{"id":120240,"date":"2020-11-03T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-03T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/11\/with_the_dlc_all_wrapped_up_here_are_the_234_pokemon_still_unavailable_in_sword_and_shield"},"modified":"2020-11-03T14:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-03T14:30:00","slug":"with-the-dlc-all-wrapped-up-here-are-the-234-pokemon-still-unavailable-in-sword-and-shield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/11\/03\/with-the-dlc-all-wrapped-up-here-are-the-234-pokemon-still-unavailable-in-sword-and-shield\/","title":{"rendered":"With The DLC All Wrapped Up, Here Are The 234 Pok\u00e9mon Still Unavailable In Sword And Shield"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/baaf81cd64fa6\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/baaf81cd64fa6\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/baaf81cd64fa6\/1280x720.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/users\/BowtieShyGuy\" class=\"mention\" data-username=\"BowtieShyGuy\" rel=\"nofollow\">@BowtieShyGuy<\/a> To be fair, the Pokemon were programmed into the game that time, they just weren&#8217;t legally available yet, since Gen 1\/2.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/users\/Dremp\" class=\"mention\" data-username=\"Dremp\" rel=\"nofollow\">@Dremp<\/a> To be fair, finishing the dex in Sun and Moon didn&#8217;t require any imported Pokemon, there was no &#8216;national dex&#8217;. So cutting Pokemon isn&#8217;t what shortened the dex.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/users\/Salnax\" class=\"mention\" data-username=\"Salnax\" rel=\"nofollow\">@Salnax<\/a> They can advertise Greninja&#8217;s return as a selling point for the next game and people will eat it up.<\/p>\n<p>As for me, I&#8217;m just glad Joltik is in and Luxray and Hawlucha made it in with DLC. The rest of my top 10 (Houndoom, Cranidos, Chimchar, Typhlosion, Honchcrow, Pyroar, Gogoat) all remain cut.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still kinda annoyed that they claimed they didn&#8217;t have time to port models to Switch when literally every Kanto Pokemon already was for Let&#8217;s Go, and compatibility was cut anyways. I&#8217;d be fine with them being transport only and not in the dex, but no compatibility at all?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>@BowtieShyGuy To be fair, the Pokemon were programmed into the game that time, they just weren&#8217;t legally available yet, since Gen 1\/2. @Dremp To be fair, finishing the dex in Sun and Moon didn&#8217;t require any imported Pokemon, there was no &#8216;national dex&#8217;. So cutting Pokemon isn&#8217;t what shortened the dex. @Salnax They can advertise [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}