Pokémon Sword and Shield: list of new Pokémon
On this page, you will find the complete list of new Pokémon currently confirmed for Pokémon Sword and Shield, the latest entry in the mainline Pokémon series (revealed on February 27th 2019 during a special Nintendo Direct presentation). It will be updated regularly as new Pokémon are revealed via trailers, videos, and other pieces of promotional artworks and screenshots, and up until it doesn’t make anymore sense to keep it up to date (aka: close to release).
For more details about the game, make sure to check out this post!
Here’s the list of new Pokémon confirmed so far in Pokémon Sword and Shield (do note that they are listed in the order they were discovered, not their Pokédex number):
Pokémon Sword and Shield – New Pokémon
Make sure to check out the links for more details about each Pokémon!
- Scorbunny (starter)
- Grookey (starter)
- Sobble (starter)
- Wooloo
- Gossifleur
- Eldegoss
- Dreadnaw
- Corviknights
- Zacian (Legendary)
- Zamazenta (Legendary)
Here’s pictures of those Pokémon:
NB: some of the screenshots are taken from trailers and other videos, and so can be of varying quality. The goal of this gallery isn’t quite to be like a Pokédex, with high quality pictures, but simply a collection of pictures confirming that each Pokémon is indeed in the game.
Pokémon Sword and Shield (Switch) comes out on November 15th worldwide.
