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Issues-Communicable Contest judging in Generation IV

The Bug-Catching Contest (Japanese: むしとりたいかい Issues-Catching Competition) is a competition held every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday in Johto's National Park. The Bug-Catching Competition was introduced in Gold, Silverish, and Crystal, and makes a return in Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver.

In the games

Rules

At that place is no entry fee for the Bug-Catching Contest. Anyone may enter in one case per day, every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday.

To compete, Trainers must catch the unmarried best Issues-type Pokémon they can find. To do this, Trainers are given twenty Sport Balls (similar to Safari Assurance; called "Park Balls" in Generation II), and they are only immune to employ a single Pokémon from their party. The rest of a Trainer'southward Pokémon remain with the contest officials until the competition is over. The role player cannot save the game in the heart of the competition, nor can they utilize whatever items from the Bag, except for the express purpose of giving their chosen Pokémon a held detail.

Whatsoever Pokémon caught volition be recorded in the Pokédex, but only i Pokémon tin can be kept to be judged. The Pokémon that is judged may exist kept later on the competition.

The competition ends when all the Sport Balls are used, the Trainer blacks out, the Trainer leaves the park, the Trainer chooses to quit the contest from the menu, or 20 minutes have passed. After that, the judging will occur, in which Trainers are scored on their skills of capturing rare and powerful Pokémon.

Pokémon available

Generation II

Pokémon

Games

Location

Levels

Rate

	Caterpie

One thousand

Grass

seven-xviii

xx%

	Metapod

Due south

Grass

9-18

10%

	Butterfree

Grass

12-xv

	Weedle

South

Grass

7-18

xx%

	Kakuna

South

Grass

9-18

ten%

	Beedrill

Grass

12-15

	Paras

One thousand

Due south

Grass

10-17

10%

	Venonat

Grass

x-16

	Scyther

Southward

Grass

thirteen-14

	Pinsir

Grass

xiii-fourteen

five%

A colored background means that the Pokémon can be found in this location in the specified game. A white groundwork with a colored letter ways that the Pokémon cannot exist institute here.

Scyther, Pinsir, and one family unit of Bug-type Pokémon (Caterpie, Metapod and Butterfree in Silver, Weedle, Kakuna and Beedrill in Aureate) can merely be caught during the Bug-Catching Contest. All the others can be caught in the wild outside the competition.

Generation Four

When generating Pokémon's IVs, the game will reroll the numbers up to 4 times if none of the IVs are at 31.

Pre-National Pokédex

These Pokémon are available in Contests held every day pre-National Pokédex, and on Tuesdays mail service-National Pokédex (denoted by the levels indicated in the parentheses).

Pokémon

Games

Location

Levels

Rate

	Caterpie

Grass

seven-xviii
(24-36)

20%

	Metapod

Grass

9-18
(26-36)

10%

	Butterfree

Grass

12-fifteen
(27-xxx)

	Weedle

Grass

vii-18
(24-36)

20%

	Kakuna

Grass

9-18
(26-36)

10%

	Beedrill

Grass

12-15
(27-30)

	Paras

Grass

ten-17
(27-34)

10%

	Venonat

Grass

10-sixteen
(25-32)

10%

	Scyther

Grass

13-14
(27-28)

five%

	Pinsir

Grass

13-14
(27-28)

A colored background means that the Pokémon tin can be found in this location in the specified game. A white background with a colored letter means that the Pokémon cannot be plant here.

Post-National Pokédex

These Pokémon are merely available in Contests held on Th and Sabbatum post-National Pokédex.

Pokémon

Games

Location

Levels

Charge per unit

	Scyther

Grass

27-28

	Pinsir

Grass

27-28

	Wurmple

Grass

24-36

20%

	Silcoon

Grass

24-36

10%^Thursday

	Beautifly

Grass

25-32

v%^Sa

	Cascoon

Grass

24-36

10%^Sa

	Dustox

Grass

25-32

5%^Th

	Nincada

Grass

26-36

20%

	Volbeat

Grass

26-36

10%^Th

	Illumise

Grass

26-36

10%^Sa

	Kricketot

Grass

27-30

ten%

	Kricketune

Grass

27-30

10%

	Combee

Grass

27-34

A colored groundwork means that the Pokémon can exist constitute in this location in the specified game. A white groundwork with a colored letter ways that the Pokémon cannot exist found here.

Scoring

Generation Ii

The score earned for a given Pokémon in Generation Ii is the sum of the following:

four times the max HP of the Pokémon
The sum of the Pokémon's other stats
Up to 29 points based on the Pokémon'southward private values:
- 16 points if half of the Defense Iv (rounded down) results in an odd number, 0 otherwise
- 8 points if half of the Assault 4 (rounded down) is odd, 0 otherwise
- 4 points if half of the Special Four (rounded downward) is odd, 0 otherwise
- i betoken if half of the Speed IV (rounded downwardly) is odd, 0 otherwise
  - If the player manages to find a Shiny Pokémon during the contest, it will be assured of earning all 29 of these points.
i/8 of the current HP of the Pokémon, rounded down
1 point if the Pokémon is belongings an item, 0 otherwise

The maximum possible score in this version of the competition is 386, accomplished by catching a level fourteen Scyther with maximum IVs in every stat and without dealing more than 7 damage to information technology.

Generation Iv

The score earned for a given Pokémon in Generation Four is the sum of the following:

The level of the Pokémon relative to the maximum that can be constitute in the contest (e.g. before the National Pokédex, the maximum value for Paras would be 17, but afterwards the National Pokédex, this would be 34), as a percentage
The Pokémon's IVs relative to the maximum (186), every bit a pct
The Pokémon'southward HP relative to its maximum, equally a percent
A rarity gene, either 60 (Caterpie, Metapod, Weedle, Kakuna, Wurmple, Silcoon, Cascoon, or Kricketot), lxxx (all Pokémon not mentioned), or 100 (Scyther or Pinsir)

Therefore, the maximum possible score in this version of the competition is 400, achieved by catching Scyther or Pinsir at either level 14 or 28 (whichever is available), with maximum IVs in every stat, and without dealing any damage to it.

Competitors

These are the competitors found in the Contest.

Cooltrainer Nick ^{G S C} /Ace Trainer Abby ^{HG SS}
Pokéfan William
Youngster Samuel
Camper Barry
Bug Catcher Ed
Bug Catcher Benny
Bug Catcher Josh
Bug Catcher Don
Schoolboy ^{G S C} /Schoolhouse Child ^{HG SS} Kipp
Picnicker Cindy

Scores

Generation Ii

In the Generation II games, each NPC contestant has three possible base scores. V of the ten NPCs are randomly chosen to appear in the contest, and each of them randomly receives one of their iii base scores, plus a random bonus of up to 7 points.

The lowest score that can possibly take first place in this version of the contest is 264, which requires the randomly chosen NPCs to be Don, Ed, Samuel, Kipp, and Cindy and for them to receive their low-value scores.

Contestant	Pokémon	Score
Bug Catcher Don	Kakuna	300
	Metapod	285
	Caterpie	226
Issues Catcher Ed	Butterfree	286
	Butterfree	251
	Caterpie	237
Cooltrainer Nick	Scyther	357
	Butterfree	349
	Pinsir	368
Pokéfan William	Pinsir	332
	Butterfree	324
	Venonat	321
Bug Catcher Benny	Butterfree	318
	Weedle	295
	Caterpie	285
Camper Barry	Pinsir	366
	Venonat	329
	Kakuna	314
Picnicker Cindy	Butterfree	341
	Metapod	301
	Caterpie	264
Problems Catcher Josh	Scyther	326
	Butterfree	292
	Metapod	282
Youngster Samuel	Weedle	270
	Pinsir	282
	Caterpie	251
Schoolboy Kipp	Venonat	267
	Paras	254
	Kakuna	259

Prizes

Place	Version
Place	Gold	Argent	Crystal	HeartGold	SoulSilver
1st	Sun Stone			Sunday Stone (pre-National Pokédex)
1st	Sun Stone			Random Evolution stone (mail service-National Pokédex)
2nd	Everstone			Everstone
3rd	Gold Berry			Sitrus Berry
Consolation Prize	Berry			Shed Beat out

In the anime

The Bug-Catching Contest audition in the anime

In The Bug Stops Here, Ash and Casey competed in the Bug-Catching Contest. During the contest, Casey caught a Weedle, and her Chikorita evolved into a Bayleef. Ash won the contest with a Beedrill, earning himself a Sun Stone. Subsequently the competition, he gave the Beedrill to Casey, existence aware of her dearest for Pokémon with yellowish and black stripes.

In the anime, the Contest can be followed from a giant screen outside of the park. Information technology also has several other notable differences from the games.

Only the winner is allowed to go on the Pokémon they caught.
No consolation prize is available, neither are there any sort of rewards for anybody other than the champion, whereas such prizes can be earned in the games.
The contest implements strict historic period-limits: only children under 16 are allowed to participate.

Trivia

The music used during the contest is a remix of the Kanto-based games' Bicycle music.
If Youngster Samuel catches a Pinsir in Generation II, it will receive a score between 282 and 289 points, but no Pinsir available during the contest can evaluate to a score lower than 293.
Afterwards the player obtains the National Pokédex and enters the contest on Thursdays and Saturdays in Generation Four, some of the other competitors may be appear every bit having caught a Pokémon in the Caterpie or Weedle lines, despite those Pokémon not being available to the player on those days.
In Generation Four, if at the terminate of the contest the player has a full political party and their newly captured Pokémon is sent to the PC, information technology is referred to as "Neb's PC" (as opposed to "Someone'due south PC") even if the player has not yet met Bill.

In other languages

Linguistic communication		Title
Chinese	Cantonese	捕蟲大賽 Bouhchùhng Daaihchoi
Chinese	Mandarin	捕蟲大賽 / 捕虫大赛 Bǔchóng Dàsài
Finnish		Ötökänpyydystyskisa
French		Concours de Capture d'insecte
German		Käferturnier
Italian		Gara Pigliamosche
Korean		곤충채집 대회 Gonchungchaejip Daehoe
Smoothen		Zawody w Łapaniu Pokémonów Robaków
Spanish		Concurso de Captura de Bichos
Swedish		Fånga Kryp-Pokémontävlingen
Vietnamese		Đại hội bắt côn trùng