Poké Radar

The Poké Radar is an item introduced in update 4.8. It originally appeared in Pokémon Diamond and Pearl. It is the only way to obtain several rare Pokémon in the game.

How to obtain

The Poké Radar is obtained from Professor Oak's assistant in Cerulean City's Pokémon Center. After obtaining the Exp. Share from her by using the DNA Splicers 5 times, she will ask you to help her with some field research on Route 24. Go help her and she will hand you the Poké Radar.

How it works

The Poké Radar works mostly similar to the official games with the one difference that you need to have encountered every Pokémon in a route to have access to the Poké Radar exclusive encounters. It will apply a Repel and up to 3 patches of grass will rustle, these are where the tracked Pokémon can be found. You need to walk on top of one of those patches to encounter the Pokémon. Each tile has a 25% chance to rustle for a longer duration; and the exclusive encounters can only be found on those tiles that rustle more, where they have a 50% chance to be encountered.

• Repel effect only works if you're higher level than the wild Pokémon in the area
• If you are getting encounters while walking towards that shaking patch of grass, the lead Pokémon in your party is too low. You need to be about 10 levels higher of the area you are in.
• If you are getting to the shaky grass spot, but no encounter occurs, the lead Pokémon level is too high.

Keep in Mind: Some other variables might affect the encounter as well. Weather, using flutes, and some abilities (ILLUMINATE, ARENATRAP, NOGUARD, INTIMIDATE, KEENEYE), might affect the results you are getting.

The Poké Radar also shows a list of the Pokémon that are currently available in the area. The list is also displayed when the Poké Radar is used while surfing or in a cave with no additional effects.

How to Chain

Chaining has some slight differences compared to other titles, but the same general rules apply: Be in as large of a grass patch as you can, always go the the furthest possible spot you can (radially). You increase the chain by Fainting or Catching the same Pokémon in a row. This needs to be done without breaking the chain, which is a random chance measured by your current chain and how far away the grass patch was from you. Its between 86% (at adjacent tile) and 98% (at 4 tiles radially away) to continue the chain. After you reach chain 40 you cannot break your chain naturally. You can still break it by: Random encounter by not using repel, leaving the grass or not having enough space in the grass to summon a random encounter.

Due to the way Patches generation and Rings work, it is optimal to only ever go into patches in the centre of a 3x3 square. This is due to 4 tiles in a 9x9 square centred on the player are chosen, all at a different distance from the player, 1 in each radial ring. This means that if you go to the edge of a grass patch you have roughly a 50/50 chance to break your chain. So it can be optimal, albeit slow, to make sure you reuse the radar over and over until a specific patch shakes. This is more necessary for patches with small size or awkward shape.

After a chain of 20 your shiny odds cap out at 1/200 (Shiny charm no effect), meaning you can stand still and continue to reactivate the Radar until you see a shiny patch. Any shiny caught this way will have a black star.

List of exclusive Pokémon

This is based on version 6.4.5. Some of the encounters might vary if you're playing a different version.

	Pokémon	Type		Level	Catch Rate	Location
	Fletchling	Normal	Flying	2-5	255	Route 1
	Fletchling	Normal	Flying	2-5	255	Route 2
	Budew	Grass	Poison	4-9	255	Route 3
	Nincada	Bug	Ground	8-10	255	Route 4
	Togepi	Fairy		10	190	Route 5
	Slakoth	Normal		12-15	255	Route 6
	Drifloon	Ghost	Flying	17-20	125	Route 7
	Shinx	Electric		17-18	235	Route 8
	Aron	Steel	Rock	12-15	180	Route 9
	Klink	Steel		14-17	130	Route 10
	Nincada	Bug	Ground	12-15	255	Route 11
	Cottonee	Grass	Fairy	22-25	190	Route 12
	Joltik	Bug	Electric	22-25	190	Route 14
	Solosis	Psychic		22-25	200	Route 15
	Natu	Psychic	Flying	22-25	190	Route 16
	Klefki	Steel	Fairy	22-25	60	Route 17
	Ferroseed	Grass	Steel	22-25	255	Route 18
	Cottonee	Grass	Fairy	22-25	190	Route 13
	Joltik	Bug	Electric	22-25	190	Route 13
	Bidoof	Normal		2-5	255	Route 22
	Buneary	Normal		12-13	190	Route 24
	Riolu	Fighting		25	75	Route 23
	Absol	Dark		30-35	30	Route 26
	Absol	Dark		30-35	30	Route 27
	Dunsparce	Normal		25-30	190	Route 21
	Roselia	Grass	Poison	30	150	Celadon City
	Bagon	Dragon		20	45	Area 1
	Axew	Dragon		20	75	Area 2
	Deino	Dark	Dragon	20	45	Area 3
	Larvitar	Rock	Ground	20	45	Area 4
	Jangmo-o	Dragon		20	45	Area 5
	Shroomish	Grass		2-5	255	Viridian Forest
	Breloom	Grass	Fighting	30	90	Ilex Forest
	Sudowoodo	Rock		25-30	65	Route 36
	Kirlia	Psychic	Fairy	25-30	120	Route 34
	Luxio	Electric		40-45	120	Route 33
	Bellossom	Grass		45-50	45	Route 31
	Bibarel	Normal	Water	45-50	127	Route 30
	Bidoof	Normal		5	255	Route 29
	Vigoroth	Normal		40-45	120	Route 32
	Golett	Ground	Ghost	40-45	190	Ruins of Alph
	Weavile	Dark	Ice	50	45	Ice Mountains
	Smeargle	Normal		25-30	45	Route 35
	Scraggy	Dark	Fighting	32-45	180	Kindle Road
	Pyukumuku	Water		20	60	Treasure Beach
	Octillery	Water		32-45	75	Underwater
	Ninjask	Bug	Flying	45-50	120	Boon Island
	Whimsicott	Grass	Fairy	32-45	75	Kin Island
	Kecleon	Normal		45-50	200	Chrono Island
	Fletchinder	Fire	Flying	32-45	120	Mt. Ember
* Catch Rate influences how difficult a Pokémon is to catch. Higher numbers are easier.