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What's that, a guaranteed Shiny Eevee? There's a way in which you're going to get maximum experience points this week in Pokemon GO, and it's got just a BIT to do with Armored Mewtwo. This newest Pokemon in the mix has the ability to bring one massive amount of EXP on its own, but with the combination of elements available to us this week, there's a chance we'll be grinding out more points than we've gotten in such a short time in a LONG while. To begin, make sure you've got a few Lucky Eggs handy, and save up your Rewards for one big burst.

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Game Freak and The Pokemon Company have delivered more gameplay footage from Pokemon Sword and Shield, this time in the form of a Japanese TV spot. This latest batch of gameplay footage is all about Pokemon battles, and though we see some familiar shots - particularly of Pokemon roaming Galar's Wild Area - there's also some new stuff we haven't seen before.

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Today we're diving in DEEP with the best Pokemon GO Pokemon since inception - Armored Mewtwo! This Pokemon was released on July 11, 2019, and appeared ONLY in Five Star Raid Battles. Today we're looking not only at the release timing and the surface-level details, we're diving deep, into the code! Here you'll find ALL the information you'll ever need on how to battle, defend against, and catch your own Armored Mewtwo in Pokemon GO as soon as possible!

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Following months of rumors, earlier today Nintendo announced the Nintendo Switch Lite, a smaller version of the Switch that's meant to be played only as a handheld device. That means no docking the Switch Lite to play on a TV and no removable Joy-Cons. It's also priced lower than the standard Switch, running $199.99 to the Switch's $299.99.

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Today we're looking at the most powerful and probably BEST Pokemon in Pokemon GO in Armored Mewtwo, a Pokemon that's set to release this week. This Pokemon will not be available to the general public - not in the wild, anyway - but it WILL be available for capture. The difference between "in the wild" and "in a raid" are slight for some, and massive for others. You don't know true Pokemon Fan PAIN until you've played Pokemon GO in a town with no churches!

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Today we're taking a peek at the next major update to Pokemon GO, an event with no less than Team Rocket! We've been preparing for this event since before day one - go see! Pokemon GO user TeamRocketNorth is ready to take you on up in the Midwest Region! The next major Pokemon GO update will include "some mysterious characters" that've "shown up at PokeStops!"

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Today, The Pokemon Company revealed some new details about Pokemon Sword and Shield. The company previously revealed a new feature called Dynamaxing that allows Pokemon to grow in both size and strength, but today, we learned that we'll have the ability to take things one step further through something called Gigantamaxing. As you might have assumed, Gigantamax Pokemon become even bigger than Dynamax Pokemon, and they also gain a special ability called a G-Max Move.

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So you've been playing Pokemon GO for a few days and you're already ready to start to take the easy route, right? What do you do in the year 2019? You act very, very carefully. Because here in the year 2019, Niantic is not only watching out for cheaters, they're banning them with no holds barred. They've gone nuclear, so to speak.

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Earlier today details leaked on the next big Pokemon GO release: Armored Mewtwo! This already-mega-powerful Pokemon will come to the game with an ARMORED edition, ready to roll in Raid Battles for a "limited time" this summer. Today we're looking at all the details that've been revealed thus far - and we'll be updating as we learn more!

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This morning Niantic made mention of a very impromptu update for the game Pokemon GO as of this evening. This update to the game will likely happen entirely on the server side of things - so you won't necessarily need to update your app file. This event will likely feature Groudon, for starters, and will start at approximately 6PM local time (wherever you happen to be at that time).

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If you've been following news about Pokemon Sword and Shield, then you likely already know that Pokemon fans are not happy. During E3 2019, it was revealed that Sword and Shield won't support all of the Pokemon that have been released thus far. Ever since the days of the Game Boy Advance Pokemon games, players have been able to transfer over their entire collections to new games, and in Sword and Shield, that won't be the case.

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Back at the end of May, The Pokemon Company held a press conference in which it announced a number of new products. Unsurprisingly, Pokemon GO and its new companion accessory Pokemon Sleep got a lot of attention during that press conference, but one interesting thing that only had a quick reveal was a new mobile game called Pokemon Masters. At the time, The Pokemon Company didn't go into much depth about the game, but today, it's beginning to pull the veil back just a little more.

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