Friday: Pokémon Sword & Shield - Max Raid Battle + Pokémon GO Event + Pokémon Masters - New Update
17-07-2020 06:05 BST / 01:05 EDT by Serebii
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Edit @ 06:48: Pokémon GO | Edit @ 07:10: Pokémon Masters
Edit @ 22:30: Players Cup
In The Games Department
Pokémon Sword & Shield
The Wild Area Event has now shifted in Pokémon Sword & Shield. With this, many Water-type Pokémon now have an increased chance of appearing, with one of the slots being a guaranteed Shiny Wailord. This event runs until July 19th at 23:59 UTC. We're currently compiling all details
Edit @ 06:15: We have updated our section with full details of this Max Raid Battle Event, as well as updated our ItemDex for TR locations.
In The Games Department
Pokémon GO
The third Pokémon GO Fest Weekly Challenge event has begun worldwide. This event runs from 08:00 local time to July 15th 22:00 UTC and features special features special Timed Research focused on Friendship alongside increased spawns of various Summer themed Pokémon and the inclusion of Shiny Bellsprout. It also includes various themed Raid Battles
In The Games Department
Pokémon Masters
The next update for Pokémon Masters has been announced
First there will be some Egg Events soon including a Bug Egg Event featuring Shiny Scyther and Pinsir
Summer Seasonal Scouts such as Steven & Alolan Sandslash and one more Sync Pair
Type Skills are being added. If you have a team of two or more Sync Pairs of the same type, it boosts the Sync Pairs
There will be a Legendary Event in Mid August featuring Palkia
Late August will include the update of the Champion Stadium which lets you take on Elite Four and Champion from various regions
Stamina function will be added with the next update on a trial bases. They are listening to feedback and may remove it if it is not well received. Skip Tickets will be introduced that allow you to skip the battle and just receive rewards. It also adds Player Rank which will increase as you use Stamina and allow you to use more Stamina
Moves and Passive Skills will now be automatically activated and Level Cap for first three levels removed so initial level cap for all Sync Pairs will be 100 with items required to unlock level caps removed
Some items will be made redundant and so can be exchanged in future times. As such, all players will receive 3000 Gems, a Skip Ticket, and Stamina when the update is out
In The Games Department
Pokémon Sword & Shield
The special Pokémon Players Cup Week 1 Qualifiers is being streamed today. This small circuit is an official online circuit being run as the in person circuit had to be cancelled. Today is Day 1 of the Trading Card Game qualifiers
This stream will start at 22:00 UTC / 23:00 BST / 00:00 CEST / 18:00 EDT / 15:00 PDT and we're hosting it in our section
