How To Get Chien-Pao in Pokemon Scarlet & Violet

Pokemon Scarlet & Violet takes the usual Pokemon training experience to new heights by adding the colorful area of Paldea.

You will become the best trainer in this area while catching hundreds of Pokemon with your friends in a place full of surprises, secrets, and challenges.

Chien-Pao is one of the rarest pokemon. It is part of a famous legendary group called the Treasures of Ruin.

This icy sabretooth will be waiting for you behind a locked door, and you’ll have to go to a few different places to free it.

Here’s all the information you need about it!

Who Is Chien-Pao?

Chien-Pao is one of the four legendary items known as the Treasures of Ruin. It is also called the “Sword of Ruin.” This snow feline was made from the hatred of people who died by the sword a long time ago.

It took the form of a pokemon and was brought to Paldea by an ancient kingdom from another land. It was locked behind a chained gate as a precaution against its dark powers.

But it’s still waiting for a master who wants to set it free. If you know where to look, you can add this powerful Pokemon to your team. Here’s what to do to catch it.

Where to find Chien-Pao?

Chien-Pao is hidden behind the Yellow Shrine on the west side of Paldea, which is more specifically West Province (Area One).

It is on the most western point of the area, about halfway up a cliff.

To get into the shrine, you’ll need to be able to climb with Miraidon, or at least glide at the right time if you’re good at flying.

How to open the shrine

To get into the shrine, you have to pull up all eight of the Yellow Ominous Stakes.

All of these things are in the western parts of Paldea.

How To Obtain Chien-Pao?

Before going into fight, you should turn off auto-save and instead save from the menu. This means that if you fail, you can just reload and try again.

Chien-Pao is a cross between a snow leopard and a sabre-tooth tiger. It is a Dark/Ice type, and its ability, “Sword of Ruin,” lowers your team’s Defense number.

Again, Fire-type moves and Rock-type attacks aren’t good here because you don’t want to make Chien-Pao fall.

Dragon-type Pokemon are also a bad choice here, since Ice will be very useful. Bring your best Pokémon that can’t be hurt by moves of the Ice and Dark types.

Here, Ultra and Timer Balls will help you. If you’re feeling lucky, try a Quick Ball at the beginning of the fight. If it’s nighttime, try a Dusk Ball.

You’ll have one of the four Ruinous Pokémon if you can catch it.

To get Chien-Pao, you have to free eight stakes that are spread across the Paldea map in different areas. Most of them are easy to spot, but some are harder to find.

Here, we’ll tell you how to find them.

Stake	Location	Image	Map
#1	Go to West Province (Area One). To the south of the gate where Chien-Pao is resting, you will find a hole and the first stake sitting on a platform.
#2	From the last stake, go to the southeast and you should see the second one sitting on a platform next to a mount.
#3	Go to the mouth of the cave in South Province (Area Six), but don’t go inside. Instead, climb with Koraidon or Miraidon to the top of the entrance and slightly to the right, where the third stake should be resting.
#4	This stake can lead you astray because it is in a cave, but not the cave you think it is in. From the opening to the last cave, go to the right and jump off until you reach a smaller cave that faces the beach. This path is pretty easy to follow, and you will see the stake on your left not long before you get out.
#5	This stake will be put down next to a waterfall in the river that runs through both Area Six and Area Four in South Province. The easiest way to get there is to start in Alfornada Town and use Koraidon or Miraidon to go down.
#6	The sixth stake will be put on a higher spot of ground to the south of the West Province (Area One) Watchtower.
#7	From the last stake, go a little farther to the southeast. The seventh stake is on a corner between two rock walls and is a little hard to find.
#8	You can find this stake in the back of the Cascarrafa Town Gym, behind a tree.

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