When you take your first steps into Hyperspace Lumiose during the Pokemon Legends: ZA Mega Dimension DLC, you'll notice plenty of Pokemon roaming around the city for you to catch. While there are many returning options, some of the best new Pokemon from Hyperspace Lumiose are worth catching as soon as possible.
Whether you jump into the hyperspace wild zone or choose to challenge the mighty Rogue Mega Evolution Pokemon, there are powerful options to choose from. As soon as possible, we'll take a look at some of the best Pokemon to add to your team, primarily focused on the earliest encounters with a given evolution line.
Scovillain
Scovillain is a solid Grass and Fire type Pokemon whose Mega Stone can be obtained very early in your DLC journey, making it a viable option to carry throughout the story. Grass and Fire moves are always in high demand, and dual typing this Pokemon helps mitigate some of its weaknesses.
Poison, Flying, and Rock weaknesses will be the main vulnerabilities to plan for, but those three aren't too much for this Pokemon. Scovillain may be replaced by other powerful Pokémon as you progress further into the DLC, but given how soon it's available to add to your team, it may prove useful for at least the first handful of Hyperspace missions.
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Staraptor
Staraptor stands out as another early Mega Evolution DLC that you can add to your team soon after starting the Hyperspace Lumiose #1 survey. On the plus side, Staraptor's Fighting and Flying has access to several powerful moves in its pool, such as Close Combat and Brave Bird, though you'll need to be extra careful when deploying this Pokémon at the right moment.
Mega Staraptor's weaknesses to Electric, Ice, Flying, Psychic, and Fairy moves make it incredibly vulnerable to a variety of opponents, but if you know what moves your enemy has access to, you can wipe out their team. Staraptor's lack of bulk makes it easy to replace it with another option like Charizard if you're going for pure meta viability, but it's a great addition if you're rebuilding your team in Mega Dimension.
Wimpod
Strong Bug-type Pokemon are incredibly rare in general, but the Pokemon Legends: ZA Pokedex limits your options even more. If you wanted to get the Scizor in the base game, you had to wait until the final part of the story. Fortunately, if you want to add a bug type to your Mega Dimension-only team, there are some powerful options, especially Wimpod.
Wimpod likes to run away when approached, so you need to throw your Poke Ball or KO this Pokemon as soon as you see it if you want to have a chance of catching it.
Wimpod up to level 30 and you'll have a powerful Golisopod on your team, boasting access to Bug-type moves like X-Scissor and U-Turn, as well as Water-type moves like Liquidation. If you're looking for a versatile physical attacker and are tired of using the old standards for Water and Bug-type Pokemon, then Golisopod is the perfect alternative to keep things fresh.
Crabominable
While it's possible to see either Crabominable or its pre-evolution, Crabrawler, around the same time, you'll eventually have to battle the Crabominable duo to unlock this Pokemon's Mega Stone. Regardless of which order you get first, you'll be glad you did after adding this massive mammoth Pokemon to your team, thanks to its approach to a fairly competitive typing in Ice and Fighting.
You'll struggle to find many strong Ice-type Pokemon in Pokemon Legends: ZA, but Crabominable is an excellent catcher, thanks to its sky-high attack and solid defense that make it difficult to defeat. If you haven't yet defeated the Crabominable duo to get your Mega Stone, you can get a very close look at how difficult it can be to beat this Pokemon, especially considering their two-on-one advantage.
Toxel
Toxel is an interesting Pokemon that can evolve into two different forms of Toxtricity (Amped or Low-Key) depending on its nature. In addition to its unusual evolution style, the unusual combination of Poison and Electric moves makes this Pokemon a great coverage option that can be used against several common types of Pokemon, including Flying, Fairy, Water, and Grass.
When you catch Toxel, you need to pay attention to his nature; using a mint won't affect evolution because it only changes stats, not nature itself.
Even if you won't be using Toxtricity as a general attacker, typing it will allow you to change the composition of your team, as Poison and Electric-type Pokemon don't usually overlap, which usually requires multiple Pokemon to cover those types. Additionally, Toxtricity is one of the coolest designs to be added to the Mega Dimension DLC, and the style points count for a lot considering you could stick with your main game team.
Novice
Rookidee is a fantastic addition to your team early on, as his level 38 evolution will require a few fights or a piece of EXP candy to evolve into Corviknight. As a flying and steel type pokemon, Corviknight offers yet another unique type combination that can help open up your team building options while also providing plenty of cool-factors to go with various coverage moves.
Perhaps the most notable aspect of Corviknight's unusual typing is its lack of many weaknesses, with Fire and Electric types being the main threats, making it a safe power-up for most occasions. Unfortunately, there aren't many great offensive moves in Corviknight's repertoire, but Brave Bird stands out as the best choice due to this Pokemon's excellent size and defense stats.
Tinkatink
Speaking of Steel-type Pokemon that negate most of their weaknesses with excellent secondary typing, Tinkatink is a must have on your Mega Dimension DLC team. Similar to Corviknight, there are only two main weaknesses to worry about: ground and fire moves.
Fortunately, you can evolve this Pokemon to Tinkaton at level 38, so it will be ready to go with a small investment.
While this Pokemon's attack stats are pretty lackluster, it has access to a lot of powerful moves to make up for this difference in power. With this Pokemon, you're almost always safe to lead as a scout designed to take a hit or two while you assess your options, so it's worth adding to your team ASAP in Mega Dimension.
Charcadet
Whether you prefer Ceruledge or Armarouge, Charcadet stands out as one of the best Pokemon to add to your team at the start of Mega Dimension thanks to its versatile evolution options.
Armarouge provides Fire and Psychic coverage, while Ceruledge picks Ghost moves to go with his Fire typing.
In terms of versatility, Ceruledge may have too much overlap with Mega Chandelure to justify it metadata-wise, especially considering it doesn't have a Mega, but it's still one of the best Pokemon drafts in the game. Ultimately, the choice is yours, but Armarouge's main competition is Delphox, so keep that in mind when choosing.
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