Unfortunately, even though Pokemon Scarlet and Violet have been available for a while now, the new generation of Pokemon games is still dealing with bug issues. That said, Nintendo and The Pokemon Company have been gradually releasing updates to fix as many of them as they can.
For example, a brand new update was released tonight. This update puts Pokemon Scarlet and Violet at version 1.3.0. It isn’t surprising, but the update’s main focus is to fix some more bugs. You can see the official patch notes for yourself down below.
Thank you for playing the Pokémon series.
On Wednesday, April 19, we released the version 1.3.0 update for the Nintendo Switch exclusive software titles Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet.
Support for Trainers Who Caught an Egg Instead of Walking Wake or Iron Leaves in Tera Raid Battles
Trainers who caught an Egg instead of Walking Wake or Iron Leaves in a Tera Raid Battle before updating to version 1.2.0 of Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet were affected by a bug that prevented them from catching either of these Pokémon.
This bug has been fixed, and Trainers who caught such Eggs instead of Walking Wake and Iron Leaves will now be able to catch these Pokémon.
In addition, the Tera Raid Battle events for these two Pokémon will return around the same time as this game update. Visit this page for details on the Tera Raid Battle events.
Feature Adjustments
A change has been made to the deadline for entries for Friendly Competitions, which are found in the Online Competitions section of the Battle Stadium.
- Before this change: Entries were allowed until the Friendly Competition began.
- After this change: Entries will be allowed until the Friendly Competition ends.
Bug Fixes
Link Battles
- Fixed a bug in Link Battles where selecting Swap in just before the selection timer reached zero could fail to switch in the selected Pokémon and subsequently cause switching — and the battle itself — to act abnormally.
- Fixed a bug in Link Battles where once the remaining time for the battle was under one minute, it would no longer be displayed where it was supposed to.
- Fixed a bug that occurred in Link Battles where, depending on the move being used at the time a Pokémon fainted, the amount of time a Trainer received to select their next Pokémon was reduced.
Battles
- Fixed a bug where the Cud Chew Ability would trigger again once every two turns after it triggered the first time, contrary to what is written in the Ability description.
- Fixed a bug that occurred when Zoroark Terastallized while using its Illusion Ability to disguise itself as another Pokémon. On the Check Status screen, the Terastallized Zoroark’s type would display as the original type of the Pokémon it had disguised itself as, rather than Zoroark’s Tera Type.
- Fixed a bug that occurred when Zoroark used its Illusion Ability to disguise itself as another Pokémon that had already Terastallized. This bug caused Zoroark’s type on the Check Status screen to incorrectly display as the Tera Type of the Pokémon Zoroark had disguised itself as.
- Fixed a bug in Double Battles with moves that cause stat changes for the Pokémon using the moves. This bug caused the stat changes to incorrectly happen twice if the user hit two opposing Pokémon with the move while an opposing Pokémon was behind a Substitute.
Pokémon GO Connectivity
- Fixed the main issue causing the game to crash on the screen used to pair with a Pokémon GO account.
Other
- Fixed a bug affecting Trainers who received Hisuian Zoroark from the Mystery Gift screen as a special early-purchase bonus for The Hidden Treasure of Area Zero for Pokémon Scarlet or Pokémon Violet without first having seen Zoroark in their game. This bug caused Zoroark to be incorrectly displayed as registered in these Trainers’ Pokédexes.
- Other select bug fixes have been implemented.
You know, It would be much nicer if they polish this game much more so we wouldn’t have any type of issues in the game countlessly. Rushing projects is just not gonna cut it for GameFreak.
I have a bug that showed up recently the beginner spider Pokemon follows My character only in Pokemon Violet.
Dose anyone else have that issue?
Yes I do.
But does it address the issue that was deleting entire save files? I’m not picking Violet up again until I know that’s gone.
Mine gb, gbc, advance and ds pokemon cartridges run smooth without bugs :) aah good old times without managers ruining games companies :(
I’d hate to loose my entire save for Pokemon Violet after getting all evolutions of Eevee and Ceruledge. Especially if i lost my Umbrion and Ceruledge.
This is great and all, but
This doesn’t really affect anyone but competitive players
There are worse bugs in the game still prevalent like being able to sneak out of bounds, players losing their save data, and outbreaks still not working with specific forms of Pokémon.
We still don’t have Pokémon Home functionality with this game when it was promised in “Early 2023”. It feels pretty past early 2023 to me.
what about the bug that makes the game run like crap? lol I wish they’d fix that.
the companies are trying there best it is still new technology and they are trying to release games when they say they will not to mention coronavirus making everyone have to work at home and causing some of them not to work at all for a while however I do think they should create games with as few bugs as possible if not none when they release it like they did with all the gameboys and the nintendo ds’s
NEW TECH????? THE SWITCH IS 6 YEARS OLD AND GAMEFREAK HAS BEEN OPEN SINCE 1989!
I have a bug that showed up recently the beginner spider Pokemon follows My character only in Pokemon Violet.
Dose anyone else have that issue?
Until the game doesn’t give me motion sickness at 20fps, I won’t be playing further into my 5 hour profile. And at this point, from someone who’s played every single Pokémon game since Red, I won’t be playing any more Pokémon games.
Scarlet and Violet are atrocious games due to their unplayable performance.