Thursday: Pokémon GO - Friendship Weekend & Valentine's Day Event + Pokémon Duel - Z-Powered Update
07-02-2019 08:26 GMT / 03:26 EST by Serebii
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Last Update: 21:31 GMT
Edit @ 14:34: Pokémon International Championships Stream | Edit @ 21:31: Pokémon GO Events
In The Games Department
Pokémon GO
Niantic have announced the next Pokémon GO event through their newsletter. This is a special Friendship Weekend event. From February 8th at 21:00 UTC to February 11th at 21:00 UTC, there will be special bonuses. First, Friendship will increase twice as fast. In addition to that, all trades will require half the amount of Stardust and give double the amount of Candy.
In The Games Department
Pokémon GO
Niantic have also announced a Pokémon GO Valentine's Day Event through the newsletter. This event will feature various Pink Pokémon but no further details have been given. We'll provide full details as and when they come so be sure to keep checking back
In The Games Department
Pokémon Duel - Z-Powered Update
On Wednesday February 13th, a new version of Pokémon Duel is being uploaded following a maintenance cycle that ends at 10:00 UTC. This update is Version 7.0.0 and is the long awaited Z-Powered Update which includes Z-Moves, removal of Boosters and various other fixes. In it, some figures are set to be updated
Mega Mewtwo X
Increases damage of Psystrike from 120 to 150
Mega Mewtwo Y
Increases damage of Psystrike from 110 to 130
Solgaleo
Increases damage of Flare Blitz from 120 to 140
Malamar
Increases damage of Psycho Cut from 70 to 100
Yveltal
Increases damage of Oblivion Wing from 111 to 151
Mew
Increases damage of Psychic from 50 to 100
Cosmoem
Changed the effect of Cosmic Power into boosting its Purple attack by +1 ☆ and increasing its Movement by 1
Hypno
Increases damage of Psychic from 70 to 100
Removed Confusion & replaced it with Psybeam
Increased size of Sleepwalk
Pangoro
Increases damage of Hammer Arm from 90 to 120
Sharpedo
Increases damage of Ice Fang from 40 to 80
Increases damage of Noxious Fang from 50 to 90
Exeggutor
Increases damage of Barrage from 60 to 100
Increases damage of Barrage from 70 to 110
In The Games Department
Pokémon International Championships
Stream details have been announced for the Pokémon Oceania International Championships in Australia next week, from February 14th through 17th. The streams all run for both games with commentators across the weekend. The VGC commentators are Labhaoisa Cromie, Adam Dorricott, Duy Ha, Gabby Snyder, TCG commentators are Joe Bernard, Cora Georgiou, Ellis Longhurst, Kyle “Pooka” Sucevich and Pokkén Michael “H2” Graf, Evan “WonderChef” Hashimoto, Michael “Midori” Tjong
Thursday February 14th 2019:
VGC & TCG from 22:30 UTC. VGC runs until February 15th 08:30 UTC while TCG will run until February 15th at 10:15 UTC
Friday February 15th 2019:
VGC runs from 22:30 UTC to February 16th 08:30 UTC
Pokkén Tournament DX runs from 22:30 UTC to February 16th 08:30 UTC
TCG runs from 22:30 UTC to February 16th 09:45 UTC
Saturday February 16th 2019:
Finals run from 22:30 UTC.
Pokkén Tournament DX finals run from 22:30 UTC to February 16th 06:00 UTC
