Simple PoGo News & Updates

 Community Day for September and October Image Credit: Niantic Niantic has announced that the Pokemon Go Trainers will be selecting the next Pokemon featured for the Pokemon Go Community Days in September and October. Trainers have voted for Pokemon before in the past like for Weedle, Rhyhorn, and Ghastly. Niantic has not released any other detail talking about how Pokemon Go Trainers will vote, but some believe that it will be a poll on Twitter. Pokemon GO Trainers will only get to vote for one out of the 4 possible Pokemon. The Pokemon voted the most will be featured in September's Community Day and the runner-up in October's Community Day. The four Pokemon will be Caterpie, Charmander, Grimer, and Porygon. All four Pokemon are from the Kanto region. Each of these Pokemon are unique in their own special way to have their own Community Day. Caterpie can evolve twice into Metapod and Butterfree, it also has a shiny version. Charmander can evolve twice into Charmeleon and then i...

 7 tips on how to use your Lucky Egg to gain lots of XP  Image Credit: Niantic Lucky Egg Lucky Eggs are good to have in Pokemon GO to help you level up faster. They are available in the shop or given through special researches or leveling up. A Lucky Egg is important because it doubles your XP that you earn in Pokemon GO for 30 minutes. Here are 7 tips for you to use while you have your Lucky Egg on to earn a bunch of XP.   1. Make a lot of friends Make a lot of friends and sync up when you send them gifts. You can earn XP from interacting with your friends. There are 4 levels of friendship: Good Friends = 3,000 XP   (1 day of interactions) Great Friends = 10,000 XP (7 days of interactions) Ultra Friends = 50,000 XP  (30 days of interactions) Best Friends = 100,000 XP (90 days of interactions) An interaction can be made between you and your friend by sending/receiving gifts, trading, or raiding together. Note that only one interaction is counted for each da...

 How to Catch Mew: A Mythical Discovery  Image credit: Niantic                                                                                                                                What is Mew, why is it so special? Mew is a Psychic-type Mythical Pokemon. Mew is special because it is said that Mew has the DNA of every single Pokemon within it's body. This allows Mew to learn and use every attack. Mew can also turn itself invisible having it's whole body be unseen. Many Pokemon scientists believe that Mew is the ancestor of Pokemon. Mew is the last Pokemon in the Kanto Pokedex as #151.  Special Research: A Mythical Discovery In spring of 2018 Pokemon...

 Where is Ditto? (As of August 2020) Image Credit: Niantic What is Ditto? In its natural state, Ditto is a light purple Pokemon showing a slight smile.  Ditto is a normal-type Pokemon that can transform into other Pokemon. With this being said, Ditto is currently disguised as other Pokemon in the wild.   Ditto is not easy to find, it's rather difficult to pinpoint where one is. Ditto is special because in Spring of 2018 Pokemon GO added a Special Research called "Mythical Discovery" where there are 8 tasks. In the 5th task you have to catch a Ditto. After you complete all 8 tasks you can have a shot at catching the mythical Pokemon Mew. So, catching a Ditto is very pivotal in this research and you will need to eventually catch one.   Knowing which Pokemon are currently being disguised as Ditto is essential to know. If you catch one of these Pokemon below, it might turn into a Ditto. (As of August 2020) Paras    Hoothoot  Ledyba  Spinarak ...

Enigma Week Guide The second week of Ultra Unlock Enigma week is upon us. Trainers completed 16 global challenges during Pokemon Go Fest 2020 to unlock Enigma week. Enigma means mysterious or difficult to understand. So this week we will see this theme play out with the Pokemon that are featured during Enigma week.  Date + Time     Friday August 7th 1 p.m PDT to Friday August 14th 1 p.m PDT   Shiny Pokemon Staryu  Starmie                                    Deoxys (normal)             Unown (U,T,L,R,A)   These Pokemon will be released in their shiny variant with the start of the event. The unown featured will be the letters spelling out Ultra .  Shiny Unown Letter "U Raids Claydol  Deoxys (normal) & Shiny Deoxys (normal)  Bronzong  Elgyem (new pokemon to Pokemon Go)  Unown (U, L,T, R, and A) ...

August Community Day : Magikarp    What you need to know about August Community Day Featured Pokemon   Magikarp  will be the featured Pokemon for August's Community Day.  Magikarp  will be spawning more frequently in the wild, if you are lucky you can encounter a  Shiny Magikarp .  Date + Time Saturday August, 8th 2020 from 11am-5pm (your local time) Features Evolve  Magikarp  during the event or  up to two hours afterward  to get a  Gyarados that knows Aqua Tail.    Take a few snapshots during Community Day for a surprise!    For US$1 (or the equivalent pricing in your local currency), you will be able to access the Community D ay–exclusive Special Research story "Making a Splash!" Follow Prof essor Willow as he learns about Magikarp and its epic Evolution journey It takes 400 candies for Magikarp to evolve into Gyarados, so be sure to buy this ticket and complete event-excusive field research tasks to...

How to defeat Team Rocket's Jessie and Jame (2020) "To protect the world from devastion. To unite all people within our nation. To denounce the evils of truth and love. To extend our reach to the stars above. Jesse! James! Team rocket blasts off in the speed of light. Surrender now or prepare to fight! That's right!" Team Rocket's Jesse and James have landed in Pokemon Go. Team Go Rocket has assigned Shadow Pokemon to project Jessie and James as they seek more Pokemon to turn shadow. You can battle them today by finding a Meowth shaped hot air ballon hovering across the Pokemon Go map above your avatar. Tapping this balloon with give you an encounter with both Jessie and James.   Jessie and James are known to have their own unique Pokemon that they fight with. When you fight Jessie you will start the battle facing a Shadow Ekans every time. When you fight James you will battle a Shadow Koffing. After the main two Pokemon: you will face either a Scyther, Sneasel, B...