What Pokemon Legends: Galar Could Look Like
Among the excitement surrounding the official reveal of Pokemon Winds and Waves, the Pokemon franchise quietly had another game all but confirmed by proxy. With the TeraLeak that first detailed Pokemon Winds and Waves proving to be accurate, another game included in that leak is likely on the way as well. Pokemon Legends seems to be heading to the Galar region for its third entry in the subseries, but very few details about this game are currently known.
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The Leaked Pokemon Legends: Galar Game Would Likely Look More Like Arceus Than Z-A
After Pokemon Legends: Z-A flipped the script on what fans thought the Pokemon Legends series would be when it debuted with Legends: Arceus, the door is open for a wide variety of gameplay, settings, and stories to appear in future entries. With this in mind, it might be hard to nail down exactly what this Pokemon Legends: Galar game will look like. However, there are some clues included in the TeraLeak, along with reasonable assumptions based on the series’ past, that begin to paint a picture of what players can expect from this rumored game.
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What Has Been Leaked About Pokemon Legends: Galar So Far
- Set 1,000 years in the past
- Story involves the creation of the first Gigantamax Poke Ball
- Gameplay is focused on groups of Pokemon battling together, rather than traditional teams
- Dynamax and Gigantamax Pokemon will be major boss encounters
According to the details contained in the TeraLeak, the upcoming third Pokemon Legends game is planned to take place in the Galar Region 1,000 years ago. During this time, Pokemon and humans lived together, with the concept of a trainer being completely foreign, and the two fought alongside each other as equals. Allegedly, massive Dynamax and Gigantamax Pokemon are threatening the ecosystem, and the story involves the creation of the first Gigantamax Poke Ball to tame these creatures.
Pokemon Legends: Galar Has Some Clear Starter Options
- Snivy — Grass Type
- Litten — Fire Type
- Popplio — Water Type
The most likely starters for a Pokemon Legends: Galar game at this point are Snivy, Litten, and Popplio. Each of these starters is a member of a generation that has had its other starters appear in one of the other Legends games. Gen 5’s Oshawott was a starter in Pokemon Legends: Arceus, and Tepig was a starter in Pokemon Legends: Z-A, leaving Snivy as the lone Unova starter yet to join this subseries as a starter. The remaining two Gen 7 starters, Litten and Popplio, also make sense for Legends: Galar since Rowlet has already appeared as a starter in Legends: Arceus, and Legends: Z-A showed that two starters originally from the same generation can appear side by side in a Legends game, as was the case with Totodile and Chikorita.
Pokemon That Could Get New Forms in Legends: Galar
A core part of the Pokemon Legends series has been the new forms for existing Pokemon that have been introduced in each title. Pokemon Legends: Arceus gave a handful of new Hisuian Forms to older critters, and Pokemon Legends: Z-A massively expanded the number of mons with Mega Evolutions. As such, some past Pokemon will likely see some type of new form in the leaked Legends: Galar game.
Potential Boss Pokemon
- Coalossal
- Eiscue
- Stonjourner
- Eldegoss
- Seismitoad
With the leaked conflict for this Pokemon Legends: Galar game involving Gigantamax Pokemon destroying ecosystems, it would make sense for major boss fights to be against G-Max Forms that correspond to different environments. G-Max Coalossal has already been spotted in a leaked image, but this form existed in the original Sword and Shield games. In terms of potential new G-Max boss Pokemon, an Ice-type like Eiscue makes sense for the Circhester and Route 9 part of the Galar Region, while its counterpart, Stonjourner, might fit perfectly as a boss of the region surrounding Turffield, since Galar’s version of Stonehenge can be found nearby.
For a Grass-type boss Pokemon, Eldegoss seems ideal since it never received a G-Max form in Sword and Shield, despite being Gym Leader Milo’s ace. Seismitoad’s potential to create earthquakes with the vibrations it emits from the lumps on its body could be destructive to water environments, like those surrounding Hulbury on the coast of the Galar Region, especially if it were super-sized in a Gigantamax form.
Likely Regional Variants in Legends: Galar
- Slowking
- Alcremie
- Trubbish
- Garbodor
- Klink
- Klang
- Klinklang
- Duraludon
- Dracozolt
- Arctozolt
- Dracovish
- Arctovish
From the leaked images of this Legends: Galar game, it appears that Slowking will be receiving another new form, despite already having a Galarian form added in the Crown Tundra DLC. Other Pokemon that could see regional variants in this game include those that appear in the Galar Pokedex, but are designed to look like parts of the modern world and would seem out of place 1,000 years in the past. Like how Hisuian Voltorb became a Grass/Electric-type wooden ball to mirror the rudimentary Poke Balls of Hisui, Pokemon like Garbodor, Klinklang, and Duraludon that are based on very urban imagery could receive more ancient-looking forms. Similarly, Alcremie is designed to look like the modern style of baking, which could change to include a more traditional culinary take on its design.
Infamously, the Gen 8 Fossil Pokemon are bizarre amalgamations of four different prehistoric Pokemon that the scientist Cara Liss fused together when reviving to create the monstrosities available in Sword and Shield. A Pokemon Legends: Galar game would be the perfect chance to introduce the original forms of these critters to the Pokemon series and finally give fans a chance to see what they looked like before being fused by Cara Liss.
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Major Characters that Need Ancestors in Pokemon Legends: Galar
- Sordward/Shielbert
- Marnie/Piers
- Melony/Gordie
- Peony/Peonia
- Hop/Leon
- Sonia/Professor Magnolia
There are already a lot of families represented in Pokemon Sword and Shield‘s Galar Region. With this leaked Pokemon Legends: Galar game allegedly putting an emphasis on group-based interactions, seeing the long-lost relatives of some of Galar’s notable families makes a lot of sense. Sibling duos like Marnie and Piers, Hop and Leon, and the strange brothers Sordward and Shielbert, who claim to be descendants of Galar’s first kings, all deserve to have their family history explored. Parents and grandparents with children in Sword and Shield, like Melony and Gordie, Peony and Peonia, and Magnolia and Sonia, are also great candidates for receiving common ancestors in a Legends game.
Pokemon Legends: Galar’s Story and Legendaries Seem Obvious Thanks to Sword and Shield
With the story for this Pokemon Legends: Galar game leaked to focus on Gigantamax and the creation of the first G-Max Poke Ball, it would be natural to assume that the main Legendary Pokemon to be featured would be Eternatus. However, the Darkest Day that created the Dynamax phenomenon occurred 3,000 years before the events of Sword and Shield, which would be about 2,000 years before the time that this game takes place. As such, Eternatus may not be the focus after all, and Zacian and Zamazenta may also play a smaller role.
Instead, Calyrex is the perfect candidate for a game like this, especially since it is said to emphasize saving Galar from environmental catastrophe. Calyrex is described in The Crown Tundra DLC as having once ruled all of Galar as an ancient king and had even used its foresight to save a forest of Pokemon from a devastating meteor impact. Perhaps the story of Legends: Galar could involve reawakening Calyrex to once again help save the Galar Region from environmental collapse and the rampaging Gigantamax Pokemon, since Calyrex was said to be present during the Darkest Day and could have knowledge of the phenomenon.
- Released
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October 16, 2025
- ESRB
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Everyone 10+ / Fantasy Violence, In-Game Purchases
