{"id":84488,"date":"2019-02-22T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-22T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/02\/new_team_medallion_lets_you_switch_pokemon_go_teams_once_a_year"},"modified":"2019-02-22T09:30:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-22T09:30:00","slug":"new-team-medallion-lets-you-switch-pokemon-go-teams-once-a-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/02\/22\/new-team-medallion-lets-you-switch-pokemon-go-teams-once-a-year\/","title":{"rendered":"New ‘Team Medallion’ Lets You Switch Pok\u00e9mon GO Teams Once A Year"},"content":{"rendered":"
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For many people, the choice of team in Pok\u00e9mon GO<\/a><\/strong> was somewhat arbitrary. While some players no doubt researched Teams Instinct, Mystic and Valor – or joined the same team as their friends – many others selected at random or simply by their favourite primary colour.<\/p>\n

If you’ve been on your lonesome because all your mates chose a different team, now’s your chance to switch sides. From 26th February trainers will be able to use Team Change, a new feature which…, well, you can probably guess what it does.<\/p>\n

The feature does come with some caveats, though. First up, a Team Medallion will cost you 1,000 Pok\u00e9Coins – not too<\/em> bad if you’ve been batting for Team Nosebleeds since the beginning while your mates have been conquering gyms together. Secondly, you’ll only be able to change once a year – a sensible restriction, to our mind. What’s the point in having teams if players were able to switch affiliations at the drop of a hat?<\/p>\n

Once you activate the medallion, any Pok\u00e9mon in a gym will return without earning Pok\u00e9Coins, so that’s something to keep in mind before jumping on Team Bandwagon.<\/p>\n

For many players, the team they went with in the beginning – however ill-thought out the selection may have been – has become their home and they’d never change. We doubt we’ll be switching sides, though this is a great feature for anyone who likes to go hunting with friends but chose poorly when they started catching ‘mon on their mobile.<\/p>\n

Will you be changing sides come 26th February or are you #Team(INSERT-TEAM-HERE) ’til the day you die? Let us know below…<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For many people, the choice of team in Pok\u00e9mon GO was somewhat arbitrary. While some players no doubt researched Teams Instinct, Mystic and Valor – or joined the same team as their friends – many others selected at random or simply by their favourite primary colour. If you’ve been on your lonesome because all your […]<\/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-84488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84488","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=84488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}