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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[...]

Earlier this year, Niantic featured Meltan prominently in the fourth-anniversary poster for their hit game Pokémon GO. This meant, we speculated, that Shiny Meltan would finally return to the game This has been confirmed today in Niantic's latest announcement which gave an update on their plans to integrate their game with Pokémon HOME[...]

Credit: Niantic PVPoke, which aggregates all of the top Pokémon and best moves for each league, lists the Ultra League rankings as such: Cresselia (Psycho Cut, Future Sight, Moonblast) Giratina Altered Forme (Shadow Claw, Dragon Claw, Shadow Sneak) Registeel (Lock On, Flash Cannon, Focus Blast) Shadow Swampert (Mud Shot, Hydro Cannon, Earthquake) Armored Mewtwo (Confusion, Psystrike, Dynamic Punch) Articuno (Ice Shard, Icy[...]

During this weekly event, mobile game developer Niantic floods Pokémon trainers' games with the spotlighted spawn while offering an in-game bonus Here are all the details needed to know about this Spotlight Hour, including what the weekly bonus is and if the coveted Shiny Skitty will be available. Shiny Skitty and regular Skitty comparison over the[...]

Dragonite used to reign over Tier 4 raids, but those have been removed from Pokémon GO... making it a Tier 3 boss that can be defeated solo.

Let's take a look back on what Niantic's game, which functions as a continuation of the Harry Potter novels, had to offer players with the second week of tasks. Promo image for Harry Potter Wizards Unite: Battle of the Department of Mysteries Brilliant Event Part 2 Credit: Niantic The storyline for the first week of the Battle of the[...]

Niantic wrote, though, that it will be a "special Raid Boss." There are a few options as to what this Legendary Pokémon could be… but the leading theory is currently the much-anticipated return of Mewtwo. Can we expect to see Mewtwo at the end of October? Credit: Niantic Other than a short rotation featuring the non-Shiny-capable Armored[...]

However, looking into the roles these Pokémon play in other games, and even the anime, can enrich the experience of raiding these creatures in Niantic's mobile game In honor of Zapdos's current stint as the Legendary Raid Boss in Pokémon GO, let's take a deep dive into the second of the Legendary birds' lore before[...]

Credit: Niantic Pokémon GO Top Lapras Counters Pokebattler, which calculates all possible combinations of Pokémon and moves, lists the top 10 Lapras counters as such: Mega Venusaur (Vine Whip, Frenzy Plant) Shadow Machamp (Counter, Dynamic Punch) Shadow Raikou (Thunder Shock, Wild Charge) Shadow Electivire (Thunder Shock, Wild Charge) Shadow Magnezone (Spark, Wild Charge) Lucario (Counter, Aura Sphere) Shadow Zapdos (Thunder Shock, Thunderbolt) Zekrom (Charge Beam,[...]

Credit: Niantic First, a note on Shiny rates None of these are confirmed by Niantic, but have been studied over the course of the entire history of Shiny Pokémon in Pokémon GO by researchers This has established a solid idea of not only the standard rate, but also Shiny rates for special spawns and events[...]

Niantic didn't announce this little cheeky perk, but Articuno had the Legacy Charged Attack of Hurrican when caught during this current raid rotation This set the Pokémon GO community off with theories and expectations as to whether the next two Legendaries, Zapdos and Moltres, would continue the pattern and arrive with their trademark Legacy moves[...]

More popular aspects of the game such as raiding and GO Battle League offer valuable rewards that can pay off in-game, but the photography shouldn't be overlooked, as it follows through on Niantic's initial promise to make trainers feel real-world bonds with their Pokémon This feature also does offer a rare reward, in the form[...]

Credit: Niantic The newly unlocked Mega Houndoom comes as a result of Niantic's mid-September event, the Mega Battle Challenge This challenge tasks Pokémon GO trainers with fighting in a staggering 275 million battles during the event in hopes to unlock Mega Houndoom in the near future Now, Niantic took to Twitter to compliment players, saying that their[...]

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

Credit: Niantic & the Pokémon Company Shedinja will be the Research Breakthrough encounter starting Thursday, October 1st at 1 PM, and will run through Sunday, November 1st at 1 PM This goes along with Niantic's 2020 change to these Research Boxes, which used to offer Legendary Pokémon but now reward non-Legendaries tying into the official Pokémon[...]

Niantic's hit mobile game stormed the world in 2016, becoming a phenomenon and making the Pokémon brand even more ubiquitous than what was thought to be its heyday in the early days of Pokémania twenty years ago In the years following, Pokémon GO is still one of the most successful mobile games and is used by countless[...]

Have you ever caught an Axew? Do you know where to find Legendary spawns in the wild? These are the rarest Pokémon in Pokémon GO.

However, in the eleventh hour, Niantic posted that, alas, tonight's GO Battle Night and Flying Cup have been postponed. The Pokémon GO logo was shared on Twitter as Niantic announced the postponement of Pokémon GO Battle Night & Flying Cup Credit: Niantic The GO Battle Night was set to debut the Flying Cup tonight, which only allowed[...]

What many don't know, though, is that clips of the episode can be viewed now on YouTube… and even a quick glimpse will show that it wasn't Porygon itself that created the seizure-inducing flashlight light effect, but rather Team Rocket's attack on Porygon. Porygon did nothing wrong indeed. Porygon has been a scapegoat for years, and it appears[...]