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ORAS Missing Surf, Underwater, Fishing Encounters

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
58/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Quiet
Tech stack
python
Domain
api

Research direction

Start by tracing the ORAS encounter data exposed by the API and compare the route and location-area entries with the standard encounter slots described in the issue. Verify Surf, underwater, and fishing records for the named Pokémon, and confirm the completed data appears through the API.

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Description

It appears there's no Surf or underwater encounters in ORAS at all in the current API.

This includes:

  • Underwater route for Pokemon like relicanth
  • Fishing Pokemon like goldeen
  • Pokemon like tentacool or wingull who are on basically every route do not show up at all in the API.

I don't think much else needs to be said regarding this, it's standard encounter slot, encounter, location area info. It looks like any horde encounter was caught.

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