Pokémon GO Travel Event + Pokémon Bank Update

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Niantic has officially announced the Pokémon GO Travel event!

From now until to November 26th, trainers across the globe must work toward the goal of collectively catching 3 billion Pokémon in Pokémon GO! As the week progresses, and more ‘mons are caught, rewards will start to roll out: At 500 million Pokémon caught we’ll get 2x Experience, 6 hour Lure Modules and an increase of worldwide spawns. At 1.5 billion, we’ll get the previosuly mentioned bonuses plus 2x Stardust and even more increased spawns. And if we reach our goal of 3 billion we’ll get all the aforementioned rewards plus Farfetch’d will spawn worldwide for 48 hours (Kangaskhan will spawn in East Asia as compensation)!

If the below infographic isn’t your style you can check out the fun video Niantic put together for the event, or read their official blog post.

In main game news, (much to our surprise) Pokémon Bank is already compatible with Pokémon Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon! Requiring 516 block, version 1.4 of the application is now available for download via the eShop. Along this, compatibility for transfers from Pokémon Gold & Silver can now be made in Poké Transporter.

What will be the first Pokémon your transfer to your new Ultra Sun or Ultra Moon games? Excited to finally add Farfetch’d to your Pokédex in GO?

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2,164 thoughts on “Pokémon GO Travel Event + Pokémon Bank Update”

  1. Following on from stars question which follows on from mine, what Pokémon would you use in your team from the Dex you answered to star?

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  3. Using your favorite Pokémon, give any person who comments their name a team of your favorite Pokemon that you think fits them best to see how they’d rate it

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  4. That moment when Rotom Dex asks you if you would want to grow up fast into being an adult and you feel the crippling stress and disappointment of already being an adult……….

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  5. One legendary Pokémon bonds with you and grants you the power to call upon them as needed. Which legendary do you choose? No mythicals and no UBs (besides the Cosmic trio)

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  11. So Star i have semi-bad news I kinda caught all the Blacephalon in Sun…..but i was smart enough to bring a Synchro and they’re both Timid

    I don’t know if i’ll bother looking for Shiny Ultra Beasts, the only one i’d sorta hunt down is Buzzwole and maybe Stakataka

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  14. Haven’t commented yet on how my journey is going, so here’s my update–
    I’m having a blast so far, but that’s because I’m taking it individually rather than an update of SM. Or maybe just because it’s given me a much needed chance to forget about the world for a bit and catch up with an old friend.
    I’ve been rotating 9 pokemon so far, and I’m stuck at Totem Marowak. My team isn’t type balanced, and with rotating I’m underlevelled. But overall, definitely harder than SM. Side note: mantine surf is awesome. Aside from being a cool minigame it makes the game feel more coherent.

    I’m gonna make an in-depth review of the game when I finish, and I definitely see why so many people are unhappy. I understand that it’s a lackluster update over SM, but rather than being dissapointed about what it isn’t, I’d rather enjoy what it is, at least for now.

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      • Thanks! I’ve only ever done this once, with Splatoon 2, which I have similar feelings on. In short, a blast but not a huge upgrade.

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          • No I didn’t.
            I’m just speaking about the games here not the marketing/model.
            I feel SM were better than say DP, RS and XY as first entries of their respective generations.
            I would say only BW comes close.

          • But there shouldn’t be a beta in the first place. You don’t release a beta game, you release a beta test for free. And when the game is complete you release it
            Lets be honest, we all could have waited another year and Game Freak wouldn’t be up this creek

          • Yeah true I would prefer if they took their time with new games.
            Even if they are beta I wouldn’t call SM beta as I feel it doesn’t do them justice. They are excellent first attempt games or if you wanna call them beta

          • The biggest issue was that the games were incomplete and to be honest, they had a lot of issues.
            USUM literally feels like the completed games, and it feels like we got sold the same thing twice
            That’s the issue, no matter how good these games wre that point still stands

          • Melemele has an hour shaved off but it STILL is a boring slog and some of the worst experiences I’ve had with the series

            Z moves are unskippable

            Many characters like Wicke and Plumeria still don’t have any arcs

            Still so much dialogue and cutscenes that are unskippable

            Most of the trial captains are still just as undeveloped

            Alolan forms still have terrible encounter rates

            Post game is better but still not nearly as good as Platinum or B2W2

            Just off the top of my head

          • You forgot to mention that they accidentally left out the part where sophocles gets erased from existence

          • For me they’re all pretty minor, like there could have been bigger issues.
            Keep in mind im still not even 5% into the game so I cant say much more

      • I’m not really gonna dive into this just yet. Don’t get me wrong, there’s plenty to be said, but I don’t wanna downtalk what I’m still enjoying.

        To each their own, but tha’s not entirely true. I’m enjoying the games just as I enjoyed SM, even though they didn’t meet fans’ hopes.

        Also, don’t act as if you’ve been ripped off. The game leaked days before release, you had plenty of time of choose for yourself not to buy the games.

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  15. So i need final decisions for my moon

    Snowshrew baby at level 5 with Metal Claw as a egg move as my starter
    Rockruff with Suckerpunch and Steadfast
    Regular Grubbin
    and i gotta wait until i get Stuffull and Sandygast
    and i still got one slot open
    which is looking very bleak

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        • Hau
          Gladion
          Kukui
          Nanu
          Guzma

          Lillies gets really annoying really fast…maybe if she didn’t keep cropping up everywhere she’d be alright…

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          • He sure is.

            I don’t know why but I dislike Characters who keep interrupting my play through with meaningless dialogue. Not saying Lillie is a bad character but at least make her do something instead of whining.

            That was partly my hope for a completely different personality for Lillie in USUM, but alas it wasn’t to be…

          • I like Lillie more in USUM simply because she actually goes somewhere at the end of the game
            In SuMo though?
            Y E E SH

          • Excuse me? She actually has an arc

            She’s the only character to go from a passive character to an active character in basically the entire series and that change is seeable through her actions.

            She’s the one that goes after Lusamine. You’re just there because she’s not a trainer

          • That’s my point, the whole game she isn’t able to actually do anything except rely on other people. I wanted a different character arc for Lillie in USUM with I didn’t get…

            And don’t get me started on that ‘this is my z-form’ dialogue…

          • Okayokayokay
            I can say this
            She actually acknowledges this idea in USUM
            Like she kinda notices she isn’t exactly helpful and in the post game she attempts to change
            That honestly makes her more bearable in my eyes

    • I think there’s a lot that needs to be cleared up, especially in terms of who the mastermind of the Ultra Recon Squad is, who Mohn really is, who the Masked Royal is (I’m deadass), and just other small lore things that would make a world of difference.

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      • I’m pretty sure that the mastermind of Ultra Recon is Phyco, he outright calls Soleria his subordinate at a point

        And isn’t it obvious? Mohn is a fat dude who likes beans

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        • In one of the first scenes with Phyco and Soliera (Ultra Moon), they talk about asking the “boss” something, so I don’t think it could be Phyco. This makes me wonder if it’s one of those puppet master leaders like Giovanni and his grunts.

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          • Hmmm
            I don’t actually remember that statement
            I’m pretty sure they aren’t even a team and are more like a research team

          • It’s right before Ilima’s trial, and you could be right. They are a “recon squad” instead of a team after all.

          • Yeah
            It’s mainly because, if you don’t mind spoilers
            they kinda establish the fact that they’re from a group of people living in Megaopolis and their entire goal is to find someone strong enough to fight Necrozma. If you listen to their dialogue, they seriously resemble a team of researchers

  18. So with all the unhappiness with GF’s model over here,Amazon and pretty much everywhere.
    Surely GF will never repeat this again with all this feedback right?

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  19. What depresses me is that Pokemon will never again reach the level as hype for me that this gen did
    Simply because my ideal Pokemon have been made already
    Outside of a ghostbug of course

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  21. So while normal Pokemon shiny rates in Ultra Space are greatly increased, I’m guessing Ultra Beast shiny rates remain around the 1/4000 range?

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  22. Incini gets hate like so much but you know what..
    I love it! Like its probably my fav final stage no joke. And I’m an avid fan of all 3 Kanto, Johto, Sinnoh, Kalos and Hoenn starters. Even Serp.
    I just love its design and the complexity behind its personality adds to its appeal!

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  23. Speaking of starters what do you realistically predict or expect GF to design the switch starters after?
    Like what design concepts are begging to be used 8 generations in? I guess you can also add what would you like to see?

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  24. Rotom gave me a comment about telling physical from special attackers and mentioned looking at their movesets to figure it out….

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    Rotom… you know that’s a bit of a sensitive spot for some pokemon.. right?

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