Pokémon Legends: Z-A · Guide
Mega Dimension Special Encounters
Find recorded Mega Dimension Special Scan, arena, gift and mission encounters, their requirements, rewards and source-specific shiny availability.
Named sources need their own conditions
This reference groups 20 Mega Dimension encounter sources from Special Scan, Hyperspace arenas, gifts and missions. It does not repeat the regular Wild Zone catalog or claim to cover every acquisition in the game.
Read the source label, requirements and availability together. A shiny or Alpha restriction on one named source is not a species-wide rule. Pokémon profiles link these references with other recorded acquisition routes.
Special Scan: unlock, cost and guarantee
Side Mission 188 after the Mega Dimension story / Rayquaza progression
Each Special Scan costs 25,000 Survey Points. After five scans in a row without a Legendary, the next scan is guaranteed to contain one until all are caught.
The recorded pool has 7 Pokémon. The cards below separate scan sources and retain their individual shiny and Alpha availability; the guarantee concerns encountering a Legendary, not obtaining a shiny.
Gifts, arenas and mission rewards
Named arenas can have fixed level records and rewards. Mission sources can point to a mission number, while gifts may have their own requirements. The catalog below shows those relationships only when recorded.
“No additional requirement recorded” describes the available information; it does not promise that an encounter has no prerequisites. Check the linked Pokémon profile for the broader acquisition context, and compare the acquisition records on the Pokémon profile.
Reference catalog
20 of 20 records
Hyperspace Arena
Heatran
- Location
- Hyperspace Infernal Arena
- Recorded layouts
- Hyperspace Infernal Arena
- Level
- 80
- Requirements
- No additional requirement recorded
- Reward
- Heatranite
- Shiny
- Unavailable for this source
- Alpha
- Unavailable for this source
Hyperspace Arena
Darkrai
- Location
- Hyperspace Newmoon Nightmare
- Recorded layouts
- Hyperspace Newmoon Nightmare
- Level
- 85
- Requirements
- No additional requirement recorded
- Reward
- Darkranite
- Shiny
- Unavailable for this source
- Alpha
- Unavailable for this source
Hyperspace Arena
Groudon
- Location
- Hyperspace Desolate Land
- Recorded layouts
- Hyperspace Desolate Land
- Level
- 80
- Requirements
- No additional requirement recorded
- Reward
- Red Orb
- Shiny
- Unavailable for this source
- Alpha
- Unavailable for this source
Hyperspace Arena
Kyogre
- Location
- Hyperspace Primordial Sea
- Recorded layouts
- Hyperspace Primordial Sea
- Level
- 80
- Requirements
- No additional requirement recorded
- Reward
- Blue Orb
- Shiny
- Unavailable for this source
- Alpha
- Unavailable for this source
Hyperspace Arena
Rayquaza
- Location
- Hyperspace Sky Pillar
- Recorded layouts
- Hyperspace Sky Pillar
- Level
- 85
- Requirements
- No additional requirement recorded
- Shiny
- Unavailable for this source
- Alpha
- Unavailable for this source
Hyperspace Arena
Zeraora
- Location
- Hyperspace Lumiose
- Level
- 85
- Requirements
- No additional requirement recorded
- Shiny
- Unavailable for this source
- Alpha
- Unavailable for this source
- Recorded condition
- Rogue Mega Zeraora encounter after postgame prerequisites
Mission encounter
Meltan
- Location
- Rouge Sector 1, bank entrance
- Level
- 70
- Requirements
- Dreams of Meltan (193)
- Mission
- 193: Dreams of Meltan
- Shiny
- Unavailable for this source
- Alpha
- Unavailable for this source
Gift
Melmetal
- Location
- Hyperspace Lumiose
- Level
- 80
- Requirements
- Dreams of Meltan (193)
- Mission
- 193: Dreams of Meltan
- Shiny
- Unavailable for this source
- Alpha
- Unavailable for this source
Special Scan
Latias
- Location
- Hyperspace Lumiose Unknown Zone
- Recorded layouts
- Magenta Sector 1 / 2
- Level
- 60
- Requirements
- No additional requirement recorded
- Shiny
- Available
- Alpha
- Unavailable for this source
Special Scan
Latios
- Location
- Hyperspace Lumiose Unknown Zone
- Recorded layouts
- Magenta Sector 1 / 2
- Level
- 60
- Requirements
- No additional requirement recorded
- Shiny
- Available
- Alpha
- Unavailable for this source
Special Scan
Cobalion
- Location
- Hyperspace Lumiose Unknown Zone
- Recorded layouts
- Jaune Sector 2 / 6 / Saison Canalside
- Level
- 60
- Requirements
- No additional requirement recorded
- Shiny
- Available
- Alpha
- Unavailable for this source
Special Scan
Terrakion
- Location
- Hyperspace Lumiose Unknown Zone
- Recorded layouts
- Jaune Sector 2 / 6 / Saison Canalside
- Level
- 60
- Requirements
- No additional requirement recorded
- Shiny
- Available
- Alpha
- Unavailable for this source
Special Scan
Virizion
- Location
- Hyperspace Lumiose Unknown Zone
- Recorded layouts
- Jaune Sector 2 / 6 / Saison Canalside
- Level
- 60
- Requirements
- No additional requirement recorded
- Shiny
- Available
- Alpha
- Unavailable for this source
Special Scan
Keldeo
- Location
- Hyperspace Lumiose Unknown Zone
- Recorded layouts
- Jaune Sector 2 / 6 / Saison Canalside
- Level
- 60
- Requirements
- No additional requirement recorded
- Shiny
- Unavailable for this source
- Alpha
- Unavailable for this source
Special Scan
Meloetta
- Location
- Hyperspace Lumiose Unknown Zone
- Recorded layouts
- Bleu Sector 6 / 8 / 9 (Passage de la Félicité)
- Level
- 60
- Requirements
- No additional requirement recorded
- Shiny
- Unavailable for this source
- Alpha
- Unavailable for this source
Mission encounter
Genesect
- Location
- Wild Zone 13 wall distortion
- Level
- 60
- Requirements
- Collecting Four Drives (191)
- Mission
- 191: Collecting Four Drives
- Shiny
- Unavailable for this source
- Alpha
- Unavailable for this source
Mission encounter
Marshadow
- Location
- Rouge Sector 1 training court
- Level
- 80
- Requirements
- The Stealthy Shadow (192)
- Mission
- 192: The Stealthy Shadow
- Shiny
- Unavailable for this source
- Alpha
- Unavailable for this source
Mission encounter
Volcanion
- Location
- Pokémon Research Lab / mission encounter
- Level
- 80
- Requirements
- Volcanion Unleashed (194)
- Mission
- 194: Volcanion Unleashed
- Shiny
- Unavailable for this source
- Alpha
- Unavailable for this source
Gift / mission
Magearna
- Location
- Quasartico Inc.
- Level
- 80
- Requirements
- Restarting Magearna (195)
- Mission
- 195: Restarting Magearna
- Shiny
- Unavailable for this source
- Alpha
- Unavailable for this source
Mission encounter
Hoopa
- Location
- Hyperspace distortion
- Level
- 80
- Requirements
- The Djinn Unbound (196)
- Mission
- 196: The Djinn Unbound
- Shiny
- Unavailable for this source
- Alpha
- Unavailable for this source