{"id":115560,"date":"2020-07-17T09:45:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-17T09:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/07\/shiny_wailord_appears_in_pokemon_sword_and_shield_max_raid_battles_for_a_limited_time"},"modified":"2020-07-17T09:45:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-17T09:45:00","slug":"shiny-wailord-appears-in-pokemon-sword-and-shield-max-raid-battles-for-a-limited-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/07\/17\/shiny-wailord-appears-in-pokemon-sword-and-shield-max-raid-battles-for-a-limited-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Shiny Wailord Appears In Pok\u00e9mon Sword And Shield Max Raid Battles For A Limited Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/0cfd1fdea3bde\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/0cfd1fdea3bde\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><\/figure>\n<p>Max Raid Battles have shifted in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/pokemon_sword_and_shield\"><strong>Pok\u00e9mon Sword and Shield<\/strong><\/a> for a limited time, allowing fans to get their hands on an elusive shiny Wailord.<\/p>\n<p>From now until 19th July at 23:59 UTC, Max Raid Battles will feature more water-type Pok\u00e9mon than usual. Players will come across the likes of Kingler, Mantine, Sharpedo, Jellicent, Pyukumuku and more, but it&#8217;s the shiny Wailord that will draw the most attention.<\/p>\n<p>As you may know, a shiny Pok\u00e9mon is a special, very rare variant, often sporting a different colouring to the Pok\u00e9mon&#8217;s usual design. <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.serebii.net\/news\/2020\/17-July-2020.shtml\">Serebii<\/a> reports that shiny Wailord have a 2% chance of appearing in a Raid this weekend &#8211; regular Wailord will also appear, so keep trying if you&#8217;re not having much luck.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Wailord's usual blue colouring. If you spot a purple Wailord, you've found a shiny!\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/735421083de45\/wailords-usual-blue-colouring-if-you-spot-a-purple-wailord-youve-found-a-shiny.original.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg' viewBox='0 0 900 277'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" width=\"900\" height=\"277\" data-original=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/735421083de45\/wailords-usual-blue-colouring-if-you-spot-a-purple-wailord-youve-found-a-shiny.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Wailord's usual blue colouring. If you spot a purple Wailord, you've found a shiny!\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\">Wailord&#8217;s usual blue colouring. If you spot a purple Wailord, you&#8217;ve found a shiny!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Do you like to collect shiny Pok\u00e9mon? Are you working towards completing your Sword and Shield Pok\u00e9dex? Let us know below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Max Raid Battles have shifted in Pok\u00e9mon Sword and Shield for a limited time, allowing fans to get their hands on an elusive shiny Wailord. From now until 19th July at 23:59 UTC, Max Raid Battles will feature more water-type Pok\u00e9mon than usual. Players will come across the likes of Kingler, Mantine, Sharpedo, Jellicent, Pyukumuku [&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-115560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115560","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=115560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}