


Pokémon Black and White - In the Lacunosa Town Pokémon Center, players can receive a Gracidea from a woman.Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver - In the Goldenrod City Flower Shop, players can again receive a Gracidea from a woman.Pokémon Platinum - In the Floaroma Town Pokémon Center, players can receive a Gracidea from a woman.List of in-game events activated by fateful encounter Pokémon 1 List of in-game events activated by fateful encounter Pokémon.In Generations IV and V, the presence of this flag, from Pokémon Platinum onward, allows for special events to happen if a certain Pokémon with the "fateful encounter" flag is in the party. In Pokémon Platinum, the Shaymin caught in the Flower Paradise will be met in a fateful encounter while only obtainable using glitches or cheating, the Shaymin caught in Flower Paradise in Pokémon Diamond and Pearl will not be met in a fateful encounter, so they cannot be used to obtain the Gracidea, nor can be transferred up to future games. Moreover, any Pokémon obtained in Pokémon XD will have this special flag set. In Generation III, this flag is set for any Mew and Deoxys received from events, as well as the Deoxys caught on Birth Island and the Mew caught on Faraway Island without it, it is impossible for these Pokémon to obey the player in Generation III, even if they have obtained all Badges. Games released prior to Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen did not have this flag programmed into the game, so encounters and events from prior games that display "obtained in a fateful encounter" in the summary, counterintuitively, are not properly flagged as "fateful encounters" and therefore do not share the same properties as Pokémon with the flag.The flag for a Pokémon to be considered a "fateful encounter" is a separate value from the met location with the text string "obtained in a fateful encounter" or "fateful encounter", some Pokémon may have the flag itself, but will display a different met location in their summary. However, "fateful encounter" does not always appear in the text of Pokémon with this flag set in Generations III and IV.

In Generation III, "fateful encounter" was listed as the encounter location in Generation IV and on, "fateful encounter" is in the text describing the method of encounter. This Meowth was met in a fateful encounter in Sword and Shield.Ī fateful encounter (Japanese: 運命的な 出会い fateful encounter) is a flag attached to certain event Pokémon and some wild Mythical Pokémon that indicates they were met in a special manner. Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl.
