Pokémon Scarlet and Violet’s first DLC, The Teal Mask, is finally here, welcoming back a ton of returning Pokémon. But while players set out on their missions across Kitakami Island to catch ‘em all, they’ll run into a bit of a roadblock: version exclusives.
That’s right: Version exclusives are back. Depending on which version of the game you own, some Pokémon won’t appear in the wild. This longstanding feature of the Pokémon games requires players to trade with other trainers who own the opposite version of the game before they can complete the Pokédex.
Every version exclusive Pokémon in Scarlet and Violet The Teal Mask
There are a total of six Pokémon exclusives to obtain in The Teal Mask DLC: two evolutionary lines from the Johto region and two single-stage evolutions from Galar. Each of the versions get one of each.
For Scarlet owners, that’s the Ground and Flying-type Gligar. Fans with Violet, however, get the Normal-type Aipom. As far as the two Galar natives go, Scarlet players can find Cramorant, while Violet players will be able to catch Morpeko.
Pokémon exclusive to Scarlet in The Teal Mask
- Gligar
- Gliscor
- Cramorant
Pokémon exclusive to Violet in The Teal Mask
- Aipom
- Ambipom
- Morpeko
How to get version exclusive Pokémon in Scarlet and Violet The Teal Mask
Pokémon Scarlet and Violet have a nice mechanic built in that will easily let you look for version exclusive Pokémon, even if they can’t trade with other players.
If you go into the Poké Portal and click on the Tera Raid menu, you can refresh the raid board and occasionally find Tera Raids featuring Pokémon from the opposite version. You can freely join those raids since they are just hosted by a player with the copy you don’t have and, if you complete the raid, you can catch it and avoid needing to trade at all.
Another easy option is to catch multiple of whatever version-exclusive Pokémon is featured in your copy of the game and load up the Link Trade menu.
The Scarlet and Violet community is very active in maintaining “Trade Codes” that are almost entirely used for trading version exclusive Pokémon with someone who needs them. There is a chance you could be tricked and accidentally trade away your Pokémon for something you don’t need, but most of the time these codes work and you can freely swap exclusives with other players.
