What Apricorns make what balls in heartgold

Feed Apricorns to the Cram-o-matic to get special Poké Balls

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Marking Their Locations
Making Poke Balls
Making Aprijuice

By Julia Lee
on June 25, 2020 1:20 pm

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Pokémon Sword and Shield’s Isle of Armor expansion finally allows players to get more rare Poké Balls. You can do this using Apricorns.

Apricorns are ball-like fruit found around the Isle of Armor from shaking trees. Certain biomes on the island produce specific Apricorns.

Once you get a bunch of Apricorns, you’ll want to take them to the Cram-o-matic at the dojo. This unlocks shortly after you first arrive at the dojo and it’s sitting in the room to the right. You’ll have to supply the Cram-o-matic with four items in order to get one randomly.

The more Apricorns of a specific color you put into the machine, the higher chance you’ll have to get the rare ball counterpart. If you put in four Apricorns of one color, you’ll have a 1% chance to get the rare ball for that respective color. You’ll also have a 0.1% chance to get a Safari Ball or a Sport Ball.

Note that there is a very high chance that you’ll end up with Poké Balls, Great Balls, Quick Balls, and other Poké Balls you can get at the store. If you’re looking for rare Poké Balls specifically, you’ll need a lot of Apricorns.

You can see what Apricorn colors you’ll need to get the respective rare ball below.

Red Apricorns: Level Ball
Yellow Apricorns: Moon Ball
Green Apricorns: Friend Ball
Blue Apricorns: Lure Ball
Pink Apricorns: Love Ball
Black Apricorns: Heavy Ball
White Apricorns: Fast Ball

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Details Written by Hyouki Category: Pokemon HeartGold & SoulSilver Versions (Nintendo DS) Published: 16 September 2017 Hits: 5273

Apricorns are pretty neat little fruits. They have two functions for ingame: creating Poke Balls and making Aprijuice. Both of these are useful in their respective areas of gameplay. But Apricorns are only available once per day, one for each Apricorn tree. Just how do you collect them?

Marking Their Locations

The trees are found in many areas. You can find one just about anywhere in Johto and quite a few spots in Kanto. How will you remember them all?

Well, there's this great function in HGSS for the map application on your PokeGear that allows you to mark locations. When you first mark locations, if you're finding them on your own, travel everywhere in each region and mark every city and route that happens to have them. The marking function even gives an Apricorn marker, just so you know exactly why it's there! If you're hoping for a list of places to find them, you're in luck. Here's where the Apricorn trees are found:

Red- Routes 37, 44, and Fuchsia City

Yellow- Routes 8, 42, 46, and Violet City
Blue- Routes 26, 36, 37, and Pewter City
Green- Routes 11, 29, 30, 35, 39, 42, 45, and 46
Pink- Routes 2, 30, 33, and 42
White- Route 38, Azalea Town, and Pewter City
Black- Routes 1, 31, 33, 37, and 43 Another place to obtain Apricorns is in the Pokeathlon Dome, where you use your hard-earned points from Pokeathlons as the currency. They only have certain Apricorns on certain days, however.

Sunday- Red, Blue, Black

Monday- Red, Blue, Green
Tuesday- Yellow, Pink, White
Wednesday- Blue, Pink, Black
Thursday- Yellow, Pink, White
Friday- Red, Yellow, Green
Saturday- Green, White, Black Green is the most common type, and after that, Black. You may want to just buy rarer Apricorns such as Red from the Dome, as opposed to common types.

Making Poke Balls

The one thing everyone knows about Apricorns is that they can be used to make unique types of Poke Balls. Just take 'em to Kurt; he'll take about a day to make them but it's well worth the wait. Each type of Apricorn is turned into a different type of Poke Ball. You may want to stock up on Apricorns before giving them to Kurt, as there's no such thing as too many Poke Balls!

Red- Level Ball - Increases catchrate for Pokemon of a lower level than the Pokemon currently battling

Yellow- Moon Ball - Increases catchrate of Pokemon who evolve by using the Moon Stone
Blue- Lure Ball - Increases catchrate while fishing
Green- Friend Ball - Caught Pokemon will be friendlier (friendship is set to 200)
Pink- Love Ball - Increases catchrate for Pokemon of the same species but opposite gender of the Pokemon currently battling
White- Fast Ball - Increases catchrate of Pokemon with a base Speed stat of at least 100
Black- Heavy Ball - Increases catchrate of heavy Pokemon The most useful ingame are usually the Lure, Friend, Fast, and Heavy Balls. Also, they're very pleasing to the eyes as opposed to the plain old Poke, Great, Ultra, and Master Balls.

Making Aprijuice

The other function of Apricorns is making Aprijuice. Aprijuice helps out your Pokemon in its Performance stats for the Pokeathlon, much like Poke Blocks for Contests and Poffins for Super Contests. Each Apricorn contributes to certain stats, except for the White Apricorn, which does nothing on its own.

Red- Increases Power.

Yellow- Increases Stamina.
Blue- Increases Skill.
Green- Increases Jump.
Pink- Increases Speed.
Black- Increases Power and Stamina. Also like Poke Blocks and Poffins, Pokemon will only like certain types of Aprijuice based on their natures. Each Performance stat is related to specific flavors and in turn, specific battling stats.

Power- Spicy - Attack

Stamina- Sour - Defense
Skill- Dry - Sp. Attack
Jump- Bitter - Sp. Defense
Speed- Sweet - Speed Each nature affects a Pokemon's tastes; the stat that is boosted by the nature is what the Pokemon likes, and the stat the nature lowers is what the Pokemon dislikes. HGSS luckily shows you which nature does what. On the stats screen of a Pokemon's summary, the stat highlighted in yellow is the boosted stat, while the blue highlight is the lowered stat.

Conclusion

Apricorns add yet another fun layer on Pokemon, especially now that they contribute to a side game. With so many uses for one little fruit, it'll be an important item to grab on your adventures in Generation IV. Be sure not to miss out on such a nifty item!

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Several things about Berries:1. Pokemon following you have been confirmed to give you Berries and Accessories (the accessories could confirm that Contests are back...?). By Berries, I'm talking about the third- and fourth-generation Berries. As far as I know, there are Berries that cover all of the functions of the Berries from Gold, Silver, and Crystal. Maybe the Berry trees in HeartGold and SoulSilver will give us these new kinds of Berries. Maybe, even...maybe after you beat the game there would be areas where you could plant these Berries, as that would be faster (and you would be able to get more of every kind of Berry rather than just the ones that grow on trees). Maybe Johto would have Berry trees and Kanto would have soft soil. But so far no soft soil has been confirmed and this is only speculation.2. Apricorns, I'm hoping, will still be in. Probably, there would be a Key Item that is like an Apricorn pouch that can store your coloured Apricorns. Your Pokemon can't hold them, and you obviously can't trade them to any other game. This would eliminate any problems with trading. All of the Berries would be tradeable (since they would come from RSEDPP) and the Apricorns would not be tradeable, and it would tie together well. The only problem, then, would be the Pokeballs themselves--the ones you use your Apricorns to make. From Kurt. I don't know how those will work, or if they will be in. I'm hoping they will, though.Note: Kurt's house has been confirmed to be in the game, and we already have seen several Berry trees in-game and in the artwork. If anybody has a high-quality scan of EVERY Corocoro page that was just released in the past few days, please post it here, as one of them has a picture of Kurt's house. ^^

Also, a question: does the demo, which takes place on Route 37 (a Route that has three Berry trees), have Apricorns growing on its trees, or are they Berries, or what?

I think the Apricorns will be turned into the special balls from D/P/P.Black Apricorn can be a Dusk Ball

Blue Apricorn can be a Dive Ball etc.

^about the demo, no one knows. the guy from Pokebeach could have been able to confirm, but he messed up the video, and recording/taking pictures of the demo are against rules.

hopefully someone out there will sneak a video.

I doubt Apricorn Pokeballs will be in just because they appear on the summary screens. Instead, I expect the new 3rd and 4th gen custom balls to be made by Kurt. Many of them have similar effects to their GSC counterparts...

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I miss the days when you didn't have to memorize absurd names for all the berries.

Why can't they just make the apricorn balls un-tradeable? I know that they had items that couldn't be traded in other games, and when you tried to, it simply wouldn't let you.

Because that means you couldn't trade over any pokemon caught in apricorn-balls either, and Nintendo/Game Freak wouldn't do that.

Change the apricorn ball into a standard poke-ball for the trade? I dunno.

guys...except for like the Heavy Ball, all of the special balls kurt made have 3rd and 4th gen versions that have the same effect. kurt will probably just make them with the apricorns, and that'll be the only way to get them.

like in FRLG, there was a market in one of the sevii islands that sold things like timer balls, etc. other than that place, you couldnt get them.