Thursday: Pokémon 2020 World Championships + Pokémon GO - Update
23-01-2020 06:19 GMT / 01:19 EST by Serebii
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Edit @ 14:12: Pokémon World Championships | Edit @ 21:02: Pokémon GO Battle Changes
In The Games Department
Pokémon World Championships
The 2020 World Championships have been finally dated. The competition will be held at the ExCeL London in London, United Kingdom from August 14th to 17th 2020. Spectators will be required to purchase a ticket, with details on the spectator tickets coming at a later point
In The Games Department
Pokémon GO
Niantic have detailed some changes to the combat system. First Charge Attacks in Trainer Battles will now be queued and activated at the end of the current Fast Attack
Volt Switch & Megahorn will now deal more damage
Flying Press is to be added soon
Plusle & Minun can learn Grass Knot
Lanturn can learn Spark
Ampharos can learn Thunder Punch
Masquerain can learn Bubble Beam
Vespiquen can learn Fury Cutter & Air Slash
Finally, the following Pokémon can now learn more moves that they were previously able to learn
Raichu: Thunder Shock
Magneton: Thunder Shock, Discharge
Venomoth: Poison Fang
Haunter: Shadow Ball
Hypno: Shadow Ball
In The Games Department
Pokémon GO
Further details have come out for the upcoming patch that is starting to roll out on iOS and Android for Pokémon GO. This patch adds avatar shadows, fixes, a new tag for searching for Trade Evolutiuon and a feature that removes the EX Raid tag from gyms that have scheduled EX Raids. It also implements the battle changes of clearing stat changes on switching and a new feature where if Pokémon attack at the same time, the Pokémon with the higher Attack stat will go first. It also fixed a number of bugs with the new buddy system
