Pokemon GO Adding New Gigantamax Pokemon in Next Event

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Key points

  • Gigantamax Lapras debuts in Pokemon GO on December 8 during Max Battle Day, offering new raid opportunities.
  • Max Mushroom introduces temporary improvements to attacks during Max Battles, with exclusive rewards for ticket holders.
  • The next season of Pokemon GO will feature the return of Necrozma, new debuts, and promises of more Dynamax and Gigantamax forms.



Pokémon GO announced the debut of Gigantamax Lapras in a new event on December 8th. This is yet another exciting announcement made with the inauguration of the Dual Destiny season, the seventeenth Pokémon GO season, which will start in the next few days.

After much anticipation on the part of the players, Pokémon GO added Dynamax forms during the Max Out season. This gave Kanto and Galar starters and their evolutions the Dynamax treatment, as well as other pocket monsters like Greedent and Falinks. Not long after, Niantic introduced Gigantamax Pokemon, giving new forms to Venusaur, Blastoise, Charizard, Gengar, and Toxtricity. Now, with the announcement of a new event, here is the list of Gigantamax monsters available in Pokémon GO will increase soon.


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Gigantamax Lapras will debut in Pokémon GO on the next Max Battle Day, which will take place on December 8th from 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm local time. During this time, Kanto Pokemon will appear in Six-Star Max Raids, with trainers having a chance to find a Shiny. Among the bonuses, the maximum particle collection limit will increase to 1600, Power Spots will update more often and host Gigantamax Battles. Additionally, Power Spots will deliver eight times more maximum particles. Trainers will gain double particles while exploring and will only need a quarter of the distance to acquire particles.


Gigantamax Lapras debuts in the next Pokemon GO event

Also new for Max Battle Day will be the introduction of the Max Mushroom, which, when used, will temporarily amplify the Fast Attacks, Charged Attacks, and Max Move attacks of Dynamax and Gigantamax monsters during Pokémon GOMax Battles. Attacks will do double damage, and while using more mushrooms won't increase damage, it will extend the duration of the effect. The event will have a $5 ticket that will grant access to the exclusive Timed Research, which will reward 1 Max Mushroom, 25,000 XP, double XP from Max Battles, and increase the maximum particle collection limit to 5600. The Pokemon GO Web Store will sell two boxes, one for $6.99 and the other for $7.99, to increase players' progress with items.


With the announcement of the Dual Destiny season, which begins on December 3, Pokémon GO players have a lot to look forward to in the coming months. Necrozma and its fusions will return to Pokémon GOalong with Hoopa and debuts like Sinistea and Polteageist. The game will also add Dynamax Machop and Dynamax Krabby at a later date, with the promise of new Dynamax and Gigantamax forms debuting during the season.

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