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Pokémon availability (Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee!)

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This is the Pokémon availability in Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee!.

They are both compatible with 153 Pokémon species, being the first set of core series games to fully exclude Pokémon species from preceding games. There are three Mythical Pokémon (Mew, Meltan, and Melmetal) which are not found in-game but are available by other means. In addition, these games are compatible with the 18 Alolan forms and the 15 Kanto Mega Evolutions.

Availability

The first 150 species in the Kanto Pokédex are obtainable in-game, subject to 11 version exclusives each—which would normally necessitate trading between versions for Pokédex completion, but upon reaching Fuchsia City, these 150 can also be transferred into the games one-way from Pokémon GO via the GO Park. Meltan and Melmetal can also be obtained by transferring this way; Meltan can only evolve into Melmetal within Pokémon GO. The remaining Mythical Pokémon, Mew, is exclusively obtained from the Poké Ball Plus; only one Mew can be obtained per Poké Ball Plus.

All of the 150 except for Mewtwo are repeatedly obtainable in-game when combining both versions, although some only by reviving Cerulean Cave fossils (of Aerodactyl, Kabuto or Omanyte) or by catching rare spawns. These rare spawns, which allow for exclusive in-game event Pokémon to be recaptured, include the Kanto first partner Pokémon (Bulbasaur, Charmander, Squirtle), the Fighting Dojo prizes (Hitmonlee and Hitmonchan), and Lapras, Porygon, Snorlax, and Chansey (the latter not being rare in Cerulean Cave). The remaining rare spawns, which are in the sky and only unlocked after beating the game, consist of Charizard, Dragonite and the legendary birds (Articuno, Zapdos, Moltres). Without Catch Combos, these rare spawns generate at a combined 1 in 200 chance—except for the legendary birds, which instead have a 1 in 2000 combined chance of generating.

Most species are catchable in Let's Go, Pikachu! (LGP) and Let's Go, Eevee! (LGE), but 22 require evolving the previous evolutionary stage. The species that require evolution include the 5 Kanto first partner evolutions (Ivysaur, Venusaur, Charmeleon, Wartortle, and Blastoise), the 4 Let's Go partner evolutions (Raichu, Vaporeon, Jolteon, and Flareon), 2 version exclusives (Arbok for LGE and Sandslash for LGP), the 4 Trade evolutions (Alakazam, Machamp, Golem and Gengar), the 2 fossil evolutions (Kabutops and Omastar), and 5 others (Wigglytuff, Parasect, Primeape, Hypno and Marowak). Additionally, Butterfree is not catchable in LGE and Beedrill is not catchable in LGP.

Variant availability

In total, Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee! combined have 213 forms (211 compatible per version), which consists of the 186 Original, Alolan, and Mega evolved forms; 23 as a result of gender differences (for 209 Pokédex forms); and 2 partner forms with each of their gender differences.

The 18 Alolan forms are exclusively obtained via a set of in-game trades. The Alolan forms of Raticate, Sandslash, Ninetales, Dugtrio, Persian, Graveler, Golem and Muk are obtained by the evolution of the Alolan Rattata, Sandshrew, Vulpix, Diglett, Meowth, Geodude and Muk forms received via trading, respectively. The remaining forms received via in-game trade are Alolan Raichu, Exeggutor and Marowak.

The partner Pikachu and partner Eevee are exclusive to Let's Go, Pikachu! and Eevee!, respectively. Each game has only one partner Pikachu or Eevee; it cannot evolve, and it cannot be traded or transferred to other games. However, regular Pikachu and Eevee are available in both games.

All Pokémon forms can be obtained Shiny except for Mew, and partner Pikachu and Eevee. Apart from partner Pikachu and Eevee, which are both scale-locked (4 different scalars within the AV range), all forms can be obtained in any size: XS, S, AV, L, or XL.

Each version has 16 version-exclusive forms, with Let's Go, Pikachu! having 3 version exclusive gender differences (Gloom, Vileplume, and Scyther). Of the in-game trades and their evolutions, Alolan Sandshrew, Sandslash, Grimer and Muk are exclusive to Let's Go, Pikachu!, while Alolan Vulpix, Ninetales, Meowth and Persian are exclusive to Let's Go, Eevee!

Level availability

All but 2 Pokémon, Lickitung and Mewtwo, can be obtained in-game at Level 50 or below. Both, along with Golduck (which is obtained below level 50 by evolving Psyduck), are exclusive to Cerulean Cave. Golduck and Lickitung can be caught at just Level 51, while Mewtwo is caught at Level 70. Although Dragonite evolves from Dragonair starting at Level 55, a Dragonite as low as Level 3 can be caught from a rare flying spawn.

At Level 70, Mewtwo is the highest-level encounter; otherwise, Level 56 is the highest for wild Pokémon.

Level 1 Pokémon cannot be obtained except via transferring from Pokémon GO (or Poké Ball Plus in the case of Mew). This is because no breeding is present in the game, and the fact the lowest level wild Pokémon, such as Pidgey and Rattata, are only encountered at Level 3 or above.

Availability by progression
See Also: Appendix:Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee! walkthrough

The availability of forms in order visited in Let's Go, Pikachu!P and Let's Go, Eevee!E is shown below, counting up to 188 forms (the total excluding gender differences) and including evolving Pokémon (trading the same Pokémon for trade evolutions):

Pokémon GO and HOME interaction

In Pokémon GO, as part of its size variation mechanic, XXS and XXL Pokémon each have a 1 in 250 chance to be generated. When one of these extreme-sized Pokémon is obtained and transferred into Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee!, both its height and weight scalar values are set to either 0 or 255, depending on whether it was initially XXS or XXL, respectively. This results in the specimen having the minimum or maximum possible in-game height and weight for its species (or form). In contrast, generation of both of these values for a native Pokémon in Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee! has less than a 1 in 25 million chance to occur with the highest Catch Combo—albeit due to a lack of display precision, additional values may also give the minimum and maximum possible measurements depending on the Pokémon species/form.

The games are incompatible with Pokémon Bank, but you could later transfer Pokémon one-way into Pokémon HOME.

Storing 25 of a Pokémon species or Alolan form (except Mew) in GO Park enables a mini-game called Play Yard for that species or Alolan form. Since there are only 1000 storage spaces for Pokémon (mirroring regular storage), that means only 40 out of 170 possible play yards can simultaneously exist on one save file.

See also


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