Prepare for trouble and make it double, because Team Rocket’s Jessie and James will be in the mobile game Pokemon Masters during an event this week.
As a tie-in to the upcoming Pokemon Coco film, this event will feature the two fan-favorite antagonists from the anime series. Jessie and Arbok will be available as a sync pair, marking these the first playable characters from the anime in Pokemon Masters. Perhaps, in a later event, we’ll get Ash & Pikachu, James & Victreebel, or Goh & Skorbunny.
According to Nintendo Soup, prior data mining has revealed that this event will start on July 9th.
Pokemon Masters will also have a Legendary Arena battle for the Fighting/Steel typed Cobalion from Black/White from July 7th to July 21st. To help prepare, the official Twitter account tips players to train sync pairs that can use fire-type attacks, afflict burn, or sleep opponents.
The “Double Trouble” event is a way to market the upcoming 23rd film, Pokemon Coco. Ash & Pikachu in this flick find a jungle boy named Coco, who is friends with a pokemon called Zarude and a shiny Celebi. In the trailer, it seems like Coco’s jungle is under threat!
The weird thing is that Pokemon Coco was delayed due to the Coronavirus pandemic, and was meant to be released on July 10th, so this content was suppose to go alongside the film. Pokemon Masters did not delay this in-game Team Rocket event to match the film, so it must be on a tight schedule! Pokemon Coco will be releasing in Japan this Winter.
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Pokemon Masters is a crossover gacha mobile game that has you unlock different trainers across the series’ history, so they can join your team. It has a simplistic 3v3 turn-based system, but the strategy comes from what types of pokemon you put out on the field. Just like the games it is inspired by, type advantages are super important; they are the difference between winning and losing. It actually gets quite tough a few hours in!
A cool event from the past involved Giovanni, the leader of Team Rocket, with his partner pokemon Mewtwo, but it was a tough grind to actually unlock them as a sync pair.
Hopefully, more anime characters will be unlockable in Pokemon Masters, but before then, we’ll be blasting off again!
Sources: NintendoSoup and Serebii
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