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During Nintendo’s E3 Direct and Treehouse, the Pokémon Company shared more information about Pokémon Sword and Shield.
  • the Poké Ball Plus can be used to store your Pokémon and take them for a stroll in the real world
    If you link up a new Poké Ball Plus to Pokémon Sword or Pokémon Shield, you’ll be able to receive Mew in the linked game
    (Note: if you already received Mew in Pokémon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! or Pokémon: Let’s Go, Eevee!, you will be unable to receive Mew from the same Poké Ball Plus in Pokémon Sword or Pokémon Shield.
    You will be unable to use the Poké Ball Plus as a controller in Sword/Shield
  • Nessa is the Water-type gym leader and she uses a Dynamax Drednaw
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  • Pokémon HOME will not allow Pokémon outside the Galar Pokédex to be transferred. When Pokémon HOME launches, Pokémon Bank users will only be allowed to transfer Pokémon that exist in the Galar region Pokedex
  • Grookey has a move named Branch Poke
  • In Sword/Shield, there is a feature called Y-Comm. With it, you can do things like trade Pokémon and have Link Battles via the internet or local communication.
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  • There’s new items named Pungent Root and Pack of Potatoes
  • Red light beams in the sky will indicate where there’s a wild Dynamax Pokemon in the wild area. You can choose only one Pokémon (from your team or your box) to use in the Raid battle.
    In battle, wild Dynamax Pokémon might use multiple moves in one turn or put up a barrier that prevent almost all damage. To break the barrier trainers will have to repeatedly attack so they can break the barrier.
    Even if your Pokémon is knocked out in Max Raid Battles, you’ll still be able to cheer on other players.
    If you manage to defeat a Dynamax Pokémon in a Max Raid Battle, you’ll get a chance to catch it for your team. Each participant in the battle will be able to throw one Poké Ball in an attempt to catch the Dynamax Pokémon. Victories in Max Raid Battles can reward you with many items.
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  • Yamper
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    Yamper is Electric-typ
    Its ability is Ball Fetch, a new ability that collects the first failed throw of a Poké Ball
    Yampers's moves are: Play Rough, Spark, Crunch, and Wild Charge
  • Impidimp
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    Impidimp is a Dark/Fairy type
  • Game Freak confirmed that Mega Evolution and Z-Moves, two features introduced on Nintendo 3DS, have been scrapped in Sword/Shield
 
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I'm sorry but SWSH have taken a big hit from me with this whole PokeDex restriction. Part of the reason I found Gen 7 boring was not only lack of Post-Game content but also no National Dex. It's ridiculous, dumb, and NO ONE happy!
 

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I'm sorry but SWSH have taken a big hit from me with this whole PokeDex restriction. Part of the reason I found Gen 7 boring was not only lack of Post-Game content but also no National Dex. It's ridiculous, dumb, and NO ONE happy!
I agree with you... I'm not happy that I can't see all the old Pokémon in SwSh :yesyes2: :sisi2:
Masuda in October:
"Now, up to Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon, you're able to store your Pokemon, and we know they're very important to everyone. I mean, obviously, people would be very sad if they couldn't use their Pokemon in a future game. So, it does get complicated when you talk about the details and we're still figuring it out, but we do have plans to find ways to let players use their Pokemon in the next game."
Well... he lied! :knife::knife::knife: This is like in Gen 3 that our old Pokémon from RBY/GSC weren't able to go to the newest games :rage::rage: I always hated that :rage2::rage2::rage2:
I was fine waiting another year but have all of them in SwSh :cry4::cry4:
 

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I was fine waiting another year but have all of them in SwSh :cry4::cry4:
I think everyone would be 100% fine waiting longer to have all the Pokemon.

nintendo Treehouse video:
Holy crap the dislikes actually managed to beat the likes! Awesome!!! Never thought I'd be saying that... But in all seriousness revealing that we can't transfer in everyone so early in a event that thousands are watching was a gigantic shot in the foot. Yes I'm glad they revealed it so soon so now I know not to buy the game, but for them they're going to lose money, unless that reveal that the other missing Pokemon will be made available in future patches or something.
 

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Holy crap the dislikes actually managed to beat the likes! Awesome!!!
And in this twitter https://twitter.com/Pokemon/status/1138855998490152961 there's only people that ask for to have all 800+ Pokémon in the game XD #BringBackNationalDex

Yes I'm glad they revealed it so soon so now I know not to buy the game, but for them they're going to lose money, unless that reveal that the other missing Pokemon will be made available in future patches or something.
I too am glad that they revealed it so soon, I too want all Pokémon to be in the game but I already know that it's not possible... and I doubt that there will be a patch (they never made a patch only some fix to bugs)
I will buy anyway the game :yeahyeah: but I'm sad that some of my favorite Pokémon won't be in the game :cry4:

Another thing: Game Freak confirmed that Mega Evolution and Z-Moves, two features introduced on Nintendo 3DS, have been scrapped in SwSh
 
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And in this twitter https://twitter.com/Pokemon/status/1138855998490152961 there's only people that ask for to have all 800+ Pokémon in the game XD #BringBackNationalDex
I know nothing about that and I have most certainly have not been tweeting it also *whistling*


I too am glad that they revealed it so soon, I too want all Pokémon to be in the game but I already know that it's not possible... and I doubt that there will be a patch (they never made a patch only some fix to bugs)
I will buy anyway the game :yeahyeah: but I'm sad that some of my favorite Pokémon won't be in the game :cry4:

Another thing: Game Freak confirmed that Mega Evolution and Z-Moves, two features introduced on Nintendo 3DS, have been scrapped in SwSh
It is possible the Switch can definitely handle it. It's that it turns out that GameFreak took the 3DS Models and scrapped them. Even though they had future proofed them, they are remaking the models so that "they are more expressive". Instead of delaying the game so that they can added everyone, they rather ensure a November release date so they can cash in on Black Friday and Christmas.

I've heard that too but haven't seen any proof of it, cause honestly it's a dumb plan seeing as there are some Pokemon who are irrelevant without Mega Forms!
 

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I know nothing about that and I have most certainly have not been tweeting it also *whistling*



It is possible the Switch can definitely handle it. It's that it turns out that GameFreak took the 3DS Models and scrapped them. Even though they had future proofed them, they are remaking the models so that "they are more expressive". Instead of delaying the game so that they can added everyone, they rather ensure a November release date so they can cash in on Black Friday and Christmas.

I've heard that too but haven't seen any proof of it, cause honestly it's a dumb plan seeing as there are some Pokemon who are irrelevant without Mega Forms!
I think that they can't delay the game because SwSh anime will have entered production now with the SM episodes entering final phase. TCG is in progres... it's sad...
The 3DS have 800 Pokémon models (and the models of the attacks), the models of the Amie... and... GameFreak isn't an indie developer... they are one of the most succesful company in the World... they can hire someone to help them (instead they split the company in 2: one team that develops new games for a lot of platforms (Town and they do games for PlayStation, Steam, and so on) and team 2 that do Pokémon...
They have aroun 140 employes and if the team is split in 2 they have around 70 people to work on the game... that's not much since the Switch models require a lot of time....
Anyway, we can continue this discussion in this thread https://pokemon-trainer.com/threads...-narrow-the-number-of-available-pokemon.2737/ (there's even an interview to Masuda/Ohmori)
 
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