Thursday: Pokémon Scarlet & Violet - Online Competition + Pokémon GO Tour 2025
28-11-2024 00:00 GMT / 20:00 EST by Serebii.
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Last Update: 06:02 GMT
Edit @ 03:00: Pokémon Masters EX | Edit @ 06:02: Pokémon UNITE
In The Games Department
Pokémon Scarlet & Violet
Registration for the next Pokémon Scarlet & Violet Online Competition has begun. This competition is the Grand Challenge 2025 III and features Double Battles in standard VGC rules
Registration is open from 00:00 UTC until December 5th at 23:59 UTC while battles run from 00:00 UTC on December 6th through 8th.
This competition also gives 100,000 League Points, an Ability Patch and a Gold Bottle Cap to all players who complete 3 or more battles
Players enrolled in the Play! Pokémon Circuit will also receive Championship Points based on where they finish
In The Games Department
Pokémon GO
Niantic have announced details for the annual Pokémon GO Tour event. This year's event will focus on Unova Pokémon and has both a live event and a global event. The live event will be held in two places, The Rose Bowl Stadium in Los Angeles and Metropolitan Park in New Taipei City on February 21st through 23rd while the Global Event runs a week later on March 1st and March 2nd
Shiny Meloetta will be available in Masterwork Research for both the local and ticketed for the Global event
Shiny Deerling, Maractus, Sigilyph and Bouffalant will first appear in this event
In the local event, Snivy, Tepig and Oshawott are in 1 Star Raids, Druddigon in 3 Star Raids and Reshiram & Zekrom in 5 Star raids
In the global event, Pikachu in Hilbert's hat, Pikachu in Hilda's hat, Pikachu in Nate's visor and Pikachu in Rosa's visor are in 1 Star Raids, Druddigon in 3 Star Raids and Reshiram & Zekrom in 5 Star raids
There will be special habitats during the event. These are location based in the local event though all spawn outside of the park. In the global event, they rotate every hour
Winter Caverns features Oshawott, Roggenrola, Woobat, Drilbur, Tirtouga, Minccino, Vanillite, Deerling Winter Form, Joltik, Klink, Tynamo, Axew, Cubchoo
Spring Soiree features Snivy, Pansage, Munna, Audino, Timburr, Sewaddle, Venipede, Cottonee, Petilil, Ducklett, Deerling Spring Form, Foogus, Alomomola & Ferroseed
Summer vacation features Tepig, Lillipup, Pansear, Pidove, Blitzle, Tympole, Darumaka, Dwebble, Archen, Trubbish, Deerling Summer Form, Emolga, Stunfisk & Rowlet
Autumn Masquerade features Patrat, Purrloin, Panpour, Scraggy, Yamask, Gothia, Solosis, Deerling Autumn Form, Frillish, Elgyem, Litwick, Golett & Deino
Pikachu in Hilbert's hat, Pikachu in Hilda's hat, Pikachu in Nate's visor, Pikachu in Rosa's visor and Druddigon will spawn in all habitats
Roggenrola, Timburr, Karrablast, Shelmet & Larvesta are in 2km Eggs, Throh Sawk, Heatmor, Durant & Larvesta in 5km Eggs and Maractus, Sigilyph, Bouffalant and Larvesta in 10km Eggs
Unown U, N, O, V & A will spawn in Incense during the event
During the local event, you will get Photobomb encounters with Pikachu in Hilbert's hat, Pikachu in Hilda's hat, Pikachu in Nate's visor, Pikachu in Rosa's visor
The local event features Timed Research awarding encounters with Tornadus, Thundurus and Landorus.
Pikachu, Basculin & Deerling will be in Field Research. Basculin has a higher chance of being XXS and XXL
Throh, Sawk, Heatmor & Durant will be available in Party Play encounters
Basculin Red-Striped Form and Blue-Striped Form will be in routes in the Global event
The local events feature increased chance of Shiny Pokémon, 50% Egg Distance, up to 6 Special Trades a day, 50% Trade Stardust cost and up to 9 raid passes a day from gyms
The global event features 50% Egg Distance, 6 Special Trades a day and 50% Trade Stardust cost
Event PokéStops will appear throughout the cities in the local event offering battles with Team GO Rocket members with Shadow Roggenrola, Drilbur, Timburr, Joltik, Litwick & Golett. Defeating them lets you get 12km Eggs that can feature Sandile, Mienfoo, Pawniard & Vullaby
As with other past live events, the Raid Lover and Egg-thusiast add-ons can be added to increase the rewards and bonuses, as well as adding extra event days for Citywide play for $20 each day
In The Games Department
Pokémon Masters EX
Pokémon Masters EX has announced the next event. This event introduces the Sync Pair of Arc Suit Leon & Charizard into the game. It runs from November 29th 2024
Alongside this, it is confirmed that Milo & Eldegoss will be added to the game on December 5th 2024
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Pokémon UNITE
One new piece of Holowear has been released for Pokémon UNITE. This is the Stage Holowear for Blastoise which is obtained by spending 1290 Gems. It has a unique animation for Movement.
In The Games Department
Pokémon UNITE
Pokémon UNITE has announced the next Battle Pass. This Battle Pass will go live on December 5th 2024 and will add two new pieces of Holowear: Warm Style Lapras and Holiday Style Mew alongside new Warm Style clothing outfits and trainer card decorations
