a special intro (I tested it on wild Azelf in my case). I should go back and see what happens if I use a revive on one of my pokemon and if the glitchmon faints.

I think they should make a Pokemon based off of MissingNo. How cool would it be if there was some sort of ditto clone that had the ability to transfer its DNA onto other pokemon for a brief amount of time? It'd be sick.

This was one of the best videos I've seen and it was very entertaining giving tribute to such a wonderful old-school Pokemon. Thank you so much for making it.

The pomeg berry glitch you used in gen 4 can actually be used similarly also in pokemon emerald (and it's part of a bigger glitch that allows you to do almost everything in that game)

You’ve answered my question about a yellow bulbasuar in gen three. I remembered having one but couldn’t remember why. Thank you.

GameFreak was really on it in Gen 1 with those tiny details like how when the battle with BEAUTY was finished and she yelled "WAIT!" Because she was already getting corrupted; real crazy detail right there

Can’t believe even the boi MissingNo. Was cut in gen 8, you’d think they’d bring him back in gen 9 with the rest of the glitches

7:18 YOOOO! You actually managed to catch a shiny ________?! That's insane! I've never seen a shiny ________ before! It looks so good! This is also the first time I find out that using underscores around a sentence or word italicizes it.

8:27 Dawn's learned to clone herself

Missingno (pokemon blue) was that one bug where everybody SWORE on their mother and jesus's grave that it would corrupt your save file, but I had one of those blessed cartridges I guess, because I had a whole ARMY of Missingno's. I was the Missingno master scientist, doing experiments by leveling it up (levels up to 255 then resets to 0 on the 256th level), seeing what it would evolve into (Rhydon lol).. there seemed to be several sub-types of Missingno's so i kept digging until i got bored.

love how gen 4 missingno is always shiny

When I caught Missingno and put it in my boxes, it turned to level 137, showed the sprite of a Snorlax and it would 1-shot everything. The funniest thing after that is I tried to send it to my Gold Version and it came through as a Ditto at level 80 something 😂

5:40 love the tentacools name

4:19 Scared the shit out of me as a kid.

in shield and sword, missingno is extremely rare, it lets you clone legendaries, and you have to put it in the nursery. It's appearance is a shiny Regieleki.

Missingno changes for the most part between every game, which is cool. Some of them let the pokemon work, while others don't as much.

I felt that missclicked pokeball in my soul 4:30

11:46 had me wheezing. He predicted the unseen. Gen 3 Missingno was my favourite..I never played actual Pokémon as I was a card collector,until I got Silver Version as a gift from a friend who was headed to the Marines. When I asked a schoolmate about this thing,she said if you see it, don't catch it. Following the directions I got from online,I ran into it. Your name has an effect on what it's going to look like,or something like that. Gen 3 is my favourite..Even though it's an in game error,they still gave it movement like a real pokemon. I was all AWWW,when I first saw this "new" form. But the aww turned to f+ck when hours of work went to NEW GAME overnight 🤣

I love 8:36 "Wha do?" 🤣

8:35 When the game said "Wha do?" I really felt it

3:05bro got attacked by the poke mart

1:28 That's not MissingNo. That's 'M, the "sister" counterpart of MissingNo. It can evolve into Kangaskhan while MissNo. can't.

1:35 ah yes *casually has 9 master balls*

10:42 For some reason I found this very funny lol

Always something to see how bits and pieces of missingno lore get passed down but rarely does any info video on missingno ever have all the information. Everyone knows about item duplication, less know you can catch missingno, even less know it keeps fighting you after catching it, even less know you can send missingno out against itself in the same fight and if it wins or gets exp at all it'll evolve into a few possibilities but the most likely one I've seen is a khangaskhan with water gun, water gun, and sky attack.

What started as an error in the code now it follows as a legend!

You mention MissingNo evolves Gen 2 and onward sometimes, but in Gen 1 if you give MissingNo a Rare Candy they evolve into Kangascon. And since MissingNo could learn almost any TM/HM it leads to a Kangascon that could have nearly any move in the game.

MissingNo Bird/Glitch (Normal-Flying/Electric-Ghost) Genderless Moves: Metronome (Normal). Volatile data (Flying). Sets the target's highest EV to 0. If all EVs are 0, set all IVs to 0. If all EVs and IVs are 0, set their type to "typeless". If all previous conditions are met, remove all their PP from all moves. If the target has no PP on any moves, this move is a 1HKO System crash (Electric). Changes the opponent's move with the highest base power to another completely random move of the same type, regardless of learnset. If the target has no moves with base power, change all their moves to Metronome. Glitched spirit (Ghost). 100 base power, Special. Ignores user's attacking stats and opponent's defensive stats. Causes the user to get a random status condition or lose a third of its hp (50/50). If the user already has a status condition, heal it, give it to the target, and lose 50% hp as the side effect instead (guaranteed). Only Metronome can be forgotten/changed, and the other options are: Explosion Hyper beam Scary face As for stats, a fast yet frail dual attacker (slightly stronger special attack), basically a glass cannon.

Honestly I didn't knew that MissingNo (or just "?") had an animation and a proper Pokedex description in Emerald, I always assumed that it was fanmade. Also sometimes I remember encountering MissingNo and the game would crash in Emerald.

I didn't even know there were ways to spawn MissingNo in the games after Gen. 1. That's really interesting. 😮

11:00 what's even funnier is that the name of this Bulbasaur (ピカチュウ) means "Pikachu"

something i noticed about missingno when i was doing my 8F shiny mew glitch is that if missingno is named ‘M when you catch it the battle will continue, but when missingno is named MISSINGNO once you catch it, the battle ends. if you use a rare candy on ‘M it will evolve into a kangastan

2:44 It was there that the beauty trainer realized trainer Jay had done more than just defeated her in battle and instead destroyed reality itself.

Imagine gamefreak actually makes MissingNo an actual functional Pokemon in a future Gen

1:13 how missingno remembers the hall of fame 2:26/2:45 just a normal trainer sprite nothing to see here 5:17 missingno used teleport 6:05 missingno: what's a move again? 6:44 azumarill became too powerful 9:08 you cannot grasp missingno's true form 11:00 missingno: where am I and why am I a level 999 bulbasaur? 11:36 trainer: I want to initiate a battle sword and shield: I'm sorry I'm afraid I can't do that 12:04 pokemon eggs pokemon eggs everywhere

When missingno swaps sprites back in gen 1 just check your status screen and it'll go back to normal.

Fun Fact: If you catch Missingno in gen 2 and add it to your party, it has a Carbos. Happy Carbos hunting :)

Could you make a video about the most useful characters in their games? You gave us a video about the most useless characters so a part two with the opposite would be cool!

Another way to encounter MissingNo. Is in the Pokémon DP Demo versions, where you need the walk through walls cheat code, and put the Roselia in the PC in the Oreburgh Pokémon Center, then talk to Professor Rowan and he exposes the first Pokémon in your party to a shiny stone, evolving it into an invisible shiny bulbasaur. It just functions the same, but whenever you open the Pokémon menu, the game crashes if you have that Pokémon in your party.

I remember evolving my missingnos in gen 1, they always evolved into Snorlax

3:52 GUYS HE GAINED AN EXCLAMATION POINT 😍😍

10:43 Chad Pokemon trainer Walks into the forest Throws out level 999 Bulbasaur Refuses to elaborate Blacka out

8:42 wha do?

in gen 1, theres some type of missingno at lvl 0 that evolves to kangaskan at lvl 1, also that "double battle", if u capture a sencond time in same batles, sometimes the second one its a ditto

Missingno should be a Pokemon by now

8:42 “wha do” has me in tears

Missingno having Slowpoke’s cry in gen 3 is very fitting.

5:06 I find it interesting that they have given missigno an entry in the Pokedex

I think that it’s really funny that the gen 4 missingNo shows as shiny!

In Gen 1, if you caught the Lv 0. 'M and gave it a rare candy, it evolves into a Kangaskhan.

The fact that Tentacool is named "Dive Bitch" gives me so much seratonin

" Watch this, Barry! " *walks on water*

I tried trading Missingno to Gold version back in the day using the Time Machine and it appeared in the list of tradable pokemon on my Gold version as a Raikou. It wouldn't trade, though.

10:48 nostalgic music at its finest

In pre-patch BDSP you could send out a missigno and have it be a shiny pikachu without modding the game

Didn't ask for this just stumbled upon it would appreciate it very much

I’m glad Fearow got the evolution it deserves

Little detail most people don' t notice is that it's name is missing number, number usually being shortened to no referencing how this is not in the pokedex

Lol thats kinda eerie in a creepy way

Missingno showing up as shiny in most generations is such a flex

This was nightmare fuel for me back in the day :') Those creepypastas really got to me...

5:49 casually walks through walls

I can never unsee what you named the tentacool in Gen 3.

3:06 A wild Play Station Network attacked!

11:02 "you have no more Pokémon that can fight!" The level 999 Mega Bulbasaur named Pikachu: Am I a joke to you?

I'm honestly surprised they haven't added missingno as an actual usable pokemon after all these years.

I love the fact that in the first gens, MissingNo was a Golden Bulbasaur. Thats insane!