Legendary Pokémon Confirmed for Pokémon GO Fest

Niantic has officially confirmed what many fans have been waiting for and expecting – Legendary Pokémon are coming to GO this summer! Watch the new trailer below where thousands of trainers battle Zapdos, Moltres, Articuno, Lugia, and Ho-oh in Pokémon GO’s first ever legendary raid battle!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvSe6pMvUjM

In their official blog, Niantic has confirmed that the first ever Legendary Pokémon will be at GO Fest – but only if trainers around the world successfully meet the capture goals set throughout the weekend. If trainers in Chicago manage to defeat it, it will start appearing in Raid Battles across the globe. Niantic also revealed that Legendary Pokémon can be used to battle Gyms, but they cannot be used to defend them.

Are you psyched or what?!

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314 thoughts on “Legendary Pokémon Confirmed for Pokémon GO Fest”

  1. Boring, so I’m officially in Canada,
    But in other news today’s episode was really good
    That Alolan Marowak is my kinda Pokemon, although I hate how skinny its body is…its head is just bigger

    But nonetheless some really good Turtonator development and a new capture is always a pleaser

    Also that freaking hiker….

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  2. Guys we all know this one…

    They set a special event in the festival and it will be Mewtwo as the first Legendary Boss

    Or I had a hunch they may do Ho-Oh to announce the next movie in the US

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  3. Also…way to make legendaries super boring. You have to do a raid battle which is impossible to win, then you have to hatch it, then you can’t even defend gyms with them

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  4. Ok so yet 2 play SM.
    Which one would you guys recommend??
    Apparently some trainers at Battle tree are exclusive to each version, which one gets better/more difficult trainers and exclusive mons/any other differences?
    Sun or Moon???

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  5. Any of you ever pick up a Pokémon you expect not to like and then find yourself liking it? For some reason I’m really liking Hariyama rn

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  6. Tired…..very very tired of Canada
    Literally everyone here smokes which is poisonous to me
    Just want to go home and buy Splatoon 2 since y’all are gonna have a ginormous head start ranking up…..

    Also finally Gabite evolved and I can officially start grinding the Elite Four
    A A Ron is tough since I don’t have a strong enough Fire attack other than Flame Wheel
    Bertha will be cake since of Floatzel and Abomasnow
    The red head also easy since of Garchomp and Rampardos
    And lastly whatshisface will be Drapion’s chew toy

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  7. My family might be moving to UK in 2 years, cause politics in Poland might turn into dictature… Our free broadcasting channel, most of the political scene and supreme court are/will all be controlled by one party…

    TLDR, I might move, Poland’s f*cked

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  8. Prediction: Nintendo will release Animal Forest on the N64 Classic (the original version of Animal Crossing previously only released in Japan), to coincide with the release of Animal Crossing Switch in 2018.

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  9. So what’s this talk about a N64 Classic? The system I was raised in and treasure as my most valuable possession after my 3DS and IPad

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      • Well I have a shit load of games already and I use my N64 astonishingly often, the only games I really hope make the cut are…..

        Mario Kart
        Super Mario
        Mario Party 123
        (If Micosoft allows it) Donkey Kong 64 and Diddy Kong Racing
        Super Smash Bros.
        Pokemon Stadium 12

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  10. 2018 release predictions

    Smash Switch
    Metroid Prime 4 (duh)
    Metroid Prime 1-3 for Switch with graphical updates early in the year
    Animal Crossing
    Starfox
    Pikmin 4
    Mario Party
    Pokemon Switch
    Kid Icarus

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    • Part of me doubts PokéSwitch will be 2018, considering they said at E3 that ‘development has started’ (paraphrasing)

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    • More Starfox? If so, then I hope they don’t ruin the controls this time or make it be the 524th remake of the same game.

      And all of my yes for Kid Icarus

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    • Pokemon and Star Fox are bold predictions. Pokemon because I’m still not sure they’d have announced it yet if it was coming so soon and Star Fox because I don’t think they’ll roll out a brand new game so soon after the Wii U one. Maybe a port of the Wii U one, but not a brand new game altogether.

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  11. So after watching Superstar Saga BM I just noticed something is Toadsworth gone?
    I could’ve sworn that in the first trailer he was there but in the 10 minute gameplay he’s replaced with a regular Toad

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  12. Did you guys hear that Stefán Karl Stefánsson’s (Robbie Rotten’s) cancer is getting worse? There’s a petition to build a Statue of him in his home town

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  13. I love the insane amounts of pokedollars you can get in the Gen 5 games from the Relic items, battling the Riches, and farming for exp in the sport facilities in Nimbasa.

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  14. Whelp…..so ends my little Canadian outing
    My Mom is beating herself up for not being able to navigate the city and find things to see and do and my brother is being a total mope
    I wish I could’ve done something to make things easier….but I can’t….
    All in all I hope the next or any Pokemon game does not take place in Canada

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    • Well does your mom have things she wants to see already in mind..? If not you could do some researching yourself 🙂

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      • She just wanted to walk around the shopping and food district and the underground city

        Well it’s too late now her spirit is broken and we’re making our way out…

        I’m trying to remind her we had an ok time, but she’s done and kinda feels bad……

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  15. Oh no, I just realized something.

    Even though I might be able to get Splatoon 2 tomorrow if I can scrounge up enough change, I forgot that like 6 amiibo also come out tomorrow. ;_;

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  16. There’s a guy with five level 13 Geodudes right before the last Gym Leader… HGSS has astounding game design people

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  17. So my team is working their butts off trying to beat the elite four but I got it down to a strategy
    Lead with Rampardos to rock slide Yanmega (unless the double team misses)
    Into Infernape to flame wheel Scizor
    Try to whittle Drapion with Garchomp’s Dig until it dies
    Drapion tries to crit Heracross with Pjab
    And then Rock Slide the Vespiquen

    Bertha and Flint are literally no threat as long as Abomasnow kills Whiscash and Floatzel takes everything else out and Garchomp literally eats all of Flint’s fire types

    But what of book face….
    Bronzong is a freaking tank and absorbs all my blows, and that Gallade is fast and strong, maybe I can Crunch and Payback the rest

    My goal is just to get everyone to 50+

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  18. What would be your fan casting for a Live Action Steven Universe Movie? You can use 1 SU voice actor (more would be like cheating)

    Mine is:
    Steven: Idk I don’t know child actors
    Connie: Idk I don’t know child actors
    Pearl: Tian Jing
    Amethyst: Amy Poehler (not really sure about this one)
    Garnet: Estelle
    Peridot: Maisie Williams
    Lapis: Anna Kendrick
    Stevonnie: Zendaya

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  19. Watching GT live… Matpat is touching things blindfolded. After he felt the thing moving he looked at the guy that chose the things. He had a face that said:
    How could you do that to me i’m gonna Fire you motherf*ckers you’ll be sans after I’m finished with you

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  20. ………. What….. Is…… THIS SH*T!!!!!!!!!!!! https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/79a66ed46b75a004aa43cb869c604a7fa5ab87c5495e3fa440d680e0e6a675e7.png

    It’s called Poke Fight. Uses the exact same character sprite as Nate from Yo-Kai Watch (But with Black hair and Blue eyes instead of Brown and Brown), Has a monster similar enough to be Litten, Literaly uses Pokeballs in the game and total Knock-Off’s of Yo-Kai Watch, Digimon and Pokemon Characters including Whisper, Gengar, Sunflomon, Veemon and Gotsumon (sorta this last one is debatable) https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/58a81c4082076e5ab678a80fa2d987033ca03928e01a88535cab6fd59128f95f.png

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  21. Everyone with the app currently, please give feedback to Nintendo

    Go to Settings (the gear at the top right) > Feedback > VoiceChat Function

    and write to them to let them know their voice chat system is just plain stupid.

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  22. I’m scared I left my switch undocked for a few days and the battery is at 0%
    How long does it take to be at optimal levels

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      • I took the wire out of the dock and plugged it in the Switch’s bunghole

        And it’s at 2%…. Which is a relief…I personally believe that letting a device be fully drained of battery is bad luck

        But it should be fine in couple of hours and I’ll finally give my switchie a proper workout with Splat2

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          • Lucky…..this place’s clogged artery of a wifi network won’t let me get on eShop

            So I’ll have to wait until I get home at like……2-3pm and have to snuggle my puggle since she hasn’t seen me in a week so add that and then gotta wait for it to download and install AND rank up so we all can play together

          • As soon as my blatant insanity lets me breathe easy, I’m NEVER leaving my switch undocked EVER AGAIN
            TO DO THAT MEANS IT WILL DIE!!!!!

          • Maybe I will, anything to ensure its life, because if it dies everything I did in it does with it!

          • And what if it doesn’t charge or something is wrong with the wire, port or battery
            Just so many things that plot the downfall of my precious Nintendo Switch
            The only way to keep it safe is to never take it out of the house or let it near anything harmful

          • … boi

            you need to calm down

            if you have a case or something then bringing your switch outside the house is fine. The thing is pretty durable.

            If something DOES happen, its fine to send it to Nintendo.

          • I went through so much to get this thing
            I worried myself sick when I had issues with the preorder
            My mental digression waiting for it to come out
            And freezing my nuts off in a huge line outside Best Buy for 3 hours as I waited

            I can’t allow anything bad to happen to it

    • Brutally honest criticism:

      The colors are awful. Look at Captain America

      https://i.annihil.us/u/prod/marvel//universe3zx/images/0/0d/MikeFichera–Cap-Classic-red-white-blue.jpg

      What colors are used? Red White and Blue, colors of the American flag. Not only that, but it is a simple color scheme that keeps the design looking clean and not too busy. Your design has black, white, red, blue, and green. Non of these colors work well together. There is no cohesion. You need to decide on a color scheme and stick to it.

      Next, I see you tried to work in Pokemon from Unova, but the issue (pun intended) is that these pokemon are very different from eachother and only work well together when put in a good composition. It doesn’t work as a costume. Not only that but the Braviary mask throws even more in there. You should pick one pokemon or two similar pokemon (reshiram and zekrom for example) and base the design around that. Many Gijinka do this very well
      http://geekxgirls.com/images/gijinka/pokemon-gijinka-designs-09.jpg

      The design isn’t very good. There is too much going on and it doesn’t feel like it could simplified like Spiderman or Captain America’s suits could.

      Other than that, the lines are wobbly, and the anatomy is very off but I’m assuming you just want critique on the design itself

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    • Okay, I really like the starters incorporated into the shoulders. That’s pretty sweet. However:
      -I do agree that there’s too much color going on. The orange and blue boots and belt stand out too much.
      -I’d also suggest that the braviary headress needs to be done up more, like it could be bigger. The head also seems a tiny bit too small.
      -Some thicker black lines on the pokeball shield

      I like the idea though, and maybe even play around with the starters in the design more

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  23. I would catch Lugia, but thats too much effort for me.. Plus the heat index sas no going outside unless you want to die soooo I’ll pass on the Lugia. Speaking of Lugia. It’s in game model is good except its neck! Ugh Why does its neck sway like that. It ruins the whole model?
    What are some Pokemon that 3D models have ruined?
    (IMO 3D Models make the pokemon look so soulless like they barely express any emotion or dont see as powerful as sprites)

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  24. I have to say, Niantic has really been promising the past couple months.

    Great irl events, beautiful new gym features and systems, raids are very fun, and the impending generation 3 update along with trading and PvP battles.

    This gets me VERY excited that Pokemon Go will not be a stale spinoff but something that is a true Pokemon experience for all. In fact, all of these ideas aren’t even the full length of what Niantic has in store. I’m still very hopeful for this game, and glad to see legendaries coming out!

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  25. It’s interesting how different Ultra Beasts have different Ultra Spaces…. I wonder if it means anything for USUM

    ahahhahahahaahahaha
    Of course it doesn’t
    Even me who said “USUM will be the best game in the series!” Is starting to lose hope….

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  26. Yo people. Should I get Splatoon 2, Arms, or MK8 when I get my switch. I want Zelda along with one fun multiplayer game. You choose.

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  27. So I’m getting my Joycons either today or tomorrow

    I just spent the last two hours doing Vocaloid related shit and have zero regrets

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  28. I don’t wanna sleep I wanna play Splatoon urghggggg

    Also pretty big flaw with the Splatnet app. It doesn’t tell you how many coins you have when you go to buy items

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