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Challenge of Mega Combats, Mega Houndoom in Pokémon GO: dates and characteristics

Megafights, Mega Houndoom event in Pokémon GO: dates and characteristics

Today, September 11, the Megafights event begins in Pokémon GO with new rewards and a new protagonist, Houndoom. We go over all the details.

Pokémon GO is not going to give us a break this September. Niantic’s game has inaugurated Megaevolutions not without controversy due to the difficulty of obtaining Megaenergy, but while the developer balances things we already know how the second great week of activity will be to celebrate this new mechanic, the Megafights event. Let’s know all the details of this temporary event, which will happen after the Mega Raids.

Dates and details of the Megafights event in Pokémon GO

The Mega Battles event will begin in Pokémon GO today, Friday, September 11, and will end on Thursday, September 17 (22:00 CEST), a celebration focused on fighting as much as possible in order to unlock Mega Hundoom. We have to participate in Gym battles, fight against Team GO Rocket and fight Trainer Battles as long as they are not those of the GO Battles League.

Pokémon GO Mega Evolutions

  • During the event, these are the fundamental characteristics that we must know and take into account:
  • If we use Mega Beedrill in Gym, Team GO Rocket and Trainer Battles, we will receive more CP than normal
  • We can receive Mega Energy for Venusaur, Charizard and Blastoise by completing field research tasks exclusive to this event
  • Team GO Rocket will use different Shadow Pokémon during the event
  • There will be a special investigation related to raids and fighting during the event.
  • These are the Pokémon that will appear most frequently in the wild during the Mega Battles event days: Caterpie, Weedle, Paras, Venonat, Cryther, Pinsir, Ledyba, Spinarak, Wurmple, Kricketot, Burmy. All can appear shiny except for Paras, Spinarak and Kricketot

How to unlock Mega Houndoom in Pokémon GO

All in all, unlocking Mega Houndoom requires a lot of play. In essence, all Trainers will need to complete 275 million matches for Mega Houndoom to become a reality in Pokémon GO through Mega Raids.

The month of September leaves us with a lot of information related to Pokémon GO. From FreeGameTips we already have available the broken down list of all the raid bosses, how to defeat Mega Charizard, Blastoise and Venusaur in Mega Raids, all the available Eggs of 2, 5, 7 and 10 km in and the corresponding research tasks of the mission “A Megadiscovery”.

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