Headbutt Trees

Headbutt is available as a field move. Some Pokémon learn the move via level-up, or a Move Tutor in Ilex Forest teaches it for the cost of a Silver Leaf. Silver Leaves are the price for the various Move Tutors in Polished Crystal. A few Silver Leaves are hidden in Ilex Forest, wild Oddish can hold them, or headbutt trees can drop them along with Gold Leaves (which are used for the Move Relearner in Cianwood City).

Headbutt Encounters

Headbutt encounters in Polished Crystal work in the same way as vanilla: the rightmost digit of your Trainer ID determines which trees in an area give rare encounters. Refer to a Headbutt tree calculator for vanilla to find which trees to Headbutt; it's at least applicable to the areas without map expansions and thus suffices for e.g. Heracross hunting.

For more detailed hunting, look up your target Pokémon in the Headbutting encounter tables to learn which type of area and tree to focus on, and then see the Headbutt tree map index to decide which area to go to.

Example

• Heracross appears in Azalea, barring the digit of 7 — from the westmost Headbutt tree to the eastmost, {0, 1, 2, 3}, {2, 5, 9, 2}, {9, 1, 2, 4, 6, 8}, {2, 5, 9, 2, 6, 9}.

Trivia

• There used to be an oversight where several areas had no-encounter Headbutt Trees, which happened to be Silver/Gold Leaf grinding spots. It was resolved in Oct. 2021.