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This event, which brought two new species from the Kalos region to the game, was somewhat impacted by a flaw in Niantic's latest update to the game Was this week of rival Pokémon saved by the event's active features? Rival's Week graphic in Pokémon GO Credit: Niantic What worked in this Pokémon GO event Spawns: The variety in spawns[...]

Credit: Niantic According to PVPoke, a platform that plugs in the stats of each species to determine the top meta of each league and cup has the top twenty Great League choices in Pokémon GO listed as: Medicham powered up with Candy XL: Counter, Power-Up Punch, Psychic Bastiodon powered up with Candy XL: Smack Down, Stone Edge, Flamethrower Registeel:[...]

This week, Niantic announced the Sustainability Week Event which will introduce Shiny Trubbish and the New Pokémon Snap tie-in event which will introduce Shiny Smeargle. Regular Shiny Smeargle, Trubbish, & Garbordor in Pokémon GO Credit: Niantic Here are the details for both of these upcoming Pokémon GO releases: Sustainability Week will run from Tuesday, April 20th, 2021 at 10 AM[...]

Starting April 17th at 12:01 AM, this monthly event in Niantic's game which continues J K Rowling's novels will last for the full day, wrapping up at 11:59 PM local time This is a decidedly battle-themed Community Day, with less of a focus on map spawns Let's see what the Calamity is cooking up this month. Harry[...]

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 introduction of Clauncher to the game, let's take a deep dive into this Pokémon's lore. Clauncher official artwork Credit: Pokémon Company International Dex entry number[...]

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 introduction of Skrelp to the game, let's take a deep dive into this Pokémon's lore. Official Skrelp artwork Credit: Pokémon Company International Dex entry number[...]

Credit: Niantic Niantic announced the event at the official Pokémon GO blog: In celebration of the release of New Pokémon Snap on Nintendo Switch, you can look forward to an event inspired by the photography-focused game and the Lental region where it's set! Pokémon inspired by different habitats in the Lental region will be appearing more often[...]

Niantic has a habit of releasing regional variants of Pokémon in Pokémon GO long before the region itself drops For example, we have had Alolan Sandshrew, Vulpix, Marowak, Meowth, and more in Pokémon GO before even the release of Unova, essentially giving us a taste of a generation multiple years away from where we are now[...]

Credit: Niantic Here is the complete raid rotation for Rivals' Week in Pokémon GO: Tier One Clauncher Croagunk – Shiny available, standard unboosted rate Mankey – Shiny available, standard unboosted rate Shinx – Shiny available, boosted rate Skrelp Timburr – Shiny available, boosted rate After a day of playing Rivals' Week, it is apparent that both Skrelp and Clauncher are indeed spawning but at[...]

Here are the details on this upcoming event as well as Niantic's new initiative to make the world a better place. Binacle in Pokémon GO Credit: Niantic The Sustainability Week event will bring the following content to Pokémon GO: Date and time: Tuesday, April 20th, 2021, at 10 AM to Sunday, April 25th, 2021, at 8:00 PM local[...]

Oddly, Niantic didn't think to put a push notification in the game about this occurrence but did take to social media to explain the situation However, an update to the current Rivals' Week event blog entry has led some to believe this problem is going to last longer than expected Here's everything we know so[...]

Credit: Niantic Our full tips for Therian Forme Landorus Raid Hour in Pokémon GO is: Take advantage of the hype It's going to be much easier to find larger raid parties and random lobbies during this raid hour than it will be during next week's That's become Therian Forme Landorus came out yesterday, so there are going to[...]

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 Mankey Spotlight Hour, let's take a deep dive into this Pokémon's lore. Official Mankey artwork Credit: Pokémon Company International Dex entry number 056, Mankey is a[...]

Will the Shiny, minty Mankey be available during Mankey Spotlight Hour in Pokémon GO? Here are the details for this week's Spotlight.

Credit: Niantic What worked for this Pokémon GO event: Snivy! It's been too long since a Starter has gotten a true feature (Charmander getting a second Community Day doesn't count) so it's great to see Snivy here returning Community Day to some semblance of what trainers have long expected it to be. Frenzy Plant: Niantic didn't pull any[...]

Credit: Niantic Here are the details about Rivals' Week right from the Pokémon GO blog: Date + Time Tuesday, April 13, 2021, at 10:00 a.m to Sunday, April 18, 2021, at 8:00 p.m local time Features Skrelp and Clauncher will be making their Pokémon GO debuts! They'll be appearing in the wild, in raids, and in encounters after[...]

Credit: Niantic What worked in this Harry Potter: Wizards Unite event The story: Many fans of J K Rowlings' Harry Potter books are missing out For a long time, I believed this game to be nothing more than a puzzle piece hunt However, what it truly is couldn't be further from that[...]

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

Niantic has added assets for Generation Six species in Pokémon GO, including some of the most anticipated releases in the game Not only have these new species been added, but their Shiny forms have also been uncovered Does this mean we're in for a huge release? Maybe, but it's a bit more complicated than that[...]

Credit: Niantic Here are the details of Snivy Community Day straight from the Pokémon GO blog: Features: Snivy will be appearing more frequently in the wild If you're lucky, you may encounter a Shiny one! Evolve Servine (the Evolution of Snivy) during the event or up to two hours afterward to get a Serperior that knows the attack[...]

Credit: Niantic The Snivy in the Sunshine Special Research in Pokémon GO includes the following tasks and rewards: Page One of Four Power up Pokémon 10 times: 15 Poké Balls Catch 15 Snivy: Snivy encounter Make 5 Nice Throws: 20 Snivy Candy REWARDS: 2000 Stardust, Snivy encounter, 10 Pinap Berries Page Two of Four Catch 15 Snivy: 30 Snivy Candy Transfer 10 Pokémon: Servine encounter Evolve[...]

Credit: Niantic According to the official Pokémon GO blog, here's what is being offered: There'll be a special one-time-purchase Community Day Box available for 1,280 PokéCoins, featuring 50 Ultra Balls, four Star Pieces, four Mossy Lure Modules, and an Elite Charged TM. All right, so… let's take a look at the price of these items individually in the Pokémon[...]

Well, isn't this the perfect little distinguished gentleman or gentle-lady? A new costumed Pokémon has been discovered in the code of Niantic's Pokémon GO by the dataminers known as the Pokéminers Is it Pikachu with a construction hat on, you ask? No How about Eevee with a monocle? No yet again[...]

Niantic has added new Mega Pokémon to the code of Pokémon GO Fifteen new Megas were uncovered in a recent datamine by the Pokéminers leaving some wondering if these are coming to the game soon We'll get to that but let's first take a look at what we have here. New Megas in New Pokémon GO code[...]

Credit: Niantic If Niantic sticks to the previous pattern beginning with Snivy, this is what the rest of 2021 Community Days in Pokémon GO will look like. March 2021: Snivy April 2021: Random selection June 2021: Tepig July 2021: Random selection August 2021: Oshawott September 2021: Random selection October 2021: Chespin November 2021: Random selection December 2021: Fennekin I personally don't think that we're going to get[...]

Is the Snivy in the Sunshine Ticket worth buying in Pokémon GO? Every month (at least recently), Niantic releases a $1 USD ticket for Community Day that unlocked a Special Research to coincide with the event Every month, we at Bleeding Cool seek to answer the question that many trainers are left wondering… is it worth[...]

Credit: Niantic Our tips for Snivy Community Day in Pokémon GO are: Storage cleanse: We're going to have (to our knowledge), no events happening in Pokémon GO between now and Community Day Take this opportunity to transfer Pokémon you don't plan on keeping, especially if your storage is maxed out[...]

April is a busy month for those in the Wizarding World fighting to suppress the Calamity in Harry Potter: Wizards Unite. Niantic's narrative mobile game which picks up the story of J K Rowlings' Harry Potter novels years later will wrap up its A Weasley Predicament Brilliant Event on Monday only to launch right into the second Adversaries event[...]

When Niantic began their rollout of the sixth generation of Pokémon in December 2020 with a small wave of Kalos-region species, many began to speculate over how long it would take to release the final remaining evolution of Eevee… the Fairy-type Sylveon Now, along with a host of other Kalos Pokémon, Niantic has added Sylveon[...]

Niantic is shaking things up in Pokémon GO to keep GO Battle League, their PVP platform, fresh for trainers Next Monday, the game will introduce a brand new cup, Great League Remix, to Pokémon GO Great League Remix will run alongside of the standard Great League, which limits Pokémon to a CP of 1500[...]