If you've been wanting more Pokémon avatars for your Switch, the Switch Online 'Missions and Rewards' program is now offering new and returning icons.
As highlighted by Serebii.net, you can now get icons based on Pokémon Scarlet and Violet's DLC offerings. The first wave is now underway and will be followed by multiple other icons featuring trainers and various Pokémon from the newest entries.
Here's a look at what's up for grabs (including a Shiny Rayquaza):
NSO Icon Alerts on social media has provided a closer look at the first wave of offerings based on The Teal Mask. The avatars are 10 Platinum Points each and borders & backgrounds will set you back 5 Platinum Points each.
In some related news, a new distribution event is also available for Scarlet and Violet. And in some other Pokémon news this week, Scarlet and Violet have also surpassed the sales of Pokémon Red and Green in Japan. You can learn more about this in our previous coverage on Nintendo Life:
Will you be grabbing any of these new icons? Let us know in the comments.
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I know the answer is, "Pokemon Company absolutely loves completely arbitrary restrictions," but it really is dumb how every icon they do for a legendary, along with some other things like Ceruledge and the professors, feel the need to have pre-assigned backgrounds for basically no reason.
Why can't other games have returning icons?
I'm still frustrated I missed out on the Nia icons.
Nice, getting the new icons (should already have all the returning ones, but we'll see) as soon as I can!
@Mariotag Wouldn't be shocked if they rerun them when X comes out, given all of the other Xenoblade games are grouped as one game (which should be how every series handles this stuff, it's a million times better).
@Mariotag Nintendo tends to spend the last two-ish weeks of the year rerunning old NSO icons, with a lot of platinum points being given so you can purchase almost anything you want. It is unlikely you'll get all three Nias, but you might get 1 or 2 since they don't redo the entire wave, just spend 2 days dedicated to a particular title across something like 14 days. This would be the third year they've done this, and Nintendo likes to toss aside patterns and precedents without much care.
Finally! A reason to subscribe to NSO! 🤪
@Nua Alright! That'll be nice!
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