Pokémon Sword and Shield beta

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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 Sword and Shield. However, those Pokémon can't transform into those forms in the final release.

#   Pokémon Type 0003 Venusaur Mega Venusaur Grass Poison 0006 Charizard Mega Charizard X Fire Dragon 0006 Charizard Mega Charizard Y Fire Flying 0009 Blastoise Mega Blastoise Water 0065 Alakazam Mega Alakazam Psychic 0080 Slowbro Mega Slowbro Water Psychic 0094 Gengar Mega Gengar Ghost Poison 0115 Kangaskhan Mega Kangaskhan Normal 0127 Pinsir Mega Pinsir Bug Flying 0130 Gyarados Mega Gyarados Water Dark 0142 Aerodactyl Mega Aerodactyl Rock Flying 0150 Mewtwo Mega Mewtwo X Psychic Fighting 0150 Mewtwo Mega Charizard X Psychic 0208 Steelix Mega Steelix Steel Ground 0212 Scizor Mega Scizor Bug Steel 0214 Heracross Mega Heracross Bug Fighting 0248 Tyranitar Mega Tyranitar Rock Dark 0254 Sceptile Mega Sceptile Grass Dragon 0257 Blaziken Mega Blaziken Fire Fighting 0260 Swampert Mega Swampert Water Ground 0282 Gardevoir Mega Gardevoir Psychic Fairy 0302 Sableye Mega Sableye Dark Ghost 0303 Mawile Mega Mawile Steel Fairy 0306 Aggron Mega Aggron Steel 0310 Manectric Mega Manectric Electric 0319 Sharpedo Mega Sharpedo Water Dark 0334 Altaria Mega Altaria Dragon Fairy 0359 Absol Mega Absol Dark 0362 Glalie Mega Glalie Ice 0373 Salamence Mega Salamence Dragon Flying 0376 Metagross Mega Metagross Steel Psychic 0380 Latias Mega Latias Dragon Psychic 0381 Latios Mega Latios Dragon Psychic 0382 Kyogre Primal Kyogre Water 0383 Groudon Primal Groudon Ground Fire 0384 Rayquaza Mega Rayquaza Dragon Flying 0428 Lopunny Mega Lopunny Normal Fighting 0445 Garchomp Mega Garchomp Dragon Ground 0448 Lucario Mega Lucario Fighting Steel 0460 Abomasnow Mega Abomasnow Grass Ice 0475 Gallade Mega Gallade Psychic Fighting 0531 Audino Mega Audino Normal Fairy 0658 Greninja Battle Bond/Ash-Greninja Water Dark 0719 Diancie Mega Diancie Rock Fairy 0800 Necrozma Ultra 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 never been distributed. Outside of its battle, 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. 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.

The first partner Pokémon the player obtains at the start of the game are also Shiny-locked, but their Shiny forms can be obtained via breeding. The Galarian of the legendary birds and the legendary heroes are also not available Shiny in-game, but their Shiny forms have been distributed through events.

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 0025 Pikachu All Pikachu in a cap forms Electric 0647 Keldeo Water Fighting 0721 Volcanion Fire Water 0789 Cosmog Psychic 0790 Cosmoem Psychic 0801 Magearna Steel Fairy 0802 Marshadow Fighting Ghost 0809 Melmetal Gigantamax Steel 0890 Eternatus Poison Dragon 0891 Kubfu Fighting 0892 Urshifu Single Strike Style Fighting Dark 0892 Urshifu Rapid Strike Style Fighting Water 0893 Zarude Dark Grass 0896 Glastrier Ice 0897 Spectrier Ghost 0898 Calyrex Psychic Grass

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, and 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 that were not 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.

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