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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2,183 thoughts on “Start, End Dates for Legendary Bird Trio Announced for GO”

  1. Longing for the day when I type in Pokejungle.net and there’s an article featuring new pokemon and a new trailer.

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  2. So according to Serebii, Pokémon Switch is listed as releasing “2018 or later” from Nintendo’s earnings report. Clearly even they don’t know at this point.

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    • I feel late 2018 to be the release date. We’ll likely see the game at E3 2018. I think Junichi Masuda or another director were working on the next game while S/M was in development. Inner studios of Nintendo would have obviously got a Switch dev kit early, so I expect GameFreak to have done some work already on the title.

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      • It definitely makes me think of the Black and White situation. It was released Fall/Winter 2010 in Japan and March 2011 in America/the rest of the world. They may be aiming for Fall/Winter 2018 but have early 2019 available in case of delay. November 2019 seems way too far away.

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        • Why would it be too far away? We’ve come to expect too much from yearly releases yet we keep on being disappointed that there isn’t enough content in the games.

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          • You’re right, it would be right on time for a new generation. However, they’re doing something different this time by “announcing” the game so early. Normally they make a big event of keeping this knowledge secret until a big reveal out of nowhere. For this reason, I expect that it’s coming sooner than usual.

          • I think it was just damage control for people complaining they didn’t had a Pokémon Switch game planned up. It was crammed last minute in the Spotlight and announced way too early.

          • Even so, you have to admit that Game Freak has never done something like this before. It makes me think that they’re not going the traditional route this time around. Also, I don’t think they would have included 2018 in their report at all if they weren’t leaving it as an option. But what do I know, I’m just a guy, I know nothing about their reasoning for this.

          • They never seem to do traditional route it seems. Every time someone figures out their next plan, a huge alarm goes off at HQ, “We have to change all of this, now!”.

          • i agree with this completely. in case of negative response to e3 announcements they said pokemon switch. its the reason i believe they didnt announce smash port at all because of the positive response to e3. mario odyssey and all the amazing content they showed.

  3. Speaking of starters i’m really really fighting off the urge to breed a Jangmo-o for my US run
    I really don’t like giving myself a pokemon in the very beginning (especially if its a cliched pseudo legend) but i really wish i had a run where i got to spend a lot of time with Jangmo-o
    it would be Modest in a Heavy Ball and it would have Dragon Breath

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  4. So all of the SNES Classics from Walmart are now being cancelled, including mine. I’m not even surprised at this point. I refuse to give in to scalpers…I will win this battle.

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  5. so i have some slightly troubling news…..so my Alpha Sapphire copy is MIA
    …..normally i’d be hyperventilating but its freaking AS i don’t care for it, it was just a junk copy just to have both copies….

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  6. Out of all paired Pokémon game mascots, have you guys preferee the (going by mascot colour schemes and not order) ‘red’ versions ((Fire) Red, (Heart) Gold, Ruby, Pearl, Black, White 2, Y, Omega Ruby, Sun) or ‘blue’ versions (Blue/Leaf Green, (Soul) Silver, Sapphire, Diamond, White, Black 2, X, Moon).

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