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I just tried to claim my first Great Tusk egg, and I had five open spots in my party, but it showed up at lvl 50 instead of as an egg, so I guess I can’t get the eggdex for it.

I think it is normal? Riako never mentioned about getting the egg after the quest

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I’m pretty sure it said that I would specifically be claiming the egg when I tapped the button to get it, and, if you look at the Pokédex, you’ll see that it has an eggdex entry.

thats for breeding or tall grass (Im not sure for tall grass someone pls correct me if im wrong)

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The reason for this is that there is a Paradox Donphan (Great Tusk), but there is no Paradox Phanpy. And as you can't hatch evolved Pokemon from eggs, you would get the Pokemon directly instead of an egg.
If there is really a text saying to "claim the egg", then I guess it is the generic message from the Miraidon/Koraidon quest, where you actually get an egg.

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@Mirej, the Paradox Pokémon have their own Pokédex numbers, they’re not like regional variants. It’s not Donphan. But, even if it was, why would there be an eggdex entry next to Great Tusk in the Pokédex, then? The Vivillon forms aside from the default one don’t have eggdex entries for that reason, but Great Tusk does. Great Tusk has its own eggdex because it’s its own, non-evolving Pokémon that’s supposed to come from an egg.

Only Pokémon that hatch from an egg have an eggdex. Great Tusk has an eggdex. Why would Riako require people to breed Great Tusk to get the eggdex when every other Pokémon species that’s been distributed this way was given as an egg? Is Great Tusk even breedable or are people doomed to never be able to complete their eggdex?

Hello, I understand from where your confusion comes from.



Especially with this:



However, Mirej is right in this case. It cannot come from an egg, as it has possibly a pre-evo (core game knowledge). What happened here instead is that Riako reused codes, which let to the confusion.



Instead we should focus on Riako fixing the accidental eggdex symbol plus the text.

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@Absbor, thank you for sharing those screenshots. But Great Tusk doesn’t evolve from any other Pokémon—it’s not Donphan, and it doesn’t evolve from Phanpy, it’s just a single-stage Pokémon with legendary-level stats, just Great Tusk, as you can see here: https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-sv/greattusk

@LALVOE, I have played Pokémon Scarlet. I can guarantee you that in-lore it doesn't work the way you think it does. serebii is rather a news and info gathering site than a wiki which you can use for your arguments. https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Great_Tusk_(Pok%C3%A9mon) is a better source, as it dives into pokémon lore in as well.

https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Paradox_Pok%C3%A9mon: "Paradox Pokémon [...] are a group of Pokémon introduced in Pokémon Scarlet and Violet. They have two subgroups: one appearing in Pokémon Scarlet resembling ancient relatives of contemporary Pokémon, and one appearing in Pokémon Violet resembling futuristic relatives of contemporary Pokémon."

this paragraphs tells you that these pokémon are a different versions of known Pokémon.

"The precise origin of the Paradox Pokémon is unclear; AI Sada/AI Turo claims that they originate from different points in the Pokémon world's timeline (specifically the ancient past/distant future),"

while this paragraph explains to you they might be either ancestors or descandances each represented pokemon.


Or do you claim Alola-Raichu and Galar-Weezing to be their own things too? They are further evolutions, in a similar situation in which the pre-evo exist in a non-different-regional form - yet their evolved form is very different. To the point breeding regional differences is hard.
Or do you prefer the examples with Perrserker (52 -> 863), Obstagoon (264 -> 862), and Sneasler (215 -> 903) instead? Which numbers display a gap?

Great Tusk is a mix of the Pokémon I've used as an example. Far away its prior evolution number-wise + a regional/timed version.


Like I, and others have said: It's just a copy and paste mistake.

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@Absbor, no, Bulbapedia is telling you the exact opposite of what you’re claiming. It says that they *appear* to be, not that they *are*, because they in fact are not. It says that their origins are unknown. And I already said that Paradox Pokémon are NOT like regional variants.

Regional variants have the same Pokédex number and the same name because they are the same Pokémon. Paradox Pokémon are not the same Pokémon, they’re just anomalies that happen to look like other Pokémon but are definitely not those Pokémon.

All of the versions of Paldean Tauros are Tauros (dex number 128), and Paldean Wooper is Wooper (dex number 194). But Clodsire (dex number 980) is NOT Quagsire (dex number 195). And none of the Paradox Pokémon are the same Pokémon as the other Pokémon they resemble, just like Toedscool and Toedscruel (#948 and #949) are NOT Tentacool and Tentacruel (#72 and #73).

And you are the only one who has claimed that Riako made a mistake by giving Great Tusk an eggdex, no one else. The others weren’t looking at the Pokédex.

And you also missed the part on that Bulbapedia page where it says that Great Tusk is “not known to evolve into or from any other Pokémon”, which is what was actually being discussed.

I think you have to breed it

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@nat75, well, it’s not breedable in the official games. But Pokeheroes does have some breedable Pokémon that aren’t breedable in the official games—however, all of those have been legendary dex-completion-rewards, and Great Tusk is neither a dex-completion-reward nor a legendary (although it has things in common with them).

Great Tusk and Iron Treads were indeed not meant to have an egg dex entry, so this has been fixed now.
The "Claim Egg" text has also been changed to "Claim Reward".

Thank you for the fix

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