Thursday: Pokémon Sword & Shield - Online Competition + Pokémon UNITE - Delphox Release + Pokémon GO Community Day
09-06-2022 01:00 BST / 20:00 EDT by Serebii
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Edit @ 06:07: Online Competition | Edit @ 07:00: Pokémon Masters | Edit @ 18:00: Pokémon GO
In The Games Department
Pokémon Sword & Shield
The next online competition has been fully announced. This competition, the Single Battle Cup is a Single Battle competition with standard rules, banning all Restricted Pokémon. All players who enter and participate in at least 1 battles will receive 50 BP. This competition is also being used to determine the entrants for the Pokémon Battle Master tournament in Japan
Registration is open now to June 23rd at 23:59 UTC. Battles will run from June 24th 00:00 UTC to June 26th 23:59 UTC.
We have full details of this competition, including an eligible Pokémon list, in our Single Battle Cup section
In The Games Department
Pokémon GO
Niantic have announced the next Pokémon GO Community Day on June 25th will focus on Deino. This event will 25% Egg Distance, 2* Catch Candy and double the chance to get XL Candy as well as 3 hours Incense and Lure Modules.
It will also give out the move Brutal Swing to Hydreigon. You will be able to purchase a ticket to receive Special Research "Field Notes: Deino".
It also has a new feature where if players defeat a 4 Star Zweilous Raid Battle at a gym during between 2pm and 7pm, Deino will spawn in even larger amounts for 300 metres around the gym for 30 minutes. These Raid Battles cannot be accessed with Remote Raid Passes
If enough Pokémon are also caught from a Lure Module, wild Zweilous will also appear near the Poké Stop
The Community Day runs at 11am to 2pm in each local time zone
In The Games Department
Pokémon UNITE
Pokémon UNITE has received a small update which adds a variety of things to the game.
First, the Pokémon Delphox is now available to purchase in the in-game store using gems. Some new Holowear has been made available as well, the Orange Unite and Purple Unite Styles for Delphox
Next, the new Battle Pass, has gone live. This new Battle Pass is focused around new Holowear and outfits that match sports events. It adds new Holowear for Lucario & Dragonite
Some new Event Missions are live alongside the Battle Pass to gain Gold Badges to exchange for items including Holowear for Mamoswine
In The Games Department
Pokémon Masters
The next Egg Event is live Pokémon Masters EX. This event allows for players to get eggs of various Flying or Psychic-type Pokémon to make Sync Pairs. You can get the Sync Pairs of Main Character & Abra, Farfetch'd, Spearow and Exeggcute with Shiny varaints of Abra & Farfetch'd being available. We have full details in our Flying and Psychic-type Egg Event secton
