Pokémon Go’s new event is all about Hoenn Pokémon

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Pokémon Go players can stock up on Pokémon from the Hoenn region this month as part of a two-week event in Niantic's mobile game. Starting on Jan. 15 at 1 p.m. PST, Pokémon from the Hoenn region will appear more often in the wild. Shroomish evolved into Breloom can learn the move Grass Knot, while 7 km eggs will spawn Hoenn Pokémon. During that two-week event, Niantic and The Pokémon Company will also give some love to Feebas, the ugly duckling fish Pokémon of the Hoenn region. A handful of Hoenn Pokémon still aren't available in Pokémon Go, and it remains to be seen if this month's event will bring us closer to their arrival.

Next weekend, Pokémon Go will debut a new kind of global event

Pokémon Go has a fresh kind of event for 2019 - Limited Research - which will offer up a single Pokémon via research quests from PokéStops. Just like with Community Days, this will be your chance to snag a shiny version of the featured Pokémon. It's been a year since Pokémon Go began its popular monthly Community Day events - the 13th one of which is tomorrow, Saturday 12th January, for Totodile. It sounds like Limited Research Days may become a recurring thing, too. On Squirtle community day, specific Stops would always give out shinies - so it was up to players to locate these and then share their location with others throughout their local group.

Pokémon Go's new event receives mixed response from fans

as mentioned in Pokémon Go's latest in-game event - the first of a new type - took place around the world this weekend to a generally mixed response. As a result, most players managed to only complete a few dozen tasks within the time limit. Consequently, this lowered the number of rewards given, and with it the number of shiny rewards players received. Today's Pokémon Go event was surprisingly challenging - interesting to see whether changes are made if/when it returns pic.twitter.com/CYOYorCiOq — Tom Phillips (@tomphillipsEG) January 19, 2019Sure, developer Niantic never guaranteed anyone a Shiny Pokémon as a reward. Fans were split over Shiny rewards not being locked to particular PokéStops (as they were on Squirtle community day).