Key Takeaways
- The Pokemon World Championships often reveal important updates for competitive gameplay, influencing strategies and introducing new items like Room Service.
- Niantic's drip-feed approach to adding content to Pokemon GO allowed for a gradual introduction of creatures, gimmicks, and strategies over time.
- Fans of Generation 8 may see Dynamax and Gigantamax features in Pokemon GO soon, potentially announced at the Pokemon World Championships in 2024.
For the last few years, the Pokemon World Championships have usually brought with it some important announcements such as previews for upcoming titles, DLC, and updates for important relevant games like Pokemon Unite. These announcements are usually catered to the competitive side of the franchise, like revealing items like Room Service that are designed to change up how previous strategies worked in other titles and more — which makes Pokemon GO a rather important title to include as the mobile game has been constantly evolving since its release in 2016.
Considering just how many creatures, gimmicks, and strategies there are to adapt to a game that merges the real world with the fictional pocket monster-filled one, it's understandable that Niantic chose a drip-feed approach when adding things to Pokemon GO over the years. Making sure all six generations — at the time of GO's selective launch — had their place in the game would have been a near-impossible daunting task if the development company didn't focus on the original 150 to start with. It also gave Niantic a way to have content for future updates with ease as this meant they could add Pokemon, events, and gimmicks over time, but some were given better treatment than others.
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Generation 8 Fans Have Waited Five Long Years for Dynamax, Gigantamax, and More in Pokemon GO
The Galar Region Has Been Skipped Over For the Last Five Years of Updates
Generation 8's presence in Pokemon GO is rather strange since the game set a precedent that newer Pokemon will be added to celebrate recent game releases, but Galar currently sits as the one region with the least amount of representation. Almost all the Generation 8 creatures in Pokemon GO are regional forms, with some dating back to 2019 because they were added to promote Pokemon Sword and Shield when they were first released. Due to this, many players were reasonably excited for potential events that tied closely to Galar, its Pokedex, and its Dynamax gimmick only for those features and critters to be left out as other regions shared the spotlight.
While Mega Evolution is currently the only battle gimmick in Pokemon GO, it's understandable as to why the lack of Dynamax in particular has been frustrating after the regional forms of Kanto region creatures were added for marketing purposes and nothing else followed. Not even the Scorbunny, Grookey, and Sobble evolutionary lines are in the game yet when every other starter line, including Paldea's, can be found while players are out and about with ease. Despite introducing regional forms so Paldea's Pokemon could be added to the game during Generation 9's lifecycle, fans of Galar have been left waiting so long that now Pokemon Sword and Shield are celebrating their fifth anniversary this year.
Why Pokemon Sword and Shield Fans Should Keep Their Eyes on the Pokemon World Championships 2024
Thankfully for the fans of Dynamax and Gigantamax, or just Galar in general, the feature has been teased through Pokemon GO's 8th anniversary artwork, and in-progress assets have been found in the game as of recent updates. It seems that the feature is finally hitting the game soon, but other assets have been found in the past that have taken years to be fully realized before. The Pokemon World Championships are the best place to potentially announce this feature if it's coming soon so players should keep their eyes peeled around the time of the event's closing ceremonies.
Galar has spent quite a lot of time taking the backseat to other regions and features, and celebrating Pokemon Sword and Shield's 5th anniversary is the best opportunity Niantic could use to its advantage. On top of that, there's plenty of room for the next few seasons to focus on Galar content rather poignantly considering how much was left absent until now, which would most certainly help the celebration aspect. Hopefully, even if Dynamax, Gigantamax, and the other Galar Pokemon aren't announced at the championships, Niantic won't keep fans waiting much longer.
Pokémon GO
Augmented Reality
Systems
- Franchise
- Pokemon
- Platform(s)
- iOS , Android
- Released
- July 6, 2016
- Developer(s)
- Niantic , The Pokemon Company
- Publisher(s)
- Niantic
- Multiplayer
- Online Multiplayer
- Engine
- Unity
- ESRB
- e
- Steam Deck Compatibility
- n/a
- X|S Enhanced
- n/a
- Platforms
- ios, andriod
- Cross Save
- yes
- Cross-Platform Play
- ios, andriod
