Pokémon Sword & Shield - 10 Best New Pokémon
10. Snom
Snom was one of the Pokémon leaked just before the game released, and rapidly gained a bit of a cult following. Whether this was genuine or ironic is hard to tell, but Snom will likely be one of the most memorable Galar Pokémon around when the dust settles.
Snom is an Ice Bug, one who evolves into Frosmoth when levelled up at night with high Friendship. Frosmoth has a gorgeous, almost angelic design, and looks like the kind of Star Trek creature that was secretly monstrously evil, but the crew wouldn’t find out until near the end.
Frosmoth is a pseudo partner (slash rival) to beloved Fire Bug Volcarona. Bug has always been a fairly weak typing with a few exceptions, but Game Freak seem prepared to keep throwing it a bone these days.
While Frosmoth is great though, it does somewhat lack Snom’s goofy appeal.
Snom is like a hedgehog made out of ice, with a body made of snow, but that doesn’t tell the whole story. It has soft, rounded pincers too, and eats snow to grow stronger.
It’s worth putting up with its terrible stats and bad move pool to get to Frosmoth too.