Boss Pokémon

Yellow, red, and blue boss Nidoran♂ next to a normal one

Boss Pokémon (more commonly known as bosses) are rare types of Pokémon, usually tougher and larger than normal Pokémon. They are also tinted in one of four different colors: green, blue, red, and yellow. This alternate coloration is not to be confused with Shiny Pokémon. The text that shows above them lacks a level and is also colored. This text can be seen from farther away than that of normal Pokémon. They cannot be captured.

Bosses scale to 5/10/20/40 levels above the highest level Pokémon in a player's party, depending on colour (green/blue/red/yellow). For example, a boss Pokémon fought with level 80 Pokémon will be level 90, while the same boss Pokémon fought with level 85 Pokémon will be level 95. The rarity of boss Pokémon scales according to their difficulty, with harder boss Pokémon being rarer.

The moveset of a wild boss Pokémon may change with each battle; however, growth, nature, and IVs will not.

Boss Pokémon can be spawned with the command /pokespawn <Pokémon> boss<#> (e.g. /pokespawn lapras boss4 for a yellow boss Lapras).

Drops

Boss Pokémon are usually sought after because of their rare drops. They are one of two sources of held items, TMs, Master Balls, and Medicine. The only other method of obtaining these items is looting them from PokéLoot Chests. If the player's inventory is full when receiving drops from a Boss Pokémon, the excess items will be dropped on the ground. To gain drops from a Boss Pokémon, the player's Pokémon must defeat it. If the boss is knocked out by other methods, including recoil moves such as Double-Edge, sacrificial moves such as Explosion, or environmental sources such as lava, no loot will be dropped.

The following are all of the possible drops from Boss Pokémon:

Boss Pokémon drop a certain number of items chosen from list above according to their difficulty:

Green: 1-3
Blue: 2-4
Red: 3-5
Yellow: 5-7

Trivia

It is possible for a Pokémon to be both a boss Pokémon and a shiny Pokémon. This is typically only feasible through the /pokespawn command; it is extremely rare for this to happen naturally. However, this distinction is inconsequential as boss Pokémon cannot be captured.

Gallery

A green Boss Rattata.png

A green Boss Rattata
A green Boss Geodude and a green Boss Magmar.png

A green Boss Geodude and Magmar, along with their normal counterparts
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A green Boss Rhydon and a normal Rhydon
Green Boss Aron.png

A green Boss Aron
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Green Boss Rayquaza and normal Rayquaza
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Blue boss Doduo
A blue Boss Kangaskhan.png

A blue Boss Kangaskhan
A red Boss Numel.png

A red Boss Numel
A red Boss Slowpoke.png

A red Boss Slowpoke
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Red boss Umbreon
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Yellow boss Miltank