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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 today's Shiny release of Slowpoke, let's take a deep dive into this Dopey Pokémon's lore. Slowpoke official artwork Credit: The Pokémon Company International Dex entry number 079,[...]

Credit: Niantic The Pokémon GO HOME event raids include: Tier One Alolan Vulpix – shiny available, boosted rate Klink – shiny available, boosted rate Magnemite – shiny available, standard rate Shinx – shiny available, boosted rate Slowpoke – shiny available, unknown rate Timburr – shiny available, boosted rate The winner here is undoubtedly Alolan Vulpix[...]

Meowth Spotlight Hour is tonight in Pokémon GO, but the bonus of double catch candy may be better spent on hunting Shiny Meltan. Here's why!

Today, the Slowpoke family joins the ranks of fellow Kanto sparkly bois in Niantic's hit mobile game Here's how you can encounter Shiny Slowpoke in Pokémon GO (there's more than one way!) and how to evolve it into the O.G Slowbro or the regal, Generation Two split evolution of Slowking. Shiny Slowpoke family in Pokémon GO[...]

Credit: Niantic Kanto Cup Requirements in Pokémon GO On their Pokémon GO blog, Niantic announced: The Kanto Cup will run from Monday, November 16, 2020, at 1:00 p.m to Monday, November 23, 2020, at 1:00 p.m PST (GMT −8) Only Pokémon with a Pokédex number between #001 and #151 are eligible[...]

Ahead of the Pokémon GO / Pokémon HOME integration event, we have the full Timed Research questline that will offer Gible and Slowpoke.

Credit: Niantic Top Terrakion Counters Pokebattler, which calculates all possible combinations of Pokémon and moves, lists the top 10 Terrakion counters as such: Shadow Mewtwo (Confusion, Psystrike) Mewtwo (Confusion, Psystrike) Mega Blastoise (Water Gun, Hydro Cannon) Shadow Metagross (Bullet Punch, Meteor Mash) Shadow Machamp (Counter, Dynamic Punch) Shadow Swamper (Mud Shot, Hydro Cannon) Shadow Gallade (Confusion, Psychic) Shadow Exeggutor (Confusion, Psychic) Shadow Alakazam (Confusion, Psychic) Mega Venusaur[...]

Credit: Niantic Top Cobalion Counters Pokebattler, which calculates all possible combinations of Pokémon and moves, lists the top 10 Cobalion counters as such: Mega Charizard Y (Fire Spin, Blast Burn) Shadow Machamp (Counter, Dynamic Punch) Shadow Entei (Fire Fang, Overheat) Mega Charizard X (Fire Spin, Blast Burn)* Reshiram (Fire Fang, Overheat) Lucario (Counter, Aura Sphere) Mega Houndoom (Fire Fang, Flamethrower)* Conkeldurr (Counter, Dynamic Punch) Shadow Arcanine[...]

Credit: Niantic Top Virizion Counters Pokebattler, which calculates all possible combinations of Pokémon and moves, lists the top 10 Virizion counters as such: Mega Pidgeot (Gust, Brave Bird) Moltres (Wing Attack, Sky Attack) Shadow Moltres (Wing Attack, Sky Attack) Shadow Mewtwo (Confusion, Psystrike) Shadow Zapdos (Thunder Shock, Dril Peck) Mega Charizard Y (Air Slash, Blast Burn)* Honchkrow (Peck, Sky Attack) Rayquaza (Air Slash, Aerial Ace) Ho-oh[...]

The Legendary Pokémon known as the Swords of Justice trio -- Terrakion, Cobalion, & Virizion -- return to raids in Pokémon GO today.

Credit: Niantic Like Magikarp, Gastly, and Charmander before it, Electabuzz continued the trend that Niantic started in 2020 by giving Community Days to Pokémon that have already had their Shinies released While the Pokémon GO playerbase has gotten used to this redefined idea of Community Day in some way, Electabuzz is by far the least offensive of[...]

Credit: Niantic Theory #1: The Lake Trio Well, we know that Azelf, Uxie, and Mesprit are on their way to Pokémon GO A recent Datamine showed that they'd be returning to the game with an event called "Lake Legends" that was found in the code The only thing that keeps us from being 100% sure they will be[...]

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 today's Electabuzz Community Day, let's take a deep dive into the lore of its evolution, Electivire. Official Electivire artwork Credit: The Pokémon Company International Dex entry number[...]

Credit: Pokémon Company International and Niantic The Eevee Nickname Trick Be careful, because this only works once in Pokémon GO Giving Eevee a nickname and evolving it while it still has that nickname will, again, one time and one time only, make it evolve into the species assigned to that nickname[...]

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 today's Electabuzz Community Day, let's take a deep dive into the Electric Pokémon's lore. Official Electabuzz artwork Credit: The Pokémon Company International Dex entry number 125, Electabuzz[...]

Credit: Niantic The Electric for Electabuzz Special Research in Pokémon GO will include: Page One of Four Power Up Pokémon 10 times: 10 PokéBalls Catch 15 Electabuzz: 20 Electabuzz Candy Make 5 Nice Throws: Electabuzz encounter REWARDS: 2000 Stardust, 10 Pinap Berries, Electabuzz encounter Page Two of Four Catch 15 Electabuzz: 50 Electabuzz Candy Transfer 10 Pokémon: 500 Stardust Use 15 Pinap Berries to help catch[...]

After a highly controversial October Community Day with prohibitively difficult tasks in the Special Assignment, was Niantic able to improve this monthly event? Let's dive in. Harry Potter: Wizards Unite November 2020 Community Day promo artwork Credit: Niantic The Good: Wow, the Special Assignment for a Harry Potter: Wizards Unite Community Day was… actually doable! While it's not something[...]

Credit: Niantic Niantic announced on their Pokémon GO blog: As a limited-time test, from Thursday, November 12, 2020, at 2:30 p.m until Monday, November 16, 2020, at 10:00 a.m PST (GMT −8), trade range will be increased! Depending on information gathered from this test, we may include increased trade range as a part of future events It's[...]

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 tomorrow Electabuzz Community Day which sees Elekid return to 2KM Eggs for the event, let's take a deep dive into this Electric Pokémon's lore. Elekid official[...]

Credit: Niantic Here are all of the features of tomorrow's Electabuzz Community Day in Pokémon GO, along with our tips: Electabuzz will be appearing more frequently in the wild If you're lucky, you may encounter a Shiny one! Generally, the most common desire here is to enough of the Community Day Shinies to keep at least one of each[...]

Credit: Niantic The current raids available in Pokémon GO include: Tier One Alolan Geodude – Shiny capable, full odds Carvanha – Shiny capable, full odds Electrike – Shiny capable, full odds Nosepass Roggenrola – Shiny capable, full odds Shinx – Shiny capable, boosted odds Sneasel – Shiny capable, boosted odds With the exception of Shinx and Sneasel, none of these have a boosted Shiny rate, so[...]

Credit: Niantic The full questline for the Dumbledore's Army Brilliant Event Part 2 in Harry Potter: Wizards Unite includes: Page One of Four Collect 2 Ingredients or Portmanteaus: 2 Snowdrop Use Tonic for Trace Detection 2 Time: 2 Re'em Blood Return 10 Brilliant Dueling Dummy: 2 Strong Exstimulo Potions REWARDS: 550 XP, 50 Brilliant Family XP, 2 Restricted Section Books, 10 Spell[...]

Earlier this year, Niantic made promises to change Mega Evolution in Pokémon GO following negative responses to the Mega Raid system Trainers felt that this system was prohibitive and financially driven, and disliked the idea of raiding and rare tasks being the only way to accrue Mega Energy in the game Soon after the initial rollout,[...]

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 the newly established connectivity between Pokémon GO and Pokémon HOME, let's do a deep dive into Meltan's mythology. Meltan in Pokémon GO[...]

Credit: Niantic & the Pokémon Company International Your best bet against Bronzor is going to be Ground-type Pokémon and Dark-type Pokémon According to PVPoke, which compares all of the base stats of Pokémon and calculates the top competitors in each league, these are the best Ground-types and Dark-types to take into the Little Cup. Deino (Dragon Breath,[...]

With fans theorizing what will happen next and Niantic improving these events, it's quite an interesting time to be a Harry Potter: Wizards Unite player Let's dive into the details of this Brilliant Event. Harry Potter: Wizards Unite Dumbledore's Army Event Part 2 promo image Credit: Niantic Niantic announced on the Harry Potter: Wizards Unite forum the following Brilliant[...]

Credit: Niantic The best way to determine what will be included in the Electric for Electabuzz ticket in Pokémon GO is to look at last month's Community Day Ticket These have all been very consistent, so if you think the research questline and its rewards for October's Charmander Community Day were worth the dollar, then you will likely feel[...]

Credit: Niantic The Pokéminers of Silph Road found the following in a recent Pokémon GO datamine: group_seasonal Holiday This matches the coding for the avatar clothing items added for the Halloween 2020 event, but this is no big news There will be, as there always is, new clothing items for the Holiday 2020 event. What is news, however, is the code[...]

Metagross is a must-have for Pokémon GO trainers in both raids and PVP, but what is the best moveset to optimize the top Steel-type attacker?

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 Riolu currently hatching from 7KM Eggs for the Animation Week 2020 event, let's take a deep dive into this Pokémon's lore. Riolu in Pokémon GO[...]