Pokemon Sword & Shield has 6 Legendary Pokemon. This guide shows how to get all Legendaries in Pokemon Sword and Shield.
Eternatus
Eternatus is automatically caught during the story. Near the end of the story you will have to fight Eternatus in a Max Raid Battle. After defeating it, throw a Pokeball and it’s a guaranteed catch. You get a lot of help from your friends during this battle so it’s not all that difficult.
Zacian und Zamazenta
Zacian is exclusive to Sword edition and Zamazenta is exclusive to Shield edition.
They are caught in the endgame / post-story episode. After beating the story, you will have to return to the shrine in Slumbering Weald where you found the Sword and Shield artifacts. Hop is waiting there and wants a rematch, defeat him and then defeat the other trainers that show up. Afterward, visit Sonia’s Lab in Wedgehurst and she’ll give you a device to spot Dmax Energy. Go to Turffield Stadium and you will learn that Pokemon have started to Dmax on their own within Stadiums. You must go back to all Stadiums and defeat a Dmaxed Pokemon in each (except Spikemuth). After you defended all Stadiums, talk to Sonia in the entrance hall of Hammerlocke Stadium. She opens the elevator next to her, which leads to the Energy Plant. Defeat the trainers in the Energy Plant and you’ll be brought to the rooftop. Zacian (Sword) / Zamazenta (Shield) are automatic story encounters on the Energy Plant Rooftop at the end of this post-story episode, you can’t miss them. They are very hard to catch and can quickly defeat your own Pokemon. It’s recommended you use the Master Ball here that you got from winning the Championship. Beware that Sword players will first fight a red glowing Zamazenta which cannot be caught, and Shield players will fight a red glowing Zacian first which cannot be caught. The second fight will be versus the Pokemon that’s exclusive to your game edition and at this point it can be caught (you can tell because it doesn’t have the red energy around it and will wear the Sword or Shield relic).
Type: Null & Silvally
Type: Null and Silvally count as legendaries, too! After finishing the story, travel to Wyndon and enter the Battle Tower there. Immediately after going inside, turn left and talk to the girl with Type: Null next to her. She will gift you this Pokemon!
To evolve Type: Null to Silvally, you must increase its happiness value to 220 (play with it at camps and cook curry). Then it will evolve. They are a bit more secret than the other legendaries as they can easily be overlooked and aren’t such obvious legendaries.
Mew
To obtain Mew you must buy a Pokeball Plus (can be purchased separately). This gadget allows you to transfer Mew into Sword and Shield. However, if you already used this for Pokemon Let’s Go, you won’t be able to do this (must buy a new Pokeball Plus in this case).
That’s how you get all 6 Legendaries in Pokemon Sword & Shield.
Jay Brian says
Finally! You guys are the only ones thus far who do this properly! Everywhere else only has the main three, not all five or four!
Clayton says
Why are there such few legendaries in Sword and Shield? Theres not even a legendary trio, and only 3 new legendaries as it is, thats very disappointing
Justin says
There’s actually more, listed in the data, just dont know how to obtain them yet
Chuckie says
I honestly agree I thought this was by far the easiest Pokemon game yet. Smh walked through this whole game without taking a single loss smh come on now wtf!
Boiga says
There gonna add more through events. In the files you can find legendaries from gen 4 to now.
Eric says
I’m pretty sure that Zacian, zamazenta and Eternatus count as a trio like groudon, kyogre and rayquaza/ palkia, dialga and giratina/ xerneus, yveltal and zygarde/ reshiram, zekrom and kyruem/ solgaleo, Lunala and necrozma
yeet boi says
you can transfer old pokemon like from sun and moon over to sword and shield. they have a lot of legendaries in the game’s code like mew (btw you can only get mew by getting pokemon plus) however most of the ways to get the other legendaries cost money.
hope this helped.
awsomepokeplayer says
I watched a video that told me where mewtwo is but you are right i expected more.
Leaguemon says
Now that you mention it I don’t think I lost a single battle. Really easy game, bit disappointed with the lack of legendaries but if there are more hidden that would be cool
Brent says
There is a really cool ghost Easter egg if you haven’t did it here is the steps go to hammerlocke once you’re there go to the left and eventually you will se stairs go up talk to the girl and do her mission by delivering that letter to a guy name frank in Ballonlea and go back and press we’re she was standing
TheDude says
If you’re dying within a pokemon game either before hand or now in shield. Then you got problems the game is made for a young age group the difficulty in the games comes from catch rate, breeding, and competitive.
Yuh says
I disagree the older games had a lot more level jumps and in some cases required grinding to progress, this game I had no problems with any of my team members being under leveled until I fought Leon and even then my team was 61-62
Drk says
Yuh, having to grind levels isn’t a difficulty increase its artificially leghnthaning a game, if a game is well built you shouldn’t be able to out level the content or have to grind before moving on with the story but battles should be close
Danski says
All these names being dropped and not one person’s asking for the original Legendary trio…. Articuno, zapdos and moltres the legendary birds pokemon. The best legendaries with the best plot n storyline with them. Please bring them back!!
Trent says
I thought it wad easy exept for the fighting type gym leaeer, also i was a bit under level. Still pretty easy
Yeetamus says
You can also get mewtwo
Jared says
Funny really i caught my Zacian in a damn quick ball like i thought it would be hard but no quite easy.
Yassin Chakir says
Bruh you get Kubfu as a legend Galarian zapdoz moltres and articuno calyrex and spectrier
Karen says
What a blast