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!
Go finally got his Scorbunny.
It took a lot of sweat, den rerolling, soft-resetting, all of my exp candies and rare candies, and not to mention over an hour, but I finally caught a Moxie Gyarados. I ended up catching it in my Master Ball becuase why not 🤷♂️. So now I have a 6IV Hidden Ability Master Ball Gyarados. I guess I’ll start breeding it to trade people some HA master balled gyarados.
I swear though, Moxie Gyarados has got to be one of the hardest raids in the game. It kept spamming D dance and Moxie kept snowballing its speed to the point it got basically 2 KOs each turn. It took me multiple tries to beat it with my level 94 boltund that I git from dumping all my exp candies on it.
Sorry I just checked it’s 4IV not 6IV lol. I still am proud of my gyarados. I named it Leviathan.
Finally got a 5IV litwick…but IV missing is spdef 🙁 oh the struggles of competitive breeding
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZ6HcIyfSbc
Oh what fun a day of Kanto catches,
Ash you better catch your freaking Rookidee or i’m gonna be super pissed off this is one the fears i’ve had with this re-series
With the non permanent Galar setting it makes me feel the writers will prompt less captures for the main cast, I have a gut feeling they’re not gonna say let Ash or Go catch Kanto or Sinnoh Pokemon and actually keep them for themselves but the very few times they’ll catch Galar mons for marketing otherwise they won’t catch a damn thing
Does anybody have a zen mode darmanitan and is willing to trade it for my hidden ability corsola?
We need an Animal Crossing direct like NOW
Still like three months before they release the game, give it some time.
Join server
Collaborative Fakemon and Fakemon region server, not competitive like the last one. Even if you’re just a spectator, you don’t need to be a concept creator, artist, writer, or whatever. Feedback is also a massively important part of the design process.
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Just saw someone driving down the road drinking a damn beer. Thankfully got their tag and called the police department. Hopefully they catch them before they hurt or kill someone
My last playthrough teams of SWSH for this year. Gonna play one of my favorite Pokémon games, Platinum tomorrow.
Sword: Rillaboom – Driftblim – Quagsire – Purrserker – Galvantula – Torkoal
Shield: Cinderace – Vikavolt – Cloyster – Excadrill – Maractus – Cursola
EDIT: forgot to mention, what do you think of my teams?
I applaud Torkoal
I really enjoy raid battles, and I love the multiplayer aspect of them, but I wish they had done more with it. I would’ve loved a feature where 5 players can join a lobby, and one randomly selected player gets to be the “raid” Pokemon (with shields and multiple attacks per turn) with the other 4 players attempting to take them down. Of course, that would be broken as all get out, but it would be fun to play as the raid Pokemon!
I received a hacked 6IV Ditto in a ST and Idk if I should use it for breeding. I will have a legitimate one when home releases anyway. Hmm…
I would gladly take it I am desperate i’ve used like 40 wishing pieces for a ditto and nada
Well i’m finally home after babysitting my Mother while she and did holiday shopping in the hipster outlet mall district
My Mother is honestly a handful… she loses her keys/wallet/phone all the time and barely keeps it charged, uses her phone while driving 80MPH always saying we’ll be out of a store in five minutes “to look” spends 40 mins in there and finally picking out a tree which is never an easy feat since she finds fault with a lot of trees and never makes her mind
But at least she promised Chinese food so it’s worth it in the end
Mm, that sounds good, I should go out and get myself some.
Um my trainer card says I’ve encountered 1 shiny.
I have no recollection of this :I