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Alpha Vanilluxe Location and How to Catch

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Alpha Vanilluxe is a fixed Alpha Pokemon encounter in Pokemon Legends: Z-A. Read on to know the location of Alpha Vanilluxe and learn about its type advantages as well as how to catch it.

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Alpha Vanilluxe Location

Vanilluxe Vanilluxe
Weak to:
(2x)
Pokemon Fire Type Icon Pokemon Fighting Type Icon Pokemon Rock Type Icon Pokemon Steel Type Icon
Resists: (0.5x)
Pokemon Ice Type Icon

Alpha TM Move

TM Move ・Hyper Beam

Alpha spawns of Pokemon can use moves that they cannot normally learn upon leveling up, and can only be taught via TMs.

List of All TMs

Alpha Vanilluxe Map Locations

Location Overworld and Map Image
Wild Zone 20
Alpha Vanilluxe Overworld Location
Alpha Vanilluxe Map Location
AlphaLv. 64 - Day and Night
Fixed Spawn
Center of Wild Zone 20
Alpha Vanilluxe can be found at the center of Wild Zone 20 during daytime or nighttime.

How to Catch Alpha Vanilluxe

Save Before Engaging with the Alpha

Save the Game
It is recommended to save your progress before you face an Alpha Vanilluxe, as it may escape a thrown Poke Ball or if you accidentally defeat it without attempting to catch it.
How to Save Your Game

Start With a Quick Ball Backstrike

A Quick Ball is an effective Poke Ball to use against Alpha Pokemon that has not spotted you yet. This can be paired along with the backstrike bonus that increases you capture rate when you throw a Poke Ball onto your target's back.

This is useful as you can sneak around and position yourself behind an Alpha Pokemon and utilize both capture bonuses.
How to Get Quick Balls

Weaken the Alpha with Passive Damage

Toxic Will-O-Wisp Curse
Learns on Lv. Up ・Ekans (25)
・Skrelp (25)
・Trubbish (30)		 ・Shuppet (16)
・Phantump (16)		 ・Gastly (20)
・Shuppet (26)
Learns through TM ・Patrat
・Spinarak
・Bellsprout 		・Tepig
・Fletchling
・Gastly 		・Phantump
・Litwick

As you progress through the game, most Alpha Pokemon you encounter will typically be of higher level than you. To weaken them reliably, we recommend status moves that deal passive damage such as Poison, Burn, or Curse damage.

Inflicting these status conditions will guarantee that the target Alphas will have their HP lowered over time, during which you can continue capture attempts, provided they aren't enraged.

Do note that Poison and Steel-type Pokemon cannot be poisoned, so you can instead apply passive damage with Will-O-Wisp. Meanwhile, Curse's residual damage will only work if it is used by a Ghost-type Pokemon.

Status Effects Explained

Use Perish Song

Learns Perish Song on Lv. Up ・Absol (54)
・Gastly (50)
・Swablu (60)

You can also use Perish Song against an Alpha as this guarantees that the target will faint after 30 seconds, although you will not be able to throw Poke Balls while waiting as the target will still have a lot of health.

You will also have only one chance of capturing it once it is Knocked Out from Perish Song's effect. It is recommended to use a Timer Ball as this will become more effective the more actions your target has done, and is useful against Pokemon that has a high Speed stat.
Perish Song Effect and Pokemon That Learn It

Angry Alpha Pokemon Cannot Be Caught

Enraged Alpha
An Alpha Pokemon may become enraged if you throw a Poke Ball multiple times without successfully catching it. If an Alpha Pokemon is angry, Poke Balls will bounce off if you throw them and you will not be able to capture it until it calms down.

Any Poke Ball that has bounced away can be reclaimed from the Lost Poke Balls NPC found near Pokemon Centers.

Get a Last Chance to Catch after the Alpha is KO'd

Last Chance KO Capture
The capture rate of Alpha Pokemon increases when you defeat them entirely, where they will be stunned for a few seconds.

When the Alpha Vanilluxe is stunned after being Knocked Out, you get one last chance to throw your best Poke Ball, like an Ultra Ball, for a capture. With any luck, you'll catch your target. And if it fails, you can always load your previous save, or just wait for it to respawn.
How to Catch Pokemon

Pokemon Legends: Z-A Related Guides

Alpha Pokemon Partial
All Alpha Pokemon Locations

Alpha Pokemon Guides

All Alpha Pokemon Guides
Static Alpha Pokemon in Wild Zones Static Alpha Pokemon Outside Wild Zones

List of Alpha Pokemon

All Alpha Pokemon
Abomasnow Alpha Abomasnow Absol Alpha Absol Aegislash (Shield Forme) Alpha Aegislash (Shield Forme)
Aggron Alpha Aggron Alakazam Alpha Alakazam Altaria Alpha Altaria
Ampharos Alpha Ampharos Arbok Alpha Arbok Ariados Alpha Ariados
Audino Alpha Audino Avalugg Alpha Avalugg Banette Alpha Banette
Barbaracle Alpha Barbaracle Beedrill Alpha Beedrill Bellsprout Alpha Bellsprout
Binacle Alpha Binacle Camerupt Alpha Camerupt Carbink Alpha Carbink
Chandelure Alpha Chandelure Clawitzer Alpha Clawitzer Clefable Alpha Clefable
Clefairy Alpha Clefairy Dedenne Alpha Dedenne Delibird Alpha Delibird
Diggersby Alpha Diggersby Dragalge Alpha Dragalge Dragonite Alpha Dragonite
Drampa Alpha Drampa Eelektross Alpha Eelektross Excadrill Alpha Excadrill
Falinks Alpha Falinks Flabebe Alpha Flabebe Flareon Alpha Flareon
Fletchinder Alpha Fletchinder Fletchling Alpha Fletchling Florges Alpha Florges
Froslass Alpha Froslass Furfrou Alpha Furfrou Gallade Alpha Gallade
Garbodor Alpha Garbodor Garchomp Alpha Garchomp Gardevoir Alpha Gardevoir
Gengar Alpha Gengar Glaceon Alpha Glaceon Gogoat Alpha Gogoat
Goodra Alpha Goodra Gourgeist (Average) Alpha Gourgeist (Average) Gyarados Alpha Gyarados
Hawlucha Alpha Hawlucha Heliolisk Alpha Heliolisk Heracross Alpha Heracross
Hippowdon Alpha Hippowdon Houndoom Alpha Houndoom Jolteon Alpha Jolteon
Kakuna Alpha Kakuna Kangaskhan Alpha Kangaskhan Klefki Alpha Klefki
Krokorok Alpha Krokorok Krookodile Alpha Krookodile Leafeon Alpha Leafeon
Litleo Alpha Litleo Lopunny Alpha Lopunny Lucario Alpha Lucario
Machamp Alpha Machamp Magikarp Alpha Magikarp Malamar Alpha Malamar
Manectric Alpha Manectric Mawile Alpha Mawile Medicham Alpha Medicham
Meowstic-M Alpha Meowstic-M Metagross Alpha Metagross Noivern Alpha Noivern
Pangoro Alpha Pangoro Panpour Alpha Panpour Pansage Alpha Pansage
Pansear Alpha Pansear Patrat Alpha Patrat Pidgeot Alpha Pidgeot
Pidgey Alpha Pidgey Pikachu Alpha Pikachu Pinsir Alpha Pinsir
Pyroar Alpha Pyroar Raichu Alpha Raichu Roserade Alpha Roserade
Sableye Alpha Sableye Salamence Alpha Salamence Scolipede Alpha Scolipede
Scrafty Alpha Scrafty Sharpedo Alpha Sharpedo Simipour Alpha Simipour
Simisage Alpha Simisage Simisear Alpha Simisear Skarmory Alpha Skarmory
Slowbro Alpha Slowbro Spinarak Alpha Spinarak Spritzee Alpha Spritzee
Starmie Alpha Starmie Staryu Alpha Staryu Stunfisk Alpha Stunfisk
Swirlix Alpha Swirlix Sylveon Alpha Sylveon Talonflame Alpha Talonflame
Trevenant Alpha Trevenant Trubbish Alpha Trubbish Tyranitar Alpha Tyranitar
Vanilluxe Alpha Vanilluxe Vaporeon Alpha Vaporeon Victreebel Alpha Victreebel
Vivillon Alpha Vivillon Watchog Alpha Watchog Weepinbell Alpha Weepinbell
Whirlipede Alpha Whirlipede

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