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Details Leak About Pokémon GO's New 'Fire and Ice' Event


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We can’t go more than a few weeks without a new Pokémon GO event being either announced or taking place, but something interesting has happened with this latest one. It’s been leaked online 10 days before it begins.
The leak comes from Team Eevolution, who is building up a pretty solid reputation at this point with accurate leaks about Pokémon GO’s Gen 2, the Easter event and the Water Festival in the past. As such, it stands to reason that this Fire and Ice event really is happening. Here’s what they’ve listed as the “official” Niantic rundown of the event, which again, is technically unconfirmed:
"Trainers,
With summer quickly approaching in the Northern Hemisphere and winter approaching in the Southern Hemisphere, we couldn’t think of a better way to celebrate the upcoming solstices than with a Fire-type and Ice-type Pokémon GO event.
From 1:00 P.M. PDT on June 13 to 1:00 P.M. PDT on June 20, 2017, Trainers around the world will discover more Charmander, Cyndaquil, Growlithe, Houndour, Ponyta, Swinub, Vulpix, and their Evolutions. You’ll also want to keep an eye out for Sneasel, Magmar, Cloyster, and other Fire types and Ice types!
It’s time to perfect your Poké Ball throws, Trainers! Throughout the event, you’ll receive huge XP bonuses for successfully catching Pokémon with Nice, Great, and Excellent Throws, as well as Curveballs and First Throws. Additionally, as you walk around your neighborhoods or discover new sights, you’ll earn even more XP for hatching Eggs. To help you take advantage of these awesome XP bonuses, Lucky Eggs will be 50% off in the in-game shop.
Get ready to explore the world around you—there are even more exciting updates coming your way soon!
—The Pokémon GO team"
Despite three chunky paragraphs, it’s a relatively simple event as far as these things go. Increased spawns of Fire and Ice types, and XP bonuses for what seems to be every action except evolutions, which is weird, given that’s what people care most about during increased XP events.
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For those wondering what Pokémon might be spawning at increased rates given the Fire and Ice stipulation, that would be:
Fire:
  • Charmander, Charmeleon, Charizard
  • Vulpix, Ninetails
  • Growlithe, Arcanine
  • Ponyta, Rapidash
  • Magmar
  • Flareon
  • Cyndaquil, Quilava, Typhlosion
  • Slugma, Magcargo
  • Houndoor, Houndoom
Ice:
  • Dewgong
  • Cloyster
  • Jynx
  • Lapras
  • Sneasel
  • Swinub, Piloswine
That’s a pretty wide range, and includes a lot of Pokémon that are already pretty common. In Chicago, I’ve been drowning in Swinub and Jynx for ages now. And I know some desert regions are overrun with Growlithe and Houdoor. But there are some valuable Pokémon in here, Lapras, the Charmander tree, the Cyndaquil tree. And I still don’t even have one Houndoor in the city here.
The problem, and I’ll go into this is in greater detail later, is that the fact that this event is running from June 13th through June 20th, is that it definitely feels like that means that Pokémon GO’s “summer,” ie. the summer fully of big events like Legendary spawns and a gym rework at the very least, is not going to kick off until July. While I realize July is the one year anniversary of the game, it seems like a waste if they’re delaying these big additions until after June passes, given that the weather is great and many players are on summer break. I knew we probably wouldn’t get through summer without some sort of fire and/or ice event, given the obvious connection there, but I really do hope that other, bigger things happen in June and Niantic doesn’t waste a third of summer doing nothing of real significance.
Again, technically all of this is still a rumor, but a rumor from a reliable source and with incredibly specific details. I will update things if Niantic confirms the event, but they don’t usually do so until a few days out. Stay tuned.

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