

If within range, the invaded PokéStop turns black with the red "R" logo above it, and a Team GO Rocket Grunt is standing beside it in the overworld. From a distance, an invaded PokéStop's cube is frequently rotating and has a dark, shadowy overlay.

Occasionally, for players level 8 and above, a PokéStop may be invaded by a Team GO Rocket Grunt attempting to steal its items and resources. Ī PokéStop invaded by a Team GO Rocket Grunt On July 9, 2020, Jessie and James began appearing in the game. On July 7, 2020, Team GO Rocket started to deploy globally anew using Team GO Rocket balloons. Around the same time, several Trainers received emails mistakenly sent to them from Team GO Rocket on their registered email account. When pieced together, these scraps appeared to indicate some upcoming renewed activity by the organization who seemed to be working on a hot air balloon. In early July 2020, while training for GO Fest 2020, Professor Willow and his assistants found on several occurrences strange scraps of paper that were left behind by Team GO Rocket. By April 2020, Giovanni's activity had temporarily recessed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. All three team leaders emerged victorious, and the Team GO Rocket Leaders retreated to set up new hideouts.įrom November 2019 until April 2020, Professor Willow issued Special Research tasks to track down Team GO Rocket activities including those of their leader Giovanni as it was apparent he was in the process of subduing some Legendary Pokémon. On November 12, 2019, the team leaders Blanche, Spark, and Candela used the Rocket Radar to track the locations of and battle Team GO Rocket Leaders Cliff, Sierra, and Arlo, respectively. On November 7, 2019, Team GO Rocket Leaders started appearing worldwide, with a monthly Special Research, Looming in the Shadows, unlocked for players that have completed A Troubling Situation. By equipping a Rocket Radar, players were able to locate and battle them at PokéStops being used as hideouts. On November 5, 2019, Team GO Rocket Leaders began appearing in certain cities around the world. On October 2, 2019, Professor Willow had managed to recover these corrupted files, which were revealed to be profiles of Team GO Rocket Leaders Cliff, Arlo, and Sierra. On September 29, 2019, a suspicious folder appeared in Professor Willow's computer, which contained several corrupted files. They expanded their roster again on September 5, 2019, to include some more species.
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On August 1, 2019, after suffering a series of defeats, Team GO Rocket expanded its pool of Shadow Pokémon species. local time as well as globally announcing their presence by sending broadcast messages to every Trainer in-game. On that day, claiming that the invasion in New York was nothing but a decoy, Team GO Rocket started invading every single PokéStops in each timezone from 4 p.m. They also started giving visual hints and broadcasting a video countdown setting up for an event on July 28, 2019. Team GO Rocket then began publishing information about their worldwide domination goals and achieving Giovanni's goals. Localized social media in other languages were also vandalized in the same way. Later on that day, Team GO Rocket seemingly took over Pokémon GO's Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube channels. On July 27, 2019, Team GO Rocket started an all-out invasion of all New York City PokéStops as part of a real-life publicity stunt organized by Niantic with continuous updates on the official Twitter channel. On July 25, 2019, Team GO Rocket began reappearing at even higher rates with a new Special Research, A Troubling Situation, becoming available. Team GO Rocket invasions initially started on July 22, 2019, lasting for 24 hours before stopping all of a sudden. Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl.
