It is the season of cheer and Pokémon GO is certainly giving trainers something to cheer about. From the official site:
While 2019 might be winding down, the world of Pokémon GO never stops! From raids to Pokémon (Shadow Pokémon, Legendary Pokémon, or Legendary Shadow Pokémon!) to new avatar items, there’s so much to look forward to this holiday season. Get cozy, Trainers—it’s going to be a long list full of cool gifts from us to you!
- A Challenging Development—Team GO Rocket Special Research
- Different Pokémon will be hatching from Eggs
- Virizion glides into five-star raids
- Lugia and Ho-Oh Special Raid Weekend!
- Pokémon GO Holidays 2019
- Warm up with a special winter weekend event!
A Challenging Development
Before we get into the jolly announcements—the fight against Team GO Rocket continues! Activate the new Special Research, A Challenging Development, during the month of December to help Professor Willow and the team leaders take down this villainous group. This is another chance to fight Giovanni and save a Legendary Shadow Pokémon you’ve never seen before!
Features
- A Challenging Development, a new Special Research line designed to help take down Team GO Rocket, is available until the end of December.
- Defeat Giovanni this month, and you’ll have a chance to rescue Shadow Zapdos!
Team GO Rocket never rests, Trainers, and neither can we! Be on the lookout for new Team GO Rocket Special Research from Professor Willow every month. For more information, please see our help center article.
All scrambled up! Different Pokémon will be hatching from Eggs!
Starting on Monday, December 16, 2019, you can expect different Pokémon to be hatching from Eggs! Which Pokémon will they be? Incubate some Eggs and start walking to find out!
Virizion glides into five-star raids!
Virizion, the Grassland Pokémon, will be coming to five-star raids! This Grass- and Fighting-type Legendary Pokémon has been said to confound opponents with its swift movements, so make sure you have your battle strategies ready before you encounter it.
Date + Time
Tuesday, December 17, 2019, at 1:00 p.m. PST to Tuesday, January 7, 2020, at 1:00 p.m. PST (GMT −8)
Features
- Virizion will make its debut in five-star raids.
Lugia and Ho-Oh Special Raid Weekend!
Lugia and Ho-Oh return for a Special Raid Weekend! Both the Psychic- and Flying-type Lugia and the Fire- and Flying-type Ho-Oh will be available in Raid Battles!
Date + Time
Friday, December 20, 2019, at 1:00 p.m. PST to Monday, December 23, 2019, at 1:00 p.m. PST (GMT −8)
Features
- Lugia and Ho-Oh will appear in five-star raids during the event.
Please note that Virizion will still be available in five-star raids during this time.
Pokémon GO Holidays 2019
The Pokémon GO Holidays event is back! Look forward to new Pokémon in costumes, Ice-type Pokémon never before seen in Pokémon GO, event-exclusive Field Research, winter-themed avatar items, and a blizzard full of bonuses!
Date + Time
Tuesday, December 24, 2019, at 12:00 a.m. to Wednesday, January 1, 2020, at 11:59 p.m. in your local time zone
Features
- Pokémon in holiday costumes:Pikachu, Raichu, and Pichu wearing beanies and Stantler wearing bells will appear in Pokémon GO for the first time!
- Pokémon appearing in the wild:Delightful Ice-type Pokémon will be appearing in the wild, such as Sneasel, Delibird, Snorunt, and more! Making its Pokémon GO debut will be Cubchoo, the Chill Pokémon!
- Pokémon appearing in Eggs: Alolan Sandshrew, Alolan Vulpix, Pichu wearing beanies, and Stantler wearing bells will be hatching from 7 km Eggs!
- Pokémon appearing in Raid Battles:Raichu wearing beanies and Stantler wearing bells will be available to challenge in two-star raids!
- Pokémon attracted by Glacial Lure Modules: Throw a Glacial Lure Module onto a PokéStop near you, and you’ll have a chance of encountering Cryogonal, the Crystallizing Pokémon, making its Pokémon GO debut!
- Event-exclusive Field Research: Enjoy event-exclusive Field Research tasks that will reward you with the chance to encounter Pokémon like Pikachu wearing beanies!
- Save Shadow Pokémon! We have reason to believe that Team GO Rocket has turned more Pokémon, including Delibird, into Shadow Pokémon! There might be other Shadow Pokémon to discover in places high and low, so get out there and save them!
- If you’re lucky, you might encounter Shiny Stantler wearing bells and Shiny Snover!
- Winter-themed avatar items coming to the shop! You can look forward to a Stantler Sweater and a Stantler Headband as well as a Beanie Hat to match the one some Pikachu are wearing for this event!
Bonuses
Take note, Trainers! Some bonuses will change throughout the event duration.
From Tuesday, December 24, 2019, at 12:00 a.m. to Wednesday, January 1, 2020, at 11:59 p.m. in your local time zone
- Open twice as many Gifts each day:For the duration of the event, the number of Gifts you can open daily will increase to 40.
- Carry twice as many Gifts: For the duration of the event, the number of Gifts you can carry in your inventory will increase to 20.
- One guaranteed single-use Incubator per day: In order to more easily hatch Eggs during the holiday season, Trainers will receive one single-use Incubator at no cost once per day during the event by spinning a Photo Disc on a PokéStop.
From Tuesday, December 24, 2019, at 12:00 a.m. to Wednesday, December 25, 2019, at 11:59 p.m. in your local time zone
- 2× Catch Candy
- 2× Transfer Candy
From Thursday, December 26, 2019, at 12:00 a.m. to Friday, December 27, 2019, at 11:59 p.m. in your local time zone
- 2× Catch Stardust
From Saturday, December 28, 2019, at 12:00 a.m. to Sunday, December 29, 2019, at 11:59 p.m. in your local time zone
- 2× Catch XP
From Monday, December 30, 2019, at 12:00 a.m. to Wednesday, January 1, 2020, at 11:59 p.m. in your local time zone
- 1/2 Hatch Distance when Eggs are placed into Incubators during this time period
Warm up with a special winter weekend event!
During the final Saturday in December (and 2019!), you can look forward to a special eight-hour-long winter weekend event.
Date + Time
Saturday, December 28, 2019, from 11:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. in your local time zone
Features
- Two-hour Glacial Lure Module duration: Glacial Lure Modules will last two hours for the duration of the event. Pokémon such as Lapras, Delibird, Cubchoo, and more will be drawn to Glacial Lure Modules during this time!
- Glaceon with Last Resort: Use a Glacial Lure Module to evolve Eevee during the event, and you’ll get a Glaceon that knows the Charged Attack Last Resort.
- Regice returns to raids! Did you miss out on catching a Regice the last time it was available in raids? This is your chance to catch the Iceberg Pokémon!
- Two additional Raid Passes: Receive up to two additional Raid Passes during the special event time period when you spin a Photo Disc at a Gym. These Raid Passes will not be available after the event period is over. You cannot hold more than one Raid Pass at once.
There are just a few weeks left in 2019! Let’s GO end the year strong, Trainers!
You’re not going to want to miss anything, so get out and have some fun later this month!
On her way to join Smash
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Also, shout out to Fire Emblem Three Houses for winning best strategy and player’s voice! Really hope that means we may see best girl in Smash after the fighters pass is over – especially as her game didn’t get spirits when Sword and Shield did!
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She can join as long as I get Crash Bandicoot too lol literally the main character I want for smash.
Sorry first party priority uwu
Joker
Only if I get to blow her up for killing Dimitri and being an awful fascist in general.
Pokemon ROMHack but it’s set in the mystery dungeon world before humans went extinct and Pokemon evolved sapience
https://twitter.com/Pokemon/status/1205353843438931969
That was extremely disappointing. Ah well shouldn’t have got my hopes up I guess
I want 10x more Muppets next year, by far the best part of the show
(maybe except for Reggie’s speech)
Well, the TGAs this year were pretty lackluster, but I still like them. We got a new trailer for NMH III (We got almost no gameplay, but I don’t care the short was amazing and this game still looks hype as s**t), another trailer for FFVII Remake, MUA3 DLC looks cool (I still gotta buy the Expansion Pass), BD II actually got me interested in BD, and Godfall looked interesting, cool that they announced one of the launch titles for the PS5. I liked Green Day’s performance and when Reggie and Ikumi Nakamura got up on stage. What sucks is that we got now Fighter 5 and FE3H wasn’t even nominated for GOTY (At least it won Player’s Voice)
Oh yeah, the Muppets skit was really funny too, forgot about that
I hate how I hate and love the name Series X at the same time
It’s cool and also so so dumb
Friday the Thirteenth
It’s been exactly four whole weeks the planet has owned Sword and Shield
My breeding operations are very stop and go with the lack of ideal implications (Notably a lack of a perfect Ditto) and I feel myself splintering off to play other games so not to burn myself out too quickly, Smash (which causes more harm than good) Shovel Knight “King of Cards” and im currently been watching a DK 64 Longplay for the last week and now my desires are now shifting towards either Mario Sunshine or Skysward Sword but I know I’ll just keep sitting at my bench and keep hatching eggs until perfection and train them for fights that’ll barely happen
Guys, guys, guys…… Have you quit vaping yet?
So apparently details about the 2020 Pokemon movie have come out
What’s it gonna be? Like it can’t be about the new series (Cause what kind of movie can you actually do when the show is centered around catching Pokemon and traveling)
I assume another Everyone’s Story deal where it’s a semi continuation of the I Choose You timeline but hopefully won’t be a crappy as Everyone’s Story
It say it’s gonna be an entirely new movie, which might imply it takes place in the anime canon. Either way, I’m interested.
I don’t think I have liked a single Pokemon movie since like….. The Power of the Unown.
Every award this year I felt went to the most deserving in each category
…….I joined a Max Raid against Max Mawile
with my Rhyperior, Pikachu, Mawile and Cinderace
And i accidentally used Earthquake and knocked out everyone…..whoopsie
LMAO
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@Keihzaru!
I’ve got the day off today (finally!) So if you are up to it and available, we should trade!
I’m sorry to have kept you waiting for so long 🙁
Smash later?
I get off work at 6. Maybe 7 we can trade.
https://twitter.com/pokejungle/status/1205538395834990592?s=21
Yikes…
Demn, those two twitter guys just fucked that dude up royaly.
Cascoon, I’m all set if you want to create an online arena!
Cool! Gimme a couple mins
This just boils my blood
I desolate a Mario to the point of suicide and the next round there’s items and like the lowest time limit and the little twerp just grabs every Pokeball and Assist trophy and hides in the corner
@exeledus:disqus Finally ready
That was an accidental taunt by the way I didnt do that on purpose lol
Lol it’s fine, youre Terry is great, Im trying to level up my Lucas more so this is great practice omg. Just goes to show I need to use Lucas more
Glad I can help!
I had no idea that Lucas D-Air spiked lol
The Earthbounds are excessively overpowered
So weird Dracovish’ HA is Sandrush instead of Swift Swim, then again, that’s probably to prevent it from being too broken.
Also I guess it makes lore sense.
Nah, Swift Swim would be great but the whole point of Dracovish is that it runs well, not swims well.
Dracos are probably to try and diversify sand teams
I swear to effing god G&W’s Fishbowl is beyond annoying
This is my last match Cascoon, I gotta go afterwards! Good luck
I have taken to carry psychic fangs on some of my team members with the only purpouse of crapping on Mimikyu and Aegislash Shadow Sneak by using it to summon Psychic terrain. I sometimes have to sac my Dynamax for it but Dracovish, Barraskewda and Eiscue are grateful for it.
Anime spoiler
we’re only like what 4 episodes in y’know
Obvious Go is gonna catch Scorbunny just after this episode
I know i sound like a broken TR about this but sooner or later i’m gonna need a tiny bit of help from you
turdswonderful people when i start ShieldMainly my Scorbunny and my Stonjourner
I feel like i should just splurge on a Switch Light perhaps for Xmas