

Make sure that Bluetooth is on! If you’re successful, it will light up on-screen. Press in the control stick on the Poké Ball Plus (the white one that juts out) to pair it with the Switch. The game will present you with four different controller options: left Joy-Con, right Joy-Con, the two Joy-Con together and the Poké Ball Plus. Once there, navigate to the “Open controller settings” menu. Open up Pokémon: Let’s Go! and head into the Options menu. Once that’s done, you’ll have to connect it to your game. The first step is to make sure your Poké Ball Plus is charged. (This is thankfully a much simpler process than hooking it up to your phone, which we’ll get into later.) To play Pokémon: Let’s Go! with a Poké Ball Plus as your primary controller, you must first connect it to your Switch. Connecting Poké Ball Plus to Pokémon: Let’s Go! For this guide, we’re going to focus on the other functions of the Poké Ball Plus: how to play Let’s Go! with it on Switch, and how to use it to collect Pokémon, items and Candy on phones. We’ve covered the transfer part of the process, which allows for sending Pokémon from the smartphone to the Switch. It’s more than just an accessory to connect Let’s Go! to Pokémon Go on mobile it’s also a controller for Let’s Go!. Nintendo took advantage of Pokémon: Let’s Go! to release a new peripheral, the Poké Ball Plus, which works both with the Switch game and mobile game Pokémon Go.
