Pokemon GOplayers have spent the summer enjoying the Season of GO, celebrating the game’s anniversary, introducing a variety of new Pokemon, and featuring the latest Pokemon GO Fest events. With Season of GO winding down, Niantic’s popular augmented reality mobile game has set its sights toward the future, withPokemon GOannouncing its next season as Season 12, aka Season of Light.
Pokemon GOSeason of Light will start on September 1 at 10am local time, which is when Season of GO is scheduled to end. Niantic hasn’t revealed much aboutPokemon GO’s Season of Light in an official capacity, but it has released a brief teaser trailer that gives fans an idea of what to expect. From September to December,Pokemon GO’s Season of Light will feature newGeneration 7 Pokemonfor players to catch, and it seems this will include some fresh legendary Pokemon.
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ThePokemon GOSeason of Light trailer hints at the introduction ofCosmog, the Psychic-type legendary Pokemon fromPokemon Sun and Moonthat eventually evolves into Cosmoem and then Solgaleo or Lunala depending on if one hasPokemon SunorPokemon Moon. It remains to be seen how exactly Niantic will handle Cosmog’s unique characteristics, especially since legendary Pokemon have typically been relegated to raids, but fans should find out more in the days ahead.
Pokemon GO Season of Light Start Date
It seems thatPokemon GO’s Season of Light will be leaning more into theSun and Moontheme, introducing more features that are available only at day and others that are only available at night. This is hinted at in the description of thePokemon GOSeason of Light trailer, which mentions “daytime research” withProfessor Willowas well as “waiting for the sun to go down” to use a telescope. It will be interesting to see how exactly this is incorporated intoPokemon GO, and if there’s any deeper meaning behind it all.
The next few months should be big not just forPokemon GO, but thePokemonfranchise as a whole. This coming November,Pokemonfans can look forward to thelaunch dates ofPokemon Scarlet and Violet, the next main series entries in the long-running franchise.Pokemon GOwill likely have some kind of event to coincide withPokemon Scarlet and Violet’s debut, but no details on that have been announced at the time of this writing. For now,Pokemon GOfans should finish up whatever they have left to do as part of the Season of GO and prepare for Season of Light’s start on September 1.
Pokemon GOis out now for iOS and Android mobile devices.
