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If you're struggling with the current Hoenn Collection Challenge, you're not alone! The good news is that Sunday's Mareep Incense Day should help us all fill in those last blanks. Read Niantic's Mareep Day post.

On Sunday, "[i]n addition to Mareep, different Pokémon will be attracted to Incense at different times." Here's the schedule:
  • 11:00am - 1:00pm: Electric-type Pokémon [including Plusle & Minun]
  • 1:00pm - 2:00pm: Dragon-type Pokémon and Pokémon that evolve into Dragon-type Pokémon [including Bagon]
  • 2:00pm - 4:00pm: Electric-type Pokémon [including Plusle & Minun]
  • 4:00pm - 5:00pm: Dragon-type Pokémon and Pokémon that evolve into Dragon-type Pokémon [including Bagon]
Important: "An event-exclusive 1 PokéCoin bundle featuring 3 Incense will also be available to pick up in the shop."

Outside Mareep Incense Day, during this Hoenn event, we can hatch Bagon from 5km eggs and catch them in T1 raids, while Plusle and Minun are available only from the "Catch 11 Pokémon" research task from spinning stops. (Well, and natural wild spawns, which are not boosted.) The rest of the collection targets should be easier to catch wherever you are, as natural, incense, or lure spawns.

BTW, if you don't yet have a Metagross with Meteor Mash, try to evolve one before the event ends. They are very useful in raids, Master League, and Ultra League. And if you don't already have a Swampert for every league, stock up on Mudkip; Swampert are versatile and reliable in every niche of the game. Read Niantic's Hoenn Event post.

Have fun!

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Anyone know if there's a distance limit to inviting people to raids?

Followup question: If there's not a distance limit, anyone interested in organizing raids for the Lake Trio (Azelf, Mesprit, and Uxie) so folks can get whichever ones they're not in the region for?

Edit: Sounds like there's probably no distance limit on raid invites, so: Anyone want in on an Azelf raid over the next couple of days? Drop a comment with a good time to recruit you and your time zone, and I'll see what I can do!
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Source (and also via my local PoGo Discord channel, PoGo itself, and I'm expecting an email any time now...)

Trainers,

As a limited-time test, from Thursday, November 12, 2020, at 2:30 p.m. until Monday, November 16, 2020, at 10:00 a.m. PST (GMT −8), trade range will be increased! Depending on information gathered from this test, we may include increased trade range as a part of future events.

It’s time to trade, Trainers!


Which means it's live now!

I know I've got more than a few overseas lucky friends; feel free to use this post to try and set up trades!

Edit: Guess who misinterpreted the number 😅 It's still way better than 100m, though.
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So - that was not entirely what my local community was expecting ... snipped for spoilers )
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Jan. 3rd, 2019 01:52 pm

Hatchathon

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Happy New Year, trainers! Hope y'all had tons of fun with the holiday event and took advantage of all the bonuses and daily single-use incubator Pokestop drops.

The next PokeGo event is the Adventure Sync Hatchathon, which runs from January 2 (um, yesterday, sorry!) until January 15 and is all about -- you guessed it -- hatching eggs.

The bonuses during this event:
  • double hatch candy

  • double hatch stardust

  • higher chance of Pokestops dropping 5M and 10KM eggs


Source: Pokemon Go
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Hello trainers, your wayward mod has returned! Well, I mean, I was always here and accessible by PM, but I haven't been here here. We'll just skip over the tedious details of the trainwrecky hot mess that was my 2018. Ahem. A big welcome to any recent refugees from Tumblr!

Anyway, on to the event details (ETA: The event starts on Dec 18!):

Here are the high points:
  • More ice-type pokemon will spawn, beginning on Dec 18.

  • We'll see "holiday-ready pokemon." I assume this means Santa hat!Pikachu, but maybe others too?

  • A greater chance of Munchlax, Azurill & Smoochum hatching from 7KM eggs.

  • Until Jan 2, you can get one single-use incubator when you spin a pokestop. Only one per day, though!

  • From Dec 18-22, we earn double candy for catching and transferring pokemon.

  • From Dec 22-26, we earn double stardust when we catch pokemon.

  • From Dec 26-30, we earn double XP when we catch pokemon.

  • From Dec 30-Jan 2, incubators are twice as effective.


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PokeGo is once again hosting an in-game Halloween event. The rewards are the same as last year's:
  • doubled candy when catching, hatching & transferring pokemon

  • your buddy will earn candy twice as fast

Other highlights: Pikachu will have a special hat. Your avatar can wear Mimikyu's disguise hat. And in addition to the already existing ghost pokemon, we will see some ghost types from Gen 3.

Official announcement
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Apologies for being a few days behind on these items!
  • A new update is rolling out across the app stores. Details here

  • We bid farewell to the legendary birds (Moltres, Articuno & Zapdos) and says hello to the legendary beasts (Entei, Suicine & Raikou)! Their raid appearances at gyms will be following a schedule as noted here.

What's going on in your neck of the woods, trainers?
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Looks like problems continued to plague Chicago PokeGo Fest, so if you're one of our Chicago players who attended, here's something for you.

For the rest of us, there's an event to celebrate the addition of legendary pokemon to the game (as Raid Bosses) for the next 48 hours!
  • double stardust

  • double candy

  • double XP (use those lucky eggs for quadruple XP!)

  • reduced hatching distance (looks like this only applies to new eggs put into incubators; an egg I already had in an incubator didn't update the distance)

  • reduced buddy distance

  • increased encounters

(Full details)

Get out there & walk!
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Jul. 22nd, 2017 04:53 pm

Uh oh

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PokeGo Fest is running into some problems.

I know some of our members are from Chicago. Hopefully, you weren't one of these people! :/

(I feel like these were predictable issues? Oh Niantic.)
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Official announcement here: http://pokemongolive.com/en/post/legendarypokemon

Probably coming worldwide shortly after the Chicago GO fest, as I imagine them unlocking it is pretty much a foregone conclusion. Though it seems like Legendaries will be releasing gradually into the raid pool. I'l also heard scuttlebutt that Legendary raid eggs will have an extra-long lead time, to make it easier to coordinate a large group, though I'm not sure where that info comes from.

Someone over on the Silph reddit also did a pretty nice write-up on which pokemon that you can raise now will be most useful for Gen 1-2 Legendary raids: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheSilphRoad/comments/6ogm5u/last_minute_preparation_for_legendary_raids/



For me, right now I've got one Bite/Crunch Tyranitar and one Rock Throw/Rock Blast Golem, plus the usual complement of Eeveelutions and one each excellent Scizor w/Bug, Houndoom w/Dark and Dragonite w/Dragon, so that's a start at least. Sadly neither of my Omastars have the useful legacy rock moveset, oh well.
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And to celebrate, starting today at 1PM EDT until July 24 1PM EDT, there'll be an anniversary event in-game.

Highlight #1: A special pikachu wearing the Ash Ketchum hat from the Pokemon anime series. (Your mod cannot deal with the cuteness.)

Highlight #2: The shop will be selling giftboxes that contain incubators, max revives, ultraballs & raid passes.

Original announcement here.
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Today was supposed to be MY poke day, the best day I'd have to walk walk walk those eggs for the extra xp. But HEATWAVE!

How is the event going for everyone?
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The Solstice Event is live!

The important details:
  • It runs until Tuesday, June 20, 1PM PDT.

  • Increased fire-type and ice-type spawns.

  • Triple XP for catches, throw bonuses, and curve bonuses.

  • Quintuple (!!) XP for egg hatches.

  • Lucky eggs are discounted in the store.

Get out there, trainers! And if you're in the parts of the world that are experiencing hot weather, stay hydrated!
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So the first anniversary of PokeGo is coming up fast and Niantic is celebrating in multiple ways.
  • The Solstice Event kicks off on June 13. More fire and ice pokémon (nice that they acknowledge both hemispheres!), XP bonuses, and discounted lucky eggs.

  • A forthcoming update that focuses on collaborative group gameplay. In preparation for this change, gyms will temporarily be disabled. (Sounds like they're changing the gym mechanic!!)

  • Various PokeGo events in Chicago, Yokohama, and across Europe.

The official announcement is here. I'll try my best to keep the community updated as these events go live, but if any of you see it before me, feel free to let your fellow trainers know!
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