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This article is incomplete. Please feel free to edit this article to add missing information and complete it. Reason: Pre-release content and more unused post-release content

This article lists the unused content of the Generation VIII games Pokémon Sword and Shield.

Post-release

Pokémon

Mega Evolution, Primal Reversion, Bond Phenomenon, and Ultra Burst remain in the code of the Sword and Shield. However, those Pokémon can't transform into those forms in the final release.

#   Pokémon Type 003M Venusaur Venusaur Grass Poison 006MX Charizard Charizard Fire Dragon 006MY Charizard Charizard Fire Flying 009M Blastoise Blastoise Water 065M Alakazam Alakazam Psychic 080M Slowbro Slowbro Water Psychic 094M Gengar Gengar Ghost Poison 115M Kangaskhan Kangaskhan Normal 127M Pinsir Pinsir Bug Flying 130M Gyarados Gyarados Water Dark 142M Aerodactyl Aerodactyl Rock Flying 150MX Mewtwo Mewtwo Psychic Fighting 150MY Mewtwo Mewtwo Psychic 208M Steelix Steelix Steel Ground 212M Scizor Scizor Bug Steel 214M Heracross Heracross Bug Fighting 248M Tyranitar Tyranitar Rock Dark 254M Sceptile Sceptile Grass Dragon 257M Blaziken Blaziken Fire Fighting 260M Swampert Swampert Water Ground 282M Gardevoir Gardevoir Psychic Fairy 302M Sableye Sableye Dark Ghost 303M Mawile Mawile Steel Fairy 306M Aggron Aggron Steel 310M Manectric Manectric Electric 319M Sharpedo Sharpedo Water Dark 334M Altaria Altaria Dragon Fairy 359M Absol Absol Dark 362M Glalie Glalie Ice 373M Salamence Salamence Dragon Flying 376M Metagross Metagross Steel Psychic 380M Latias Latias Dragon Psychic 381M Latios Latios Dragon Psychic 382P Kyogre Kyogre Water 383P Groudon Groudon Ground Fire 384M Rayquaza Rayquaza Dragon Flying 428M Lopunny Lopunny Normal Fighting 445M Garchomp Garchomp Dragon Ground 448M Lucario Lucario Fighting Steel 460M Abomasnow Abomasnow Grass Ice 475M Gallade Gallade Psychic Fighting 531M Audino Audino Normal Fairy 0658 Greninja Water Dark 719M Diancie Diancie Rock Fairy 800U Necrozma Necrozma Psychic Dragon

Eternamax Eternatus

Eternamax Eternatus exists as an alternate form of Eternatus in the game's data; however, it cannot be obtained in-game and has not yet been distributed. Outside the battle with it, it can only be seen during the move animation for Eternabeam. Its base stats are higher than that of a normal Eternatus and it has a base experience yield of 1125.

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  Eternamax Eternatus

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Base stats

Shiny Pokémon

For the sake of consistency, all Pokémon have a shiny form but some of them cannot be obtained as they have been locked out of being shiny outside of the possibility of shiny variants being distributed via events. The Starter Pokémon the player obtains are also shiny locked but their shiny forms can be obtained via breeding. As Zarude and Zarude Dada form were only distributed via events, it is currently impossible to have their shiny forms. Melmetal can be obtained Shiny, but cannot consume Max Soup, so Shiny Melmetal cannot Gigantamax.

All Pikachu in a cap are programmed to not be Shiny, but due to a glitch present in Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon, the Partner Cap Pikachu transferred from these games can be Shiny.

#   Pokémon Type 025O Pikachu Pikachu Electric 025H Pikachu Pikachu Electric 025S Pikachu Pikachu Electric 025U Pikachu Pikachu Electric 025K Pikachu Pikachu Electric 025A Pikachu Pikachu Electric 025W Pikachu Pikachu Electric 0144 Articuno Psychic Flying 0145 Zapdos Fighting Flying 0146 Moltres Dark Flying 0647 Keldeo Water Fighting 0647 Keldeo Water Fighting 0721 Volcanion Fire Water 0789 Cosmog Psychic 0790 Cosmoem Psychic 0801 Magearna Steel Fairy 801O Magearna Magearna Steel Fairy 0802 Marshadow Fighting Ghost 0809 Melmetal Steel 0888 Zacian Fairy 888C Zacian Zacian Fairy Steel 0889 Zamazenta Fighting 889C Zamazenta Zamazenta Fighting Steel 0890 Eternatus Poison Dragon 0891 Kubfu Fighting 0892 Urshifu Fighting Dark 0892 Urshifu Fighting Water 0893 Zarude Dark Grass 0896 Glastrier Ice 0897 Spectrier Ghost 0898 Calyrex Psychic Grass 898I Calyrex Calyrex Psychic Ice 898S Calyrex Calyrex Psychic Ghost

Unused Max Raid Battle stats

All Pokémon that can Dynamax have Max Raid battle stats with some of the stat fields being blank meaning those Dynamaxed Pokémon are most likely not meant to be encountered in any Max Raid Battle encounter.

Moves

Main article: List of moves by availability (Generation VIII)

Various moves, as well as Z-Moves, have been removed from Sword and Shield; they all have the same description of, "This move can't be used. It's recommended that this move is forgotten. Once forgotten, this move can't be remembered." Attempting to use a Pokémon in battle that only knows unusable moves will always result in the Pokémon using Struggle instead and acting as if it has no moves available to select.

Items

Main article: List of unobtainable items → Wishing Chip

The Wishing Chip is not normally available as an item. However, it is present in the internal data of the games. The same applies to the Key Stone, Mega Stones, colored orbs, Z-Crystals, the Band Autograph.

Abilities

As several Pokémon are not available in Pokémon Sword and Shield, their abilities have been dummied out and are not able to be used in-game.

Pokédex Entries

Several Pokémon had Pokédex entries for Pokémon Sword and Shield but they could not be used in-game until the releases of The Isle of Armor and The Crown Tundra DLC expansions were released respectively making all unused Pokédex entries used.

This game-related article is part of Project Games, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on the Pokémon games.