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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

Eternamax Eternatus

Eternamax Eternatus exists as an alternate form of Eternatus in the game's data; however, it is not obtainable 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.

#   Pokémon Type 0144 Articuno Psychic Flying 0145 Zapdos Fighting Flying 0146 Moltres Dark Flying 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 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 Band Autograph.

Additionally, Mega Stones, colored orbs, and Z-Crystals, introduced in prior generations, are present internally but are unused. This means Mega Evolution, Primal Reversion, and Z-Moves were initially intended for Sword and Shield, but were removed during development.

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.

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