Friday: Pokémon Sword & Shield - Galarian Ponyta Gift + Pokémon GO Events + Pokémon TCG - Infinity Zone & Darkness Ablaze
29-05-2020 01:01 BST / 20:01 EDT by Serebii
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Edit @ 06:34: Pokémon TCG | Edit @ 08:48: Raid Battles | Edit @ 14:05: Darkness Ablaze | Edit @ 21:00: Pokémon GO
In The Games Department
Pokémon Sword & Shield
The second Mystery Gift set to lead us into the Isle of Armor has begun in Pokémon Sword & Shield. This gift is available on Mystery Gift > Receive Via Internet. This week's gift gives a Galarian Ponyta with its Hidden Ability of Anticipation as well as a Level Ball, Fast Ball, Love Ball, Friend Ball and Beast Ball. This will run until June 4th at 23:59 UTC where it'll be replaced by the next distribution
We have updated our Event Database with each of these events
In The Games Department
Pokémon GO
Niantic have announced two events in Pokémon GO.
First is the Solstice event which will run from June 19th 08:00 local time to June 24th at 22:00 local time and the Bug Out event will run from June 26th at 08:00 local time to July 1st at 22:00 local time. Full details for this event have yet to be announced
Niantic have also announced the next Research Breakthrough Reward. From June 1st 2020 at 20:00 UTC to July 1st 2020 at 20:00 UTC you'll get a Trapinch which will give bonus Trapinch candy upon capture
In The Games Department
Pokémon GO
Niantic have announced the Spotlight Hours for the month of June. They happen at 6pm to 7pm local time are as follows:
June 2nd - No Spotlight Hour
June 9th - Patrat and 2* Evolution Experience
June 16th - Numel and 2* Catch Stardust
June 23rd - Clefairy and 2* Catch Experience with Shiny Clefairy being available in the wild for the first time
June 30th - Kricketot and 2* Catch Candy
In The Games Department
Pokémon GO
As the Throwback Challenge Sinnoh event is now ending in Pokémon GO, as of 1pm local time, the Raid Bosses will shift to a more general list of Pokémon based around the current 5 Star Legendary Raid, Reshiram. We have updated our Raid Battle section with a list of these bosses
In The Games Department
Pokémon GO
Niantic have confirmed that Zekrom is to replace Reshiram in Raid Battles from June 16th. With this, it will have a Raid Hour on June 17th, June 24th and July 1st at 18:00 local time
In The Trading Card Game Department
Pokémon Sword & Shield - TCG Set Release
The Pokémon Company have officially revealed ll the standard cards for the next set for the Pokémon Sword & Shield TCG in Japan. This subset, Infinity Zone, is being released on June 5th 2020 and features a variety of further Galar Pokémon including the first Eternamax Eternatus card. As such, our card listing and the associated Cardex have been updated with the details of this set.
In The Trading Card Game Department
Pokémon Sword & Shield - TCG Set Release
The Pokémon Company International have announced the next English set. This set is called Darkness Ablaze and will be released on August 15th2020. This set features over 185 cards including 14 Pokémon V cards including Mew V, Galarian Slowbro V and more and 7 VMAX cards featuring Eternamax Eternatus as a VMAX and various VMAX cards including Charizard and Grimmsnarl. This set is made up of the Explosive Walker & Infinity Zone Japanese sets
