{"id":34220,"date":"2018-07-20T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-20T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/07\/pokemon_lets_go_pikachu_and_eevee_will_have_extra_requirements_to_take_on_gyms"},"modified":"2018-07-20T14:30:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-20T14:30:00","slug":"pokemon-lets-go-pikachu-and-eevee-will-have-extra-requirements-to-take-on-gyms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/07\/20\/pokemon-lets-go-pikachu-and-eevee-will-have-extra-requirements-to-take-on-gyms\/","title":{"rendered":"Pok\u00e9mon Let&#8217;s Go Pikachu And Eevee Will Have Extra Requirements To Take On Gyms"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/07\/pokemon_lets_go_pikachu_and_eevee_will_have_extra_requirements_to_take_on_gyms\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/07\/pokemon_lets_go_pikachu_and_eevee_will_have_extra_requirements_to_take_on_gyms\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"picture embed centered picture-900x img-900x\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"brock.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/07\/pokemon_lets_go_pikachu_and_eevee_will_have_extra_requirements_to_take_on_gyms\/attachment\/0\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/07\/pokemon_lets_go_pikachu_and_eevee_will_have_extra_requirements_to_take_on_gyms\/attachment\/0\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"brock.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>It&#8217;s pretty safe to say that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/pokemon_lets_go_pikachu_and_lets_go_eevee\"><strong>Pok\u00e9mon: Let&#8217;s Go, Pikachu! and Let&#8217;s Go, Eevee!<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0are shaking up the core franchise in ways that we&#8217;ve never seen before. From the way you catch your favourite critters to the way you travel around the lovable Kanto region, things are playing out a little differently this time around &#8211; and Gyms are set to follow this trend, too.<\/p>\n<p>The official Japanese Pok\u00e9mon <a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pokemon.co.jp\/ex\/pika_vee\/\">website<\/a> has recently been updated with some new information and, according to a translation by the folks over at <a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.siliconera.com\/2018\/07\/20\/pokmon-lets-go-adds-a-new-requirement-system-for-challenging-gym-leaders\/\">Siliconera<\/a>, taking on Gym Leaders is about to get a whole lot tougher. If you&#8217;re a fan of the series you&#8217;ll no doubt be aware of the guide who stands at the front of every gym, usually offering players advice on how best to take on the Leader waiting deep within. Well, he&#8217;s about to play a bigger role in proceedings, forcing you to meet certain requirements before you can enter.<\/p>\n<p>The translation suggests that these requirements\u00a0will vary from having &#8220;certain Pok\u00e9mon types, levels, and plenty more&#8221;, with Brock&#8217;s Gym being given as an example. In this Gym, the guide will apparently ask you to present either a grass or water type Pok\u00e9mon before entering the main area. This was actually seen taking place in a screenshot released last month, but was never officially mentioned.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/07\/pokemon_lets_go_pikachu_and_eevee_will_have_extra_requirements_to_take_on_gyms\/attachment\/1\/original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/07\/pokemon_lets_go_pikachu_and_eevee_will_have_extra_requirements_to_take_on_gyms\/attachment\/1\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"guide.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>In one way, having extra requirements to hit sounds quite exciting; almost like little side quests, these could present challenges that have you wandering around to discover new things or train up your party of monsters. On the other hand, though, it sounds scarily restrictive. If Gyms force you to make use of certain Pok\u00e9mon types, this could mean that you&#8217;ll have to sacrifice the party members you want for other, random Pok\u00e9mon, just to tick a box. Hopefully, players will be able to show the Pok\u00e9mon to complete the challenge, and then swap that Pok\u00e9mon out again before taking on the trainers inside.<\/p>\n<p>It will be interesting to hear more about this with a little more clarification over the coming months, as we no doubt expect that fans won&#8217;t be happy if they can&#8217;t use the six Pok\u00e9mon that they want to.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>What do you think about this potential Pok\u00e9mon bombshell? As ever, share your thoughts with us below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s pretty safe to say that Pok\u00e9mon: Let&#8217;s Go, Pikachu! and Let&#8217;s Go, Eevee!\u00a0are shaking up the core franchise in ways that we&#8217;ve never seen before. From the way you catch your favourite critters to the way you travel around the lovable Kanto region, things are playing out a little differently this time around &#8211; [&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-34220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34220","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=34220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}