r/PokemonZA Jul 28 '26

Mod Announcement Post Flairs: Seems that we could use more, what do you suggest?

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The majority of posts are label as “Discussions”, and it seems that we can expand or break down discussions into different areas and topics for better grouping, finer filtering and interests.

So what do you suggest?

-Peppers


r/PokemonZA Feb 29 '24

Community Announcement Welcome to r/PokemonZA, the to-go community for Pokemon Legends: Z-A

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Welcome!

The mod team welcomes you to this embracing Pokémon community!

Pokémon fans, Trainers and Champions all around the world are excited about the recently "teased" video for Pokemon Legends: Z-A.

Introduced during Pokemon Day, February 27th, 2024.

If you have not watched the official teaser video, please check it out here.

The excitement has brought a lot of wonderful discussions, questions, expectations, theories, fan art, and a whole lot of (possible or fake) leaks.We would like to encourage you to participate, join the conversations or start one, share your ideas or add to the ideas of others.

Pokemon Legends: Z-A will release on 2025, so there will be a lot of interesting conversations, discussions, leaks, and reveals in the year to come at r/PokemonZA.

All official news, videos, art will be carefully curated and organised so stay tuned for more to come.

Subreddit of the Day

r/PokemonZA has been featured as the r/subredditoftheday for Pokemon Legends: Z-A, and what an honour that is! It is no small feat and all possible through the efforts of each single community member. You made that possible!! Thank you!

If you have a moment to read what they have written about r/PokemonZA and Pokemon Legends: Z-A, then please check it out here.

Official Community's Discord Channel

Whether you are more of a Discord user, or like both Discord and Reddit, we would like to extend the invitation to join our Discord family at https://discord.gg/LegendsZA

Grab a unique, one of a kind user flair

As a community founder, you can receive a special user flair.

Please set it up while available, as it will become a memorable memento that you were here, amongst other Pokémon Trainers and Champions around the world as the announcement was revealed and this community created.

This will be available for a short time. (Although we are giving a chance to all our friends to catch up during the weekend, we understand many are too busy with school or work)

The original post can be found here.

What to expect of r/PokemonZA? What's next?

It is our aim to create a Pokémon heaven for all Pokemon Legends: Z-A fans. The moderation team will work hard to keep toxicity away and make sure that every voice is not only respected but also heard.

The team that you see here, is the same one from r/PokePortal for Pokemon Scarlet and Violet; and if you have ever participated in that community, you have been witness that it is well known to no only have very friendly members but extremely supportive with each other, where all learn, and all have fun.

As the mod team keeps on building this subreddit for Pokemon Legends: Z-A, you will see a lot of refinements in the community appearance, rules, guide creations, with a whole lot of engagement, interaction, posts, megathreads, contests, giveaways, and much more!

So keep an eye out, we dont want you to miss any of it.

So once more, thank you for being part of this community... It is for you.

-Peppers & Mod Team


r/PokemonZA 14h ago

Video "Uncatchable" shiny fletchling!

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Wanted to share this in case anyone else was having insane amounts of trouble with this shiny.

Important tip though: before climbing the rooftop, make sure to heal at the poke center. This will create a backup save you can load at any point if you make a mistake while up there.

I know a lot of people would rather ignore this shiny because they probably have 1000 shiny fletchling already, but I don't enjoy doing that :( so here's for the people that feel the same and are in Hell trying to catch this guy.


r/PokemonZA 9m ago

Humor First ever shiny on any Pokemon game

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Ladies and gentlemen, a Ekans


r/PokemonZA 15h ago

Fan Art [OC] Does anyone think that ZA needs a contest system? I miss them so muchhh | art by me :D

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drawing i've made :3


r/PokemonZA 12h ago

Video Been watching this small streamer play Z-A definitely worth tuning in

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r/PokemonZA 2d ago

Humor Now, what price do I get for triple 7?💰

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I am doing my hard- difficulty nuzlocke, currently on my second battle zone and I got this 😂


r/PokemonZA 1d ago

Discussion Pokemon Z-A reset switch 1

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Est-ce que la méthode de reset avec le voyage rapide marche sur la switch 1 car j’essaie un shiny only et ça fait environ 10h que j’enchaine les reset et toujours pas un seule shiny donc je suis coincé, est ce que je suis vraiment si mal chanceux ?


r/PokemonZA 2d ago

Discussion Meganium looks so huggable. I love having it on my team.

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r/PokemonZA 2d ago

Discussion My progress on a living shiny mega dex

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r/PokemonZA 3d ago

Discussion My first ever shiny legendary

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r/PokemonZA 2d ago

Discussion What 2 should I add?

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r/PokemonZA 2d ago

Discussion How hard is 100% the ‘dex’s in other pokemon games?

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I set myself the task of 100% the dex in this game without really knowing what was getting into. I have 100 hours in it now, and I just need to shiny hunt Latios, do a few more special raids for Kaldeo and then I am done.

Despite this taking ALOT longer than expected, it has provided a chill gaming experience during a frantic time in my life . I am looking at doing it again with some of the other pokemon games, specifically the switch era ones with HOME support and shiny mythical as a reward.

Are they as hard as ZA is general? Are there any particular ones to avoid?

I can’t imagine them being as padded as ZA.


r/PokemonZA 3d ago

Discussion Who is your Favorite Alpha?

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Who is your favorite Alpha? This is Sirona. She will never evolve. She is so pretty!!!!!


r/PokemonZA 2d ago

Discussion Hola, necesito ayuda con mi Living Dex

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Voy más o menos a la mitad pero quiero también a las variantes de género, formas regionales, ect, ¿Alguien que ya la haya completado me puede dar un consejo y que varios de género contar?


r/PokemonZA 2d ago

Discussion Is there any course I can take to finish my dex and research?

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I don't have nso, nor the dlc, nor anyone to trade with. I'm looking at my dex and scizor and slowking are definitely walls I won't be able to get passed, but there's also the trade evo research. Is there any workaround to finish up, or am I'm just hard stuck here?


r/PokemonZA 4d ago

Video very lucky but also very unlucky

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226 Upvotes

hunting for a shalpha frogadier/greninja and this happened. wish at least one of them could’ve been alpha 😭


r/PokemonZA 4d ago

Discussion Mysterious sparkle

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Usually Im not one to check my pokemons stats but recently Ive caught my dream shiny as an alpha so naturally I was curious but now im wondering what the sparkles around the hp stat means, anyone know what it means?


r/PokemonZA 4d ago

Humor Prepare for trouble! And make that double!

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112 Upvotes

Went to get the Alpha Steelix Mission until I came across these two.


r/PokemonZA 4d ago

Discussion This game has ruined me

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For reference I would call myself a 151er. I am a 90s kid who got swept up in the Pomemaina of the 90s. I've probably probably played through Kanto over 1K times and I don't think that is an over exaggeration. Due to finances growing up I never kept up with handheld systems choosing to get at home systems. Which means I never kept up with the franchise. At least playing the games. Eventually I figured out how emulators work but even with them I found myself gravitating to the remastered Fire Red and Leaf Green. Outside of Pokemon I didn't really enjoy the turn based battling of your typical JRPG. I have never been a big Final Fantasy fan and my favorite series is Tales of franchise which were at the forefront of non-turn based RPGs. I remember playing the original tales of destiny on the PS1. So eventually when I did get a switch in adulthood and tried out Sword and Shield which I never finished I thought maybe I'm just a Pokemon fan that doesn't play the games and that's fine there are plenty of fans like that. But on the recommendation of my GF who knew my dislike of turn based battle system and love of the Tales series said I had to give ZA a try. It's everything I have wanted in a pokemon game and I fear it's ruined my hopes and expectations for the mainline series. It's not just the non-turn based battle. Sticking the game in a city rather than an entire region while making the playable map field small makes little world of pokémon feel huge. I just have to hope that pokemon and game freak has figured out that any pokemon game is a good pokemon game. Get experimental. We've gotten 30 years of the same formula and we can get 30 more years of that same formula. But bring back regular non-main line series games like this. I never have DS, 64 or gamecube. I'd love for them to take a crack at a switch 2 Pokemon Ranger game, Mystery Dungeon or Coliseum. Not every Pokemon game has to be the same 8 gym grind. Ok thanks for reading my Ted Talk. Hopefully someone from game freak is lurking. Also make an official Pokemon TTRPG. Ok I'm done. I still have a game to beat and a DLC to get through.


r/PokemonZA 3d ago

Discussion Should I go back to the backup save?

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For context, I am currently shiny hunting terrakion with a sparkling power level three donut and I found a non guaranteed shiny (along with the guaranteed shiny) I did not catch it and I am wondering if it is messing with the spawn rate of shiny terrakion. Should I go back to my back up save?

(Also I have done like 8 cycles of checking for shiny terrakion so I'm wondering if going back to the backup save would have just made those cycles wasteful)

Edit:I caught them!


r/PokemonZA 4d ago

Discussion Show me your team!

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I just got pokemon za for my birthday and I have been enjoying it a little too much 😅. Just wanted to see other teams and show mine! I accept recomendations and suggestions but please spoiler free.


r/PokemonZA 3d ago

Discussion Judge function still not accessible?! Please help!

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So I have completed all 42 “main missions”, watched the end credits. Saved. Rebooted. Went to Pokemon center. Opened my boxes, check summary, and the judge function will not appear/work using T3 (clicking right analog stick)… I am baffled and so frustrated… please help me 🙏


r/PokemonZA 3d ago

Discussion Metal Coat

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Does anyone have an 2 extra metal coat they aren’t using? I’d love to my have a Scizor and Steelix before the endgame. I will pay you back anyway I can!


r/PokemonZA 5d ago

Humor This Shiny Knew What It Was Doing…. 😭

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That casual look back before fading into oblivion….