Pokémon Legends: Arceus Player Shows Off Impossible Gyrados Catch

A skilled Pokémon Legends: Arceus player recently wowed social media with an impressive midair catch of a mighty Gyrados. The latest addition to Nintendo’s long-running Pokémon franchise finally launched on the Nintendo Switch in January, impressing fans the world over with its fresh take on the standard formula of traveling the game world in search of various collectible creatures to capture, train, and battle. Pokémon Legends: Arceus takes place in a time before the mainline games, as players are tasked with exploring Pokémon's ancient Hisui Region and chronicling the many Pokémon that live within in.

One of the many ways Pokémon Legends: Arceus departs from past Pokémon titles is how it offers players a more open world to explore, drawing comparisons to The Legend Of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild and the upcoming Kirby and The Forgotten Land. Wild Pokémon roam freely in this wide-open sandbox landscape and can even attack players who get too close to them in Pokémon Legends: Arceus. Not every interaction with Arceus’s many different breeds of Pokémon is this unpleasant, as players can ride certain creatures to help make roaming the Hisui Region easier or even share a cute cuddle with smaller Pokémon like Buizel.

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Ultimately, the main objective of Pokémon Legends: Arceus is to capture these Pokémon by tossing Poké Balls at them, and Reddit user Addybng recently impressed their fellow players with an awe-inspiring catch of the watery dragon Gyrados. In a video clip posted to r/gaming (via ComicBook), Addybng spots a wild Gyrados flying through the air a great distance away from their player avatar. Undeterred, Addybng readies a Poké Ball, takes aim, and captures the great dragon in one amazing shot. Other players have been impressed by Addybng’s one-in-a-million capture, with many stating that it convinced them to pick up Pokémon Legends: Arceus for themselves. Even Addybng was taken aback by their sudden snagging of a Gyrados, noting they dropped their Joy-Con controller in shock right after it happened.

Critical and commercial response to Pokémon Legends: Arceus has been positive, with the game the highest-rated Pokémon title on Metacritic mere days after it was released on the Switch. This has translated to high sales figures for Arceus, which broke UK sales records and is currently topping Amazon’s charts across the world. Critics have praised Pokémon Legends: Arceus for refining the formula of the now 25-year-old Pokémon franchise while forging its own identity, with particular emphasis going towards the game’s open-world-like design and visualization of all the different species of Pokémon.

Pokémon has always been a popular franchise for Nintendo fans, and it seems like Pokémon Legends: Arceus is continuing that success with a fresh take on the classic quest to catch ‘em all across the colorful backdrop of the Hisui Region. Addybng’s amazingly lucky capture of a flying Gyrados is certainly one for the record books, showing off how Pokémon Legends: Arceus is bringing the world of Pokémon to life like never before.

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Source: Addybng/Reddit (via ComicBook)