Pokemon Legends ZA - Mable's Research - Evolving VIA Link trade

[Raj8]

First of all I understand that this is very early, and this is basically an alpha of the support ZA will be getting in the months to follow, so I understand that messing with my saves could cause issues.

That being said I was looking through the Event Flags and I have no idea which one the first Link Trade would even be as well as all the following ones, was hoping to just check it off, as when I tested evolving my Machamp using PKHex, I wasn't that surprised that the mission didn't trigger as chances are PKHex triggers something closer to catching a fresh Machamp after deleting the old Machoke rather than an evolution. 

I also noticed the Legality becomes unable to match an encounter from origin game, but that happens with most evolutions if you trigger it with PKHex for Legends ZA currently with the only two not triggering it being Gabite back into a Gible and Cleffa into Clefairy and Clefable for some reason, after testing it on 15 or so mons without setting.

But then you did say that the legality was something you were aware of currently, and to not bother reporting it right now since your working on fixing it. 

[theSLAYER]

15 minutes ago, Raj8 said:

First of all I understand that this is very early, and this is basically an alpha of the support ZA will be getting in the months to follow, so I understand that messing with my saves could cause issues.

That being said I was looking through the Event Flags and I have no idea which one the first Link Trade would even be as well as all the following ones, was hoping to just check it off, as when I tested evolving my Machamp using PKHex, I wasn't that surprised that the mission didn't trigger as chances are PKHex triggers something closer to catching a fresh Machamp after deleting the old Machoke rather than an evolution. 

I also noticed the Legality becomes unable to match an encounter from origin game, but that happens with most evolutions if you trigger it with PKHex for Legends ZA currently with the only two not triggering it being Gabite back into a Gible and Cleffa into Clefairy and Clefable for some reason, after testing it on 15 or so mons without setting.

But then you did say that the legality was something you were aware of currently, and to not bother reporting it right now since your working on fixing it. 

Everything aside, you probably didn’t “evolve” your Machamp right; you need to assign some other trainer’s name to Latest Not OT Trainer (Handling Trainer)

Unless the Mon was found as a Gible, you can’t revert a Gabite to Gible and expect legality.

while evolving via Link Trade deserved its own thread, everything else you mentioned doesn’t 

[Kaphotics]

Revise the event work block that stores Mable's counts.

F7B11ED70170BB0A	MOMIJI_COUNT_0021	Evolving via Link Trade

After you set it to whatever value you want, you have to evolve any Pokémon to trigger the game to re-check the status.

[Raj8]

9 hours ago, theSLAYER said:

Everything aside, you probably didn’t “evolve” your Machamp right; you need to assign some other trainer’s name to Latest Not OT Trainer (Handling Trainer)

Your correct I didn't do this, I just assumed the game would think that I traded it back to myself, and it does but it still needs to know who I traded it to. 

Setting it to Slayer fixes the issue for my Trade Evolutions, so thank you for the help.

I don't remember if I ever needed to do this for Gen 4 games which is what I usually use PKHex for, but then a lot of those are RomHacks so I rarely pay attention to legality on those. 

 

9 hours ago, theSLAYER said:

Unless the Mon was found as a Gible, you can’t revert a Gabite to Gible and expect legality.

The Mon was found as a Gible, which is why I was surprised, same with my Aegislash becoming a Honedge when I found it as a Honedge. Doesn't actually matter in the slightest as I don't plan on de-evolving them, I was just messing around without setting to see if I could figure out what the problem was, and clearly I had no idea as again changing the latest not OT trainer fixed Machamp completely, especially when I set and went and back to it.

 

9 hours ago, theSLAYER said:

while evolving via Link Trade deserved its own thread, everything else you mentioned doesn’t 

Reasonable, thank you for providing a solution for the Trade evolution anyways, I'll keep it in mind for the future.

 

9 hours ago, Kaphotics said:

Revise the event work block that stores Mable's counts.

F7B11ED70170BB0A	MOMIJI_COUNT_0021	Evolving via Link Trade

After you set it to whatever value you want, you have to evolve any Pokémon to trigger the game to re-check the status.

Thank you so much, happy to report that this worked perfectly. Set it to 20, and then caught a new Pokemon planning on using it to evolve, but it turns out anything that updates Mable research, automatically triggers the Link Trade as well, in this case adding one more Ground Pokemon.

 

Some quick observations though

A) Searching in Work 3 at all crashes PKHex, not that it mattered for me since what I wanted was in Work 2.

B) Is there any way to search for Link Trade? You showed it as a link Block, but I can only search for it with F7B11ED70170BB0A, possibly because I only have Index, Value and Name, and similarly MOMIJI_COUNT_0021 fails me.

 

[H3C4T3]

On 28/10/2025 at 8:45, Raj8 said:

Tienes razón, yo no hice eso, simplemente asumí que el juego pensaría que me lo había intercambiado a mí mismo, y así es, pero aún necesita saber a quién se lo intercambié. 

Al configurarlo en Slayer se soluciona el problema con mis Trade Evolutions, así que gracias por la ayuda.

No recuerdo si alguna vez necesité hacer esto para los juegos de cuarta generación, que es para los que suelo usar PKHex, pero muchos de ellos son RomHacks, así que rara vez presto atención a la legalidad en esos casos. 

 

El Pokémon resultó ser un Gible, por eso me sorprendió, igual que mi Aegislash, que se convirtió en un Honedge cuando ya lo había encontrado como tal. En realidad, no importa en absoluto, ya que no pienso devolucionarlos; solo estaba probando sin configurar el Pokémon para ver si podía averiguar cuál era el problema, y claramente no tenía ni idea, ya que cambiar al último entrenador que no era el de OT solucionó el problema de Machamp por completo, especialmente cuando configuré el Pokémon y luego volví a él.

 

Me parece bien, gracias por ofrecer una solución para la evolución del comercio, la tendré en cuenta para el futuro.

 

Muchísimas gracias, me alegra decir que funcionó a la perfección. Lo configuré en 20 y capturé un nuevo Pokémon con la intención de evolucionarlo, pero resulta que cualquier cosa que actualice la investigación de Mabel también activa automáticamente el Intercambio en Enlace, en este caso añadiendo un Pokémon de tipo Tierra más.

 

Sin embargo, algunas observaciones rápidas.

A) Buscar en Work 3 siempre provoca que PKHex se bloquee, aunque eso no me importaba ya que lo que quería estaba en Work 2.

B) ¿Hay alguna forma de buscar Link Trade? Lo mostraste como un bloque de enlaces, pero solo puedo buscarlo con F7B11ED70170BB0A, posiblemente porque solo tengo Índice, Valor y Nombre, y de forma similar MOMIJI_COUNT_0021 no me funciona.

 

Did you finally find a way to edit the event so it completed? Because you mentioned you set it to 20 and it worked for capturing anything, but exactly which path did you modify? Which Index did you modify and what Value did you put in which section?

[OnkelLes]

On 11/5/2025 at 8:37 AM, H3C4T3 said:

Did you finally find a way to edit the event so it completed? Because you mentioned you set it to 20 and it worked for capturing anything, but exactly which path did you modify? Which Index did you modify and what Value did you put in which section?

You just edit the value at the address shown above. For me it's position 5 in the list:

Just set the value to 5 or higher and then just finish any of Mables Quests so it updates. Worked perfectly fine for me.