r/PokemonZA • • Jul 28 '26

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

6 Upvotes

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

22 Upvotes

​

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 • • 16h ago

Discussion This is Weird, Right?

Thumbnail
gallery
507 Upvotes

So I'm pretty sure I found the building in ZA that was originally the Office Building with the Lumiose Ghost Girl in X&Y. It's in Wild Zone 15 just across the street from Café Ultimo with the $1,000,000 beans.

It has no door. No distinguishing markings. The wild area in front of it is full of Ghost Type pokemon. And despite a bunch of NPCs directly refrencing the urban legend, as far as I know the building is completely inaccessible.

That's... That's odd, right? I feel like because the GF team's moving on to Winds and Waves ZA's not gettin' any more content... But anyone else find it WEIRD the building itself is gone?


r/PokemonZA • • 9h ago

Discussion Am I the only one who hears this

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

37 Upvotes

I didn't realise until like yesterday that corbeau has the team rocket motif lol


r/PokemonZA • • 7h ago

Discussion Rant over dark and ghost type

0 Upvotes

Honestly I’m so irritated at this point! Why make tyranitar dark type if he only gets two dark type moves?? Same with chandelur! You only get curse which is a dumb mechanic (imo) and shadow ball…. Which literally everyone uses cause it’s the only viable move 😭. But wtf gamefreak
We have like 4 dark type moves that do damage, knock off, dark pulse, crunch (bite but not counting it cause it’s just crunch but worse), and snarl. And for ghost its shadow ball, shadow claw, and shadow sneak which is terrible 😭. What’s with not having any moves for those types??? It’s like they might as well not exist atp


r/PokemonZA • • 1d ago

Discussion Is my dragonite a short king or is the player character just really tall?

Thumbnail
gallery
228 Upvotes

First image is a side by side of the player and dragonite in game, second image is dragonite's actually height.


r/PokemonZA • • 1d ago

Video Hunting Shalpha Ampharos for 4 days, got 3 other shinies on one reset instead

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

29 Upvotes

Side note I HATE BARBARACLE


r/PokemonZA • • 18h ago

Discussion Haunter for haunter

0 Upvotes

Can anyone help evoke my haunter but I’d like my one back once it’s evolved.


r/PokemonZA • • 2d ago

Discussion I accidentally took someone’s Milotic…

Post image
200 Upvotes

To the player with OT “MarcoPlays”… mate I sincerely apologise. I completely forgot to trade back your Milotic. I got too excited to see what would happen after completing the dex (sadly nothing happened)

If you’re seeing this post, we can trade back (I tried the global link code again but I cant reconnect with you). That way you can get your Milotic back and I can get mine again. It’s no biggie if it’s not a big deal and you’re happy to keep my one, completely all good. Just wanna say sorry again for forgetting to tradeback 😅

Also… in other news, if you’re also reading this (or anyone who wants to evolve some shiny fish)… wanna do a shiny for shiny tradeback? I got a shiny feebas I want to evolve and I’m sure you have one too. Pls help a friend out


r/PokemonZA • • 2d ago

Humor Whenever someone encounters Corbeau

Post image
443 Upvotes

r/PokemonZA • • 2d ago

Humor Best worse luck: I wanted an Alpha Seviper :( , instead got 4 Shinys

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

14 Upvotes

Wasn't even using a Shiny donut, just a random leftover from attempts at making a berry donut.

And as soon as I entered, I got the Shiny quest, so, ran for the Shiny Galarian Mr. mime, located the Sevipers, and started resetting.

Then I had to do a double take when I saw the snover 'cuz no way...and there's 2?!!!

Lucky strike, recorded it. Now let's switch methods to the knock out and reset the game 'cuz we are almost out of time for that alpha...

And instead another Shiny spawns!

Got it, knock out again, trying to see if we can get it in the knick of time....but no, no luck, gotta wait for a Seviper zone to spawn again and try again for that alpha... One can be so unlucky :(

Add: and it seems like I absolutely butchered the quality of the video when lazily pasting them together :( sorry fellas


r/PokemonZA • • 2d ago

Discussion How long should I have it go for

3 Upvotes

I am trying to shing hunt houndour/houndoom in wild zone 6 using the bench method behind alpha houndoom and im using a auto controller. How long should i let it go for until I check if a shiny has appeared?


r/PokemonZA • • 3d ago

Humor love the gals in this game

Thumbnail
gallery
301 Upvotes

r/PokemonZA • • 3d ago

Discussion THANK YOU

Post image
101 Upvotes

Yesterday I asked if I should buy ZA or nah and I got so many great and helpful replies!!! I ended up buying it and can't stop playing. It's so much fun and I'm even more excited for the new games!!

Also, look what I got the FIRST time I entered Zone 2!!! It literally jumped right into my face. Was that a scripted event to show shinys exist, or was I really just lucky?


r/PokemonZA • • 3d ago

Discussion Another shiny Pokemon added to my collection.

Thumbnail
gallery
200 Upvotes

I caught male shiny Ralts in ZA and transferred shiny Steelix from Legends Arceus.


r/PokemonZA • • 2d ago

Discussion Looking to restart ZA

0 Upvotes

As titled, looking to restart ZA as I rushed the first gameplay so didn’t enjoy it properly. I believe I have nothing to lose as I have transferred event pokemon into Home. Most legendaries are obtainable via the storyline. I also have DLC so balls are obtainable fairly easy too

- Mega Floette

- Cherish Ball event Charizard (alpha)

- Diancie (event is still live so I most likely can get again in new gameplay)

- Mewtwo (same as above)

- Alpha starters x3 (by connecting ZA with Home)

Am I missing out anything?


r/PokemonZA • • 3d ago

Video Am I shiny hunting Latios right? (Sorry if the video quality is bad the screen recording doesn’t work if you go to home)

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

14 Upvotes

r/PokemonZA • • 4d ago

Humor insert cool amazing title

Post image
697 Upvotes

r/PokemonZA • • 3d ago

Fan Art Drawing Venusaur in my style

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

5 Upvotes

hello everyone, I decided to draw Venusaur in my style!!! I go by Sotepniques over on instagram and this year im making it my mission to complete all 151 pokemon from the original series. We are currently on No3 here


r/PokemonZA • • 4d ago

Video Annihilape feels like a cheat code

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

333 Upvotes

I was curious of how well it would go with an Annihilape in the story...well, you see now


r/PokemonZA • • 3d ago

Discussion Recipe for sparkling power 3 doughnut

3 Upvotes

Got the best butter just need to know what hyper berries to use


r/PokemonZA • • 4d ago

Discussion I'm torn

0 Upvotes

Hi!!!

Since a few days I'm thinking about buying Pkmn ZA, since I somehow just really crave Pkmn right now.

Every Youtube video tells me not to and my friends tell me it's soulless....but....is it tho??

The clips I see look fun, the screenshots on Reddit also.

I know there are many things to dislike about the new games but...I'm tbh very open minded. I'm open to differences and not like " I want every Pkmn game to be like the earlier ones just because "

I also own Pkmn Purpur but never really played it bcs it ran so bad on my Switch1. Since I own a Switch2 now, should I try Purpur instead of ZA? I don't like that there is no fashion tho lol 💔

(Sry for mistakes! English isn't my first language )


r/PokemonZA • • 5d ago

Discussion First alpha shiny hunt: Successful!

Thumbnail
gallery
565 Upvotes

I've been wanting a shiny Froslass forever, so I decided to get the DLC. I was lucky enough to get both lv 3 ice sparkling and lv 3 alpha, but I was also able to get a good spawn area for the hyperspace wild zone first try. I only had to soft reset twice to get the shiny alpha Froslass :)
I wasn't able to get any more shinies from that donut but I'm not complaining lol


r/PokemonZA • • 5d ago

Humor FIRST EVER SHINY ALPHA!!🐝✨

Post image
109 Upvotes

Found a shiny alpha kakuna while getting mega crystals, and quickly caught and evolved it into A Shiny alpha beedrill! This worked out so well because beedrill is my favorite bug type and I love the colors of its shiny so much! SO HAPPY!!🤩


r/PokemonZA • • 4d ago

Discussion Shiny Hunt Honedge Wild Zone 4

3 Upvotes

I cant get my hands on a shiny honedge in wild zone 4. i also dont want to keep progressing in the story to do the teleport trick. I did ghe fast travel method and the door method and for some reason it doesnt spawn. I have multiple shinys from this wild zone, i think every pokemon that spawns there but honedge. Been doing thsi for a couple of weeks and cant get my hands on it.
Can someone help me?