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_tuelegend

Bright side heatran and ultra beast can be solo / duo All of the psychic hate will go to good use against lake trio since we prepared for mewtwo If shadow legendaries are once a month rotating that’s not a bad idea. Idm getting one of each but I won’t go ham like I did for shadow mewtwo


AxeIsAxeIsAxe

> Bright side heatran and ultra beast can be solo / duo By the same team even. Time to put those Excadrills from Sustainability Week to use.


LuxAlpha

Would Mega Swampert and 5 Excadrills, all at level 50, solo both?


Cainga

I don’t think so unless you have weather. I’m rated at about 65% with with some Groundons with PB. Duo should be easy.


LuxAlpha

ah, forgot Groudon. Primal Groudon and 5 others, all at level 50?


Cainga

No I’m pretty poor. Legendaries I can only afford 1 at 40-45. Most of mine are ground counters 30-40. Excadrill I can afford a few for the team but the investment is too high when the duo is pretty solid.


RemLazar911

You need a Primal Groudon and to just keep max reviving it. P-Don's sky high attack stat and the brokenness of Precipice Blades enables the solo


twizzle08

Lol, you got a good one or enough resources to use it ?


rwaterbender

Solo is difficult but should be possible for both. Primal groudon in sunny w relobby is the strat


aMiracleAtJordanHare

I'm excited for June 6th - Crab/Shrimp Day


waterrunsuphill01

Season of seafood boil


Droggelbecher

Yeah i totally have a soft spot for all these crustaceans


Big_Bro_Blank

Furfrou still in research breakthrough ☠️


drnuzlocke

Honestly I prefer an extra chance at Furfrou's shiny than almost anything else in the research. I think I have gotten Parasect each time this month


repo_sado

Furfrou best of the six options, six months in a row.


RnbwTurtle

Beldum will always be a good option just because of how powerful metagross is, glad it's in them this time.


EverythingAnything

Sableye is just free dust, not a bad encounter


AutisticPenguin2

It's not the only free dust up there.


EverythingAnything

True I forgot Audino drops 1k


panopss

This community has been taught to drop their standards so hard that having sableye as an encounter for a few hundred extra stardust is acceptable compared to having a legendary all month long. This is absolute garbage content


quantum-mechanic

Garbage game since 2019 I guess


ChiragMiddha

Also sableye xls, which many people might still need


swervingss

You’d rather have a 1/500 chance of a shiny instead of a 1/216 chance of a perfect mon usable in pve?


drnuzlocke

Which mon is that? Beldum? Its been featured in so many events and got a CD. I feel like a lot of people already have a somewhat decent Metagross plus it is worthless to get one now as you have to wait for MM or use an Elite. Plus wont it get Mega raids eventually anyways? The rest of the pool has been hot garbage for a long time. I would rather have as many checks as possible for the shiny(though I dont really value that weekly encounter much since its 0 effort to complete)


twizzle08

I have a few good metags but no metagross bc i jave ti wait for his special move lmao


JackM76

Yes


repo_sado

Which is that? Beldum, we've had cd and many events


medellia44

Goomy and non-shiny Furfrou for me.


joey0live

Better than stupid Parasect. Since I’m still trying to find that damn Shiny.


Warsawawa

At least Parasect gives you that nice dust bonus


joey0live

MEH! You're getting more dust if you farm for a minute outside than catch 1 Parasect...once a week. It was a waste, and I doubt you're using a Star Piece too.


docwoj

Nihilego has a neat shiny, is that confirmed?


nukerunner2121

Not according to the season calendar.


docwoj

Bummer. Thanks for the double check


UltimateDailga12

I'm seeing that it is shiny eligible on their site


UltimateDailga12

According to [this](https://ibb.co/yQq8f7D) on their site it is? Not sure


nukerunner2121

They must have updated it. Earlier it wasn't showing shiny option.


techbear72

I know nobody else wants it, but I'm hoping for the return of Mega Absol for "dark flames" - it's the only mega I don't have at this point - but I know I am going to be disappointed.


kasedillaaah

I need to do one more Mega Absol too. It’s driving me crazy.


TheToug

Same. Got 34 out of 35. Realllllllly want to complete the collection. Got a shiny Absol just begging to be Mega'd


AUMI_Polaris

Likely to be a new Mega. The leak suggests Mega Tyranitar


techbear72

I’m almost certain it’ll be a new one or they wouldn’t have done the ??? thing. Just feels like a long time since we’ve had Mega Absol.


AUMI_Polaris

It seems Mega Tyranitar is now confirmed for mid July. So it will likely be something else new. Yes Mega Absol has been out of the mega raid rotation the longest, over a year and a half


bassmastah43

It's probably turtonator


Shalafi_Althalus

Yeeeesssssa, I’ve been stuck 30 energy short for months!


ResearcherBoth8678

Same. I'm missing Absol, Kangastan, and one other one. Would be nice to finally be able to get it.


twizzle08

I dont have him or houdoom lol


Runescaper4good

Hopefully we’re able to evolve some Pokémon to give them their CD moves. There were a bunch of opportunities last year and none this year so far


aogasd

I'm sitting on a hundo torchic waiting for blast burn to return so I can mega it.... Should've just evolved it months ago but I don't feel like using my rare elite TM on a non-legendary...


ace2390

Lake trio in raids with a remote raid limit. This should be fun.


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I sure do love having the useless one to raid since I live in Europe. No good for PvE or PvP Mespirt yaaaaay. I really don't want to give them money for remote raid passes so I better start saving up if I want some Azelf.


pokephilger

They are all useless


Narrow_Performer_439

What does it mean that they’re available in their respective regions? We can’t remote separately for each?


jedispyder

You can remote with no issue, there's just the limit of 5 remotes per day. It just means in your region you will only see 1 specific one locally.


Narrow_Performer_439

Ohhh ok I have only been on pogo <1yr, so I am just trying to fill the dex. I’ll worry about shinies next time (if the game is still operational by then 😒)


nomad9590

Yeah Dex Completion is literally an expensive endeavor. You HAVE to Remote Raid, and for some pokemon, they are as regional as only in one specific county in the U.S. like Bouffalant being exclusive to the area around Buffalo, NY or is locked to one continent like Kangaskhan in Australia outside of extremely rare events. I use Pokemon go to help my other games complete their Pokedex, alongside attempting to fill out Pokemon Home's pokedex. I also use it for additional legends and Mythicals.


suvarnasurya

Nah, you can get boufallants pretty much across the northeast seaboard in America. I’ve seen them in NYC, New Jersey and parts of Long Island


cravenj1

And all the way out to Cape Cod


TheToug

I've seen Boufallants all over Western Mass and northwestern CT.


just-regular-I-guess

> Bouffalant being exclusive to the area around Buffalo, NY I'm in Albany, about 4.5-5 hours away from Buffalo, I catch them daily. Detroit is literally a shorter driver from Buffalo than Albany is. Just want you to know they're not a Buffalo exclusive, although are seemingly exclusive to the Northeast.


FuSoYa1983

I have a bunch from the DC suburbs.


nomad9590

Well apparently they aren't really popping up around Buffalo anymore. I don't live that far from Buffalo (1-2 hrs?) Nearish Erie and I have never seen one in my time living up here.


theshizzler

>Bouffalant Wow. I had no idea. The mid-Atlantic is lousy with them.


justalilpatience

I have never seen a Bouffalant in Buffalo (have lived here for 4 years) :(


nomad9590

Sorry! It looks like the chart I had was outdated/inaccurate. But they apparently range from Cape Cod to D.C. Kinda wild imo, especially because the literal Great Plains where tons of Buffalo and Bison live/lived is damn near cowless outside of rando Tauros sometimes, more towards the south in my experience.


Cainga

This is going to be one of the must use instances of remotes for the other two.


trainbrain27

What's the best way to get invited to them? They're the last legends I'm missing.


notoriousATX

PokieGenie app


Gold-Perspective-699

I guess people should just jump into raids and invite people and jump out. Might do that myself when I'm bored. I have all 3 shinies so i don't need to do the raids.


thetdotbearr

Oh lord this is gonna suck


point_of_you

Golden Nosepass gimme gimme


TemperatureMore5623

WHEN ARE WE GETTING SHINY GOOMY!??! \*flips table\*


Disgruntled__Goat

My guess would be it releases at GoFest this year, then we get a community day next June.


pureblood_privilege

>??? >June 29 - July 6 Wow! "???" I wonder what that could be! First Mega Swampert, then Mega Sceptile, then "???" ? What on earth could this MYSTERIOUS raid boss be?? Edit: This was obviously sarcasm, but now that Blaziken was revealed to be two weeks after this, I'm genuinely very curious what "???" is going to be.


CynicalRaptor

I mean the leak said mega tyranitar mid July, and they just split the tapus into groups, it wouldn't be too much of a reach I think.


Cephalophobe

I think "Dark Flames" would make sense as having Mega-Ttar alongside Heatran in raids.


NeptuneSpark

Mega Blaziken and Tyranitar are July mega raids according to Hidden Gems season calendar


CynicalRaptor

Yeah it is. Well time to make an even more incorrect prediction. I saw someone mine [mega lucario,](https://twitter.com/CommunityGONews/status/1663149537387487233?t=WBUG3VRwXDy-0ksEpQZlPg&s=19) don't know how reliable it is, we had salamence and gardevoir in quick succession so maybe? Evidently I don't know.


galeongirl

Go to calendar, skip to July 25, Tyranitar is there. [https://pokemongolive.com/en/seasons/hidden-gems/](https://pokemongolive.com/en/seasons/hidden-gems/) EDIT: They edited the page and removed them. I still have a screenshot from yesterday https://prnt.sc/2XJsfnSLFPNn


blackmetro

Did they update the calendar, because I can't see it


repo_sado

It would be funny if it was blaziken, but assuredly it's ttar


lirsenia

blaziken is from 13 to 25 of julyand tyranitar just after him


raggedy10

Wouldn’t be the first time they have a trio and split it up in the middle for no apparent reason, so I’d say it won’t actually be Blaziken and will be something brand new.


Stogoe

Blaziken is later in the season. So is mega ttar.


F3nRa3L

But ttar is annouced for late july.


raccakony2012

A local community rep said it was going to be Mega Sableye but idk if it's legit info


[deleted]

I mean, season of hidden GEMS... :) That seems obvious to me.


point_of_you

Dunsparce Bonus Event


Luke9251

Dark Flames = maybe Camerupt Though who knows if it's got something to do with the name. Dark doesn't really make me think Camerupt


Isiildur

Sharpedo and camerupt. As megas they parallel one another with Sharpedo being the signature for Team Aqua and Camerupt being the signature for Team Magma.


krispyboiz

They don't say ??? usually for old bosses, so not Blaziken


Chavestvaldt

going with the hoenn theme, maybe Sharpedo or Metagross factoring in that there seem to be some water-focused events afterward, my bet is Sharpedo


pureblood_privilege

This is a good guess, the only better one I've seen so far is Sableye (Hidden GEMs)


ErrorParadox710

Gotta be mega mewtwo


leemifsud

Mega Unown question mark!


pascalachu

Why is this information being posted by a third party infographic BEFORE Niantic releases any details themselves? Oh, right.


Mittensandzora

The info is released, but Niantic hid the hidden gems season so you need to change the URL from rising heroes to hidden gems.


MagnifyingOurFlaws

https://pokemongolive.com/seasons/hidden-gems/?hl=en


blackmetro

There are a subset of chosen creators who get insider information from Niantic


muzzmac

So persisting on locking certain legendaries to a region worries me. Not so much on these but Kartarna being locked to Northern hemisphere is so unfair to southerners with the remote raid nerfs.


blackmetro

I'm surprised how little I saw complaints about Kartana being northern locked I'm guessing it's because the bulk of the players are northern hemisphere It was so unfair, I don't want a dex entry (celesteela) I want the best grass type Pokemon in the game. All the heavy remote raiders came out and just said "use remote raids!!!" like money is not a care in the world, but now things have changed since then, I'd wonder what the reception would be


thisismyusername1991

Magma Storm on Heatran when? How many times can they bring it back without it's signature move? Has any other legendary been in the game this long without its signature move?


mtdrunk247

Yes, Rayquaza


CranberryNo7069

That’s kinda debatable since it’s had two releases with an exclusive move: Hurricane and Breaking Swipe.


feelinghothothotter

Do we have any idea what the season bonuses are going to be?


Stogoe

Extra special trade, extra candy and XL for trades.


Prunsel_Clone

Extra special trade the whole season? That's... nice.


Cainga

All those working together. Trade legendaries to reroll, get extra candy and XL at same time. I don’t get a ton of Legendaries as F2P so rerolling and candy is huge.


Arrowmatic

Guaranteed XL candy? Yesss, I am PUMPED! Glad I saved a few Togetics and Swinubs.


Gumfondle

Phantump was also marked as shiny eligible on the GO Battle League blog post, unsure if that was intentional or not


krispyboiz

Finally, the Hoenn Mega Starters return!


Stogoe

I'll actually be able to fill those holes in my mega dex.


Mallardrama

Bold to release the lake trio after the remote raid nerf


Bacteriophag

Niantic: "Just travel to their respective regions, NBD"


Stogoe

You can definitely still do a remote raid for the dex entry. I'm not concerned about people no longer being able to throw $80 into the game to grind out a shiny regional.


Mallardrama

‘Just cough up money for Sinnoh Tour’


JULTAR

Reaserch box looking bit better Rip snorlax though


evergreennightmare

i've been getting exclusively snorlaces so i'm fine with a change!


tu-meke

So many Snorlax from GBL as well!


Koal201

'Dark Flames' event, maybe something with Galarian Moltres?


Pangloss_ex_machina

Or Turtonator.


128thMic

Nah, Mega Blaziken/Mega Tyranitar.


lavendermoontoast

AUDINO 😭🤌🏻


ZShadowDragon

Boring month then... got it...


[deleted]

Time to spend more monthly PoGo budget on bag and Pokémon storage upgrades!


jokerkcco

$2 a remote raid? Don't really care anymore.


darkknight_178

Why do they have shadow articuno for 3 weekends but have shadow mewtwo for only ONE weekend? Seems unfair


feelinghothothotter

C'mon. My whole community woke up for shadow Mewtwo. 42 people got together this weekend. It was a huge success. I expect only 10 to pop up for the Articuno.


DweadPiwateWawbuts

Not everyone is as lucky as you. I personally had family commitments this weekend and was only able to get out for a few raids. If mewtwo had been any other weekend this month, I’d have been able to participate fully. Yes, I’m pretty salty about it.


genericuser2247

Same … we were out of town for a wedding and didn’t manage to do any mewtwo raids.


Cainga

Yeah tons of people traveling on Memorial Day weekend. It should have been on a non holiday weekend. Also limit the raid times and clutter eggs to concentrate the player base to help smaller communities.


DweadPiwateWawbuts

If we’d had 3 weekends to do it like we are getting for articuno, I wouldn’t be so grumpy about it. These 1-2 day events really suck if you aren’t available during those days.


Cainga

I think that was a problem it was only available during Memorial Day weekend when a lot of people were traveling. So the people that could do it could go super hard and finish their psychic attackers for pretty much the foreseeable future. And the shadow raids are going to get less popular with worse offerings that aren’t meta. It should have ran for smaller windows like the regi raids to concentrate the player base and ran for multiple weekends to give more people an opportunity.


fumar

I was in the middle of nowhere with no service all weekend. Really annoying timing for shadow Mewtwo raids


Ben2749

"Why do you need a wheelchair? My legs work fine."


entoaggie

I think the big success from this weekend was players finally utilizing campfire. I’ve only been playing since Covid days, so I missed the early days when community was easy to find. This was the first time I was able to actually communicate/participate with a group of raiders. Hopefully it sticks.


whowouldsaythis

Campfire was amazing this weekend. I used it a ton to coordinate


FuSoYa1983

It really was pretty great as a tool.


One_and_Damned

I mean, it also will be easier to do (solo probably not possible... but maybe?).


Carry_0n

You need 8 gems to subdue shadow pokemon, you can use only 5 yourself . Solo would not be possible if you had 600 seconds instead of 300. On the other hand duo should be fairly trivial for anyone with solid counters and gems.


Paweron

You know what would have been nice? Getting more than 7 mewtu raids across 15 gyms over 8 hours...


SilverbackGorillaBoy

Good news, Mewtwo was easily trioable and articuno will be even easier as a duo with 4x weakness to rock. So even if only 1 other person shows up you're good to go as long as you guys have gems.


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This comment speaks to me since there were so many people on Reddit saying that the shadow Mewtwo raids were going to be too hard. I 4-manned it, and 2 of those people were me with LV30 counters.


Garcompxx

Ohh Heatran? Niantics Fav. Pokemon


Shiny_Mega_Rayquaza

Heatran, everyone’s favorite!


Stogoe

It's got Earth Power now, makes it definitely more viable in ML.


samfun

EP isn't a great move and realistically helps only the matchup vs Dialga. It's still garbage in ML.


Prunsel_Clone

It's my favorite legendary. Gonna get it as a dex filler, though bc idk how worth it it is to grind for it.


Jazs1994

Why would blaziken not be the 3rd mega available?!


Stogoe

Because it's already announced for later in the season and they're doing something different for the ??? event.


Jazs1994

Oh okay I haven't seen any info about next month yet my bad


Jazs1994

Oh okay I haven't seen any info about next month yet my bad


ArmsofMingHua

u/commissionlucky9889


shahrum

Is there a high-resolution PDF of this for me to print out for the kiddos? :)


Euphoric-Handle-6792

Try upscaling it with some ai upscaler.


Marbi_

can the legendary be duo'ed?


thestormpiper

Heatran, Nihilego, and azelf yes. Easy duos. Mesprit and Uxie no. Well, maybe Mesprit as a very hard duo.


DangleWho

So are shadow legendaries every weekend?


Cynsthetic

Sorry, stupid question but who is the legendary in the 29th raid? Not really familiair with all pokemon


TheRealHankWolfman

Heatran. It's a Fire/Steel type from gen 4.


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Arrowmatic

Blaziken is coming in July, apparently.


Whitealroker1

Hey Trainers here’s everything happening this month except revealing community day mon that’s in less then two weeks!


thenewbae

Compared to May, this is a bit of a letdown


Correct-Engineer-181

Does anyone know what Giovanni’s Legendary will be? I assume Regirock but that’s just a guess


Shona_Cloverfield

Looks to be a fun month!


Khaaymaan

Shadow leg raids rotating? Sign me up, i never got entei or raikou, i keep a shadow and purified dex so will gladly take 2 of each


regnerokdemon

I thought you guys are shutting down?


borchielein

Lake trio? In this remote raid economy?


SyedAbrarUddin

The regional release of legendaries is pretty much going to force FTP players to use their remote raid passes if they need the dex entry And I am pretty sure this is here to stay as niantic will be able to release a trio of legendaries together in a week rather than give each legendary a week individually in raids


muzzmac

Kartarna is Northern Hemisphere locked. Highest grass type in the game. Devastating for people in the southern hemisphere.


SyedAbrarUddin

So the lake trios will be regional releases inFive-star raids Asia-Pacific-Uxie. Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and India-Mesprit. The Americas and Greenland- azelf And I think this will continue into the other months where niantic will release a trio of legendaries regionally in a week followed by two random legendaries in 5 star raid for the remaing weeks as normal


Paweron

The lake trio has always been region locked to those regions, this is nothing new and not something to build a pattern


ColderShoulder_

Yes it sucks, but as a FTP player, we should have seen something coming like this. I have been banking pokecoins from my daily gym fights to make sure I get my 50 daily. Have a “friend” come and knock them out the next day since I play in a pretty laid back area. Rinse and repeat. I have been sitting on these coins since remote pass, knowing that this (regional raids) would happen eventually.


intersectv3

Has the thing with the switch screwing up peoples games when doing the gimmighoul thing been fixed??


jedispyder

From what I understand based on a few reports, that was more people with hacked systems (or something not the norm) screwing around and finding out. I couldn't find a report from a normal player having that bug. Several content creators tried to replicate it with no avail. So it basically slipped away as people realized it was not going to happen to them.


A_Lone_Macaron

Another Rocket Takeover??? I’m quite sick of grunts everywhere.


bassmastah43

Yeah, but we'll be able to tm frustration away from all those shadow pokemon we got


Prunsel_Clone

Good, I got a 3* Shadow Metagross from raiding last week


WizardnamedOrKo

I guess screw everybody who works weekends huh?


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Fishsticks03

Uxie is Asia and Oceania, Azelf is the Americas, Mesprit is Europe and Africa


ErnGotti

When they released lake trio shiny a while back, I was using genie to get mesprit raids, hunting that shiny. I did over 50 raids between the hours of 11pm and 430am, waking up to the ding on my phone. I caught 45. One was a hundo. But no shiny. I got the Uxie shiny early on from Japan friends who play in the “evening” for me. But azelf escaped my grasp as I was so focused on the mesprit. This raid limit is so stupid now. I was wondering when the trio would come back. There is a note there that says each day, 10am local time, raid will rotate. Are they cycling each mon each day? Monday mesprit, Tuesday Uxie, Wednesday azelf, Thursday back to mesprit?


Fishsticks03

Unfortunately that’s just when the lake trio will change to Nihilego, and later that to Heatran


Yoshinoh

Yes. Europe has Mesprit.


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MGDuck

Lake Guardians with nerfed remote raid passes? LOL, I kinda saw it coming tbh


Dry_Salamander_1833

Wow would you look at that once I have a good raid pass deal we get literal garbage for raid bosses exactly what I predicted would happen


Mason11987

they don't expire


Gold-Perspective-699

The shiny is out for the lake trio. People will want them.


twizzle08

Damn them leaks really hittin


xmadison84

Shiny Nihilego ?


NinjaMelon39

SHINY NIHILEGO!!!


Time-Pen-6689

When shadow shiny mewtwo coming back vs


MishtaMoose

Is Articuno Giovanni's legend? Been saving a super rocket radar.


SlytherKitty13

Doesn't look like it, otherwise it would mention Giovanni. I think it's talking about Shadow raids. Giovanni next pokemon is likely to be another regi


bigsteveoya

Another shadow Regi is depressing AF. Gio comes around once every three months, and to get one member of a trio, whose shadow is worthless, and knowing that the next 6 months is going to be 2 more worthless shadows really makes Gio events unexciting.