Ready your Trainer team and brace for impact because Niantic has today revealed that Gigantamax Pokémon will be going large and going home in Pokémon GO Max Battles from 26th-27th October.
You'll want to pull together a team of 10-40 players to take on these six-star Max Battles, which will feature the Gigantamax debuts of the Venusaur, Charizard and Blastoise. They'll be popping up on Power Spots around the world throughout the event, which has so far housed the bigger (but not that much bigger) Dynamax Pokémon since the Max Out season kicked off last month.
Of course, a big old event like this requires a big old trailer and, as ever, Niantic has got us covered. The following Gigantamax reveal even features a new score by the award-winning composer of Game of Thrones, House of the Dragon, Westworld and more, Ramin Djawadi. Not too bad, eh?
The new trailer will likely be a welcome distraction in the world of Pokémon right now after a server hack this weekend saw huge amounts of Game Freak data leaked online allegedly including source code, unused beta designs and the 'Switch 2' code name.
Will you be taking part in these huge Max Battles later this month? Let us know in the comments.
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In pokemon's "greatest challenge yet," you play as a developer of pal world trying to win a lawsuit.
Well, ain't that subtitle the understatement of the century.
@Kiwi_Unlimited Actually, that's probably going to end up being more difficult for Pokémon to win, Palworld I feel has already established itself as its own unique concept.
I'm just hoping that I don't see a dynamax Typhlosion. Bleh...I think it's gonna take me a bit to see that Pokémon normally again.
@IceClimbersMain
Although I'm not actually trying to start a flame war, as both games are great, I really hope you're right, because I love what pal world did with the concepts it brought together.
Still, in litigation, nintendo is second to none in gaming (if they went head to head with Disney, it'd be a courtroom fight for the ashes).
No way I'm finding 10 people to play with me
I personally feel like the Max concept in general is a big swing and a miss for me inside Pokemon Go. I have almost no desire to collect any of these, even for the dex.
@Than64 Agreed, the Max features feel pretty underbaked at launch. Like everything else Niantic releases for Pokemon Go, it'll need to go through a few iterations before it may become somewhat decent, or it'll fall to the wayside like all the other recent gimmicks.
Great to see Gigantamax finally rear its head after being teased for a few months, but it sounds like it's going to be absolutely brutal. Even with three people, 3 star Max raids are a tedious grind (and all for relatively weak Pokémon such as Falinks and Beldum).
Here's hoping that Max points will get a boost as well, as we'll only be able to do one, maybe two Gigantamax raids per day tops, and that's only on those rarer occasions where we can get 10+ people together. Ugh.
I also haven't been happy with the number of Legendary Pokémon that have fled from me post-raid. I wish we could at least use our own balls after the Premier Balls have been exhausted, or be able to swap some of our inventory balls to go toward extra premier balls (God knows a lot of us discard enough regular balls to make space in our inventory as it is).
The lack of enthusiasm for this feature is palpable.
A battle system that's so insular as to only allow the use of Pokémon caught from that battle system, is too much at odds with the huge collection of Pokémon we've collected across the game's lifespan and actively hurts it.
Pokémon Go is increasingly becoming incompatible with its player base with pushing of features that require you to go out in person somewhere, but also making it more challenging to coordinate when the dynamax raids themselves last all day long (as opposed to at a set time like 6pm for Wednesday raid hours, or 2pm for weekend raid day events).
My local Pokémon Go community has drastically dwindled, there's little turn out for these kinds of events any more. If there is a good turn out, it's because the featured Pokémon is interesting.
A gigantamax Charizard you can only use at dynamax raids, is not it.
“The Biggest Challenges Yet” in Pokémon GO? Am I going to have to tap the screen even faster?
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