Pokémon Sword and Shield demo

The Pokémon Sword and Shield demo is a demo of Pokémon Sword and Shield that was available to play at Nintendo's E3 2019 booth from June 11, 2019 to June 13, 2019.

Gameplay

In the demo, the player controls a randomly chosen protagonist, either Victor or Gloria, and is able to challenge the Gym at Hulbury Stadium. The Gym's layout and mission are identical to that of that final game, featuring a puzzle revolving around red, yellow and blue colored pipes, grills and buttons. When a button is pressed, the water pipe of the corresponding color will be switched on or off, allowing the player to walk across the grill and advance when switched off. The player is able to battle 3 trainers during the Gym mission, before being able to advance to the battlefield to battle Nessa. After Nessa is defeated, the demo ends, returning to the title screen.

The player is not able to use items from their Bag during battles in the demo.

Player's Pokémon

Pokémon Trainer Gloria or Victor Hulbury Stadium Sword and Shield

Type: Water Unknown Ability: Torrent Held item: None Sobble♂ Lv.50 Liquidation Water Physical   --       Rain Dance Water Status   --       Soak Water Status   --       Water Pulse Water Special   --       Type: Fire Unknown Ability: Blaze Held item: None Scorbunny♂ Lv.50 Flame Charge Fire Physical   --       Quick Attack Normal Physical   --       Double-Edge Normal Special   --       Headbutt Normal Physical   --       Type: Grass Unknown Ability: Overgrow Held item: None Grookey♂ Lv.50 Razor Leaf Grass Physical   --       Slam Normal Physical   --       Uproar Normal Special   --       Knock Off Dark Physical   --       Type: Normal Unknown Ability: Fluffy Held item: None Wooloo♂ Lv.50 Defense Curl Normal Status   --       Double-Edge Normal Physical   --       Take Down Normal Physical   --       Cotton Guard Grass Status   --       Types: Flying Steel Ability: Pressure Held item: None Corviknight♂ Lv.50 Brave Bird Flying Physical   --       Swagger Normal Status   --       Drill Peck Flying Physical   --       Steel Wing Steel Physical   --       Type: Electric Unknown Ability: Ball Fetch Held item: None Yamper♂ Lv.50 Play Rough Fairy Physical   --       Spark Electric Physical   --       Crunch Dark Physical   --       Wild Charge Electric Physical   --

Trainers

Gym Trainers

Trainer	Pokémon
Lass Emily Reward: $2,000	Vulpix♀ Lv.50 No item
Youngster Travis Reward: $1,000	Gossifleur♂ Lv.50 No item
Lass Riley Reward: $2,000	Impidimp♂ Lv.50 No item

Gym battle

Nessa Dynamaxes her Drednaw at the first opportunity.

Gym Leader Nessa Hulbury Stadium Sword and Shield Reward: $6,000

Type: Water Unknown Ability: Unknown Held item: None Goldeen♀ Lv.50 Horn Attack Normal Physical   --       Curse Unknown Status   --       Curse Unknown Status   --       Curse Unknown Status   --       Types: Water Rock Ability: Unknown Held item: None Dynamax Drednaw♀ Lv.50 Liquidation Water Physical Max Geyser   --       ??? Rock Physical Max Rockfall   --       Curse Unknown Status Max Guard   --       Curse Unknown Status Max Guard   --

Trivia

• This demo marked the first time Yamper and Impidimp were shown.
• Several features of the demo were changed before the release of Pokémon Sword and Shield. Notable examples include:
  • A different move selection UI, featuring colored type icons against a white background rather than white type icons against a colored background.
  • Nessa's Drednaw is female, instead of male as it is in the final release.
  • Nessa's Pokémon are kept in Poké Balls, instead of Dive Balls as they are in the final release.

See also

• Pokémon Sword and Shield beta

References

• Pokemon Sword and Shield - FULL DEMO GAMEPLAY (E3 2019)