Monday: Pokémon Masters - New World Dilemma & 1st Anniversary News + Pokémon HOME Update + Pokémon Café Mix
17-08-2020 07:01 BST / 02:01 EDT by Serebii
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Edit @ 07:51: Pokémon Café Mix | Edit @ 08:14: Café Mix New Pokémon | Edit @ 16:05: Porygon2 | Edit @ 18:12: Pokémon GO Community Day | Edit @ 21:12: Pokémon GO Shoes
In The Games Department
Pokémon Sword & Shield - Porygon2
It has been confirmed that, during the Pokémon Players Cup Video Game Championship finals this weekend, August 22nd and 23rd, a special Shared Serial Code will be available for players to redeem. This code will get players a competitive Porygon2 trained to be good in Trick Room. It is Sassy, comes with an Eviolite and has the moves Recover, Trick Room, Ice Beam and Thunderbolt. The code will run until August 31st. We'll provide full details of the code as it comes. Our Event Database has been updated with details of this event
In The Games Department
Pokémon HOME
The Pokémon HOME software update is starting to roll out on iOS, Android and. This update adds a variety of changes
The GTS search filters have been improved
The filter blocking Legendary and Mythical Pokémon now also blocks Legendary Pokémon
You can now filter in the GTS based on what has been deposited
You can now place multiple Pokémon into the Wonder Box at once
You can now see Natures in Battle Data
Various bug fixes
In The Games Department
Pokémon GO
Niantic have confirmed some new details for the upcoming Pokémon GO Community Day. It'll be decided by vote which will be cased from 01:00 UTC August 23rd to 01:00 UTC August 24th on the official Twitter. The winner will be available in the Community Day on September 20th and the 2nd place on October 17th. The options are:
Charmander - Evolve Charmeleon to Charizard for Dragon Breath
Caterpie - Evolve Metapod to Butterfree for Hurricane
Grimer - Evolve Grimer/Alolan Grimer to Much/Alolan Muk to get Fire Punch. Alolan Grimer would appear in Raids during the event
Porygon - Evolve Porygon2 to Porygon-Z to get Tri Attack, a move new to Pokémon GO which has a chance of lowering opponent's Attack and Defense
In The Games Department
Pokémon GO
Niantic have updated Pokémon GO to include some new style options. Earlier this year, some Black Sandals were added to the game and today, three new variants of those sandals are now available. These variants come in the colours of Team Instinct, Mystic and Valor and cost 50 Coins each
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Pokémon Masters
Pokémon Masters has announced their first anniversary update. With this, the game will change its name to Pokémon Masters EX and introduce a variety of new features.
First is a new 6 Star EX feature for Sync Pairs. You can now power them up to 6 star EX which changes an outfit
Champion Stadium will begin on August 27th and lets you face the Elite Four and then the Champion of Kanto
A Legendary Arena event featuring Latios starts on August 20th
August 27th introduces the Training with Legends event
Grass Fire Water-type Egg event begins on September 2nd 2020
Familiy Ties event starts with the addition of Lusamine, Gladion and Lillie as Sync Pairs
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In The Games Department
Pokémon Masters
The next Legendary Event, New World Dilemma, has begun Pokémon Masters. This event features a story about the head of Team Galactic, Cyrus and allows for you to form a Sync Pair of Cyrus & Palkia. It runs until September 3rd.
Alongside this, a special Poké Fair Spotlight Scout has begun which adds the Sync Pair of Cynthia Sygna Suit & Kommo-o into the game.
In The Games Department
Pokémon Café Mix
The Pokémon Company have announced some new upcoming characters to Pokémon Café Mix. In addition to Wobbuffet being added with new orders, Audino will be added soon and alongside that, Celebi will be added as a Special Customer Event, marking the first Mythical Pokémon in the game
In The Games Department
Pokémon Café Mix
It has been confirmed that Pokémon Café Mix has been downloaded over 5 million times. To celebrate, they are giving a special gift to all players from now until August 30th at 06:00 UTC. This gift is 5,000 Golden Acorns, 3 Vertical Whistles and 3 Horizontal Whistles
