Porygon-Z Has Weird Sleep Animation in Pokemon Legends: Arceus

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The successful launch of Pokemon Legends: Arceus has many excited about where the franchise could go in the future, but gamers are still finding cute and thought-provoking details inside this latest installment of the series. One recent discovery is linked to fan-favorite Pokemon Porygon-Z, a digital entity that somehow got stuck in Sinnoh's distant past with the player. A number of Pokemon Legends: Arceus players have found that Porygon-Z has an adorably weird sleep animation connected to its unique nature.

Porygon-Z is the final stage of the Porygon evolution line, which was the first artificial Pokemon to be created. In mostPokemon games, players must trade Porygon and its first evolution, Porygon2, in order to make them evolve. However, Pokemon Legends: Arceus make evolving a Porygon-Z easier by taking out the trading requirement.

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Redditor pokettopals recently shared a short video drawing attention to Porygon-Z's adorably creepy sleep animation, which shows the little Pokemon floating in midair and twitching uncontrollably. Porygon is beloved by fans due to its nature as a digital Pokemon, and its evolutions are also data entities manifesting into the physical world. However, Porygon-Z is unique because, unlike its previous stages, this Pokemon is explicitly glitching in-universe.

According to various Pokedex entries, Porygon-Z was created by adding additional software to Porygon2 designed to allow the creature to travel through alien dimensions. While this appears to have worked, it also had some strange side effects--namely, it caused the Pokemon to begin twitching uncontrollably and show erratic behavior.

Although this may be seen by some as unsettling,