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Credit: Niantic The three available choices include: The Special Box: Two Premium Battle Passes, two Incense, two Super Incubators, twenty PokéBalls for 480 coins For a player with both limited time and funds to invest in Pokémon GO, this is the way to go It's not as good of a deal as the others, but if you'd like[...]

Following the popular Dragon Week that released the regional dragon Foundables for players worldwide, Niantic is kicking off the Battle of the Department Mysteries Brilliant Event: Part One tomorrow in Harry Potter: Wizards Unite The event will begin Tuesday, September 15th at 11 AM Pacific and will run through the full week, ending Tuesday, September 22nd[...]

Credit: Niantic Catching Alolan Exeggutor Alolan Exeggutor's catch circle is a bit far, but it's also huge Catching this Pokémon should be no problem to trainers, but for those looking to perfect your throw, here is how to do the circle lock technique. Using the circle lock technique, players can hold down the ball until Exeggutor's catch circle[...]

Credit: Niantic To employ the Quick Catch Method, give the Pokémon you're catching your berry of choice (or no berry) and select your ball You'll need two hands for this next part With one hand, touch the berry option, holding it down… and sliding it slightly to the right, toward the Pokéball[...]

Credit: Niantic 5 Kyogre There are Water-type Pokémon with spammier moves, such as Swampert with Hydro Cannon, but Kyogre is at the top of the aquatic meta because of how hard it hits as well as the moves it can get This gargantuan Pokémon generally has Water-type moves, but it can learn the Electric-type Thunder, which makes[...]

Let's investigate. Do Pokémon in Raids Have a Higher Shiny Rate in Pokémon GO? Credit: Niantic The simple answer is "no," but there's more to it than that There are Egg/Raid-exclusive Pokémon with a higher shiny rate, but we will explain that shortly First, the important thing when understanding Shiny rates is that the manner in which[...]

There is a lot more to this event than originally announced by Niantic, so read on to see Bleeding Cool's full catalog of the event spawns, the Mega Houndoom challenge, the research, and more. Mega Battle Event and Challenge Are Now Live in Pokémon GO Credit: Niantic Mega Battle Challenge If trainers collectively complete 275 million battles during[...]

Credit: Niantic Tier One Gothita Kirlia Nuzleaf Sneasel – Shiny available, boosted odds It's a small Tier One rotation the Cresselia rotation, with none of the usual suspects that one would expect, such as Shinx, Timburr, or Klink However, Sneasel will be a good option for those who don't yet have the Shiny, as its rate is above the standard one[...]

In late August, Niantic released an update about the functionality of the Trace Charm in Harry Potter: Wizards Unite In this update, Niantic corrected what was described as "a number of incorrect stats and descriptions on the Trace Charm screen." These changes, however, were interpreted by the Wizards Unite community as a nerf to the Trace Charm,[...]

Niantic is planning to unveil Generation Six in Pokémon GO this year, adding species from the Kalos region into the wild However, there are still Pokémon from earlier generations that have yet to be released, even dating as far back to Generation Three for one specific species As Pokémon GO moves on to newer Generations, many trainers[...]

Credit: Niantic Top Cresselia Counters Pokebattler, which calculates all possible combinations of Pokémon and moves, lists the top 10 Cresselia counters as such: Mega Beedrill (Bug Bite, X-Scissor) Shadow Weavile (Snarl, Foul Play) Shadow Mewtwo (Psycho Cut, Shadow Ball) Mega Charizard Y (Wing Attack, Blast Burn) Shadow Tyranitar (Bite, Crunch) Darkrai (Snarl, Dark Pulse) Shadow Houndoom (Snarl, Foul Play) Mega Blastoise (Bite, Hydro Cannon) Chandelure (Hex,[...]

Niantic generally followed a pattern: Starter, rare spawn, starter, rare spawn, starter, rare spawn, and so on On top of that, each day would feature the Shiny release of a Pokémon that, before its Community Day, had yet to have its Shiny released in-game That pattern was broken this year in multiple ways, leaving the[...]

Credit: Niantic The likely situation is that this will be a less frantic raid hour than the previous three unless you are a trainer living in a city In that situation, Heatran could dominate raids for a full year and you'll still likely get a full lobby The truth of the matter is, though, Heatran has[...]

Shinx is currently in raids, and it has a boosted Shiny rate above normal wild spawns in Pokémon GO. Here's how to catch a golden Shiny Shinx!

Pokémon GO Battle League Season Three is winding down as Niantic preps to roll out Season Four, but first… the game's PVP arena has entered its final phase of the season All three major leagues are now available, along with Master League's Premier Cup These concurrent leagues will run until Monday, September 14, 2020, at[...]