How to make the Alpha Old-Fashioned Donut in Pokémon Legends: Z-A — Mega Dimension

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In Pokémon Legends: Z-A's Mega Dimension DLC, you'll need to make the Alpha Old-Fashioned Donut, a round pastry covered in blue icing that resembles a very specific legendary Pokémon. Again, you'll need to make a donut that hits certain stat requirements.

After rolling the credits and taking down Darkrai, you'll still have more to do. After all, you haven't helped Ansha complete her goal yet, so the next natural course of action to do so is... investigate the Primal Pokémon from the Hoenn region. To find them, you'll need to make two more specialized donuts, with the other being the Omega Old-Fashioned Donut. She'll give you the recipe for both at the same time, and you will need to make both to proceed, but it doesn't matter which order you make the donuts and battle the Pokémon in.

Below we provide the recipe for the Alpha Old-Fashioned Donut in Pokémon Legends: Z-A.


To make the Alpha Old-Fashioned Donut, you'll need the following stats:

  • 50 points in sweet
  • 50 points in spicy
  • 210 points in sour
  • 180 points in bitter
  • 370 points in fresh

Again, you won't be able to make this donut if you're not at this part of the story, and you'll need to tell Ansha specifically that you're looking to make this alpha donut when you talk to her.

You'll be able to tell that the recipe will work before submitting it, because small checkmarks will appear near each of the stats in the bottom right corner.

 Z-A Image: Game Freak/Nintendo, The Pokémon Company via Polygon

Just like the Bad Dreams Cruller recipe, there are a ton of different berry combos to successfully make this donut. We used the following berries:

  • 1 Hyper Yache Berry
  • 1 Hyper Coba Berry
  • 1 Hyper Payapa Berry
  • 2 Hyper Caban Berries
  • 1 Hyper Colbur Berry
  • 2 Hyper Babiri Berries

There are a bunch of other combinations you can use, too, but we tried to use a variety of different berries, rather than many of a few berries. After all, there's more special donuts to make after this, so you don't want to completely deplete your stock of high-tier berries.

If you need to farm more berries, you'll need to venture back into more Hyperspace pockets. We've noticed that higher-tier berries (towards the bottom of the berry list) that provide more stats do drop more from higher-starred portals, so make sure you're spelunking in some of the harder areas, not just the one-star portals.

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