MissingNo.

MissingNo. ケツバン Ketsuban

MissingNo.'s normal form

Types Category  Normal  Bird  N/A Hexadecimal identifier Exp. at Lv. 100 Unknown Unknown Pokédex National #000 Johto #— Hoenn #— Sinnoh #— Unova (BW) #— Unova (B2W2) #— Games found in Unknown Special stat for Mew glitch Time Capsule exploit Pokémon N/A N/A Height Weight ?.? m ?.? kg Hybrid of Catch rate N/A 3 Gender ratio Unknown Egg Groups Egg cycles Unknown Unknown EV yield HP ? Atk ? Def ? Sp.Atk ? Sp.Def ? Speed ? Exp. ?

MissingNo. (Japanese: けつばん Ketsuban) is a Bird and Normal -type Glitch Pokémon. It is the best-known of all the Glitch Pokémon. Its name is a shortening for Missing Number.

There have also been MissingNo.-like glitches in other Pokémon RPGs, which are even sometimes called a MissingNo.; however, these aren't related to the Red/Blue MissingNo., and are usually only obtainable with some sort of game enhancing device.

When a MissingNo. or other glitch Pokémon is viewed in Pokémon Stadium, it will appear as a baby Rhydon (the image used in the substitute attack). When viewed in Pokémon Stadium 2, Missingno, will show up as a Ditto, and if the game is then saved from Stadium 2, the Pokémon will be a Ditto permanently.

Biology

Physiology

Missingno. has four well-known forms. For its alternate forms, a specific letter must be present in the player's name as the third, fifth or seventh letter. The specific letters are put in the description of each form.

Its normal form is as a box of pixels in a backwards 'L' shape that is similar to the shape of a Tetris piece. No specific letter is necessary for it to appear.

File:RBghost.PNG Its second form is similar to the Ghosts found in the Lavender Tower before obtaining the Silph Scope. It appears only if a lowercase 'y' is found in the Player's Name.

File:Aeroskelton.PNG The third form is similar to the Aerodactyl fossil found in Pewter City's museum. It's obtainable if a lowercase 'x' is found in the Player's name.

File:Skeletops.PNG The final form is the Kabutops fossil found in the Pewter museum as well. It appears if there's a lowercase 'w' is present in the Player's name.

Gender Differences

MissingNo. did only appear in Generation I games, where genders were not yet revealed. As a result, MissingNo. is classified as genderless.

Special Abilities

MissingNo. is notable as being one of the few not Flying-type Pokémon to learn Sky Attack.

MissingNo.'s appearance in-battle allows what is known as the "Rare Candy cheat," the games' infamous item duplication bug. It is commonly used to duplicate valuable and hard-to-obtains items, such as the Rare Candy item. However, the duplication bug can affect any item in the game, not just Rare Candies.

Also encountering MissingNo. has been known to interfere with the save game data in various ways, such as adversely affecting the Hall of Fame saved data.

Behavior

MissingNo. has no known behavior.

Habitat

MissingNo. is found most often on the east coast of Cinnabar Island, though has been known to appear on the eastern coast of the Seafoam Islands.

Diet

Main article: Pokémon food

Game data

Pokédex entries

If MissingNo. is caught, it will not appear in the Pokédex (unless caught via the Mew Glitch BEFORE arriving at Cinnabar Island, and even then, the entry is blank). This is because the bit of data that tells the game that Missingno. is captured is the same as the data for battling a Cubone, and there are unavoidable trainers in Rock Tunnel who use Cubone. Because of this, there is no official Pokédex description for MissingNo.

Game locations

Gen	Game	Rarity	Location
I	Pokémon Red and Blue	Glitch	Rare Candy cheat, Mew glitch
	Pokémon Yellow	Glitch	Mew glitch

Base stats

HP:	33
Attack:	137
Defense:	1
Special:	29
Speed:	6

Since Missingno. does not exist in any game that uses the Special Attack and Special Defense stats, only its Special stat is listed.

Type effectiveness

Under normal battle conditions in Generation V, this Pokémon is:

Damaged normally by: Normal 1× Fighting 2× Flying 1× Poison 1× Ground 1× Rock 1× Bug 1× Ghost 0× Steel 1× Fire 1× Water 1× Grass 1× Electric 1× Psychic 1× Ice 1× Dragon 1× Dark 1× None

Weak to: Normal 1× Fighting 2× Flying 1× Poison 1× Ground 1× Rock 1× Bug 1× Ghost 0× Steel 1× Fire 1× Water 1× Grass 1× Electric 1× Psychic 1× Ice 1× Dragon 1× Dark 1× None

Immune to: Normal 1× Fighting 2× Flying 1× Poison 1× Ground 1× Rock 1× Bug 1× Ghost 0× Steel 1× Fire 1× Water 1× Grass 1× Electric 1× Psychic 1× Ice 1× Dragon 1× Dark 1× None

Resistant to: Normal 1× Fighting 2× Flying 1× Poison 1× Ground 1× Rock 1× Bug 1× Ghost 0× Steel 1× Fire 1× Water 1× Grass 1× Electric 1× Psychic 1× Ice 1× Dragon 1× Dark 1× None

Note: The Bird type isn't weak, resistant, or immune to any type, MissingNo.'s secondary typing effectively does not affect its type advantages.

By leveling up

Normal Form Level Move Type Start Water Gun Water Gun Sky Attack This movepool only applies to MissingNo. in its normal form. The movepools of the other three forms vary based on the last Pokémon the player used in battle before encountering the MissingNo.. By TM/HM Normal Form Level Move Type TM01 Mega Punch TM02 Razor Wind TM03 Swords Dance TM05 Mega Kick TM06 Toxic TM09 Take Down TM10 Double-Edge TM11 BubbleBeam TM13 Ice Beam TM14 Blizzard TM17 Submission TM19 Seismic Toss TM20 Rage TM25 Thunder TM26 Earthquake TM27 Fissure TM29 Psychic TM30 Teleport TM43 Sky Attack TM44 Rest TM45 Thunder Wave TM49 Tri Attack TM50 Substitute HM01 Cut HM02 Fly The TM/HM compatiblilites of the other three forms vary based on the last Pokémon species' data the game loaded. In this way, a skilled player can teach their ghost or skeleton form MissingNo.s any TM or HM in Red and Blue. Trading MissingNo. MissingNo. can be traded into the Pokémon Yellow version of the game, but cannot be traded into Pokémon Gold and Silver, the sequels to Red, Blue, and Yellow. In Pokémon Yellow, MissingNo. levels down to level 1 and stays there permanently. Rare Candies will not work because when this Missingno. enters battle, after it gains experience points, it will revert to level 1. When it is traded, MissingNo. appears as one of many different Pokémon from the Gold/Silver perspective, and when the player tries to trade MissingNo. a message appears that says "Your <name> appears abnormal" and the trade automatically cancels. However, there are rare cases of it successfully being traded and turning into to the Pokémon that it was said to be. If it does, and is attempted to be traded back a Generation I game while the players are still in the Time Capsule, it will turn back into a Missingno. Why MissingNo. appears MissingNo. is the Glitch Pokémon that appears after viewing the Old Man's tutorial in Viridian City on how to catch Pokémon, then immediately Flying to Cinnabar Island and Surfing along the right hand side of the island until one is encountered, without visiting any other areas. Whenever the game "sets up" the planned battle against the Old Man's Weedle, it needs to change the player's character name to "OLD MAN" so that it will display "OLD MAN" instead of the name the player has entered. The programmers decided to use the area of data where wild Pokémon information is as a temporary storage area for the player's name, due to the lack of memory on a Game Boy. Normally this wouldn't cause any abnormal activity, as the correct data for the wild Pokémon available is written to this area in memory whenever the player travels to an area where it is possible to catch wild Pokémon. Along Cinnabar Island's coast, however, there is no data indicating which wild Pokémon are catchable, and the same is true for both Viridian City and Cinnabar Island itself, at least by movement in long grass. The game uses whatever data was already in the corresponding area of data when determining which wild Pokémon encountered and their levels-- now the player's name. Normally this space in memory would hold the data of the last area visited where wild Pokémon were catchable in grass and their level data (this same glitch allows players to exit the Safari Zone and Fly immediately to Cinnabar Island to be able to catch and fight Safari Zone Pokémon in the same way as they would in other areas, as Fuchsia City also has no wild Pokémon data for long grass), however, since in both Viridian City and Cinnabar Island the data is empty for Pokémon obtainable in the grass, the active data is never overwritten, leading to Missingno.'s. availability, among other things. The name of the player has six hexadecimal values in it. The game needs only three "slots" of wild Pokémon data to store this. The wild Pokémon the player encounters along the coast are determined by the third, fifth, and seventh characters of the player's name, while the levels are determined by the second, fourth, and sixth characters, respectively. By knowing which letters and symbols match which species and levels, through use of certain calculators and charts [1], it is possible to set the player name at the start of the game so as to find specific Pokémon at specific levels. MissingNo. in Pokémon Yellow File:MissingnoYellow.jpg The appearance of the Missingno. found in the Yellow version using the Mew glitch is different from the Red/Blue Missingno. appearance When Pokémon Yellow was released, the original Missingno. and M glitches were disabled and removed from the game. However, some time after Yellow was released, a new code was discovered that allowed the capture of any Pokémon, including Mew and Missingno (see [2] for details). Doing method #3 of the Mew glitch using a Pokémon with a special stat of 31, 32, 61, 62, 63, 67, 68, 69, or 86 will cause Missingno. to appear. The Yellow version Missingno. is known to be more malicious than the Red/Blue Missingno., and frequently causes the game to freeze when it is found, though there is about a 1/32 chance that it won't freeze. It is recommended that the game not be saved after capturing it, because it can corrupt or delete the data. If it is caught, it will cause graphical glitches, such as rendering the player invisible, and causing lots of duplicates of the player to walk all over the screen. Video of an encounter Nintendo on MissingNo. Nintendo has an official description of Missingno. listed in their Customer Service troubleshooting section: "MissingNO is a programming quirk, and not a real part of the game. When you get this, your game can perform strangely, and the graphics will often become scrambled. The MissingNO Pokémon is most often found after you perform the Flight Safari Zone Pokémon trick [or Viridian Old Man trick]. To fix the scrambled graphics, try releasing the MissingNO Pokémon." Trivia MissingNo. has the highest Attack base stat of all Pokémon in Pokémon Red and Blue and the ninth highest out of all Pokémon. Likewise, it has the lowest Defense base stat of any Pokémon, and the third lowest Speed base stat, only losing to Shuckle and Munchlax whom each have a base Speed of 5 each. MissingNo. is the heaviest of all Pokémon, its weight surpassing even Groudon. Despite it being almost half of 'M's height, it is more than twice its weight. Before the truth about how MissingNo. exists was known, many fans speculated that it was a removed legendary Pokémon (Given its extremely low catch rate, one can see the reasoning behind this). In its normal form, it shares the exact same movepool as 'M, with two exceptions; It doesn't learn Pound, and can learn the TM for Substitute. If MissingNo.'s Pokédex data is somehow accessed, it will consist of a very long string of glitched sounds. Unlike .4 or h POKé's Pokédex data, however, it will not lock up the game. A rumor claims that the player must have five or less Pokémon with him or her if he or she actually tries to catch Missingno., otherwise, his or her game may malfunction when he or she tries to withdraw it from Bill's PC. (If, of course, a player has six Pokémon at the time Missingno. is caught, MissingNo. will be sent to Bill's PC, just like any other Pokémon.) This rumor will only hold true, however, if the Pokémon in question is level 0 (It is impossible to encounter a MissingNo. at level 0). Therefore, it is possible to extract MissingNo. from Bill's PC without game malfunction. As mentioned before, if the Elite Four is defeated and the Hall of Fame option appears in the PC, seeing MissingNo. will cause very distorted characters, glitched names and completely different Pokémon to show up instead of your Pokémon who have beaten the Elite Four. The Hall of Fame is the only extremely noticeable change after seeing MissingNo. Though MissingNo. cannot usually be traded into Generation II, it will appear to be a G/S/C Pokémon such as Remoraid or Stantler on the trade screen for Gold/Silver/Crystal, depending on its index number. Rumors are still plentiful that capturing MissingNo. can cause permanant damage to your game, possibly even erasing the save files, when in fact, the Hall of Fame glitching is the only permanent side effect, rendering MissingNo. (relatively) safe to capture and train. 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