eevee/pokedex — Issue #3: Special encounters and event Pokémon
Author: encukou
Created: 2012-01-26 20:28:36+00:00
State: open
Labels: encounters, feature, involved

**Reported by [Eevee](http://github.com/eevee) on 2009/05/05 21:58:48 +0000 · Migrated from [Redmine issue 22](http://bugs.veekun.com/issues/22)**

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I would split this up between special encounters and event Pokémon, but I’m not sure how to reasonably do that. That Farfetch’d you traded for in the game is a specific “event” Pokémon, but it’s still in the game!

Special ways to encounter or get a Pokémon. Note that some of these are repeatable and some are not; should a distinction be made here?

* **\* Starter Pokémon: Bulbasaur, Mudkip, Chimchar, …
** **\* Unique overworld Pokémon: Snorlax, Mewtwo, Lugia, …
** **\* In-game trades: Farfetch’d, uh…
** **\* In-game giveaways: Riolu egg, Eevee, …
** Feebas

* Headbutt in GSC

* **\* Legendaries that run around
** Daily Safari Game Pokémon

* Daily Mansion Pokémon

* Honey tree Pokémon

* **\* Celebi in Crystal in Japan, I guess? I forget how that worked
** \*(once but incidental)\* Colosseum and XD Snaggables

Special ways to get an INDIVIDUAL (customized somehow) Pokémon:

* A zillion Toys R Us, movie, Pokémon Center ([http://www.upokecenter.com/nypc.html)](http://www.upokecenter.com/nypc.html)), Mystery Gift, etc. giveaways

* Crystal’s Extremespeed Dratini

* Crystal’s Dizzy Punch Odd Eggs

* Stadium 1: Amnesia Psyduck

* Stadium 2: Baton Pass Farfetch’d and Earthquake Gligar

* “PBR gives you hardy pikachu w/ surf, modest magmortar, and adamant electivire”

* Ranch has rewards of some sort

* Pokémon Box reward eggs for filling your box: False Swipe Swablu, Extremespeed Zigzagoon, Pay Day Skitty, and Surf Pichu. THERE IS NO WISH RALTS.

* Ranger and Ranger 2 have Manaphy egg, Riolu with Aura Sphere, and some sort of Darkrai

Pending questions:

* Should Shaymin, Darkrai, and Arceus count as overworld Pokémon? They **do** appear in the overworld…

* Giveaways and ingame trades tend to give you Pokémon with fixed stats, names, moves, OT ID, etc. How do I store/display these without consuming absurd amounts of space?

Some lists of event Pokémon/moves on Smogon:

* [http://www.smogon.com/forums/showthread.php?t=34197](http://www.smogon.com/forums/showthread.php?t=34197)

* [http://www.smogon.com/forums/showpost.php?p=2418618&postcount=34](http://www.smogon.com/forums/showpost.php?p=2418618&postcount=34)

* [http://www.smogon.com/forums/showthread.php?t=63782](http://www.smogon.com/forums/showthread.php?t=63782) (illegal movesets, but may be helpful)

Trying to get more details here on [[SpecialEncounters]]. Please help flesh this out!

Redmine metadata:
Updated on: 2011/09/25 20:04:18 +0000
Start date: 2009/05/05
Relations:
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**Comment by [Eevee](http://github.com/eevee) from 2009/07/26 21:24:59 +0000**

Updated subject

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**Comment by [Eevee](http://github.com/eevee) from 2009/08/12 21:47:40 +0000**

Difficulty: Involved

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**Comment by [Eevee](http://github.com/eevee) from 2009/08/12 22:41:54 +0000**

Target version: — ⇨ 9

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**Comment by [Eevee](http://github.com/eevee) from 2010/04/13 19:28:44 +0000**

Target version: 9 ⇨ 8

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**Comment by [Eevee](http://github.com/eevee) from 2010/04/13 20:02:40 +0000**

category_id: None ⇨ 3

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**Comment by [Eevee](http://github.com/eevee) from 2010/04/13 20:13:00 +0000**

Target version: 8 ⇨ —

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**Comment by [Eevee](http://github.com/eevee) from 2010/10/08 08:00:25 +0000**

Assignee ⇨ —

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**Comment by [En-Cu-Kou](http://github.com/encukou) from 2011/09/24 18:12:55 +0000**

Assignee ⇨ En-Cu-Kou

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**Comment by [En-Cu-Kou](http://github.com/encukou) from 2011/09/25 20:04:18 +0000**

Okay. As an intermediate step between ad-hoc wiki notes and a relational database, I created a [googly spreadsheet](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AjQVTQ78mLIUdHNIU0VFRnlQVklTVEp3TnVXRXpNR3c&hl=en_US). It’s read-only to prevent spam, please do request access if you have anything to add.
There I’m collecting the wiki data and whatever else I can find on this. (Generation I is veeeery close to done now.)
And I’m making a script to load it all into the DB.

For the later generations we’ll want to contact Guested of [Project Pokémon](http://projectpokemon.org/events/en-V.php). Hopefully we can get a hold of his database, and figure out a way to sync as new events are added.