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There'southward good news for Pokémon Legends: Arceus players who don't typically trade their monsters with others. I of the virtually unique gadgets trainers can come up across is the new Linking Cable, an item capable of evolving Pokémon who would traditionally needed to be traded in lodge to exercise so. It may sound as if information technology is as rare as a Master Ball, but the game tin lend it to players afterward paying a minor cost.

Players tin can primarily find the Linking Cable at the Trading Post in Jubilife Hamlet, where it volition be sold for 1,000 Merit Points. You lot will at to the lowest degree need an internet connection to get the cable, though, as these Merit Points are earned by collecting lost satchels left by other online players. When these satchels are returned through the Lost and Plant card, players can typically go fifty to 100 Merit Points in exchange.

Like evolution stones and the Dubious Disk, those who now own a Linking Cablevision can and so drag it from their bag and onto an eligible Pokémon in their political party. You'll likely end up ownership several cables in your playthrough, equally archetype Pokémon such as Machoke, Kadabra, and Haunter tin now use this to evolve.

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