Niantic Archives

Credit: Niantic Top Moltres Counters Pokebattler, which calculates all possible combinations of Pokémon and moves, lists the top 10 Moltres counters as such: Shadow Tyranitar (Smack Down, Stone Edge) Rampardos (Smack Down, Rock Slide) Rhyperior (Smack Down, Rock Wrecker) Terrakion (Smack Down, Rock Slide) Shadow Omastar (Rock Throw, Rock Slide) Mega Blastoise (Water Gun, Hydro Cannon) Tyranitar (Smack Down, Stone Edge) Gigalith (Smack Down, Rock[...]

Credit: Niantic Kricketot will be featured as a wild spawn during the Fashion Week event Sometimes, new Shiny releases are gated behind raids such as Unown during this past summer's Enigma Week, in Research and extremely rare encounters as with Deino in Dragon Week, or in Gift eggs such as Smoochum with the bow in this[...]

Credit: PokeMiners The dataminers known as "PokeMiners" have found the above assets added to Pokémon GO and have created this awesome graphic breaking it all down. All of these Pokémon were announced in Niantic's official update, but this is the first time that we've seen visual confirmation that they can all be Shiny[...]

The Fashion Week Event starts tomorrow in Pokémon GO, but Niantic is already looking ahead Today, the mobile game developer announced a new Autumn-themed event that will celebrate the changing of the seasons by releasing the long-anticipated Shiny Vulpix from Kanto as well as the Unova Pokémon Deerling. Seedot features in the Pokémon GO autumn event promo[...]

Victini Special Research is now live in Pokémon GO. Here is Niantic's full set of tasks and rewards for "The Feeling of Victory" questline.

Niantic has certainly been making waves in the Pokémon GO community recently They were lauded for making the game playing during quarantine thanks to features like the buffed Incense, Remote Raiding, and Remote Raid Invites Much of that goodwill they've earned seems to have been lost in the past couple of months due to various additions[...]

Before the COVID-19 pandemic led Niantic to make temporary changes in Pokémon GO, monthly Team GO Rocket research was given to trainers on the first of every month After completing a series of tasks that included defeating Grunts and Leaders, catching and purifying Shadow Pokémon, and more, trainers would be tasked with finding, battling, and defeating[...]

Credit: Niantic Complete 10 Wizarding Challenges with 3 or more teammates: 1 Powdered Dragon Claw Defeat 25 foes in Wizarding Challenges: 6 Snowdrop Earn 2000 Dark Arts Family XP: 2 Strong Exstimulo Potion Return 25 Portrait of Voldemort: 3 Dark Arts Runestones Return 20 Percival Graves: 10 Spell Energy Return 15 Tom Riddle: 10 Spell Energy REWARDS: 200 Dark Arts Family XP,[...]

Then, Niantic said, "to hell with Generation Four, let's just do Victini." Today, after Victini's GO Fest 2020 debut for ticketed players, Special Research to acquire this Generation Five Mythical Pokémon from the Unova region has gone live for all players It can be found in the Research area in the lower right-hand corner of[...]

Articuno's rotation had a full week but, when Zapdos stormed into raids, the rotation was taken over by the game's current event at the time, the Mega Buddy Challenge, which saw Niantic feature "large Pokémon" in the raids and in the wild Now that the event is over, the final few days of September, and[...]

Credit: Niantic This current raid rotation of the Legendary Birds is special Each of these Pokémon has had their signature moves, which normally cost an Elite Fast TM or an Elite Charged TM to unlock Normally, Niantic will not give a Pokémon its move in a rotation like this that isn't part of a big event,[...]

Yesterday, Niantic announced their full slate for October 2020 events in Harry Potter: Wizards Unite The Halloween-themed month will include two Brilliant Events featuring Dark Wizards and Witches, two Community Days, and a Wizarding Weekend The Wizarding Weekend is scheduled to debut this Friday, October 2nd at 11 AM Pacific time It will run until Monday,[...]

Niantic is certainly bold to announce this so soon after the Mega Evolution controversy Earlier this year, the company made laudable changes to their games Pokémon GO and Harry Potter: Wizards Unite to make them playable to players stuck at home in quarantine due to the COVID-19 pandemic As restrictions have eased, Niantic has, for some time[...]

Niantic has announced the full details for Harry Potter: Wizards Unite for the month of October 2020 This Dark Arts-themed month, themed perfectly for Halloween, will feature a Wizarding Weekend, two Community Days, and Two Brilliant Events. Harry Potter: Wizards Unite promo image for October 2020 events Credit: Niantic In their announcement for the upcoming month of Harry[...]

During the Mega Battle Challenge, Niantic tasked players with completing 275 million battles with Mega Evolved Pokémon The prize? Mega Houndoom enters the Mega Raid rotation As of today, Tuesday, September 29th, 2020, Pokémon's hell hound itself blazes into the game Here's how you can take on this Mega Raid beast and potentially catch a[...]