A Pokémon Go Special Weekend is going to run from May 29 at 12am to May 30 at 11:59pm local time, with Niantic partnering with various companies around the world to make it happen.
These partners include Verizon in the U.S., 7-Eleven Mexico, and Yoshinoya in Japan. In-game tickets can be acquired from participating partners, either physically or digitally.
However, the Luminous Legends Y event that is ongoing has a Team Go Rocket Global Challenge that is changing things slightly. The goal of this challenge is for players around the world to defeat 25 million Go Rocket Grunts before end-of-day on May 23.
If players successfully finish the challenge, they will unlock the following bonuses from May 25 to 31:
- Triple capture XP
- Shiny Galarian Zigzagoon spawns
- Galarian Zigzagoon appearing in one-star raids
Niantic is now sweetening the deal for players who plan to participate in the Special Weekend by offering a bonus for them too.
If the Team Go Rocket Global Challenge is completed, Special Weekend participants will have their capture bonus increased from the base double XP to a four times multiplier. And since Niantic confirmed that the challenge was more than 75 percent done yesterday, it should easily be finished in time to get all of those bonuses.
Published: May 19, 2021 09:08 pm