Pokémon Ranger/Unused Pokémon Data

This is a sub-page of Pokémon Ranger.

Unused Variations

A handful of Pokémon use different variations depending on the circumstances. For example, the Charizard battled in Jungle Relic behaves differently from the Charizard on Sekra Range. Some Pokémon have unused variations that are not used anywhere in the game, however.

Psyduck ($21)

Psyduck appears in the Marine Challenge for which a different variant is used. Unlike the used variant, this Psyduck does not mock the player and never escapes from battles. Furthermore, it requires only 6 loops instead of 32. Due to the way it moves around it is very likely that this variant may have appeared on land. Curiously, this entry for Psyduck is used as the base for its Pokédex entry.

Raikou ($8A)

Raikou is encountered only at Fiore Temple, however, the existence of this variant implies that Raikou was originally meant to be encountered at least one more time. It does not appear to attack during the battle.

Plusle ($C0) & Minun ($C2)

Plusle and Minun are the player's companions in this game. They are battled only at the beginning of the game where they will panically run around the battle screen. However, the unused variations of Plusle and Minun actually attack using electric shocks and they can be released from the party. It appears that these were intended for wild encounters outside the story events.

Unused Battle Behavior

Jigglypuff

Jigglypuff's battle behavior is configured in a way that prevents it from attacking making it passively bounce around during battles. However, it has data for attacking using Sing, leaving its frames for attacking unseen. The attack would deal 3 damage.

Lapras

The player befriends the Lapras at Fall City Harbor and never captures one at any point in the game. Despite this, it has unique frames for swimming and attacking as well as unused battle behavior. Lapras attacks with Ice Beam. Only one frame of Lapras is used in the final game; the sprites of the player riding Lapras is a different set of sprites.

Unused Frames

A few Pokémon have unused frames that are not directly related to unused battle behavior as described in the previous section.

Psyduck

Psyduck floats on water and is never seen on land. A few frames show it standing on land, however. The frames showing the front are used for the Pokédex whereas the ones showing its back are not used.

Unused Assist and Field Moves

While every Pokémon (except Lapras) can be caught in the game, a lot of Pokémon will never assist the player. This is because those are either found in Capture Challenges or are battled in story events. Pokémon that have field moves may have been obtainable outside Capture Challenges in earlier versions of the game.

Pokémon	Assist move	Field move
Charizard	Fire for 60s	Burn 3
Spearow	Flying for 10s	Gust 1
Fearow	Flying for 60s
Psyduck	Water for 10s
Abra	Psychic
Rapidash	Fire for 30s	Burn 3
Slowpoke	Water for 5s	Soak 1
Doduo	Flying for 10s
Dodrio	Flying for 20s
Grimer	Poison for 10s
Muk	Poison for 30s
Horsea	Water for 10s
Seadra	Water for 30s
Goldeen	Water for 10s
Seaking	Water for 30s
Starmie	Psychic
Tauros	None
Gyarados	Water for 60s
Lapras	Water for 60s
Dragonite	Flying for 30s
Mew	Psychic
Steelix	Ground for 0s
Remoraid	Water for 10s
Octillery	Water for 10s
Mantine	Water for 30s
Skarmory	Flying for 30s
Kingdra	Water for 30s	Soak 3
Raikou	Recharge all HP	Recharge 3
Entei	Fire for 90s	Burn 3
Suicune	Water for 90s	Soak 3
Celebi	Grass for 90s
Pelipper	Water for 30s
Carvanha	Water for 10s
Sharpedo	Dark
Wailmer	Water for 10s
Spoink	Psychic
Flygon	Ground for 60s	Gust 3
Luvdisc	Water for 10s
Salamence	Flying for 60s	Crush 3
Kyogre	Water for 90s
Groudon	Ground for 90s
Rayquaza	Flying for 90s
Deoxys	Psychic

Unused Capture Challenge Rewards

Pokémon that are not available during Capture Challenges usually reward zero points when captured. However, the developers included unique rewards for a handful of Pokémon that do not appear in any of the two trials in the game.

Pokémon	Points
Pikachu	150
Gloom	650
Vileplume	1200
Bellsprout	250
Victreebel	550
Scyther	700
Scizor	1600

Oddities

Unused Psychic Times

Most assist moves in the game can only be used for a specific amount of time. Psychic always lasts for 5 seconds as the game ignores the Pokémon's assist time setting. However, every Psychic-type Pokémon has proper time settings defined which are never loaded by the game. Abra, Drowzee, Mr. Mime, Ralts, Spoink, Solrock and Beldum have that parameter set to 10, Hypno, Jynx, Wobbuffet, Kirlia and Metang have it set to 20, Starmie and Espeon have it set to 30, Mew, Gardevoir and Metagross have it set to 60 and Deoxys has it set to 90.

Removed Field Moves

Every Pokémon that does not have a field move usually has its field move and level set to None 0. However, Jigglypuff curiously has the level set to 1 and Plusle and Minun both have their levels set to 3.