Gifted and Unique Pokémon

Not every Pokémon in Alola is caught in the grass. Some are given to you, others are traded for a specific Pokémon in a Pokémon Center, a few are revived from a fossil, and some appear only once. Here is the list, drawn from the location pages.

🎁Gifted Pokémon

Your starter Pokémon, in Iki Town; the Egg from the Nursery at Paniola Ranch; Type: Null at Aether Paradise and Porygon at the Aether House after the League; Cosmog at the Lake of the Sunne/Moone; an Aerodactyl in Seafolk Village. The table details every gift.

🔁In-game trades

In several Pokémon Centers, a Trainer offers to trade one Pokémon for another. Some of them hold a precious item: the Poliwhirl in Konikoni City carries a Waterium Z, the Alolan Graveler in Tapu Village a Rockium Z, and the Steenee in Seafolk Village a Grassium Z.

🦴Fossils

The fossil restoration center on Route 8 revives, at level 15, the fossils of ten Pokémon from earlier generations: Omanyte, Kabuto, Lileep, Anorith, Cranidos, Shieldon, Tirtouga, Archen, Tyrunt and Amaura. Aerodactyl, for its part, is given to you in Seafolk Village.

📡The Island Scan

After accumulating 100 points with the QR Scan, you can start an Island Scan: a Pokémon from elsewhere, absent from the Alola Pokédex, appears for one hour on the island where you are. It depends on the island and the day of the week, and often knows a move it normally only learns through breeding.

The details of how it works are in our guide QR Scan and Island Scan.

⭐Unique encounters

Legendary Pokémon, the guardian deities and a few Pokémon you meet only once: the giant Alolan Exeggutor of Exeggutor Island, for example, or the Ultra Beasts after the League.