While Niantic has yet to acknowledge this latest Pokemon GO bug, the community is up in arms over it. Earlier this week, reports surfaced from players claiming that they received additional invites to EX Raids, despite having already been a part of one (or more). Ideally, once a player receives an EX Raid invite, he/she should be knocked lower on the totem pole for future invites, but that is not the case....
The Pokemon GO Fest Global Research Challenge was a series of objectives that every Pokemon GO player - whether at GO Fest or not - could take part in. The challenges tasked players with completing as many Research Challenges as they could, with challenges including catching Pokemon using berries, battling Gyms of a certain level, taking part in a number of Gym battles, participating in a Raid and capturing Pokemon with a weather boost....
The Galarian Zigzagoon Community Day will kick off on Saturday, August 13 in Pokemon GO and provide some extra special bonuses for participating trainers. Trainers can expect all the usual features including increased spawns, an optional ticketed Special Research Task, and a list of other bonuses up for grabs. There are Group Bonuses available this time around as well, so be sure to gather some friends before heading out to the activities and get ready to earn some bonus Stardust....
Although the primary intention behind the Remote Raid bundle was to get players to give Mega Raids another chance, there’s nothing stopping players from using the passes for whatever Battle Raid is most interesting to them. With that in mind, Pokemon GO also decided to rotate the Legendary Raid boss this week, which means that Heatran is out of the picture and Cresselia will be hatched from 5-star eggs starting right now....
In 2020, Pokemon GO rolled out a number of changes to allow players to still enjoy the game while complying with quarantine and social distance regulations put in place to combat the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Players received daily Research tasks that rewarded them with PokeBalls, Berries, and other in-game items. Team GO Rocket opponents appeared in balloons flying overhead for those who could not visit PokeStops but wanted to challenge them....
A teaser video featuring a number of red-spotted Pokemon eggs rocking back-and-forth in a misty, purple room has been posted by a few regional Pokemon GO Twitter accounts today, though as of this writing the English social media account is not one of them. The Italian language post has more in-depth text when translated via Google on Twitter, suggesting Team Instinct’s leader Spark found the “strange Red Eggs.” RELATED: Pokemon GO: All Seasons Change Research Quests and Rewards...
One interesting new feature coming to Pokemon GO for the first time as part of this event is the Collection Challenge. The Unova Collection Challenge tasks players will catching nine specific Pokemon during the event window to unlock some item rewards and progress on the Elite Collector Medal, so most trainers will want to take the time to complete that. To help that effort, players may want to check out exactly which Pokemon are featured in the increased spawn table for this event and which Pokemon can hatch from 5km Eggs this week....
The latest fix to come to Pokemon GO is a change to the distance tracking that affects the GPS drift players sometimes experience while playing. The fix will effectively nerf the small shifts players’ characters experience, especially when players are not moving around. This is a significant update considering some Pokemon GO players have been able to exploit their phone provider GPS to hatch eggs and obtain Pokemon even when they are sitting still....
As announced by Game Freak, it’s the natural evolution to the Nintendo 3DS-based Pokemon Bank, which let gamers transfer and store Pokemon from a variety of 3DS and Virtual Console Pokemon titles. With Pokemon Home, that same concept is applied on a much larger scale. The newly-announced cloud service will allow trainers to transfer Pokemon to the cloud storage service from Pokemon Bank, Pokemon GO, Pokemon Let’s Go, and Pokemon Sword and Shield....
The idea behind Pokemon Home is sound: a cloud service linked to the Switch and to a player’s mobile phone that allows Pokemon to be moved from games to the cloud and then to other games. At the moment, Pokemon can only be moved back and forth from Pokemon Sword and Shield, although they can be moved into the cloud from Pokemon: Let’s Go Pikachu! and Let’s Go Evee! easily enough, and even from older 3DS games via the Pokemon Bank service....
RELATED: Pokemon Legends: Arceus - Every Mythical & Legendary Pokemon (& Where To Find Them) Due to the way that Pokemon Legends: Arceus tracks Pokedex data, not all of these Pokemon can actually be caught in the Crimson Mirelands. Players will therefore need to evolve some of the Pokemon that can be caught there to fill in the missing entries or look for them in one of Hisui’s other four main regions....
RELATED: Pokemon Legends: Arceus - Every Pokémon in the Hisui Pokedex (& Where to Find Them) For instance, players can talk to individuals and take on requests. By partaking in these side missions, players can reap rewards such as more items or currency. One of the early requests in Pokemon Legends: Arceus is “Trees That Bear Berries,” otherwise known as Request 13. The request is rather straightforward if players know where to look....
Along with its convention-breaking gameplay mechanics, Pokemon Legends: Arceus seems to suggest that the Pokemon franchise might start going in a different direction based on its title alone. It’s become common knowledge among the Pokemon fanbase that each game is built on its respective subtitle, and the specific titling of Pokemon Legends: Arceus could suggest that the game is going to launch a whole new subfranchise of Pokemon games. It would certainly be an ambitious move for Game Freak, The Pokemon Company, and Nintendo, but it could revolutionize the Pokemon franchise as gamers know it....
The Pokemon Let’s Go games are nostalgic experiences that allow players to relive the start of the Pokemon franchise. They’re largely the same as every other Generation 1 Pokemon game, but they still come packed with new features to the Kanto region. One notable addition is the ability to ride Pokemon, which opens up new avenues for exploration. Unfortunately, the feature didn’t make a return in Sword and Shield, but with Pokemon Legends: Arceus set to feature an expansive open world, the return of rideable Pokemon seems like it would pair well with the game’s setting....
As everyone who was around for the initial Pokemon craze knows, Ash was accompanied on his travels by two firm friends; Misty and Brock. However, those memorable characters are largely absent from I Choose You, being replaced by two brand new characters. A pair of children known as Makoto and Souji take their place on the adventure, a deviation that hasn’t gone unnoticed by longtime fans of the franchise. Since I Choose You is meant to be a celebration of the series’ twentieth anniversary, the fact that two memorable characters are being snubbed in this way hasn’t gone down too well....
Before the trouble, the Pokemon Red playthrough was actually going pretty well. The Twitter-voted actions may take a long time, but players have made good progress, defeating Koga at the Fuchsia Gym for the Soul Badge, and most recently, beating Blaine’s powerful fire-type Pokemon for the Volcano Badge. With only one badge left to go, the damage that a few troublemakers caused will be a huge setback for the playthrough....
Depending on which version players have, they will attend Naranja (Scarlet) or Uva Academy (Violet) as a student and aspiring Pokemon trainers. The main differences are the school colors and the name; each Academy has the same teachers and classes and the same Director. The Academy is the game’s primary starting point and hosts many interesting characters and side quests. The classes could be considered side quests as they are not necessary to beat the main storyline, but there are some excellent rewards worth working towards....
The Reshiram raids began just a few days ago on May 26 and will carry on through June 16. At that point, Zekrom will take over and Pokemon GO players will need to shift to a Ground-, Ice-, Dragon-, and Fairy-type roster build for tier 5 Battle Raids. In addition to taking over the standard rotation on June 16, Zekrom will also be featured in a series of weekly Raid Hours....
Pokemon GO raid battles are categorized into five tiers of difficulty. Some of the Pokemon listed below have been in raid battles for awhile now, whereas others are making their return. At any rate, many of the Pokemon listed below should actually be handy for anyone hoping to defeat Lugia and add the elusive legendary Pokemon to their collection. Here are all the Pokemon currently appearing in raids in Pokemon GO:...
Not only is Ho-Oh meta-relevant, but Pokemon GO players now have another chance to obtain its shiny form. Having a legendary as viable as Ho-Oh in a raid roster or the bragging rights alone for having a shiny Ho-Oh means that many players may want to capitalize on this legendary’s short return. Whatever the reason players have to pursue this legendary, they only have until Aug 27 to do so....
