Grxxxeer

Very interesting read. My hope is that, like contest stats, there’s nothing really stopping them from keeping it around because they’re not really actively conflicting with anything, and it would be quite odd that BDSP was coded to keep tabs on and even GENERATE these values only for them to wipe them clean for no reason once HOME arrives. But to completely honest, this series of games doing highly questionable and disappointing things for absolutely no reason and memory holing cool features is always at the forefront of my mind.

Hm. I suppose a better example would be catching a large Pikachu in LGPE and putting it into Sword and then into PLA? I’m assuming (again, assuming) that the Pikachus height would come back into play since as Atrius said, the height and weight data never get touched. Care to elaborate on your thoughts?

Interesting! So the assumption then is that if Scarlet/Violet/any future game have height scaling in the game, these LGPE Pokemon would be converted to that games format upon transfer and still retain the original height/weight they were generated with, thus giving those height values meaning again. This is comforting, because I thought the extra large Charizard I caught would forever remain changed once it got into SWSH. Thank you!

I’ve yet to see anyone attempt to answer this, but here goes: in Pokémon Let’s Go you are able to catch Large or Small Pokémon. When placed into HOME, these values are retained. Then, when transferred to Sword or Shield, the height is reverted to the average height of the species. When placed BACK in HOME, the new average value is what’s maintained, and the Pokémon no longer has the original LGPE height value. My hypothesis is that the values are reset back to zero in SWSH, but I have no verifiable way to test this hypothesis. Would anyone with the proper tools to research this be willing to help me? The chain would go something like this: >Catch a LGPE large/small Pokemon >Transfer to HOME >Transfer to SWSH >Record its size value in PKHEX >Transfer back to HOME >Transfer back to SWSH and record again in pkhex taking note on the height/weight values.