Gain the Upper Hand in Pokémon Go’s Sparring Partners raid day

Put your boxing gloves on because Pokémon Go’s Sparring Partners event is filled to the brim with powerful fighting types. The event focuses on three fighting-type Pokémon for you to encounter during raids with your friends and the addition of a new charged attack. Pokémon Go’s raid day events are great excuses to get outside and start battling, as they always feature decent shiny odds for some cool Pokémon. Sparring Partners focuses on the fighting Pokémon Hariyama, Scraggy, and Mega Heracross, which is a bug and fighting powerhouse. Hariyama and Scraggy will appear more frequently in regular raid battles, whereas you’ll have to take part in Mega Raids to find Heracross. As well as the standard raid day bonuses of free raid passes, timed research, and a higher remote raid limit, Sparring Partners introduces the charged gen 9 Pokémon move, Upper Hand, to the move pool. During and following the event, all three featured Pokémon can learn the charged move, potentially making them more competitively viable as the move has a chance to lower the opponent’s defense. Continue reading Gain the Upper Hand in Pokémon Go’s Sparring Partners raid day MORE FROM POCKET TACTICS: Pokémon Go Eevee evolution guide, Pokédex – all Pokémon listed, Pokémon Go promo codes

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Gain the Upper Hand in Pokémon Go’s Sparring Partners raid day
Gain the Upper Hand in Pokémon Go’s Sparring Partners raid day

Put your boxing gloves on because Pokémon Go’s Sparring Partners event is filled to the brim with powerful fighting types. The event focuses on three fighting-type Pokémon for you to encounter during raids with your friends and the addition of a new charged attack.

Pokémon Go’s raid day events are great excuses to get outside and start battling, as they always feature decent shiny odds for some cool Pokémon. Sparring Partners focuses on the fighting Pokémon Hariyama, Scraggy, and Mega Heracross, which is a bug and fighting powerhouse. Hariyama and Scraggy will appear more frequently in regular raid battles, whereas you’ll have to take part in Mega Raids to find Heracross.

As well as the standard raid day bonuses of free raid passes, timed research, and a higher remote raid limit, Sparring Partners introduces the charged gen 9 Pokémon move, Upper Hand, to the move pool. During and following the event, all three featured Pokémon can learn the charged move, potentially making them more competitively viable as the move has a chance to lower the opponent’s defense.

MORE FROM POCKET TACTICS: Pokémon Go Eevee evolution guide, Pokédex – all Pokémon listed, Pokémon Go promo codes