If you’re a Pokemon Legends: Z-A player who’s aiming to evolve the Galarian Slowpoke available in the game, completing ‘Side Mission 75: Some Unusual Pokemon’ is the only way to do so if you don’t own the Mega Dimension DLC. However, this particular quest is both tough to find if you don’t know where to look and is only available from a certain point in the campaign.
What’s more, even when you get the special items required, you’ll face a difficult choice between Galarian Slowbro and Slowking. To get you dealing with that decision as fast as possible, though, this walkthrough guide will tell you all there is to know about how to evolve the Galarian variant of Slowpoke in Legends: Z-A.
How To Evolve Galarian Slowpoke
Like in other games in the series, since it appeared in Sword & Shield, the only way to make Galarian Slowpoke evolve in Pokemon Legends: Z-A is by using a Galarica Cuff to evolve it into Slowbro, or a Galarica Wreath to evolve it into Slowking.
Unlike the original Kanto Slowpoke from Generation One, which evolves into Slowbro at Level 37, you can evolve Galarian Slowpoke with either ‘Galarica’ item at any level.
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How To Get Galarian Slowpoke
If you haven’t managed to get Galarian Slowpoke in Pokemon Legends: Z-A yet, the only obtainable one in the game is during ‘Side Mission 39: Slowpoke for Slowpoke’ — found at the very edge of the map, south of Wild Zone 10, in the southwest section of Lumiose City.
You’ll be able to spot the NPC quest giver, Quille, immediately with the Galarian Slowpoke right next to him.
Also, keep in mind that you’ll need to have completed ‘Main Mission 14: Reaching Rank E’.
This side quest is one of the easiest in all of Legends: Z-A; you just need to catch a standard Slowpoke, and trade it with Quille for his own Galarian Slowpoke, nicknamed ‘Spicy’.
If you haven’t caught a regular Generation One Slowpoke in Pokemon Legends: Z-A yet, they can be easily caught in Wild Zone 10 — a very common spawn.
Select whichever Slowpoke you need the least to trade (ideally the poorest IVs, which you can check, since the NPC doesn’t care about that sort of thing), and you’ll have a Galarian Slowpoke ready to evolve. You’ll also get 1000 Poke Dollars, a Power Belt, and a Pearl for completing the quest.
Some Unusual Pokemon Walkthrough: How To Get Galarica Cuff And Galarica Wreath
If you have the Mega Dimension DLC installed, you can get the Galarica Cuff and Galarica Wreath with random loot drops from holographic Poke Balls in Hyperspace Lumiose; however, the only guaranteed way to get a Galarica Cuff or Wreath in Pokemon Legends: Z-A is by completing ‘Side Mission 75: Some Unusual Pokemon’.
Some Unusual Pokemon, designed to be the default way to evolve your Galarian Slowpoke in Pokemon Legends: Z-A, can be found on the court just north of Wild Zone 1, and are unlocked after completing ‘Main Mission 26: An Invitation from the SBC’ during the campaign.
Afterwards, the quest-giver for Some Unusual Pokemon, Touri, can be reached by fast traveling to Wild Zone 1, venturing through the Wild Zone until you can leave through the right-hand side entrance, and entering the court through the doorway on the side.
Some Unusual Pokemon isn’t too difficult a side quest; you just need to defeat both the Galarian Slowpoke and Galarian Slowking she has on her team, both being at Level 50 each. Unlike their Kanto and Johto counterparts, Galarian Slowking and Slowbro are both hybrid Psychic- and Poison types — opposed to the Water- and Psychic versions you find in the base version of Pokemon Legends: Z-A.
As Poison- and Psychic types, Galarian Slowking and Slowbro both have the same weaknesses: Dark-, Ground-, and Ghost-type attacks. Using attacks like Crunch with Feraligator or Shadowball with Gengar are easy go-tos; though, in our case, we just had Garchomp use Earthquake for quick and simple KOs.
Using any counter that can Mega Evolve as well is a nice bonus, but as long as you properly target Galarian Slowbro and Galarian Slowking’s weaknesses properly, it’s a pretty easy battle to win. Even if your main in-game team members are not quite at Level 50 yet, you should still be able to claim victory if each of your six Pokemon is at least Level 40-45 on average.
Touri will be a bit sad you wiped away her mighty team of two Pokemon so easily, but will then reward you with both the Galarica Cuff and Galarica Wreath as the quest concludes, along with an added 3,200 Poke Dollars.
While you now have both the evolution items required to evolve Galarian Slowpoke in Pokemon Legends: Z-A, you’re currently only able to get one of these in the entire game; this means you’ll need to choose between evolving it into Galarian Slowking and Galarian Slowking, and not being able to get the other one.
This issue may be resolved if Pokemon Legends: Z-A compatibility is added to Pokemon Home. On the other hand, this may take considerable time, though, as Game Freak needs to create new sprites for Pokemon in the older games that aren’t still available in Legends: Z-A (Sword, Shield, Brilliant Diamond, Shining Pearl, Scarlet and Violet, etc).
Should You Evolve Galarian Slowpoke Into Slowbro Or Slowking?
Objectively, in Pokemon Legends: Z-A, the best evolution to evolve your Galarian Slowpoke into would be Galarian Slowking over Galarian Slowbro, due to its slightly more focused stats and more suitable moveset.
Both are tanky Psychic- and Poison-types, just like their respective Johto and Kanto counterparts, but Galarian Slowking’s stats are more geared towards Special Attack — which is great, since it has a wide and powerful special movepool: Nasty Plot, Power Gem, Surf, Sludge Wave, Psychic, etc.
Galarian Slowpoke, meanwhile, has weaker but even split stats between Attack and Special Attack — meaning it can use both physical and special moves equally, but not as strong as Slowking with specials. It also has a broad variety in its movepool; Psychic, Surf, Zen Headbutt, Sludgebomb, Sludge Wave, Poison Jab, etc; but the best way the utilize that said variety of moves is by doing so with Galarian Slowking instead, as its the most powerful solo.
Be that as it may, if your team is in need more of a physical attacker, or a flexible member who can use both physical and special moves, you still shouldn’t hesitate to use Galarian Slowking if need be. Either way, you’ll have a bulky and powerful Psychic- and Poison-type for your Lumiose City Pokedex in your Pokemon Legends: Z-A adventure.
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