Tuesday: Pokémon Sword & Shield - Ranked Battle + Pokémon GO - Season of Discovery + Pokémon Masters - Archie
01-06-2021 07:00 BST / 02:00 EDT by Serebii
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Edit @ 09:01: Pokémon Masters Story | Edit @ 21:00: Pokémon GO Research Breakthrough | Edit @ 21:01: Slowpoke Event
In The Games Department
Pokémon Sword & Shield - VGC Ruleset
Ranked Battle Series 9/Season 19 is now live. This ruleset returns to the inability of using any Restricted Pokémon. This will run from June 1st at 04:00 UTC to June 30th at 23:59 UTC. Be sure to check out our section for full details and Pokémon restrictions.
With this, the eighteenth season of Pokémon Sword & Shield's Ranked Battle has come to an end and with it, the rewards for participation in battles is now live. To get them, you need to check your ranking in the Ranked Battle mode and then go to Mystery Gift > Receive via Battle Stadium. These rewards include BP and items range from Armorite Ore up to Bottle Caps depending upon your placement.
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Pokémon GO
Niantic have announced the next Pokémon GO event. This event is the A Very Slow Discovery event and is due to run from June 8th from 10:00 to June 13th at 20:00 local time. It introduces Galarian Slowpoke, Galarian Slowbro and Mega Slowbro to the game. It is said Galarian Slowking is taking its time to make its appearance and its arrival will be slow
Galarian Slowpoke requires you to catch 30 Poison-type Pokémon when it is your buddy before it can evolve
Slowpoke, Slakoth, Gulpin, Spoink, Slowbro and Vigoroth will appear in the wild
There will be Field Research to give "slow" rewards and Slowbro Mega Energy
Galarian Slowpoke, Alolan Grimer, Shellder, Shinx and Timburr are to be in 1 Star Raids
Snorlax, Slowking, Slaking and Toxicroak will be in 3 Star Raids
Mega Slowbro will be in Mega Raids
There is a Collection Challenge to get an exclusive Slowpoke Forever Shirt Avatar Item, 30 Ultra Balls and 3,000 XP
There will be Slowpoke Avatar items in the shop
There will be Stickers obtained in PokéStops and Gifts featuring Slowpoke
In The Games Department
Pokémon GO
The Season of Discovery season is now rolling out in Pokémon GO. This runs from 10:00 local time today to 10:00 local time on September 1st 2021 and features differing spawns based on the temperate seasons as well as new Raid Bosses, Egg Pools and new Timed Research featuring Galarian Ponyta and new Clothing options featuring Regirock, Regice and Registeel. We're compiling all details in our section
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Pokémon GO
The Research Breakthrough Pokémon have shifted. From now until July 1st at 20:00 UTC, when you unlock a Research Breakthrough reward, the Pokémon will be Clamperl and, with this, Field Research is shifting
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Pokémon Masters
To tie in with The Masters of Land and Sea Story Event , a special Master Scout is now live that introduce the Sync Pair of Archie & Kyogre. This scout runs until June 30th 2021
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Pokémon Masters EX
It has been confirmed that new Main Story stages will be coming to Pokémon Masters EX on June 7th 2021. This will continue the story of the Pokémon Masters League after Lear was rescued from Team Break
