Pokémon Legends: Z-A’s endgame is fairly hectic, so by the point you attain the post-game, you may be overstimulated and overlook a few of the methods issues have modified in your house base of Resort Z. There’s a wholly missable epilogue of kinds for a personality that even provides you a free Pokémon with ties to somebody from Pokémon X and Y. We’ll begin with a spoiler-free rationalization of the place to go and what to search for, then we’ll dive into the small print.
As quickly as you beat the ultimate boss, the credits roll, and whenever you’re lastly given again management of your character, you’ll discover a Poké Ball sitting on the desk in your resort room. It’s fully potential to overlook and stroll proper previous it as a result of Legends: Z-A doesn’t direct your consideration to it, however this Poké Ball comprises a Pokémon you’ve already met in your journey, and a be aware from an outdated good friend. Now that you already know the place to go, let’s unpack this.
The Poké Ball has AZ’s Lucario, which you used a lot earlier within the sport to discover ways to use Mega Evolution. However this Lucario wasn’t at all times AZ’s. The 3000-year-old battle felony (who has by no means executed something incorrect in his life) was gifted this combating/metal monster by “a certain trainer” who hoped it will have the ability to preserve him protected in Lumiose Metropolis. Should you look at Lucario’s stats, you’ll see its unique coach is listed as Korrina. Should you don’t know or keep in mind who that’s, Korrina is the fighting-type health club chief in Pokémon X and Y. She additionally gave the participant a Lucario in these video games as properly. Whereas Korrina doesn’t really seem in Legends: Z-A, she’s nonetheless not directly serving to the participant out.
Alongside Lucario’s Poké Ball, you’ll discover a letter from AZ written earlier than his passing. In it, he displays on his 3000 years, together with when he initially obtained his accomplice Floette, the Kalos Struggle hundreds of years prior that led to the occasions of Legends: Z-A, the primary time he noticed a Pokémon endure Mega Evolution, and when he noticed the “dark day” fall over Galar, the area in Pokémon Sword and Protect. That is in reference to what’s colloquially generally known as the Darkest Day, by which a Legendary Pokémon referred to as Eternatus brought about the Pokémon of the area to endure compelled Dynamax transformations, which flip Pokémon into kaiju-like giants. The monsters almost destroyed the area, however your entire occasion got here to an finish when the 2 Kings of Galar defeated Eternatus. The occasion was “recreated” in Sword and Protect, however AZ was alive for the unique one.
By itself, this would possibly simply look like a bit of additional world-building, however on condition that we all know by way of the Teraleak that the following Legends sport could also be a historic Galar sport, AZ would possibly seem in a future sport, regardless of his demise in Legends: Z-A. Even when we by no means knew something concerning the leaks, this line would possible have sparked hypothesis that the following Legends sport would return to the previous like Legends: Arceus. It seems like Sport Freak continues to be solidifying what the Legends moniker means, and if it retains bouncing across the timeline like this, perhaps the subseries will simply be a spot for the workforce to experiment and fill in lore gaps with none onerous guidelines.
