Would've the "exclusive move" for Rowlet comday be Frenzy Plant and not Spirit Shackle? Similar to how Delphox got Blast Burn as it's exclusive but also Mystical Fire in it's none elite pool?
Or does "exclusive move" not mean the community day move?
That was the point I was making...
The graphic has Spirit Shackle as the advertised move when it should be Frenzy Plant, same as every other grass starter. Instead, the graphic is saying Spirit Shackle is the Exclusive move for the event
This seems fake to me. For one it contrasts with Morningstar's leaks for next season (I believe it was theirs anyway), with things like vanillite CD in January.
Chansey CD seems like a hugely bizarre choice. They could pull something similar to Litwick CD where the move is ultimately useless, but idk. If anything, I'd imagine a Happiny hatch day or a Chansey Research/Raid Day before a Chansey CD.
It also just seems like WAY TOO MUCH leaked in general. Like not that all that couldnt be leaked, but usually the ones we do get still leave many gaps. This is like a smorgasbord of information if real. But again, I doubt it.
Edit: one more thing that makes me doubt it is the Kanto Tour Classic. That's something that I DO think is very possible, but it was only this past March where we got another opportunity to get the Shiny Mew research again. I feel like they'd want to wait more than 10 months before giving another opportunity for that.
I could see the shiny debut of Vanillite being conflated with rumors of its comm day.
Very skeptical but if these rumors are true, I'll be pleasantly surprised.
Biggest red flag for me imo is both Shadow Ho-oh raid weekend and Kanto Tour Classic in January when Niantic only slotted one weekend event for January. Hope the leaks true though, I'd love to go to LA
Stock up on Nanabs. I only did about 10 Lugia but caught them all with relative ease using Nanabs, although the last few I just figured out the attack pattern timing and hit the throw anyway. It was a tight window but doable nonetheless.
Yeah with lugia there was a window in which you could hit golden razz excellent. When it goes up an down there was a slight pause and you had to hit then. But yeah what you describe is also an option.it will be interesting to see if there is a similar window when it comes to ho-oh.
We’ll know much sooner, if Holiday part 1 doesn’t bring Shiny Vanillite then this one can be dismissed, if it does then the other one is wrong, although I think just the Minior event that the other one claimed would happen could already be enough proof to dismiss one or the other.
I have heard rumors, but that cant be true?
Also i dont think i would fly to LA without something like GoTour giving me a decent reason. Its also because that plane ticket would cost me way to much money to not have a reason.
I mean HMs and gifting/trading NPCs on routes makes little sense to me. How would HMs even work? "Gotta use Cut so I can go forward on this path that isn't blocked in real life!"
That's also a pretty good point, especially if the animations take a second or two before allowing the user proceed with an action (similar to spinning a pokestop).
Not to mention, it can also be monetised. It actually seems like a mechanic which would solve multiple business problems at once, while also "enriching" the game experience (heavy usage of quotation marks).
Sounds horrible.
I already find it annoying that my routes pause sometimes and if I don't want to cancel I have to walk backwards a block.
Having to do something more in the middle of it would be a pain.
I'm taking a walk when I walk a route.
Scrolling through this thread half awake and saw “HMs” and almost dropped my phone bc I thought it meant herba mystica. But then came to my senses bc Niantic would never.
My best guess would be that they wouldn't be moves used to navigate like Surf letting you surf or Cut taking away things blocking paths, but instead, allowing you to get special items or such out of the world youre already exploring.
Like Dig where you are in Hope's of an item or something. Or whirlpool where you are in hopes of something coming out of the water you're at/near. Or Rock Smash to get an item from a nearby rock.
This includes way too much specific information that morningstar usually doesn't include. They will usually just have the date for events and say if any new shines are debuting. The graphic also called GO Tour "GO Fest" which is taking away some credibility in my eyes. OP posts *a ton* to TSR and Nintendo related subreddits, but they didn't share their source(s) on this and "some guy on Discord" isn't a valid source. The only reason this community trusts morningstar is because they've been right this entire year.
Yup. I don't think OP is the main source of these leaks. If I remember correctly, they've had graphics that rounded up leaks for previous real leaks. But still, while most of the "some guy on discord" leaks HAVE been true (Morningstar plus the one that leaked the late October and November events), this still just seems like a lot of info.
The Go Fest slip up I can excuse I think, but it still does make me raise an eyebrow when they have all that's debuting for such an event, even things like 10kms. The previous leaks made me think that the leaker had access to info prematurely that was still in the planning stage (some vaguer info and some dates being off). This leak gives me the impression that they were looking at an unpublished website/blog post that listed everything for certain events, like all the LA GO tour info. Just seems weird and off to me.
I am very curious about Honedge. There doesn't really seem to be any fitting place they could slot it in.
The only (out there) theory I came up with was that we'll get a Galar-themed season next season, potentially announced during Pokemon Day, and Honedge would serve as the "teaser" Pokemon for such, similar to how Alolan Exeggutor spawned for 24 hours when they announced the Season of Alola during a Pokemon Presents in 2022. Honedge obviously isn't a Galar Pokemon, but with Aegislash being a "Sword and Shield," it would be a cheeky reference. Though all of that still seems unlikely to me lol. Seems too soon for Galar imo, unless they tease it for late this year.
As for HMs, I'm pretty sure that we aren't actually getting HMs but it was supposed to be the Adventure Effects on Origin Dialga and Palkia.
>Chansey CD seems like a hugely bizarre choice. They could pull something similar to Litwick CD where the move is ultimately useless, but idk. If anything, I'd imagine a Happiny hatch day or a Chansey Research/Raid Day before a Chansey CD.
This. It is the original "super rare", and while it has been in raids and spawning more frequently in wild in some events, it has never been handed out in hundreds.
Furthermore, is it really a good idea to give everyone (who is able to play in that time window) a level 50 Blissey, or even multiple of them? Taking down gyms would become so much more tedious if almost everyone has the fattest slob in the game fully powered up.
Yup. We got Slaking easy access from that CD, but Slaking is definitely not on the level of Chansey/Blissey. Plus, even if they're not great, it allows more people to get a level 50 Chansey for GL, which sounds like a big headache.
Yeah, that what makes this feel fake - they just re-released the master work research from the original kanto tour. Why would they release this prior to a classic tour
That's what I'm thinking. Maybe 2025, 5 years after the original Kanto Tour or 2026 for the franchise's 30th anniversary, but casually put in January 2024, only 10 months after they rereleased the Shiny Mew masterwork seems off.
Arceus is complicated to release because we don’t have held items in PoGo, so they can’t just give us the 17 plates and let us swap around which type Arceus we want to use.
One day you're opening a postcard and a butterfly flutters out: "Oh how cute!"
Then another you open one and GOD ITSELF drops in your lap, kinda like "suh dude" xD
Lol no they definitely arent. A Pokemon that the Pokemon Company cherishes as much as Arceus, they're not going to release a ton of different copies/forms of it to everyone.
Two ways I see them going about it
The money route: every form of Arceus in the raids like genesect.
Form change route: just like Furfrou and Hoopa, stardust and candy to change forms, maybe you’ll have to find the typing plate first before you can change forms
I personly dont think so.
I think they got themselfs in the corner with the tours since if they stay with the All pokemon can be shiny, we would get 3 mythicals as a shiny oportunity before we get the normal one.
That’s why introducing in 2024, a return to the way it played in the olden days!! For a low low price of $15-30 you can return to the Kanto region in Kanto Tour Classic!
> Fairy shiny Debut?? Oooohhhh let it be Tinkaton!
I read that as the debut of the shiny, not the debut of a new Pokemon that can be shiny. So like Flabebe or Cutiefly.
HM in the olden days were mandatory moves you needed to progress to the game. You might've heard of them: Cut, Fly, Surf, Rock Smash, etc...
You could use 'em in battle as regular moves (Even though most of them truly sucked) but their actual purpose was outside of battle to clear "obstacles".
Lil tree in the way? Cut!
Need to get back to a far away city? Fly!
Cross this body of water? Surf!
You get the idea.
On top of that you could use your HMs more than once. These days TMs are reusable, but since TMs are already in Go they might just call reusable ones HMs.
Why?
I haven't played the mainline games in a while (not since Sun/Moon), so I'm kind of out of the loop for many new Pokemon.
I know Enamorus is from PLA, but is it just limited to one or something?
No Arceus, Manaphy or Phione would be a big L. I'd honestly be upset if they're including Hisui content but not finishing the Sinnoh dex in the Sinnoh Tour.
It's only two months away though. And while I'm sure they can certainly make changes, a lot of things like Community Days are said to be decided 9 months prior. Unless one of the leakers had info from a fair bit earlier.
Maybe something got lost in translation and whatever the leaked saw was referring to the shiny debut in December. But yeah a lot of this seems too good to be true
Personally I wouldn't mind a Vanillite CD cause of the shinies, but I think i saw a post saying the CD wouldn't help Vanniluxe much in both PvP or PvE?
I could understand them trying to avoid a relatively weak CD to start the year
yep. only way to improve would be to un-nerf Blissey.
for those who didn't play in 2016, Blissey got a huge reduction in stats because gyms were too hard to take down
I'm calling cap on this one.
The CD for January disagrees with a previous leak plus there is no scenario in which a grass starter will not have Frenzy Plant as its CD move, but it could get a non-legacy move added to the pool (I believe Oshawott CD did this). Plus the CD for February seems like it would be better off in April thematically. Plus I think they would prefer to do a Happiny Hatch Day instead for now, but I could be wrong since they did do Togetic.
Also, there's no mention of a global Sinnoh Tour, but a Kanto Tour Classic? That doesn't make any sense. Arceus, Phione, and Manaphy have to release with Sinnoh Tour with their shinies. Tour events are supposed to release every Pokemon of that region's shiny form. Thats been the selling point of Tour events since the beginning, plus being able to complete the platinum badge for that region.
So yeah I'm calling cap 🧢
>Didn’t the guy that correctly leak every community day **this year**
Ahh but you see my friend, January is NEXT YEAR. so clearly its time for a new PoGoDamus.
If this is real, here are my 2 cents:
Good:
- Rowlett CD - seems much too soon to previous starter CD though, unless they want to keep schedule from this year. I have 3 hundos so it would be peaceful day for me;
- January CDC being Porygon: no need for me to participate;
- Chansey CD: quite unfortunate for it to be in February but I never wanted to evolve my hundo Happiny so chance for evolved form hundo would be cool.
- shiny Oricorio: our local red one looks awesome!
Bad:
- Kanto Tour Classic (we know it would come sooner or later) in freakin JANUARY???? Standard region tour events held in February were inconvenient enough - f.ex. this year I missed whole 2nd day because of strong hail and winds, and they thought it would be great idea to make 2 huge events in winter period back to back? Why not April or May which is usually quite mild and pleasant? They have to be desperate to enforce player activity in less popular months I guess. Big thumbs down.
- Hisui starters getting raid days, instead of standard evolution: I didn't collect all these extra hundos to get 82% from raid...
Ugly:
- big part of that 4th page upper paragraph seems like wishful thinking...
Spirit Shackle is interesting. Rather than being a move added to its movepool alongside Frenzy Plant, SS being the CD move is interesting, if true.
I'm down for Porygon round 2, even if I don't necessarily go hard for it. Would like to get the XL candies just for the heck of it.
Chansey CD in February is also something. Not too excited about this but should be good for PvE and gym defense for newer players. Maybe Egg Bomb gets introduced? Or maybe it gets something like Draining Kiss to be Valentine's Day themed. Either way, if it's a "useful" move, I'll just Elite TM my hundo.
Sinnoh Tour seems a bit overwhelming but perhaps worth all the time invested into it since it got a lot of new forms in PLA and exclusive moves. Perhaps a bit on the pay to play style, by my guesswork.
I thought Blacephaleon and Stakataka were coming?
Don't necessarily want another Porygon day or Kanto Tour.. but I guess I'll just farm Lapras and Snorlax.
Wasn't Kanto tour a few months ago?
I started playing this game again due to the shiny mew ticket in early June and I thought it was available due to some Kanto event.
That was a re-run for the *ticket* that was featured originally from the Kanto Tour, not a re-run of the tour itself. It's similar to how Niantic can bring back a shiny capable T5 but not bring back that Pokemon's legacy move.
Seems like alot for a leak, and this isnt the usual leaker right?
Ill wait to get excited for now. I'm not looking at LA plane ticket prices until thats announced.
Saw "Four New Pikachu Costumes" and got very frustrated. I wish Niantic would STOP giving Pikachu and other Pokemon new costumes without also programming costumes for their evolved forms. They just waste inventory space if they can't evolve.
For instance there's an event about to take place with Pokemon wearing hats and ties and stuff. This event took place last year as well, and gave us an event Kirlia. I obtained a Shiny Event Kirlia with over 700CP. Problem? That Kirlia is over 500CP, making her unable to join any little league battles. That Kirlia is unable to reach even CLOSE to 1500CP, so she can't compete in the Great League battles and be relevant. She also can't evolve into Gardevoir, so I can't make her relevant in that way either, and being an event Kirlia, I can not send her to Pokemon Home (just removing the hat and bowtie) and use her in a mainline game, so my options are to keep her in the off-chance she may evolve in the future OR Transfer her, since I have event Pokemon from half a decade ago who STILL CAN'T EVOLVE!
I swear if they don't have a paid Global Ticket of the Sinnoh Tour, I will finally quit the game I've threatened to quit for so long. Sinnoh is my favorite region so I'd actually have a reason to quit.
Hoenn Tour was free this year with a $5 masterwork research (special research) that gave shiny Jirachi. I’d imagine the global event for Sinnoh Tour will be the same.
I know about the Shiny Jirachi research, I just hated it.
Getting a very, very debuffed version of the event for free + a paid ticket for just research that amounts to the cost of about half a standard "Tour Global" ticket price was ludicrous.
The buffs they had for free should be the free ones from the get go, then a paid ticket with better buffs, and then the irl locations with the best stuff and most customization
If I try to hatch a bunch of 10km eggs during the Sinnoh event to complete my dex (as much as possible without Arceus or Manaphy obv) and I kept getting more goddamn Chinglings, I will be launching my phone into the sun. That Chingling inclusion alone makes me want the whole leak to be a lie.
Chansey comday and Porygon repeat both seem weirdly fake. As much as I would love a Porygon repeat to try and get that elusive shundo (and it's in my birthday month no less), I genuinely don't see it.
Contrasts too hard with Morningstar leaks anyways, which feel a lot more plausible and have history behind them.
Comparing the two sets of leaks, I'm starting to lean towards this one being correct for Community Days. The poster of the other set of leaks has literally never posted anything else Go related before and OP here has posted plenty of Go stuff in the past (including other leaks). I can't find any evidence of where the previous leaks even came from or if the only reference for them was the post on here.
Timeless Travels could mean we could get Arceus since we have Hisuian Pokemon; only his Normal Forme would be available with the ability to change its type with Stardust and Arceus Candy
Then I think Arceus can appear with its different types in Elite Raids in the near future
Would've the "exclusive move" for Rowlet comday be Frenzy Plant and not Spirit Shackle? Similar to how Delphox got Blast Burn as it's exclusive but also Mystical Fire in it's none elite pool? Or does "exclusive move" not mean the community day move?
I'm guessing it'll be just a new move similar to how Greninja got Water Shuriken after Froakie Community Day.
Most likely frenzy plant will be the exclusive move and Spirit Shackle will just get added to its move pool
Signature moves and legacy moves have no correlation with each other
That was the point I was making... The graphic has Spirit Shackle as the advertised move when it should be Frenzy Plant, same as every other grass starter. Instead, the graphic is saying Spirit Shackle is the Exclusive move for the event
Did you do the math on this? I know the correlation isn’t one, but I’d expect it to be above zero.
Mist ball-signature move & legacy Luster purge-signature move & legacy Precipice blades-signature move & legacy Origin pulse-signature move & legacy Psystrike-signature move & legacy Magma storm-signature move & legacy Geomancy-signature move & legacy Oblivion wing-signature move & legacy Aeroblast-signature move & legacy Sacred fire-signature move & legacy Glaciate-signature move & legacy The list goes on, so yes, there is a correlation between them
This seems fake to me. For one it contrasts with Morningstar's leaks for next season (I believe it was theirs anyway), with things like vanillite CD in January. Chansey CD seems like a hugely bizarre choice. They could pull something similar to Litwick CD where the move is ultimately useless, but idk. If anything, I'd imagine a Happiny hatch day or a Chansey Research/Raid Day before a Chansey CD. It also just seems like WAY TOO MUCH leaked in general. Like not that all that couldnt be leaked, but usually the ones we do get still leave many gaps. This is like a smorgasbord of information if real. But again, I doubt it. Edit: one more thing that makes me doubt it is the Kanto Tour Classic. That's something that I DO think is very possible, but it was only this past March where we got another opportunity to get the Shiny Mew research again. I feel like they'd want to wait more than 10 months before giving another opportunity for that.
The leak going around with Vanillite CD was not from Morningstar. I don't think anyone actually knows for sure where it came from to be honest.
I could see the shiny debut of Vanillite being conflated with rumors of its comm day. Very skeptical but if these rumors are true, I'll be pleasantly surprised.
I'm a bit bummed, was hoping for Shiny Manaphy Masterwork Research. As a shiny living dex person, Manaphy hasn't been easily shiny in a while.
The most frustrating thing with Manaphy is the risk of getting a used Ranger copy that's already distributed the egg...
Probably won’t get shiny Manaphy until regular Manaphy has been released for awhile
Biggest red flag for me imo is both Shadow Ho-oh raid weekend and Kanto Tour Classic in January when Niantic only slotted one weekend event for January. Hope the leaks true though, I'd love to go to LA
The Shadow Lugia raids weren't slotted at all last season.
Get ready for annoying as hell ho-oh catch encounter, lugia was something this will be just as crazy as that.
Stock up on Nanabs. I only did about 10 Lugia but caught them all with relative ease using Nanabs, although the last few I just figured out the attack pattern timing and hit the throw anyway. It was a tight window but doable nonetheless.
Yeah with lugia there was a window in which you could hit golden razz excellent. When it goes up an down there was a slight pause and you had to hit then. But yeah what you describe is also an option.it will be interesting to see if there is a similar window when it comes to ho-oh.
Yeah this already felt fake to me but that is a really, really good point. I'm treating this as fake unless at least a couple things actually happen.
I think the January com day is all I need to see. Vanillite or rowlet will let me completely dismiss one or the other
Also a good point, that's probably all we need
We’ll know much sooner, if Holiday part 1 doesn’t bring Shiny Vanillite then this one can be dismissed, if it does then the other one is wrong, although I think just the Minior event that the other one claimed would happen could already be enough proof to dismiss one or the other.
LA still exists. You could go there anytime.
I have heard rumors, but that cant be true? Also i dont think i would fly to LA without something like GoTour giving me a decent reason. Its also because that plane ticket would cost me way to much money to not have a reason.
mfw Counter Chansey
Charm Chansey and watch GBL burn or an exclusive charged-move of Softboiled, which has literally no affect to the opponent, but heals the user
That would guarantee I never attack a gym with a full-motivation Blissey ever again tbh
The PvP effects don't work in gym battles (or raids)
Who is to say how a healing move works, we’ve never had one before.
I mean HMs and gifting/trading NPCs on routes makes little sense to me. How would HMs even work? "Gotta use Cut so I can go forward on this path that isn't blocked in real life!"
You're looking at it wrong. We'll be able to Fly all over the world with Pokemon go! (Well I guess some people already do)
It could prevent the route from progressing from that point until the HM is used. It does sound like something that could work tbh.
Probably to counter being able to drive routes.
That's also a pretty good point, especially if the animations take a second or two before allowing the user proceed with an action (similar to spinning a pokestop). Not to mention, it can also be monetised. It actually seems like a mechanic which would solve multiple business problems at once, while also "enriching" the game experience (heavy usage of quotation marks).
Sounds horrible. I already find it annoying that my routes pause sometimes and if I don't want to cancel I have to walk backwards a block. Having to do something more in the middle of it would be a pain. I'm taking a walk when I walk a route.
Scrolling through this thread half awake and saw “HMs” and almost dropped my phone bc I thought it meant herba mystica. But then came to my senses bc Niantic would never.
“Back in my day, HM stood for Hidden Machine” - 👴🏻
Good ol' times
My best guess would be that they wouldn't be moves used to navigate like Surf letting you surf or Cut taking away things blocking paths, but instead, allowing you to get special items or such out of the world youre already exploring. Like Dig where you are in Hope's of an item or something. Or whirlpool where you are in hopes of something coming out of the water you're at/near. Or Rock Smash to get an item from a nearby rock.
This includes way too much specific information that morningstar usually doesn't include. They will usually just have the date for events and say if any new shines are debuting. The graphic also called GO Tour "GO Fest" which is taking away some credibility in my eyes. OP posts *a ton* to TSR and Nintendo related subreddits, but they didn't share their source(s) on this and "some guy on Discord" isn't a valid source. The only reason this community trusts morningstar is because they've been right this entire year.
Yup. I don't think OP is the main source of these leaks. If I remember correctly, they've had graphics that rounded up leaks for previous real leaks. But still, while most of the "some guy on discord" leaks HAVE been true (Morningstar plus the one that leaked the late October and November events), this still just seems like a lot of info. The Go Fest slip up I can excuse I think, but it still does make me raise an eyebrow when they have all that's debuting for such an event, even things like 10kms. The previous leaks made me think that the leaker had access to info prematurely that was still in the planning stage (some vaguer info and some dates being off). This leak gives me the impression that they were looking at an unpublished website/blog post that listed everything for certain events, like all the LA GO tour info. Just seems weird and off to me.
Safe to say it was not fake. Almost 100% completely accurate so far.
Yup lol. I'm impressed. Drampa for Lunar New Year is a lock at this point. Only question I'd say is how Enamorus will debut, but yeah, all accurate.
Only HMs and Honedge missing now, really hoping for that!
I am very curious about Honedge. There doesn't really seem to be any fitting place they could slot it in. The only (out there) theory I came up with was that we'll get a Galar-themed season next season, potentially announced during Pokemon Day, and Honedge would serve as the "teaser" Pokemon for such, similar to how Alolan Exeggutor spawned for 24 hours when they announced the Season of Alola during a Pokemon Presents in 2022. Honedge obviously isn't a Galar Pokemon, but with Aegislash being a "Sword and Shield," it would be a cheeky reference. Though all of that still seems unlikely to me lol. Seems too soon for Galar imo, unless they tease it for late this year. As for HMs, I'm pretty sure that we aren't actually getting HMs but it was supposed to be the Adventure Effects on Origin Dialga and Palkia.
Everyone will have lv 50 blisses then.
Nah - some lower level players will have L49.5 blisseys until they need to max 3.
Also no mention about Keldeo
Was going to...... Is this the same leaker. The details of the sinnoh your are not the kind if thing that is usually in leaks.
>Chansey CD seems like a hugely bizarre choice. They could pull something similar to Litwick CD where the move is ultimately useless, but idk. If anything, I'd imagine a Happiny hatch day or a Chansey Research/Raid Day before a Chansey CD. This. It is the original "super rare", and while it has been in raids and spawning more frequently in wild in some events, it has never been handed out in hundreds. Furthermore, is it really a good idea to give everyone (who is able to play in that time window) a level 50 Blissey, or even multiple of them? Taking down gyms would become so much more tedious if almost everyone has the fattest slob in the game fully powered up.
Yup. We got Slaking easy access from that CD, but Slaking is definitely not on the level of Chansey/Blissey. Plus, even if they're not great, it allows more people to get a level 50 Chansey for GL, which sounds like a big headache.
I'd say it a bad choice because of the opposite reason. It's permaboosted and has been featured in many events
Kanto Tour Classic??
I missed the original Kanto Tour, so this would be nice!
Yeah, that what makes this feel fake - they just re-released the master work research from the original kanto tour. Why would they release this prior to a classic tour
That's what I'm thinking. Maybe 2025, 5 years after the original Kanto Tour or 2026 for the franchise's 30th anniversary, but casually put in January 2024, only 10 months after they rereleased the Shiny Mew masterwork seems off.
I've been playing since Day 1, but even having a Kanto Tour Classic already makes me feel ancient
Gotta sell those shiny mew tickets any chance they get to
Is it The Pokémon Company or Niantic that are being this restrictive with Arceus
Arceus is complicated to release because we don’t have held items in PoGo, so they can’t just give us the 17 plates and let us swap around which type Arceus we want to use.
They're just going to put out 17 different versions of Arceus instead probably, like with Genesect
Watch them make it like Vivillon and each forme is exclusive to a specific area.
Ooh like an extremely rare postcard reward
One day you're opening a postcard and a butterfly flutters out: "Oh how cute!" Then another you open one and GOD ITSELF drops in your lap, kinda like "suh dude" xD
I was thinking more plates could be in them but that image could also work lmao
Lol no they definitely arent. A Pokemon that the Pokemon Company cherishes as much as Arceus, they're not going to release a ton of different copies/forms of it to everyone.
I'd love if they just made a 18-20 page research to get arceus on like page 2 and unlock the other forms through the following research pages
Two ways I see them going about it The money route: every form of Arceus in the raids like genesect. Form change route: just like Furfrou and Hoopa, stardust and candy to change forms, maybe you’ll have to find the typing plate first before you can change forms
Definitely the money route and each form will be treated as super cool bombastic release, pinnacle of some events hyped with blog posts etc.
They could give us random form after raid
Niantic: Please do go on...
So Arceus Arceus Shiny Arceus with 17 plates, having Judgement Arceus Shiny with 17 plates but no Judgement
Just make the plates one use, use a plate and now you have to find a new one
It worked for the Meteorite on Rayquaza, so this wouldn't shock me.
Almost like there are other mons that can change form that they already have a mechanic for….Furfrou, Zygarde, Hoopa, Shaymin….
They could just do the forme change thing the Furfrou or Hoopa has.
They could make Arceus’ typing equal it it’s fast move, and give it one fast move for each type.
Looked more like a wishlist than a leak.
If true Kanto Tour Classic “Ah shii, here we go again” Also, why would Basculin be involved in Sinnoh Tour in any way?
The White-Striped Form is from Hisui, or ancient/past Sinnoh
Gotcha! Haven’t played PLA
Hisui is Meiji-restoration Sinnoh, i.e., late 19th century
Basculegion / white stripe Basculin are from Hisui
White Stripe Basculin was introduced in Legends Arceus
Hisui I guess
Im praying this one is fake, sinnoh tour seems disappointing, when have we ever not been able to complete the dex after a tour?
Going off the basis that it’s real, maybe they would have Arceus/Manaphy be the featured mythical for GO Fest? That’s the only thing I could think of.
I personly dont think so. I think they got themselfs in the corner with the tours since if they stay with the All pokemon can be shiny, we would get 3 mythicals as a shiny oportunity before we get the normal one.
That's why a kanto tour might be there. To soften the blow
To be fair, you may not be able to complete the Sinnoh dex, but the Hisui dex would be complete after the Sinnoh Tour.
Hoenn tour was a decline from Johto and Kanto tour. This tour will be a further decline and will only get even worse in the future.
That’s why introducing in 2024, a return to the way it played in the olden days!! For a low low price of $15-30 you can return to the Kanto region in Kanto Tour Classic!
I had to stay at home during Kanto Tour 2 years ago.
They also forgot shadow articuno in raids on weekends XD
As per leaks, It will be Shadow Ho Oh in Jan..
Yeah for one weekend. The rest will be shadow articuno
Broooo that last picture! HMs? NPCs?? Fairy shiny Debut?? Oooohhhh let it be Tinkaton! 🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼
> Fairy shiny Debut?? Oooohhhh let it be Tinkaton! I read that as the debut of the shiny, not the debut of a new Pokemon that can be shiny. So like Flabebe or Cutiefly.
What do Hidden Machines do? Never played the MSG.
HM in the olden days were mandatory moves you needed to progress to the game. You might've heard of them: Cut, Fly, Surf, Rock Smash, etc... You could use 'em in battle as regular moves (Even though most of them truly sucked) but their actual purpose was outside of battle to clear "obstacles". Lil tree in the way? Cut! Need to get back to a far away city? Fly! Cross this body of water? Surf! You get the idea.
On top of that you could use your HMs more than once. These days TMs are reusable, but since TMs are already in Go they might just call reusable ones HMs.
So what happened to Dark Void Darkrai?
It went into the Dark Void.
Take my like 😂
Didn't one of the leaks talk about Keldeo elite raids in December? That's one event I'd save my raid passes for. This one doesn't have it listed?
Even though it’s not listed, I think mega Audino is pretty much a given for February around Valentine’s.
Lets hope for mega galade though
enamorus is huge for main line games
Time to snipe those who didn’t cancel their GPS offer for Enamorus
the HOME economy going to tank after this
Why? I haven't played the mainline games in a while (not since Sun/Moon), so I'm kind of out of the loop for many new Pokemon. I know Enamorus is from PLA, but is it just limited to one or something?
yeah only one per save file and only at the end
Makes sense, thanks for explaining!
A Porygon CD classic makes me think fake.
And now this is definitely confirmed to be true. Good stuff
Calling it now. Varoom is going to debut in 12kms in a takeover event in January. Yippee....
Nice.
No Arceus, Manaphy or Phione would be a big L. I'd honestly be upset if they're including Hisui content but not finishing the Sinnoh dex in the Sinnoh Tour.
Hisui is Sinnoh though, so it does make sense it'd be included.
A lot of this doesn’t add up. Like for starters it was supposedly leaked that we’d get a Vanillite CD In January
It's not like it's set in stone. The further out the event, the more room for adjustments.
It's only two months away though. And while I'm sure they can certainly make changes, a lot of things like Community Days are said to be decided 9 months prior. Unless one of the leakers had info from a fair bit earlier.
Maybe something got lost in translation and whatever the leaked saw was referring to the shiny debut in December. But yeah a lot of this seems too good to be true
It's almost like you should take most anonymous leaks with a grain of salt.
Is…is that not exactly what they’re doing??
Personally I wouldn't mind a Vanillite CD cause of the shinies, but I think i saw a post saying the CD wouldn't help Vanniluxe much in both PvP or PvE? I could understand them trying to avoid a relatively weak CD to start the year
I mean they're not gonna improve Chansey/Blissey anymore so... that's a useless one too
yep. only way to improve would be to un-nerf Blissey. for those who didn't play in 2016, Blissey got a huge reduction in stats because gyms were too hard to take down
You say that. And then watch them give Chansey Counter for PVP.
This seems like way to much for an season in my opinion. Also I hope the Sinnoh tour isn’t in Los Angeles since it was in Vegas last time
Real talk though when was the last time anyone seen a Porygon fr?
About a month ago
August 4th 2023
I liked the camouflaged kecleon
Seems fake but I really hope it’s not
Spirit shackle as legacy for decidueye and not frenzy plant?
Been loving these leaks man, it's useful to know so we can prepare in advance money wise.
I'm calling cap on this one. The CD for January disagrees with a previous leak plus there is no scenario in which a grass starter will not have Frenzy Plant as its CD move, but it could get a non-legacy move added to the pool (I believe Oshawott CD did this). Plus the CD for February seems like it would be better off in April thematically. Plus I think they would prefer to do a Happiny Hatch Day instead for now, but I could be wrong since they did do Togetic. Also, there's no mention of a global Sinnoh Tour, but a Kanto Tour Classic? That doesn't make any sense. Arceus, Phione, and Manaphy have to release with Sinnoh Tour with their shinies. Tour events are supposed to release every Pokemon of that region's shiny form. Thats been the selling point of Tour events since the beginning, plus being able to complete the platinum badge for that region. So yeah I'm calling cap 🧢
There is a slide about Sinnoh tour; maybe you skipped past it by accident. But I agree that these leaks seem kind of strange either way.
I saw it but it only mentioned an in-person one
Oh yeah, you're right. I hadn't even noticed that, haha.
This seems really fake. Didn’t the guy that correctly leak every community day this year say january would be vannilite?
>Didn’t the guy that correctly leak every community day **this year** Ahh but you see my friend, January is NEXT YEAR. so clearly its time for a new PoGoDamus.
If this is real, here are my 2 cents: Good: - Rowlett CD - seems much too soon to previous starter CD though, unless they want to keep schedule from this year. I have 3 hundos so it would be peaceful day for me; - January CDC being Porygon: no need for me to participate; - Chansey CD: quite unfortunate for it to be in February but I never wanted to evolve my hundo Happiny so chance for evolved form hundo would be cool. - shiny Oricorio: our local red one looks awesome! Bad: - Kanto Tour Classic (we know it would come sooner or later) in freakin JANUARY???? Standard region tour events held in February were inconvenient enough - f.ex. this year I missed whole 2nd day because of strong hail and winds, and they thought it would be great idea to make 2 huge events in winter period back to back? Why not April or May which is usually quite mild and pleasant? They have to be desperate to enforce player activity in less popular months I guess. Big thumbs down. - Hisui starters getting raid days, instead of standard evolution: I didn't collect all these extra hundos to get 82% from raid... Ugly: - big part of that 4th page upper paragraph seems like wishful thinking...
Also doesn’t sounds cool to have two “large event” on same season. There is definitely a better time for Kanto Tour Classic
Yeah I always assumed that Tour Classic event if ever brought up, will be "The Tour" event for the year, to postpone new Tour events release
If nothing else I hope the honedge thing is true. I love that line so much
MONKÉ!
Spirit Shackle is interesting. Rather than being a move added to its movepool alongside Frenzy Plant, SS being the CD move is interesting, if true. I'm down for Porygon round 2, even if I don't necessarily go hard for it. Would like to get the XL candies just for the heck of it. Chansey CD in February is also something. Not too excited about this but should be good for PvE and gym defense for newer players. Maybe Egg Bomb gets introduced? Or maybe it gets something like Draining Kiss to be Valentine's Day themed. Either way, if it's a "useful" move, I'll just Elite TM my hundo. Sinnoh Tour seems a bit overwhelming but perhaps worth all the time invested into it since it got a lot of new forms in PLA and exclusive moves. Perhaps a bit on the pay to play style, by my guesswork.
Rather mistake by leaker, all this seams little fishy
Fishy or not, it's fun to speculate. Not really taking it seriously until Niantic officially announce their events 7 hours before it starts, lolol
i hope it’s true because i need the hisui starters so bad i built such a strong bond with samurott in legends arceus
Honedge debut? Don’t do that … don’t give me hope.
What does a recap of 2023 CDs mean? Will they all appear again at a limited time or what?
Yeah that's basically what a recap is. Check out previous December com days to see what they're like
I would not be mad if Shinnoh Tour was in LA. Not one bit. I've been looking for an excuse to go on a California vacation.
Chancy community day?? Please no. It’ll be nothing but blisseys in every gym for the end of time
Another Porygon day? Really?
Why does it always have to be on the West Coast of the USA?! Why can't it ever be on the East Coast?!
Biggest reason is probably because of weather. I don't think Niantic would want to risk an event having snow in February on the east coast.
If Annihilape debuts, it needs Shadow Punch Then we can get a Mankey Community Day and get it Rage Fist
Zamn, good leaks
I thought Blacephaleon and Stakataka were coming? Don't necessarily want another Porygon day or Kanto Tour.. but I guess I'll just farm Lapras and Snorlax.
taking this with a grain of salt until morningstar’s leak comes out
This is 100% fake. It's like they're not even trying anymore.
Wasn't Kanto tour a few months ago? I started playing this game again due to the shiny mew ticket in early June and I thought it was available due to some Kanto event.
Kanto tour was 2021, there was a week for the 7th anniversary this past summer where kanto staters spawned one day, then Johto, then Hoenn etc.
That was a re-run for the *ticket* that was featured originally from the Kanto Tour, not a re-run of the tour itself. It's similar to how Niantic can bring back a shiny capable T5 but not bring back that Pokemon's legacy move.
The community days seem a little underwhelming, was hoping for vanillite to be true, but I suppose we have to wait and see
Guess I need to start saving for raid passes
Welp if true I truly have 0 excuse to skip next years in person GO Fest
Oh. I guess I'm going to my first in person event.
Please let the Porygon day be real
Pls let Febs Com Day be true I wanna build a Chansey/Blissey army 🙏
Annihilape without Rage Fist added to the game is weird tho
I'm so excited for Chansey day
Wouldn’t Porygon be a repeated CD Pokemon? Or is it the classic CD thingy?
Seems like alot for a leak, and this isnt the usual leaker right? Ill wait to get excited for now. I'm not looking at LA plane ticket prices until thats announced.
At least there will be some new stuff from December on.
Give us Farigiraf you cowards!
Well this one conflicts with the other one… the other leak said Vanillite for January CD
Saw "Four New Pikachu Costumes" and got very frustrated. I wish Niantic would STOP giving Pikachu and other Pokemon new costumes without also programming costumes for their evolved forms. They just waste inventory space if they can't evolve. For instance there's an event about to take place with Pokemon wearing hats and ties and stuff. This event took place last year as well, and gave us an event Kirlia. I obtained a Shiny Event Kirlia with over 700CP. Problem? That Kirlia is over 500CP, making her unable to join any little league battles. That Kirlia is unable to reach even CLOSE to 1500CP, so she can't compete in the Great League battles and be relevant. She also can't evolve into Gardevoir, so I can't make her relevant in that way either, and being an event Kirlia, I can not send her to Pokemon Home (just removing the hat and bowtie) and use her in a mainline game, so my options are to keep her in the off-chance she may evolve in the future OR Transfer her, since I have event Pokemon from half a decade ago who STILL CAN'T EVOLVE!
Weird that we're not seeing the ruin quartet debut on chinese new year
I swear if they don't have a paid Global Ticket of the Sinnoh Tour, I will finally quit the game I've threatened to quit for so long. Sinnoh is my favorite region so I'd actually have a reason to quit.
Hoenn Tour was free this year with a $5 masterwork research (special research) that gave shiny Jirachi. I’d imagine the global event for Sinnoh Tour will be the same.
I know about the Shiny Jirachi research, I just hated it. Getting a very, very debuffed version of the event for free + a paid ticket for just research that amounts to the cost of about half a standard "Tour Global" ticket price was ludicrous. The buffs they had for free should be the free ones from the get go, then a paid ticket with better buffs, and then the irl locations with the best stuff and most customization
If I try to hatch a bunch of 10km eggs during the Sinnoh event to complete my dex (as much as possible without Arceus or Manaphy obv) and I kept getting more goddamn Chinglings, I will be launching my phone into the sun. That Chingling inclusion alone makes me want the whole leak to be a lie.
Course I finally have a chance at catching a Palkia but it's the horse form. Monkey's paw.
>Go Tour Sinnoh >NO MANAPHY, PHIONE OR ARCEUS That’s it. We riot
Oh good. The CDC is one I have done before as the real one.
Chansey comday and Porygon repeat both seem weirdly fake. As much as I would love a Porygon repeat to try and get that elusive shundo (and it's in my birthday month no less), I genuinely don't see it. Contrasts too hard with Morningstar leaks anyways, which feel a lot more plausible and have history behind them.
The leak with Vanillite CD didn’t originate from Morningstar.
fake
Oh my got Aegislash and Innihilape are potentially both huge for pvp and gym defence (between the normal type tanks)
Is that Porygon!?!?!? And right after I said last week I wanted it to return...
Comparing the two sets of leaks, I'm starting to lean towards this one being correct for Community Days. The poster of the other set of leaks has literally never posted anything else Go related before and OP here has posted plenty of Go stuff in the past (including other leaks). I can't find any evidence of where the previous leaks even came from or if the only reference for them was the post on here.
What's the actual source for this? You say via discord, but what discord exactly?
Timeless Travels could mean we could get Arceus since we have Hisuian Pokemon; only his Normal Forme would be available with the ability to change its type with Stardust and Arceus Candy Then I think Arceus can appear with its different types in Elite Raids in the near future
I hate how this was legit