The snows of the crown already have a release date. The second area of the expansion pass for Pokémon Sword and Shield for Nintendo Switch will arrive on October 23. With it you will enter a new territory where you can discover new characters, stories and even catch a good number of legendary Pokémons. So get ready for everything that awaits you.
The snows of the crown
After seeing the light, on June 17, the first expansion for Pokémon Sword and Shield arrives The island of armor . It will be next October 23 when you can start investigating this new territory covered in sparkling snow and where you can visit new areas.
In these territories you will meet new characters and stories and among all that will highlight the new creatures and regional species that you can find. Like the legendary birds of the Kanto region in their Galar variant: Calyrex, Regidrago, Regileki, Articuno de Galar, Zappos de Galar or Moltres de Galar. But it will not be the only thing that will surprise you.
The second expansion will also introduce the ability to capture legendary Pokémon that have appeared in the rest of previous titles and the option to team up with those Pokémon trainers to enjoy Dynamax Adventures.
These new Dynamax Adventures will be carried out as a team and instead of taking your four best Pokémon, you will have to choose one and trust the choice of the rest. Then you will have to work as a team to overcome each of the raids you make. As you fight, if you win, you will receive a new Pokémon that you can replace with the one you carry and continue entering these adventures until a fight is lost.
All this will be the most striking thing, but there will be some extras that will surely also interest you. From September 29 to October 30, trainers will be able to access the special event with Pikachu where players can receive up to eight different Pikachu. These are obtained with passwords that can be obtained in different ways. For the first one, the password to be entered will be “P1KACHUGET”.
The expansion pass, which gives access to both the additional content of the Island of Armor and The Island of Snow, is priced at € 29.99 and can be purchased both in physical stores and through the Nintendo eShop .
New special edition Pokémon Sword and Shield
Along with the launch date of the new expansion, it has also been known that Nintendo will launch a special pack later . Specifically, Friday, November 6, is when it will be launched and will contain the base game plus the corresponding expansion.
At the content level there will be no differences, it will be exactly the same that you can access by buying a game and expansion separately, although it will have a small extra or bonus in the way of 100 Poké Balls that will surely help you take your first steps through Galar. And along with those 100 Poké Balls you will also receive the Pikachiu Uniform and the Eevee Uniform .
