Wednesday: Pokémon Let's Go, Pikachu! & Let's Go, Eevee! - Melmetal Reveal + Pokémon GO - Community Day + Pokémon Duel - Team Match
24-10-2018 06:59 BST / 01:59 EDT by Serebii
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Edit @ 09:16: Pokémon Duel | Edit @ 14:01: Pokémon Let's Go | Edit @ 23:01: Community Day
In The Games Department
Pokémon Let's Go, Pikachu! & Let's Go, Eevee!
Meltan's evolution has been revealed. This is a brand new Pokémon called Melmetal. It is also a Steel-type. In Pokémon GO it requires 400 Meltan Candy to evolve into Melmetal and can only evolve in Pokémon GO. You need to send Melmetal from Pokémon GO to get it in Pokémon Let's Go, Pikachu & Let's Go, Eevee! Melmetal also has a new move called Double Iron Bash which strikes an opponent twice and can cause the opponent to flinch
Edit @ 14:08: Added numerous Direct Feed Screenshots to our Pre-Release Screenshot Page
Edit @ 14:14: Updated our Pre-Release Pokémon Page and given it its own Pokédex Page
Edit @ 14:28: Updated our New Attacks page and created its own page for Double Iron Bash
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In The Games Department
Pokémon GO
Niantic have announced the next Pokémon GO Community Day on November 10th focusing on Cyndaquil. This event will have 2* Catch Stardust & 2* Catch XP as well as 3 hour Lure Modules. However, it will also give out an as of yet unannounced special move to Typhlosion. We'll bring more details as they come. This runs at specific times:
The Asia-Pacific region: 12:00 P.M. to 3:00 P.M. JST (GMT +9)
Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and India: 10:00 A.M. to 1:00 P.M. UTC (GMT +0)
The Americas and Greenland: 11:00 A.M. to 2:00 P.M. PDT (UTC -8)
In The Games Department
Pokémon GO - Community Day
Following the multitude of errors that hit the Beldum Community Day for Asia Pacific regions, Niantic promised a repeat of the event so that players could fully experience the Beldum Day. Today, it has been confirmed that this will run this Sunday on October 28th. This runs at these times:
Asia & Oceania: 03:00 UTC - 06:00 UTC (12:00 JST - 15:00 JST, 16:00 JST for evolving)
In The Games Department
Pokémon Duel - Team Match
A new Team Match event has opened pre-registration in Pokémon Duel. This Duel Match has you choose a team of either Giratina, Mega Banette or Marshadow, based on their recent UX figure designs. During the Team Match, you just play as normal online and your wins count towards your team. As you do so, you earn various rewards including the possibility of a special Time Booster (Sparkle) which has a chance of containing a new figure, this time for Shiny Sylveon. Pre-Registration runs until October 26th while the Team Match event runs from October 26th to October 29th, with reward redemption being until October 31st
