Missing Halloween News update
We had a successful vote on the Daily Prize Pokémon with the winners being Charcadet and Kangaskhan.

More Gen 9 Pokémon and content were released
Cyclizar counts Class S Legendary Pokémon and can not be bred and not be shiny exchanged. All bred and exchanged Cyclizar before the class change applied are allowed to stay and were not removed.
Paldean Gym Leaders were added to Rematch Gyms, trainers can turn all of their badges in for a level 2499 Cyclizar at the Central Hall of Fame after defeating all of them(repeatable).
Gen 9 Champ Geeta was added to Rematch Gyms. If a trainer manages to win using Cyclizar to defeat at least 2 Pokémon, they will the item Book of Geeta,
Cyclizar can evolve into Koraidon and Miraidon at level 2500 with 900 Happiness using a Book of Geeta.
Koraidon and Miraidon are treated like Kyogre and Groudon and can despite being Class S used for shiny exchange.

New items added.
Boots of Lucifer + upgraded versions having the highest speed boosts and providing sub damage.
Shadow Shard - used for Halloween event item offerings and upgrading Boots of Lucifer. obtained by donating Midnight Pokémon.
Overlord Potion - Fully heals the active Pokémon and revives the Pokémon in the first roster slot based on that healed amount. Weaker against
Shiny Radiator - costs 3k rainbow coins from Rainbow Mart and breaks after usage. Divides required amount of Pokémon in the Shiny Exchange Center by 10 and rounds the value up so there is no need for players to spend ages on maps to catch enough or wait to hatch enough or go all up against the Paldean League over and over again.

Halloween - Event Hungry Ghosts 18 Sep - 20 Nov
Trainers were able to exchange items obtained from maps or shadow shards once per day to advance in event stages and earn their respective rewards including Overlord Potions and Boots of Lucifer.
Trainers were able to fight the Daily Arcade for Spirit Points, obtaining 30 to be awarded a special prize. Also obtaining Masking from the Arcade Owner. By fighting an extreme version of that battle after solving a daily riddle, trainers were able to obtain Midnight Masking. All Masking had a chance to be X-Gendered
Ghost, Fire and Dark types had a 75% experience boost.
During the event, Midnight Greavard was buyable from PokéMerchant

This is a correction of the update news from 25th of August 2023 Mechanics for dyna raids featuring 2 or more enemies were added.
On Shrimpyland map trainers can now search for the small spot featuring an Ancient Treasure Trove. Unlike other Apostles, they can be fought directly without solving a riddle.

New meteor event Starry Skies increases experience points gained by 25% for all trainers until the end of the week.

After several years of Stunfisk and Alomomola, players can now find Seedot and Swablu in the Secret Garden which also includes their Goldens after reaching high global activity for 4 weeks
All Golden Sneasel and Golden Bergmite were successfully put through a 10% chance to have their gender turn to Purified, increasing their power.
Midas Lab rotation, Lillipup and Delibird were rotated out to make space for Tyrogue and Dondozo.
Dondozo can now be obtained by fusing Whiscash and Quagsire. Due to Whiscash being rare, Shiny Barboach were temporarily added to PokéMerchant and trainers were able to buy them.
We are having a trainervote on discord, deciding new Pokémon as Daily Prize Reward.

Golden Month was a success and players were able to obtain a special Golden Deino. The 3 top players each received a different Golden Deoxys form.
Several updates were launched during this month, providing players with a better experience

• We tested our exclusive z-moves, fixed bugs involving them and even improved them further which included making the z-move Armageddon usable again.
• Type immunity was replaced by a 0.25 multiplier. The Pokémon of Players try to use their best moves but only regain energy after getting damaged by an offense move. This way they receive minor damage in exchange for being able to fight longer
• OHKO moves now have improved accuracy and cost less energy but need to undergo another success rate = (user level/opponent level) x 100% + 3%
• The maximum turn limit of sleep and freeze was increased by one turn
• North Hall was expanded to 2nd Dan and can unlock new Solo Challenge Split Decision Ruins
• Normal Variants of Pokémon now gain 5% more experience compared to the other ones
• Wanted by players, we sped up the process of attaching items to your pokémon

But we are not stopping there. Feel free to write a message with your ideas to staff member Matt or join the discord server

Trainers, unite!
The time has come for the biggest community event in Pokégen history! Starting today until 30th June, our trainers across the globe will be working together to unlock amazing rewards.

Here's how it works:
* Phase 1 will last for two weeks. During this time, trainers will earn Attack, Defense, and Speed Points by completing various tasks. During this phase, trainers will earn 50% more experience and money
* Phase 2 will unlock when the community reaches a total of 100,000 points. During this phase, the bonus of Phase 1 will be doubled and an Event Golden will be released!!
* Phase 3 will unlock when the community reaches a total of 200,000 points. During this phase, trainers will earn triple the bonus of Phase 1 instead, and the exclusive event goldens will be released

There are many ways to earn points:
* Attack Points can be earned by completing Dyna or EX Dyna Raids. Higher-difficulty Raids will earn more points. You can repeatedly score in a day to farm more Attack Points.
* Defense Points can be earned by completing battles, leveling up in battle, and catching Pokémon. Catching Pokémon earns 1/3/5 points depending on their stage of evolution.
* Speed Points can be earned by spending money in the PokéMerchant, Trap Box, or Midas Lab. Every $1M spent earns 1 Speed Point. Rescuing the trapped Midnight Pokémon from the trap box instantly nets 10 speed points!

So what are you waiting for? Start earning points today and help us unlock the amazing rewards!
This is our chance to show the world what Pokémon trainers are made of! Let's make history together!
The stakes are high. The rewards are great. The time is now.
Let's go, trainers!

After a small break we are happy to announce some updates while we are improving the implementation of Gen 9 Pokémon to make user experience even better. Yeah you heard right, we are going to add Gen 9 mons. But before that some some smaller changes.
1. Boxes received a filtering system allowing all Players to find specific Pokémon easier without the need of knowing the usage of the search bar for it.
2. midas lab option for goldenizing is only displayed on normal variant pokémon
3. Pokémerchant merged into advanced shop allowing more different Pokémon for players to buy.
- meteorite item for evolving Deoxys and Arceus into it's rock form will be obtainable trough other means
- Team Magma/Aqua related Pokémon will be added later
- Munchlax (Santa) will remain as part of events.
4. Swarming Pokémon for Team Aqua and Magma are no longer randomized by these news updates happening at different shorter or longer times but instead handled every promo update which is happening around every 2 weeks. Also they can be found more frequently on their original map
5. Midnight Pokémon were seen as inferior to other variants. Now for taking care of one and increasing their happiness to 4k, players can change the gender of the Midnight Pokémon to Purified, increasing their stats by 15%.