Pokémon from the Hoenn Region began to debut in Pokémon GO in October of 2017. Now, three more generations have been added to the game (in part, at least) and many Shinies from Hoenn have been released. Let's take a look at the remaining Hoenn Shinies that have yet to be released in Pokémon GO.
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• Gulpin, Swalot: I love when a common, relatively uninteresting spawn gets enriched with a Shiny release. That's exactly what will happen with Gulpin when Niantic decides to release this baby blue and yellow Shiny in Pokémon GO. There's something special about blue Shinies, fellow trainers. From Shiny Mew to Shiny Ditto, it feels like a well-chosen baby blue just can't miss. In any case, the blue and yellow colorway carries over to Swalot and looks great on the big lug.
• Numel, Camerupt: We start this situation with what I sometimes call the Charmander Equation. Numel is hardly different, with its dull green back replaced with an equally dull grey. However, Camerupt is a stunning Shiny, with the evolved form totally one-upping the base form. Camerupt goes a dark grey, which makes its rocky humps, it's lovely rocky humps (check him out!) stand out nicely.
• Torkoal: I'm just now realizing how similar Torkoal is to Camerupt in conception to appear in the Dex that close together. Torkoal is a species that some Pokémon GO players may be unfamiliar with due to it being a regional, but this is indeed quite the change to its color palette, which normally has orange skin and a black shell. Here, it goes yellow with a grey shell, giving the appearance that it's been basking under the blazing sun for 25 years. What makes this Shiny for me is the way its inner flames glow a vibrant red through its grey shell.

If you are level 40 or above, you already know about the new type of Candy called XL Candy.

This type of Candy was introduced in the game with the GO Beyond update in Pokemon GO, and it allows Trainers to power up their Pokemon beyond level 40. Only Trainers that have reached level 40 can start using this type of Candy. You are wondering how to get the XL Candy? Well, start catching Pokemon.

Unfortunately, unlike the regular Candy, the Pinap Berries do not have any effect on the amount you get from catching a Pocket Monster, only the level of it decides that. The higher level of the Pokemon, the more XL Candy you will get.

There is also another way of getting XL Candy, and that is by converting the Regular Candy into an XL Candy. The transfer rate is 100 Regular Candy for one XL Candy. There is also XL Rare Candy that works the same way as the Regular Rare Candy.

​You can also get them from raiding, trading, hatching, or transferring a Pokemon. Well, that’s not where it all ends, because Niantic and Pokemon Go announced new ways on how can one collect XL Candy. You soon will be able to collect XL Candy when walking with your Buddy and catching Legendary, Mythical, or evolved Pokemon is now guaranteed to reward you with XL Candy. Sounds great, right?

Pokemon GO held the first-ever Kanto Tour event, and anyone who purchased a ticket had to choose either the Red Version or the Green Version.

Each section of the Pokemon GO Kanto tour collection was split to organize separate categories. There are categories for things like Pallet Town, Pewter City, Raids and, of course, versions. Eight different Pokemon have to be caught in order to complete each collection, aside from the evolutions section which requires the completion of all Kanto evolutions.

There are also the Red Version and Green Version collections. Every player that purchased the Pokemon GO Kanto Tour ticket has both collections available to complete, regardless of the version that they chose. While players may not be able to find the opposite version's Pokemon in the wild, they can still trade in order to complete the collection.

Choosing a version means that six distinct Pokemon will appear when using an incense item. The list of Pokemon for Red and Green changes and is currently as follows:

Red Version Pokemon in Pokemon GO

• Mankey
• Growlithe
• Electabuzz
• Ekans
• Oddish
• Scyther

Green Version Pokemon in Pokemon GO

• Sandshrew
• Vulpix
• Meowth
• Bellsprout
• Magmar
• Pinsir

Once players have collected all six of their Version Pokemon, the best bet is to find a friend who has the Green Version of the Kanto Tour ticket. Players will then need to trade with them in order to acquire all the opposite Version Pokemon. There really is no other way to complete that part of the collection event.

The collection event in the Pokemon GO Kanto Tour

​As fun as the collection event is, collecting all the Pokemon for the different categories is quite the task. In total, players need to end up with all 151 Pokemon from the Kanto region to complete the collections.

All of them were available on February 20 at different hours. That would have been the best time to complete all the collections, but many players may have missed some of the events. In that case, there is still the rest of this week to collect any of the missing Pokemon.

The evolutions collection will be the most time-consuming, especially for Pokemon that are evolved from the opposite Version of the Kanto Tour. It'll take some luck to catch them all in Kanto.

As part of the Kanto Celebration event, the Mega Evolved starters have returned to raids. Let's take a look at the top counters to help trainers take down Mega Charizard Y a dual Fire/Flying-type, which can be encountered in its Shiny form. With this Raid Guide, you can prepare a team, perfect your catching strategy, and understand Charizard's 100% IVs.

Top Mega Charizard Y Counters

Pokebattler, which calculates all possible combinations of Pokémon and moves, lists the top 10 Mega Charizard Y counters as such

• Shadow Tyranitar (Smack Down, Stone Edge)
• Rhyperior (Smack Down, Rock Wrecker)
• Rampardos (Smack Down, Rock Slide)
• Terrakion (Smack Down, Rock Slide)
• Shadow Aerodactyl (Rock Throw, Rock Slide)
• Shadow Omastar (Rock Throw, Rock Slide)
• Tyranitar (Smack Down, Stone Edge)
• Gigalith (Smack Down, Rock Slide)
• Aerodactyl (Rock Throw, Rock Slide)
• Omastar (Rock Throw, Rock Slide)

It is recommended to power up your counters as much as possible, but creating that amount of strong Shadow or Mega Pokémon with their moves unlocked is a tall order for even the most practiced players. Here are ten additional non-Shadow and non-Mega counters that can help take down Mega Charizard Y with efficiency.

• Golem (Rock Throw, Stone Edge)
• Alolan Golem (Rock Throw, Stone Edge)
• Landorus (Rock Throw, Rock Slide)
• Aggron (Smack Down, Stone Edge)
• Solrock (Rock Throw, Rock Slide)
• Lunatone (Rock Throw, Rock Slide)
• Regirock (Rock Throw, Stone Edge)
• Archeops (Wing Attack, Ancient Power)
• Carradosta (Rock Throw, Ancient Power)
• Zekrom (Charge Beam, Wild Charge)

How Many Trainers Are Needed?

Mega Charizard Y can be defeated with two trainers due to its double weakness to Rock-types, but if you cannot guarantee the top counters with maxed out CP and the best moves, your best bet is to make sure you have three or four players.

Using the Circle Lock Technique to guarantee Great or Excellent throws, along with Golden Razz Berries, is the best way to catch Charizard. Even though it will return to its standard form before the catch screen, it can be a difficult catch without the proper berry and throw.

Shiny Odds & 100% IVs

The Shiny rate for Mega Raid Pokémon is approximately one in sixty. When looking for a Pokémon with the best stats, the 100% IV Charizard will have a CP of 1651 in normal weather conditions and 2064 in boosted conditions.

Happy raiding, fellow trainers!

Niantic made Pokémon history with Pokémon GO Tour: Kanto. Did this remote event go beyond nostalgia and live up to the hype? Let's dive into the details with this comprehensive review.

What Worked in this Pokémon GO Event

• Research: Ticketed players received a Special Research that awards Shiny Ditto and, when completed, grants access to a long-term Masterwork Research that awards Shiny Mew. Free-to-play trainers (and, of course, those who paid also) received a Timed Research that tasked them with battling GO Tour Challengers, new NPC characters based on real-life trainers. The tasks were engaging, the rewards were worthy, and the structure of it all made for a well-rounded twelve hours of gameplay.
• Collection Challenges: Now, after seeing how this event played out, it's clear to me why Collection Challenges are classified differently to Special Research. The Collection Challenges were what guided us through the event, tasking Pokémon GO trainers with catching different Pokémon based on the current location-based hour: Pallet Town, Pewter City, Cerulean City, etc. This was a huge improvement over GO Fest 2020 where the different themed hours served no real purpose except to highlight different spawns. Here, Niantic leaned into the nostalgia and got it right, taking queues from the original games as well as the early episodes the anime to build a perfect Pokémon experience.
• Spawns: We've had Kanto in Pokémon GO since we've had Pokémon GO, but this event managed to spice things up by unlocking the remaining Shinies. As someone who plays a lot, I suspected the spawns wouldn't have much to offer during the event, but I ended up with a huge variety of new Shinies, interesting Pokémon, and worthy catches by the end.
• Shiny Rate: This was also, by many accounts and not just my own, vastly improved over GO Fest 2020. The ticket choice of Red or Green allowed players to choose which species would see a boosted rate, and the rate felt much closer to the preferable remote Safari Zone 2020 rate than the disappointing GO Fest 2020 rate. Another huge improvement.
• Raids: A perfect mixture of limited and unlimited. The fact that the Kanto Legendaries were set to stay beyond the event prevented Pokémon GO Tour: Kanto from being nothing but a Mewtwo scramble. The raid rotation was kept interesting, though, by the presence of the regionals in raids. As three-stars, all of them were soloable too, which was nice. My one quibble with the raid rotation, though not enough of a negative to put in as something that didn't work, is that Niantic brought back the canceled Tier Four raids just for Snorlax. This ended up making Snorlax non-soloable and, with regionals and Legendariesn available, it ended up being a difficult raid to get others interested in. Keeping the raids to Tier Three and Five would've been a better move, but it's hardly a blip considering how much they got right here.
• GO Tour Challengers: This aspect of Pokémon GO Tour: Kanto was a brand new feature that I hope is implemented into more events and, eventually, standard gameplay. Just like in the original games, we could encounter non-villainous NPCs and battle them. This was made more interesting by the fact that they're based on real-life trainers who submitted to Niantic. These battles were fun and yielded incredible rewards, offering a greater amount of Poké Balls than I would've expected, which was much needed during the event.

What Didn't Work in this Pokémon GO Event

• Glitches: The only real downside of Pokémon GO Tour: Kanto was the glitches. On the one hand, the server issues seen during GO Fest 2020 were far less here. There was some freezing and some difficulty sending gifts a couple of hours into the event, but compared to the game being inaccessible for two full hours… I'll take it. The major issue I had was the raid pass glitch, which was plaguing everyone in the multiple raid chats in which I was involved. We previously reported on the raid pass glitch, which invites trainers to enter into a remote raid with their Daily Free Raid Pass. This is, of course, impossible and makes it so that the player cannot enter the raid until they restart. I missed out on many raids due to this, and it certainly seems like something that should have been fixed before the event. I will say, though, with so many things going right in this event, it's easier to get past this specific glitch.

Overall

Pokémon GO Tour: Kanto exceeded expectations in every way, making it far and away the best-ticketed event Niantic has ever held. If ticketed events are consistently like this and rather than December's Galarian Mr. Mime event, then I can whole-heartedly recommend buying all tickets going forward. Looking at this specific event, it was a fun and nuanced twelve hours of engaging gameplay for essentially the price of a movie ticket. As I now work on my Masterwork Research to earn a Shiny Mew encounter, I am still, even after the event has ended, enjoying what I paid for.

The Valentine's Day 2021 event ends tonight in Pokémon GO. Let's dive into this event to see what worked and what didn't work.

​What Worked in This Pokémon GO Event:

• The spawns: The focus was mostly on Pokémon pairs, such as male and female Nidoran, Minun and Plusle, and so on. Also, of course, we had the normal focus on pink species such as Luvdisc, Clefairy, Skitty, and more. It was a nice, cute event that didn't overstay its welcome, which takes us to…
• The length: Five days! It's the perfect amount of time for an event like this. I think I speak for many trainers when I say I'm glad Pokémon GO has left Friday event-free so we get a refresher before the insanity that will be Pokémon GO Tour: Kanto on Saturday.
• Surprise Shiny: The unannounced debut of Shiny Alomomola was exciting, but a bit complicated. It makes the plus column because new Shiny releases enrich the game, but the release itself was underwhelming.
• New species: Munna and Musharna debuted in this event, and damn, is it refreshing to see Niantic make a new species available in the wild, raids, and tasks with a non-insane catch rate. It's been too long.
• Friendship bonuses: The Friendship bonuses started with the Lunar New Year 2021 event and ran through the current Valentine's Day event. These saw increased chances at going Lucky with friends, increased chances of a trade going Lucky, increased trading distance, and more. These bonus perks are some of the best available in Pokémon GO.

​What Didn't Work in This Pokémon GO Event:

• The scarcity of desired tasks and raids: The one negative about the event is that the most desirable features were hard to find. Alomomola was only in raids and tasks, which were as rare as the infamous Gible raids in select events since its Shiny debut. Indeed, Alomomola joins Gible, Rufflet, and Deino as one of the Shinies that exists but is hardly something that can be hunted for as with normal Shiny releases. It's a matter of luck when it comes to even finding a raid or task featuring Alomomola, and the same was true of the Spinda task which was very uncommon. Some things have to be rare, yes, but considering the heart-pattern Spinda's lack of availability outside of the event, a presence in raids would've been preferable.

Overall:

Overall, despite the rarity of Alomomola and Spinda, the Valentine's Day 2021 event was another win for Pokémon GO.

Bulbasaur is part of a Pokemon let’s go starter challenge. In this challenge, you need to catch Bulbasaur along with Charmander and Squirtle. Bulbasaur is also gifted to you as you progress in the game. In this post, we are going to have a closer look at how to catch Bulbasaur in Pokemon Go, what is Bulbasaur, Bulbasaur best moveset and more.

Bulbasaur is a starter Pokemon. It is a Grass, Poison-type Pokémon from the Kanto region. It evolves into Ivysaur when fed 25 candies and its final evolution is Venusaur. It is week to fire, ice, flying, and psychic moves. In the upcoming section, we are going to look at how to catch Bulbasaur in Pokemon Go.

How to catch Bulbasaur in Pokemon Go?

Bulbasaur is available to be caught in the wild. If you want to catch Bulbasaur, go to a place where there is thick forests or parks. They can rarely be found in Pokestops. To catch a Bulbasaur, simply search for the nests where you can find 2KM eggs. Once you find a nest, grab a 2KM egg and Hatch it. after you complete hatching, you'll be able to get a Bulbasaur. Please remember this. nests are places where you can find Bulbasaur 2KM eggs.

There is 1/14 chance of you finding and catching a Bulbasaur in a Pokestop. So, always look for a Bulbasaur in thick forests and nearby parks. Many players reported that they have found and caught their first Bulbasaur generally in smallish parks. There is a specific reason why Bulbasaur is very hard to catch. A critical thing is that Bulbasaur is the first Gen Pokemon. Many Pokemon types have moved on to the second Gen, and even some of them reached sixth Gen. But in the case of Bulbasaur, it’s still stuck in the first Gen and the updated version of the Bulbasaur isn’t going to arrive anytime soon. So, we leave the choice with you. If you really want to catch Bulbasaur, then go for it!. And if you are able to catch one, then you can be sure that you are a very good player!

We hope that we've given you a clear overview of how to catch Bulbasaur in Pokemon Go. It is a pretty simple task to complete. kindly remember that you have to build a catch combo or several of them to catch Bulbasaur in Pokemon Go and add it to your Pokedex. Although your chances of catching one is pretty less, you can use the above-mentioned steps to complete this activity successfully. All the very best!

Pokemon GO Tour: Kanto event is Niantic’s own way of celebrating the first Pokemon Region discovered, and they made sure to make the event the most interesting event in the history of Pokemon GO.

As you know, the price of the ticket is $11.99, and you have the option to choose between a Red and Green version. It will involve Raids, trading, bonuses, Special Research stories, shiny Pokemon encounters, and much more. So we couldn’t help but wonder, how much is a player willing to spend outside of those $11.99 for the ticket?

Some people have already thought about this and decided to create a poll on the official TSR Reddit.

The poll shows that the majority of the players (over 350 votes) will not spend anything, but more than 40 people will spend $51-$100, excluding the price of the ticket. Others say they will spend a few $ for some extra Raids and more than 160 players will spend $10-$50.

We have to remind you that the Pokemon GO Tour: Kanto will begin on February 20th, 2021.

It's Valentine's Day, meaning that players in Pokemon GO can participate in the game's event for the holiday. This event includes multiple exclusive field research tasks, increased spawn rates of certain Pokemon, and plenty of prizes to earn.

The Pokemon GO Valentine's Day event will be running from February 14 at 1:00 PM to February 18 at 8:00 PM in players' local times. Players can obtain the various event-exclusive field research tasks by spinning PokeStops during the event's active times.

Fitting with the holiday, many of the research tasks are themed around Valentine's Day itself. This means that there are tasks requiring players to give gifts and catch certain a heart-shaped Pokemon.

There is a total of six different field research tasks that players can pick up from PokeStops during the Valentine's Day event. Each Pokemon encounter that serves as a reward for these research tasks has a chance to be shiny thanks to the new addition of shiny Alomomola. This means that players are recommended to complete as many of these tasks as they can if they are looking to hunt for shiny Pokemon.

The six field research tasks are:
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• Catch 20 Luvdisc - Alomomola encounter
• Use five berries to help catch Pokemon - Ralts encounter
• Make five great curveball throws in a row - Heart-patterned Spinda encounter
• Win two raids - Alomomola encounter
• Send three gifts to friends - Volbeat or Illumise encounter
• Catch three Fairy-type Pokemon - Two Razz Berries

​Each of these tasks has the potential to be incredibly helpful to many players. This can be due to just helping players fill out their Pokedex, giving the player helpful items, or getting players a special shiny encounter. Ralts especially can help players thanks to any Kirlia evolved during this event learning the event exclusive move Synchronoise as either a Gardevoir or Gallade.

Another important thing to keep in mind with these field research tasks is how they can be a big help for this event's collection challenge. Volbeat, Illumise, and Alomomola are among the Pokemon required for this challenge, making these tasks very helpful for those looking to complete it. In addition to this, while Volbeat and Illumise are among the increased spawn rates in the wild, Alomomola is not. This means that players wanting to catch one will need to either complete one of the research tasks offering its encounter as a prize or find one as a raid boss somewhere in their area.

The next Pokémon GO event has been announced. This new Team GO Rocket event will introduce new Shadow Pokémon and Poison-type and Dark-type Pokémon featured during the event.

Here are the full details for the February 2021 Team GO Rocket event in Pokémon GO:

• It will begin Tuesday, February 2nd, 2021, at 10 AM and will run through Sunday, February 7th, 2021, at 8pm local time.
• New Shadow Pokémon will be introduced via Team GO Rocket grunts, including Swinub, Nosepass, Aron, Spheal, Lileep, Anorith, and more. Interestingly, Aron looks… so much like it's standard Shiny form in its new Shadow form. I wonder what'll happen when they make it into a Shiny Shadow.
• Cliff, Sierra, and Arlo stickers will drop from Team GO Rocket Leaders battles.
• In the wild, the following Pokémon will be boosted: Golbat, Koffing, Ariados, Qwilfish, Sneasel, Houndour, Nuzleaf, Stunky, Skorupi, and Venipede.
• The new Strange Egg pool will include Qwilfish, Larvitar, Corphish, Absol, Skorupi, Sandile, Scraggy, Pawniard, Vullaby, and Deino. This will continue after the event. No more Trubbish in these 12KM Strange Eggs.
• The raid rotation will include:

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1. Tier One raids: Alolan Meowth, Alolan Grimer, Gligar, Sneasel, Shinx, and Klink.
2. Tier Three raids: Nidoqueen, Ariados, Umbreon, Tyranitar, and Absol.
3. Tier Five: This we knew already but during the event, it'll be Raikou up first followed by Suicune.
4. Increased Team GO Rocket balloon encounters and increased availability of Rocket encounters at PokéStops.
5. Finally, Pokémon GO will offer a bonus of hatch distance when Eggs are put in Incubators during the event.

Now, here's a bit from Niantic that we're not sure about.

Event-exclusive Field Research and Timed Research will be available.

The Team GO Rocket–themed Timed Research that begins during the Johto Celebration event will continue during this event and will reward an encounter with the Legendary Pokémon Ho-Oh that knows the exclusive attack Earthquake!

The "Event-exclusive Timed Research" and the continuing Timed Research from the Johto event are treated as two separate points. This could either be unclear communication from Niantic or it could mean that we're going to also have a Giovanni-centric Research. I honestly lean toward the former, but we will see!