Generation III Now Live in Pokémon GO!

It’s time to get out and GO!

The latest update for Pokémon GO has gone live and introduces a few new (but previously reported on) features to the game:

  • Added 50 Pokémon native to the Hoenn region
  • Added new weather conditions and their associated benefits and disadvantages
  • Added the ability to create Battle Parties – allowing you to create set teams for specific raids

We’ll update this post with a full list of the newly added Pokémon, moves and everything in between – stay tuned!

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1,994 thoughts on “Generation III Now Live in Pokémon GO!”

  1. Yo dawgs Christmas competition to get y’all in the mood for Christmas celebrations n shieeeet

    Because it’s the first time I’m ever doing this the prize won’t be anything too big, it’ll probably just be an Apricorn Ball or bragging rights lol

    PJN Christmas Photo Club Competition!!!
    Type: Photo Folio
    Deadline: 23rd of December 2017
    Pokémon Restrictions: None
    Pokémon Recommendations: Ice-types, tree mons, star mons, red and green mons, cute stuff
    Trainer Required in Picture?: No*

    It’s open to submission by anyone as long as you submit it with your PJN username, and it’ll be an open vote using Google forms ✌️

    It you can get the photo straight from the SD that’d be amazing but if you can’t that’s okay, it’s the content of the photo that matters, not the quality of it when it’s shared.

    *Trainer not required because the clothes in this game are about as festive as pineapple on pizza lol

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    • Forgot the most important part, folio size is three photos with three different Pokémon. It’d be handy if I actually gave you guys the right info

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  2. So let’s think for a moment. Say gen 8 isn’t next year. What do people think the special twist will be for next movie. I’m having a hard time with this. I suppose it could be the very fact that Zeraora even exists, but that seems like a weird call seeing as even when that’s the point the new mythical revealed usually has something up its sleeve. I’m not crazy familiar with it, but it sounds like Zeraora doesn’t have much going for it. Given that USUM are the last games in gen 7 and there won’t be anymore 3ds era games we can rule out a form or whatever. So other than that it just exists what is so marketable about Zeraora? If we look back at past movies in relation to the games there is always at least something that makes the movie a little more special other than just the mythical being in it. Like the Diancie movie had its mega evolution, or the Hoopa movie had its form. Even if we want to stay away from the Volcanion movie which had Magearna we can still go back even further and see the precedent that has been set. The Giratina movie not only had its form, but also Shaymin and its form. The Genesect movie had Mega Mewtwo Y. The Keldeo movie had it in general and then its form and Kyurem BW. So I have a hard time believing that the simple addition of a single mythical that has seemingly nothing going for it would be enough of a surprise factor for them to coast on for the entire year. There would need to be one last thing to make people want to go see the movie like how past movies had forms. The problem this time is that we know for a fact that USUM are the last gen 7 games and 3ds games in general. So it’s not like how in gen 6 we had ORAS to give us Hoopas new form or in gen 5 we had BW2 to give us the Keldeo/Kyurem forms, or in gen 4 when we got Platinum to give us the Giratina/Shaymin forms. Other than a new gen there’s really nothing else that would be a shock factor.

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      • But why would they do that? Why introduce a Pokemon it to make it better in a different gen? It makes sense when they do it within a gen, but it doesn’t between gens.

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        • Hey.. I don’t know bub.. ?
          I just agreed with you that.. while it’s amazing Pokemon design and all..
          It’s no different than any other Pokemon in many ways..
          There’s no gimmick
          So it’s all I could think of.
          If this is the case.. I’m guessing to have people who people who liked it in alola follow it to gen 8.. I dunno.
          Zygarde def took a while to get all it’s forms.. Wait. Didn’t his forms get released in Sun Moon?
          That would be a gen gap..
          So it seems more likely now to me

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          • Haha sorry didn’t mean to jump at you if that’s how it came across. Either way you’re right there’s nothing crazy about Zeraora. I think it’ll be more like Volcanion and not have anything going for it. although honestly Volcanion had it’s typing for it so maybe Zeraora really has nothing lol

  3. Hey all! I feel like doing sum statistics on your fav Pokemon so if you have the chart showing your fav Pokemon I can calculate the % of how much of each Gen makes up.

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  4. So CoroCoro’s cover has been leaked and nothing of worth is on it. Still not a bad thing, but certainly is worth keeping in mind. Best to keeps hopes and expectations on the level until we know for sure of what we’re getting.

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  5. The CoroCoro cover as Monster mentioned. The silhouette is circled with light blue. It’s beside other Pokémon content, as seen circled with dark blue.

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/5faef879c64451c14887d57a809ccc2e50d7437df09676ca096e025102dd048f.png

    Zeraora for reference: https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/efbc1f4a6652d8841719ce72f101a5a195af705cc02178d94326569ed57e1941.jpg

    If it is Zeraora it could be the first hint at a 2018/early 2019 PokéSwitch

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    • If Zeraora is being revealed now I’d say the Switch game is much more likely coming out in late 2018. We’ll prolly get a gen 8 mascot for the movie next month or more likely in February. As well as an official announcement of the new game

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      • Yup, this is what happened with Volcanion and Magearna. Depending on when the game releases, we can realistically see it revealed Jan-March if it’s coming 2018 ( going off of XY and SM’s reveal/release spaces of 9 months)

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    • Hmmm nice share. I heard about it a while ago but no one showed me. That definitely looks like it’s eyes. But why does it’s reveal mean Gen 8? I mean.. it’s in the current games somewhere

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      • Because if it’s being revealed now, there’s nothing major to reveal in February and May(?). There’s no upcoming current gen games where Zeraora has a form or move, meaning anything new for it would be a Gen 8 tease.

        December is usually when the star that’s already known about is revealed along with a pre-emptive title of the movie. Feb reveals he mythical, and then May(?) is when the mythical gets a form reveal if it has one. Examples:

        Giratina movie
        Giratina’s presence > Shaymin Reveal > Sky Form

        Kyurem movie
        Kyurem’s presence > Keldeo Reveal > Resolute Form

        Diancie movie
        Xern/Yvel’s presence > Diancie Reveal > Mega Diancie

        However, if Zeraora is revealed now, it can’t be the Feb or May slot, and all other Gen 7 Pokémon are public knowledge whilst Zeraora is a leak. Thus, any surprises will be Gen 8 content, or (if they allow such poor marketing) anime exclusive. If Zeraora is revealed now, it’ll be like the Genesect and Volcanion movies.

        Genesect
        Genesect Revealed > XY revealed > Mewtwo-like Pokémon revealed > Revealed to be a Mewtwo Form (later revealed to be Mega Mewtwo Y, which is Gen 6 marketing)

        Volcanion
        Volcanion revealed > Magearna revealed > SuMo revealed barely two weeks after

        Hope this helps

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    • Is that really Zeruaro’s silhouette tho? Like, the shape is weird in such a way that it would only be the shape of the upper part of his head which is kinda weird imo

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      • I mean it definitely looks exactly like the upper part of the head. They don’t need to show the entire thing. If they’re going through the trouble of silhouetting it then it makes little difference if they show the entire body or not. Also it’s by the Pokemon stuff on the cover so there’s really very little else it could be.

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  6. Incineroar has one of my favorite designs… Honestly. He’s so courageous! I understand people are upset it came from Litten.. but this gens starters are supposed to have all been kids who’ve gone through puberty to find who they really are.
    I understand it has a fighting vibe.. GF set it up for failure due to all the past fire fighters. But if you look at it as a Pokemon of its own. .. it’s really quite original and amazing looking.. with excellent battle movements. He’s like Crash bandicoot mixed with Tony the tiger lol. I love him. While his stats are good… And even.. I don’t think it can outdo any of the other popular fire types tho.. it has no real niche. maybe it’s def? I hope Gen 8 gives it Something.

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      • cheatar just kidding i needed a lot of help too (except the Royal guard stuff i was just kinda exploring the innards of the castle and stumbled on two of them by accident

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      • Same here, especially the three-part armour outfits as the Royal Guard Armour is located throughout Hyrule Castle and without a guide it’d be hard to look all around whilst avoiding the eyes of the Guardians and accidentally triggering the battle with Ganon.

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  7. one more BOTW complaint
    I wish they added more Item displays, i have so many weapons i don’t want to break cluttering my inventory
    they really should’ve just added your own trunk and let you store stuff

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  8. Imma gonna say this rn, Recently lately Ive seen the jungle as a place where people get defesnive over the pokemon games, like if so and so doesn’t like lets say Cradily and and other so and so likes it those people have like a mini arguments. we have over 800+ Pokemon not every single one is gonna appeal to everyone, most of us take our opinions as facts and diss other lately and I dint like seeing that. Like guys we all have different opinions we are not all gonna like the same thing and doesn’t mean we should bash people based off theories or opinions they may have about something Pokemon wise. sorry just had to let this off my chest

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  9. Not that i have to anyone’s comments, but does downvoting do anything significant, like decrease the number of up votes, or is it just useless?

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