Pokémon Legends: Arceus
Pokémon Legends: Arceus was originally released in 2022 for the Nintendo Switch. Although the game revolves around catching and battling Pokémon, the mechanics are very different from the main series games' mechanics. The original cartridges and digital downloads are able to trade with each other.
Compatible Pokémon can be transferred into Legends: Arceus from the Pokémon HOME application for the Nintendo Switch. Compatible Pokémon can be transferred into HOME from the Switch games Let's Go Pikachu & Let's Go Eevee, Sword & Shield, Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl, and Scarlet & Violet, and from the mobile application Pokémon GO.
Using the Pokémon Bank application for the 3DS and connecting that application with Pokémon HOME, Pokémon from previous games can be transferred into Legends: Arceus. Pokémon can be sent into Bank from Ruby, Sapphire, & Emerald, FireRed & LeafGreen, Colosseum, XD: Gale of Darkness, Diamond, Pearl & Platinum, HeartGold & SoulSilver, Black & White, Black 2 & White 2, X & Y, Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire, Sun & Moon, Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon, Red, Green, Blue, & Yellow (for the 3DS Virtual Console), and Gold, Silver, & Crystal (for the 3DS Virtual Console), meaning any compatible Pokémon originating in one of these games can be ultimately transferred into Legends: Arceus.
Pokémon can also be moved from Legends: Arceus into Pokémon HOME, from where they can be accessed by Nintendo Switch games with which they are compatible. Let's Go Pikachu and Let's Go Eevee cannot receive Pokémon from Legends: Arceus, however, even if the species is part of those games' Kanto Pokédex.
242 Pokémon, including all of those initially introduced in Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum, are obtainable in this game.
Pokémon HOME contains a Hisui Pokédex that consists of the 242 Pokémon that are obtainable in the game. If the player is able to complete this Pokédex in Pokémon HOME (which requires depositing or trading Pokémon such that the player has had one of all 242 Pokémon in HOME at some point, with all 242 originating from Legends: Arceus), they can receive a shiny Enamorus.
Subpages
- Pokémon Maps: Maps of each of the game's areas, with icons indicating location and spawn rate of Pokémon.
- Pokédex Pages: A collection of pages dedicated to Pokédex completion.
- All Pokémon and their locations: A table containing all available Pokémon and their locations (regular spawns, mass outbreaks, massive mass outbreaks, and space-time distortions).
- Collectible Maps: Maps of each of the game's areas, with icons indicating the locations of Unown, wisps, Old Verses, and other Dig spots.
- Hisui Locations: A list of the seven main areas in the Hisui region, with Pokémon, item, Trainer, and request information.
- Space-time distortions: An overview of the mechanics of space-time distortion, including item and Pokémon spawn rates.
- Mass outbreaks: An overview of the mechanics of mass outbreaks, including Pokémon appearance rates and levels.
- Massive mass outbreaks: An overview of the mechanics of massive mass outbreaks, including Pokémon appearance rates and levels.
- Research calculator: A synthesis of this research tracker by Corvimae and this Pokédex tracker by BobChao, with the addition of the food liked by each Pokémon species, developed at request of the Legends: Arceus speedrunners.
- Landmark Maps: Maps of each of the game's areas, with icons indicating item drop values and rates of attackable objects.
- Pokémon Items: A list of all items that can be obtained for defeating or catching wild Pokémon and their rates.
- Evolutionary item locations: Lists of all obtainable evolutionary items and theit locations.
- Form item locations: A list of all items that can change a Pokémon's form and their locations.
- Ribbons: A list of all Ribbons that can be obtained in Legends: Arceus and their locations.
- Requests: Details on the requirements to unlock and complete all requests, and their rewards.
- Jubilife Village shops: Details on the Jubilife Village facilities.
- Recipes: A list of all obtainable recipes and their locations, and locations for all the materials that can be used for crafting.
- Clothing locations: The locations of all clothing items that can be used for the player character.
- Path of Solitude: A list of all Path of Solitude battles. I intend to write strategies and possibly upload videos for each battle.
- Minimum levels: A page with lists of the lowest levels (regular and alpha) you can find Pokémon in Legends: Arceus alone.
- Maximum levels: A page with lists of the maximum level (regular and alpha) you can find Pokémon in Legends: Arceus alone, for Pokémon obtained in the wild or via gift.
Off-site resources
Please contact me if a source has a broken link, if a better version of the source exists, or you know of a source you want to add.
- Reverse GUI tool: A tool for RNG assistance for regular spawns, by Lincoln.
- Landmark seed finder: A tool for identifying seeds associated with Pokémon that appear from shaking trees, ores, or boxes, by Lincoln.
- Stat calculator, on Porydex.
- Catch rate calculator, on RotomLabs.
- Shiny Guide, on RotomLabs.
- Research tracker: A tool to track which research tasks you have completed in the Pokédex.
- Path of Solitude videos: A playlist of Path of Solitude videos that seem to be focused on completing the battles with low-level Pokémon with minimal investment.
- Gen 8 base stats, on Bulbapedia.
- Pokémon movepools, on Bulbapedia.
- Training grounds trainers, on Bulbapedia.
- Path of Tenacity trainers, on Bulbapedia.
- Eternal Battle Reverie information, on Bulbapedia.
Credits & sources
- Bulbapedia, for Path of Solitude enemy information.
- Lincoln, for helping me get raw spawn data for everything, helping me get data for shaking object drops, helping point me in the right direction for Pokémon item drops, and generally being willing to answer my myriad questions and help me set things up on my PC.
- ShinxHijinx, for making scaled-down versions of the Home models, general layout ideas, helping me get the data for Pokémon item drops, and helping with the versions of the food icons & Pokémon icons used on the research tracker page.
- Anubis, whose documentation on massive mass outbreaks and space-time distortions (and items) served as the primary source for my pages on the subject.
- The Legends: Arceus speedrunning community, for inspiring the maps and adding input and ideas for them, for suggestions on the landmarks maps and the research calculator, and for helping confirm some questions about game mechanics.