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MissingNo. (Kabutops Fossil)

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MissingNo. was the first Glitch Pokémon discovered, and is still the best known Glitch to this day. This is owed mainly to the fact that it and 'M were the only Glitch Pokémon that could be found with the Old Man Glitch, which was discovered long before the Ditto Trick and other glitches.

There is much rumor and uncertainty surrounding MissingNo., which is common to any glitch of this sort. Many say that it will ruin your game cartridge, which may have something to do with the fact that it can scramble your game's graphics and Hall of Fame data. However, the Hall of Fame data glitch is easily overlooked, and the scrambled graphics can be fixed by viewing the stats of a non-glitched Pokémon, although they will return when MissingNo's stats are viewed. Though many claim that capturing a MissingNo. and saving will delete your save file, this has not been confirmed by the Glitch City Laboratories staff. Many glitch researchers have captured a MissingNo. with no permanent harm to their game beyond a glitched Hall of Fame.

The benefits of MissingNo. are the real reason that people are interested in it, though. First, encountering one will give you 128 of the sixth item on your item list. This can be exploited to give you infinite amounts of any item in the game, without even needing to capture the MissingNo. Because the displayed item quantity can only go up to 99, the first digit of the quantity of the multiplied item will become a map tile, letter, or glitched symbol.

Qualities of the duplicant MissingNo.
Duplicant MissingNos., unlike their regular, "blocky" counterparts, do not have a fixed movepool and Stats. Instead, the Duplicant MissingNo's stats and movepool (hereafter referred to as "attributes") are variable, and can be modified after its capture. This is a short guide that explains how the Duplicant MissingNo attains its attributes upon capture and how they are modified.

1. In the Wild:
   • When met in battle, they may copy the starting moves of the Pokémon who attacked last in a previous battle. For example, if your Bulbasaur beat your opponent's Squirtle, then the next Duplicant MissingNO. you encounter will be Grass/Poison Type and have Bulbasaur's starting moves, but if your Bulbasaur was beaten by a Charmander, then the Duplicant MissingNO. you encounter will be Fire-type and have Charmander's starting moves.
   • They may also copy the starting moves and type of the last Pokémon you saw in the Hall of Fame or PokéDex. For example, if you look at Golbat's PokéDex entry then battle a Duplicant MissingNO., then the MissingNO. will have Golbat's starting moves and will be Flying/Poison type.
   • Please note that if you do encounter a Duplicant MissingNO. and hope to catch it after you have tweaked it, using another Duplicant MissingNO. would be your best option. Using any other Pokémon, including "Blocky" MissingNOs, will change the type/moves to its own attributes.
   • That said, if you encounter a Duplicant MissingNO. you can put a powerful Pokémon like Mew in front so when you catch it, it will have Mew's attributes.
2. When in the party you can change your Duplicant MissingNO's attributes.
   • Whenever a Pokémon is positioned last in your party, all the Duplicant MissingNO's will copy that Pokémon's type and attributes, but NOT its moves.
   • This also applies to Pokémon viewed in the Hall of Fame, PokéDex, and the scrolling Pokémon marquee at the game intro. A very nifty thing about this property is that it effectively allows Duplicant MissingNo. to learn all TM/HM moves. For example, if you want to teach your Duplicant MissingNo, for example, Explosion, simply look up Voltorb's or Koffing's PokeDex entry, then the TM for Explosion immediately works on the Duplicant MissingNo.