Saturday: Pokémon Sword & Shield Coverage Day 3

16-11-2019 04:50 GMT / 23:50 EST by Serebii

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Pokémon: Sword & Shield Coverage 1

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Pokémon Sword & Shield Coverage Day 3

It's Pokémon Sword & Shield's launch day. As such, our usual discoveries are in progress. As usual, I'll be posting the main focal points here, while more in-depth details go on the discovery thread on the forums If you want to remain unspoiled, do not click the spoiler tag, nor visit the Sword & Shield section until you have your game. Don't worry as blatant spoilers will NOT be on the home page.
Our Sword & Shield page and our Pokédex are all continually being added to
Edit @ 08:04: Updated the Dynamax page to detail Dynamax and Dynamax Level mechanics
Edit @ 08:36: Updated Pokéarth - Galar to show hold items when an opponent uses them as well as if a trainer uses an item such as a Full Restore
Edit @ 09:37: Updated the Max Raid Battles page with further clarifications
Edit @ 10:58: Created a page on Shiny Pokémon & Shiny Hunting Rates
Edit @ 11:39: Created a page on Gift Pokémon
Edit @ 12:46: Updated the TM Page with locations
Edit @ 13:18: Updated the TR Page with locations
Edit @ 14:43: Created a page on In-Game Trades
Edit @ 15:50: Updated the Wild Area Page with more details on what you can do there as well as a list of various strong Pokémon you can find away from the grass. If you spot Pokémon in any areas other than what we have listed, be sure to let me know
Edit @ 16:48: Created a Form Change Page which details various new form changes and how to get them
Edit @ 17:07: Updated the Form Change Page with a way to determine a certain Pokémon's form
Edit @ 18:35: Updated the Shiny Pokémon Page with a full list of Shiny Locked Pokémon
Edit @ 19:35: Created a preliminary section on the Battle Tower including a Trainer Catalogue
Edit @ 21:48: Created a preliminary Trainer Customisation section. Currently only contains male outfits but will have female added soon
Edit @ 22:02: Updated the Trainer Customisation section with a new customisation selection
Edit @ 22:57: Fixed a bug that prevented some outfits from appearing in the customisation page

Pokémon GO

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Pokémon GO

Galarian Weezing has been added to Pokémon GO. To coincide with the release of Pokémon Sword & Shield, immediately following Community Day, a raid hour featuring Galarian Weezing started. This is the first appearance of a Galarian form in the game. After the raid hour, it will join the Raid Bosses as a standard Raid Boss. We have updated Weezing's Pokémon GO Pokédex Page with details of this form. In addition to this, new outfits based on the player characters from Sword & Shield are now available

Pokémon GO

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Pokémon GO - Community Day

Today marks the Pokémon GO Community Day. On this day, for three hours in each region, Trapinch will appear, enmass, in Pokémon GO with a chance of Shiny Chimchar appearing. During this event, when you evolve Monferno into Infernape, it will know the move Blast Burn, which is exclusive to this event. This can be done for a further 2 hours after the event. This coincides with 3* Capture Stardust and 3 hour Lure Modules. This runs at these times:
It runs from 11am to 2pm in your local time

Pokémon 2016 World Championships

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Pokémon International Championships

Today marks the second day of the third Pokémon Latin American International Championships in Sao Paolo, Brazil, and, like previous events, the event is going to be officially streamed by The Pokémon Company International across three different streams. Each game has got its own individual stream
The Stream will begin shortly before 12:00 BST / 07:00 EDT / 04:00 PDT / 22:00 AET
Click the following links to go to the respective streams
Pokémon International Championships -
Pokémon Trading Card Game International Championships

Until Next Time, See Ya