One of the most interesting things about evaluating quality in Pokémon Legends: Arceus is how drastically different individual Pokémon can be here. Now that Snow Warning isn’t a thing, Abomasnow fares significantly worse than in previous mainline games. Rotom Wash without Levitate is a breeze to dispatch, while Togekiss really struggles to find a niche in the absence of both Serene Grace and worthwhile Dragon-type opponents. Typically ‘good’ Pokémon are, well… not so good anymore! For series diehards like us, that’s a pretty difficult thing to wrap our Iron Heads around.
Still, we persevered. After spending around 50 hours with the game, we’ve experimented with all kinds of different teams and strategies that have now culminated in this very list. We’re not going to bother considering competitive viability or anything like that — Pokémon Legends: Arceus doesn’t support online battles, after all.
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Instead, we’re thinking about this purely based on how specific Pokémon can perform in a strictly player-versus-environment setting. For the record, we’re not including Legendary or Mythical Pokémon, and every evolutionary family can only be represented by one individual ‘mon from it. These are the best readily obtainable Pokémon in the game in their strongest forms as per their respective evolutionary chains.
Here are the 35 best Pokémon in Pokémon Legends: Arceus, which have been very roughly ordered from worst to best.