Pokémon Sword & Shield - Isle of Armor Playthrough 7: It Takes Courage to Raid the Cave

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Published on June 30, 2020 2:00:03 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PMhuXB5UZc

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Pokémon Sword and Shield (2019)

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With Kubfu on our side, we must visit different parts of the Isle of Armor and bond with Kubfu before Mustard could give us our next objective. The first place we check out is Loop Lagoon, and even if there are several ways to access Loop Lagoon, I check out Courageous Cavern, and there are a lot of Raid Dens in there as well.

As for the rest of the description, I recommend watching the full video before reading past this point of the description

There are four places which we can travel to with Kubfu, and Mustard has sent some of his students to those areas, those being Loop Lagoon, Potbottom Desert, Brawlers' Cave, and Challengers Road. To get to Loop Lagoon, you can go through Courageous Cavern, or cross the Sharpedo infested seas from Fields of Honor.
Courageous Cavern has some new encounters, and it is time to go over some of them, while I did go over Tentacool in the first part, they can be found in the waters of the Isle of Armor, you can find its evolved form Tentacruel in the water as well.
One Pokémon you can encounter in the cave is Druddigon, while it has been overshadowed by other Dragon-types, Druddigon does have good Attack and respectable Defenses, but it is very slow. It's not the worse Pokémon out there, as Druddigon learns a lot of good Physical moves, like Outrage, Superpower, Iron Head, Crunch, and a few other moves, so I would say it's decent.
Now for Loop Lagoon, and on the sands, you can encounter Sandygast. It is a Ghost/Ground-type Pokémon with a unique Ability called Water Compaction, which boosts Sandygast's Defense by 2 stages if hit by a Water-type move. You can find its evolved form Palossand as an overworld encounter, it is a defensive Pokémon with good Special Attack, but it is a bit slow.
In intense sun, you can find Fletchling in the wild, but since I already went over its evolved forms, here is where you can catch Fletchling for your Pokédex. Its final evolution Talonflame is an overworld encounter there, and you can also encounter Larvesta in intense sun.
If you don't have a way to trade, there is a chance that you can find Alakazam as an overworld encounter, so if you want a powerful Special Attacker, here is your chance to catch yourself an Alakazam. Another Pokémon you can find in the overworld is Zoroark, and in the fog, you can find Blissey as a 2% encounter, but in all other weather, you would find Chansey instead.
The nice thing about Chansey in the Isle of Armor is that if you find one, you can defeat them for a ton of experience.
I might as well go over Sharpedo, because they infest the sea in the Isle of Armor. If you thought Sneasel was annoying in the overworld, Sharpedo travel very fast, and they are difficult to avoid. As for stats, Sharpedo has good Attack and Speed, but it is very frail, so it cannot take a hit. It does get some good moves like Liquidation and Crunch, so I guess it's not a bad Pokémon to consider, although you might be better with another Water-type if you don't like having to put up with a Pokémon with very low defenses. Its pre-evolved form Carvanha can be obtained by fishing at Training Lowlands.
There were some things that I didn't go over in previous parts because of description space, you can find the Digging Ma, talk to her to get a free Armorite Ore, and you can choose to dig more, if her shovel breaks, you don't get anything, her partner is the Digging Pa, so it's good to see both parents of the Digging Duo back in the Wild Area.
For Max Mushrooms, they can be found mostly in caves and forest areas, and while they are very rare, there is a trick to guarantee Max Mushrooms, if you complete up to 3 Max Raid Battles, 1 Max Mushroom will appear in any of the following areas, those are Brawlers' Cave, Courageous Cavern, Forest of Focus, and Warm-Up Tunnel, and if you complete 9 Max Raid Battles, you should be able to collect 3 Max Mushrooms, which are enough to make Max Soup, so that will take a lot of time if you want to be able to Gigantamax different Pokémon, but it is a good addition, specially for players that prefer to breed for competitive Pokémon.

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