Sword and Shield Version differences woo let's
go. Hey Lucy, aren't you gonna wait for the
third version? What about Pokemon Crown? Hah,
no, they're probably not gonna
make a third version, they didn't do it last time, we'll
be fine. Oh, also, gotta change the outfit
because we're in Galar now, so I have my own
Galarian form. Yes I am from the UK. Let's
Go. also obvious plot spoilers
why would you be watching this otherwise okay
we're done.
Quelle surprise, The title screens are different - I say different, it's literally just a logo now but hey.
Version Exlclusive Pokemon - In Sword you
get the Farfetch'd, Seedot, Darumaka, Scraggy,
Gothita, Rufflet, Deino, Swirlix,
and Jangmo-o lines, as well as Mawile, Solrock,
Passimian, Turtonator, Stonjourner, Zacian, and most importantly,
Red stripe Basculin.
Whereas in Shield you've got the Ponyta, Corsola,
Larvitar, Lotad, Croagunk, Solosis, Vullaby,
Spritzee and Goomy lines, as well as Sableye,
Lunatone, Oranguru, Drampa, Eiscue, Zamezenta,
and of
course, blue stripe Basculin.
Indeedee is indeed a bit of a strange one. Looking at
it, I thought it was Meowstic's weird cousin
at first. The similarities do not end there
though. Like Meowstic, it has a pretty drastic
gender difference. (dare
I say this is a Sinnoh hint) I gotta say that
I appreciate that it's the male one that has
the eyelashes. Yes please. And just like Meowstic,
the genders are essentially different Pokemon,
with different base
stats and different movepools too. The male
is exclusive to Sword and the female is exclusive
to Shield. I mean, you wonder why since you
just breed them anyway but hey.
Then you've got Applin. Applin evolves into
Flapple (that name is beautiful) in Sword using the exclusive
Tart Apple, and into Appletun in Shield using
the exclusive Sweet Apple. You can still just
trade the items over though. They also have Gigantamax forms which
look identical so take your pick I guess.
The fossils aren't actually version exclusive,
but you get given the Fossilized Bird and
the Fossilized Dino fossils in Sword, whereas
in Shield you get given the Fossilized Fish and
Fossilized Drake fossils. I
just said the word fossil in some format 7
times. You can still find the fossils
you don't get given in each game, but they're
a lot less common than the original two.
A couple of the trades are different too.
The trader who wants a Maractus in Stow-on-Side
gives you a Hatenna in Sword and an Impadimp
in Shield. Then in Chirchester there's a man
who wants a
Vannilish for a Throh in Sword and a Sawk
in Shield. These two Pokemon are actually
version exclusive in the wild to the other
game, so this is the only way you can get
'em.
Then there's max raid battles. While you can technically
share raids by playing with others, you can
only originally find Machamp, Coalossal and
Flapple in Sword, and then Gengar, Lapras
and Appletun in Shield.
Using the online connectivity, there's actually
a window running now to early January 2020
where you'll be more likely to find Drednaw
max raids in Sword, and Corvinight raids in
Shield. They're
probably gonna release more I'm not waiting
that long, because YouTube is scary enough right now.
Gym leaders! We already knew a couple of them
prior to the game's release, being the fourth
gym leader, which is the Fighting type user
Bea in Sword, and the Ghost type user Allister
in Shield.
Something I actually wasn't spoiled on before
playing is that gym number 6 is also different
between games. In Sword it's the Rock type
user Gordie, and in Shield it's the Ice type
user Melony. Of course, this
means that the gym layouts are different in each version, and you also get a different selection of league cards and a couple of
different gym uniforms.
As you'd expect, Pokedex entries also differ by version.
As for the story, it's basically the same
in each version until you get to the climax.
But even then it's basically the same story
that plays out with just the roles of
the legendaries and Hop and the player character
switching around.
except you only battle Sordward in Sword and Shielbert in Shield. Go figure. Then you get to catch the version mascot and
one final
battle against Hop with the other legendary.
And we're done now yay.
Hello! That's Sword and Shield version differences
all right. They don't normally have a crazy
amount with these sort of releases let's be
real. I'm really trying to think of interesting
Sword and Shield ideas
so if there's something a 'lil outside of
the box you wanna see me cover then let me
know, *I read the comments I promise* Thanks for
the amazing artwork as always, my appreciation
is immeasurable. See
you at Winter in the City in like a week if you're going okay bye!
