Pokémon Sword and Shield Will Have PokéBall Plus Functionality, New Gym Leader Revealed

Dylan Siegler

Published: Jun 11, 2019 12:07 pm

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Remember the PokéBall Plus accessory that launched with last year’s Pokémon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! and Let’s Go, Eevee!? Well, it turns out that you’ll be able to use it, at least to a degree, for the upcoming main series games as well.

During Nintendo’s E3 presentation, it was revealed that Pokémon Sword and Shield will have some functionality with the PokéBall Plus accessory. It won’t be able to be used as a controller like in the Let’s Go games, but players will still be able to put one of their Pokémon from the new games in it and walk around with their buddy in the real world, potentially causing “something good” to happen.

The E3 showcase also saw the reveal of another Gym Leader who will appear in the new games, Nessa, who specializes in Water-types. Nessa has one of the recently revealed Pokémon, Drednaw, on her team and will be able to Dynamax it in battle. A demo in which players will be able to take on Nessa is available this week at Nintendo’s E3 booth.

Last week, a ton of information about the upcoming games was revealed, including new Pokémon, the new Dynamax feature, and a look at some of the new characters. Pokémon Sword and Shield will launch for the Nintendo Switch on November 15.

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Dylan Siegler

Dylan Siegler has a BA in Creative Writing from the University of Redlands. He has copy edited novels and short stories and is the editor of nearly all marketing materials for RoKo Marketing. In addition to his professional work, Dylan is also working on several of his own projects. Some of these projects include a novel that satirizes the very nature of novel writing as an art and a short film that parodies buddy cop movies. His short story “Day 3658,” a look into a future ten years into a zombie apocalypse, is being published in September of 2017 in Microcosm Publishing’s compilation Bikes in Space IV: Biketopia. His political satire "The Devil's Advocates" is currently available for free (the link to this story can be found on his Facebook page).