{"id":113753,"date":"2020-06-03T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-03T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/06\/pokemon_go_players_can_now_catch_their_first_sword_and_shield_pokemon"},"modified":"2020-06-03T14:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-03T14:30:00","slug":"pokemon-go-players-can-now-catch-their-first-sword-and-shield-pokemon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/06\/03\/pokemon-go-players-can-now-catch-their-first-sword-and-shield-pokemon\/","title":{"rendered":"Pok\u00e9mon GO Players Can Now Catch Their First Sword And Shield Pok\u00e9mon"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This is Perrserker, first found in Pok\u00e9mon Sword and Shield<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Pok\u00e9mon GO<\/a><\/strong> players can get their first taste of Generation 8 action today, as Pok\u00e9mon from the main series’ latest entries, Sword and Shield<\/strong><\/a>, arrive in the app for the first time.<\/p>\n

Usually, new generations are introduced on a yearly basis, with new ‘mon starting to appear as summer comes to an end. This time, developer Niantic appears to have jumped ahead, offering up Galar region Pok\u00e9mon in an entirely new time frame.<\/p>\n

Two new Pok\u00e9mon can be obtained today – both Galarian Meowth, who evolves into Sword and Shield’s Perrserker, and Galarian Zigzagoon, which can eventually evolve into the new Pok\u00e9mon, Obstagoon. You can see how Perrserker appears in your Pok\u00e9dex thanks to the following image posted by Eurogamer.<\/p>\n

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As you can see, the Galar region Pok\u00e9dex now sits just underneath Generation 5’s Unova collection. Generations 6 and 7 – Kalos and Alola, respectively – are still nowhere to be seen and will no doubt arrive at a later date. Datamining actually suggests that Pok\u00e9mon from these regions are all but ready to go in the app, so perhaps it’s only a matter of time.<\/p>\n

Galarian Meowth and Zigzagoon can be found inside 7km eggs, with the former also being available as a reward in the new Throwback Challenge Champion research.<\/p>\n

Have you been playing Pok\u00e9mon GO over these last few months? Will you be adding today’s new monsters to your team? Tell us below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is Perrserker, first found in Pok\u00e9mon Sword and Shield Pok\u00e9mon GO players can get their first taste of Generation 8 action today, as Pok\u00e9mon from the main series’ latest entries, Sword and Shield, arrive in the app for the first time. Usually, new generations are introduced on a yearly basis, with new ‘mon starting […]<\/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-113753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113753","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=113753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}