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Boss Pokémon

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

Boss Pokémon (also known as bosses) are rare types of Pokémon. They are typically stronger and larger than normal Pokémon and can drop several unique items upon defeat. Boss Pokémon can be identified easily as they are tinted one of four different colors (green, blue, red, and yellow), although this alternate coloration is not to be confused with Shiny Pokémon. The text that shows above them is appropriately colored, lacks a level, and can be seen from farther away than that of normal Pokémon. A naturally spawning Pokémon has a 1/250 chance of being a boss Pokémon.

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 blue 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, Natures, Abilities, and IVs will not. Boss Pokémon cannot be captured and players cannot flee from battle once engaged with them.

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 many held items, TMs, Master Balls, and medicine. The only other method of obtaining most of these items is looting them from PokéLoot chests, while certain items are exclusive to boss Pokémon. 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 through direct damage. If the boss is knocked out by other methods, including self-inflicted damage like Double-Edge or Explosion, statuses such as burn or poison, weather such as Sandstorm, 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:

Difficulty Drop quantity
Green 1-3
Blue 2-4
Red 3-5
Yellow 5-7

Config settings

Several config options can enable or disable certain items from being dropped by boss Pokémon.

The boss Pokémon spawn rate and the other items dropped by boss Pokémon both cannot be modified.

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 (1/2,048,000 chance with the default Shiny rate). However, this distinction is inconsequential as boss Pokémon cannot be captured.

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