Wednesday: Pokémon GO - Mega Evolution Details + Pokémon Café Mix - Celebi Event
26-08-2020 07:00 BST / 02:00 EDT by Serebii
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Edit @ 11:53: Pokémon Virtual Fest | Edit @ 14:27: Pokémon GO Mega Evolution | Edit @ 18:53: Taiko no Tatsujin | Edit @ 21:23: Pokémon GO
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Pokémon GO
Niantic have announced the introduction of Mega Evolution through various news outlets including Gamespot, Eurogamer & VG247. Coming tomorrow, you'll be able to Mega Evolve Pokémon, specifically Venusaur, Charizard, Blastoise and Beedrill. To do this, you need to collect Mega Energy for each Pokémon. This is done by defeating Mega Raids and the faster you complete Mega Raid Battles, the more Energy you will receive.
Mega Raid Battles will appear soon featuring Mega Venusaur, Mega Charizard and Mega Blastoise and these will give the Mega Energy for each Pokémon. In doing so, Niantic are removing 2 Star and 4 Star raids from the Raid Table in order to include a focus for Mega Evolved Pokémon
Mega Evolution lasts only a limited time, but after you Mega Evolve a specific Pokémon for the first time, the cost to Mega Evolve it will reduce. When Mega Evolved, you can participate in Gyms, Raids, Trainer Battles and GO Rocket Battles. Shadow Pokémon and Clone Pokémon cannot Mega Evolve.
You'll be able to pick which Mega Charizard you wish to get when you Mega Evolve
If you use Mega Evolved Pokémon in Raid Battles, any moves of the same type as that Pokémon will get boosted
There will be a Mega Pokédex to keep track of Mega Evolved Pokémon
There will be Special Research as well as events throughout September that will focus on Mega Evolved Pokémon. An event from September 1st to 7th is focused around Mega Raids, September 11 to September 17 focused on Battles with Mega Evolutions and September 22nd through September 28th there will be events about Buddy features with Mega Evolution. We'll provide full details as they come
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Pokémon GO
Niantic have announced the next Pokémon GO events for September 2020.
First, the Research Breakthrough Reward has been announced. From September 1st 2020 at 201:00 UTC to October 1st 2020 at 20:00 UTC you'll get an Alolan Raichu
The 5 Star raid battles have been confirmed. Following Heatran on September 10th through September 18th, Cresselia returns. Then, for a week, Articuno will be available until September 25th and finally Zapdos will run from September 25th through to October 2nd
Jessie & James will leave on September 30th
Special Research, Investigate a Mysterious Energy, will be available at the end of September for players to get Victini. If players got Victini in the GO Fest then they will be rewarded with additional Victini Candy instead of another Victini encounter
On September 24th from 18:00 to 23:59 local time, a GO Battle Night event will be held. During this time, you'll receive twice the Stardust for winning battles andyou'll be able to complete 20 sets of GO Battle League Battles
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Pokémon GO
Niantic have announced the Spotlight Hours for the month of September. They happen at 6pm to 7pm local time are as follows:
September 1st - Eevee - 2* Catch Experience
September 8th - Houndour - 2* Catch Candy
September 15th - Tentacool - 2* Transfer Candy
September 22nd - Spearow - 2* Evolution Experience
September 29th - Skitty - 2* Stardust
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Pokémon Café Mix
The next event has begun in Pokémon Café Mix. This event adds the Pokémon Celebi to the game. To recruit it, you need to encounter it at least once during the event period and then continue to invite it until recruited. This event runs until September 9th 2020 Check our event page for more details.
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Taiko No Tatsujin Rhythmic Adventure
Today a new game was announced in the Taiko no Tatsujin series for Nintendo Switch. This game, Taiko no Tatsujin Rhythmic Adventure Pack is an enhanced port of two 3DS Taiko no Tatsujin games from 2014 and 2016, never released outside of Japan, and are now confirmed to contain the following Pokémon songs in the Japanese version. It's currently unclear if the European & American versions of the game will have the songs but we'll provide full details as and when they come
Rhythmic Adventure 1 - V Volt from Pokémon X & Y's Japanese anime opening
Rhythmic Adventure 2 - X Y & Z from Pokémon X Y & Z's Japanese anime opening
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Pokémon Virtual Fest
Pokémon Virtual Fest has been updated with the the final new area of the game; The Lapras Maritime Athletics course We've updated our section with full details
