Start, End Dates for Legendary Bird Trio Announced for GO

Niantic has announced the official start and end dates for the original legendary bird trio in Pokémon GO via twitter!

  • Articuno: now until July 31st
  • Moltres: July 31st to August 7th
  • Zapdos: August 7th to August 14th

Like Articuno and Lugia, Moltres and Zapdos will only be encountered and caught via Legendary Raid Battles. Each only last one week, so catch ’em while you can! No official end date was given for Lugia.

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  1. Exactly eight empty lots in USUM :0

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/cb6b756f58aa77b66adc7b001f789deaac695e6f423cb431151b730d33dcc95f.jpg

    Hopefully they don’t replace the Island Challenge and are just side-by-side with it.

    The lots are at:

    Hau’oli City
    Heahea City
    Royal Avenue
    Konikoni City
    Maile City
    Hokulani Observatory
    Route 15 (Beside Tapu Village)
    Seafolk Village

    I think these are kind spread too close for main game gyms (Hau’oli > Heahea would be kinda long but not too bad, about normal Gym travel time for Heahea > Royal Avenue, but Avenue > Konikoni is cutting it a bit short without intervention but isn’t the worst we’ve had in the series, Konikoni > Maile has only a quick Aether separating them, unless maybe Maile is after Route 15 and Hokulani? In which case, the super short trip between Hokulani and Maile is null, but Route 15 is a decent distance no matter how you cut it on Ula’ula. With Aether, Maile to Seafolk isn’t too bad, but at the same time, Route 15 to Seafolk is a long time, but about normal for the Gyms 7-8 gap).

    TL;DR I think they’re too closely spread at times to be the main goal of the game, whereas if we’d already travelled the region it doesn’t mean as much.

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    • Some of these places seems strange for there to be a gym, like the royal avenue, route 15 and Hokulani observatory

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      • To be fair, Alola isn’t exactly high on populated areas :p

        I’d say Royal Avenue isn’t too weird because it is a civilised area (although unknown if people live there) and I’m guessing Hokulani Observatory is because the Observatory attracts attention anyway, but I think Route 15 is a Seafoam Gym situation – a gym was placed in an odd area because the settlement it would’ve been placed at (and in Seafoam’s example (Cinnabar), where it was placed) was destroyed.

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        • If these spots are becoming gyms in USUM, doesn’t that mean they’ve hyping up USUM even before the game was even announced? :0

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          • Makes sense, they’ve most likely been working on USUM since before SuMo was finished and they could’ve slipped the sites in

    • I would initially go with that these are supposed to be gyms, but, like you said, they are too closely spread. No clue what they could be really for USUM.

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        • Maybe, just maybe, if we can go back to the SM world post-game, the gyms could be finished and then we could fight em.

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          • Don’t think we’d have to dimensional travel for that tbh, but, they’d probs exist in USUM world too

          • True. I was thinking about the dimensional travel being a thing because of how Solgaleo and Lunala can travel through alternate dimensions when you bring them to the Altar in SM.

    • Type guesses: the 7 types unused by the Island Challenge (7 trials + 4 grand trials, leaving 7/18. Might be a way to get those ‘rogue’ Z-crystals you get in SuMo) and one typeless gym, like HGSS. Also like HGSS, the Elite 4 will overlap with other specialists in the same region.

      Assuming that that none of the Island Challenge Trials change type, that would lead us with:

      Bug (Guzma?)
      Poison (Plumeria?)
      Psychic (Faba?)
      Steel (Molayne?)
      Ice
      Flying
      Fairy/Dragon (Probably Fairy seeing as Mina doesn’t have a Totem)
      Typeless

      Rather than TMs, what if this is how you get more Z-crystals? And then, you get your Key Stone from the final typed gym, or some sort of exclusive Z-Move.

      Fairy or Dragon is where the issue comes from tbh, because we have a Dragon trial but a Fairy trial captain. And I really hope Mina isn’t just removed from trial captain, because she hadn’t even made her trial in SuMo

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  2. I posted this on the other article, but this new one was made as I was typing on the previous article:

    I have a fun idea for you all. So as USUM is potentially going to have an alternate universe, the characters in SM may totally be different in this version. So as these characters are prob going to be different, you guys can come up with what differences and changes the characters have.

    For example, in USUM, Guzma received loving support from his family that allowed him to become able to beat the island challenge, to which he was able to fulfill his dream of becoming a trial captain. As captain, Guzma seeks to guide trainers on the right path in their journeys just as his family helped him in his direction of life.

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      • Do you mean between games or in USUM? Gonna assume you mean the latter because I was wanting to speak about it anyway :p

        Wouldn’t that be a bit tedious and drag the game a bit? Like, going out the Vacant Lots, it’d be three bosses on Melemele and Poni, Seven on Akala and five on Ula’ula. Could be good fun done right tho

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        • I was thinking something like you do the trials on each island to enter the gyms, then end each island with the Grand Trial as it is now. It just provides more battle opportunities, the leaders are the Trial Captains, you need to beat the Totem for them to allow you to challenge their Gym.

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    • I prefer trials if they switch up all the trials. I dont want to see any of the same minigames for them again. But whatever they do can they please do Gym leader/ Grnd Trial rematches! We havent had a good version those since HGSS. (PWT doesnt count, and XY version sucked)

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    • Grown up Current Trial captains as (hard to beat) gym leaders, in the post game a new generation of Trial captains with new totems (including Psychic specialist Hau)

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    • Why not both? https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/98d4c1a23600e819ca47bbee15c72acb6408bb6135975dc9536341d33bb6d430.jpg

      No but seriously I think a healthy middle ground could do the series some good. Maybe make the gyms a bit more important to the overall story rather than them just being road blocks. Have the leaders be more involved in the stories as well. The thing that made the Trial captains so cool is that they had cultural relevance in Alola. There was a reason for them being there and everyone that lived in Alola looked up to them or at least revered their status. If they make the gyms and their leaders more important like that then it would really help. also maybe make the gym challenges be more integrated into the story too. Have gyms where you beat all the lower trainers and then the evil team interrupts and you have to fight them before battling the leader. If they do these things I think that’d really help gyms a lot.

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      • Also maybe add specific tasks that you have to do before battling. And I’m not just talking about plot points you need to do like go to point A and unblock whatever just to challenge the gym. that stuff is just dumb lol

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  3. Well i hope you Pokemon Go Players have fun with these 3.
    How many pokemon out of 249 do you have in Pokemon Go?

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  4. Well I’m running out of mojo since I’ve been playing splat2 since I got home
    And I kinda did something kinda stupid today I kinda regret

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  5. So apparently, Nintendo has listed Pokémon Switch with a release date of ‘2018 or later’. Guess the peeps who said 2018 for release date are possibly gonna be right, but I’m kinda said that basically confirms no Sinnoh this Gen :<

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  6. Google is paying 97$ per hour! Work for few hours and have longer with friends & family! !pa307:
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  7. Switch: 1.97 million units (LTD 4.7 million). After ~4 – 5 months on the market, Wii U was 3.45 million units shipped, Wii 5.84 million and 3DS 4.32 million (pre-price cut, however). Forecast for the year unchanged at 10 million units.

    Mario Kart 8 Deluxe: 3.54 million (75% attach rate)
    ARMS: 1.18 million (25% attach rate)
    Breath of the Wild (Switch): 1.16 million (3.92 million LTD, 83% attach rate)

    Metroid Prime 4 still TBA.

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  8. Another day of boring monotony…
    At least Death Battle comes out this afternoon
    And I think today I’ll focus on single player mode in Splat2 and finish the story yadda yadda yadda…..

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  9. So I played Sonic 1 because I hate myself and omg… why is the level design SO BAD??

    Maybe it’s because I didn’t grow up with it but Green Hill Zone Act 3 is just fucking terrible. WHY ARE THERE SPIKES EVERYWHERE IN A GAME ABOUT GOING FAST

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  10. Well, Trump announced via Twitter than trans people can’t serve in the military anymore. Do we need more evidence that he’s a hateful and incompetent man that doesn’t know what the fuck he is doing?

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  11. Ohhhhhh that’s why Miitopia and Hey Pikmin come out on 3DS this Friday, they are “New” 2DS XL release date games so people can get new games at the same time.

    Clever Nintendo, but I’m still not buying a New DS

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  12. Whelp this world is getting scarier and scarier each and every day. Anyone want to abandon the earth and go start a new life on another planet? On my planet everyone is equal and gets free cookies on a daily basis!!!! Anyone who tries to start unnecessary shit gets booted back to earth!!

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    • I need to get out of my house too……..
      every time i close my eyes i a horde of inklings trying to splat me

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