Pokemon Scarlet and Violet Pokemon Not Listening Explained
Pokemon Obedience is a thing that every Pokemon Trainer in Pokemon Scarlet and Violet has to pay close attention to. if you don’t, your Pokemon may end up not obeying your orders. Needless to say, this isn’t something that you’d want to happen. This can apply to both traded Pokemon not listening, as well as the ones you caught in the game yourselves. To make sure that this doesn’t happen to you, our Pokemon Scarlet and Violet Pokemon Not Listening Explained guide is going to go over everything that you need to know about how to get your Pokemon to listen to you.
Pokemon Scarlet & Violet Pokemon Not Listening Explained
This depends on a couple of things. First, on the level the Pokemon were at when you caught them. And secondly, on how many Gym Badges you have won in the game. Let’s explain both of these and how they function. Pokemon in Scarlet & Violet come in a variety of levels. So if you catch one that is higher than the level that you can currently handle, this Pokemon will refuse to listen to you. This is tied to the number of Gym Badges that you have. It goes as follows: 1 Gym Badge (Pokemon Level 25), 2 Gym Badges (Pokemon Level 30), 3 Gym Badges (Pokemon Level 35), 4 Gym Badges (Pokemon Level 40), 5 Gym Badges (Pokemon Level 45), 6 Gym Badges (Pokemon Level 50), 7 Gym Badges (Pokemon Level 55), 8 Gym Badges (regardless of Pokemon level).
So, as you can see, the more Gym Badges you have, the higher the level of the Pokemon that you catch and can get to listen to your commands. In case you are unsure of how many badges you have and which level Pokemon are going to obey you, you can check this on your Trainer Profile. On the other hand, if you caught a Pokemon at a low level and then leveled it up, it will always listen to you – regardless of how many badges you have. This means that if you caught a Pokemon at a low level – 7, for example, and then level it up during the course of the game to Level 55, it will listen to even if you haven’t won any Gym Badges yet.
I understand Pokémon not obeying when trading and having insufficient badges, been this way in every Pokémon game. But this with Pokémon you CATCH, not obeying, needs to go.
I caught a levelig 51 drarini and got this problem sooooo thanks for explaining i really appreciate it but how do I beat steel titan
I traded my high level Skeledrige and when I got it back, it no longer obeys me. I have two badges but it’s level 49, traded it at this level and now it is such.
I traded to my violet version and leveled all my Pokémon including the starter and traded back to my scarlet and no one will listen. I didn’t know this was a thing and I wanted to power through to get the Pokémon needed for my main game dex in Violet.
ARGH! Last games I could do this tactic with my alt game. I think I ruined this run!
I am having the exact same issue.
All my Pokemon listen to me, but I am trying to do a team star mission, and it says I have no Pokemon that will listen to me.
What if i first catch something that is level 27. while I only have 1 badge. So it will not listen. Next i Level it up to 32. Then next I get a second badge. Will it now forever listen because it was level 27 when it was originally caught? Or no
Theres something else going on with this game then or Armarouge is just glitched then, I got him at lv 20 from a tera raid and now I have 8 badges and he still wont listen, consistently will not obey.. i have even gotten Ceruledge lv 100 thru trade and she listens 100% but Armarouge is lv 45 and will not obey still..
Apparently they made it so that the game counts non-outsider pokémon as outsider pokémon, so if your Armarouge didn’t listen to you before evolving him, and you evolved it without getting the badges first, it will ignore you forever.
If this was not your case, then it might be a glitch or a bug
It has to be a Bug, or he doesn’t have all 8 badges. The game is designed that with all 8 all pokemon will obey. Too bad they don’t have an adequate bug reporting system with this game.
If you have sources saying otherwise, I’d love to see how that’s supposed to work. That’s worse than the old “I evolved my Clefairy too early and it won’t learn any of the moves it was supposed to…” issues they fixed with the move reminder feature.
“Here, have a pokemon that will never obey you because you evolved it too early. It doesn’t matter that with all 8 gym badges ALL pokemon are supposed to obey. Because #$%& the consumer!!!”