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  Current Raid Bosses:  As of September 1st, 2020 Image Credit: Nintendo Wire Tier 1  - Sandshrew✨ - Kingler - Marowak - Gligar✨ - Wailmer✨ - Prinplup - Shinx - Oshawott✨  - Timburr✨ Tier 3  - Claydol - Donphan - Vaporeon - Rhydon - Alolan Marowak ✨ - Onix ✨ - Machamp ✨ - Alolan Raichu✨  Tier 5 - Heatran ✨   MEGA Raids   - Mega Charizard Y ✨       - Mega Charizard X ✨       - Mega Venusaur ✨       - Mega Blastoise ✨   ✨ next to the Pokemon means, you could encounter a shiny Image Credit: Leekduck

 Tyranitar Top 20 Counters Image Credit: Niantic Tyranitar Info Tyranitar Pokemon Type: Rock-Dark Type Tyranitar Weakness:  - Very weak to Fighting  - Fairy  - Ground  - Bug  - Steel  - Water  - Grass Weather Boosted: Foggy and Partly Cloudy Tyranitar Top 20 Counters:    Lucario        Conkeldurr  Breloom            Machamp        Blaziken          Sirfetch'd        Heracross        Alakazam        Toxicroak        Hariyama        Emboar          Sawk              Primeape        Hitmonlee        Ursaring         Hitmonchan   Machoke        Poliwrath       Metagross      Pinsir               Top 5 Best Quick moves   Counter  Karate Chop  Low Kick  Bullet Punch  Mud Shot Top 5 Best Main moves   Dynamic Punch  Aura Sphere  Focus Blast  Close Combat  Low Sweep Tyranitar Raid Boss CP - Raid Boss CP: 37,599 - CP being caught: 2,103 - 2,191 - Weather Boosted: 2,629 - 2,739 Image credit: Niantic   

Current Raid Bosses: As of August 21st, 2020 Image Credit: Niantic Tier 1 • Sandshrew✨ • Magikarp✨ • Wailmer • Shinx✨ • Oshawott • Klink✨ Tier 2 • Kringler • Marowak✨ • Gligar✨ • Breloom • Mawile • Prinplup Tier 3 • Alolan Raichu✨ • Machamp • Onix   • Vaporeon • Donphan • Claydol Tier 4 • Golem • Alolan Marowak✨ • Galarian Wheezing  • Rhydon • Tyranitar • Excadrill Tier 5 • Heatran✨ ✨ next to Pokemon means could encounter a shiny   Image Credit: Leekduck.com

 Heatran Top 20 Counters Image Credit: Niantic Heatran Raids With Unova week and the Genesect raiding coming to an cease, there is a new light at the end of the tunnel. That light is the Legendary Pokemon: Heatran. Heatran will join Raid battles as a Tier 5 boss across the world from Aug. 21st 1 p.m. PDT - Sept. 10th 1 p.m. PDT.  Heatran info: and Top 20 Counters Heatran Pokemon Type: Legendary Fire-Steel type Pokemon   Weakness: Fighting, Water, and Double weakness to Ground   Weather Boosted: Sunny and Snowy weather   Heatran Top 20 Counters                                                        1. Garchomp                2.  Rhyperior                3.  Excadrill                4.  Groudon                 5. Kyogre                6. Flygon                7. Therian Landorus                8. Landorus                9.  Golurk               10.  Swampert               11.  Krookodile               12.  Donphan               13.  Golem               14.  West/East Gastrodon          

 Genesect Raid Top 20 Counters Image Credit: Niantic Things to know about Genesect  Unova Week is upon us, and with that brings a new Tier 5 Raid Boss: Genesect. Genesect is a Mythical, Bug-Steel type Pokemon. This Pokemon was originally released to Pokemon Go as part of a paid in-game special research event called "A Drive to Investigate." Trainers who are able to complete this special research would be given a Genesect encounter and receive it. Genesect is now available during this week to trainers who defeat this Mythical Pokemon in Tier 5 Raids. Doing this will require some help from other trainers; with assistance from remote raid passes, this can be completed easier.  Genesect Top 20 Counters and Weakness Genesect Pokemon Type: Bug-Steel Pokemon  Weakness: Fire-type Pokemon  Genesect Top 20 Counters:   1. Charizard 2. Shadow Charizard  3. Moltres 4. Shadow Moltres 5. Typhlosion 6. Entei 7. Shadow Entei  8. Blaziken 9. Heatran 10. Darmanitan 11. Chandelure 12. Reshiram 1

 More news on Community Days  September and October Image Credit: Niantic You can choose between 4 Pokemon for Community Day Trainers it is almost time to vote on who you want to be featured for September and October Community day in Pokemon Go. We learned earlier this month from the Pokemon Go official site and Niantic that trainers will be able to vote on the next two commnunity days between: Caterpie, Porygon, Grimer, and Charmander. Out of the four Charmander is the only one to have been featured in a Community Day event back in May of 2018.  From August 22nd 6 p.m. PT - August 23rd 6 p.m. PT trainers will be able to vote for which of these Pokemon they would want to see featured in a Community Day event by responding to a poll on the Pokemon Go Official Twitter account . The Pokemon that receives the most votes in the poll will be featured in Septemeber's Community Day event on September 20th. The Pokemon with the second highest votes in the poll will be featured in October

Image credit: Niantic Unova Week Raids Tier 1 - Timburr ✨   - Cottonee      - Petilil           - Dwebble ✨ - Klink ✨             Tier 2 - Roggenrola✨    - Whirlipede  - Darumaka  - Ferroseed   - Stunfisk     Tier 3 - Liepard      - Palpitoad    - Amoonguss       Tier 4 - Alolan Marowak ✨ - Stoutland    - Garbodor        Tier 5 - Genesect  ✨      A✨ symbol next to the Pokemon means you could encounter a shiny variant as a Raid boss reward encounter. Image Credit: The Pokemon Company, Niantic

 Recap: Ultra Unlock Week 2 Enigma Image Credit: The Pokemon Company, Niantic A quick recap on Enigma week  Enigma week came and went in Pokemon Go, there was some cool parts about it and some parts that could've been better. We had the new appearance of Elgyem to Pokemon Go, new shiny Pokemon featured of Staryu, Starmie, and Deoxys, uniquly Enigma-themed raids, and increased spawns of Pokemon that would be more frequent in the wild. Here is my take on Enigma week: Special Research First off, let me begin with saying how extremely disappointed I was when I realized that there was no special reseach tasks and objectives to complete during the week. I was so hoping that there would be tasks to give you special rewards maybe rare candies or Elgyem candies. I was also hoping to see special research encounters with Elgyem or a potential shiny Pokemon. Something? This week brought none of that. Dragon week was interesting because it had a special research and you could get rare candies,

 Pokemon Go Fest 2020 Makeup Event Guide Image Credit: Niantic Niantic has announced that during the first day of Pokemon Go Fest 2020 on July 25th that their serers experinced some technical difficulty. Due to the errors Niantic is putting on a make up Pokemon Fest event Saturday August 16th for three hours. I love this idea because I personally had some experince of errors and techincal issues during 10am-12pm/1pm on the first day of Pokemon Go Fest on July 25th. This is a great idea and a perfect event to have in the middle of ultra unlock weeks. Below is your guide for this makeup event to help get you ready and prepared. Date + Time Saturday August 16th 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. (local time) (for 3 hours only)  Bonuses Gifts opened during this period can contain Rare Candy 1 Hour Incense (which is currently already a bonus) Incense will be more effective at attracting rarer Pokemon and featured habitat Pokemon There will also be a special free box featuring two Incense and two Remote Raid

 What I caught off two lures: experiment Image Credit: Niantic 2 Lures This past week during Enigma week, I went out to one of my usual Pokemon Go spots in the Atlanta area. This spot is a terrific spot because there is about six PokeStops all clustered together on the same street. I decided that I was going to park next to two PokeStops and put on two separate lures on each PokeStop. On one PokeStop I used a regular Lure and the other a Magnetic Lure. The image above shows my postiton and the two PokeStops.  My goal from doing this was to see which lure was more efficient and had the bigger imapact on catching Pokemon. I counted every Pokemon that appeared within the 30 minutes the lures were on for. For every Pokemon which ever Lure it was the closet to when it appeared that's the one I counted it for. There was no Pokemon that spawned in between both lures to make it a tie. For every Pokemon in this experiment I tried to catch every one while also using a regular Razz Berry on i

 Ultra Unlock Week 3: Unova Week Guide Image Credit: Niantic The third week of Ultra Unlock Enigma week is upon us. Trainers completed 24 global challenges during Pokemon Go Fest 2020 to unlock Unova week. Unova is a region of the Pokemon world. Junichi Masuda (game director of Pokemon games) suggest the geographical and social backgrounds for Unova draws inspiration from the New York City metropolitan area. Although it is geographically placed on New York City, it draws inspiration for its landmarks from the entire state of New York, which fixture a mixture of rural locations and urban areas as well as factory towns and industrial complexes.  Date + Time  Friday August 14th @ 3pm CDT - Friday August 21st @3pm CDT Shiny Pokemon Roggenrola Boldore Gigalith Genesect These Pokemon in this list above will be released in their shiny variant with the start of the event.  Image Credit: Niantic Raids Roggenrola (shiny) Genesect (shiny) Roggenrola and Genesect will be featured in raids for Unov

 Pokemon that are currently hatching from eggs Image Credit: Niantic  This is the list of Pokemon currently hatching from eggs. Last updated: Aug.12th 2020.   2km Eggs Magikarp✨  Wailmer✨ Swablu✨ Luvdisc✨ Turtwig✨ Chimchar✨ Piplup✨ Snivy Tepig Oshawott Patrat✨ Lillipup✨ Purloin Woobat Venipede Dwebble 5km Eggs   Ponyta ✨ Farfetch'd✨ Grimer✨ Cubone✨ Kangaskhan✨ Scyther✨ Tauros✨ Eevee✨ Heracross Corsola Skarmory✨ Volbeat✨ Illumise✨ Torkoal Zangoose✨ Seviper✨ Lunatone✨ Solrock✨ Tropius Clamperl✨ Relicanth Pachirisu Buizel Cherubi Mime Jr.✨ Chatot Skorupi✨ Carnivine Pansage Pansear Panpour Roggenrola Tympole Maractus Trubbish Minccino✨ Gothita Solosis Karablast Joltik Shelmet Heatmor Durant 5km Eggs (adventure sync) Combee Buizel Bronzor✨ Croagunk✨ Finneon Snover✨ 7km Eggs Alolan Sandshrew ✨ Alolan Vulpix✨ Alolan Diglett✨ Alolan Meowth✨ Galarian Meowth Alolan Geodude✨ Galarian Farfetch'd Alolan Grimer✨ Galarian Zigzagoon Galarian Darumaka Galarian Stunfisk 10km Eggs Feebass✨ Absol✨