Pokemon Go Might Be Getting Paradox Pokemon Soon

Yesterday was Pokémon Go’s ninth anniversary. The occasion was celebrated with the usual fanfare orchestrated by Niantic, although not everyone was pleased with all aspects of the festivities.

To mark the occasion, Niantic released celebratory artwork. As you might’ve guessed, the image is jammed full of teases for the forthcoming year of Pokémon Go.

Monsters of Area Zero

One of the things clearly being teased is the addition of Pokémon Scarlet and Violet’s paradox Pokémon to Pokémon Go. On the right side of the image, you can clearly see Iron Treads and Great Tusk, two paradox Pokémon.

Paradox Pokémon are either descendants or ancestors of modern Pokémon, with the former appearing in Pokémon Violet and the latter appearing in Pokémon Scarlet.

There are twenty-two paradox Pokémon currently in existence; two of them are considered legendaries, and six others are derived from legendary Pokémon.

In the image, we can also see the as-of-yet unreleased Mega Butterfree and Aegislash, a Pokémon being added later this month.

A character on the left side of the image is checking their wrist device, and there’s a blue thumbs-up emote emanating from it. It’s unknown what this is teasing; it could be something exciting like remote trading or something relatively underwhelming, like the ‘RSVP’ mechanic that was recently added to raids.

Some of the artwork’s teases will likely become clearer as the year progresses and Niantic continues to add new features, but we’ll just have to wait and see.

Pokémon GO

Systems

Released

July 6, 2016

ESRB

e

Developer(s)

Niantic, The Pokemon Company

Engine

Unity

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