Thursday: Pokémon Scarlet & Violet - Ranked Battle & Online Competition + Pokémon Masters EX - Gather Up, Dream Duo
04-01-2024 00:00 GMT / 19:00 EST by Serebii.
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Last Update: 18:00 GMT
Edit @ 04:00: Ranked Battle | Edit @ 06:00: Pokémon Masters EX | Edit @ 06:24: Dragon Cheer Bug | Edit @ 08:00: Pokémon GO Fendi collaboration | Edit @ 18:01: Dazzling Dream Event
In The Games Department
Pokémon Scarlet & Violet
A new issue has been discovered with Pokémon Scarlet & Violet, specifically for the move Dragon Cheer. At present, after using the move if you switch the Pokémon out and the Pokémon comes back in to battle, it'll still have the boosted Critical Hit rate, which is unintended behaviour. After the Version 3.0.1 patch due out later this month, this will be resolved and the effect will be lost if you switch out the Pokémon
In The Games Department
Pokémon Scarlet & Violet
Registration for the next Pokémon Scarlet & Violet Online Competition has begun. This competition is the Blueberry Prologue and features Double Battles using only Pokémon that are in the Blueberry Pokédex
Registration is open from 00:00 UTC on January 4th - 14th at 23:59 UTC while battles run from 00:00 UTC on January 12th - 14th.
This competition also gives 10,000 League Points to all players who complete 3 or more battles
In The Games Department
Pokémon Scarlet & Violet - Ranked Battle
Pokémon Scarlet & Violet's Ranked Battle Season 14 has begun. This season is the first season that runs Regulation F ruleset which allows for use of Pokémon and moves added in The Indigo Disk, as well as returning Pokémon. This season will run until January 31st at 23:59 UTC
Alongside this, as Season 13 is now over, the rewards are able to be collected for all players
We've added all known details in our Ranked Battle Season 14 section including available Pokémon
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Pokémon GO
Niantic have announced the next Pokémon GO event. This event is the Dazzling Dream event and is due to run from January 13th at 10:00 to January 16th at 10:00 local time and adds Shiny Cutiefly & Ribombee into the game
There will be 2* Catch Stardust and Hatch Stardust
Clefairy, Jigglypuff, Marill, Snubbull, Cottonnee, Flabébé, Spritzee, Swirlix, Dedenne, Cutiefly, Morelull and Togetic will spawn in the wild
Togepi, Spritzee, Swirlix and Cutiefly will be in 7km Eggs. Cutiefly will have a higher Shiny Chance when in Eggs than in the wild
Alolan Vu;pix, Spritzee, Swirlix, Cutiefly, Mawile and Carbink will be in Field Research
A Collection Challenge will run to get Experience, Stardust and a Carbink encounter
There will be Paid Timed Research to earn 2 Premium Battle Passes, Experience, Stardust, 2 Star Pieces and encounters with event themed Pokémon
There will be a Cutiefly Mask item available in the shop for your player character
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Pokémon UNITE
Three new pieces of Holowear has been released for Pokémon UNITE. The first is the Dark Magician outfit for Dragapult which cost 2199 Gems with special animations for Scoring, Movement, Returning and KOs. It is Premium Holowear
In addition to that, two recolour Holowear are also live. This is the Tea Party Style (Brown) for Glaceon and the Starry Sky Style (Purple) for Blissey
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Pokémon Masters EX - Story Event
The "Gather Up Dream Duo" Story Event has begun a run in Pokémon Masters EX. This event has you follow the story of New Year's in Pasio and giveas all players the Sync Pair of Kali & Azumarill. It runs until January 20th
To tie in with that, a special Seasonal Scouts are now available to get the past New Years Sync Pairs
We're currently compiling all details in our Gather Up Dream Duo event section
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Pokémon GO
A merchandise collaboration between FENDI, FRGMT and Pokémon has started today and to celebrate, you can get the special outfits that match some of the merchandise in Pokémon GO by redeeming the code FENDIxFRGMTxPOKEMON in game or in the Pokémon GO web store. This will give you the special hoodie
From today, there will be special Fendi PokéStops available where Fendi stores are located across the world. If you spin them, you will also get a hat and a T-Shirt.
