Pokemon Legends: Arceus

Image via Nintendo

With every Pokemon game that has come up out in the final 25 years, the graphics modify simply the gameplay mechanics remain the same, only as Satoshi Tajiri intended. Just some leaks are now claiming that Pokemon Legends: Arceus will have some gameplay elements removed: abilities, breeding, and held items.

Centro Leaks sent a tweet over the holidays detailing a list of changes that may be coming to Pokemon Legends: Arceus. The most outstanding of these include Pokemon non having whatever abilities, holding any items, nor breeding with other Pokemon, whether they're the aforementioned species or not. The leaks come courtesy of another Twitter user and well-known Pokemon leaker Riddler Khu, who has since set their profile to private.

Abilities, held items, and convenance have been household features in the mainline Pokemon games to assistance Trainers and their Pokemon become stronger. To encounter that they won't be a part of Pokemon Legends: Arceus may be annoying to many long-time players.

However, it's important to notation that the game takes place 200 years before the events of Pokemon Diamond and Pearl — and its remakes, Vivid Diamond and Shining Pearl — in the Hisui region, which isn't even remotely mentioned by anyone living in the Sinnoh region. Mayhap the time period in which it is set up implies that people in the Hisui region don't know much about Pokemon and how certain abilities tin be used for their benefit or that of opposing Pokemon in battle, how holding certain items assist the Mon, or how to best breed them. Plus, these leaks could ever prove incorrect. Make certain to take them with a hefty grain of salt until the news is confirmed by official sources.

Some other of import thing the leaks mention is that information technology will take players a long time to complete the Hisui Pokedex in club to capture Arceus. Previous games permit players to capture Legendary Pokemon without capturing every single Pokemon, and then the amount of time and try players have to put into catching 'em all may explain the Hisuans' lack of knowledge about Pokemon in the get-go place.