All Pokemon with alternate forms in Scarlet & Violet

Pokemon Scarlet and Violet games kept one of coolest gimmicks of the franchise: Pokemon with alternate forms. So, here’s a list of all alternate-form species available in Pokemon Scarlet and Violet and how to get them.

Pokemon Scarlet and Violet offer an incredibly huge world to explore, and trainers can roam around Paldea, Kitakami, and the Blueberry Academy chasing the rarest Pokemon to complete their Pokedex. However, many species have different forms that can only be obtained through certain methods.

So, here’s all you need to know about all Pokemon with alternate forms in Pokemon Scarlet and Violet, including variants and how to get them.

Contents

• Family of Three Maushold
• Three Segment Tail Dudunsparce
• Water & Fire Tauros breeds
• Vivillon Patterns
• Squawkabilly colors
• Tatsugiri colors
• Palafin’s Zero to Hero form
• Shellos/Gastrodon
• Gimmighoul forms
• Sinistcha & Poltchageist/Sinistea & Polteageist Masterwork

Pokemon Scarlet & Violet Family of Three Maushold

Maushold is a hive-mind Pokemon, like Exeggcute and Falinks, so it is composed of several Pokemon. Maushold evolves from Tandemaus by reaching level 25. Curiously, this Pokemon doesn’t show an evolution animation if the players don’t battle or level it up with exp share.

Instead, it will silently turn into Maushold if players level it up with the auto-battle feature. When Tandemaus evolves into Maushold, it will have one of two forms: Family of Four (regular) or Family of Three (1 every 1000). So, to get the Family of Three Maushold, players need to rely on RNG.

It is worth mentioning that 4-Star Tera Raids of Maushold will always feature the Family of Three specimens. So keep that in mind if you ever see one of these raids.

Pokemon Scarlet & Violet Three Segment Tail Dudunsparce

In Pokemon Scarlet and Violet, Dudunsparce is the evolution of Dunsparce, and as the name suggests, it is a Dunsparce with an extra segment on its body. But, there is another form of Dudunsparce, the one that has a three-segmented body, known as Three Segment Dudunsparce.

This Pokemon can be obtained by lucky players who evolve Dunsparce at level 32 and have 1 in a 100 chance to obtain this rare Pokemon.

Pokemon Scarlet & Violet Water & Fire Tauros breeds

Paldean Tauros is certainly one of the Pokemon with the best-hidden mechanics in the game. You have three breeds of Paldean Tauros, the regular one and two others which are version-exclusive forms that you can find by using the following trick:

• To get Blaze Breed Tauros: Eat food with Fire Encounter Power (Scarlet)
• To get Aqua Breed Tauros: Eat food with Water Encounter Power (Violet)

Once you have eaten one of these foods that boost either Water or Fire Encounters, look for packs of Tauros in the Wild, and you’ll see one of the specimens according to your current active encounter power. You can find Paldean Tauros roaming around East Province (Area Three), Asado Desert, and Zapapico.

Pokemon Scarlet & Violet Vivillon Patterns

Vivillon is the Pokemon with the most variant forms in the whole global Pokedex. Each Vivillon has a particular pattern for each environment/climate zone where they were caught. Most of the patterns vary from one side of the world to another, and to get them all, trainers need to trade with people from all over the world to get every variant of Vivillion.

Pokemon Scarlet & Violet Squawkabilly’s Colors

Squawkabilly is one of the cutest Pokemon in Generation 9, and it comes in various colors, ready to be collected by enthusiastic trainers. To get all these four color patterns for Squawkabilly, trainers need to get to the following areas of Paldea to catch each of them:

• White: South Province (Area Two) near Mesagoza.
• Green: East Province (Area Three) near Zapapico.
• Yellow: East Province (Area Two) near Levicia.
• Blue: East Province (Area One) near Artazon.

Pokemon Scarlet & Violet Tatsugiri colors

Tatsugiri is a Dragon/Water-type Pokemon introduced in Generation 9, which has an interesting interaction with the Pokemon Dodonzo. Dodonzo will swallow Tatsugiri when using them in Doubles battles, and gain certain buffs according to Tatugiri’s color pattern and form.

These are all the colors and forms of Tatsugiri, including the shiny variants:

• Curly Form (Pale orange, orange back)
• Curly Form Shiny (Brick orange, brown back)
• Droopy Form (Pink)
• Droopy Form Shiny (White)
• Stretchy Form (Yellow)
• Stretchy Form Shiny (Bright Orange with yellow stripes)

All these forms and their shiny variants can be found in Casseroya Lake in both Pokemon Scarlet and Violet.

Pokemon Scarlet & Violet Palafin’s Zero to Hero form

Palafin is a Pokemon that evolves from Finizen and experiences almost no changes when evolving. But Palafin has a hidden form locked behind its ability “Zero to Hero.” When recalling Palafin, it will later transform into its Hero Form when released back into combat after an ally Pokemon faints.

Palafin Hero form is temporary, much like the Mega-Evolutions, Gigantamax, or Terastalize forms.

Pokemon Scarlet & Violet Shellos & Gastrodon forms

In Pokemon Scarlet and Violet, Shellos and Gastrodon have two variants, respectively: one can be caught by trainers in the East, and the other one by trainers in the West. East Sea Shellos, West Sea Shellos, East Sea Gastrodon, and West Sea Gastrodon are often given through events, but you can also trade Pokemon with your friends all over the world to get these variants.

Pokemon Scarlet & Violet Gimmighoul forms

Gimmighoul is one of the Pokemon that has an alternate form before it evolves into Goldengho. Gimmighoul roaming form can be obtained by connecting your Pokemon Go account to your Nintendo Switch account and Pokemon Scarlet and Violet game. Then follow our guide to catch Gimmighoul roaming form in Pokemon Go.

After that, all you need to do is transfer the Roaming Form Gimmighoul to Pokemon Scarlet & Violet through Pokemon Home.

Pokemon Scarlet & Violet Poltchageist & Sinistcha/Sinistea & Polteageist Masterwork

Sinistea and Poltchageist are both Ghost-type Pokemon, but Poltchageist can be located in the Kitakami Region, while Sinistea can be found in Paldea. Both of them have a regular (fake) form and an alternate form that is defined by a small brand on the bottom part of their bodies. Sinistea’s alternate form is called Original, while Poltchageist’s alternate form is called Masterpiece.

When evolving Poltchageist and Sinistea, they keep their different forms. It is said that 1 in 500 Sinistea carries the Original brand, while 1 in 600 Poltchageist is found as Masterpiece in the wild.

Poltchageist also requires a special item called Unremarkable Teacup to evolve into its regular Sinistcha form. But to evolve a Masterpiece Poltchageist into Masterpiece Sinistcha, you will require a Masterpiece Teacup.

And that’s all the Pokemon with alternate forms in Pokemon Scarlet and Violet. If you found this information useful, you can also check the following guides:

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