Saturday: Pokémon Sword & Shield - Isle of Armor Coverage Day 4 + Pokémon GO - Community Day
20-06-2020 07:23 BST / 02:23 EDT by Serebii
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In The Games Department
Pokémon Sword & Shield Coverage Day 3
The Pokémon Sword & Shield Isle of Armor patch is now live and our copy is downloading. As such, our usual discoveries shall begin. 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 Pokédex and Pokéarth section with full information for the DLC including locations, learnsets and more
Edit @ 07:23: Updated the Marks page with rarity and the changes added with the Mark Charm
Edit @ 08:00: Updated the Pokédex Stat Listings to account for the newly added Pokémon
Edit @ 08:50: Updated the Weather Page to note about the weather not in the Isle of Armor and have recoded Pokéarth so that encounters for those weather, despite being coded in, do not display
Edit @ 10:47: As requested by many, I have updated the New Egg Moves page to show newly added Egg Moves on Pokémon that have been added in the DLC
Edit @ 12:05: Added native imagery of all the new and returning Pokémon to the Pokédex and Sword & Shield Section. I will add Shiny images soon
Edit @ 12:56: Updated the Daily Events page
Edit @ 13:42: Created a page for the Digging Pa & Digging Ma
Edit @ 15:22: Created a page on Encounters with Klara & Avery
Edit @ 16:54: Updated the page on Encounters with Hop
Edit @ 18:27: Updated the Max Soup page
Edit @ 18:39: Updated the page on Encounters with Klara & Avery
Edit @ 19:25: Updated the Music Customisation page
Edit @ 20:24: Updated the Battle Backgrounds page
Edit @ 21:04: Updated the Trainer Customisation page with female customisation options
Edit @ 22:13: Due to requests for easier use, I've separated the Max Raid Battles Page so that the Max Raid Battle Partners are listed separately
In The Games Department
Pokémon GO - Community Day
Today marks the Pokémon GO Community Day. On this day, for six hours in each region, Weedle will appear, enmass, in Pokémon GO with a chance of Shiny Weedle appearing. During this event, when you evolve Kakuna into Beedrill, it will know the move Drill Run, which is exclusive to this event. This coincides with 3* Capture Stardust and 3 hour Incense. This runs at these times:
It runs from 11am to 5pm in your local time
In The Games Department
Pokémon GO
Niantic have started rolling out another new update to Pokémon GO on iOS and Android. This update, Version 0.179.0 has added a various features including details for the upcoming Friend Activity Feature, Raid Invites and more.
In The Games Department
Pokémon Sword & Shield
The special Pokémon Players Cup Invitational is being streamed today. This small circuit is an official online circuit being run as the in person circuit had to be cancelled. Today is Day 1 of the Pokémon VGC Invitational Tournament featuring the players Alessio Yuri Boschetto, Alex Gomez, Ashton Cox, Eduardo Cunha, Graham Amedee, James Baek, Markus Stadter, Wolfe Glick
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This stream will start at 18:00 UTC / 19:00 BST / 20:00 CEST / 14:00 EDT / 11:00 PDT and we're hosting it in our section
