I’m part of a marketing team responsible for promoting DLC for Legends: Arceus. The DLC package is slated to release this September. Some may have noticed there’s a small chunk of Pokemon that were a part of the D/P/Pt dex that didn’t make it into Legends. That was intentional as they are being saved for this upcoming DLC.

Let’s start with the boring first. The following Pokemon won’t appear with any changes, but are being added to the game in a brand-new area:

-Absol
-Tropius
-Azurill>Marill>Azumarill
-Wingull>Pelipper
-Houndour>Houndoom

Next, we have just regional variants:

Poison/Ground Swablu>Altaria. Their clouds are now black and heavy, causing them to be unable to fly. They’re both a really nice purple color.

Electric/Fighting Meditite>Medicham. Weirdly, they seem to be based off Dragonball Z? Both have spiky golden hair and cloud motifs on their clothing.

And finally, regional variant evolutions/normal evolutions:

Regular Goldeen>Seaking>Maregal (mar + regal) Evolves with King’s Rock. A huge carp with a crown made of coral. Pure Water.

Regional Ice/Flying Hoothoot>Noctowl>Icesage (ice + sage + play on “Ice Age”) Big, snowy owl. Hoothoot’s eyebrows are icicles.

Regular Girafarig>Shudereduhs (shudder) The tail and the head are switched. Psychic/Ghost.

Regional Ground/Fighting Wooper>Quagsire>Boggulp (bog + gulp) Basically the same but Wooper has arms. Boggulp is just a bigger Quagsire with a huge mouth

Regular Feebas>Milotic with a split Water/Dragon evo named Grueseam (gruesome + sea). Just an ugly version of Milotic. Evolves with a Dull Scale.