Datamining Update 0.147.1
@CommunityGONewsHighlights
- Team Rocket Grunts added
- Invasion and Incidents that play out like Raid Battles with battles and encounters
- Shadow and Purified pokemon, what looks like capturing shadow mons and then purifying them
- Particle Minigame
- New badges, moves, quests
Invasions
These are pretty interesting! From what I can tell, a Pokestop either gets invaded or has an incident (that part I'm not sure about), a grunt of a various type is then assigned to it and you have to then battle the grunt (or grunts as some parts suggest). If you win, then you have a chance at catching the shadow pokemon. These feel very similar to raids to me. After you catch the shadow mon though, it appears you either get to purify it (either by catching it or by unlocking another move, that part is also unclear).
Let's take a deeper look!
As already reported, nothing new to see here - it's the list of all possible grunts and their leaders.
Pokestop types as reported. Appears to be how these invasions start.
Appears to choose the grunt and then align their pokemon. Perhaps it's similar to the gym battle screen we see now but not sure.
As reported as well. This suggests (and a few other things later on) that this can be done as a group or solo.
Seems like it's similar to raid bosses where you have a battle then you have an encounter to catch the shadow Pokemon.
Unclear what steps are but they seem to be related to what step of the invasion you are on.
Not sure what the incident itself is, but it appears an incident happens during or maybe before the invasion as it's related to the steps found above?
I'm assuming health and stamina are the same thing in this case and I would assume this is your health as the grunt's mon does damage to you.
Defentially looks like raids to me, you have the battle then you have the encounter. Interesting about friendly and enemy remaining, is this a group activity where your peers can actually faint out and not re-join?
Like raid bosses, here you get a certain number of balls as your base, then bonus for number of mons you were able to purify, and number of grunts you beat (which suggest you face more than one). Remaining balls feels like remaining balls as in raid bosses.
Perhaps to describe the invasion on the map level.
Probably for the badge below.
Particle Minigame
Not sure where this fits into the Invasion and there were no other references to it but it was with Invasion code.
Shadow and Purified Pokemon
Was found with pokemon information like buddy distance and moves.
As reported, all the new specific mon forms.
Looks like purified and shadow forms will have their own set of charge moves with their own candy and dust costs.
In addition, the candy and dust cost can be multiplied independently too.
The moves appear to not be re-rollable.
Probably for the badge below.
New Badges
The new badges that were reported.
New Moves
As reported, perhaps specific to Shadow mons?
New Quests
Two new quests added.
Route Maker Item
As reported, most likely related to the invasion process.
Loss Tutorial
Was with the invasion code, so might be related.
Removed Stuff
Mostly generic icons again, like the last update. Probably just further cleaning up the code. A ton of references to these files was also removed across several files.
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