{"id":34960,"date":"2018-07-23T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-23T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/07\/guide_pokemon_go_lucky_pokemon_-_how_lucky_pokemon_work_and_how_to_catch_them"},"modified":"2018-07-23T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-23T12:00:00","slug":"guide-pokemon-go-lucky-pokemon-how-lucky-pokemon-work-how-to-catch-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/07\/23\/guide-pokemon-go-lucky-pokemon-how-lucky-pokemon-work-how-to-catch-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Guide: Pok\u00e9mon GO Lucky Pok\u00e9mon &#8211; How Lucky Pok\u00e9mon Work &amp; How To Catch Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/07\/guide_pokemon_go_lucky_pokemon_-_how_lucky_pokemon_work_and_how_to_catch_them\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/07\/guide_pokemon_go_lucky_pokemon_-_how_lucky_pokemon_work_and_how_to_catch_them\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"picture embed centered picture-900x img-900x\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"pokemon-go-lucky-pokemon.png\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/07\/guide_pokemon_go_lucky_pokemon_-_how_lucky_pokemon_work_and_how_to_catch_them\/attachment\/0\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/07\/guide_pokemon_go_lucky_pokemon_-_how_lucky_pokemon_work_and_how_to_catch_them\/attachment\/0\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"pokemon-go-lucky-pokemon.png\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/07\/pokemon_go_is_adding_new_lucky_pokemon_which_are_easier_to_power_up\"><strong>Lucky Pok\u00e9mon<\/strong> are about to be introduced into the mix<\/a>, if a recent\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/mobile\/pokemon_go\">Pok\u00e9mon GO<\/a><\/strong> datamine is anything to go by. Looks like you&#8217;re going to have to catch &#8217;em all over again!<\/p>\n<p>In this guide, we&#8217;re going to briefly explain the differences between a Lucky and regular Pok\u00e9mon, and take a look at how you can catch these brand new critters.<\/p>\n<p>Please note that this feature isn&#8217;t actually available in Pok\u00e9mon GO just yet though, so all of the information in this guide is subject to change. We also don&#8217;t know of the exact inner workings just yet, so plenty of this is just speculation at this point.<\/p>\n<h2>Pok\u00e9mon GO Lucky Pok\u00e9mon &#8211; What They Are &amp; How They Differ<\/h2>\n<p>Lucky Pok\u00e9mon are a new type of Pok\u00e9mon in Pok\u00e9mon GO. We assume they&#8217;ll work in a similar manner to Shiny Pok\u00e9mon, in that you&#8217;ll have a small chance to encounter one in the wild.<\/p>\n<p>The difference between a Lucky Pok\u00e9mon and a regular Pok\u00e9mon, is that Lucky Pok\u00e9mon don&#8217;t require as much Stardust to power up, and will include a special background while viewing them in your Pok\u00e9dex. You&#8217;ll also see a new counter displaying the number of Lucky Pok\u00e9mon caught for each species.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Here&#8217;s to your first Pok\u00e9mon GO trade and the first <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PokemonGOfriend?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PokemonGOfriend<\/a> who helped make it happen. Trainers, what Pok\u00e9mon did you receive in your first trade? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DUT2g9f9S1\">pic.twitter.com\/DUT2g9f9S1<\/a><\/span>\u2014 Pok\u00e9mon GO (@PokemonGoApp) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PokemonGoApp\/status\/1021037911330914304?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 22, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>You&#8217;ll know a Pok\u00e9mon is Lucky while viewing it in your list of Pok\u00e9mon. Glance just above its HP and you&#8217;ll see a new &#8216;Lucky Pok\u00e9mon&#8217; label. Check out our tweet above to see all of that in action.<\/p>\n<p>Though we still need to see the update in action to know for sure, it appears like Lucky Pok\u00e9mon will receive a 50% discount on Stardust when powering up.<\/p>\n<h2>Pok\u00e9mon GO Lucky Pok\u00e9mon &#8211; How To Catch Them<\/h2>\n<p>As the feature isn&#8217;t currently live in Pok\u00e9mon\u00a0GO, it&#8217;s not clear exactly how you go about catching a Lucky Pok\u00e9mon. Early speculation includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Rare spawn in the wild like Shiny Pok\u00e9mon<\/li>\n<li>Only appear when traded<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Rest assured that we&#8217;ll update this guide as soon as the feature is live in the game and we&#8217;re aware of how it all works.<\/p>\n<h2>Pok\u00e9mon GO Lucky Pok\u00e9mon &#8211; Can A Pok\u00e9mon Be Both Lucky And\u00a0Shiny?<\/h2>\n<p>This is the million dollar question, and one we&#8217;ll aim to answer just as soon as the feature has rolled out in a future update.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"related\">\n<h2 class=\"heading\">Are you finding this guide useful? 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Looks like you&#8217;re going to have to catch &#8217;em all over again! In this guide, we&#8217;re going to briefly explain the differences between a Lucky and regular Pok\u00e9mon, and take a look at how 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-34960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34960","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=34960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}