Pokémon Sword Playthrough 4: Breath of the Wild Area
2After taking the train along with Hop, we enter the Wild Area, which is home to a large number of Pokémon, and it does feel like an open world area, much like The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. I will be doing the Wild Area in two parts, as I do show different Pokémon you can find there, along with the Max Raid Battles.
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The Wild Area is very large and is filled with a large number of Pokémon, and before taking the train, Hop gives me the TM for Swift, and after arriving, Sonia gives me the Pokémon Box Link, which is like the Let's Go games where you can deposit Pokémon in the box without accessing a PC, and speaking of Let's Go, if you have data from any of the Let's Go games, you will get a Pikachu or an Eevee if you have save data from either of those games, or both, and they are capable of Gigantamaxing. Pikachu can use G-Max Volt Crash, which will come from any of its Electric-type moves and inflicts paralysis on all targets, while Eevee can use G-Max Cuddle, which infatuates targets of the opposite gender. You also cannot evolve the Pikachu and Eevee you obtain from them, so they can make good temporary members, but not that great. You can also relearn Nasty Plot and Charm on Pikachu, as those were moves it would have learned as a Pichu.
Now onto the Wild Area, and I go over Rolling Fields, Dappled Grove, Watchtower Ruins, West Lake Axewell, and encounters depend on the weather, which range from Overcast, Rain, Hail, Sun, Thunderstorm, Fog, and many others. The encounters for the areas explored include Combee, Bunnelby, Metapod, Tyrogue, Ralts, Wingull, Electrike, Vulpix, Growlithe, Vanillite, Delibird, Baltoy, Bounsweet, Oddish, Budew, Nuzleaf, Lombre, Joltik, Mudbray, Swinub, Minccino, Snorunt, Dwebble, Golett, Natu, Munna, Pancham, Hoothoot, Tympole, Purrloin, Seedot, Lotad, Stufful, Stunky, Grubbin, Snover, Klink, Golett, Duskull, Drifloon, Gastly, Shuckle, Pidove, Machop, Wooper, Krabby, Nincada, and a few others. If you shake the tree for berries, there is a chance that you can encounter Skwovet or Cherubi.
Most of those Pokémon encountered can make potential team members, Wingull, Mudbray, Bounsweet, Gastly, Machop, Stufful and Budew can make great team members, while some like Snorunt and Delibird are not that great and should never be used.
Another thing is that you can collect Watts, which can be exchanged for TRs, which stand for Technical Records and they behave like what TMs used to be before Gen 5 in which they are one use, and they can contain powerful moves, so think carefully. I will be rotating around team members in this playthrough, and it will be a long time until I decide who I will use on my final team, while Sobble is very likely to be on the final team, Wooloo or Rookidee might be temporary members, as they are helpful early game.
Now onto Max Raid Battles, where you fight a Dynamax Pokémon, and you can Dynamax yourself, where all of your moves become Max Moves, which have cool effects like stat boosts and changing the weather. You do get random allies, and from what I have experienced, they have set Pokémon, so you can expect to see Qwilfish, Solrock, Snorlax, Clefairy, Togepi, Maractus, Dhelmise, or even Salazzle when fighting those Dynamax Pokémon. On rare occasions, you can even find Gigantamax Pokémon, and there is currently an event going on in which you can find Gigantamax Butterfree, and depending on your version, Gigantamax Drednaw in Sword, or Gigantamax Corviknight in Shield. The Pokémon you obtain from Max Raids do have a chance of having their Hidden Ability, so it is quite rare to find them.
Sometimes you can find very powerful Pokémon, like Onix, or even evolved Pokémon like Vespiquen, Pelipper or a few others which are high level, you cannot catch them until later on, and I did bring along Nickit as it has Run Away, so if you caught a Nickit with Run Away, this is your best option in fleeing those super powerful Pokémon.
I won't go over all of them as it takes up description space, but for those that you can access later on, I will go over them, if only they kept annotations, then I would explain about all the Pokémon you can find in the Wild Area, but it isn't anymore, I miss adding annotations in my videos.
Another mechanic is that you have Pokémon Camp, which replaces Pokémon Refresh, but you have all of your Pokémon and you can play with them, and you can even cook curry which is stored in your CurryDex, and they have effects like increasing friendship or experience, and you can even visit other player's Pokémon Camp if you spot a tent, and you can cook curry alongside them.
I will be covering the Wild Area in two parts, as it is an open world area, so it will take a lot of exploring to go through all of it.
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