Make sure to use these to buff up your Pokémon! Otherwise they’re gonna be far weaker and more underpowered than they need to be. You can raise any of these at any time by using Grit items, which you can get by battling, catching, and/or defeating Alpha Pokémon, as well as by releasing Pokémon (another reason Mass Release is such an important feature). Instead, your Pokémon can gain up to +10 modifiers for each of its six statistics.
Gone are hidden values like IVs, and the often obtuse EVs that went into raising a Pokémon the way you wanted it to. Legends entails the most dramatic overhaul to Pokemon’s long established battle system ever – and with that comes a totally new stats system for your Pokémon. She’s gonna make the mass release option available to you, saving your a lot of tedium and pain along the way. Initially, Legends only offers the option to release one Pokémon at a time, but after you have filled up three pastures (this game’s version of Boxes), make sure to go and talk to the lady who manages the pastures. But when you’re catching that many you will also eventually need to start releasing them – en masse at that. You’re going to be catching a lot of Pokémon in Legends – you actually kinda have to, there’s no other way to complete your Pokédex. Use the right Pokeball for the right situation! This manifests itself in when you throw the balls too – Heavy Balls don’t go as far as regular Pokeballs go, and Feather Balls are best suited to catching things way off in the distance, or in the air.
A Heavy Ball is, as the name implies, heavier than a standard Pokeball, while a Feather Ball is far lighter.
No, you’re not crazy, the different Pokeballs you have actually do all weigh different. So you’ll want to make sure it feels right to you.ĭIFFERENT TYPES OF POKEBALLS WEIGH DIFFERENT You’re gonna be throwing a lot of stuff in Legends – that’s actually your primary form of interaction with pretty much anything actually. If you don’t like motion controls but want to tweak the analog stick aiming sensitivity, you can do that instead as well. However, if for whatever reason you don’t find dual analog aiming satisfactory, the good news is you can enable gyro assist aiming too – you’d just have to go into the Settings menu to do it. It feels excellent to actually aim and throw your Pokeballs in this game yourself – kind of helps you live out that fantasy of being a Pokémon trainer and acting out like the characters in the anime do. Whatever the reason, there’s a lot going on behind the scenes in Arceus – and we’re here to tell you some of it. Others are more obvious things that are, for whatever reason, not that well explained. Some of this has to do with just how far reaching the results of the shakeup to the Pokémon formula can end up being. However, in spite of this being a Pokémon game – and one with a fairly long onboarding process at that – there’s a surprising amount it doesn’t tell the player upfront. Pokémon Legends Arceus is now out, and players around the world are learning its several nuances and intricacies as they lose themselves in the very first open world Pokémon game ever.