Items, the Bag and the Shop

The Catch ’Em Cord wiki: how the game works, straight from the game’s own rules.

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/shop is the Poké Mart and /bag is everything you own. Use an item, give one to a Pokémon to hold, or sell spares back.

The Poké Mart

/shop is split into tabs. Tap an item to read what it does and buy it:

  • Poké Balls: every ball the Mart sells. Buy 10 or more Poké Balls at once for a free Premier Ball. See Poké Balls.
  • Vitamins: HP Up, Protein, Iron, Calcium, Zinc, Carbos and more, 10 EVs each.
  • Evolution Stones and Evolution Items, with the Everstone and Soothe Bell beside them.
  • Battle Items: held items like Leftovers, Focus Sash, Life Orb and the Choice items.
  • Berries: the six EV-lowering Berries, battle Berries and the Fresh-Start Mochi.
  • Breeding Items: the incenses, the Destiny Knot and the Power items.
  • Fishing Gear: the three rods.
  • Form Items: Griseous Orb, Gracidea, the Rotom Catalog, DNA Splicers and the rest, shown once you own a Pokémon that can use them.

Your Bag

  • Tap a ball to equip it: that’s the ball highlighted in your Bag and the one you throw first in an encounter.
  • Use an item on a Pokémon: a stone, a vitamin, a Berry, a Rare Candy, an Ability Capsule.
  • Give a held item: an Everstone, a Soothe Bell, a battle item, a Plate. The Give Item button on /pokemon info does the same.
  • Plates and Drives sit together in one Plates & Drives entry so the Bag stays short.

Selling back

The Mart buys back anything it sells for half the price, straight from /bag. Balls included, so spare Great Balls from a vote are worth ₽. A Pokémon’s held item has to be taken off first. Rare Candy, Mega Stones, the Key Stone, the Exp. Share and other earned items can’t be sold.

Held items

  • All the usual held items work in battle: Leftovers, Focus Sash, Life Orb, Choice items, Eviolite, Rocky Helmet, Berries and more.
  • A Plate powers up its type’s moves for whoever holds it. Arceus takes the Plate’s type and Genesect’s Techno Blast follows its Drive, like the games.
  • Items you use up in a Trainer Circuit battle come back afterwards.
  • A Pokémon holding a Mega Stone can’t be traded or listed.

Items from the wild

  • Wild Pokémon sometimes arrive holding their species’ real held item, at the games’ rarities. Catch it and the item is yours.
  • A party Pokémon with Pickup can find an item after a wild battle you fought. Higher levels find better things.
  • A Meowth or Grimer can hold a Nugget, which sells for a lot.

Items nobody can buy

ItemWhere it comes from
Rare CandyDaily and vote streaks, every 25th Pokédex species, Special Research
Exp. ShareClearing the Master division of the Circuit
Master BallBeating the Champion on Rival’s Road
Ability Capsule and PatchThe Mart sells both. Rival’s Road also hands them out on repeat clears
Mega Stones and the Key StoneMega Stone research
Premier BallFree with 10 or more Poké Balls

Stock up in /shop!

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Checked against the game on November 7, 2026.

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