Saturday: Pokémon Sword & Shield - Porygon2 Event & Gastrodon Event + Players Cup + Pokémon Virtual Fest
22-08-2020 05:03 BST / 00:03 EDT by Serebii
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Edit @ 06:01: Pokémon Virtual Fest | Edit @ 19:10: Porygon2 Event | Edit @ 21:06: Pokémon GO Fest Makeup Event Makeup Event
In The Games Department
Pokémon Sword & Shield
During today's Players Cup stream by The Pokémon Company International, they have released a code for a competitive Porygon2. It is Sassy, comes with an Eviolite and has the moves Recover, Trick Room, Ice Beam and Thunderbolt. It has max EVs in HP and Defense and max HP IV, though its Attack and Speed IVs are guaranteed 0. Defense, Special Attack and Special Defense IVs are random. The code is PKMNPLAYERSCUP and is scheduled to run until August 31st. Our Event Database has full details for these events
In The Games Department
Pokémon Sword & Shield
During today's Japan Championships 2020 stream by The Pokémon Company, they have released a code for a competitive Gastrodon. This Gastrodon matches the Gastrodon used by the winner of the 2019 Pokémon Japan Championships. It has the moves Protect, Surf, Ice Beam and Earth Power and comes at Level 50. It has competitively focused IVs with max in HP, Defense, Special Attack, Special Defense with a 0 IV in Speed. and comes fully EV Trained. This is obtained with the code: PJCS2019CHAMP and can only be redeemed until tomorrow at 14:59 UTC. Our Event Database has full details for these events
In The Games Department
Pokémon Sword & Shield
The first of the special Pokémon Players Cup Finals 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 Finals, with the finals contiuing Sunday
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
In The Games Department
Pokémon GO
The Pokémon GO Fest 2020 Makeup Event Makeup Event is now starting to roll out for Asia Pacific Regions. For all areas in UTC+7 to UTC+14 time zones, from 11am to 2pm local time on Sunday August 23rd, a makeup event matching last week's will run featuring the Fire, Water and Friendship Habitats from Pokémon GO Fest. This event is happening due to a problem that hit during GO Fest's Makeup Event in those time zones last week
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Pokémon Virtual Fest
Pokémon Virtual Fest has been updated with the new Beach Area as well as the Pokémon Decoration Café and Galarian Slowpoke's Dream Shop We've updated our section with full details
