Pokemon Sword and Pokemon Shield help kids practice and improve the following skills:

Organization: Arranging and coordinating materials in order to complete a task.

In any role playing game, organization is an important skill to have. The player needs to make sure that they know what is currently in their inventory and what they will need to purchase before moving into new areas of the game. For people who struggle with organization, they may find that they are out of Revives or Potions in the middle of a big gym battle or that they have no Poke Balls in an area with a bunch of new Pokemon. To help with this, players should make sure that they check their inventory often and make sure that they stock up and plan ahead for what they might encounter in the future. 

Working Memory: Recalling and retaining information in our minds while working. 

Certain Pokemon are much stronger against certain other types of Pokemon, and this knowledge is very important to know in the random encounters as well as the boss battles in the gym settings. So players need to use their working memory and recall which types of Pokemon they will need to call out for different fights. For example, if fighting an electric type Pokemon, the player would need to recall that using a water type will do damage more effectively than a fire type. For players who struggle with working memory, they may find themselves struggling to beat enemies that would have been much easier with a better team of Pokemon to choose from. For these players, making a cheat sheet of type weaknesses and strengths will help to identify which Pokemon they should choose. The player may find that eventually this information will be memorized and they will no longer need to look at their sheet for assistance.