"PLA BUG: A Bidoof nearly purged the world of pokemon."

Last night I found an interesting and quite horrifying bug. I was running around in the first zone completing the "Have Pokemon X use Y move" stuff by committing a massacre on the native pokemon, when a rift started to form. I went over to the rift and starting to beat all the nearby pokemon to complete research and pass the time. The last pokemon I saw was the Bidoof. Since I didn't want it to run away and waste my time, I ran around it and threw my pokemon at it for the grind. However, at the same time as I got a back strike with my pokemon, the sound of the rift beginning occurred. The Bidoof ignored me and ran away. Unphased by this, I went to collect my free loot in the rift, but the Bidoof had already accomplished his goal.After collecting everything, I noticed that there were no pokemon trying to kill me. Nothing was spawning. So I waited until the rift closed. It "closed" normally, but I noticed that if I walked away and came back to the area, the animation for entering the rift still occurred and the music changed. After venturing further from the rift, it dawned on me... there were no pokemon left. No pokemon appeared on the world anywhere I went. There were no Alpha pokemon in the preset locations. Even running to town and going to another zone yielded no results. Bidoof had purged the world of pokemon. Already realizing I may have ruined my save file because the autosave would have triggered many times by now, I decided to just try to explore more and collect materials. Eventually I found a moving rock and had my pokemon mine it and out popped a Geodude. Thinking this may be one of the last pokemon in this world, I destroyed him to collect my rocks.Luckily, Geodude's sacrifice restored the natural order of the world and pokemon began to spawn normally again as though nothing happened. However, that Bidoof still remains in the wild, ready to cause havoc on the next exploring player.Long story short, be careful when battling pokemon when a rift is forming, it may get you "stuck" in a battle without being in a battle and you need to find a shaking rock or tree to start another battle to get out of it. via /r/pokemon https://ift.tt/qnTtA54Sv