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SPOILERS! Pokemon Legends: Arceus *Leak Thread*
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lord forms were an early assumption of Dialga & Palkia's new forms; they're actually Origin forms, the forms they take at the climax of the game when they're frenzied with arceus' power. Laventon theorizes (and by that we can assume "what they actually are" because that's how these things work sometimes) its the forms they take to try & imitate and be closer to Arceus.
I think both "their true form" and "the form taken to imitate arceus" can be true. We're dealing with weird deity monsters, its possible that after Arceus gave them life they molded their own form. Or something to that effect.He also theorizes that they're Dialga and Palkia's true forms, so it's not entirely clear what they are.
The game definitely implies all the den legendaries are from ultra wormholes. Peonia tells you that Solgaleo/Lunala was the first legendary spotted in the den.
On the other hand the only wormhole actually sighted was the one that brought in the full ultra beasts during the DLC and I think other dialog implies there's just something strange about the den in question.
They actually came from an internal list of form names and were just wrongly attributed to Dialga and Palkia, there are actually four Lord forms internally (and one Lady) as they're the names for the Noble Pokemon's forms.
Is a mission reward and thats it, so you only have either alolan Vulpix or Ninetales.
Or you could trade one.
Nooo I was hoping there'd be a post-quest small chance to get another one like there is with Spiritomb and Phione :( oh well!
I did my usual look over the teachable move lists. With the new moves added to the list in Legends, there are 255 unique moves teachable across Gen 8 which is pretty nutty. I didn't notice Ice Ball on the list until just now, which is among the three teachable for the first time along with Baby-Doll Eyes and Power Shift.
I did my usual look over the teachable move lists. With the new moves added to the list in Legends, there are 255 unique moves teachable across Gen 8 which is pretty nutty. I didn't notice Ice Ball on the list until just now, which is among the three teachable for the first time along with Baby-Doll Eyes and Power Shift.
I ended up with a Timid Alolan Vulpix when I completed that quest
There is really no reason for it to not show up in distortions after the quest of something, if Sneasel can show up then any regional variant should be able to.
And whats the deal with Sneasel anyway? Did the h-Sneasel evolve to regular Sneasel after some years or they went extinct and then reintroduced in the region as the regular form?
There is no explanation for their situation and regular Sneasel appears today in the same areas the other form did in Hisui.
maybe the icelands got colder, somehow, causing a change in prey and environment necessitating a return to their roots.
Wait, you're telling me that Gen 4 added 107 Pokémon and now we have a quest to collect 107 wisps?
I have an actual data-based contribution to the thread: I bought a code for the Birthday Happiny, the one that is usable in all 5 Gen VIII games. Here is what it is like when it is used in Legends (Used a save editor to look at any possibly hidden details:
-It is in a normal Legends: Arceus style Pokeball instead of Cherish Ball, Origin Ball, or anything else
-It's moves are Baby-doll Eyes, Draining Kiss, Soft-boiled, and Rest. All four moves are also written into all four of the memory slots reserved for event and egg moves, so, for example if you change all of its moves and transfer it to Sword/Shield or BDSP, it will still be able to remember Soft-boiled despite not getting it via level-up in those games.
-It still has it's Hidden Ability flag activated like the SwSh/BDSP versions, so when Transferred to Home it will have Friend Guard
-It still has the Birthday Ribbon attached, but is unviewable in the game itself
-It is in a normal Legends: Arceus style Pokeball instead of Cherish Ball, Origin Ball, or anything else
-It's moves are Baby-doll Eyes, Draining Kiss, Soft-boiled, and Rest. All four moves are also written into all four of the memory slots reserved for event and egg moves, so, for example if you change all of its moves and transfer it to Sword/Shield or BDSP, it will still be able to remember Soft-boiled despite not getting it via level-up in those games.
-It still has it's Hidden Ability flag activated like the SwSh/BDSP versions, so when Transferred to Home it will have Friend Guard
-It still has the Birthday Ribbon attached, but is unviewable in the game itself
I still wonder why they didn't give us any of the Alolan or Galarian forms in the distortions. It would've made perfect sense. Though adding Galarian Mr. Mime would've made them have to add Mr. Rime to the dex. It only would've been Raichu, Geodude line, Mime and Rime, Vulpix line and Ponyta line.
The interesting part is that I think they do reference Galarian Ponyta at some point in the quest where you get the Ponyta shiny, so they should have already existed.
I think the reason for lack of regional forms availability might just be as simple as not wanting to model / animate them. We know GF isn't exactly fast at that job, and Arceus animations and modeling are even more detailed than the ones in the mainline (texture quality aside), so they may have opted to skip them just to save time in development.
Game Freak really got me all excited about past regional forms being found in the wilds of other regions, and then made Alolan Vulpix another NPC gift.
To be fair the way Alolan Vulpix lore is presented makes sense that it's not available in the wild, since it's specifically said to be an adaptation to Vulpixes (and Ninetales) living in the cold environment of alolan mountains specifically.
Not saying it has to be the case for *every* regional form, but some of them are strictly linked to the region's lore and would be weird to be found in other places.
...am I really trying to defend pokemon evolutionary consistency when this game has Blissey and Crobat who apparently never shown in Kanto and Jotho for the 500 years after?......
The in-universe explanation for this instance specifically is that the guy is from Alola and brought these with him. Theoretically they would become invasive and naturalize in the icelands in this wacky timeline, but it hasn't happened yet.
no, they are not present.