Friday: Pokémon Sword & Shield - Online Competition + Pokémon GO Fest Boxes + Pokémon Café Mix - Dragonite + Pokémon Twilight Wings
24-07-2020 06:00 BST / 01:00 EDT by Serebii
This update will be amended throughout the day so be sure to check back. If you have any ideas for the site, be sure to send them in
Last Update: 01:14 BST
Edit @ 07:26: Pokémon Café Mix | Edit @ 19:45: Pokémon GO | Edit @ 21:12: Pokémon GO
In The Games Department
Pokémon Sword & Shield
The next online competition has begin. This competition, the Armor Beginnings, is a Single Battle competition that allows for use of Pokémon only in The Isle of Armor Pokédex and only Pokémon with the Galar mark or Battle Ready Mark
Battles will run until July 26th 23:59 UTC. All players get 50BP.
In The Games Department
Pokémon GO
Pokémon GO Fest 2020 is starting to run in Asia Pacific Regions. Running from 10am to 8pm tomorrow for ticketed users, there's various boosts for players both in and out of the event. We're currently cataloguing all elements we can so be sure to keep checking back
Edit @ 21:36: We have confirmation of Rotom appearing in photobombs and of Shiny Heatmor appearing in the event
Edit @ 22:24: There have been multiple reports of Shiny Qwilfish during the Water Biome hour
Edit @ 22:56: We are also adding full details of Raid Battles
Edit @ 23:17: We have updated with details of the Grass Biome including Shiny Tangela
Edit @ 23:36; Updated with the complete Special Research
Edit @ 00:14: Updated with details of the Battle Biome including shiny Durant
Edit @ 01:14: We have updated with details of the Friendship Biome, including Shiny Woobat
In The Games Department
Pokémon GO
Ahead of Pokémon GO Fest this weekend, three new boxes have been released for purchase in the In-Game Shop. They contain the following
Special Box - 480 Coins - 2 Star Piece, 2 Super Incubator, 50 Poké Ball, 3 Remote Raid Pass
Ultra Box - 1480 Coins - 30 Ultra Ball, 20 Premium Battle Pass, 4 Super Incubator, 4 Star Pice
Adventure Box - 1480 Coins - 30 Ultra Ball, 16 Super Incubator, 4 Star Piece, 4 Egg Incubator
In The Games Department
Pokémon Café Mix
The next event has been announced for Pokémon Café Mix. From July 29th through August 12th, Dragonite will start to appear in the Café as a Special Customer. Once you encounter it, you'll be able to invite it to Parties and reucruit it as staff
In The Anime Department
Pokémon Twilight Wings
It has been confirmed that the next and final episode of Twilight Wings, the web based anime series set in Galar, will be released on August 6th 2020 at 13:00 UTC. We'll provide more details as they come
In The Games Department
Pokémon Sword & Shield
The special Pokémon Players Cup Week 2 Qualifiers 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 2 of the Pokémon Trading Card Game qualifiers
This stream will start at 22:00 UTC / 23:00 BST / 00:00 CEST / 18:00 EDT / 15:00 PDT and we're hosting it in our section
