Tag: Pokemon

Like most Pokémon games, Pokémon Legends: Arceus begins by asking you to choose one of three different starters: Cyndaquil, Oshawott, or Rowlet. The starter you pick will accompany you on your adventure across Hisui, but the two remaining ones will head back to Professor Laventon’s lab with him.

The thing is, unlike the vast majority of other mainline Pokémon games, getting the other two starter Pokémon is actually pretty easy. Because of this, you won’t have to find a pal willing to part with their partner just to fill out a page in your Pokédex.

Here’s how to get all three starters in Pokémon Legends: Arceus.

Pokémon Legends: Arceus – How to get all three starter Pokémon

Getting all three starter Pokémon in Pokémon Legends: Arceus is actually pretty easy. Obviously you get the first one when you choose it at the beginning of the game. This will allow you to register it and both of its evolutions in your Pokédex, although you’ll still be missing six entries for the remaining starter families.

Throughout the game, all three starter Pokémon can be found in space-time distortion fields, which are purple, semi-spherical areas that sporadically appear in the overworld on occasion. You can find all kinds of powerful Pokémon in these fields, including all three Hisuian starters — if you’re interested in shiny Pokémon, you’ll be glad to know they aren’t shiny-locked, either.

If you’re having no luck with space-time distortion fields however, fear not: Just like Legends: Arceus gives you a guaranteed encounter with a shiny Ponyta, you’re also guaranteed all three starter Pokémon.

After you finish the main story in Pokémon Legends: Arceus — this is signaled by the credits — all you need to do in order to obtain the starters you didn’t choose at the beginning of the game is head over to Professor Laventon’s lab in the Galaxy Team HQ. This is to the left of Cyllene’s room, and is where the Request blackboard is located.

If you’ve finished the main story, speaking to Professor Laventon will prompt him to give you the two starters you didn’t choose when you initially set out on your adventure. We chose Cyndaquil, so Laventon gifted us both Oshawott and Rowlet. Now they’re all best buds.

It’s as simple as that. While you can find all three starters in space-time distortion fields, it’s probably easier to just get them off Laventon after you finish the game.

Want more Legends: Arceus advice? Check out our Pokémon Legends: Arceus tips and tricks guide — and for the love of God, mass release your unwanted Pokémon!

Written by Cian Maher on behalf of GLHF.

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Pretty much anyone who knows anything about Pokémon will likely know just how difficult it is to find shiny Pokémon in the wild. Fortunately, Pokémon Legends: Arceus has made things a little easier for aspiring shiny hunters. It’s still hard, of course. Just not as hard.

Game Freak has taken a few measures to make encountering shiny Pokémon a bit more likely in Legends: Arceus, all of which we’re going to break down in detail here. Whether you’re in the market for an Umbreon with blue circles (one of the best shinies ever) or a Gengar that’s just a slightly different shade of purple (one of the most disappointing shinies ever), read on to learn everything you need to know about shiny Pokémon in Pokémon Legends: Arceus.

Pokémon Legends: Arceus — How to get the shiny charm

The Shiny Charm has become a pretty famous item in Pokémon games over the years thanks to the fact it drastically increases your odds of encountering shiny Pokémon. The base rate for bumping into a shiny in Gen 8 is one in 4,096, although with the Shiny Charm it can drop as low as one in 819 (thanks, Serebii).

To get the Shiny Charm in Legends: Arceus, you’ll need to reach research level 10 for every single Pokémon in the game. You don’t need to tick all of their research boxes, mind — once you’ve completed any ten tasks on their research page, they’ll count towards unlocking the Shiny Charm. In total, there are 242 species of Pokémon to catch and research in Pokémon Legends: Arceus. When you complete every research task for all of them, your shiny odds will max out at one in 585 — except for in very special circumstances.

Pokémon Legends: Arceus — What are mass outbreaks?

Mass outbreaks have been a thing for quite some time, although they’re a bit different in Pokémon Legends: Arceus. When you go to leave Jubilife Village, you might notice that there’s a mass outbreak of a specific species of Pokémon in one of Hisui’s various locales. If you go to investigate, you’ll see around four to ten Pokémon congregated in the area in question — all of which have an increased likelihood of being shiny.

With the Shiny Charm and all research tasks maxed out for the specific Pokémon in question, your odds for finding a shiny are one in 128, which is extraordinarily high. So, if you’re looking for that shiny Umbreon we mentioned earlier, you’d best get down to business — those tasks won’t research themselves!

Pokémon Legends: Arceus — Guaranteed shiny encounters

At the time of writing, we know of one guaranteed shiny encounter in Pokémon Legends: Arceus. If you’re in the market for a beloved pony with blue flames blazing along its back, check out our guide on how to get shiny Ponyta in Pokémon Legends: Arceus.

Written by Cian Maher on behalf of GLHF.

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Pokémon Legends: Arceus is a mysterious game. Despite turning the traditional Pokémon formula on its head, grabbing it by the feet, and sending it soaring into the stratosphere, this is a game that largely forgets to explain a surprising amount of its new and overhauled systems. Perhaps the most important example of this — at least in our experience so far — is how valuable it is to mass release your unwanted Pokémon.

This system isn’t just poorly explained — there are several layers of it that  go completely unexplained in general. As you’ll have likely noticed by now, Legends: Arceus tasks you with catching an inordinate amount of Pokémon, which means that your boxes (called Pastures in Arceus) are going to fill up fairly sharpish. We’re here to tell you that delaying your spring cleaning is a very bad idea.

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When you visit the Pastures in Jubilife Village, you can switch your party Pokémon with any of the ones you have in storage. As with all mainline Pokémon games, you can also release any unwanted ‘mons taking up room in your boxes. We’re not sure about you, but this is something we’ve never really bothered to do in the past on account of the fact it’s kind of pointless. Fortunately, that’s been changed in Legends: Arceus, where it’s anything but that.

As you’re perusing the Pokémon in your Pastures, you’ll notice that pressing the X button will allow you to mass release Pokémon, which makes clearing out your boxes a whole lot faster. The thing is, you’ll actually get a reward for every single Pokémon you release.

When Pokémon leave the Pastures, they leave behind a little present for you: Grit items. These include Grit Dust, Grit Gravel, Grit Pebbles, and Grit Rocks. While it’s easy to dismiss these new items as rubbish, all of them are extremely valuable in that they allow you to increase the effort values (EVs) of your Pokémon, making them far fiercer and more formidable in battle.

Basically, Grit Dust allows you to raise any EV from zero to three. Gravel covers three to six, Pebbles can be used for six to nine, and Rocks max out an EV at ten. The difference in an Attack stat with an EV value of zero and an Attack stat with an EV value of ten is extraordinary — without gaining any levels at all, your Pokémon will be noticeably stronger.

Why does this matter? Well, given that Legends: Arceus doesn’t have online battles, most of your match-ups in Hisui will be against NPCs. Because player-versus-environment runs tend to be a lot easier than facing off against other people, you can experiment with teams made up of your favourites, as opposed to solely focusing on meta ‘mons.

Grit items make this even more viable in that your favourites — even the little cute ones who unfortunately pay for that cuteness with weakness — can learn to pack a punch. Once you start grinding Grit, you’ll never go back to cluttered and overflowing boxes again.

So yeah — make sure you remember to mass release all those unwanted Pokémon who are taking up space in the Pastures, alright? It’s one of the most valuable bits of hidden knowledge in the game right now.

Written by Cian Maher on behalf of GLHF.

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As a means of celebrating Pokémon Legends: Arceus, Hisuian Voltorb is now catchable in Pokémon Go, Niantic’s illustrious augmented-reality game that took the world by storm back in 2015.

Fortunately, catching Hisuian Voltorb doesn’t require a whole lot of effort. Despite being tied to special research for Professor Willow, Hisuian Voltorb can be captured in a matter of minutes, meaning you can add one of Pokémon’s latest regional variants to your Pokédex in no time at all.

Here’s everything you need to know about the Hisuian Voltorb special research and encounter requirements in Pokémon Go.

Pokémon Go – How to catch Hisuian Voltorb

While there is technically special research tied to Hisuian Voltorb, you can easily catch one in the wild, too. In general, both Voltorb and Hisuian Voltorb will spawn in the wild from 10am local time on Jan. 30 until an unspecified date and time.

When we signed in this morning, we immediately encountered two Voltorb and two Hisuian Voltorb (and a Surskit, as you can see in the screenshot). As a result, simply adding this Pokémon to your Pokédex should be a breeze.

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Pokémon Go – Hisuian Voltorb special research tasks

If you’ve nabbed yourself a few Voltorb and want to complete the special research from Professor Willow, it’s divided into two separate parts.

Hisuian Voltorb special research task 1

Catch 10 Pokémon.

Use 10 Berries to help catch Pokémon.

Give your buddy 3 treats.

Hisuian Voltorb special research task 2

Catch 20 Pokémon.

Use 20 Berries to help catch Pokémon.

Make 10 curveball throws.

The rewards for both rounds of research are the same: three Razz Berries, three Pinap Berries, and a Hisuian Voltorb encounter.

Pokémon Go – Can you evolve Hisuian Voltorb into Hisuian Electrode?

Unfortunately, Hisuian Voltorb cannot evolve into Hisuian Electrode in Pokémon Go at this time. Electrode plays quite a significant role in Pokémon Legends: Arceus, so it’s possible that Nintendo wants to keep its existence a secret for just a little longer. When you try to evolve Hisuian Voltorb, the actual “Evolve” option will be missing, meaning all you can do is use Stardust to power it up. You can obviously get its Hisuian evolution in Legends: Arceus though.

Fortunately, regular Voltorb can be shiny as part of the event, so it’s still definitely worth hunting from now until it ends. You might not be able to get a Hisuian Electrode, but you can get a shiny, normal one!

Hisuian Voltorb may be a regional variant, but the latest Pokémon game also introduces a bunch of all-new ‘mons. Here’s every new Pokémon in Pokémon Legends: Arceus, ranked.

Written by Cian Maher on behalf of GLHF.

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Despite taking place in the Hisui region — which most Pokémon fans will more commonly recognise as ancient Sinnoh — Pokémon Legends: Arceus has introduced a variety of new Pokémon to Nintendo’s iconic series. Whether these ‘mons died out, went into hiding, or adapted to modern life in the years since is anyone’s guess. All we know is that some of the Pokémon here have never been seen before.

Technically speaking, there are two different kinds of new Pokémon in Legends: Arceus. There are actual new Pokémon — as in ‘mons we have quite literally never seen or even heard about before — and there are regional variants, which have appeared in every new region since Sun & Moon’s Alola.

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For the purpose of this article, we’re not going to bother with the regional variants. There are 16 of them and they’re mostly just different takes on Pokémon we already know from previous games. Because of that, we’ll likely do a separate ranking for them in the near future.

Instead, we’re going to focus on the seven all-new Pokémon that recently made their debut in Pokémon Legends: Arceus. Here’s every new Pokémon in  Pokémon Legends: Arceus, ranked from worst to best.

Enamorus

Funnily enough, Enamorus — the all-new Legendary Pokémon that is now a fourth member of the former trio composed of Landorus, Thundurus, and Tornadus — is the only Pokémon on this list we haven’t got a screenshot for yet. Why, you ask? Because it somehow looks even more ridiculous than Tornadus Therian, an oversized green chicken with a knock-off Dr. Eggman mustache, and we haven’t had any desire to catch it yet.

While some of the new Hisuian regional variants aren’t all that nice — we’re looking at you, Decidueye — others are excellent. Hisuian Avalugg even manages to make a previously rubbish Pokémon brilliant! But for every victory in Pokémon there must always be an equal or greater loss. For Legends: Arceus, this is undoubtedly Enamorus.

Overqwil

While we originally loved the idea of an underappreciated Pokémon like Qwilfish getting another shot at longevity with a regional variant, it definitely didn’t need this evolution. Don’t get us wrong — it needed an evolution. Just not this one.

Overqwil looks like one of those long-defunct bombs you’d find in the center of a gag in a kids’ maritime movie like Finding Nemo or Shark Tale — we can’t remember which one, if either, had a bomb. That’s just what it looks like, okay? Also Dark/Poison is a typing from Hell. That’s not to mention how stupid “Overqwil” sounds. If we saw that in a leaked document, we’d have been charitable enough to think it was fake.

Ursaluna

Ursaring is another Pokémon who just… didn’t need an evolution. It’s one of the best Normal-types ever designed, despite the fact that it too didn’t need to exist given that Teddiursa is loads better.

The only reasons Ursaluna is higher on the list than Overqwil are a) it doesn’t look quite as bad, and b) as a Ride Pokémon it at least serves some purpose and therefore partially earns a reason to not come dead last.

Kleavor

When we first saw this guy, we thought, ‘Wow, why are they showing us all the worst new Pokémon first?’ As it turns out, they weren’t even the worst of the bunch! Kleavor looked ridiculous when it was originally revealed. Next to Enoramus, however, it looks like a particularly impressive da Vinci painting.

We still think Scizor is way better, mind, and that Scyther is the best of the three. Still, Kleavor isn’t quite as terrible as we were led to believe — relatively speaking, at least.

Basculegion

This guy’s actually pretty cool. It can double jump out of the water and there’s definitely some kind of torpedo-esque torque to its movement.

It’s also supposedly the result of a Basculin absorbing the souls of all the other fish from its school who died, which is obviously extremely scary. If we didn’t give it a reasonably high position on this list, who knows what vengeance might have been wrought upon us? We are not willing to find out.

Wyrdeer

Wyrdeer was one of the first new Pokémon we saw out of the seven introduced in Pokémon Legends: Arceus. Frankly, there are a lot of reasons to love this ‘mon.

It’s a great evolution for an often forgotten Pokémon from years ago, serves as a reliable ally in traversing the Obsidian Fieldlands, and — unlike most of the other Pokémon on this list — actually looks pretty great. For a while, Wyrdeer was at the top of this list. Then we reached the Coronet Highlands.

Sneasler

The trophy for ‘Best New Pokémon’ obviously goes to Sneasler, Pokémon Legends: Arceus’ all-new evolution for Sneasel.

A lot went into deciding this, but here are some key points: it has by far the best design out of all the new Pokémon in Legends: Arceus; Poison/Fighting is an extremely cool typing; having a Pokémon who is basically Norman Reedus in Death Stranding rules, actually; and in terms of lore, Sinnoh is where we first encountered Weavile, making the fact a different evolution for Sneasel used to exist in the same region pretty fascinating.

There you have it, folks. Sneasler is officially the Beedrill’s kneedrills.

If you’re playing Pokémon Legends: Arceus and are after some handy tips and tricks, check out our guide at the link.

Written by Cian Maher on behalf of GLHF.

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Pokémon Legends: Arceus features massive, semi-open world spaces filled with lakes, mountains, and vast expanses of land that teem with all different kinds of unique Pokémon. It’s no wonder, then, that you’re able to obtain special Ride Pokémon — more commonly known as mounts — to traverse these sprawling areas in a more timely fashion.

In total, Pokémon Legends: Arceus has five Ride Pokémon: Wyrdeer, Ursaluna, Basculegion, Sneasler, and Hisuian Braviary. All five of these Pokémon are necessary if you’re planning to visit everywhere contained within the four corners of Hisui, so it’s in your interest to gain access to them as quickly as possible.

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It’s worth noting that all of these Pokémon are unlocked as part of the main story, although there’s obviously value in knowing when you can expect to encounter each one so that you can plan your expeditions up to that point accordingly.

Here’s how to get every mount in Pokémon Legends: Arceus.

Pokémon Legends Arceus Ride Pokémon – How to get all mounts

Wyrdeer

Wyrdeer functions as a basic kind of steed in Pokémon Legends: Arceus, allowing you to gallop across flat ground much faster. You get Wyrdeer in the Obsidian Fieldlands shortly after meeting Warden Mai and being allowed to cross the bridge towards the Heights. At this point, you’ll also receive the Celestica Flute, which you’ll use to summon all Ride Pokémon from here on out.

Wyrdeer is by far the best mount for quickly traversing regular land, and will be invaluable to you throughout your entire adventure. Like all mounts, however, this specific Wyrdeer can only be called for the purpose of helping you make your way across Hisui. If you want a Wyrdeer of your own, you’ll need to catch and evolve a Stantler.

Unsure of how to do this? Check out our guide on how to get every Hisuian evolution in the game.

Ursaluna

After wrapping up your first couple of expeditions in the Obsidian Fieldlands, you’ll eventually gain access to a new area called the Crimson Mirelands. It’s here that you’ll first meet Ursaluna.

Ursaluna tends to hang out at Sludge Mound, which is a fair bit north of the base camp you originally arrive at. While Wyrdeer takes to you immediately, the only way to earn Ursaluna’s trust is to defeat it in battle.

Ursaluna functions in a similar way to Wyrdeer aside from the fact that it’s remarkably slower. The trade-off for this is that it has the ability to detect hidden treasure, which can nab you all kinds of rare and unique items.

Basculegion

Basculegion is obtained in the next area you’ll visit on your journey across Hisui: the Cobalt Coastlands. Shortly after arriving here, you’ll learn that you need to cross a vast sea in order to get to Firespit Island. For this, you’ll need the help of Basculegion, who is watched over by Warden Iscan.

Iscan is a shy man who tells you that you need to catch a Dusclops if you’re going to make Basculegion’s favourite food and earn its trust. Fortunately, Dusclops can be found relatively nearby at Deadwood Haunt. Once you catch it, bring it back to Iscan and have it use Dark Pulse on Basculegion’s dinner. A cutscene will then play in which Basculegion decides you’re a worthy rider, at which point you’ll gain access to Legends: Arceus’ equivalent of Surf.

Sneasler

Sneasler can be found in the Coronet Highlands, which is the fourth main location you’ll visit during the main story of Legends: Arceus. Gen 5 fans will likely recognise its Warden, Ingo, from Unova’s Battle Subway — nice touch, Game Freak.

Obtaining Sneasler mostly just involves following Ingo through a series of caves until you reach Sneasler’s abode. It will descend from high up in the mountains and greet you, at which point you’ll be prompted to play your Celestica Flute for it. Once it’s on your side, you’ll be able to scale mountains all over Hisui — collecting other people’s satchels was one thing, but you can’t expect us to believe that the screenshot embedded above isn’t a direct reference to Death Stranding.

Hisuian Braviary

Hisuian Braviary is the best mount in the entire game, but it’s also by far the most difficult to unlock. You don’t gain access to it until you reach the Alabaster Icelands, at which point you’ll need to chase a girl named Sabi up mountains and through temples until she finally starts to take you seriously. Then you have to battle her — she has a Rhyperior, a Magmortar, and an Electivire — and then you have to fight Braviary, too. It’s a nightmare!

Once you get it though, you can soar through the skies of Hisui as much as you could possibly want. This makes traversal almost infinitely faster and shrinks the maps to a size that allows you to visit anywhere you want at a moment’s notice. It’s pretty great, once you get past all the annoying battle stuff.

Want more help with Pokémon Legends: Arceus? Check out our tips and tricks guide.

Written by Cian Maher on behalf of GLHF.

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If you’re wondering if it’s possible to get every Eeveelution in Pokémon Legends: Arceus, the good news is that yes, it is. We’re not going to say it’s easy, but it’s doable.

The first thing you’re going to want to do is obviously catch yourself eight Eevee — one for every Eeveelution. If you’re unsure of how to do that, check out our guide on where to find Eevee in Pokémon Legends: Arceus before reading on.

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Got all your Eevee sorted? Excellent, now all you have to do is meet different, highly specific evolution requirements for each and every one of them. Fun!

Here’s how to get every Eeveelution in Pokémon Legends: Arceus.

Pokémon Legends: Arceus – How to get every Eeveelution

Vaporeon

Fortunately, the Kanto Eeveelutions are way easier to get than the evolved forms of Eevee from other regions. All you need to do to nab yourself a Vaporeon is use a Water Stone on one of your Eevee.

If you’re not sure how to get evolution stones, you can learn all about them in our guide to evolution items in Pokémon Legends: Arceus. Essentially, you can either buy them or find them in space-time distortions.

Jolteon

Jolteon’s evolution functions much the same way as Vaporeon’s, except it requires a Thunder Stone instead of a Water Stone. Aside from purchasing these or finding them in space-time distortions, you can also pick them up by smashing the amber-colored rocks in the Crimson Mirelands.

Flareon

This is basically the same again, except Eevee requires a Fire Stone to evolve into Flareon. We’ve yet to find any of these naturally scattered across the map, although we’d be surprised if they weren’t abundant in the Cobalt Coastlands’ Firespit Island.

Umbreon

Eevee doesn’t require an evolutionary stone to evolve into Umbreon. Instead, it needs to be leveled up with high friendship. Once the option to evolve it becomes available — you’ll know what we mean if you read our guide on how to evolve Pokémon in Pokémon Legends: Arceus — all you need to do is make sure to evolve it at night.

If you don’t want to wait until night falls, you can also check out our guide on how to change the time of day in Pokémon Legends: Arceus.

Note: We’ve also seen Umbreon appear in space-time distortion fields, although we’ve yet to see any other Eeveelutions alongside it, so we’re unsure about whether or not Umbreon is the only one who can show up there. It’s definitely edgy enough for that to be the case.

Similarly, we’ve also encountered Alpha Umbreon without seeing any other Alpha Eeveelutions. Suspicious…

(If you’re curious about what Alpha Pokémon are, we have a guide at the link).

Espeon

Getting Espeon involves following the exact same steps as obtaining Umbreon, except you need to evolve it during the day instead of at night.

Leafeon

Okay, so veteran Pokémon players will remember that Eevee needed to be leveled up near the mossy rock in Eterna Forest to get Leafeon back in the days of Diamond & Pearl. This was, as you might recall, an inventive idea that mostly turned out to be a nuisance.

While the mossy rock is technically in Legends: Arceus — it’s in the Obsidian Fieldlands, near the Heartwood — you can also just use a Leaf Stone on Eevee, which is much easier. Our recommendation would be to follow the latter option, but it’s up to you. If you’re a traditionalist, the mossy rock is all yours — we definitely won’t fight you for it.

Glaceon

Glaceon’s icy rock is also in Legends: Arceus, being hidden in a frozen, subterranean cave in the Alabaster Icelands. It took us so long to find, and is so difficult to explain the location of, that we’re going to just go ahead and suggest you use an Ice Stone instead — seriously, it will save you a lot of time and effort.

Sylveon

Getting Sylveon involves pretty much the exact same methodology behind getting Umbreon or Espeon. The only difference with Gen 6’s Fairy fox is that it doesn’t matter what time of day you evolve it at. Instead, once Eevee is ready to evolve, make sure it knows a Fairy-type move.

In Legends: Arceus, Eevee learns Baby-Doll Eyes at level 18. If it doesn’t know this technique anymore, simply select “Change moves” before confirming the evolution and teach it back to it. Once this is done, you can go ahead and evolve your Eevee into Sylveon.

Want more advice on how to get the most out of the vast region of Hisui? Check out our Pokémon Legends: Arceus tips and tricks guide.

Written by Cian Maher on behalf of GLHF.

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Evolution has always been a key element of Pokémon, so it’s strange to learn that it’s been slightly changed in Pokémon Legends: Arceus. It’s still present, of course — it’s just that the methods for actually triggering it are a bit different.

Fortunately, evolving Pokémon is still just as easy as ever. Once you meet the correct requirements — whether that be raising a Pokémon to a certain level, training it under set conditions, or exposing it to a specific item — you will be able to evolve your Pokémon.

The key word there is “you,” because this time around, you are the one who has to instigate the evolution.

Curious about what we mean by that? Here’s everything you need to know about evolving Pokémon in Pokémon Legends: Arceus.

Pokémon Legends: Arceus – How to evolve Pokémon

If you’re wondering why evolving your Pokémon in Pokémon Legends: Arceus is a bit different to how it was in previous games, it’s not quite as complicated as you might think.

Basically, the only difference with evolution in Pokémon Legends: Arceus is that it no longer happens automatically. While in previous games your ‘mons would evolve at the end of a battle after reaching a certain level, Legends: Arceus’ seamless transitions from battles to exploration would make that a bit obstructive — so Game Freak compromised.

Now, when a Pokémon is ready to evolve, you’ll see a little “Can Evolve” notification next to it when you view your party on the left-hand side of the screen while roaming the overworld. If you open your menu, you’ll notice that the Poké Ball next to its name is a different color to how it might ordinarily look. This is another signifier that you’re now able to trigger the evolution.

To do this, simply select the Pokémon you want to evolve and hit… well, Evolve! It’s pretty easy once you know what you’re doing, although the disparity between this method and how evolution functioned in previous games has caught a lot of people off guard so far. At least we don’t need Everstones anymore.

Obviously this only applies to Pokémon who evolve via level-up. If you want to know more about specific held items and trade evolutions, we’ve got a guide for that at the link.

Hungry for more advice about Pokémon Legends: Arceus? Make sure to check out our handy tips and tricks guide.

Written by Cian Maher on behalf of GLHF.

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Changing Pokémon has always been pretty easy — you visit a Pokémon Center, boot up the PC, and instantly gain access to each and every ‘mon you’ve ever caught. The thing about Pokémon Legends: Arceus is that it takes place long before the invention of computers, and so the method for substituting party members with Pokémon you have in storage is a little bit different. There are also no Pokémon Centers.

Fortunately, changing your party in Pokémon Legends Arceus is just as easy as it ever was. It may not be immediately obvious how you’re supposed to go about it, but once you know what you’re up to, it should be a breeze.

Whether you want switch out your starter for a newly caught Alpha Pokémon or you’ve finally managed to find yourself an Eevee, swapping party members in Pokémon Legends: Arceus is quick and painless.

Here’s everything you need to know about how to change Pokémon in Pokémon Legends: Arceus.

Pokémon Legends: Arceus – How to change Pokémon

In Pokémon Legends: Arceus, there are two different ways to switch Pokémon depending on where you are.

How to change Pokémon in Jubilife Village

If you’re in Jubilife Village and want to change your Pokémon, all you need to do is head over to the Pastures. This is the ranch-like area tucked away to the side of the village — it’s pretty much impossible to miss given that about 50 of your Pokémon are wandering around behind the fences.

When you arrive at the Pastures, speak to the woman by the main gate. She’ll ask if you want to see all of your Pokémon — once you say yes, you’ll be able to switch out your party members for Pokémon in the Pastures, which are basically just Legends: Arceus’ version of boxes from older games.

How to change Pokémon in the field

Switching Pokémon in the field is just as easy. While you don’t have access to the Pastures, the guy beside Professor Laventon — who is also responsible for changing the time of day in the field — is able to change them for you.

If you’re ever out in the field and want to add a recently caught ‘mon to your team, all you need to do is press the ‘-‘ button to bring up the map and then press the X button to fast-travel back to camp. Simply speak to the man standing to the left of Professor Laventon and you can change Pokémon to your heart’s content.

Written by Cian Maher on behalf of GLHF.

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If you’re looking in the right place for a certain Pokémon in Pokémon Legends: Arceus but can’t seem to find it, there’s a pretty good chance you’ve just arrived there at the wrong time of day. If this is the case, there’s no need to fret — it’s actually very easy to change from day to night in Pokémon Legends: Arceus.

Most Pokémon in the game will be affected by this day/night cycle. Some ‘mons will change where they spawn depending on the time of day, whereas others can disappear completely between morning and evening. Once you know how to switch between the two though, catching just about anything becomes a breeze.

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Still, the game only really clarifies that you can change the time once, and that is very early on in its runtime. What’s more, this explanation is extremely vague, so you’d be forgiven for forgetting it.

Because of this, we’ve decided to put together a handy little guide on how to change from night to day and vice versa in Pokémon Legends: Arceus. Here’s everything you need to know.

Pokémon Legends: Arceus – How to change the time of day

Changing the time of day in Pokémon Legends: Arceus mostly just depends on whether you’re in Jubilife Village or out in the field. While the idea behind instigating the change is largely the same, the way in which you actually do it is slightly different.

Pokémon Legends: Arceus – How to change the time of day in Jubilife Village

To change the time of day in Jubilife Village, all you need to do is visit your house. If you can’t remember where this is, it’s to the right of the Galaxy Team HQ, right after the Ginkgo Guild’s caravan.

Once you get to your house, head over to your bed and interact with it. This will allow you to rest until a certain time. When you wake up, it will be the time you selected from the list of options that were provided to you.

Pokémon Legends: Arceus – How to change the time of day in the field

Obviously you can’t use your own bed when you’re out in the Obsidian Fieldlands or Crimson Mirelands, so you’ll have to visit one of the Galaxy Team camps instead. When you’re here, talk to the Corps member next to Professor Laventon.

As well as allowing you to change your Pokémon and buy new items, this guy gives you the option to rest. From here, it functions the exact same way as it does with your own bed in Jubilife Village, although it’s particularly valuable to rest out in the field because it also heals your entire party to full HP.

Want more advice? Check out our Pokémon Legends: Arceus tips and tricks guide.

Written by Cian Maher on behalf of GLHF.

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