The salty Herba Mystica, like other types of Herba Mystica, powers up Miraidon by enhancing its traversal abilities across the Paldea region. When consumed, typically as part of a sandwich, it significantly improves Miraidon's mount skills, enabling it to overcome various environmental challenges.
Enhancing Miraidon's Abilities
Each type of Herba Mystica contributes to unlocking and improving Miraidon's essential mount skills, making exploration much more fluid and accessible. The salty Herba Mystica plays a role in this collective enhancement, allowing Miraidon to gain and improve several key movement capabilities:
- Dashing: Enables Miraidon to accelerate quickly, covering ground faster and evading obstacles.
- Higher Jumping: Allows Miraidon to reach elevated ledges and clear larger gaps.
- Swimming: Grants Miraidon the ability to traverse bodies of water, opening up new areas for exploration.
- Gliding: Provides Miraidon with the skill to descend safely from high places and cross vast distances through the air.
- Cliff Scaling: Empowers Miraidon to climb steep vertical surfaces, accessing areas previously unreachable.
These power-ups are crucial for navigating the diverse landscapes of the Paldea region in Pokémon Scarlet and Violet. While the specific effects of each Herba Mystica flavor (salty, sweet, sour, bitter, spicy) are not individually differentiated in terms of the mount skills they unlock, the salty Herba Mystica contributes to the overall enhancement of Miraidon's mobility, making all these advanced traversal methods possible.
How Herba Mystica Powers Up Miraidon
In the game, Herba Mystica are rare ingredients primarily obtained by defeating powerful Titan Pokémon. Once acquired, they are used in sandwich recipes. When Miraidon (or Koraidon in Pokémon Scarlet) consumes a sandwich made with Herba Mystica, it gains the ability to learn or improve one of its special traversal moves. The progressive acquisition of these skills through Herba Mystica consumption is central to the player's journey and exploration experience.
