 What's up, everyone? Welcome to the channel. Let's try that again. What's up, everyone? Welcome to the channel. My name is Philly Beets you, and in this video, we're going to be discussing 12 things that you need to do to prepare for the Pokemon Sword and Shield DLC expansion pass, Isle of Armor. 14 days from now. It's coming up, so this is going to be really important. Number one, you want to completely beat Pokemon Sword and Shield. You got to beat the game. Catch the legendary, beat the game. If you want to do all the content that should run you about 30 to 40 hours, and if you just want to breeze through it without doing all the extra side quests, that should be about 15 to 20 hours. It should take you about that much time if you put in the effort for that. Number two is that you want to catch yourself every single Gigantamax Pokemon that is available to you in Pokemon Sword and Shield. So, the ones that you can get right now in general, whether it be trades, which you can get in our Discord down in the description below, as well as hunting via raid dens are Charizard, Butterfree, Pikachu, Meowth, Machamp, Gengar, Kingler, Lapras, Eevee, Snorlax, Garbodor, and then Melmeto is a little bit special to get. So, it's not, I don't think it's out yet. And then we have Corviknight, Orbito, Dreadnaugh, Colossal, Flapple, Appleton, which basically become the same exact G-Max. Then you have Sanaconda, Toxicity Tree, Sanascorch, Hatterine, Grim Snarl, Alcream, Copperaja, Dorotodon. Everything that I show in this video is going to be listed down below so you can click on the links and see it for yourself. Now, the ones I didn't mention are going to be in the DLC. So, for example, you're going to be getting yourself Venusaur, Blastoids in the DLC, probably Melmeto, even though it's technically available right now. The G-Max form is Arilaboom Cinderacean and Teleon, which we'll talk about as well in the DLC. Yeah, and then of course Urshifu, which will be either fighting Dark or fighting Water. Moving on to point number three. Number three, complete your Pokédex. Completing your Pokédex is probably one of the most important things because, one, you see every Pokémon and registers that you got them all and then you also get a Shiny Charm for completing it, which is great because Shiny Hunting is your cool-looking Pokémon that are different variants from the original Pokémon. So you want to do that and complete that. There are plenty of guides on the internet showing you guys how to do that. Number four on the list is completing the Pokédex in Pokémon Home. What's important about this is that you'll be able to transfer those Pokémon to your game eventually when those Pokémon are made available within the DLC. Also, you get a really cool Magirna for completing the whole entire Pokédex. So I would highly suggest you guys work on that as well. Number five on the list is to create a Living Pokédex. Now, if you're super bold and brave, you can try to do a Shiny Living Dex, but let me tell you something, that's going to probably take you about five years to do. But if you want to be normal and hunt regular Pokémon, you can create a Living Dex which includes every single Pokémon, as you can see on this reddit post here, which I will also link down in the description below so you guys can see this and the amount of work you have to put in for this, but you get every single Pokémon. You account for every gender difference. You get every single variation of a Pokémon. For example, you have Unknown and you have all the alphabet letters. That's like every variation. And then you have different forms of Pokémon. Various Pokémon have different forms, including one from this generation. You have Alcreme over here. A lot of different forms, so you want to get that as well. And if you want to be super extra, you can get one of every ability, but that's a little over the top, but that's up to you. This is found below at Reddit. I'll link this down in the description below so you guys can take a look at this, but this is probably one of the coolest things, and I'm probably going to do this before Pokémon Sword and Shield by going back to my old games, like Omega Ruby, Alpha Sapphire, Sun and Moon, Ultra Sun and Moon, X and Y. It's going to be a good time. Number six on the list is to start preparing for the new feature called Restricted Sparring by having a variety of Pokémon ready to go. According to the Pokémon website... Let me go. I got to go to the Pokémon website. As you can see on their website, it says, the Eye of Armor will also introduce a way to challenge yourself to some new battles. With Restricted Sparring, you'll be limited in what types of Pokémon you can use and forced to battle under set conditions. This means you want to have a very wide variety of Pokémon. I don't know, maybe they're going to make you do a Magikarp battle, or probably the most useless Pokémon you've ever had will be required to be used in this event. So collecting all the Pokémon as mentioned before, super important because you can use them in Restricted Sparring. So do not forget about this feature. Start preparing ahead of time so you don't get stuck. That's why you should have a living dex of every single Pokémon so you can use them at any given time for whatever situation arises in Pokémon. Number seven on the list. This is a fun shiny Pokémon challenge that you guys can do, but it's super important to note that these specific shiny Pokémon can only be done before the DLC via egg hatching. So one is being able to get all the hidden Ability Starter Pokémon which you can check out in this video I've done over here. And what you want to do is basically try to hatch a shiny hidden Ability version of them. The other thing you want to do is probably get a shiny Galarian Slowpoke which is absolutely amazing. It's golden Slowpoke. And you're going to want to be one of the first people to evolve it into a shiny Slowbro. You're going to want to do it. I mean, come on. It's Mega Man Slowbro with a cannon. You definitely want to do it. Number eight is really important on this list that you want to start making your early decisions in the game. Number eight is extremely important because you want to start making your early decisions in this expansion pass. In the trailer, you can see you're presented with a choice of getting a Bulbasaur or a Squirtle. Most likely one of these guys, or both of them, are going to have the ability to G-Max already without you using any features to get them to G-Max. So pick wisely which one you want to get and going back to their evolutions and going through their evolutions, you're either going to have G-Max Move, G-Max Vine Lash, which is very hard to say on the mouth. If you pick Bulbasaur, you will have access to G-Max Move, G-Max Vine Slash, which basically doesn't just deal damage to an opponent when it hits. It will continue to deal damage for four turns to any Pokemon that isn't a Grass type. Same exact thing when we look at Blastoids. Blastoids is the G-Max Move, G-Max Candidate. So if you pick Squirtle, G-Max Candidate just as a deal damage to an opponent when it hits, it will continue to deal damage for four turns to any Pokemon that isn't Water type. So you want to be aware of which one you're going to pick. The next big decision that you're going to have to make in this game is choosing which evolution Cubfoo is going to evolve into. Now you can either go with single strike style or rapid strike style. Now you might be wondering what the heck is the difference because they both, they both do the exact same thing. The difference between these two Pokemon is one is fighting Dark and one is fighting Water. Now a cool way to remember which one does what is you strike from the Dark once and then Water moves rapidly so you do multiple strikes. Okay, that's it. That's all I have to say about this. How to remember which one is what. Both of these forms can Giganta Max. One will be Red and one will be Blue signifying the Water one is going to be Blue and the Dark one is going to have some Red to it. And yeah, these are really cool. So your decision based off which type you like maybe you're going just by aesthetics it's totally up to you but make your decision ahead of time so you're not stuck staring at the screen for about 40 minutes and going online and typing up which one should I get when it comes to these Pokemon. So these are the decisions that you're going to have to make. So choose wisely friends. Number nine on this list is preparing for Max Soup. Now according to the Pokemon website Max Soup is a special dish made from rare ingredients you can gather on the Isle of Armor. So Pokemon are the great hidden potential drinks Max Soup it will become a special Pokemon capable of Giganta Maxing. What this means is you can bring in your score Bunny, your Grookey and your Sobble also if you have an extra Squirtle or Bulbasaur that's not the one you pick you should bring them as well because those Pokemon all get access to Giganta Maxing and most likely you'll be able to use Max Soup on them so do not forget your hidden ability ones that you can get from Pokemon Home should be the ones you bring on this adventure and get them to Giganta Max really cool stuff here so get that ready. Number ten on this list is the Cram-O-Matic now you can already start preparing tons of items right now you're in Pokemon Sword and Shield you can stack up on a bunch of junk items as much as you can stack up on them because here's what it says the dojo on the Isle of Armor houses a unique take on recycling in the form of a device called the Cram-O-Matic if you feed it four items it will combine them and give you a new item in exchange new item in exchange you can receive any variety of items including Pokeballs, PP Ups and more some combinations might produce rare items and the thing is there might even be new items we're not even aware of yet so stacking up on a bunch of junk items in order to throw them in the Cram-O-Matic and you can spam this you can get a ton of cool new items in the DLC so go ahead start preparing for this stack up on your items as well what's even on this list is know which Pokemon are on the islands and the possible raid dens and the Pokeballs you possibly want to catch them with now luckily we have Serbii.com which has documented all the Pokemon we have seen so far and if you come back to this video if anything is revealed this exact link will update you on all the Pokemon on the island so of course you already have the ones we mentioned about Kupu, Urshifu then you have your new Gigantamax forms and then here's all the cool returning Pokemon quick scroll through to you guys can see over here there you go these Pokemon were all seen in the trailers or they've been documented and these are 100% confirmed Pokemon that are coming back again the link for this is going to be down in the description below you can start preparing your Pokemon teams accordingly because most likely these Pokemon on this island or this expansion coming out will probably have max raid dens and you want to have the appropriate Pokemon to take on these ones finally this brings us to point number 12 this one is an optional one but it's super important if you want to make your life in Pokemon a very wholesome and lasting experience number 12 on this list is basically to get involved with the community community is the easiest way of getting tasks done in Pokemon Sword and Shield you can go in raid dens with certain people people can re-roll shiny raid dens if that's even possible in the DLC if you need a Pokemon that's not available in your version having community means you can trade with those people and get what you need I think that's one of the most important things in the game squatting up as well now, as a reminder I'm going to be doing a 24 hour stream the day of release of this game on twitch.tv slash philly beats you go ahead check out the link that's also in the description below follow it and join us because the community is going to be working together that day to conquer the DLC we're going to take it down it's going to be one of the coolest Pokemon streams you ever been to before now we also have a discord server which I've mentioned multiple times this video that you should join and start getting ready for Pokemon Sword and Shield Eye of Armor because we'll have our community ready to go to trade certain Pokemon other people can get if you need certain things go ahead and ask it in the Pokemon chats that discord link is going to be down in the description below do not forget to join it like I said community is big I could even finish some things in Pokemon Sword and Shield without doing that so yes that is the list ladies and gentlemen I hope you really enjoyed this video and start preparing for Pokemon Sword and Shield's expansion the Eye of Armor I am super excited new content in Pokemon makes me feel like the game is being re-released again and I really like that and on top of that we got another DLC part 2 coming out later on after this but let's focus on Eye of Armor for now and we'll do some more videos on Eye of Armor so again like this video if you enjoyed it if you disliked the video double tap the dislike button comment down below what you guys think other tips you suggest for the community and I will see you guys in the next Pokemon video take care this is Philly beats you and I'm out