Pokémon Scarlet and Violet Duplication Glitch Creates Endless Items

Pokémon is no stranger to item duplication glitches, and players have already discovered some big ones in Scarlet and Violet. While an earlier version of the exploit required precise button press timing and a lot of hassle, a new and improved version lets players endlessly multiply their rarest items super fast.

The newest form of Pokémon Scarlet and Violet’s duplication glitch was seemingly first shared by German YouTuber DrWater yesterday. British Pokémon Youtuber BLAINES has since gone through and explained how the trick works in detail. Like a previous version of the exploit, it revolves around giving a held item to your Koraidon or Miraidonn legendaries and then swapping them with a freshly caught Pokémon from the wild. When done right, the Pokémon and its held item—whether a Tera Shard, Ability Patch, or other rare curio—will be duplicated.

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New SUPER FAST Item Duplication in Pokemon Scarlet Violet

But instead of having to continually swap out the legendaries with new wild Pokémon, a faster version of the glitch lets you simply keep moving around Koraidon or Miraidonn in your boxes to endlessly multiply the item they’re holding. Here’s exactly how it works:

In addition to being much quicker, this version of the glitch also cuts down on the need to deal with cloned Pokémon, constantly catch new ones, or try to repeatedly nail the timing on the A and B button presses. And once you get it working, you can start maxing out an item in mere minutes, at least until Game Freak patches it out.

The trick is also a major deal for Scarlet and Violet’s Tera Raid economy. It takes 50 Tera Shards to change the Tera Form of your Pokémon, but Raid battles only give out a few, even at higher difficulties. Once you’ve got a few of the type you want, the duplication glitch will effectively let you bypass that entire grind, which has its own share of problems between lackluster NPC allies and occasional disconnects in online multiplayer.

How long this particular duplication glitch hangs around remains to be seen. But Game Freak has plenty of performance-related bugs and nightmare fuel glitches to tackle in the meantime.

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