Summary
- Pokemon is giving Home users the chance to unlock a Shiny Manaphy and a Shiny Enamorous.
- Shiny Manaphy can be unlocked by completing Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl’s Pokedex.
- Shiny Enamorous can be unlocked by completing Pokemon Legends: Arceus’s Pokedex.
Pokemon is enticing people back to some of its older Switch games, as well as Pokemon Home ahead of this year’s Pokemon Day by rewarding them with some very rare shinies for completing certain Pokedexes. If you complete the Sinnoh and Hisui Pokedexes in Pokemon Home, you will now be rewarded with a shiny Manaphy and a shiny Enamorous, respectively.
Pokemon shared the news that this first-time shiny and very rare shiny will be given to trainers talented and determined enough to complete each of the Pokedexes mentioned above via its Japanese Twitter account (thanks, VGC). As for why these two shiny Pokemon, in particular, are noteworthy, one of them is brand new, and the other, while technically made available before, was incredibly difficult to get.
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Manaphy is the one that is so rare, many of you might not even know it has a shiny variant. Until now, the only trainers with a shiny Manaphy are those who managed to get one through spinoff series, Pokemon Ranger. To be in with a chance of getting a shiny Manaphy, you needed to get a Manaphy egg, trade it to one of the main games, and then hatch it in the hope it was shiny. If it wasn’t, you’d have to head back to Pokemon Ranger and start the process all over again.
Pokemon Is Giving Home Users Some Very Rare Shinies
They’ll Need To Head Back To Sinnoh And Hisui if They Want Them, Though
Thanks to Pokemon’s new Home rewards, now all you need to do is complete Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl‘s Pokedex. I say all you need to do, that’s still a gargantuan task, but hey, it’s a lot less tedious than the Ranger way. As for the shiny Enamorous, which is technically even rarer since it has never been available before, that will be your reward for completing Pokemon Legends: Arceus‘s Pokedex.
The Pokemon won’t be rewards given to you in-game once each Pokedex has been completed. You will need to pair your progress with Pokemon Home. Home is a free app on mobile and Nintendo Switch you can use to keep track of Pokemon you’ve caught across most of its games. You can also trade Pokemon between games using Home in some instances.
While Pokemon hasn’t specifically said this is a way of getting people back to playing its games on Switch, it seems likely that’s the reason for doing this. We already know Pokemon Legends: Z-A is coming this year and will likely be getting a bigger reveal during this year’s Pokemon Presents, so getting people back to Arceus makes sense. I will leave you to wildly speculate on why it might want people playing Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl a little more.
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Visit the ancient region of Hisui, the predecessor to Sinnoh, and help create the first Pokedex. Pokemon Legends: Arceus introduces a more action role-playing, open-world style of gameplay.
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Pokémon Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl
