Pokémon GO Anniversary Event Details

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Pokémon GO is celebrating its first birthday in many parts of the world and the latest event celebrates the occasion. The special anniversary event is active from July 6th (today!) to the 13th, so don’t wait to take advantage of it!

Players will be able to find Ash Hat Pikachu and catch it for their collection. Anime fans may be especially interested after watching almost 20 years of Ash Ketchum’s journey to become a Pokémon Master.

In addition, special sale packages (called “Anniversary Boxes”) will be available to purchase and include many helpful items at a discount.

Are you pumped to catch another Pikachu? Or will you be giving this event a pass?

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  4. So I wonder what the teaser will be. There’ll still be one once they release it in Japan I assume

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  9. Since I’ll be busy tomorrow with packing and stuff, just gonna tell you guys I’ll be gone until next weekend (and depending on if we get news or not I might not be back until we actually get news), so I’ll miss you all and stuff!

    I’ll still be on for the rest of the night/early morning tho, just posted in case I forgot to mention

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  11. I guess I should go too.
    Im not leaving, so you will have to deal with me bugging you all. Ha
    Another youre gonna have to deal with is Bug Types, because they are never gonna Leave!
    Favorite Bug Type Pokemon/ Leader
    Least Favorite Bug Type Pokemon/ Leader

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    • Fav: Ribombee/Aaron
      Least Fav: Nincada/Bugsy

      Ribombee kicks ass and is adorable, Aaron was genuinely difficult and gets bonus points for being a Bug-type Elite 4 of all things, Nincada is bland and boring, Bugsy is also bland and forgettable and his design reflects that imo

      Bug type has great variety and I really like it, but it also has a lot of the Pokémon I tend to forget as well

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    • Favorite: Guzma and Golisopod: Guzma may be a fountain of memes but he does hold value and appreciation for Bug Pokemon, and sorry Crustle you got knocked off my list for top favorite, Golisopod took me by total surprise, I thought it was gonna be a stupid sea bug that was lackluster and annoying I couldn’t be happier that I was wrong, this thing is just beautiful those razor sharp claws, steel hard carapace and his first impression will leave you scared, but this giant murder bug is not without flaws, Emergency Exit is the gayest thing ever, so many times I would’ve tanked a hit and sapped the life back with Leech Life (which I’d imagine Golisopod restrains its victim with its primary claws and its 4 smaller claws glow bloody red green and stabbed the foe and drew blood) but always emergency exit forcing it out
      Least favorite: Androgynous Azealea Gym leader why you no use Heracross beetles are big in Japan, and either Mothim or Wormadam they are useless as they are dumb

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    • Fave bug mon: Araquanid
      Fave Specialist: YA BOI GUZMA
      Least Fave mon: Wormadam
      Least fave leader: I can’t remember

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    • FP: Vikavolt. As soon as I saw this Pokemon, I knew it was gonna be on my team. and boy was I right (though I almost dropped it) Vikavolt is a pure powerhouse. 143 base SpA it guided my team once it FINALLY evolve. Sure it was very disappointing to learn its not fast, but Having an immunity to ground and just raw power. Its worth it.
      FL: Aaron. .I ove when unique things happen with a type. and being the first and only Bug type elite 4 was a major step up. Before Aaron all Elite 4 were Dark/Psychic/fighting/Ice/Drgon/Ghos.Aaronfinally put a twist on that. Too bad he isnt THAT good. (Ive never struggled with him) Cool design too.

      LP: Burmy- Stupid pokemon with a stupid gimmick. Not only one gimmick but two!!. You arent that special!!
      LL: Burgh. I just dont like him. Hes too fabulous for me. Just nothing about him really stands out as cool. And I dont really like Leavanny. Nice try thoug.

      Mehhhh bugs types are ok… There are barely any bug type I all out likand appreciate. They are all pretty meh. Thats coming from a bug type like myself

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  12. I’m gonna go also as well too. I’m going to see Spider man homecoming and it’s very rude to have your phone out in a movie theatre during the movie.

    But not yet because it’s not starting in an hour I just wanted to jump on the bandwagon

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  13. I’m serious guys. I honestly think they’re doing the trials like this because they have a bigger picture adventure planned for Ash. Lets look at it this way. At the weird pace they’re at now he could basically be done with Ula’ula by then end of the year. Then what? They speed through Poni/Exeggutor islands in 2018 or spread them out throughout the entire year? Would they really slow down that much for Poni island? I think the reason they’re speeding through the trials is because a new league is being set up like in the game and once it’s done Ash will have to go collect all the badges. That’d be pretty cool in my mind lol Again the only problems is that I feel like they’d be rushing both the trials and the gyms too much. Plus if you think about it The next games will likely come out late 2019. That means they’ll have to fill not only 2018, but also part of 2019 as well. That screams to me that they have something more to give Ash to do lol

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    • Tbh, I kinda hope we don’t get Gyms, at least for as long as we’re in Alola. They finally bothered to change up the formula and it’d just feel like pussying out and repeating themselves – a really bad habit Pokemon has tbh.

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        • Which is why they shouldn’t just wimp out and go back to it. They’re going to run out of gimmicks to entertain me with, and I know it’s kinda selfish but I just hope I don’t get bored of them

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      • If they weren’t gonna do gyms in Alola then why even bother having them set up in the plot then? I mean by them saying they’re bringing the modern league to Alola all throughout the story they’re basically shouting at us that gyms are coming. I will agree that I really am glad they shook things up this time. It was a breath of fresh air. That said I think they can bring gyms back without them being as stale as they have been. Have the gyms be more like trials where you being there actually matters and has plot relevance rather than them just being road blocks and that can fix them. Right now the problem with gyms is that they are basically only road blocks. There’s no real reason for the trainer to do them other than you HAVE to. If they have events unfold while you are doing the gyms and have them be more meaningful then that will help them out a lol Also I wish the gym leaders were more relevant to the story. The island captains were really no more in the game than any of the gym leaders, but you felt like them being there mattered more. Having npcs talk about them as if they’re big parts of their communities would also really boost gyms a lot too

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        • The thing is tho our trainers took on Alola’s league after doing their island trials, so it could be that in Alola it’s the Island Trials that act as the qualifier for the league. Especially because it’s set up as a replacement to the consecutive Kahuna Battles mentioned by Nanu.

          Although if we do trials first and then consecutive Kahunas, and then post game is Gyms and league, I wouldn’t mind as much tbh

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          • Well yeah the original way Alola did was you do the trials and THAT’S how you go to the league. The fact of the matter is that they specifically made a point to say they were bringing the gym system to the league. I’m not saying USUM gets rid of the trials altogether, but I think maybe gyms are coming back. I could see them doing a thing where the gyms take the place of the regular trials, but you still need to beat the Kahunas in order to move onto the next island. What I really want is for the gyms to be more meaningful. Then they can come back lol

          • I really hope they don’t replace trials, like it’d be dumb if Alola just completely ditched its tradition because Kukui just came along like ”yo we be Gyms now”

          • I think it’d be interesting to see an Alola where traditions and new stuff collided. Like seeing the Alolan citizens come to terms with a new system coming into their region and how they adapt to it. Do they resist? Do they accept it? That’d be cool lol

  14. Do any of you have that one specific Pokémon in a game that always fucks you over? Like not even necessarily Totem Lurantis, Whitney’s Miltank, or Cynthia’s Garchomp – just anything that causes you trouble in a run of a certain Pokémon game.

    Battle Girl Hedvig is like the only generic trainer I can ever remember, because her Hawlucha makes Korrina’s look like a little bitch in comparison. Like yeah if you have Honedge she’s free Exp, but if you don’t she’s quite tough for a generic trainer. And if they gave that thing a Dark move…. *shudders*

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  15. We need news…

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    I can’t make a comment this short…
    Ughhhhh…
    Describe this community in a song title

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  16. Lol anyone remember my dumb PokéJungle anime thing and how cringy it was

    Cringiest thing you’ve ever done on PokéJungle?

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  18. Don’t you hate it when you’re so tired and your back hurts so much that you can’t even get off the floor or roll off it?

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  20. Are any of you on any other Pokémon sites? I kinda noped away from other ones because how mean peeps could be tbh

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  22. Sucks that we have to wait another week for the movie teaser (if there is one at all). We don’t even know if it’s going to be interesting or not. I feel like I’m more impatient in general these days, probably because I have to make it through another week of work. I suppose we can hope that, with Splatoon 2 details today, next week is open for USUM as well. That would make the wait worth it.

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    • I have this weird feeling is nibbling on my frontal lobe…..I forget the name, optimizu, opporation….optigasma, orgasm? Optimism that’s it
      This fleeting sense of optimism that it won’t be so bad due to lack of info and that could clear it up

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    • I would be really surprised if we don’t get anything USUM related this month. It’d be weird for them to go back to doing it, but them waiting for CoroCoro to come out could be a thing. Up until last year we weren’t quite as impatient for news as we’d always be looking towards the 15th for CoroCoro to leak. Now tho we have last year giving us new every two weeks regardless of CoroCoro and we may be going through withdrawal lol

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      • Yeah, it comes with nebbie and the clefairy pokedoll she gives the player…and that’s literally it. N and Cynthia come with Reshiram and Garchomp which are huge figures of their own and they’re expecting us to pay the same price for Lillie as them…it’s BS.

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  25. I seriously need to get a light for this gazebo, it’s nearly pitch black outside and I just noticed it

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