How To Catch Alpha Pokemon Without Battling

This page of the Pokemon Legends: Arceus guide contains data on Alpha Pokemon, including how to catch them, where to observe them, and more. Blastoff Pokemon are high-leveled Pokemon that part essentially as the mini-bosses of their area with special incentives to catch and defeat them. Further below, y'all'll discover a tabular array containing all of the known Alpha Pokemon locations throughout the Hisui region in Pokemon Legends: Arceus.

This Alpha Pokemon guide includes:
- What Are Blastoff Pokemon?
- Alpha Pokemon F.A.Q.south.
- How to Catch Alpha Pokemon
- Alpha Pokemon Rewards
- List of Alpha Pokemon and Locations

What Are Alpha Pokemon?

You'll undoubtedly meet Alpha Pokemon during your adventures exploring the Hisui region. Blastoff Pokemon are easy to distinguish from their normal counterparts due to their larger size and glowing cherry optics. They are also more hostile than regular Pokemon and will chase after and attack you. Blastoff Pokemon typically know moves that aren't unremarkably learned by that species during level up, however, they can eventually exist learned past using the Move Tutor.

Generally, Alpha Pokemon are of a significantly higher level than your team when you first run across them so if you decide to engage, be ready for a tough fight. It's very possible to find Alpha Pokemon at levels twenty or higher than the highest-leveled Pokemon in your party. You lot can take hold of Alpha Pokemon to bolster your team, every bit they are likely to have multiple Attempt Levels, some up to Level 3.

Blastoff Pokemon F.A.Q.due south.

Blastoff Pokemon can be recognized by their glowing red eyes and large size.
Generally, they're much college level than other Pokemon in the expanse
They are the largest a Pokemon of that species can become
Once it's caught, the small ruby-red icon next to a Pokemon'south name indicates it's an alpha, equally does its size!
When an Alpha Pokemon evolves, information technology retains its big size.
Their stat parameters are the same every bit normal Pokemon, however...
Blastoff Pokemon start with more Endeavour Levels than normal Pokemon, with some stats with up to 3 Attempt Levels.
Alpha Pokemon tin can know a motility its species ordinarily but learns from the Move Tutor (Zisu at the Training Grounds). You may not see the move on Zisu'south list initially considering more are unlocked as you increase your Star Rank Level.
Alpha Pokemon will respawn if yous accept caught or defeated them (look until the adjacent day or leave to Jubilife Village and return).
Alpa Pokemon well above your level (and beyond your Star Rank Level) can still be caught!
Alpha Pokemon can be constitute in shaking trees or minerals! The chance of an Blastoff Pokemon actualization in this mode is very rare, only it'southward totally possible!

How to Take hold of Alpha Pokemon

Alpha Pokemon generally accept a very depression capture rate, so you'll desire to use something better than your average Poke Assurance, such as Swell Balls and Ultra Balls, or specialized ones like Heavy Balls. Sneak up on them for a higher take a chance of communicable them without initiating a battle - you'll know yous can do this if the usual Poke Ball icon appears when you lot lock onto them. The higher your Star Rank, increased past filling out your Pokedex, the more likely yous'll be able to catch Alpha Pokemon outright.

Though information technology'south not intuitive, you can yet take hold of Alpha Pokemon even if y'all run across a red X where the Poke Ball icon should be when you lot wait at them. You lot won't be able to grab these by just tossing a Poke Ball - you lot will accept to battle with them, and information technology will exist difficult.

Follow these steps to accept the easiest time catching an Alpha Pokemon:

Prepare with plenty of Ultra Assurance, or Smashing Balls if you must, likewise as Stealth Sprays and Smoke Bombs.
Make certain Pokemon on your team know status inflicting moves similar Hypnosis or Thunder Wave. A Pokemon with a status condition is easier to catch.
Every bit you lot arroyo an Alpha Pokemon, employ a Stealth Spray and crouch in the grass.
If y'all can't get close enough to information technology to lock on while obscured in the grass, utilize a Smoke Bomb. Brand certain not to catch the Alpha Pokemon in the cloud of fume as well.
Lock onto the Alpha Pokemon from backside. If you tin chuck an Ultra Ball or Heavy Ball, do so now. If you can't, and you must battle, grab it unawares by throwing your Pokemon's ball at its dorsum to initiate battle.
Utilize the free turns you get from catching the Pokemon unawares to inflict it with a status condition and do damage to it, so believe in Arceus that the Alpha Pokemon will stay in the ball.

In the screenshot above, nosotros caught a Level lx Alpha Alakazam at only the Three Star Rank, with Pokemon in the 30s! We were nevertheless able to apply it in battle, too, though information technology did not always listen to our instructions.

Alpha Pokemon Rewards

You can also boxing and defeat Alpha Pokemon for a large amount of feel for your entire squad, as well as potential rare items including Seeds of Mastery, Experience Processed of all sizes, and Dust of all sizes.

Whether yous capture or defeat an Alpha Pokemon, information technology will respawn in the same location after returning to Jubilife Hamlet.

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List of Alpha Pokemon and Locations

Blastoff Pokemon	Location
Alpha Abra	Obsidian Fieldlands Southwestern Sandgem Flats
Blastoff Abomasnow	Alabaster Icelands Northeast Bonechill Wastes
Alpha Aipom	Obsidian Fieldlands Ramanas Island
Alpha Alakazam	Obsidian Fieldlands Sandgem Flats
Alpha Ambipom	Cobalt Coastlands Hideaway Bay
Alpha Beautifly	Obsidian Fieldlands Floaro Gardens
Alpha Bibarel	Obsidian Fieldlands Beach area about Tidewater Dam
Blastoff Bidoof	Obsidian Fieldlands North of Aspiration Colina Blood-red Mirelands North Gapejaw Bog
Blastoff Blissey	Obsidian Fieldlands Northeast of Obsidian Falls
Alpha Bronzong	Coronet Highlands Sacred Plaza
Alpha Budew	Crimson Mirelands Cottonsedge Prairie Coronet Highlands Cottonsedge Prairie
Alpha Buneary	Obsidian Fieldlands The Heartwood
Alpha Carnivine	Scarlet Mirelands S of Lake Valor Coronet Highlands Alone Spring
Alpha Chansey	Cobalt Coastlands Tombolo Walk
Alpha Chimecho	Alabaster Icelands Southwest Lake Acuity
Blastoff Clefable	Coronet Highlands Fabled Bound (night)
Blastoff Combee	Obsidian Fieldlands Northeast of The Heartwood Scarlet Mirelands Brava Arena East Gapejaw Bog Cobalt Coastlands Aipom Hill
Alpha Croagunk	Crimson Mirelands Gapejaw Bog
Alpha Crobat	Coronet Highlands Wayward Cave
Blastoff Drapion	Cobalt Coastlands North of Gingko Landing
Alpha Drifblim	Obsidian Fieldlands Sandgem Flats
Blastoff Drifloon	Obsidian Fieldlands Northwest of Aspiration Hill (night only) Windswept Run (night only)
Alpha Dusknoir	Cobalt Coastlands Deadwood Haunt
Blastoff Eevee	Obsidian Fieldlands Horseshoe Plains
Alpha Electabuzz	Coronet Highlands North of Ice
Alpha Electivire	Coronet Highlands Near Rock Portal on Cloudcap Laissez passer
Blastoff Empoleon	Cobalt Coastlands Islespy Shore
Alpha Floatzel	Obsidian Fieldlands Southeast of Horseshoe Plains across the river
Alpha Froslass	Alabaster Icelands Ice cavern southeast of Avalanche Slopes
Alpha Gabite	Coronet Highlands West Clamber Due south of Celestica Ruins
Alpha Gallade	Alabaster Icelands Snowpoint Temple
Alpha Garchomp	Alabaster Icelands Southern Barrage Slopes
Alpha Gardevoir	Alabaster Icelands Heart's Crag
Alpha Gastly	Reddish Mirelands Southeast of Solaceon Ruins (night only) Northwest Sludge Mound (night only) Coronet Highlands Bolderoll Ravine (dark only)
Alpha Gastrodon	Obsidian Fieldlands Southern surface area of Sandgem Flats near shoreline Cobalt Coastlands Island northwest of Seagrass Haven
Alpha Geodude	Obsidian Fieldlands South of Grueling Grove Deertrack Heights Coronet Highlands Eastward Bolderoll Ravine
Alpha Glalie	Alabaster Icelands Bonechill Wastes Mandatory fight during Gone Astray...in the Icelands
Alpha Gligar	Coronet Highlands Celestica Ruins
Blastoff Gliscor	Coronet Highlands Earliest Grotto
Blastoff Golbat	Obsidian Fieldlands South of Oreburrow Tunnel
Alpha Golem	Coronet Highlands East Bolderoll Ravine
Alpha Golduck	Cobalt Coastlands Bathers' Lagoon
Alpha Goodra	Obsidian Fieldlands Verity Cavern (during The Trial of Lake Verity) Coronet Highlands Ancient Quarry
Alpha Goomy	Coronet Highlands Northwest Wayward Woods on mount
Blastoff Graveler	Obsidian Fieldlands Eastward across Worn Bridge Ruby-red Mirelands Bolderoll Gradient
Alpha Gyarados	Obsidian Fieldlands Lake Verity Cobalt Coastlands Northeast of Sand'south Reach South of Lunker's Lair
Blastoff Happiny	Obsidian Fieldlands E of Oreburrow Tunnel
Alpha Heracross	Obsidian Fieldlands Grueling Grove
Alpha Hippowdon	Crimson Mirelands Sludge Mound
Alpha Honchcrow	Cherry-red Mirelands Cloudpool Ridge
Alpha Infernape	Obsidian Fieldlands Ramanas Island
Blastoff Kricketot	Obsidian Fieldlands Windswept Run Tidewater Dam
Alpha Kricketune	Obsidian Fieldlands Deertrack Heights (During A Request From Mai) Tidewater Dam Crimson Mirelands Sacred Plaza
Alpha Lickilicky	Crimson Mirelands Shrouded Ruins
Alpha Lopunny	Obsidian Fieldlands Southeast of Ramanas Island
Alpha Lucario	Alabaster Icelands Icebound Falls
Alpha Lumineon	Cobalt Coastlands Seagrass Oasis
Blastoff Luxio	Obsidian Fieldlands Floaro Gardens Sandgem Flats
Blastoff Luxray	Obsidian Fieldlands Northeast Sandgem Flats Coronet Highlands Sacred Plaza
Alpha Machamp	Alabaster Icelands Northeast of Arena's Arroyo
Blastoff Machoke	Cobalt Coastlands N of Gingko Landing
Alpha Magikarp	Obsidian Fieldlands South of Oreburrow Tunnel
Blastoff Magmar	Cobalt Coastlands Firespit Island
Alpha Mamoswine	Alabaster Icelands Avalugg's Legacy
Blastoff Mantine	Cobalt Coastlands Castaway Shore
Alpha Mime Jr.	Obsidian Fieldlands Sandgem Flats Horseshoe Plains
Alpha Mismagius	Coronet Highlands Stonetooth Rows (nighttime only)
Blastoff Mothim	Cobalt Coastlands Spring Path Coronet Highlands Wayward Wood
Alpha Ninetails	Cobalt Coastlands Molten Loonshit
Alpha Nosepass	Coronet Highlands Sacred Plaza
Alpha Octillery	Cobalt Coastlands Castaway Shore
Alpha Onix	Cerise Mirelands South of Diamond Settlement
Blastoff Overqwil	Crimson Mirelands Valor Cavern (during The Trial of Lake Valor)
Alpha Pachirisu	Cherry-red Mirelands Southwest of Gapejaw Bog
Alpha Parasect	Obsidian Fieldlands Northeast of Nature's Pantry (due east of Heights Camp) Ruby-red Mirelands Northward of Gilded Lowlands
Alpha Piloswine	Alabaster Icelands Eastern Arena's Approach
Alpha Ponyta	Obsidian Fieldlands Horseshoe Plains
Alpha Probopass	Coronet Highlands Primeval Grotto
Blastoff Psyduck	Crimson Mirelands Southwest of Gapejaw Bog
Alpha Purugly	Cobalt Coastlands Veilstone Cape
Alpha Qwilfish	Cobalt Coastlands East of Islespy Shore Tombolo Walk
Alpha Raichu	Blood-red Mirelands Due north Golden Lowlands
Blastoff Rapidash	Obsidian Fieldlands Horseshoe Plains
Alpha Remoraid	Crimson Mirelands River west of Holm of Trials Cobalt Coastlands Southwest of Lunker'south Lair
Alpha Rhyhorn	Crimson Mirelands Diamond Heath
Blastoff Rhyperior	Coronet Highlands Sacred Plaza
Blastoff Roserade	Red Mirelands Cloudpool Ridge
Alpha Skorupi	Cobalt Coastlands Castaway Shore
Alpha Scyther	Obsidian Fieldlands Grandtree Arena
Blastoff Shellos	Obsidian Fieldlands Southern tip of Sandgem Flats
Blastoff Silcoon	Obsidian Fieldlands In between Aspiration Colina and Horseshoe Plains
Alpha Skunktank	Ruby-red Mirelands Scarlet Bog
Alpha Sliggoo	Reddish Mirelands Center of a pocket-size lake south of Gapejaw Bog
Alpha Sneasel	Alabaster Icelands Avalugg'due south Legacy
Alpha Snorlax	Obsidian Fieldlands Due south of Aspiration Hill most h2o Due west of Windswept Run
Blastoff Stantler	Obsidian Fieldlands Deertrack Heights Cobalt Coastlands Windbreak Stand
Alpha Steelix	Coronet Highands North of Sonorous Path
Alpha Staravia	Obsidian Fieldlands Windswept Run Sandgem Flats Cobalt Coastlands S of Windbreak Stand up
Alpha Swinub	Alabaster Icelands South of Avalugg'south Legacy Eastward of Arena'south Approach
Alpha Tangela	Blood-red Mirelands Southeast of Gilded Lowlands
Blastoff Tangrowth	Crimson Mirelands Southeast of Golden Lowlands
Alpha Tentacool	Cobalt Coastlands Northwest of Firespit Island
Blastoff Tentacruel	Cobalt Coastlands Northeast of Lunker's Lair Northeast of Islespy Shore
Alpha Togetic	Cobalt Coastlands Easternmost cluster of islands in Tranquility Cove
Alpha Torterra	Obsidian Fieldlands Holm of Trials
Alpha Toxicroak	Cobalt Coastlands Holm of Trials
Alpha Ursaring	Crimson Mirelands Southeast of Ursa's Band East Gapejaw Bog
Blastoff Vespiquen	Obsidian Fieldlands Grueling Grove (During The Researcher of Myths) Blood-red Mirelands South of Lake Valor
Alpha Voltorb	Coronet Highlands Sacred Plaza
Blastoff Walrein	Cobalt Coastlands Gingko Landing
Alpha Wurmple	Obsidian Fieldlands Aspiration Hill
Alpha Yanmega	Cerise Mirelands Droning Meadow
Alpha Zoroark	Alabaster Icelands Vigil Cavern (during The Trial of Lake Acuity)

Check out our full Pokedex guide for information on every Pokemon, likewise as their location as yous explore the Hisui region.

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