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You can climb walls in Pokémon Scarlet and Violet by… going backwards?

All you gotta do is turn around.

The challenge to break Pokémon Scarlet and Violet knows no bounds. The newest mainline games in the Pokémon franchise are a blend of bugs and a lack of polish, like an exploit that allows you to move faster after plugging in two controllers. Now, there’s a bug that allows you to scale walls too. The exciting opportunity to reach unintended locations is here. It might take a little practice, but you can climb walls with your ride Pokémon by simply turning around and jumping backward.

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As demonstrated by the Twitter user @ZuilleTheWitch, the player uses their ride Pokémon to scale a large cliff you normally cannot climb. While they struggle to scale the rock formation by jumping on it, that all changes when they turn around and jump back onto the slope. This likely will not work on all surfaces, as the wall they climbed looked a bit flatter than usual (they were able to make some ground jumping forward), there is still an exciting out-of-bounds possibility with this new trick.

Related: The Pokémon community expresses disappointment in the lack of hairstyle inclusivity in Scarlet and Violet

Unmentioned in this post is whether or not this trick will work with Pokémon Violet owners, who have a different ride Pokémon. I would wager it probably does work, but as the two Pokémon are different, you never know. Regardless, people are starting to exploit the already broken Pokémon Scarlet and Violet, and hopefully running as fast as Sonic and becoming a world-class rock climber is just the beginning.

The massive amount of bugs in Pokémon Scarlet and Violet, whether beneficial to the players or not, have caused an uproar in the community. An additional bounty of performance issues, and you have a pair of games that fans have noted are the worst-received in the franchise. There’s still plenty of fun to be had in Pokémon Scarlet and Violet, but Game Freak may want to bring out the repair tools.


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Joshua Chu is a Contributing Writer at Gamepur and is known for fantastic guides on Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. They cover a variety of interesting tips and tricks to succeed in the games, and how best to tackle each world. Joshua also has writing at Kotaku and PCInvation.