Pokémon Go ‘Legendary Heroes’ select a path quest steps: Sword Path or Defend Path?

“Legendary Heroes” is a Sword and Defend-themed Timed Analysis quest operating till the beginning of Oct. 2024 in Pokémon Go.

There’s a option to be made as a part of this branching quest — the Sword Path or Defend Path — which impacts each the Assortment Challenges and Incensed Pokémon you encounter in the course of the occasion. Select properly!

This Timed Analysis is a part of the “Max Out” season, which has seen the debut of assorted Galar Pokémon, Dynamax Pokémon, and Energy Spots.

Accessible from Sept. 26, you might have till Oct. 1, 2024, to begin and full the “Legendary Heroes” Timed Analysis. Because of LeekDuck with serving to fill within the gaps with the next.

Rewards: 8 Poké Balls, 800 XP, 800 Stardust

At this level, you’ll select between the Sword Path and Defend Path.

You may learn our ideas on which to select within the subsequent part — in any other case, the steps that comply with for each decisions are:

Rewards: Galarian Darumaka encounter, 800 XP, 800 Stardust

Rewards: Rufflet encounter, 800 XP, 800 Stardust

Rewards: Galarian Ponyta encounter, 800 XP, 800 Stardust

Rewards: Vullaby encounter, 800 XP, 800 Stardust

Not solely does this “select a path” branching analysis end in totally different encounters and rewards as a part of the search, however the Sword Path and Defend Path alternative additionally adjustments the Assortment Challenges and Incense encounters you’ll obtain.

The ‘Catch’ Assortment Problem is predicated on Pokémon you’ll encounter once you use Incense. Nonetheless, the ‘Commerce’ Assortment Problem requires Pokémon solely discovered utilizing Incense on the opposite path, that means you must commerce with somebody who will catch the Pokémon that you simply can not. As such, it’s a good suggestion to select a unique path than a pal, so you may assist each other full the Assortment Problem.

Notice that, should you don’t do that — say should you and a pal have chosen the identical path — the “Commerce” Assortment Problem can nonetheless be accomplished if you have already got these Pokémon in your assortment. Solely the “Catch” portion of the Assortment Challenges are depending on amassing these particular Pokemon as a part of the occasion, whereas the ‘Commerce’ one will work for Pokémon each time they had been caught.

In any other case, should you aren’t concerned with finishing the Assortment Challenges, the selection merely comes all the way down to the Pokémon you may encounter from Incense and the Timed Analysis rewards (the specifics of which you’ll be able to learn elsewhere on this web page), as the extent of problem and size of the search steps stays the identical for each the Sword Path and Defend Path.

Assortment Challenges will seem after getting accomplished step one of the branching analysis, and what you obtain is dependant in your Sword or Defend alternative.

Rewards: 1,000 XP, Skwovet encounter

Rewards: 5,000 XP, Larvitar encounter

Rewards: 1,000 XP, Skwovet encounter

Rewards: 5,000 XP, Deino encounter

The next Incense encounters depends in your Sword Path or Defend Path alternative within the Timed Analysis, and all have the prospect to be shiny.