The Best Memes About the Chaotic Pokemon Scarlet and Violet Glitches

Pokémon Scarlet and Violet is now out, but it’s not quite the experience fans were hoping for. The first fully open world Pokémon game with 4-player co-op is riddled with glitches and low-res graphics — it’s so bad that most of the talk about the game so far has been focused on people sharing the weirdest bugs they’ve encountered in Paldea.

While it hasn’t stopped fans from enjoying the game, the piss poor performance is incredibly frustrating, especially as Pokémon is the highest grossing media franchise of all time. Claims that it’s because of the Switch are inaccurate, too, considering the console can run The Witcher 3 and Crysis Remastered with ease. We were surprised when Nintendo announced it was releasing two Pokémon games this year, and perhaps Scarlet and Violet should have been pushed back a year to give Game Freak more time. Because not only is Pokémon Scarlet and Violet a buggy mess, it’s landscapes are also butt ugly and devoid of any detail, and some of the features that fans love most, like being able to change outfits, are simply missing.

It’s not all bad though. The NPCs in Scarlet and Violet are muscle-bound freaks (in the best possible way) who often tower over the player character exuding big Step On Me energy, and one of the new Pokémon is Tandemaus, a cute mouse couple who have two baby mice when they evolve into Maushold. Beyond that, one common glitch sees poor Jigglypuff being picked up by strong winds and simply… blowing away, which is objectively funny, no notes.

But enough reading about it! It’s much funnier to watch the chaos unfold with your own eyes. Please enjoy this modest and (sadly) by no means complete collection of the best Pokémon Scarlet and Violet glitches.

did i really just witness a magikarp in the background leave the water to flop itself across a bridge and up a mountain #PokemonScarletViolet #NintendoSwitch pic.twitter.com/y8IwgCUz3B

— Choppi (@choppip) November 19, 2022

THE JIGGLYPUFF JUST FLYING AWAY LMAOOOOO #PokemonScarletViolet #NintendoSwitch pic.twitter.com/Ouhh20w8eC

— Out of Context Pokémon ∞ (@OoCPokemon) November 19, 2022

Scarlet and Violet have have no right being that ugly and that fun

— JOJO (@JoeyJostar) November 19, 2022

GameFreak deserves a round of applause for this one pic.twitter.com/EhCPt1qAXg

— Strat (@LaidbackStrat) November 18, 2022

oof the reviews arent kidding about the terrible performance #PokemonScarletViolet #NintendoSwitch pic.twitter.com/0oDvYQmMqV

— 🌸 Cherrim 🌸 (@Cherrim) November 17, 2022

Apparently in the new pokemon, if you plug in two controllers at once you can run twice as fast. Like you hold both joysticks and it just… adds the speed

these devs had NO TIME lmao pic.twitter.com/q8ydxd9iub

— Muno 🐌 (@munosnail) November 20, 2022

This is the tackiest animation I have ever seen… the off kilter sandwich, whilst the trainer bites the air with no easing on the tweens…. the floating Pokemon in their idle animation staring at nothing😭😭😭 pic.twitter.com/NFdclx8spT

— Jeti 🩸 (@Starjeti) November 16, 2022

I fuckin wheezed, what is happening #PokemonScarletViolet pic.twitter.com/aY42izsV6A

— Phoenixrave (@PhoenixRaves) November 18, 2022

俺のキャラがヤバいストレッチ始めたんやけど pic.twitter.com/VxDskfTBdt

— GENIUS | ナタ (@Nata3Pit) November 19, 2022

https://twitter.com/t_a_b_e_r_u/status/1593570678116323329

わらかすなwww #ポケモンSV #NintendoSwitch pic.twitter.com/snIvUiuIZa

— カム子の生足美脚ドリル！🐥 (@namaashibikyaku) November 17, 2022

huh weird I suddenly feel like maybe I will play the new Pokémon pic.twitter.com/QzqBJoYWcI

— Arin Hanson (@egoraptor) November 19, 2022

ホゲータ水中に沈んでいったんやがwwwwwwwwwwwwwww #ポケモンSV #NintendoSwitch pic.twitter.com/00sunaaYLY

— 有吉ありよ (@Ari_yo_) November 17, 2022

Okay sir, I will kneel. #PokemonScarletViolet
pic.twitter.com/y91VrffEKx

— Juni (@omg_juni) November 19, 2022

fuck is this shit bruh #PokemonScarletViolet #NintendoSwitch pic.twitter.com/qxlYa0kuna

— † reivaxx † (@marth_ww) November 19, 2022

Can't believe this unfinished animation I abandoned became canon.#PokemonScarletViolet pic.twitter.com/U4vOTANG76

— Seto 🐟 (@SetiSpaghetti) November 19, 2022

https://twitter.com/omegavalwin/status/1593096308877053952

XD that moon just comes in like a office worker late from work #PokemonScarletViolet #NintendoSwitch pic.twitter.com/cx9H1gvw6r

— Gameboyred(comms open) (@triblefive) November 19, 2022

This game cannot be real…

WHAT THE HELL IS THIS pic.twitter.com/hRWgv2vokh

— 𝐌𝐫. 𝐒𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐡 (@MrSinnoh) November 20, 2022

If you want to experience the chaos for yourself, the cheapest copy of Pokémon Scarlet and Violet is at Amazon, where Scarlet is $64.99 and Violet is $68 with free delivery.