{"id":109659,"date":"2020-02-27T00:45:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-27T00:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/02\/mewtwo_and_the_kanto_starters_are_now_appearing_in_pokemon_sword_and_shield_max_raid_battles"},"modified":"2020-02-27T00:45:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-27T00:45:00","slug":"mewtwo-and-the-kanto-starters-are-now-appearing-in-pokemon-sword-and-shield-max-raid-battles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/02\/27\/mewtwo-and-the-kanto-starters-are-now-appearing-in-pokemon-sword-and-shield-max-raid-battles\/","title":{"rendered":"Mewtwo And The Kanto Starters Are Now Appearing In Pok\u00e9mon Sword And Shield Max Raid Battles"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/3e13383d06641\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/3e13383d06641\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/3e13383d06641\/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>To celebrate this year&#8217;s Pok\u00e9mon Day, from now until the 2nd March, Mewtwo and the Kanto region starters will be appearing in Max Raid Battles in <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/pokemon_sword_and_shield\">Pok\u00e9mon Sword and Shield<\/a><\/strong>. Gigantamax Grimmsnarl, Kingler, Hatterene, Orbeetle and Toxtricity will also show up from time to time.<\/p>\n<p>As exciting as this may sound, unfortunately, you won&#8217;t be able to catch Mewtwo. While we&#8217;re sure many trainers would love to stockpile this particular pocket monster, it won&#8217;t be possible during this limited-time Wild Area event. Instead, you&#8217;ll receive a bunch of rewards every time you defeat the legendary.<\/p>\n<p>An armored version of Mewtwo has also made its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/02\/pokemon_go_celebrates_pokemon_day_with_the_return_of_armored_mewtwo\">return<\/a> to the mobile-hit <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/mobile\/pokemon_go\">Pok\u00e9mon GO<\/a><\/strong>. This ties in with Pok\u00e9mon Day and the release 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 Netflix. Above is a look at the official Japanese trailer for Mewtwo Max Raid Battles in Sword and Shield. We&#8217;ll share more details when the English Pok\u00e9mon website is updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[embedded content] To celebrate this year&#8217;s Pok\u00e9mon Day, from now until the 2nd March, Mewtwo and the Kanto region starters will be appearing in Max Raid Battles in Pok\u00e9mon Sword and Shield. Gigantamax Grimmsnarl, Kingler, Hatterene, Orbeetle and Toxtricity will also show up from time to time. As exciting as this may sound, unfortunately, you [&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-109659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109659","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=109659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}