Pokemon Legends: Arceus Players Point Out Detail on Alpha Zubat

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Pokemon Legends: Arceus brings players to a bygone era of the Sinnoh region’s history and asks players to capture Pokemon. While there are Pokemon that can be captured without a battle, the alpha Pokemon in Pokemon Legends: Arceusalways require a fight. When taking on one of these alphas, one player noticed something was missing from the design of the alpha Zubat: glowing red eyes.

Pokemon Legends: Arceus was released this year and, despite making some changes to the usual Pokemon series formula, preserves the core gameplay of past entries. An alpha Pokemon is a larger-than-normal individual that appears in Hisui. These Pokemon have increased combat capabilities and can usually be identified by a special icon and glowing red eyes.

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In an image, u/holyhood shows a typical encounter screen from Pokemon Legends: Arceus in which the Action Order is listed, detailing when their Pokemon will be up for attack and when it will be this wild Zubat’s turn. Everything appears normal except this alpha Zubat doesn’t have the glowing red eyes that all alpha Pokemon are supposed to have.

Next to the Zubat's name there is the normal alpha indicator symbol, but that usual physical sign isn’t there. What u/holyhood points out here must have been a conversation the developers had because Zubat doesn’t normally have eyes. Because of their lack of eyes, alpha Zubats can't have these red eyes.

U/holyhood makes a great observation here about one of the things that can make hunting down alpha Pokemon in Pokemon Legends: Arceus a bit tricky. In this particular case, the original design of Zubat makes it impossible for the developers of Pokemon Legends: Arceus to add in one of the