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Pokemon Legends Z-A Consummate Gamer guide

Today, we’re covering what we feel is the worst achievement in Pokemon Legends: Z-A with the Consummate Gamer, but we’ll give you some tips on how to get it.

Pokemon Legends Z-A Season 10 Best Pokemon

Pokemon Legends: Z-A’s tenth ranked battles season is live now, and it allows Mythical and sub-Legendary Pokemon but doesn’t allow heavy hitters like Groudon, Kyogre, Rayquaza, Xerneas, and Yveltal. By this point, we’re assuming a good chunk of you who are still playing ranked battles are doing so for the sake of some of the in-game achievements. If you happen to be going for Consummate Gamer, there’s one specific Pokemon allowed in this format that’s going to consistently ruin your day!

Pokemon Legends Z-A Season 9 Ranked Battles

Pokemon Legends: Z-A’s ninth season of ranked battles has begun, and it completely bans Legendary and Mythical Pokemon. Order has been restored! And, more importantly, if you happen to be going for the dreaded Consummate Gamer title achievement, this is the season to do it – the power level is now much lower, and the top Pokemon all have defined checks and counters. Whether you are or aren’t going for Consummate Gamer, today we’re going over all of the top Pokemon you can use on your team to get some wins.

As previously announced, Pokemon Home has received a version 4.0.0 update. Users should be seeing the update roll out now on mobile and Nintendo Switch devices. Keep in mind that the app’s servers are currently undergoing maintenance, making the software unusable until 5 AM PT / 8 AM ET / 1 PM in the UK / 2 PM in Europe.

The new update brings with it support for Pokemon Legends: Z-A, and the upcoming Pokemon Champions game. Latin American Spanish has also been added as a language option, and that is pretty much it.

If you’d like to read the full patch notes, we have them here:

Pokemon Home connectivity is coming to Pokemon Legends: Z-A imminently, it’s been announced. The functionality is going live on April 2 in Japan, which means we’ll likely be seeing this tomorrow night in North America.

To prepare for the connectivity, Pokemon Home will be undergoing maintenance. This will be happening tomorrow starting at 5 PM PT / 8 PM ET / 1 AM in the UK / 2 AM in Europe.

Pokemon Legends: Z-A 2.0.2 update

Nintendo and The Pokemon Company are now offering a new version 2.0.2 update for Pokemon Legends: Z-A. The patch can be downloaded on Nintendo Switch 2 and Switch.

We’ll get this out of the way: there doesn’t seem to be much here. The team has addressed some issues, but hasn’t gone into detail about what was tackled.

In any case, the patch notes are as follows:

Pokemon Legends Z-A Season 8 best Pokemon

It feels like we say this every time a new season comes around, but Pokemon Legends: Z-A’s ranked battle season 8 is probably the worst one yet – but for real this time. Not necessarily because a small group of Pokemon overpowers the rest (that is the case here to an extent), but because your choices are extremely limited. Not only are you restricted to using Pokemon that got Mega Evolutions in Pokemon Legends: Z-A (which means no Mega Evolutions from X, Y, Omega Ruby, or Alpha Sapphire), but they cannot be entered unless they’re holding their Mega Stone. This means you can’t run Focus Sash at all, which means if you’re going for the Consummate Gamer bonus, you have no protection against one-hit KO moves. At any rate, given how small the selection of Pokemon is here, it makes sense that there are a few that tower above the others.

Pokemon Legends Z-A Season 7 Best Pokemon

We’re back again with another list of the best Pokemon in the current season of Pokemon Legends: Z-A’s ranked battles, this time for season 7. Unfortunately, this season is almost certainly the worst one yet.

This time around, you can use two restricted Legendary Pokemon on your team of three, and you can use as many Mythical Pokemon as you want. In previous seasons, there was a triangle of top Pokemon – you had Garchomp at the very top, Glaceon to counter it, and Steel-types to dispatch Glaceon as well as Fairy-types. In season 7, though, it’s all legendary spam. Every team is using two Legendary Pokemon, which means the power charts are through the roof. If you’re trying to go for the Consummate Gamer title, this season is nigh unviable because almost everything is going to KO you in a single hit.

Pokemon Legends Z-A Mystery Gift Mega Garchomp Z and Garchompite Z stone

The latest Mystery Gift has been announced for Pokemon Legends: Z-A, which features Mega Garchomp Z and the Garchompite Z stone. Note that this is specifically for the Mega Dimenson DLC.

By partaking in the event, players will unlock a special hyperspace distortion where they must battle and defeat a Mega Garchomp Z. Taking the creature down provides the Garchompite Z stone.

Pokemon Legends: Z-A soundtrack

January 29: An official release of the Pokemon Legends: Z-A soundtrack has been announced for Japan. It’s a few months out as fans can grab it on April 17, 2026.

The soundtrack will be spread out across five CDs. You’re getting all of the music from Pokemon Legends: Z-A with 148 tracks. As part of this, songs from the Mega Dimension DLC are included.


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