{"id":109620,"date":"2020-02-26T00:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-26T00:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/02\/pokemon_go_celebrates_pokemon_day_with_the_return_of_armored_mewtwo"},"modified":"2020-02-26T00:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T00:30:00","slug":"pokemon-go-celebrates-pokemon-day-with-the-return-of-armored-mewtwo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/02\/26\/pokemon-go-celebrates-pokemon-day-with-the-return-of-armored-mewtwo\/","title":{"rendered":"Pok\u00e9mon GO Celebrates Pok\u00e9mon Day With The Return Of Armored Mewtwo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/d3c045f9b1361\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/d3c045f9b1361\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/d3c045f9b1361\/1280x720.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[embedded content]<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The Pok\u00e9mon Company and Niantic have already started this year&#8217;s Pok\u00e9mon Day celebrations in <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/mobile\/pokemon_go\">Pok\u00e9mon GO<\/a><\/strong> with a limited-time event featuring Armored Mewtwo, Clone Pok\u00e9mon in Raid Battles and special party-hat Pok\u00e9mon.<\/p>\n<p>This all ties in with the Netflix debut of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/01\/pokemon_mewtwo_strikes_back_evolution_makes_its_netflix_debut_on_27th_february\">Pok\u00e9mon: Mewtwo Strikes Back\u2014Evolution<\/a><\/em> on Pok\u00e9mon Day:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Armored Mewtwo will return to Pok\u00e9mon GO in five-star raids during the Pok\u00e9mon Day Celebration event, and this time it&#8217;ll know the exclusive Charged Attack Psystrike!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Clone Pok\u00e9mon include Venusaur, Charizard and Blastoise, and the party hat Pok\u00e9mon are Pikachu and Eevee. There&#8217;ll also be eggs (appearing in one-star raids) that hatch party hat Bulbasaur, Charmander and Squirtle, and there are even shiny variants.<\/p>\n<p>Last but not least is a classic confrontation:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve ever played Pok\u00e9mon Red, you might recall the iconic intro sequence that features Nidorino battling Gengar. That beloved moment will be honored during Pok\u00e9mon GO&#8217;s Pok\u00e9mon Day Celebration in a Raid Day event on Sunday, March 1, 2020, from 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. in your local time zone.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>During this time, Nidorino wearing party hats will be appearing in two-star raids, and party hat\u2013wearing Gengar that know Lick and Psychic will be appearing in four-star raids. If you&#8217;re lucky, you might encounter a Shiny Nidorino or Shiny Gengar wearing a party hat!<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>To out players during this period, you&#8217;ll be able to receive up to five Raid Passes at no cost during the Raid Day event by spinning Photo Discs at Gyms.<\/p>\n<p><em>This event runs from now until 2nd March. Will you be booting up GO on your mobile device to celebrate Pok\u00e9mon Day? Leave a comment down below.<\/em><em><br \/><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[embedded content] The Pok\u00e9mon Company and Niantic have already started this year&#8217;s Pok\u00e9mon Day celebrations in Pok\u00e9mon GO with a limited-time event featuring Armored Mewtwo, Clone Pok\u00e9mon in Raid Battles and special party-hat Pok\u00e9mon. This all ties in with the Netflix debut of Pok\u00e9mon: Mewtwo Strikes Back\u2014Evolution on Pok\u00e9mon Day: Armored Mewtwo will return to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}