Pokémon: 15-Year-Old Lugia Added to Sword & Shield from XD By Player
In an amazing feat of persistence a Pokémon player has managed to transfer their Lugia from Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness all the way to Pokémon Sword & Shield, games that are fifteen years apart. A longstanding feature of most Pokémon mainline games has been the ability to carry your team of Pokémon over from a previous game. Over the years as Pokémon games grew in size and complexity, this became an important way for certain Pokémon to maintain certain moves and abilities over generations.
Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness is famous for the introduction of Shadow Lugia, gracing the cover of the game when it was released in 2005 for the Nintendo Gamecube. The Lugia from this game is corrupted by Cipher, the game's evil team, and can eventually be purified to its normal form in-game. Lugia can’t exist in its shadow form in Sword & Shield or any other Pokémon game, so it must be purified to be transferred. But Shadow Lugia’s legacy has lived on elsewhere, with Pokémon GO introducing the legendary bird Pokémon in an event earlier this year, even if fans didn't think that event quite lived up to the original.
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In a post on Reddit, lunderamia shared their incredible fifteen-year achievement of bringing their purified Lugia all the way up to Sword & Shield. A screenshot shows the Lugia sporting the National Ribbon, a special ribbon only awarded to Pokémon that has been purified from the shadow affliction present in the Gamecube games, Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness and Pokémon Colosseum. The comments were full of impressed Pokémon fans, and some that shared their own story of keeping their long-time Pokémon partners with them over the years.
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