Pokémon Sword and Shield: How to Breed Alolan and Regular Form Pokémon | Transfer breeding guide

    Pokémon Sword and Shield: How to Breed Alolan and Regular Form Pokémon | Transfer breeding guide

    You will need to transfer these forms from previous games in the main series, but they are 100% playable in Pokémon Sword & Shield. There's only one problem - the Pokémon you breed in the Galar region always hatch in their form. If you breed an Alolan Raichu in, he will naturally become a normal Raichu - if you breed a normal Farfetch'd, he will become a Galarian Farfetch. It's a confusing mess, but there's a way to keep these (relatively) rare alternate forms on the Nintendo Switch. You will just need a rare item for your Pokémon to be in possession.



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    To breed with alternate shapes that are not normally found in, you will need a special item called Everstone. These are not easy to locate in the Galar region, but you can acquire them in two ways: talk to the Digging Duo in the wilderness and pay the brother focused on endurance 500 watts. There's a chance he digs up an Everstone. You can also acquire for free Everstone de Turrfield - it's a hidden object, located southeast of the stadium.



    Once you have an Everstone you can start breeding alternate shapes in the Galar region - while holding an Everstone, some Pokémon will still retain their nature and shape when breeding.

    • How to breed non-Galar Pokémon forms in Sword & Shield:
      1. Find a Everstone - found in Turffield or from the brother of the Stamina Digging Duo.
      2. Give the Everstone to Female pokemon ou Idem before placing them in the Pokémon nursery.
      3. Wait for your Pokémon to spawn. If a female Pokémon or Ditto holding an Everstone spawns, it will always retain its original form.

    There is a big downside to this. Alolan Raichu et Original smog cannot reproduce alternate forms - their offspring will become Standard Pikachu and Standard Smogo, and will not become their Alolan / original forms.


    There are a whole bunch of version-exclusive Pokémon that you can now use in Pokémon Sword & Shield. If you want to do more and start trading, you can now. Here's a complete list of all the alternate forms you can now access with Pokémon Home.


    You can breed all of the new Transfer Pokémon only, but only a few will change shape if you don't prepare properly - an Everstone equipped as a sustain item will do for almost anyone.



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