As the first Pokémon game on the Nintendo Switch, Pokémon Sword & Shield has a solid exploration theme. With its open-world wild area, towering cities, and massive stadiums, it’s easy to fall in love with the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:region of Galar.
But nature and infrastructure༒ are far from the main things that make Galar so charming. That goes to its characters, whom you meet through your quest to be the Pokemon League Champion. There are tons of new faces in Pokémon Sword & Shield, and these 10 are some of the most ꦬlovable 🙈and memorable you’ll get to meet on your journey.
Updated July 1st, 2020 by Meg Pelliccio: Nintendo recently released the first part of the expansion pass for Pokémon Sword & Shield, the Isle of Armor, and players have received a whole new range of content. Galar now has a brand new area, additional story quests, new Pokémon, and more.
Of course, this includes new characters and some of them have already rooted themselves firmly in the fandom's good graces. With these new characters, it's time to take another look at the best NPCs that generation eight has to offer.
15 𒈔 Chairman Rose ꧃
Spoilers ahead. Though Chairman Rose turned out to be the antagonist, he still remained a fan-favorite, likely due to his smooth dress sense and modern hairstyle. Interestingly, with the release of the new Isle of Armor DLC, players can now change their own hair to loo𒈔k like Rose's, as well as Marnie's.
Despite being "the bad guy," Rose's plans a💃ctually come from a t🐈wisted sense of doing good and he ultimately hands himself over to the authorities when things go south.
14 Mustard
The Isle of Armor DLC introduces players to the character of Mustard, the owner of ꩵthe Master Dojo and a previous champion of the Galar region.
Though this old man might seem like a push-over, he's actually a skilled Pokémon trainer who sets the player up with various challenges to overcome. Additionally, fans loved that this old-timer is seen embracing new technology, as you can find Mustard playing Pokémon Quest on a Nintendo Switch iꦅn the room to the left of the ma🌼in dojo hall.
13 Bede
What makes Bede's story different from every other “becoming a gym leader” stor🐓yline is that it’s not based on resp𝄹onsibility. A huge theme in Pokémon Sword & Shield is finding your path, and for Bede that moves from being a🌟n unstoppable psychic trainer to embracing he﷽r opportunity as the new fairy gym leader.
From that, we see a lovely transformation, one more distinctive than most of your other recurring encounters and with a team that changes to match her growth. Hardly any other Pokémon character’s teams shift with a character in this way and is a great trait that future Pokémon games should absolutely embrace.
12 Milo
There’s a lot to be said for the variety of designs among the humans in this Pokémon game, and Milo is fairly emblema✤tic of that trait. Besides just being a fitness goal, Milo’s button eyes and smile add a level of adorableness that suit🦄s his cuddly, muscular figure perfectly.
Unfortunately, he has little presence in the game otherwise. Besides his looks and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:an easy battle, there’s not aඣ lot to him. Nonetheless, when you put his look next to the other grass-type gym leaders, he sticks out among the flower girls and elderly farmers.
11 Leon
Though his character comes across a little goofy at times, Leon is still a loveable character in a toꦦtally a-dork-able way, which is weird because ꦉhe appears to be perceived as "cool" by everyone else.
Leon also has an awful sense of direction that is often getting him lost, which is an endearing quality, but his Charizard often helps him find his way. In the Isle of Armor, Mustard explains that Leon was one of his best students but that he never fini🀅shed his training as he couldn't find his way to the Towers of Two Fists.
10 Raihan
Raihan might not be a character that is understood in several years because he might be the most iconically modern trainer we’ve seen, at least close to the rea💎l world of 2020. Besides his perpetual smug grin, this is the one gym leader that you can believe is popular in Galar thanks to his huge personality, posing for the crowd, and taking mid-battle selfies.
As hokey as it is, it totally works for him and makes for a fun final gym leader. Taking on someone so ecstatic to fight you, who wants a double battle just to show off Pokémon to the crowd, makes for a much more epic final fight than an overdramatic final challenge. Being a Pokémon tra𝓡iner is about fun, and Raihan embraces that feeling perfectly.
9 Kabu
Speaking of intimidating gym leaders, Kabu is important to mention just because he’s one of the only ones with a reputation you get to hear about as you build-up to his fight. As soon as you’re done fighting Nessa, every one of your friends describes K🔜abu as being the big obstacle that beginner trainers can never get past.
Unfortunately, the irony is that his team is extremely weak, with his signature fire-type and bug-type Ce💦ntiskortch weak to an obscene number of attacks. But even if the reality of Kabu isn’t as frightening as his reputation, it still makes him more of 🦩a character than most gym leaders throughout Pokémon history.
8 Sordward & Shielbert
These two brothers you take on in the post-game might possibly have the tackiest hair you’ll ever see in any video game. They’re two entitled celebrities that immediately start wreaking൩ havoc across Galar, but their weird namesake hairstyles seem like a parody of Pokémon characters.
As unlikable as their hair and personalities are, though, the conflict ends up being a lot more goofy and charming than genuinely bad. They’re like something out of a 4Kids anime dub, complete with all the cheesy dialogue you can handle. They might be a joke at first, ♐but their silliness keeps them memorable and lighthearted in a game that doesn’t need to take itself seriously to begin anyway.
7 Avery
Avery is the new rival for Pokémon Shield's latest DLC, the Isle of Armor. He specializes ꦑin psychic type Pokémon and🌱 hopes to become a gym leader for Galar one day. Fans loved that Nintendo introduced a more androgynous character to the game.
Avery's League Card explains that he comes from a long line of prestigious psychic users, but that he is considered a failure by his family for not being abl💝e to master some of the basic psychic abilities.
6 Bea
While you don’t expe🐻rience very much of Bea in the game, this is one of the Pokémon characters who’s easy to love thanks to supplemental content. Pokémon: Twilight Wings blew people away with a l♛ook into Bea's training, and learning to accept help from her friends and Pokémon.
It’s a shame none of this is in the game, but this six-minute animation gave us the kind of information about her character every gym leader deserves. The fact that 168澳洲幸运ꦍ5开奖网:Twilight Wings is available on Youtube makes it easy to see more of this character, and the endearing famil⛦y-like relationship she has with her team.