## Event Pokémon

A few Generation III Pokémon and items were never available in normal play — they came from **official distributions**, and most can no longer be obtained legitimately on a fresh save. Elyra Hex flags these so you know when a "missing" entry was an event in the first place.

The channels that delivered them:

- **Mystery Gift** — received in-game over a wireless or link connection from an official source.
- **Local wireless device** — handed out at stores and tour stops using a special distribution cart (this is how Mew, Deoxys and the like, plus tickets such as the **Aurora** and **MysticTicket**, reached players).
- **Event item / ticket** — a Key Item from a distribution that then unlocks travel to an island where the Pokémon waits (the ticket is the event; the encounter is in-game).
- **Historical distribution** — a one-off, time-limited giveaway that has long since ended.
- **Unavailable / external** — only reachable by transferring from a different game.

Because these windows have closed, an event entry that you don't already own usually **can't be caught in-game** today — building a legal one in Elyra Hex is the practical way to fill the slot.
