The difference between getting a Goomy and a Delibird on the research breakthrough is a bit funny

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Interesting that we have a significant gap between the Valentine's event ending (14th) and the pre-Hoen tour event (22nd).

I remember the old days when you’d have several weeks between events.

That’s for Las Vegas Hoenn Tour ig

Which is rough since the season spawns are so boring.

Happy, will be shiny hunting Purrloin, Spritzee and Swirlix during that time.

Pidgey 2x XP on evolve has to be a love/hate letter to us 2016 players. 😅

i remember stocking up on pidgeys just to evolve them. the mass transfer update was a lifesaver for transfering the hordes of useless pidegeottos lol

Not sure whether to spend the hour evolving, or catching pidgey and stock them up for the other 2x evolve event later this month.

Just like the old days

crack those lucky eggs!!!

My 1900 pidgey candies lookin ripe right now lol

Slakoth spotlight

Only downside is that it’s the shortest month of the year

I need a pink slothboi for my kiddo so badly. She's obsessed with him and neither of us can ever find a shiny.

I'm happy we're getting a mega fairy type again. I started just a month after Mega Altaria this past year and have been waiting for a chance since.

What’s wrong with Hoenn Tour?

Your missing the best part Pidgy spotlight! Best pokemon in game. Too bad my boy loses wings when jumping.

Mega Gardevoir 😍

This is the moment I've been waiting for ever since megas were first released

Started playing last summer and Gardevoir is the only pokemon i have as maxed out hundo. Getting it to mega evolve feels huge.

I have a L50 hundo purified Gardevoir from the pre-shadow buff that has been waiting all this time for this moment

My hundo is ready

Will Gardevoir be a better fairy or psychic mega?

Fairy. Top fairy attacker. Alakazam/Latios is the best psychic mega (although I prefer Alakazam as you can give it shadow ball and do super effective damage while boosting XL chance). But they're all just keeping the throne warm for mega Mewtwo.

Fairy. On the psychic side, it has no chance of competing with Mega Alakazam right now, and Mega Mewtwo is still to come.

It's better as a fairy, but is the second best psychic mega for now, and doesn't have its best move locked behind an elite tm. It has better bulk than alakazam, which negates some of the loss in dps. Mega latios has slightly better bulk again, for another trade off in lower dps.

For the candy side of things:

don't have the numbers run or anything, but psychic isn't really one of the better raid attackers so it'll probably be better as a fairy.

Nice of them to give us Pidgey Spotlight Hour for 2x evolve XP…

The primal rumblings event with Rayquaza has 2x xp evolution so just save them for that

How much XP does that come out to?

With February on the horizon and most of the good things being in the mid to end of it...

That requires people to kick my pokemon out of gyms regularly instead of having all 4 kicked out within an hour of each other

Feels weird that they keep featuring Vulpix. I think it has been a boosted spawn in like two different events over just the past few months already (Halloween and something else forgettable), so why does it need a Go Battle Day too?

Can't be worse than their obsession with Alolan Sandshrew lol.

Not sure if this relates but the Pokemon Store regularly features A-Vulpix, especially in the Northern hemisphere winter months.

Shadow Kanto Ninetales with legacy Ember made a splash in the PVP scene when Cindy won a regional tournament with it.

Shiny rates were not boosted then

Mega Absol is gone forever.

Nothing in this game is gone forever. Except for armored Mewtwo

Innit. Only Mega I've not got, cos it's not been in rotation since the changes and I didn't quite get enough research candy over Hallowe'en. Getting frustrating!

It was available through research tasks at one point, the one I'm waiting for is Kangaskhan. That came out once in raids and never been seen again.

Yeah but here's Mega Gengar which we all needed so quickly.

"Who?" - Niantic, probably

I want it so bad bc I have a shiny 3 star with sunglasses on it😭 would be so cool

Any info on breaking swipe? Excited for gardevoir!

Atm we just know 50 power for PvP, with a 100% chance to decrease opponent's attack. (I'm guessing 40 energy)

LETS GOOO MEGA GARDEVOIR FINALLLLLYYYY!!! My two best buddies shluckies are excited in their spots rn

Late but no surprise here, pretty much everything except Spotlight Hours was already announced (just not summarized in one place.)

Dumb question but can you Mega evolve a Gardevoir with a hat on it?

You can evolve Blastoise with sunglasses, but the sunglasses disappear until the mega is over. Hope this helps.

I would think so since other costumed mons so far can mega evolve.

the lack of transfer for double candy spotlight hour bonus probably means it'll be featured in one of these events.. I hope.

There are five bonuses and we just got double transfer candy today. If a month has only 4 Tuesdays, it will miss one of them. We should get double transfer candy again as the first spotlight hour of March.

January 31 Spotlight hour is/was double transfer candy. That’s why it’s not featured in February

Ah yeah. There it is with the pixels.

Time to max out my hundo Ralts and evolve it into Gardevoir?

Thank GOD we're getting a fairy mega raid.

Any info on the Valentine’s Day event?

Not yet

Whole month without double transfer candy? I need them desperately!

Double transfer candy is tonight’s spotlight hour if it hasn’t already passed for you

I mean I'm in the spotlight hour right now with double transfer candy.

There was one yesterday for Blitzle spotlight hour but I missed it :( will have to keep all my spare Pokemon for a while longer.

Not a fan either, need more slots darnit!

That usually means it's happening during an event

All the spotlight hours are duds for me and I don’t need either the vulpix or luvdisc days. Doubt they would ever do it, but a spotlight hour for the heart Spinda would have been lovely. They make those tasks waaaay to rare and I really want that shiny. Overall a really boring month for me, which is kinda nice. I’ll go hard on the tour and valentines events, though. Lots of good stuff, just not stuff I need.

Tapu Lele! Tapu Lele! Nice!!!

Is it one of your favorites?

Same vibe here, it was the only one I missed out on last year! Lol

Have we ever had an event that gives Extra XL candies for transferring? Wondering if I should transfer most of my Reshirim/Zekroms or wait…

I think that was just shinx comm day. Would be nice if they brought it back though

Once during Shinx community day.

Traded already or not?

I finally will get to level 50 my hundo slaking!

Does anyone know if the primal energy will be required to transform Groudon and Kyogre each transformation? Or will it be like the mega energy since the update last year where you only need to use more energy to transform before the timed cooldown.

It should be the same as Megas, you'll use a larger amount of energy the first time, then subsequent reversions will cost less energy, and you will be able to do it for free if you wait out the cooldown

Seems they forgot about elite raids, heh I won’t miss them

I think it's more that it's a packed month (and January was packed as well). I suspect March we'll see them return

How strong is Mega Gardevoir for a fairy attacker?

The best Fairy Attacker we've got in the game right now and likely will have for some time.

Wow, for people not attending LV HT there is 7 day gap between events (15-21), it's quite long considering their usual stream of events.

Pretty refreshing to me haha. They have had a bit less event-heavy months in the past 6-7 months or so.

Time to shiny hunt Purrloin, Spritzee and Swirlix

Not a bad month imo. Has some less exciting stuff, but it's also got some big highs around the end of the month and some nice raid bosses, so I nice balance where it's not all exciting fomo stuff but not super boring either.

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It seems like (for the most part), an even will have a new Mega, Shiny, OR dex entry. Some do have 2 shinies/new Pokemon or a combination of those, but generally, it does seem to be one each.

I guess the spotlight hours are good for new players. Pretty underwhelming for everyone else though.

Have been playing since the field test - am VERY excited for the Pidgey, Jigglypuff and Slakoth spotlight hours.

If we don't have any of the deoxys forms yet? Will we have to spend money for extra passes or are they going to be making an event out of it?

They're going to be bosses during the Hoenn Tour, and as of now, we aren't getting any free passes for it

Please no more Galarian Mr. Mime as a research breakthrough. I've got enough of those, I have Pokémon Sword so I can go catch my own.. Just please, no more.

Has anyone encountered a shiny furfrou since the fashion week? Nobody in my friend group has.

Yes, caught one in the wild on 12/29

I'm a bit out of the loop, but are primal Groudon and Kyogre only available to ticket holders this month?

During the in-person hoenn tour, you can do primal raids from invites of people in Vegas but you won't get primal energy nor exclusive move. But during the global, anyone can do the primal raids and will reward primal energy and exclusive move.

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Feb looks promising

Skip month for spotlight hours here. Still waiting on Phanpy and Remoraid

The disrespect for Pidgey!

So do I need to pay the 99 cents for this Community Day? Or why is it an option to pay in the shop?

It's just the 99 cent special research they offer for every CD. The Community Day is always free, but you can buy that special research for extra encounters and a few items.

I don’t get the top left and bottom left of the image.

New to the game ? Raid hour…

Why Pidgey on a hour when we're mass-evoing Pidgeys...

To get more for the three day event where we can do it for more than an hour :)

The megawaifu is here. I can finally mega evolve my shiny lucky shundo gardevoir. Yeah sounds rare to have one, but exists.

You said shiny and then shundo

That confirms Lugia is the last boss in Tier 5 to be Duo Raided without relying on weather boost.

Between Hoenn tour and my hunt for shiny Tapu Lele, I may actually have to spend money on raid passes. Gonna be a busy month for me

Is anything ending today? Do I need to go out and catch a Tapu Koko tonight?

Registeel raids start at 10am local time tomorrow

Should I purify my shadow ralts for the hundo for the mega or keep it as a shadow gardevoir?

Keep it as a shadow and try to get a hundo regular Gardevoir. A high IV Shadow is much rarer than a non-shadow hundo.

NO

Any confirmation of at least slightly boosted shiny rates for the Hoenn tour (global)?

Earthquake regirock any good?

It's alright, but more often than not, you'd prefer Stone Edge + Focus Blast.

I have a Vegas ticket and it said we'd be getting special research to "help us prepare" any idea on what they mean?

Aaaha gaaaaahd I'm going to need a lot of raid passes this month

Breaking swipe good on Rayquaza? Is it STAB?

designed to be only have good use in pvp, it lowers opponent’s attack.

STAB but not necessarily good

finally mega gardevoir <3

I’m still a bit sad global has no boosted shiny odds with a ticket😩

Could be unannounced. I'm not counting on it, but it's still possible that we'll get (mildly) boosted shiny odds for the Global Event. They don't often mention Shiny odds in Global events beyond Incense shiny boosts

What is raid hour?

Every Wednesday at 6 PM local time, every Gym assuming it doesn't have a raid/egg already, will get a Legendary Raid, lasting 1 hour.

pidgey spotlight looking damn finr

Thanks for the info

WoW!! There is no event from 15th Feb to 22nd Feb

I guess they consider that Asset Gathering week before Go Fest so players can stock up on items/coins/bag space

I am sad I didn't gdta shiny Tapy Koko, but my last I caught has almost perfect ivs(14/14/15)

The followings are rumours so take them with a grain of salt:

If I am remembering right in 2019 there really wasn't much in the way of shinies. Some community day shinies and the occasional release of 1 or 2 a month I think? I highly doubt they had anything even close to an equal trade.

Kind of coming in late on this one but no mention of elite raids again after nothing in January. Seems like a bit of an admittance on their part they failed at this. Anyone think they'll try a re-launch?