You can no longer catch 'em all in Pokémon Sword and Shield

Sword and Shield will be the first new, mainline Pokémon games not to support every single Pokémon species.

Not only will you not be able to catch 'em all in Sword and Shield, you also will not be able to transfer Pokémon outside of the games' regional Pokédex.

Sword and Shield will push the series' overall Pokémon count over 1000, developer GameFreak has said, and this marks a tipping point where catching them all may simply never be possible again.

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