They’reeee heeeerrrrreeee!! By end of this week we’ll start to see the Hoenn Region Generation 3 Pokemon released in game! A blog update by our friends at Niantic indicates 50 new Pokemon being launched “Starting later this week.” As well a previously unknown Weather interaction is being introduced in game.
Gen 3 launch:
Lets get into the details shall we? Treecko, Torchic, and Mudkip are specifically called out in the blog post but we can expect to see all 50 Gen 3 Pokemon to be released in the next 24-48 hours, with more coming over the next few weeks. No details on Gen 3 evolutions to current Pokemon but one would have to assume that’ll also be included. Please feel free to share your Gen 3 catches on our twitter, facebook, and here on the site!
Exciting stuff but what’s this about the Weather?
A previously unknown new weather influence is being added as well. If it’s raining outside guess what? It’ll be rainy on the game and your chance for water related Pokemon increase. Sunny days will be fire type Pokemon. To boot, their attacks types *ALSO* are influenced by weather!! Pretty neat and interesting to see how this affects overall Gym battles and holdings.
Check out the launch video:
https://youtu.be/dUztYCMZYls
And as always you can visit the Niantic blog here.