Friday: Pokémon Sword & Shield - Max Raid Battle Event & Online Competition + Pokémon Masters EX - Champion Time + Pokémon Journeys + Pokémon Shirts
26-02-2021 00:01 GMT / 19:01 EST by Serebii
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Last Update: 17:15 GMT
Edit @ 05:00: Pokémon Shirts | Edit @ 06:00: Pokémon Masters EX | Edit @ 10:37: Episode Details
In The Games Department
Pokémon Legends: Arceus
The Pokémon Presents has revealed a brand new game, Pokémon Legends: Arceus. This game is a new style of game by Game Freak set in old time Sinnoh and will release in Early 2022. Pokémon Legends: Arceus is a new experience for the Pokémon series. Pokémon live freely in the wild. People from the world have settled in Sinnoh. You get given the starter of Rowlet, Cyndaquil or Oshawott and strive to complete the Pokédex. Battles are seemless and you can catch Pokémon with Poké Balls
To catch Pokémon, you need to observe them, sneak up on them and aim your Poké Ball. You can also get your ally Pokémon to battle them
It's a Single Player Action RPG
Edit @ 15:32: We have updated our Pre-Release Screenshot Page with new images
Edit @ 16:37: We have added a Gameplay Mechanics page
Edit @ 16:55: We have added a Gift Pokémon page
Edit @ 17:01: We have added a Sinnoh Pokédex page
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In The Games Department
Pokémon Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl
The Pokémon Presents has revealed a brand new game, Pokémon Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl. These games are remakes of Pokémon Diamond & Pearl developed by ILCA and Game Freak for Nintendo Switch and will release in 2021
Edit @ 15:32: We have updated our Pre-Release Screenshot Page with new images
Edit: We have added a Sinnoh Pokédex page
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In The Games Department
Pokémon New Pokémon Snap
New details for New Pokémon Snap were revealed. You can use Illumina Orbs to illuminate Pokémon. You can edit your photos in New Pokémon Snap with frames and stickers, and share them online. A new character was revealed, Phil your rival.
Edit @ 15:32: We have updated our Pre-Release Screenshot Page with new images
Edit @ 17:15: We have updated our Lental PhotoDex section with more Pokémon available
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In The Games Department
Pokémon
Today is the Pokémon Presents for 15:00 UTC / 10:00 EST / 07:00 PST / 16:00 CEST / 00:00 JST. This Pokémon Presents will be 20 minutes and will give various details on upcoming games and content from Pokémon to celebrate the 25th Anniversary.
Edit @ 15:09: New details for New Pokémon Snap were revealed. You can use Illumina Orbs to illuminate Pokémon. You can edit your photos in New Pokémon Snap with frames and stickers, and share them online.
Edit: Diamond & Pearl remakes have been revealed for Nintendo Switch. These games have a chibi look and will release this year as Pokémon Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl
Edit: New game set in the past of Sinnoh has been revealed. This game is open world and has you play with a different battle style. It is called Pokémon Legends: Arceus and will realease in Early 2022
Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl is developed by ILCA with Junichi Masuda from Game Freak and Yuichi Ueda directing
Pokémon Legends: Arceus is a new experience for the Pokémon series. Pokémon live freely in the wild. People from the world have settled in Sinnoh. You get given the starter of Rowlet, Cyndaquil or Oshawott and strive to complete the Pokédex. Battles are seemless and you can catch Pokémon with Poké Balls
In The Games Department
Pokémon Sword & Shield
The Wild Area Event has now shifted in Pokémon Sword & Shield for a new Extra Event. With this, for the next few days, the Fighting & Psychic-type Pokémon have left raids and Gigantamax Pikachu will appear. If over 1 million people defeat Pikachu during this event, all players will receive 100 Armorite Ore and 100 Dynite Ore on March 2nd
Edit @ 00:16: We have updated our section with full details of this Max Raid Battle Event, as well as updated our ItemDex
In The Games Department
Pokémon Sword & Shield
Battles for the next online competition has been announced. This competition, Global Challenge 2021 Winter Battle is a Single Battle competition that allows for you to use 1 of the Restricted Legendaries in your team. All players who enter get 50 BP
Battles will run from February 26th 00:00 UTC to Febreuary 28th 23:59 UTC.
In The Games Department
Pokémon Masters
The Champion Time Story Event is now live in Pokémon Masters EX. This event runs until March 18th 2021 and tells the story of Leon coming to the Pasio Region
In addition to that, 2 special Scouts are now live that introduce the Sync Pairs of Leon & Charizard & Marnie & Morpeko
In addition to this, a collection of new Theme Skills were added for each Sync Pair. We have updated our section accordingly with lists of each Skill and which Sync Pair has them
In The Anime Department
Pokémon (2019)
The latest episode has aired in Japan today. This episode features Chloe stay with Chrysa and learn about her love of Psyduck. The AniméDex has been updated with the contents of this episode. Click the picture to go to the section but be warned however as it contains spoilers.
In The Pokémon Department
Pokémon Shirts
A new set of Pokémon Shirts has been released by Original Stitch. These shirts come in over 30 different designs based around the Pokémon from the Hoenn Region. Alongisde this facemasks and bandanas from Generation 2 and 3 Pokémon are also now available
There will be 3 more waves of shirts to finish up Hoenn patterns as the year progresses;
Ground in the end of April with Groudon, Flygon, Metagross etc.
Ocean in July with Kyogre, Milotic, Wailord etc.
Sky in September with Rayquaza, Latias, Latios etc.
Original Stitch have also kindly given us the code "Serebii" to use for Free Delivery of the shirts.
