Followers

How to enable Follower Pokémon?

As soon as you enter the Viridian City Pokémon Center for the first time, a Tamer will walk up to you and tell you about a feature called Follower Pokémon. If you have any Pokémon capable of following you in your party, he’ll ask you whether you want that Pokémon to follow you or not. The Pokémon that follows you is the first Pokémon in party order that’s present in the list shown later in this document. You can disable or re-enable Follower Pokémon by talking to the Tamer in the Viridian City Pokémon Center. Once a Pokémon follows you, it’ll do so until it faints or you decide to disable Follower Pokémon. This feature might be a little glitchy, so make sure to disable and re-enable Follower Pokémon once in a while to avoid encountering glitches, or if you feel something is wrong with them. Think of it as if you were saving your game!

Your Follower Pokémon can jump ledges with you, enter buildings with you, Surf with you… they follow you everywhere !

There are very few exceptions, those being some Postgame areas.

By interacting with your Follower Pokémon, three things may happen:

The text shown will hint at the Pokémon’s Happiness stat. This is an alternative to the Stat Scanner, if anything.
If its Happiness points aren’t high, you’ll be able to feed your Pokémon an Oran Berry, provided you have at least one. Each Oran Berry you feed your Pokémon with will increase its Happiness points by 60.
Sometimes, your Follower Pokémon will find a Wishing Piece, or even a Big Nugget, and give it to you. This could be very practical if you run short of money, or need some additional Wishing Pieces for whatever reason.

Depending on the Pokémon’s type, interacting with your Follower Pokémon in certain places will make it find an item. There are four items that you can obtain that way, and they may only be obtained once per save file:

Rock/Ground/Steel Pokémon in Rock Tunnel > Safety Goggles
Fire/Flying Pokémon in Celadon City’s Gym > Red Card
Fighting Pokémon in Saffron City’s Dojo > Protective Pads
Electric Pokémon in Power Plant > Eject Button (Unobtainable in Hardcore Mode)

If your Follower Pokémon is a Rotom or any of its forms, you can change its form in Oak’s Lab by interacting with the big machine.

Lastly, some NPCs will react to your Follower Pokémon and give you a reward if you show them a specific Follower Pokémon. Here’s a list of the Pokémon you will need to show, to avoid spoilers:

Followers

How to enable Follower Pokémon?

Your Follower Pokémon can jump ledges with you, enter buildings with you, Surf with you… they follow you everywhere !

Available pokemon followers

Kanto

Johto

Hoenn

Sinnoh

Unova

Kalos

Alola

Galar

Paldea

Regionals