Modder Imports Pokémon into Sword and Shield Only Days After Launch

Things have been a bit rocky forPokÃ©mon Sword and Shield.ÂOriginally, Game Freak found fans getting upset about the fact the new gamewouldn’t include allPokÃ©monÂfrom previous games. Things escalated when players who got hands on the game early startedleaking character modelsthat appeared to be reused assets fromPokÃ©mon Sun and MoonandLet’s Gogames. Game Freak hadpreviously statedthat they were making the characters from scratch, so this resulted in #GameFreakLied trending on Twitter last week.While many fans seem to be enjoying the game, it seems someone has been busy ensuring the left outPokÃ©monÂare included. This comes only days after the games launch with videos surfacing from a modder namedScriesM. Their videos show Omastar, one of the characters cut fromPokÃ©mon Sword and Shield,Âwithin the Nintendo Switch game.Omastar’s inclusion shows full animations working inÂSword and Shieldand the character model is from theLet’s Gogames. According to ScriseM, no additional changes were needed to import the character.

The initial tweet was posted on November 18 and shows Omastar in the PokÃ©dex withinÂSword and Shield.ÂThey then updated the tweet to include the below video of the character flaunting its animations within the PokÃ©dex.

SciresM then shows off a battle taking place with Omastar but acknowledges that the animations are a bit broken and stats are broken due to not fixing the personal entry.

They mention that the battle animation above is an edited Yamper which hasn’t been given legitimate moves yet. But they do go on to confirm that despite editing Yamper to show Omastar, Yamper remains in the game.

They do go on to explain that a lot more work and research is needed.

So while the base game doesn’t include all of the PokÃ©mon that fans are dearly missing, it seems like with more tinkering from modders they’ll be on track with introducing more characters to the game. Of course, with modding game files, I’m always very wary about breaking the game, so it’s probably worth ensuring you’re comfortable with making such changes to the game files.