Pokemon Sword and Shield Offering Special Starters for Trainers

By connecting Pokemon Sword or Shield to the service Pokemon Home, players can receive special variants of Grookey, Scorbunny, and Sobble.

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A new trailer for the Pokemon Sword and Shield DLC expansions, The Isle of Armor and The Crown Tundra, debuted earlier today and included the official June 17 release date for The Isle of Armor. One of their big selling points is the addition of Gigantamax forms for Blastoise, Venusaur, and the Galar starter Pokemon, but for those who want Grookey, Scorbunny, and Sobble with their hidden abilities now, there is also a campaign active through the cloud storage service Pokemon Home.

The campaign began at 1:00 p.m. UTC through the Mystery Gift functionality of Pokemon Home. To receive the starters with hidden abilities, players need to connect their console and mobile versions of Home to the same Nintendo Account and “transfer any Pokemon” between Home and Pokemon Sword or Shield according to the mobile application.

Starter Pokemon are only available with the abilities Overgrow, Blaze, and Torrent through normal means, so having access to hidden abilities is a boon for any trainer. The Galar starters are also particularly useful for competitive breeding: Grookey’s Grassy Surge activates a terrain that heals grounded Pokemon, Scorbunny’s Libero acts the same as Greninja’s Protean by changing its type to match the move it’s using, and Sobble’s Sniper boosts the damage of critical hits.

Players using Pokemon Home have also gotten the opportunity to trade with friends online as part of a limited-time event to celebrate the service’s version 1.1.0 update that made it compatible with the DLC expansions. Returning Pokemon will be added into the game that can be traded from Home into Sword and Shield, and there will be entirely new Pokemon like a Galarian form of Slowbro.

Also being added into the game are brand new Legendary Pokemon, including Galarian forms of the trio Articuno, Zapdos, and Moltres, as well as Regeleki and Regidraco — two new members of the regi family introduced in Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire. The Crown Tundra DLC will include the ability to catch the box cover Legendaries through Max Raid battles too.

Thanks to the success of Pokemon Sword and Shield on the Nintendo Switch, The Pokemon Company announced it had its second-best year in history just behind 2016 when Pokemon GO was released. No doubt the DLC expansions will help these games continue their dominant presence, and having hidden ability starters to mess around with is a plus for everyone jumping back into Galar.

Pokemon Sword and Shield are available now for Nintendo Switch.

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