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Credit: Niantic Top Incarnate Forme Landorus Counters Pokebattler, which calculates all possible combinations of Pokémon and moves, lists the top 10 Incarnate Forme Landorus counters as such: Shadow Mamoswine (Powder Snow, Avalanche) Mega Abomasnow (Powder Snow, Ice-type Weather Ball) Shadow Mewtwo (Psycho Cut, Ice Beam) Shadow Weavile (Ice Shard, Avalanche) Galarian Darmanitan (Ice Fang, Avalanche) Mamoswine (Powder Snow, Avalanche) Shadow Articuno (Frost Breath, Ice Beam) Mewtwo[...]

Niantic announced the details behind the release of these highly anticipated Legendary Pokémon from the Kalos region today Let's get into it. Xerneas & Yveltal in Pokémon GO Credit: Niantic Over on the official Pokémon GO blog, Niantic announced the following Legendary Raid schedule for May 2021: Incarnate Forme Tornadus, Incarnate Forme Thundurus, and Incarnate Forme Landorus will continue[...]

Credit: Niantic Top Incarnate Forme Thundurus Counters Pokebattler, which calculates all possible combinations of Pokémon and moves, lists the top 10 Incarnate Forme Thundurus counters as such: Shadow Mamoswine (Powder Snow, Avalanche) Rampardos (Smack Down, Rock Slide) Shadow Tyranitar (Smack Down, Stone Edge) Shadow Weavile (Ice Shard, Avalanche) Rhyperior (Smack Down, Rock Wrecker) Shadow Mewtwo (Psycho Cut, Ice Beam) Mega Abomasnow (Powder Snow, Weather[...]

Credit: Niantic The Ultra League and its Premier Cup will run in Pokémon GO from today at 1 PM Pacific until Monday, May 10th at 1 PM Pacific Here is the rest of Niantic's plan for GO Battle League during Season 7, which will come to a close at the end of May along with the end[...]

A Weasley Predicament Part 2, the most recent Brilliant Event in Niantic's hit game, continues the storyline focused on Ron's kidnapping There is a lot of hype to give up to here Was Harry Potter: Wizards Unite able to pay it off? Harry Potter: Wizards Unite Weasley Predicament registry page Credit: Niantic What worked in this Harry Potter: Wizards[...]

Credit: Niantic Top Incarnate Forme Tornadus Counters Pokebattler, which calculates all possible combinations of Pokémon and moves, lists the top 10 Incarnate Forme Tornadus counters as such: Shadow Raikou (Thunder Shock, Wild Charge) Shadow Zapdos (Thunder Shock, Thunderbolt) Shadow Magnezone (Spark, Wild Charge) Zekrom (Charge Beam, Wild Charge) Therian Forme Thundurus (Volt Switch, Thunderbolt) Shadow Mamoswine (Powder Snow, Avalanche) Shadow Tyranitar (Smack Down, Stone[...]

Credit: Niantic What worked in this Pokémon GO event The Collection Challenge: Wow… XP galore I was honestly stunned at the amount of XP given, as Collection Challenges have historically given less XP for our efforts than we'd get from catching Pokémon in the wild Speaking of that, there was also an XP catch bonus during the[...]

However, looking into the roles these Pokémon play in other games, and even the anime, can enrich the experience of hunting these creatures in Niantic's mobile game In honor of this week's release of Binacle through the Sustainability Week event, let's take a deep dive into this Pokémon's lore. Binacle official artwork[...]

Credit: Niantic What worked in this Pokémon GO event Shiny release: This is how it's done! Trubbish was released as a Shiny and it did seem rare at first, but began to spawn plentifully about a day into the event and it kept that up throughout It's a terrific Shiny and enhances the excitement about Trubbish encounters, which[...]

Credit: Niantic Here's everything we know from the Pokémon GO blog: Features: Various Grass-type Pokémon will be appearing more often in the wild. While it is not mentioned here, a Spanish-language Pokémon GO ad specifically listed Sewaddle as a featured spawn This will come as a happy surprise to some trainers, as this species has been made fairly rare after its[...]

If you take advantage of its double-weakness to Fire-types, two trainers can team up to defeat Mega Abomasnow in Pokémon GO.

Niantic's suggestions prioritize Defense but you will want to prioritize Attack to complete solo Tier Three raids. Since Exeggutor is an evolved form, I would suggest using Pinap Berries to catch it in order to maximize the amount of Candy you earn. Shiny Odds & 100% IVs Alolan Exeggutor has a boosted Shiny rate that the Silph Road[...]

Niantic's suggestions prioritize Defense but you will want to prioritize Attack to complete solo Tier Three raids. Since Rhydon is an evolved form, I would suggest using Pinap Berries to catch it in order to maximize the amount of Candy you earn. Shiny Odds Rhydon cannot be encountered as a Shiny One must catch a Shiny Rhyhorn in[...]

I never could've imagined I'd miss being menaced and mocked by NPCs so much, but without these evil-doers, Pokémon GO has felt about as empty as Niantic's communication about the issue At last, though, the situation is fixed and Niantic is even planning some kind of recompense Let's get into it. Team GO Rocket balloons in Pokémon GO[...]

However, looking into the roles these Pokémon play in other games, and even the anime, can enrich the experience of hunting these creatures in Niantic's mobile game In honor of this week's release of Shiny Trubbish, let's take a deep dive into the lore of its evolution, Garbodor. Official Garbodor artwork Credit: Pokémon Company International Dex entry[...]

It seems as if vocal dissatisfaction with the game is increasing exponentially on social media when it comes to the structure of events, the state of the game's bugs, Niantic's communications, and more Even the influencers who have become known through Pokémon GO gameplay vlogs have noted a change in their feelings about the game recently[...]

Mega Venusaur has returned to raids! Using these top counters, you can build a team of Pokémon to defeat this beast in Pokémon GO.

However, looking into the roles these Pokémon play in other games, and even the anime, can enrich the experience of hunting these creatures in Niantic's mobile game In honor of this week's release of Shiny Trubbish, let's take a deep dive into this Pokémon's lore. Trubbish official artwork Credit: Pokémon Company International Dex entry number 568, Trubbish[...]

Credit: Niantic The full Sustainability Week raid rotation in Pokémon GO is: Tier One Alolan Diglett – Shiny available, standard rate Binacle Ferroseed – Shiny available, rate unknown as of yet Psyduck – Shiny available, standard rate Trubbish – Shiny available, rate unknown as of yet This raid rotation is a bit hard to assess[...]

Credit: Niantic Interest in raids is at what feels like an all-time low in Pokémon GO, which is likely a result of two months worth of perhaps the most unpopular Legendaries to ever be featured in the game It was nice to get Shiny releases for all of the Incarnate Formes and was initially cool to see[...]

However, looking into the roles these Pokémon play in other games, and even the anime, can enrich the experience of hunting these creatures in Niantic's mobile game In honor of tonight's Grimer Spotlight Hour, let's take a deep dive into this Pokémon's lore. Grimer in Pokémon GO Credit: Niantic Dex entry number 088, Grimer is a pure[...]

There's a lot going on in this event as Niantic is running a Sustainability Campaign where players will do real-life clean-up to win bonuses in the game There will also be a standard Timed Research which players can complete in order to win event-themed rewards Let's take a look at what the Sustainability Week Timed[...]

Credit: Niantic For those wondering, Grimer can indeed by Shiny Its Shiny form is a muted blue-green, so it's a very noticeable change from its normal Grimace-purple During the hour, only the Kanto Grimer — the true O.G — will be spawning, so don't hold out hopes for any Alolan dreams Thankfully, the Spotlight Hour's bonus[...]

Being a long-time fan of Niantic's two main games, Pokémon GO and Harry Potter: Wizards Unite has been… quite interesting recently Both games have been heavily impacted by glitches and bugs, with Niantic communicating information about the problems to players through social media rather than the games themselves The most recent bug impacts the functionality of Lucky[...]

Starting tomorrow, Tuesday, April 20th (otherwise known as 4/20), Niantic is bringing some Grass-type Pokémon back to Mega Raids in Pokémon GO How apropos Mega Venusaur and Mega Abomasnow will return, and one of them may just be helpful against an upcoming new Legendary Pokémon Here are the full details. Mega Venusaur in Pokémon GO[...]

Credit: Niantic Here are the full details from the official Pokémon GO blog: Date + Time Tuesday, April 20, 2021, at 10:00 a.m to Sunday, April 25, 2021, at 8:00 p.m local time Note that Friendship Day will take place during this event from 11 AM until 2 PM Then, we'll have a few days of no events it[...]

Credit: Niantic Niantic's problem with GO Battle League is simple Rather than adding options, they're testing new options while taking away what they had led players to believe is standard For quite some time now, both the Ultra League and Master League have run with concurrent Premier Cups which operated with the same CP limitation but removed[...]

Credit: Niantic The complete tasks and rewards for the A Weasley Predicament Brilliant Event Part 2 in Harry Potter: Wizards Unite are: Page One of Four Collect 3 Ingredients or Portmanteaus: 6 Abraxan Hair Use Master Notes 2 Times: 2 Re'em Blood Return 12 Brilliant Weasey Clock: 1 Wit-Sharpening Potion Rewards: 550 XP, 50 Brilliant Family XP, 2 Defense Against the[...]

Last week, Niantic debuted two new Shiny Pokémon from the Kalos region in Pokémon GO: Skrelp and Clauncher One thing that is cool about the datamines that are done into the game's code is that when a species is added to the game, their Shiny forms are generally added as well even though they are not[...]

Niantic has announced the details of the next Brilliant Event coming to Harry Potter: Wizards Unite in just a couple of days A Weasley Predicament Part 2 continues the storyline that kicked off in the game at the end of March 2021's The New Mauraders Brilliant Event, which ended with the disappearance of Ron Weasley[...]