Wednesday: Pokémon UNITE - Holiday Event + Pokémon Café ReMix - New Orders
08-12-2021 06:00 GMT / 01:00 EST by Serebii
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Last Update: 21:00 GMT
Edit @ 08:01: Pokémon UNITE Holiday | Edit @ 21:00: PokéStop Powered Up
In The Games Department
Pokémon UNITE
It has been confirmed that a special Holidays Event is to be held in Pokémon UNITE from December 15th. Adds Dragonite as a playable character on December 20th, many outfits including Christmas themed holowear and outfits, alongside a special mode and new stage skins including the addition of Delibird and Articuno as opponents in Shivre City and Tauros, Beartic, Cubchoo, Stantler and Panpour in Remoat Island.
The Holowear includes a Santa outfit for Pikachu, and a pudding outfit for Crustle. There are also Chef outfits for Cramorant, Mr. Mime and Snorlax as well as Christmas hats for Garchomp, Blastoise, Gardevoir, Mamoswine and Dragonite
There is also a new mode which involves fighting a snowman and attacking as a snowball
We'll provide full details as they come so be sure to keep checking back
Edit @ 09:21: We have some new details. From tomorrow, Remoat Stadium and its wild Pokémon will change
From December 15th to January 16th, the Special Battle will run. It's 4 vs 4 and you can't select battle items. However, when you defeat Delibird you'll get a gift allowing you to use 1 of 9 battle items. When a player is KO'd, they come a Snowman and can move around, but need to wait for the snow to melt before they can play again
From January 1st through 4th all Pokémon will have a special trial
The Illumination Challenge runs from December 15th through January 16th. Allows you to collect items and Light by completing challenges. You can then exchange these lights for items
On December 24th through January 1st you will receive a gift every day
From December 24th through January 6th there's a photo challenge. Each time you battle you get a Snowflake. With these you can unlock holiday items by filling a silhouette
We have added full details to our Holiday Festivities page which will be updated as the events go live
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In The Games Department
Pokémon GO
Niantic have announced that Powered-Up PokéStops is to be available soon worldwide. This allows for you to power up Poké Stops and Gyms for a short time by completing AR Mapping Tasks. All trainers who spin a powered up PokéStop will get more rewards and there are three levels:
Level 1: 5 scans
Level 2: 10 scans
Level 3: 25 scans
In The Games Department
Pokémon UNITE
It has been confirmed that Pokémon UNITE is to join the 2022 Pokémon World Championships in London in August 2022 with a competitive circuit starting in 2022. . Details on the competitive circuit and qualifiers are to come soon
Edit @ 13:39: TPCi have removed the note from the press release. We'll provide full details as we get them
Edit @ 16:18: The Pokémon Company International have given us a statement as the news was removed from the press release, stating the information was shared in error:
Earlier this morning, select information in an announcement was shared in error. We look forward to providing official information around this topic at a later date
In The Pokémon Department
Pokémon Café ReMix
New orders have been added to Pokémon Café ReMix, alongside the new Pokémon Chimchar. This adds stages 475-500 to the game alongside the Pokémon Cyndaquil. We're currently cataloguing all these new stages and details so be sure to keep checking back. A new update has also gone live which adds a Happy Bonus that you will get randomly before a match. This doubles all experience and rewards for completion
Edit @ 07:19: We have updated the Main Orders and Menu Section with the contents of today's update. The next batch of Orders will be released on December 8th 2021
